Guild Wars 2

They just need to undo the critical damage nerf.

Well there is EOTM now, otherwise the old WvW is still the same old WvW except some classes like the elementalists have had their traits nerfed to the ground and now have only 1-2 viable builds.

It would be amazing if they did only half of it, but I fear we will get nothing new for WvW.

If they ever come up with something it will be totally unexpected.

Yuki Chuki.2457:

Xillllix.3485:

[…] when you can code an entire website in 2-3 days.

This statement alone is ridiculous and disqualifies your entire post. I think you don’t have the absolute slightest idea about software development.
Developing a real website (not just using Wordpress..) often takes months of development time.
Assuming the contracts are already set up, you’re lucky if you have most of your requirements engineering done and your development environment set up in those 2-3 days.

Besides, no one knows how hard/easy it is to fix. Those systems are complex. If it was that clear and easy, it probably wouldn’t have had a malfunction to begin with.
Identifying the problem not necessarily makes the problem easy to fix.
It’s a completely different example but probably more tangible for most: Just because the Japanese realized that and why the nuclear power plant (Fukushima Daiichi) leaked didn’t magically turn the matter in an “easy to fix” situation that could be resolved in a day or two.

I’m not talking about making a website for a freaking bank (you can easily code a small website in 2-3 days, make that a week if you find these figures so shocking) and that’s not my point anyway.

My point is that it’s a waste off time to have a developer spend weeks to fix people having a certain quantity of an item when you can just take the decision to give the max quantity to everyone and work on most pressing matter like the empty servers in lower tier, dynamic commander tags and the lack of content or improvement. It’s a question of priority.

0/2/2/4/6 or 0/4/0/4/6 for me since the Soothing Disruption and Elemental Attunement nerfs that destroyed the best ele builds for the sake of “build variety”

Mark Katzbach.9084:

Guys, the last update was on Friday. Today is Monday. Contrary to popular belief, our developers have lives and families that they would like to live and see respectively.

Last update 7 days ago:
“The Battle Historian now has WvW tournament rewards. These rewards will be temporarily disabled while we resolve an issue with Tournament Ticket distribution.”
But it’s been 10 days since the tournament is over.

There is no way a programmer would take over a week to fix a reward distribution problem when you can code an entire website in 2-3 days.
In a situation like this you have to take the decision to give a rewards to everyone immediately and get the programmer working on content again instead of wasting more weeks of his time fixing a bug. It’s not like the tournament had balanced gameplay anyway, we all knew who would win on the second week.

lol I proposed this a year ago…

I can’t imagine it takes a company over a week to fix a bug like this.
Please tell us it will be fixed tomorrow…

SnobbishRaptor.2367:

Great patch notes regarding WvW lately :-)

World vs. World may 20th

- Fixed a bug in which Ballista Mastery V wasn’t working while operating a superior ballista.

Updated the text for WvW-related daily achievements.

World vs. World june 3rd

- The Battle Historian now has WvW tournament rewards. These rewards will be temporarily disabled while we resolve an issue with Tournament Ticket distribution.

- Due to fierce financial competition, one of the armor and weapons merchants in each staging area has declared bankruptcy and moved on. Their goods have been claimed by the remaining merchants.

- The player-count requirement for breakout events has been lowered from 10 to 5.

Sooo, why haven’t the “stuck in siege” bug been fixed yet? How long has it been now, 2 years? ;-)

The sad thing is that:
“- Fixed a bug in which Ballista Mastery V wasn’t working while operating a superior ballista.”
No one noticed or cares.

“Updated the text for WvW-related daily achievements.”
No one noticed or cares, not even worth mentioning in some patch notes.

“- The Battle Historian now has WvW tournament rewards. These rewards will be temporarily disabled while we resolve an issue with Tournament Ticket distribution.”
Thats a total fail.

“- Due to fierce financial competition, one of the armor and weapons merchants in each staging area has declared bankruptcy and moved on. Their goods have been claimed by the remaining merchants.”
There is so little content updates in WvW that you gotta make up stories when you remove a merchant?

“- The player-count requirement for breakout events has been lowered from 10 to 5.”
…To compensate for players leaving the game and lower tier servers being empty.

Anet needs to wake up about WvW and fix the issues based on the feedback threads.

Zee.1294:

Yeah well… i dont believed till i see it….
One thing is to promise something end totally another to deliver it.
Frankly WvW is getting boring end need something new end need it now..not in 2015

We’re already half way into 2014 and not a word has been said about WvW improvements, and now all the Scarlett stuff is coming back then SAB. I don’t think they’ll do anything for WvW before summer of 2015, they’ll probably announce it in November and then test it for 6 months.

The game has been neglected by the developers for too long so people are just taking a break until GW2 gets some permanent content added. Megaservers are the logical response to a population decline (most maps areas were totally empty).
WvW will never be balanced until they do like they did with EOTM and merge it all up, but then there are 1000 things to fix there.

WvW will never be able to be an eSport like GW1 GvG was.

Sartharina.3542:

MauricioCezar.2673:

I’ll be honest : 99% of elite skills are Elite.

… I can’t find a single one actually worth the slot.

Mesmer Moa thing… totally OP.
Fiery Great Sword… because of the skill 4 glitch…

Ele-War-Guard have the best group synergy skills so it became the meta quickly.

It’s a design flaw that could have been fixed if Anet released new skills as they promised.

Needs to be done, it’s a serious omission in the game.

However I don’t think Anet cares about that sort of things. If they do it they’ll probably sell it for 1000 gems on the store.

Same with elementalist Lightning Flash, doesn’t work on bridges, gets you stuck in the landscape.

Tyler Chapman.1832:

This is a global issue that I responded to in another thread. We are working on pinning this down and fixing it. Thanks!

5 months later… if I may ask: Are you getting closer to pinning it down?

Hi dev,
1- there is a bug you’ve introduced a year ago where using a teleport skill or dodge skill gets you stuck in the landscape.

2- Also the same bug happens when you build siege, you can get stuck for about 10 seconds.

3- Also in WvW sometimes your skills stop working for many minutes. F-Keys still work but all skills are jammed.

4- Teleport skills do not work on bridges but they should

Why are these issues taking so long to fix? We know you have acknowledged them before are real issues.

Every time I play once or twice my skills stop working completely for about 5 minutes.

Every time I play I get stuck after using a teleport skill, dodge skill or building siege.

You know about these issue, you’ve acknowledged them 6 months ago in the WvW feedback threads; the getting stuck bug is a bug you’ve introduced with the WvW culling removal patch. You’ve didn’t even bother to fix it in almost a year. These are game breaking bugs, they should have been fixed within days, not months or years.

JoeYl.4609:

Xillllix.3485:

What they need to do to fix it is simple, make each kill count for 100 pts.

80mans fighting 20 mans agree with you
20mans raid guild fighting 5 roamers agree with you
5 mans fighting 1 guy agree with you

It’s the same with coverage, except now you would get more points if you defeated a group larger than you.

20 man guild defeating 50 man blob also agrees with me, so does the person doing 1 vs 1. You just gotta organize.

I think for this we deserve a new WvW map… Just saying…

(doesn’t have to be big, just some deathmatch field with 3 spawns and a crazy keep in the middle surrounded by a lake and 3 bridges)

It’s been said over and over a thousand times in the feedback threads: The current PPT system only reflects server population coverage. From a eSport perspective it’s a total failure. I think he dev know about the problem they just seem to have a very very small team dedicated to WvW so actual improvements come almost a year apart.

However you can still have fun, if your in a good guild and meet other good guilds on the battlefield it can be epic.

What they need to do to fix it is simple, make each kill count for 100 pts.

How about a 4th essential fix needed:
Players getting stuck everywhere with teleport skills or when building siege and having to do an emote to get unstuck. Or the teleport skills not working on all bridges.

They introduced that bug over 6 months ago, then acknowledged it, then did nothing about it for half a year.

While at it they could also fix all the broken skills (like the elementalist gust that rarely works or traits like lingering elements that only work with a few traits).

Wow 800 gems for a UI feature that is literally useless…
If you want my cash this bad you’ll have to make an expansion.

The WvW tournament was just the same WvW as usual. Nothing was done to make it feel remotely new.
It would have been different if you added:
3 different borderland maps perhaps? Some different challenges every weeks? Elements that would affect gameplay? New Siege weapons? New traps? A PPT system for EOTM? New WvW specific skills? Improvements in the Stonemist battle (discussed for like 25 pages in feedback thread)? Gameplay improvements to the ruins area (that is now totally neglected)?

But since nothing new was added how could our feedback differ from the one we gave previously?

Anyway here is some feedback:
The borderland maps now looks and feel REALLY REALLY REALLY old in comparison to season 1 where it just felt REALLY old.

Yeah, thanks for fixing this issue but a new skin is just a skin; it doesn’t really matter anyway since (1) the matchups were unbalanced and (2) what the game needs is new permanent content for WvW or a GvG game mode.

Andrew Clear.1750:

Xilllix, I didn’t know you posted on here

How is life in your new guild?

It’s great! thanks! See ya in game.

Strange I would have expected an answer at least on Monday. What the hell is happening.

Is this one of these things the dev are unable to fix ? like the impossible achievements that take 100 years to complete?

It’s the same for everyone, it hard to understand the lack of new permanent content when you think about the huge potential Guild Wars 2 had.

Maybe LS season 2 will be more substantial than season 1.

Even then, no guild halls, no GvG, no new classes, only 2 new skills and they are healing skills nobody uses.

They spent way too much time balancing classes that didn’t need balancing for a WvW game type that isn’t balanced in the first place. WvW needs like twice more content and the removal of duplicated maps. But over all of this, it’s the lack of GvG that is killing this game.

Having the same problem now. Can’t launch the game. Same as screenshot above, the game inst attempting to login.

WvW needs a complete overhaul. Edge of the mist has to be added to the PPT rotation, we need 3 different BL maps, improved EB map and campaign system that removes the need of waiting queues.

How come this hasn’t been anticipated if the same problem happened in the previous season?

Didn’t get my chest, transferred last Friday.

Even the achievements does not seem to be worth taking down 6 boss with millions of hp.

They could just limit the amount of champ bags you get per day instead of ruining it for everyone.

There was a thread where everyone stated their disappointment of the Pavilion coming back without the loot. Anet deleted it, bad press I guess.

I think Anet fails to understand why the crown Pavilion was popular in the first place:
It was the High magic find boosters and the amazing loot.

As it stands now it’s just a mediocre version of something that was once great.

Is this a new issue? I’ve opened a ticket with support.

I got an email confirmation for the transaction for 1600 gems, but I didn’t receive gems in the game.

Trice.4598:

you have to type the name of the item to destroy it, which can’t be an accident :P

ok thanks! because the elementalist has no weapon swap button my Incinerator and Bifrost always get mixed up in my loot. It’s already super annoying to have my inventory window permanently opened I didn’t want to have the stress of accidentally losing it on top of it…

Why is the option even there? Who in their right mind would destroy a legendary weapon? If someone ever do it’s an accident.

mjhungness.8059:

Leveled five characters … check.
Map completion … check.
Personal Story completed … check
Tried PvP, didn’t like it … check.
Play WvW … check
Completed LS … check
Run all paths of all dungeons at least once … check.
Undertook going for Legendary … no way to get T6 mats by farming with DR … pre-cursor is at +1000 gp and counting … champ train gone …

Just curious, from all those who are happy the train is gone – what am I SUPPOSED to be doing? I set my goal for a Legendary, and yeah, it’s supposed to be hard to get. But I’m probably going to take a break now, because not only is the end still out of reach, the means to get it are being taken away. I’m tired of feeling more like a beggar than an earner.

I was looking forward to farming the new Crown Pavillon event for t6 for my legendary but now there is nothing, no loot AT ALL. In a certain way farming for items is so discouraging in this game that it pushes people to find exploits and doesn’t help toeliminate the gold sellers junk.

It’s a disaster. This was a great place before, with different buffs for different bosses, lot’s of t6 mats for legendaries.

Now it’s terrible! Why would anyone spend 30 minutes killing bosses with millions of hit points if they cant expect a rare at the end?

Epic fail Anet.

Is anet even considering doing something about the precursors price skyrocketing on the market due to the richest people buying all of them and selling them all at a higher price?

This is getting completely ridiculous, your market system is getting played by the hardcore players and the casual players have to pay for it?

I dont want to sound pessimist, but besides a very small team I don’t think Anet is even working on GW2 anymore, all the modifications they’ve made to he game have been cosmetic. They are probably going to release the LS2 content they made 1-2 years ago while they are developing a new game.

Thus the mega server, to make sure as the population diminishes that they do not waste server bandwidth.

Anyway, they’ve been told about the drop problems since day 1 and never fixed it.

Waited months for new content and now they are coming back with old content.

What a disappointment.

The old maps seriously lack variety and their age can be seen. The Borderland maps are a wasteland. The few people playing it now for PPT will soon be burned out and there will be nobody left to play there.

Eternal battleground can be improved and saved. EOTM the same, but the old borderland maps have to be completely redone or replaced.

Some leeked notes hinted at a new elementalist trait that would grant quickness on attunements. Sadly, these notes were false…

Was looking at Gamespot’s E32014 “Everything you need know” and in the List Of Confirmed Exhibitors you cannot find Anet or NCSoft.

Or did I miss something? After months of silence without content releases some of us were thinking Anet would have some special announcement for E3, an expansion perhaps or some permanent content…

Old stuff and still temporary… meh.

Meemai.7523:

maddoctor.2738:

Meemai.7523:

Problem with living story is, the content is only added whilst it is there. If they take away the living story you cannot go there and the game becomes bored again. It’s like a cake that once a month has a nice icing, but all the other days of the month it hasn’t The baker is wondering why people only come and order the cake when the icing is there.

Bad example but you know what I mean. I hear people calling out for new races or new classes yes that can be fun for a few hours, but once you hit 80 your bored again. You already did all dungeons know the maps did the quests, all that’s left is the personal story and even that will end and then? What then?

And with an expansion this problem is even worse, your baker once a YEAR makes some nice icing that lasts 1 week maybe 2 weeks.

On the other hand, with constant updates every 2 weeks, you get good icing every 2 weeks for 1 day.

Yet people don’t complain about content in general, including expansions, but only about the Living Story.

At least by releasing new content every two weeks you get something new to do all the time, something you can never do with an expansion that you finish in a week and then get bored.

If you get updates every two weeks that is far superior sadly it’s not the truth. I havn’t seen a living story for now…. A whole new expansion at least gives a new region to go to hopefully with a new story and a new class or such. New haircuts new faces all that kind of jazz. That would mean you can be excited again new armor skins and weapon skins. The problem is armor skins are to easy in this game ascended is expensive but I do not even like the skins that much. In gw1 I would farm and farm and farm for my 15 silver armor.

The biggest problem with this game is the RNG and loot. Doing bosses everyday is like playing pachinko you never know what you get. And most of the time it is crap. If precurser would be easier to get people could focus on legendaries but precursers never drop if your unlucky.

A precursor at every 10k achievement points would re-balance the market insane prices.
Seems like the best way implement this as it will not drive mats price up like crafting would do.

Problem is this:
They’ve done the megaserver without adapting the game to it.

They needed to add larger scale events and more events, more bosses, instanced guild missions, farming areas for different T6 mats scattered around the world map (Orr and Malchor used to be great areas to farm).

Now the TP has huge inflation because of the lack of content and slowing down of boss runs.