Guild Wars 2

Ive really given up. I have to assume the make more money from the gamblers then they do from the people like me who would flat out buy them if they were in the shop alone.

As long as the next trap prevents all healing for 30 seconds I’m all for it. If we are going to start negating things classes are good at, we got Mesmers and Thieves this time, lets aim at Eles and Guardians next.

We could even make a trap that prevents people from dying for 30 seconds. Say like thier Hp stops at 1. Then we will have taken away what necros are good at! =P

Jayne.9251:

I’m still waiting for the day when the dolyaks revolt and the minute you attack one they summon every single dolyak on the map, trample you into the ground, and trot off.

That would be fantastic. A heard of dolyaks charging by. Well walking slowly.

Now if they made it 2-3x bigger and had all the servers queue on the same jumping puzzle.

The chaos would be glorious. Deathmatch puzzle mode, activate!!

Part of the issue is choice. Most classes have 1 weapon set clearly defined and the rest sort of a mish mash of useful and not. So you end up playing one or 2 sets. Then add in, by like level 30 you have all your skills. That’s like 4 days into te game you have learned everything you will ever use. With the exception of an elite.

This leaves the game feeling like it has been so very long since you have done or learned anything new.

Would love a new weapon set, and correcting the non used ones.

Mackdose.6504:

A safe estimate is probably 650,000 – 950,000 active players, split between Europe and the US, with Europe having the higher population.

I hope it is more then that, didnt Tera just claim they had 1.4 active subscribers after going free to play??

And everyone says Tera is a flop…so less would be bad.

Enjoyluck.2618:

anet did that for lag solution probably

Now that is thinking outside the box!!

We have so many people fighting we lag to bad…How can we stop it?
Well What if they were dead??
Dead? How?
I dont know just make them dead.
I like it!! When two forces collide the resulting shockwave will now kill 1/2 of both groups instantly!!

Lighto.2805:

Wryscher.1432:

I had to set all my graphics settings to low or lowest. And well none on shadows. That killed most the lag for me.

changing graphic settings cant fix lag .
Low fps in not lag .

Fair enough. Let me rephrase. Perhaps try lowering your graphics settings. You may not be lagging but perhaps just low fps that looks like the skill lag we have all come to know and love over the last month. Better?

I had to set all my graphics settings to low or lowest. And well none on shadows. That killed most the lag for me.

And actually it wasn’t even a case of the best autoattack wins, because people werent where they were suppose to be and even autoattack wouldnt go off with my target standing on top of me.

I wonder if they fixed the bug where you can loose the outmaned buff when you die.

Be sort of funny. No repair bill!! The first time….

Harbinger.9645:

Nirvakitten796:

Tier 8 isn’t doing this at all. People are attacking each other and defending like normal.

This may be why we are tier 8…

T7 hasn’t adopted this method either. Really hoping it stays that way. It sounds super boring to play that way.

I wouldnt say they havent adopted it. Not this exactly, but having recently witnessed a very large zerg letting people recap a tower so they can cap it back. Several times in a row on different towers. While it isnt exactly the same, the results are the same.

I think I liked it more with culling. Back then I had no idea how many chuckleheads were going to try to kill me….

codiac.5642:

Wryscher.1432:

Last I checked HoD was the only medium sized server in this tier. I dont know if it changes through the late night/morning/day.

But unless I was on HoD i wouldnt expect to see any free transfers rolling in.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/free-transfers-to-medium-populations-worlds/

Here are the current medium-population worlds:
NORTH AMERICA

Eredon Terrace
Ferguson’s Crossing
Gate of Madness
Henge of Denravi
Northern Shiverpeaks
Sorrow’s Furnace

Emphasis mine.

The next week will be fine and sunny with a small chance of increased queuing for all in wvw.

Cool beans we like that. Must have felt sorry for those at the bottom because I cant recall the last time Gates showed up as medium on the server pop list.

Last I checked HoD was the only medium sized server in this tier. I dont know if it changes through the late night/morning/day.

But unless I was on HoD i wouldnt expect to see any free transfers rolling in.

HoD players smell funny, and they kick puppies!! Don’t do it!!!

Hmm maybe that is it. The ele has a long slow auto attack and the hammer chain on my guardian can be insanely slow at times. And I know you can squeeze things inbetween the 2-3 swing of the hammer so maybe that is why it feels so slow to change on him.

I have noticed it on my thief sb but not much else which would make sense with thief fast attack chains.

I’ll have to watch closer. Thanks for the info!

I wondered where those golems went. Better your way then ours. :p

This is something that has been driving me nuts for awhile. I have never seen another thread about it, so I thought I would ask. Maybe some one has a solution or something to change.

On to the problem! When changing targets, the red circle marking my target changes, but usually it takes 2-5 seconds before my attacks go to the new target.

It is really bad on my ele. I assume some of this is the auto attack cast time. But even then I’ve sent 3 auto attacks at my last target before my attacks catch up to my red circle.

It is great fun when launching myself on my guardian and finding myself flying at my last target.

For awhile I thought it was because I’m a spammer. So I bang auto attack even when I don’t need to. Thought maybe I was queuing up attacks. But if I switch targets and hammer 2 to leap it goes off and half the time I go to my last target.

In pvp quickly being able to switch targets is fairly important.

Anywho if anyone has found a way around this that would be fantastic. Or if someone could just tell me I’m not crazy would be swell as well.

Heck doesn’t even have to be auto loot, I would settle for area loot.

That reminds me why the hell is f used for all the crap in this game. I originally thought hey it will make it easy for the console crowd when it ports. But heck most console controllers have more buttons then you need for this game.

No I don’t want to talk to that mob, I want my loot. No I don’t care if tat person is dead, give me my loot. Siege are for pansies, I just want my kitten loot! Fffffffffffffffffffffffff

I think there is a post from a dev somewhere that says the the queue is just a big pile of people. When the spot opens, it randomly pulls from the pile.

As to the other I’ve had it happen awhile ago, but haven’t seen it since. Sounds more like a bug. Like people ending up in the wrong battle groups.

Well if you really want some qq about double teaming, got back and read some of the AR-BP-NSP threads. It is funny, for weeks when ever AR attacked the last ranked team (NSP), it was playing for second.

Now that NSP be in second it is magically playing to win!

Oh how the stories we tell change.

Nausicca.6038:

Sororita.3465:

What do u expect lol, im an engineer if i had stealth and clones i wouldnt have to run either >.>

And engy stealth doesnt count >.> 3 sec every 1 minute.

well..i can teach u to run if u want, that seems the one thing you lack

This is so true. I always believe I’m immortal and bam… I’m dead x.x
Also… I prefer teleporting into the wall, at Hills for example. Haha I hate Phase Retreat sometimes >.<

Do you find yourself yelling at the monitor, ‘come get some! You can’t kill me, you stupid -edited for tv-’ right before you die? Or does that only happen to me?

If only there was somewhere we could go in game where equal number of people could pvp against each other. maybe make it somewhere around 5 so it wouldn’t be all zergy like the op states.

I throw houses on people just to stealth stomp them when I don’t really need to. Why? Because I suppose I’m a troll at heart and threads like this crack me up.

It is odd though even in my super powered fortress of solitude house people still sometimes stop the stomp. It is almost like some people know what they are doing.

Red Falcon.8257:

Good Thieves are completely unaffected by Mug/Stealth nerf.
Ok maybe I will feel less guilty when I kill people as it won’t be as faceroll easymode as it is now perhaps.

This. Right now I am almost ashamed to stealth. Don’t ever know if I killed them because I played better, or they just never saw me come out of stealth.

How will it be wasted on thousands of people? Most the tier 8 threads say the lower servers are lucky to get 20 people on a map. So wont it be wasted on like maybe 100?

I know updates take time and money, but over all I am mostly disappointed as well.

Yes culling is nice. But to me fixing that is more like fixing a bug. Sure it took time and effort and ill be glad when it is gone, but to call it an update?

Also unless they fix the skill lag that came in recently Id actually vote to keep culling and undo whatever they did to cause the skill lag.

Hey we fix culling woo!! Oh did we mention we crippled every elementalist in every large scale fight?

Now I have no idea what else will be in here, and I hope it is some great stuff, but ive seen enough of their patches so far to know getting all excited is about stupid.

Well having been blue for what seems like a years on end, I cant wait for a week of trying to go into the wrong color doors and towers.

So when you see me banging into the blue doors over and over trying to get in, or cursing in map chat because the game is broke, be gentle. I have a fragile ego.

airstu.2579:

I sense a lot of PvD going on

But that door attacked me!! It wasn’t my fault!! He had it comin!

Sovta.4719:

Mystic.5934:

fire elemental used to be like what you describe. zergs would wipe, piles of corpses, people getting angry at the noobs, etc. let me paint you a picture of what you faced:
1 ember every 1000 range, so you’re almost never out of range of one
fire balls landing everywhere. when they hit you, you get thrown, stunned, and delt half of your life in damage. likely to get hit again before you can get back up. something to note: the effect would happen just before the red circle appeared, making dodging impossible.
flame attack that travels along the ground is about the same as now…
people would be timid and huddle near the bridge, so that was where all these attacks were focused, so you likely got nailed while you were approaching.
don’t even consider going there unless you’re at least level 30 (even though it downlevels you to 15), as you couldn’t even survive one fire ball.
it would take 30-60 minutes of the best skills you could bring to bare, along with 5-20 wp runs, to defeat this beast. even with 50+ players present.

Miss those fights.

I do as well. It is like they have 2 teams that don’t talk.

Lets nerf the loot. People stop going. Oh nerf the Mob, so people will go. Good plan.

Hey lets raise the loot. Mob dies in 10-20 seconds and noone has any fear of dieing.

I dont wvw for a day or two and we pull into the lead. Obviously I am dragging the team down!! sobs

Well I can say I have seen it in tier 7. Use to be only in sm in the lords room. The other day I got it when 2 fair sized zergs collided at umber of all places. Yes some how we lagged out umber.

And I have to agree skill lag to me is worse then culling. Culling affected everyone. Sure I can’t see them they can’t see me, I got smashed this time, next time it will be them.

But lag doesn’t affect everyone the same. On my ele skill lag all but cripples me, can’t change attunements dog crap auto attack. Running a sword on my thief auto attack is near my strongest attack. I’m happy if everyone is stuck in auto.

Pretty much whoever is standing in front of me. I ain’t all that picky. They all need to die, so why waste time sorting through the masses. Just start killing.

Ok, i lied. After thinking about it, I will go after any dd eles i see come my way, because well they annoy me. RTL in jump around a bit then run off, having done nothing. Stay and try to kill something you pansies!!

codiac.5642:

I see a lot of people talking themselves up here, but you are all weak and useless compared to the real God of wvw, Skill Lag!

Oh Skill Lag, why do you hunt me so relentlessly?

Why do you persecute me with your ill timed spiking?

Oh Skill Lag, how dominant will you be post network culling change?

Curse you Skill
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It never really bothered me much when it just happened in the lords room of SM. I mean sure it sucked, but now that it happens all over the map. It is super fantastic!

Mogar.9216:

Nuvo.5014:

jkctmc.8754:

Nuvo.5014:

The other thing right now the meta of the game is zerg vs zerg and the thief is not that good in tha situation, I use my guardian, warrior or mesmer for that so the thief go to a second page.

BS. My Thiefs semi-bunker Sword/Pistol build, using Omnom Pies for added healing is far, far better in Zergs than my Guardian. You guys just need to learn how to build your Theives better, than doing the standard gimmicky glass canon build.

Also learn to use your teleports for added confusion. In some cases they’re better than stealth.

Are u telling me a Thief is better than a altruistic guardian?
I can Heal everyone close to me with the boons, and do some damage, at the same time I do somo control in the field, the thief is pure damage, in a 60vs60 thief is pretty much useless, why ahve a thief in ur comp when u can have a warrior?, right now the meta is Warrio, guardian, mesmer, necro and ele for wvwvw. Tell me 1 thing a thief can do better than this classes in a super zerg.
From my pov the theif is good for gank squad.

lol you have never seen 4 thieves spamming cluster bomb have you?

Cluster bomb spam for the win! And that is what amuses me. If they really want to make thieves in wvw cry they would make the rules that apply in spvp apply in wvw. This stealth thing? eh who cares.

yanoch.7051:

Sororita.3465:

frostshade.3617:

GoM did you like my 2 min cap of your keep last night with only rams after your failed golem rush on ours? And btw thanks for the badges made so many <3

Specifics boy! Which keep and at what time, i presume you mean EB? Sorry but HoD were being a bigger problem than NSP last night, cant remember the small fry >.>

@ around 11pm est. You guy had quite a force on the bridge leading to your spawn for quite some time. The thing I wonder is why did HoD came from behind, bypassed us and jumped straight to your spawn as if we were not there… They could had us wipped from behind.

I wondered the same thing. They had taken everything else. All they needed was our keep and they would have had our side of eb. Of course you had our keep. So why they came charging to the back so they could fight us both instead of trying to ninja the keep from the front or something while you were busy with us, I had no idea. The only conclusion i could come up with they were tired of taking something with no resistance, and felt they had been cheated not getting killed trying to take our towers. So they came to give us some badges to balance their karma.

Auesis.7301:

Oh my god, I thought I’d seen the worst of community over-reactions before. This just takes the cake.

Look at yourselves. Just look at yourselves. We have almost NO information aside from a label, that is, “boon hate”. It’s pretty much implied that it won’t be a “mechanic”, it’ll be ways for professions with little access to boons to more easily tackle boon-heavy bunkers. That is literally it, and already you’re all up in arms. You’re all ridiculous.

I hate this community.

It is sort of fun because they specifically mention it as a way to boost thief damage if they were to tone down thief damage.

Although thieves are raging about all thier specs being broken with the new reveal, when infact it won’t change much. Well except for the troll thieves. So I guess we might as well over react together.

I’ve ill ways liked it when it takes 1-3 seconds to go through a glowing door. I always find myself pushing my movement keys harder like that will help at all.

Musty.3148:

Let the trolling and counter trolling commense!

Maybe nsp can make their own thread to troll themselves in. I really get confused about who I am suppose to be trolling then one server spends so much time trolling itself.

Maladon.5760:

Wenissa.2967:

Maladon.5760:

Wenissa.2967:

Maladon.5760:

Will you people shut up about culling? It’s not a factor in the vast majority of thief encounters unless that thief is also in a very large group. The thief who’s destroying you 1v1 near the supply camp isn’t subject to culling, you can’t see him because of Cloak and Dagger.

This is not true, easily seen as a ranger because as soon as you exit stealth my pet takes off to eat you. You render 1 vs 1 in wvwvw in approx 2secs after the pet charges. My machine is not low end and I usually run 115fps without the 60fps limiter.. So culling does affect w3 even in small scale scenarios. Sorry to burst your bubble.

Culling limits the number of characters reported to your client. In your scenario that limit is zero, which is silly.

It may be silly, doesnt stop it from being true.
I have tested it numberous times, so much so I’ve started telling people to follow the pet when trying to find a thief.

Of course it stops it from being true. The fact that you ever see an enemy proves it false. If culling kicked in at one enemy onscreen the game would be unplayable.

Or better yet you see the projectile of their weapons hitting you but still no thief.

Could be poor computer performance, I do only run around 60 fps, normally. But the times I have seen this it was in small groups.

It may not be culling, but if it isn’t something is truly messed up in how fast people render coming out of stealth. A problem almost everyone who does it, say doesn’t exist in spvp.

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

Entropy.4732:

Aldare.5836:

Plenty of small guilds that are recruiting on NSP. Ask Jscull or possibly osif? They probably know the gm’s and officers better than I do. I’m terrible with remembering names.

I’ve still gotta start my Asura only WvW guild, “Death From Below”. Should happen one of these days.

I’ve always wanted to see a 40+ zerg of nothing but asura running around a map. You should make that happen and record it for science.

I’m good enough to be 40 asura! Wait I’m a giant char what I meant is I ate 40 asurans.

Cantur Soulfyre.5409:

Wish people would actually read this stuff. If you pay attention, almost all of the T8 posters on here do have fun, that is why we play WvW for the most part. The problem is the broken system and that 2 servers have no chance against the third for +/- 3 months!!! Call it boredom, staleness, whatever.

Just because I’m curious, if you are having fun why exactly does it matter if you have a chance? Winning gets you nada. I’ve played for months against the same servers. After awhile it gets boring. And to me boring is not fun. So I moved.

Im not really sure how you define fun, but I don’t ever recall every in my life saying, wow this is some stale boring fun I’m having right now.

Sometimes a move is good. Lets you refresh yourself. Left GoM to go SoR back when they were t3 or so, way to busy for me. Back to GoM.

Left GoM to go AR for about a month. Some great people there, but after a month I missed me GoMmies so home I went.

Who knows if there is a server that can balance out t8 maybe it will finally make it there and you can head home. At least you can guest there for the pve stuffs. Like the people above said, it’s a game if ya ain’t having fun, it ain’t worth it.

Toble.2968:

Wryscher.1432:

Shiver.5903:

HoD, you succeeded at getting our attention.
So for a few moments, we redirected our focus to you.
That’s what we call a BACKLASH. Action, reaction.

Yours truly,

-Shiver

NOTE:
I guess old habits die hard, and you went back to allowing the server with a strong lead to rack more free points. Maybe it was not your goal, but that is what you achieved all night long. Playing for 2nd place.

That’s sad, come on, play for 1st and lets have a healthy matchup.

Enough of the play for 2nd talk, I had enough of it in the NSP-AR-BP threads when that was going on.

Truth of the matter is people take what they can take. Most of us here just looking for some fun and stuff to kill. We try one thing if we get smashed or just overwhelmed in numbers, we try something else. I cant count the number of times this week Ive seen NSP rolling one side of HoD eb, while GoM rolls the other, not trying to attack Nsp at all. I know points matter and people want to win, but unless the march update changes something to where winning matters I don’t see it changing much. And really I hope it doesn’t. In the lower brackets so much of winning is purely a numbers game and coverage holes. I’d hate to see people start getting awards for that.

Well, you guys did start to push into our borderlands.

We didn’t like that very much and thought your forces would still be as large as they were when you were attacking.

D: Sorry, but points that aren’t GOMs are the best type of points.

Oh I agree, stabbing nsp heads is much more fun then stabbing HoD heads.

The whole play for second thing just always annoyed me. Just say what you really mean. Can you please stop attacking us. I know we spent all week killing you and getting as many points off you as we could, but now the week is almost over. So be some swell chaps and try to distract the other server for us so we can win.

Shiver.5903:

HoD, you succeeded at getting our attention.
So for a few moments, we redirected our focus to you.
That’s what we call a BACKLASH. Action, reaction.

Yours truly,

-Shiver

NOTE:
I guess old habits die hard, and you went back to allowing the server with a strong lead to rack more free points. Maybe it was not your goal, but that is what you achieved all night long. Playing for 2nd place.

That’s sad, come on, play for 1st and lets have a healthy matchup.

Enough of the play for 2nd talk, I had enough of it in the NSP-AR-BP threads when that was going on.

Truth of the matter is people take what they can take. Most of us here just looking for some fun and stuff to kill. We try one thing if we get smashed or just overwhelmed in numbers, we try something else. I cant count the number of times this week Ive seen NSP rolling one side of HoD eb, while GoM rolls the other, not trying to attack Nsp at all. I know points matter and people want to win, but unless the march update changes something to where winning matters I don’t see it changing much. And really I hope it doesn’t. In the lower brackets so much of winning is purely a numbers game and coverage holes. I’d hate to see people start getting awards for that.

Necros kill to slow for this. Even with the million pet lag, people could just walk away and be ok…now 100 necros well bombing….might tear a hole in time and space.

If it makes you feel any better, i get killed by 9k eviscerate warriors all the time. It is like mini game now, how long can i fight until a warrior sneaks up on me.

Hammerhorn.1347:

I run 10/30/30/0/0 with S/P and P/P also my gear is mostly valkierys with berserkers and the chest piece p/t/v , I run 3 invis on my hot bar and absolutely love this build. The sword pistol is a great opener or spam on top of resurrectors , you can hit lots of targets in front of you for a chain of about 5 – 9 k depending on your targets toughness. Once your target knows your after them switch to P/P for a quick burst of 5 -9 k at ranged. My attack floats around 3200 after I get my power charges up and u make more might if you shadow refuge before a fight starts to jack up your attack higher.

This. While my build is different armor as well, this is the best way to use p/p in wvw i have found. Rolling s/d my damage is moderate, but withthe daze people often dodge a bunch then burn defensive cds. A perfect time for a unload or 2 to burn them down. If they can dodge and are paying any attention to you unload makes me sad. So slow.

Although running straight up p/p might be fun, people always seemed confused when a thief doesnt come charging at them.

Scotoma.1259:

Hello people new to the game/forums wanted to say been having alot of fun in WvW some of the best pvp action ive played in a long time. I am on the GoM side and if youd like to see some footage from the last week or so check it out here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeOja04qZsI

I saw me! And i wasnt dead! Although i was just running up a hill. Hard to get killed doing that.

Ghanto.9784:

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You could have just chimed in on one of the thousand other threads going on about pretty much the same things.

It is funny you can in here to save us from the doom and gloom and all i got was, there are thousands of other post like this one, and you don’t think maybe he has some valid points?