Guild Wars 2

For some reason this (downed state) has never bothered me. I am not sure why.

I loved it in borderlands and I like the tension of maybe, just maybe getting a rally. It is a rush.

My reasoning for it reducing zerging is as follows:

It would give guilds a new tool to play together and effectively operate as a unit. The most effective use of players is NOT all bunched up on a single icon. People would naturally learn this fact with the introduction of a guild commander.

Arale.4207:

Awesome night in TCBL. Thanks Coral for all the fun at Water Camp.

Aw thanks, <3 Cute glasses.

edit: I hope hills gets a wp despite the merchants. WTF, merchants? Really? Spy-Kitten right there.

Jayne.9251:

Responding just prolongs this.

Lets get back to the gracious interchange we had going earlier, rather than this sour stuff.

I am sorry Jayne, I am sorry thread…

Arkanfel.8403:

I’ve played like nine matches against you guys…

I don’t think TC has played DB nine times even if you count the 1 day matches in September.

Either way, I look forward to bringing more “middling” tactical play to WvW this upcoming week.

<3 T2.

fragmented.9854:

He’s talking about yesterday when it was a collection of TC militia trying to push in against a defended keep against an equal sized agg lead zerg. In his biased opinion the militia should have wiped them more often than not, especially since offense is easier than defense in this game.

So Militia can’t get a guild group out of a fortified keep and that makes for a middling tactical performance? Uh, okay?

Arkanfel.8403:

You guys play a great PPT game, but your tactical execution is middling.

You haven’t seen TC operating at “normal” strength since coming to T2. Things should be different this upcoming week.

Harrish.8743:

Unless you play 24/7, 7 days a week, on all 4 maps simultaneously, it’s hard to accurately gauge the level of play on any server. TC has some great commanders/guilds who execute complex strategies without a hitch. It also has zergs that run around like headless chickens. Same with every server.

The only real difference I’ve ever seen is that some servers are dominated by guild groups and others have more of a broad-based WvW following. Pros and cons to both. Having played on or against almost every server in the top 4 NA tiers, I’d stack our WvW guilds up against any of them.

And this.

We cleared out FA BL Hills for our friends and family on far away servers. That and it was the only WP Dragonbrand had left.

DB BL’s Bay was a real deathtrap…
(forgive the ’ its late. nitenite)

I actually commander’ed tonight on TC BL…

Score thing!

Gellor.6497:

When TC built 5 or more golems to rush DB’s 1/3 the other day was what??

5 alpha golems.

So DB doesn’t like not having SMC. Think you brought enough?

4:28am. Sup.

….

Whatever

TCU and MoM send her regards <3

A nice decor no?

Very sad times are ahead.

I guess.

I give it two weeks to four months to expect a fix to this dire issue. Until then, put an arrowcart on it?

Or ranged AOE?
Or, get out of combat and jump up there?
OR pull him down?

Well, you can build an arrowcart and force him down!

Thanks for the public announcement of [annoying thing] I am excited to try out this new [annoying thing].

I see no information about Arrowcarts only traps?

Introducing Traps in World vs. World

Traps are fiendish items that can be purchased from the new Traps and Tricks Outfitters on each WvW map. We’re starting with anti-stealth fields and traps that remove supply from enemy players, but in the months ahead we’ll introduce even more ways to spread mayhem in the Mists!

Ghedoriah.4290:

Considering they’re making rather nuanced changed (less damage to siege only) alongside working on some more significant changes (rating system), I’d at least consider it poor form to complain before the well-advertised next patch, which is all of tomorrow and even then wouldn’t be surprised if you didn’t see any changes ’til the end of the month or so.

I would like to know where you’re getting your info.

So like 10 people were in hills then? If that? EU T7 doesn’t exactly scream a lot of people. The fact that a Catapult and autoattack brought a T2 gate down is, um, fortunate for you?

Well advertised where?

No changes to Arrowcarts? Does Anet care at all?

Do they want us to quit to reduce server costs? I am sure WvW is costing them a pretty penny…

Do they just want it as an empty feature that actually is not played? Box sales are down.

Bravo! 8/10.

Keep up the good work.

I just wanted an excuse to take quaggan pics.

Score Update!!!

Hey Anet,

You’re letting an entire section of your playerbase lose interest. I cannot fathom why you want this, but it seems like you do.

/signed disappointed player

A good idea? I don’t think so! We’re going to ruin the meta with [arrowcarts] instead! /trollin’

No it is not even great in terms of meta. Guess what the players at the treb get to do? Stand around watching the treb fire.

FIX.

ARROWCARTS.

Hey, like 100 of those 2226 posts are in SUPPORT of this change. They need to think on it longer, it is clearly that important to them to ruin fun.

Lightsbane.9012:

looks like you’ll have to actually participate in EB to get your badges

When I do play, I am a borderlands girl. The only time I’ve ever done a jumping puzzle was on thursday and if there were people doing portals.

I am extremely hardcore. I spend 90% of my GW2 time in WvW. I give no kittens about tiers, but I like having good people to talk to and kill things with.

Good WvW changes since launch:

• Removed Orbs
• Removed Culling
• Removed 1 of 4 Jumping for Badges sites. Only 3 more to go…
• Reduced the number of maddening exploits. Many more remain.

Uh, keep it up?

Gab Superstar.4059:

Not sure why they couldn’t just incorporate these into the existing professions to make the game more interesting.

Traps go on rangers.
Repairing (or improving?) siege goes on engineers.
The list goes on…

Right now the only profession that has completely game changing skills is the mesmer (portal, veil). It gives the mesmer flavor and a unique role in WvW. I would love for the other professions to have some kind of similar appeal.

This is smart. I cannot wait for it to never happen.

Playing other games till this is fixed.

jul.7602:

Stealth caping surely doesn’t count. I’m talking about an actual siege, firefights and redswords.

Ninja’ing a keep is one of WvW’s little joys…

It counts. At least in my book.

Zoel.9154:

This guy speaks my language.

Gal, but yeah they could have tweaked the old meta in so many other ways than a HUGE ac buff and it would have been fine.

For instance imagine the following:

- Players cannot harm gates with more than 20% HP. (reduces zerging effectiveness and gives players a very good incentive to do more than the bare min repair job on a damaged gate.)

- ACs get a 15% dmg buff (25% total with traits, but same range.)

- Golems are not effected by Timewarp.

- Catapults gravel option buffed to really spray a large volume of gravel. No one uses this for a reason, give us a reason!

Evalana.5480:

It’s possible – it may take about 30 trebs, 10 catapults and 2 well-placed arrowcarts, and 50 golems… but it’s possible

And they would flip it back when the majority of TC is asleep and the cycle would have to start anew.

Arrowcarts – a bigger barrier to fun than culling ever was.

It always nice when your server gets fired up.

Caliban.3176:

I made most of those …

I got a good laugh out of them. Thank you.

Attack Hills : Mission Complete is my favorite followed by the Extremely Photogenic Guy.

Not the shunning! I am already practically Hester Prynne at this point.

skiazo.4759:

I wasn’t saying it isn’t enough what i’m saying is give the new people a chance you might be surprised at the knowledge they do have instead of dooming and glooming on every public venue available.

Feranox is a new commander and a transfer. I pointed them to some good resources for learning as well as helped them buy their tag. They show promise. I would like to think I played a small part in helping a new commander step up and lead.

Again, if you think my three forum posts on the subject of old TC is “every public venue” then you’re very mistaken.

skiazo.4759:

I don’t know what this old guard you keep speaking of is but there are still extremely competent leaders on TC you just have to find them and follow or I don’t know put on a tag and try leading some.

I took bay early Saturday morning with the help of Feranox and Company. It was boring and took like nine trebs. Sorry if my contribution to the war effort isn’t enough to make you happy.

Before that I stood in Sunnyhill for 5 hours on watch and scared off entire zergs with a Treb and an Arrowcart. Again, sorry if this isn’t enough for the ZN elites.

As far as the old guard goes, I don’t expect a recent transfer to really get it. We had something magical, now it just feels like AnyOldServer.

Games I will be playing until Arrowcarts are fixed:

Tomb Raider - Its on sale on Steam atm and really fun!
Fez - Cute puzzle game
Civilization 5 - I’ve only put in a good 200 hours to this version of Civ…
Warframe - The price was right…

Take your time Anet. I am in no rush. I am sure your solution will be just as mind blowing as the arrowcart changes in the first place.

I didn’t play last night after work. Thanks Arrowcart Wars. Without you I wouldn’t have opened Steam and picked up Tomb Raider for $25! Its a really fun game.

TC’s old guard isn’t coming back. At this point, its step up, adapt, or die. As soon as the ACs are fixed I will come back and play. There are some things that just are not worth it. In this case I am not interested in playing Treb VS ACs.

Sure it might be more “realistic” or whatever crazy reason Anet has come up with but some things are not worth adapting for. Treb VS AC feels like EVE Online so a big no thank you is in order.

There are Arrowcarts in all tiers. Nowhere is safe!

It was nice reading 2.5 pages of this thread without the usual suspects making an appearance…

On topic… Someday I will figure out how to take AC-Hills. How long till ACs are brought more in line with the rest of the game as it stands right now?

an out of date map/scorecard thing

^(;,;)^

Zoel.9154:

If there’s one thing I learned from eve online it’s that you should never, ever, under any circumstances, play a game because it might be good one day.

HAHAHAH oh my god. All those months wasted.

Yeah, never again. The promise of good someday will not keep me coming back. Devon would do well to know that this isn’t MMO players first rodeo and when a developer starts saying things like “it will be better [in time]” that is pretty much code for pack it up, the developers are understaffed / don’t care / are out of touch.

How quickly this problem of Arrowcarts 2.0 gets addressed with speak volumes about the future.

Draygo.9473:

ACs are being addressed in the next patch which is going through its testing phases right now.

Read Devon’s second post.

Ah cool! Its a big thread. I don’t care if ACs are buffed but as they are buffed right now it will not do! That kitten is bananas.

If anything, Players auto attacking doors along with Golems need their effective damage reduced vs gates. There are plenty of ways to clear rams off of a gate even with the old ACs. If people want to OMGmega zerg a gate down, make it take 2-3 times as long without siege. That would give defenders plenty of time to punish them for their stupidity.

months… Months?

Wait, did he say MONTHS?

This will not do! Trebs Vs ACs even for another week seems very pointless and terrible. A solution (rollback) needs to be implemented ASAP.

Have the developers even been playing WvW on the live servers?

Score and a map for the work-bound?