Guild Wars 2

I have never seen a sadder suggestion on these forums lol.

You want to make more servers for wvw when we currently have horribly under/over populated servers, i don’t know how you come up with this kitten anet, but i want what you guys are taking.

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

We are going to make several temporary Glicko rating adjustments for tomorrow’s resets.

Northern Shiverpeaks: +150
Northern Shiverpeaks has been leading tier 4 for the past several weeks and we believe that moving them to tier 3 will create more competitive matches for tier 4 and tier 3. This adjustment will give Northern Shiverpeaks ~72% to move to tier 3 and ~28% to move to tier 2.

Dragonbrand: -150
Dragonbrand is not very competitive at tier 3 and we believe moving them to tier 4 will give them a better chance at being competitive. This adjustment will give Dragonbrand ~83% to move to tier 4 and ~17% to stay in tier 3.

Yak’s Bend: replace +150 with +75
We believe the +150 adjustment to Yak’s Bends is now too high. They still need a slight adjustment to remain in tier 1 where they are competitive so we believe adjusting it to be +75 is more balanced. This adjustment will give Yak’s Bend ~64% to stay in tier 1 and ~36% to move to tier 2.

We evaluated EU matchups as well. Riverside, Drakkar Lake, Jade Sea, and Vizunah Square are the worlds that could be adjusted for potentially more competitive matchups. However, those worlds have good enough odds to move on reset without any adjustments so we decided to not make any temporary adjustments for EU at this time.

I’m sorry. You don’t plan on doing anything to fix the position you’ve put gunnars hold (EU) in? week after week of matchups where we cant even hold a spawn tower in prime time, because your genius matchmaking linked us up with vabbi. then you brush over it when you could fix it, and instead only mention the bigger eu server?

I’ve been a loyal fan of anet since i first got into gw2 and wvw has been my staple game mode for the past 4 years, but posts like this from devs are the reason i’ve stopped playing this game, you broke my server, now fix it, there is no way for me to convey my frustration better than this with you. Stop being so useless.

Vavume.8065:

RoseofGilead.8907:

I’d be cool with that, as long as the completion rewards were reduced/converted into something else. And as long as getting 100% this way didn’t give you more Gifts of Exploration.

There should be no rewards at all, just a straight swap, gift of exploration for 100% world complete. I have been wanting this for a while, and I’m still holding out hope they someday we will get it.

Why are you here lurking forums when i could be hitting you with copious amounts of pewpew in wvw.

Nope, it’s been 4 years of this, it doesn’t need to change to to cater to a minority of players.

Wolf.8504:

I like druid, i try it in spvp and he’s amazing.. so for duo with DD what r the best weapons? GS/staff?

And for solo?

Thank you guys!

I run my druid on longbow/staff, and i have no issues bursting down anything, i dunno what the guy earlier was talking about saying druids lack burst. it’s versatile in wvw and has no problem duking it out in 1v1’s. lotsof condi clear/aoe healing, strong burst with you/your pet coordinating quickness/fury on attacks well.

Druid is the most fun roaming, especially in the current meta.

This was fantastic, lol.

Sintirin.7251:

Hello so most of wvw players noticed our game mode is almost dead,looks like arena net forget about wvw tournamets ,devs in past told something about gvg ladder and other good stuff but looks like they forget, instead of most imporant things that can give second life to this mode of a game we recive useless things for example repair hammers.So the question is : can we finally get content which will help the wvw or there will be like small fixes that noone care about to the end of the game

Please don’t try to convey other peoples opinions into your posts, you dont speak for me, and i dont speak for anyone else.

Also people say wvw dying for 4 years, its getting more attention now than it ever has and it seems to be improving bit by bit.

afrocrusade.4253:

Kuya.6495:

DH is probably the example of what every class should have. Multiple viable builds, from bruiser to dps to bunker.

A remotely competent DH is not killable whatsoever.

I kill most, some outplay me but thats to be expected, DH’s just fine if its a 1v1 , i play staff/sword dagger druid, I consider it one of the better fights i’m able to find, your issue op is a l2p one.

Jeknar.6184:

Coopa.8937:

I mean… the posts speak for themselves. If that many people were in favour of the server links, why don’t we see threads of them defending the idea? A quick glance at the forums finds the opposing threads outnumber the in favour ones by a large margin.

Because the loudmouths of this forum don’t represent the majority… The polls already showed this, how many times we’ll have to go unto that discussion?

This, the polls constantly disprove what the vocal minorty of this forum say/think.

+1000%

Coopa.8937:

VaaCrow.3076:

Coopa.8937:

VaaCrow.3076:

Um, I don’t feel like this at all, I love server linking and what it’s done to wvw as does my guild, it’s linked us with similar servers which contain like minded people. Sure, we don’t fight vs the t1 server but who cares, we never wanted to anyway.

As for anet listening, they removed Desert bl, the only new wvw map since eotm , thats a very large step backwards for them to take given that it was done just to please players who did not like the map. i think it’s pretty clear that the devs do listen, it may just be that certain ideas don’t resonate with them, like destroying existing servers

What server are you/your guild on if you don’t mind me asking? With all due respect, I’m sure it’s not one of the bottom tiers that, as I said, has been steamrolled every single week for months on end; this would account for some bias in your opinion. Realistically, I don’t understand this whole server pride thing to be honest. I’d much rather have enjoyable battles with comparable servers on a daily basis than be able to say “I’m from GoM, and we get clobbered regardless of the matchup”. To your point about the Desert BLs, it’s essentially the same thing as this. They tried something, the community revolted, and ANet had to back pedal or face the consequences. What’s any different this time around, other than the fact that rather than taking the easy route and going back to what was, they’d have to try something new.

I’m from gunnars hold, and last server linking we got stomped on alot, this time not so bad. and server pride is a big thing for alot of people on gunnars. Before the server link, we were being stomped on every week lots of guilds left us and such. This linking has been excellent and i feel like when you guys post on the forum saying “most people don’t like this thing” you forget to take into account you cannot know what other people think and it is wrong for you to speak for them.

I mean… the posts speak for themselves. If that many people were in favour of the server links, why don’t we see threads of them defending the idea? A quick glance at the forums finds the opposing threads outnumber the in favour ones by a large margin.

People who are happy don’t generally flock to the forums, they are a place for the vocal minority to throw their opinions around to garner attention. Anet should just have a poll " do you think server linking is a success, do you wish for it to continue?"

The result will end arguments in these threads.
WvW is hardly being destroyed, they are pouring constant work into it now. sure, its taken four years, and sure there will be mistakes along the way, but they are striving the improve this game mode. The least you could do is try to be more constructive/positive about what they can/are able to do. ~No change is going to resonate positively with 100% of the wvw players.

CrimeMaker.8612:

VaaCrow.3076:

Um, I don’t feel like this at all, I love server linking and what it’s done to wvw as does my guild, it’s linked us with similar servers which contain like minded people. Sure, we don’t fight vs the t1 server but who cares, we never wanted to anyway.

As for anet listening, they removed Desert bl, the only new wvw map since eotm , thats a very large step backwards for them to take given that it was done just to please players who did not like the map. i think it’s pretty clear that the devs do listen, it may just be that certain ideas don’t resonate with them, like destroying existing servers

Server linking might have been great for you/your guild but for most people it hasnt… Recruitment has become tough for WvW guild, Linking has already killed 2 servers, people stacked t1 server even more and much more.

I do not see this, most people i encounter in game have positive views about linking, sure, there could be more done, but to colour something as a failure and claim to have the opinion of “most people” is just silly, you cannot know what “most people” think as there is no way to gather that information reliably from all of the wvw servers.

As for stacking, that has always been an issue, anet should just lock tier one and ignore the qq of potential band wagoners saying “omg life is over done with wvw cant transfer to karma mother ship, what do i do?!” every time they lock servers people flock to these forums to cry about it (inb4 malediktus responds with something silly as always)

Anet do listen, but half of the time they seem to listen to the vocal minority, who really shouldn’t be posting ideas onto the internet, let alone having them in the first place, just because they constantly flood this forum with garbage ideas.

Coopa.8937:

VaaCrow.3076:

Um, I don’t feel like this at all, I love server linking and what it’s done to wvw as does my guild, it’s linked us with similar servers which contain like minded people. Sure, we don’t fight vs the t1 server but who cares, we never wanted to anyway.

As for anet listening, they removed Desert bl, the only new wvw map since eotm , thats a very large step backwards for them to take given that it was done just to please players who did not like the map. i think it’s pretty clear that the devs do listen, it may just be that certain ideas don’t resonate with them, like destroying existing servers

What server are you/your guild on if you don’t mind me asking? With all due respect, I’m sure it’s not one of the bottom tiers that, as I said, has been steamrolled every single week for months on end; this would account for some bias in your opinion. Realistically, I don’t understand this whole server pride thing to be honest. I’d much rather have enjoyable battles with comparable servers on a daily basis than be able to say “I’m from GoM, and we get clobbered regardless of the matchup”. To your point about the Desert BLs, it’s essentially the same thing as this. They tried something, the community revolted, and ANet had to back pedal or face the consequences. What’s any different this time around, other than the fact that rather than taking the easy route and going back to what was, they’d have to try something new.

I’m from gunnars hold, and last server linking we got stomped on alot, this time not so bad. and server pride is a big thing for alot of people on gunnars. Before the server link, we were being stomped on every week lots of guilds left us and such. This linking has been excellent and i feel like when you guys post on the forum saying “most people don’t like this thing” you forget to take into account you cannot know what other people think and it is wrong for you to speak for them.

Um, I don’t feel like this at all, I love server linking and what it’s done to wvw as does my guild, it’s linked us with similar servers which contain like minded people. Sure, we don’t fight vs the t1 server but who cares, we never wanted to anyway.

As for anet listening, they removed Desert bl, the only new wvw map since eotm , thats a very large step backwards for them to take given that it was done just to please players who did not like the map. i think it’s pretty clear that the devs do listen, it may just be that certain ideas don’t resonate with them, like destroying existing servers

why cant you just be happy with what we have…

Heibi.4251:

Jim Hunter.6821:

Heibi.4251:

- nowhere in this thread did I say ANeT couldn’t play their own game.

They just have to play it by your made up rules right?

No, I want ANeT to play by their rules, and they have not made an official policy where this is involved. ANeT is the ruler of this game. The ruler must be impartial or at least establish rules that they as admins must play by.

What would be nice here would be for an official response to come down on either side of this discussion. People telling me I’m wrong does not change the fact that ANeT is supposed to be the representative of ALL the players. I will continue until an official policy is established.

They don’t need an official policy. Also anet can do what they wish, how do you not understand this? What you think does not matter, you are the only one with this silly complaint, i’d love to have anet claim an enemy fort, it’d be so much sweeter to flip than normal. I think you’ve gone and lost the plot private pyle.

Extreme.8350:

Jayne.9251:

Extreme.8350:

Jayne.9251:

Extreme.8350:

Soon.5240:

People defending Towers and Keeps?

I DEMAND that Anet put an end to this immediately!

Edit: Let me temper my response by adding that it would be nice if we actually got rewards for defending…..

people who use ac on 5 players is just wasting everyones time
not actually doing anything. yes it would be more fun without walls defently.
the server we fight they avoid all pvp. Unless they have 5x more players they gank.
If we have a big enough zerg to kill them they just run away all of them.
its BOOORING. atleast if there was no walls we could do something.
They win the point game good for them but i dont care about it.

Did you want them to just stand there eating popcorn while you and four friends bashed down the gate?

If you don’t like ACs, don’t try to flip objectives. Go find your fights out in the field.

Problem solved.

Its not solved because they dont exist.
Except for a few people which run full bunker ele or stealth condi theif which shoot you couple of times hide and run away there is nothing to fight.

You’re not looking hard enough.

why did they return these kittenty maps in the first place?
they look bad and they are bad.

lol the majority of the WvW community voted for these maps, myself included. thats why they came back.

Haleydawn.3764:

You can hate it all you want. WvW is a requirement for a legendary. Anet has just solidified that with the reward track.
They have even responded saying the change will not be reverted.
I’m not sure what you think this post will actually achieve outside of venting some anger at a game you don’t even have to play.
As per the user agreement which you agreed to to play the game; ArenaNet may modify, remove, or add Content in its reasonable discretion. They notified the change in a relevant sub heading. The change was implemented in the second scheduled biggest patch of the year, which for some would have been obvious. It’s not their fault you didn’t read it.

+100 this. forum pvp doesn’t = WvW. you’re just wasting time u could be in wvw now hahaha

Fimbulvetr Wraith.2379:

I think this forum is for feedback so here goes:

Is this how this is to be now? Unattainable unless you want to submit yourself to the waste of time that is WvW? Is there another way I am missing to gain this.?

I have been kicking my heels around gw2 since release and gw1 for 7 years before that. These pathetic attempts to push me into this waste of time for a legendary may well be the last straw. If I wanted to play WvW I would already be doing it. I simply have no interest.

I have been enjoying the collections for building spark, jumped the hoops, wasted time building mats but it was all in a game mode I am happy to play. Now i find it was all a massive waste of time and gold since it offers no variation to the final stage of how a legendary is built.

This is not my first legendary, so far I have built Rodgort, flameseeker prophecies, dreamer, meterologicus, but this reward track is just a step too far for me.,

If I want incineratot I need to grind wvw. as far as I can tell.

Hi, I am a WvW player, i only play this game to wvw with my guildies. I’ve also made sunrise, twilight, eternity, rodgort, the flameseeker prophecies, incinerator, bifrost, kudzu, and i’m in the process of making the predator/the new raven staff.

Thats 8 legendaries made, and 2 more in the works, As a person who only plays gw2 for wvw, having to go out of my way and set foot into pve which in my opinion, and to quote you OP “waste of time that is PVE” I changed your quote a little bit there. It has been hard, forcing myself to do maps, to grind mats, to grind karma, to grind masteries to grind dungeon tokens, it has taken me FAR FAR longer than a measly eight hours, and i have not complained about it, insulted or belittled a game mode because i do not like it, I simply put my head down, and do it, you know why op? because that is what is required for me to get what i want. I may not enjoy it, but i’ll do it because i know that the end result for me is worth it.

I just don’t understand, you have it easy, 8hours is nothing compared to the things all of us wvw focused players have to go through. But you feel so entitled, you insult us, what we play, and anet with your comments, it is honestly disgusting. Don’t bother replying to my post, i don’t want to shine a light on your vile attitude any longer than is strictly necessary.

Either do the wvw or don’t. It’s that simple.

Elden Arnaas.4870:

re: MMOs change, this is something that’s commonly found in their ToS. – Yep. But needless and poorly thought out changes are just that – needless, and poorly thought out. And they’re bad for the game. Resources wasted for no value-ad.

re: You earned some currency that you could have used and didn’t – Yes, because I was given no reasonable warning that the vendor would be abruptly and permanently ripped from the game. And I’m not the only one.

re: Anet didn’t promise or take anything so now you’re just meandering down entitlement avenue calling the change bait and switch – Giving someone an expectation of getting a certain thing in exchange for a certain cost, then abruptly and without fair warning changing what is available sounds like “bait and switch” to me. And I’m sure there’s a more concise term for “placing notification or warning where you’re reasonably sure people it’s meant for won’t see it”, but I don’t know that term. So that’s how I’ll phrase it.

re: now you’re just meandering down entitlement avenue – When someone takes away an opportunity with no proper warning or even giving a reason, I wouldn’t call it “entitlement” to want that opportunity returned.

re: I think the reward track is reasonable amount of effort to ask for absolute, top tier prestige skins. – Absolutely. Going forward it’s a better solution in many ways. (Unless you consider the damage that abruptly dumping in a lot of inexperienced PvE only players will do to WvW) If we had a chance to spend the badges we already have, that reward track would serve to pull a more manageable number of PvE players into WvW. Players that might want to stay and make WvW one of their regular game modes. But making people feel forced to do something is never a good introduction to that thing. Don’t you care about the state of WvW?

re: I don’t remember even remotely implying that I care about what other people do when they’re on the map or why they’re there in the first place – Why don’t you care? Your sig seems to indicate very passionate feelings about WvW. Yet you don’t care why people are there or what they’re doing? You don’t think that a bunch of PvE only players, there only to grind out the GoB track is a bad thing for WvW?

re: I don’t remember calling anyone a “scrub” – You didn’t call us scrubs, I did. Because it’s what I would consider an inexperienced PvE only player, who is just(or primarily) in WvW to grind out the GoB track. Even those of us who are legitimately trying to contribute still aren’t the same as an experienced WvW player, or one that is just invested in WvW. Because we’re not invested in WvW. We’re there for the thing that’s gated behind it, like WvW only players are in PvE. If a player is not invested in PvE, I’d rather they(and other WvW only/preferred players) had WvW alternatives. Just like I want PvE alternatives for PvE only/preferred players.(and for PvP only/preferred players for that matter) People in a game mode should care about that game mode, and want to be there, and enjoy being there.

re: the time taken here to complain about it’s new acquisition method. – Where did I complain about the new acquisition method? I have complained about the abrupt loss of the old acquisition method.(without fair warning, or any reason given)

re: In the same vein, the GoB could have been earned in the time taken here to complain about it’s new acquisition method. – First off I haven’t spent 8 to 10 hours(possibly more) posting in threads about the GoB change. Second, I’m here trying to help out the many PvE only players that this change affected. In the same vein, you could make a thread to try and help the situation of WvW players who want to spend more time in their preferred game mode. Yet you continue to put effort into posting comments on this thread, instead of potentially helping yourself and other WvW players.

re: critique based on fact sans name calling is equivalent to “bashing”? – Implying we are lazy and/or willfully ignorant, and “entitled” = bashing, in my book.

re: concern troll – Are you implying that I don’t care about the state of WvW? While I certainly don’t care as much about WvW or PvP as I do PvE, I am concerned for the state of WvW. It’s one of GW2’s game modes, and contributes to the overall health of the game. And I don’t want unhappy players anywhere in this game. That’s why I want players to be allowed to accomplish their goals in their preferred game mode.

re: In your opinion, they didn’t give you enough of a heads up because it’s a big deal for you. – Insufficient warning is insufficient warning, no matter how much is does/does not matter to me. If you’re genuinely warning people about something, you place that warning where they’re likely to see it. Not where they’re likely not to see it. Once again, I wish I knew a better term for “placing notification or warning where you’re reasonably sure people it’s meant for won’t see it”.

Tl;Dr, you didn’t read patch notes, sucks to be you, i’ll just stroll on by with my gifts of battle, that i bought before change, because i read patch notes.

edit typo

Will.9785:

So I was away for a long time but before I left I endured WvW to get enough badges to get a Gift of Battle, but I didn’t buy one because I didn’t have the bank space to hold it.

I just came back and read about the changes. Talk about moving the goal posts. It made all of the WvW I had to slog through before meaningless. Clovers and Obsidian shards? I already had those. Obsidian shards are like the easiest thing for the legendary.

Anyway, the point of this thread is not to complain (though I would be remiss to state that at the very least what the devs should have done is mailed every player a ticket to summon that vendor 1 last time) but to talk about WvW.

I want my legendary. So here I am, back in WvW for the reward tracks. I have been here for 30mins and I have not seen a single other living soul. I’ve just been wandering between 2 points back and forth capturing them.

Are they seriously forcing people who want a legendary to do this? I mean there is NOTHING here. It is beyond boring.

Are they really forcing me to finish all of the pve maps to get my legendary? all i wan to do is wvw… you have to do 7-8 hours of wvw, flipping camps etc, i have to finish the entire awful pve map. get over yourself please, we all do things we don’t like for something we want, less complaining, just knuckle down and do it.

this thread, just PC in another form.. seriously, just man up and deal with it.

phokus.8934:

I don’t think you understood my post as it was more satire than anything else. Of course I was agreeing…

it was directed at pyriall, sorry if I didn’t make that clear

phokus.8934:

Pyriall.1683:

VaaCrow.3076:

Learn. To. Dodge. Omg. 3 years and you can’t see an inc moa cast. seriously.

You’re that rare person who has never been moa’d. I mean ever.

He’s the rare person who learns about skills, casting animations, and how to play around it rather than coming to the forums shouting nerfs. Just to clarify, I haven’t read his post history so he could have.

Sure i get moad, but it’s when I am not paying attention, or fail to dodge/block/evade in some way, i’m not saying its possible to dodge 100% of the time, but knowing the animations of other classes skills, and having situational awareness are key components to pvp in gw2. It’s nobodys fault but your own if you lack them, or are unwilling to learn them and instead come to these forums to whine.

Ragion.2831:

Prince Vingador.8067:

The problem here is that every one wants to run the same skill or build call it wtv, and do well in 1v1 and team fights and have all the sustain at the same time also.

Lets talk about reapers atm , this class performs better in team fights imo, i always run a build to help team fights , so when im 1v1 a thief for example i shouldnt just win easy ( usually i do cause 90 percent cant play thief) but when i face a proper thief like sindrener or sizer or red levin its almost impossible to win because they dont just eat aoe and desingage if they need to .
U need to look at your build also and see against what classes u r up against then think what to do .
Reapers are not weak imo but having no invuls or blocks and now losing the chill damage hurts the class.
So less burst now, i see it as a big nerf to the class, and i need to adjust my build over this change .

I would like to suggest adding 2 stacks torment to chill damage insted of 1 bleed.

But yet revenants work well in team fights and 1v1, so does engi, so does mesmer, same thing with ranger. This argument is invalid and is pretty much the same flawed logic Anet is using.

Sounds like you’re just mad your OP reaper got hit with a nerf and refuse to learn how to play a better balanced reaper :P, Ragion.

Learn. To. Dodge. Omg. 3 years and you can’t see an inc moa cast. seriously.

Bit late to be jumping into this, and i’ve wanted alpine back since december. BUT. I’ve been giving these bls a solid try over this week and they’re really decent. sure, it has its issues, but thinking about it, i don’t want to go back to vanilla alpine map.. this one is just more entertaining to play on, better to defend, better to attack, and i know it’s not relevant to wvw, but it’s nice to look at too. + the terrain is fantastic, easy for a smaller group to move around relatively unseen, unlike old map where you’re scouted as soon as you leave spawn.

I’d rather they just replace the towers/maybe get rid of one of the levels of the new desert bl (by level, i mean height, the maps is layerd) so that from the towers you can treb keeps, and such like in the old map. other than that, remove the barricades, and i’d be content with this map.

Edit, if you are bringing alpine back, at least rotate the maps, 1 month alpine, 1 desert, or something.

Why are you all even still posting in this thread, none of the new legendaries even look that good, aside from the axe. Besides, they made their decision, deal with it, there’s plenty of other legendaries for you to make.

Fivedawgs.4267:

Dude gs is also melee, I don’t get your post. Landing sw aa is hard as landing gs aa.

mesmer GS is not mellee……

Hmm, it’s been a while. #necro

no gw2 on consoles, nope nope nope nope not happening ever. and use a mouse and keyboard like a civilised human adult.

STIHL.2489:

I said this on another topic, figure it’s fitting here as well.

STIHL.2489:

No one wants the Alpine back really. They got stale, but what people really want is:

• Swift Direct, Easy Travel, which the Alpine provided and the Deseret did not.

• They don’t want a map full of Gimmicks. WvW for most intents is more a War Zone not a Theme Park. There does not need to be any distractions there to keep us entertained. Thus the Alpine was simple and direct, the Desert is not.

• Distinct Wall Lines for the Buildings. The Alpine map made it easy to know exactly where the walls where, and the layout could be seen from the Mini-Map. The Desert has this convoluted set up where it’s not all walls, and you can’t see the distinct outline from the Mini-Map.

So it’s not that anyone wants the Alpine back, it’s that the Desert fails to preform so badly they would rather go back to the Alpine then continue to deal with the Desert.

Truth is, I would rather they fix the Desert, and learn how to do it right, so they can make more maps.

no, I do want the alpine bl back, i want it back ALOT don’t speak for me you kittening kitenning kitten that swallows kittenloads of kitten.

DeceiverX.8361:

You neglect 8 to 12% bonus damage from food likely offesetting the entirety of might gain.

As far as glassy goes, I haven’t seen a roaming player run a toughness build except for dire condi specs, but nothing bursts them because the build is just overpowered on defenses in general. The damage is so high in WvW that in most cases defensive stats are a waste in anything except group play, or on a condi build.

Berserker isn’t really that “hilariously glassy”. It’s kind of the status quo on roaming builds, just saying. Mesmer medium health pool and lots of invulns compared to most other classes keeps the class pretty resilient in terms of incoming damage so long as it’s played well. Death’s charge also has a very high coefficient if the attacks land, and its final attack also has a fairly high coefficient. But then again, a dodge roll negates the whole thing, and if you get jumped by a necro open-field, there are L2P issues there.

Most good mesmers I’ve seen maintain scholar runes bonuses, or can engage from relative safety for the gank with them via stealth/ranged advantage/blur/blink. There’s one particularly good one I know of in my current tier on an enemy server (who does happen to run full berserker gear and is one of the bases for my discussion) who repeatedly wins 1v5+ through good timing of defensive skills and really good positioning. I dueled him for around four hours one day and didn’t win a match unless he dropped Chaos and if I managed to fake him out for my own, predictable, and easily-negated 35k burst.

Add in fire/air sigils for another 3-4k expected, btw.

What does all of this have to do with the OP?

You will fair better if you find a team of people to play with. Ofcourse yolo q games are going to be hit or miss. Seriously, ask in /map or your guild, or people from a game you won/lost it don’t matter, you will fare better playing as a team.

Roda.7468:

Wow I’m super impressed with this community’s ability to discuss this maturely.

And I’d count Canach more of a member of de2.0 than traeherne.

And and I’d say no to the op. Like really really no. In fact their reaction to the gender imbalance is the best response one could ask for, since now they understand what it’s like to experience 99% of the medium as a woman. Where all your representations are token , barely effective, and in most/the worst cases not meant to even pander to you. Hell I’d say y’all cashed out with Braham and freaking Canach! They’re at least complex characters!

Yay art!

While i do think the op’s request is a little silly.

there is no need for you and your social justice warrior brethren to take up your pitchforks, lol. just lol.

MadRabbit.3179:

+1 – For properly abusing punctuation like all good Internet rants should.
-1 – For multiple grammatically correct uses of period. I count, at least, 3 to 4 on a quick scan. All sentences should be run-on sentences in a good Internet rant.
-1 – No gratuitous abuse of caps lock.
-1 – For capitalizing the first letter of each sentence. Sentences shouldn’t exist in a good rant to begin with and you either capitalize all letters or no letters.
+1 – For numerical usage of 3 instead of spelling out the word three.
-1 – I don’t need to use urban dictionary to understand any of the words you used.
+1/2 – Creative death threat, but in the end, it just didn’t inspire me very much.

Total : -1.5

This will now be your new MMR until the next season. It’s a new creative feature of the matchmaking system.

You win the internet. Thats exactly the kind of thing i imagine anet doing.

Saiyan.1704:

Well that’s quite harsh. I’d never wish death towards another person… its just a game afterall.

Oh um, get gud son l2p plox

Thats going relatively easy, i toned what i wanted to say down to put on forum, lol.

Seriously, whoever at anet is responsible for the matchmaking in its current form i hope you get hit by a low flying helicopter on your way to work, then dropped from the helicopter into a live volcano, then fired into space via the eruption and sucked into the suns orbit to burn. If i had three wishes from a magic lamp, this would be all 3, i hate you, i really really hate you and i hope that you are never given any work within this industry ever again.

Go ahead, infract me, I just hope whomever is responsible sees this first.

Edit, typo.
edit 2 typo. too mad to type.

yes i do /15charrs

Nope. /15 charrs

Aggrostemma.1703:

Deaeira.2651:

Just get superior siege for it and sell it on the TP (or donate to your guild). Superior Catapults go for 15s per 6 hero tokens right now.

This is an excellent idea!

So by doing so I only loose 1 gold per hour if I follow a commander and about 3-4 gold if I do havocking… Great!

/sarcasm of

HE did not say it was the greatest idea there, but he contributed more to this thread pointing out valid uses for the currency to be exchanged into gold, than you have with your sarcasm. Some people don’t like to farm pve for gold and this is a decent a way as any in wvw to make a bit of money from your playtime.

LetoII.3782:

Some think the amount of points per is too small, me among them.

+1. Would like to see an increase in points on kill, seems too small atm.

I love this new change, i play engi/necro/druid. most of my guild have always been roamers/small guild group of 5-10 running round harassing bigger groups killing smaller ones. this is what we enjoy, and now we are being rewarded with this PPK system directly pushing our contribution to the servers efforts into play, we flip camps/towers sure, but all those kills along the way add up to LOTS of points.

To the OP, your thread is a thinly veiled hate post directed at a play style you personally do not enjoy, this game has been out for 3 years, if you still do not know there are 3 exits to spawn, or how to fight a thief, I’m terribly ashamed to be sharing the same oxygen as you.

I think anyone interested in an international community from NA/EU should give GH a go, amazing server, best fighting spirit EU.

At least they aren’t rushing this like the god-awful desert borderland maps. they at least learned from that mistake.

Tspatula.9086:

ArchonWing.9480:

Not to mention Guild Catas got nerfed for balance reasons. Of course, banners are the new thing in town and they want folks to buy the expansion and spend gold.

Indeed, the Pay to Win is strong in this expansion!

Again, quit being dense, This “pay2win” nonsense is in your head.

Thanks for the replies. I’ve been trying out your celestial build Sir dragon helmet, and I’ve had some nice success with it, in particular I love the rifle, it’s a really great weapon. I’m working on crafting full ascended cele for engi anyhow, I’ve got 4 pieces to go so I’m not too far from it. Also in your videos you had a really fluid use of the kits that I’m incredibly envious of but hopefully that will come with time, thanks for taking the time to link them in thread

Also thanks for links to wolfineer it’s been really helpful so far.

Hi, I finally got an engi to 80 after 3 years of putting it to the side, and I’m loving it. Can you guys possibly link some good game-play videos/builds (there 2-3 on meta-battle) not that many condition builds. I mainly wvw roam/pvp so any build advice is appreciated. I’m trying the celestial scrapper/zerkerish scrapper at the moment, and while I enjoy hammer and the super evade/#5 combo, I think it’s very unresponsive/clumsy, so searching for decent alternate builds, they don’t even have to be meta, just fun, condition or power.

Cheers o/

msalakka.4653:

Svarty.8019:

Straegen.2938:

Now that the HoT meta is starting to settle anyone else notice that a handful of elites have become nearly unkillable in skirmish without heavy focus and many of these builds maintain a solid DPS?

Sustain has become too prolific in my opinion at least on builds that can output decent DPS. I have completely stopped engaging Dragon Hunters, Tempests and Scrappers. Any of the bunker Chronomancers also get a pass.

Not sure if this is a good or bad thing but a lot of fights have become an exercise in futility or a bring three friends sort of deal.

This is where being rubbish at 1v1 has it’s benefits. I can’t tell if someone amazing killed me or whether is was an OP class. I’ll always say it’s an OP class tbh.

No one has to be rubbish at 1v1 anymore.

If you are, just pick up one of the pay2win elites.

Nothing in this game is pay2win, quit misusing the term.

Zenith.6403:

Kal Spiro.9745:

So you’re not a gamer, why are you even here? Playing a game for 10k hours seems just fine by me if I was willing to do it for 10k hours in the first place. There’s nothing in this game, though, that takes even remotely that long.

- I am a gamer. I’ve played lots of games during my life. Most of them were good experiences. 20-40 hours of high-quality content for a fair price. It used to be that developers would strive create an experience or a challenge for players to face. These days there’s a talk of “player retention”. What a bizarre concept. It sounds like some drug dealer wanting to hook up his customers so they come back for more. All the “dailies” and achievements are just there to hook you up once the game has lost its appeal. Sometimes it’s hard to see what the core of the game is with all the fluff. What if there was no items? What do we need them for? The slot machine effect, that’s what. Reinforcement for player to keep on playing indefinitely. Minimum effort for maximal player retention.

Is this what “a game” means to you?

I don’t think this game is for you, maybe not mmos at all. If you’re staple example is that you’re happy to pay £60 for 40-50 hours of entertainment, then you are definitely suited to playing gamed on a console, opposed to gw2 or mmos. I have around 5-6k hours on gw2 and I’m still having fun in this game. Maybe you just have an incredibly short attention span.