Guild Wars 2

Tearofsoul.9843:

thiagoperne.7340:

LoL at those jumping in saying that is gonna quit if doesn’t fix it, that’s hilarious!

First, if you and your friends and the entire guild leaves the game they won’t even notice you, it would actually help others, less bad players and shorter queues.

Second, good luck finding a game better then this. Or even close to it.

I haven’t seen a fanboy for a long long time

What?! I’m still here!

FractalChaos.6539:

alkalone.5798:

It’s very time to do something about AC?
All of us are complaining, what ArenaNet is waiting ?
Let’s nerf it !

No, some of you are complaining. You’re just being very loud about it.

The squeaky wheel gets the nerfs, eh?

Hickeroar.9734:

VOLKON.1290:

Hickeroar.9734:

VOLKON.1290:

Haven’t seen open field combat destroyed to be honest. I’ve seen tower defenses splatter invaders, but not open field stuff. Now, if someone dropping an AC in the open field is indeed “breaking” open field combat then all I can offer to do is slowly shake my head at the dead people that failed to realize there’s a minimum distance for ACs as well.

Try running over 3500 range while crippled and in the middle of a fight. Not gonna happen. You’re gonna be dead LONG before you get out of range.

I’ve also seen tower defenses get splattered by ACs planted outside the walls.

You obviously either don’t play much WvW at all…or your experience is so silo-ed to one type of play that you haven’t experienced the devastating effects of this change.

Hmm… maybe you’re right, maybe I don’t play enough WvW. Maybe I’m also capable of tossing aside conditions, dodging and being mobile in combat, but nah… that’s probably not it. I certainly don’t play enough WvW. Whichever it is, I haven’t seen open field ACs being a problem at all. Makes you wonder if it’s the ACs that are at fault, doesn’t it?

Well, you kinda answered my question. If you don’t see open field ACs in group fights as a problem, then you haven’t faced them.

Either that or you’re just trolling.

Could also be a question of servers. I don’t personally see them deployed like that in T1. Doesn’t mean they’re not there, but they’re certainly not prevalent. I have seen them set up, for example, north of Sunny defending some trebs attacking Sunny. They haven’t been all that problematic to remove with a little forethought and a multi-pronged attack, and that’s if you don’t have your own siege in the tower to knock them down for you. Hell, it was… day before yesterday I think… there were four trebs hitting Sunny with a couple ACs covering them set up behind them a bit. I circled around from the north while our main forces pushed in, through the guys on the ACs off the cliff and started whacking on the siege. It was a good time.

Kai.9182:

Melamorte.2870:

Kai.9182:

JQ trying for more transfers? You can’t be serious…

Pay attention. Maybe your server can learn something…

No thanks I don’t enjoy queues. With the way JQ runs I may as well play CoD kitten zombies.

Edit: sorry to all zombies in call of duty for comparing you to jq players

Queues? We’ve been running with the out-manned buff on at least 2 BLs this week.

Hickeroar.9734:

VOLKON.1290:

Haven’t seen open field combat destroyed to be honest. I’ve seen tower defenses splatter invaders, but not open field stuff. Now, if someone dropping an AC in the open field is indeed “breaking” open field combat then all I can offer to do is slowly shake my head at the dead people that failed to realize there’s a minimum distance for ACs as well.

Try running over 3500 range while crippled and in the middle of a fight. Not gonna happen. You’re gonna be dead LONG before you get out of range.

I’ve also seen tower defenses get splattered by ACs planted outside the walls.

You obviously either don’t play much WvW at all…or your experience is so silo-ed to one type of play that you haven’t experienced the devastating effects of this change.

Hmm… maybe you’re right, maybe I don’t play enough WvW. Maybe I’m also capable of tossing aside conditions, dodging and being mobile in combat, but nah… that’s probably not it. I certainly don’t play enough WvW. Whichever it is, I haven’t seen open field ACs being a problem at all. Makes you wonder if it’s the ACs that are at fault, doesn’t it?

Hickeroar.9734:

VOLKON.1290:

Hickeroar.9734:

Arkard.3970:

Reverse the changes. Don’t try to band-aid some fix, the fact that this change was made in the first place pretty much gives us zero confidence in any type of attempted fix to be remotely successful.

Reverse the changes ASAP. It does not sit well when something as ridiculous as spectator mode bug fixes gets priority over something as game changing as this. It’s only been 2 and 1/2 days and entire guilds have already quit over this.

The annoying thing is that this stuff was balanced. Really well balanced actually… Why mess with an excellent balance like that?

I would give a lot to find out what decision making process was followed when doing this, because it, frankly, doesn’t many any sense.

ACs were too weak, they really were. Rain hurt more than one of them. They should keep the anti-personnel aspects of them intact. Damage reduction against siege, I can see that.

Now… a trainable “Flaming Arrows” that does full damage against siege (and burns people)… this makes me tingly inside.

And you’re OK with the entire idea of open-field combat being destroyed by this single, idiotic change?

When I see people post stuff like this, I wonder how much WvW they actually play. It can’t be much…

Haven’t seen open field combat destroyed to be honest. I’ve seen tower defenses splatter invaders, but not open field stuff. Now, if someone dropping an AC in the open field is indeed “breaking” open field combat then all I can offer to do is slowly shake my head at the dead people that failed to realize there’s a minimum distance for ACs as well.

Hickeroar.9734:

Arkard.3970:

Reverse the changes. Don’t try to band-aid some fix, the fact that this change was made in the first place pretty much gives us zero confidence in any type of attempted fix to be remotely successful.

Reverse the changes ASAP. It does not sit well when something as ridiculous as spectator mode bug fixes gets priority over something as game changing as this. It’s only been 2 and 1/2 days and entire guilds have already quit over this.

The annoying thing is that this stuff was balanced. Really well balanced actually… Why mess with an excellent balance like that?

I would give a lot to find out what decision making process was followed when doing this, because it, frankly, doesn’t many any sense.

ACs were too weak, they really were. Rain hurt more than one of them. They should keep the anti-personnel aspects of them intact. Damage reduction against siege, I can see that.

Now… a trainable “Flaming Arrows” that does full damage against siege (and burns people)… this makes me tingly inside.

Fuzzion.2504:

Melamorte.2870:

Aurust.8961:

BG = Most skilled
JQ= Used to be most skilled, 2nd most skilled now
SOR= Third most skilled server in tier 1, used to be 2nd most skilled.

We at JQ are “green” with envy.

I am currently discussing 2 300+ active guild members from t6 eu and 1 from the mid teirs. They wish to remain confidential until they can confirm.

o.O

I’ll be in my bunk.

Moderator.1462:

Hi everyone,

This thread has been forwarded to Anet so that they are aware of what does the community think about the Arrow Carts changes.

Thanks for your feedback.

Wait… there were arrow cart changes?

I kid. Personally I’m not too put off with the changes. People shouldn’t be able to stand in an AC AoE field and shrug it off like it’s a warm drizzle. Ask me about the 30 second warning or the 30 minute despawn and I’ll be less kind, but the arrow carts I think reflect more resistance to a change in how we siege than anything else. We need to clear siege now rather than ignore it. Supply is more valuable. It’s a shock to the system.

Well, after skimming the thread it looks like the general consensus is that Jade Quarry would be ideal for your guild. You’d be most welcome, of course.

Think a moment… if these things never left, we’d have more and more stuff building up and being run less and less. They’d get old, boring and vacant. This will have the effect of keeping things fresher. Just think, when they announce a return of the SAB it’ll be something anticipated.

DevonCarver.5370:

Indeed, it was a bug that the timer didn’t work all the time and we’ve addressed that. We are going to evaluate these times now that the timer does in fact work and it is very possible that we will make some changes to them. That being said, the main reason for the timer is the fact that we have to have the siege cap because of technical reasons and this helps to force siege to recycle if it isn’t being used.

That makes a ton of sense with regards to rams… let’s face it, if you’re not using a ram there’s little to no sense for that ram to be there in the first place. However, defensive siege is a different story. People ready defenses with the intent on them being there when needed, not necessarily for immediate use. A couple, three hour timer would be ideal, but even extending it to an hour would be a nice quality of life improvement.

Trebs despawning make me sad. So much supply, relatively high cost… sigh…

Interesting thought… what if superior siege had a longer timer than regular? Regular despawn 1 hr, superior 2 hrs… something like that?

I’m still not amused about the 30 second delay, btw. It is killing the first responder type of defense role which I enjoyed a lot. Now it’s sit in a tower, doing nothing but refreshing siege every 30 minutes… sigh…

Sardonia.8196:

I did not mean to start anything with my comments. A guild has a right to go where ever they want. However, I would think that it makes more sense to even out servers instead of fully stacking another server just.

As for JQ this week, it seems after the patch on Tuesday, there has not been very many going into WvW. I had off yesterday because of the weather and it when jumping through the maps, we were lucky at times to have 20 people on the map. Same thing last night where we had more on JQ BL but the others we rarely had anything it seemed. A lot of people probably doing the new patch PVE content, who knows, we will see what happens this next week.

I noticed that we’d often have two BLs with the outmanned buff, very odd during NA prime. This happened before though, when the SAB released and everyone was in there getting baubles and skins. BGs boost in numbers combined with a sudden drop in participation definitely had a cumulative effect, it’ll be more telling over the next couple weeks where things really stand.

TheBlackLeech.9360:

Sanctum of Rall has been stuck in the top bracket for months now….

Jade Quarry seems to hold first place all the time…. and we, SoR, are always in third.

ALWAYS.

Its annoying.

We never change enemies…. and I’m pretty sure we all hate JQ (if for no other reason that they are always top server in our bracket)

be happy that your enemy worlds actually rotate.

You should hate BlackGate, They bought their way past you into second (first this week). You deserve better.

DKNS.2135:

Nihevil.8024:

I’m not sure what’s going on here in the field, anyone care to explain? O.o

With the new despawn timer, such things can only be done if coordinated. A couple of spies/saboteurs can’t do all that. It seems as if a lot of people went out of their way to plant those things so BG can be blamed again.

Poor effort to flamebait – 0/10

Blamed for what, throwing away silver? I don’t think anyone is tossing blame as much as questioning the alleged intelligence of the perpetrator.

Nihevil.8024:

I’m not sure what’s going on here in the field, anyone care to explain? O.o

With the two minute despawn timer (if no supply added) I’d say someone thinks they’re trolling but they’re really throwing away money.

Dredrum.2563:

When we win it doesn’t count, when we lose we suck and need to get out of the tier, now we win and it is we are stacked and enjoy pvdoor. Everyone here knows it’s the game design and biggest server wins, don’t act like you didn’t see this coming cause both jq and sor have tried to be the most stacked, now u getting beat at your own game.

It’s great for BG to take pride in a T1 win, it really is, it was well earned. But before you get your heads too big shouldn’t you demonstrate this to be a trend as opposed to an anomaly?

Chopps.5047:

@onyx

I never had sega mega drive but I did have commodore 64. I’m probably older than you.

Wikipedia: The text comes from the opening cutscene of the 1991 European Sega Mega Drive version of the video game Zero Wing¹ by Toaplan, which was poorly translated from the original Japanese version

I adore my 64, my Commodore 64.

Nothing like playing the original Ultima off 5 1/4" floppies.

Veldan.4637:

VOLKON.1290:

Why would you deinstall for a break? Just takes longer to reinstall when you come back.

Oh yeah, you’ll be back.

Cause my SSD is rather small and I’ll want to play some other game(s) in the meantime. So GW2 has to go. That being said, how is this relevant? Gj ignoring everything GW2 related and trying to discredit my post with such a minor thing.

Sorry, it seemed like such an odd thing to do that it brought the entirely of the post to a screeching halt. I agree the 30 second delay on the timers is a really bad idea. The lag, I’m sure they’re working on it. The rest I can live with without complaint personally.

Iruwen.3164:

As a mesmer, I feel like that random guy carrying a portal. I couldn’t care less if they removed it or gave it to everybody and just fixed my class instead of slowly breaking it more with every patch.

I never carry portal unless there’s a golem rush involved, and that’s not all that often over the course of WvW play.

Tribio.8531:

Veldan.4637:

- Sentries
What’s the point in this? The only thing they do is make whole zergs stand in a glowing circle doing nothing for a while. The sentry itself is totally irrelevant and can’t even make the difference if he’s pulled into a 1v1. They might as well remove it and leave only the glowing circles for WXP.

I use them as markers of some sort, those sentries.. When I see that one of our sentries is gone, I know that there is something amiss around there, so I can start heading over to the sentry/closest camp for defense.. Once the enemy sentry appears, recapture and have a new marker at your disposal..

Even a sentry moving and resetting can be a valuable bit of intel if you see it in time. Camps too with “spare yaks”. With the “X” on a gawdawful 30 second delay, often seeing a yak behaving oddly can tell you something is up long before other indicators.

OK, so it’s not a bug then.

Just seems odd that single servings require more materials than some platters do.

Why would you deinstall for a break? Just takes longer to reinstall when you come back.

Oh yeah, you’ll be back.

fragnstein.3486:

Waha has left and hurt JQ. Now you realize first hand what it was like when SmokeeGee left. Just gotta bounce back and keep pushing

Waha is back, he posted yesterday and some folks have talked with him. Ease up, people are allowed to take breaks, and the gods know he’s more than earned his share.

Chopps.5047:

MagiKarp.8201:

All your garrisons are belong to us.

Are you native English? Placing ‘are’ in the middle of that sentence is quite bizarre; I don’t think I’ve ever seen that non-native writing before. Are you from Antarctica or something?

Here you go, this should help explain things.

Holy carp… “for great justice”! How’d I not connect that before?!

Aarean.5398:

Gj jq holding up that 160 with no night coverage lol

Not bad for five guys, a roll of duct tape and two sticks of chewing gum, eh?

I’m hoping that a lot of JQ are resting up a little with the new dungeon and all. We’ll see what the next few weeks brings. One thing I’m sure of… we may lose a match or two, but we won’t implode.

Henge.3907:

VOLKON.1290:

Someone told us that the jet pack only has a chance of dropping if you kill the boss with the jet pack first.

I remain skeptical.

Official response from a dev was that its all just random. Boss has no effect.

Thanks, I suspected as much.

You know… my main is a mesmer and for some odd reason… I don’t feel dead. Of course, I’ve been running a more balanced build and not one that relied on confusion as the primary source of damage, so that helps I’m sure. But instead of proclaiming the dead of mesmer-kind, I’d say we’ve had one build humbled yet still remain the dominant form of life in Tyria.

Powerful in the WoW “go back to low level zones and bbq everything just by looking at it” sense? Nah. But that’s not really a good kind of powerful anyhow.

Now, ask me if I feel capable.

Demosthene.2195:

Stop reading TenTonHammer’s “premium” rumours, the only advice I have for this thread.

Haven’t even heard of that. I heard this in guild. I’m kind of curious to see if this has spread at all as silly as it sounds.

Someone told us that the jet pack only has a chance of dropping if you kill the boss with the jet pack first.

I remain skeptical.

Seriously, this is going around. Someone is saying that ANet has released most of their developers and only have two developers working on GW2. We all know that that’s a pile of that which the kitten leaves in the litterbox, but does anyone have a fairly good approximation of how many developers are actually still working on GW2? I thought it was somewhere in triple digits…

Just looking for ammo to load into the arrowcart of truth.

Only a WvW player stands where the trebuchet is about to hit and says “I got this.”

For one plate of Spicy Marinated Mushrooms (+100 power, +70 toughness, +10 exp, 1 hr duration) you need the following…

6 Cayenne Peppers
10 Grilled Mushrooms
20 Grilled Portobello Mushrooms
10 Ghost Peppers

This seems like a lot for a single serving (even if it is one hour), is this correct?

Thanks!

waha.4921:

Nakoor.1980:

“No one should ever be happy when a competitive guild disbands or stops playing. I was quite saddened when I found out Waha quit the game,

-Indo"

HI~ Indo I’m back but Chinese Alliance is gone, JQ sea time zone is weak at this moment.We will do we best on the battlefield and cya my friend.
sry my english is poor XD

Waha

Welcome back, Waha. Always a pleasure seeing you out there doing things as only you can do them! We’re glad you’re part of the JQ family.

MagiKarp.8201:

BG #1 fun time server.

Super fun time loan?

I don’t know what that means.

DKNS.2135:

Kript.3291:

score update please, i want to see JQ forum warriors in full defensive mode.

I have my popcorn ready, my pizza is on its way. I am ready for this.

Me too! Can’t wait!

Hold on… I’m getting something… oh, I’m on JQ. Well… this is awkward.

Daemonne.5018:

VOLKON.1290:

Kryyg.8576:

They currently play on JQ. They want a challenge in one of the lower tiers.

People saying move to JQ don’t know their own server.

KWBH? I don’t think I’ve ever seen that tag in WvW.

It’s an ET guild VOLK. Pretty decent too. Large and run both groups and zerg trains depending on the need.
Couple of good commanders to follow, that people will actually see if they are on so they can flock to their Tag.
One commander in particular I follow quite a bit, unless he gets home late night drunk and runs us into repeated death hehe, but overall hes a kitten good commander.

Will be sorry to see them move on. Not too many large guilds left in ET to raise us back up from the depths we are sinking into.
If anybody is looking to transfer to an underdog server with Rare to Exotic WvW queues (rarely happens except for maybe reset night on peak time) Eredon Terrace is the place to come too.

Thanks for the info, I’m sorry to see them leave you all after reading that. Well, if they’re looking for some larger fights, they’re welcome to play in the Quarry… otherwise maybe they should consider staying home? (Not knocking their desire to try new things, but sometimes there’s no place like home, you know?)

Next patch: The Omega Arrowcart.

Only a WvW player sees a therapist over those feelings of depression and loss when keeps and towers fall and winds up with his therapist joining his guild.

Kryyg.8576:

They currently play on JQ. They want a challenge in one of the lower tiers.

People saying move to JQ don’t know their own server.

KWBH? I don’t think I’ve ever seen that tag in WvW.

I don’t recall getting one the first time… where’s it show up?

skullmount.1758:

VOLKON.1290:

This is a very nicely done dungeon and it would be a shame for it to go away. But if it does, think about it… it’ll be something you remember in the future fondly as opposed to a dungeon that was fun for awhile but eventually went stagnant as people stopped running it over time. People still talk about the Mad King fight and the clock tower… if they were still in the game they’d be old, stagnant content by now.

I’d love to see it stay a bit longer, but can also see why it may not stay forever.

Except that we pretty much know its guaranteed that the Halloween stuff will be back. Also, it’s holiday content, which no game keeps around all year long.
This (MA TF dungeon) isn’t holiday stuff, and they could give it legitimate lore reason(s) why it (the dungeon only) stays permanently. I just don’t get why they give us such a short time period to try to get two exclusive items (in addition to the sentinel prefix/Azurite). Its like they want me to stop playing.

To be honest, we don’t know what next Halloween will look like. The Mad King bursting through the fountain… been there, done that… I’d be surprised if they recycled that again. I believe they’ve hinted that each holiday likely won’t be identical to the prior one, either with new stuff or more added on. Time will tell.

I don’t see how them tossing new content, even temporary content, out on a continual basis for absolutely no added cost to you is somehow indicative of them wanting you to stop playing…

Aeolus.3615:

frostshade.3617:

Nsp could always use more people for our community we have cookie tacos here but that’s all I’ll say

well they would be a nice had to NSP wvw population, about quee, sometimes can happen in EB map at reset night, otherwise is a free to join.

• on last reset took about 2-3h after, to have a que in EB(other maps could have a group of 30-50 per map if all got together).

*server with good commanders and good organized guilds(yet very few ones as large as yours)

@frostshade, you forgot the bacon cookies

Oh yeah?

Well JQ will throw in bacon-wrapped bacon cookies with a side order of cold beer to wash them down with.

You’re looking T5 to T7, but I would like to extend an offer to consider Jade Quarry in T1. We always have room for more and are a blend of casual WvW as well as hard core WvW. It’s hard to explain… you’d have to see it. There are some amazing commanders running around here and many dedicated guilds that love this stuff, as well as a “pug” community that rounds things off wonderfully making the WvW experience in JQ one of the best in the game.

Give it a thought, we’d love to have you all along. It’s a choice you wouldn’t regret.

Last night went through with a pug of three mesmers (myself included) and two others. No issues at all, but then again I’m not dependent on shatters to any extreme.

This is a very nicely done dungeon and it would be a shame for it to go away. But if it does, think about it… it’ll be something you remember in the future fondly as opposed to a dungeon that was fun for awhile but eventually went stagnant as people stopped running it over time. People still talk about the Mad King fight and the clock tower… if they were still in the game they’d be old, stagnant content by now.

I’d love to see it stay a bit longer, but can also see why it may not stay forever.

Iruwen.3164:

They could also simply drop to your feet once your inventory is full. But for some reason, ANet is incapable of implementing such a simple change.

If bags went into the inventory and stacked to 250, there’d be no need to even have them drop at your feet. If you have a full inventory in this case, it would be OK for the bags to disappear even… there’s no excuse to not have at least one slot open.

Just a thought with Loot Bags in WvW… what would be nice is if they (the actual loot bags) could be made to appear directly in your inventory and if they were stackable items (to 250). This would eliminate the entire loot issues in WvW, including the potential problem of inventory being full were an “auto loot” system implemented.

They should be either soul bound or account bound obviously. It would be nice after a hard day toiling away in WvW to be able to relax by opening the loot bags at my leisure, seeing what goodies are inside…

That would become Tears by Timeslot instead.