First off I’m loving this game, and Anet are up there with Trion as good mmo companies(wasn’t huge fan of rift after a few mths, but way trion handled it and its content updates was great)
But We just heard 2million copies of GW2 were sold, so with the game in such an early stage we have to assume that is 2million active players, Now take that the cap is 500 for a server in WvW, there is like 42 worlds so 21,000 players can be in WvW at one time. That’s out of 2,000,000 :P
Now I’m taking massive leaps of assumptions and not adding in alot of stats, peak times, currently active from a server, who actually wants to do PvP etc etc.
But 1% of the playerbase being able to do what was advertised and lets be honest Is the major endgame content of this game seems mad. No wonder Qs are so long
Last night at 3am we had a look on the servers population.
Vizunah Square: High
Far Shiverpeaks: Full
Riverside: FullSo stop blaming us if your folks prefer PvE over WvW.
FYI full does not relate to the current population online. If the server is Full its due to it hitting its current cap at say 6pm on a tuesday, on a thursday at 4am if the cap hasnt been changed it will still show as Full, whether 100 or 1000 people are currently online.
So ye, nice try.
lols, about the only good thing a ele has in WVW and people are moaning, go sort out mesmers grdns thiefs 1st, eles are about the bottom of any OP list.
FYI rangers arrow volley hits for more on more targets due to it being more condense hits, and its 1500 range if traited, why not QQ about that?
Ignorance is bliss I guess.
I lvled an Elementalist to 80. I tried every spec, every rotation, every weapon possible. I played WvW and Spvp for the last week. I could rarely score over 150 in a match. I was never the top ranked player in any match.
I made a Thief last night and hit lvl two. I went directly to Spvp and threw together a spec in a few minutes. I went directly into a Spvp match with zero practice time in pve or on the target dummies.
I used spider poison and assassins signet. I used the aoe stealth for my escape skill. I spammed mainly unlock and heart seeker.
I scored 250, died once and was first place over all.
Yeah, it is easy. Simple rotations, easy to understand skills, easy to understand builds and you smash face for huge numbers.
Exactly, Ive done the same thing tbh. Have a lvl 6 Thief(I never even changed the weapons or traits it gave me in the mists by default lols) who I usually destroy with in sPVP and yet my 70 ele i put me heart and soul into gets stomped. Ill still play ele as I enjoy it and I dont want to be another bloody thief, and be part of the problem.
troll tread is obvious, thief calling the runt of the litter aka the UP class OP
Thiefs are major problem with PvP right now, I hate calling for nerfs in mmos, but im not sure what else Anet can do. Its just pointless in sPVP now with so many thiefs. Id rather they just buffed everyone else tbh, noone likes nerfs it ruins PvE fun.
The easier more OP classes are most popular It isnt rocket science. Thiefs rangers warrs and grdns are the vast majority of players. There is so many thiefs its insane, sPVP is 80% thiefs and wvw is prob 50%.
Its just supply and demand, everyone wants in and the servers can only handle so much. If you really want wvw then transfer to a low pop server for few weeks till the game settles down and the wow addon comes out and the kiddies go back.
Also try pick a losing server to play on and join there Q. everyone jumps on the wvw wagon when your server is steamrolling.
Ive done alot of them, and the carry the bomb to chest in lorners pass(it was bugged no loot, i raged) is really hard. and the one in metrica province is just rage inducing, thekittenWIND
But all you need is patience and great feeling when you do it, love the puzzles
Very Hard class to master, gota swap between atunements on the go all the time, if you dont your gona die alot.
The main prob for ele(Imo) is the weapon swapping, yes its cause we have 4 stances for a weap so its the same. But It isnt, for WvW esp if your in large grp fights you want staff usuall for the range and to give more support/cc and heals. but if you were to bump into a thief or a warrior in a 1v1 or even a 2v2/2v1 while getting to a fight or fleeing or so on, then you would usually not want a staff, way I play i like to use 2xdaggers(sceptre aint great for moving targets) for small fights but ofc Id be in combat with my staff and fish out of water and die. I feel confident for alot of 1v1s with daggers I dont with staff, but Im useless in big fights with daggers as range will get me 1shot every time. Weapon swapping needs to be there for Eles in PVP, pve is fine without be nice but no problem.
I don’t know rangers that well, But I’m surprised you would put them before an Ele for support and healing. From what I can tell after doing several dungeons, Eles do the most healing alongside Grdn. That and they have lots of CC and combo fields.
‘’I’m guessing this is caused by an upper limit on effects that can be displayed at a time.’’
Aye what i was afraid of, is very annoying and shame the engine has to. Also i lose sound alot on ele skills aswell :./
Hey folks, having some very vexing issues with some ele skills not showing, mainly very particle ‘heavy’ fancy skills, esp the tornado. It only appears about 30% of the time and nearly never in PVP, very annoying esp as you cant really see where you are in relation to targets and such. Few other skills dont appear now and again aswell or they seem to only show half of there effects, some aoe fire skills and the likes.
I know of 2 other people in same boat and they use nvidia cards, 5 and 6series. So im wondering is it gpu drivers end or game end. The way they seem to be always invisible when alot is going on, on screen and seem to work normally when in dead/empty areas would suggest its a game bug though.
(Using the latest beta drivers, 306.29 or something, and a GTX670 2gb)
Tks..