There is no point giving me back my server now, linking killed it, everyone left to other servers. I just hope they blow up all the servers and start again with 12 new ones.
Has anyone considered that people with low pips were not meant to max out every week? The system is clearly setup to retroactively reward players for the past several years of supporting wvw. If those veterans had just started when rewards came out like the people who are complaining of low pips, then they would be in the same boat.
The “hard to reach” hard-cap isn’t meant to be reached every week through casual play. But for those who supported the game mode through thick and thin, gg here is a bonus to pip acquisition.
I’m sorry if people cannot comprehend/accept this now, but in 2-5 years I’m sure you can appreciate what I just said.
I agree, but the outnumbered buff to pips is making a mockery of that, I know a guy with rank 200 that completed diamond chest in 2 days just because of it.
Worst part about it is that people are afk farming the veteran creatures to maintain participation and pips, on Saturday I found Derior, a well know youtuber/steamer doing exactly this, I then farmed him while he tried, and even whispered him to tell him I am going to farm him, he then replied that he will now fight back, I then killed him just as fast as when he was afk.
Another terrible idea, that this forum is now full of. If you are on an outnumbered map then that will very likely mean that there is plenty of things you could cap, there is also multiple ways to leave spawn to go and do that, perhaps play a class that can get around more easily. The outnumbered buff is a reward for doing that, not for being terrible at the game.
Not seeing a problem, Reaper is popular for many reasons, therefore it stands to reason that there is no shortage of people playing it. Get used to it?
Idk,
I project 40% participation will become a more regular sight. Doom and gloom I know but its just what I’m feeling. Reaper like you said is popular for many reasons, it is also the answer to boon meta which recently got nerfed with the stab pulsing nerf sweep. I’m not sure replacing boon meta with reaper meta is going to be to any ones liking.
If anything its about 20% now, taking a decent raid into account, often there will be 10 necro. I don’t see it growing beyond that, I think you have dived into the realm of exaggeration pretty heavily tbh.
OP wants ranks for free, when quite frankly you do not deserve them. On my road to Diamond legend I capped over 20k camps, killed over 30k dolyaks while SOLO roaming, so I know that it is entirely possible to get to max rank by actually roaming, the OP however seems to want to roam and only gank, which is fine, I’ve done more than my fair share of that too, but don’t expect to get much ranks out of it. Bottom line is if you want rank then earn it, it’s meant to be difficult and it should remain that way.
There is already many ways to boost your rank if you are smart about it, use guild buffs, play on outnumbered maps, use boosters (of which there are many)
Not seeing a problem, Reaper is popular for many reasons, therefore it stands to reason that there is no shortage of people playing it. Get used to it?
I think Anet should add a consumer that either turns badges of honor into bags of loot or it should allow us to convert badges of honor into wxp. Something along the lines of 100-250 badges of honor = 1 wvw rank.
No, there are plenty of ways to boost WXP already.
Indeed it is. You also need to buy T2 in order to buy T3 so earning T3 is essentially just for a skin.
It’s not just a skin, it’s ascended armor.
A lot of people who are complaining about T3 armor don’t realize that they’re going to have a full set (or at least one piece) of ascended armor well before they get to T3 armor.
That is not true, you don’t need to have any ascended tier gear before t3. Tier 1 is exotic and tier 2 has an exotic option.
I agree with the original poster. I have way more badges (64k+) and about 9.4k proofs and well over 10 million karma and I haven’t even been doing EotM, just regular WvWVW. I have already 5 characters with full ascended sets. I could easily equip 3 other characters with full ascended set as I got the ascended materials, armor/weapon chests for that, but I am too lazy to bother. I think most players play max 4-6 characters regularly and the rest of the alts gets fairly little play.
Karma, Badges and proofs of heroics have become more or less useless. I guess I will at some point be sitting with 20+ million karma, 100k+ badges, 20k proofs….
Arenanet please give us useful stuff to buy with the badges, proofs and karma!! Also laurels have become quite useless, I got 1200 laurels despite already putting all the infusions I managed to do without fractals.
You have a problem with hoarding, that is pretty clear since you have that amount of laurels unspent when you could have easily exchanged them for various thing including converting to gold. I do agree we need more things to spend badges and proofs on but karma is also something you can convert to materials/gold.
Because repeating the same cycle of capturing towers over and over and over to unlock one item isn’t everyone’s idea of fun…
It’s not my idea of fun to do PVE raids, I hardcore raided in WoW for many years so I do not bother to touch it here since I do not find that fun anymore, so guess what, if you do not find something fun do not do it, its as simple as that.
Was this system designed to keep people out of WvW, or is it’s simply become another aristocrat/bourgoise platform?
The system was designed as a long term goal that cannot be completed in just a couple of weeks, it rewards players that have spent thousands of hours in WvW already, and so it should, since we have received very little rewards over that time. As a new player you cannot just turn up now and expect it to be an easy grind like PVE, WvW has always required a high level of dedication if you wanted something shiny.
This ^ the old stronger get stronger while the weaker get weaker routine, it was bad for the game. Friday reset was always harder for some builds without the extra HP, now you just have to play as if every day is Friday or as others have mentioned build for more HP.
Tournaments used to be about fighting for your server, I cannot do that any longer as Anet made my server a slave to another server, there is no pride in fighting like that. I loved the tourneys back in the day, but in this current state I’m really not feeling it.
I like the idea OP, you mentioned the koda infusion which made me think maybe the PIP enrichment should also be an aura that you have to also complete a set of objectives for, similar to koda but WvW based. It should be failry difficult and time consuming, I would find that fun.
Oh mighty Anet I thank thee. Thou hast starved the gluttonous insatiety of the candy questing pver in wvw through your stalwart defense of that which is unattainable by them. I feel soon they can return to their ummutable pveland to squish 5 frogs and pretend AI is the true end game. You have enriched us with their bags and we have bathed in their tears. Do not stray from the course lest these snowflakes stay and beg for wxp-train in map chat. In your name we pray… Anet.
Not all Druids/Rangers/Thieves/DD’s need to be carried..
I know I was generalizing, there was a time I played a full heal spec druid, it can carry pretty hard, but still people assume you are pew pew and hate you anyway :P Point is though for the most part those classes are getting carried, ofc not in all cases.
1) So thankful for the queues.. means people are playing wvw again.
2) Reduce graphics settings or you will get lag in large scale fights. We’ve all known this since like 2013.
3) ???
4) Profit.
Agreed. We have gone from people saying WvW is dead to WvW is full and can’t get in, I know I personally prefer it being full and difficult to get on a map I want, than getting in instantly only to find tumbleweed while roaming.
For those that really cant get in a map then you should consider moving to a server that has shorter queues (Hint my server)
TBH unless you are on some backwater server that is desperate for players then as soon as you get a full squad on tag then its time to start kicking the rangers and thieves to make room for more useful classes. You should never take this personally, you were not born a ranger or thief, it was a choice you made, you can use another class and be useful to the people around you, instead of them carrying you.
Also these people complaining about higher ranks getting more pips need to realise that it’s a thank you from anet for sticking with the game mode for all these years without proper attention.
The marks seem to be badly implemented all around. I just don’t see the point.
This ^ I knew before we even got the WvW version of ascended that they would be badly implemented just as the fractals and PvP versions are, so ofc it was going to be the same. This game is full of poorly implemented recipes and that has always been the case, I feel like they are never going to get it right at this point.
Can you un-link the servers on EU please, I’ve played gw2 since 2012, put in around 7k hours, most of it, into wvw. now i can’t even get on the same map to play with my friends and guildies because of all these pvers clogging up the maps trying to get rewards, they don’t even give a kitten about the game mode/play..
Can you de-link the servers so i can just go back to playing this game with my guild/friends?
Yes please unlink Gunnars Hold so that they can fall back down the league table, then I can get to fight them again, thx Anet.
In Short
While in Spawn = Debuffed to receive no rewards
After respawning = 30 sec Immunity to the debuff
People will just AFK at objectives instead or in any number of the nooks and crannies across the maps, then.
Yes that’s true, but at least then they are killable, even in a structure because the structure can be taken from around them. The thing that annoys me most is the fact that they afk in safety, at least if they afk in a keep there is a chance of them being killed, which is what I would describe as justice.
