Guild Wars 2

Atoss.1056:

Dark times for solo roamers
Will be hunted “because it may drop me 5 rank ups” x_x

Yup, I would assume those random times the zerg runs right by you because they have something better to do are over.

MistMirage.4706:

Zikory.6871:

As for leagues, keep in mind this is my point of view from Blackgate. I think its going to be a crazy intense season. Right now I have no idea whos going to win, JQ/SoR are beasts in there own right and I have a ton of faith in BG.

I don’t think that it’s will be intense. Now we are seeing mass migration guilds between the leagues. I think you have already felt the increase queues time. A couple of weeks after the start of the season we will see the guild migration at winning server. And WvW will calm down – all at the winning server.
This is all passed in real life. So sportsmen transfer after the start of the competition is illegal.

I do think gold league will be intense for sure. There is a lot of rivalry between JQ/SoR/BG and now that there is another random pointless win to go for, I think each server would love to get the first season win and “rub it in the others face” (respectfully of course) Obviously TC/FA/? probably aren’t to pumped about it and I completely understand why but It should be interesting at least.

Queues? Oh yes! I suspect its going to get really really bad when they release the meta achievement. Everyone is going to want to get it and for WvW players it will probably be quite easy so that leaves PvE players (or people that haven’t spent any time in WvW) wondering about trying to get it. I assume this will hurt BG and JQ more than SoR but we all have had our influx of players so we’ll see.

Ruins are awesome, I love the new lay out. Its a lot of fun running about and it’s been great to find basically on demand small group fights all night. No Comment on the buff as that will take over the thread then get merged into “that one thread”

As for leagues, keep in mind this is my point of view from Blackgate. I think its going to be a crazy intense season. Right now I have no idea whos going to win, JQ/SoR are beasts in there own right and I have a ton of faith in BG. As for the other 3 TC/FA/? I would think that they wouldn’t agree and will have a completely different out look on the situation. As it stands now they have no chance to win the league, which sucks. I would love for gold league to work out and have this crazy 6 way battle for first but I don’t think it can happen. I just hope it works out the way they intend and not the way we suspect…

Omaris Mortuus Est.2738:

Liquid.9672:

And I thought you of all people would appreciate a little stupid humor. I guess the winky smiley isn’t as effective as I thought.

[KISS]-[KnT] Epic 1v1!

http://www.twitch.tv/bigo93/b/465803168?t=3h28m15s

Wow! Now that was a nail bitter! Good job the both of you!

Wow, SoR broke 400k! Thats beast, nice job SoR! Hopefully see you next…or tonight…how ever you look a it.

Hey guys, I saw 1 RIOT member in a zerg one time….they are the biggest zerging guild everz because this one time. Its super true…

nielscase.6258:

Yeah, can you use macro’s for auto loot or is that breaking the rules. Otherwise buy a mouse that comes with software for a macro and extra buttons. Bind auto loot to a useless key and make a macro that repeats that key every few seconds and repeats for x amount of times. Hit that mouse button once in the fight or a few times depending on length. Problem solved, loot is picked up and you can mash 1 and maybe a couple other buttons if you are not experiencing huge lag spikes that cause skill lag.

Fair warning, the topic on macros(3rd party program and mouse/keyboard) was made when auto loot was introduced, It is in fact against the rules and are subject to being banned. Obviously you have to be caught and I’m sure there are plenty of people that haven’t but if you are unlucky you can get banned for macros that repeat a function.

As for the topic, keybind AoE loot to a comfortable key and learn to spam it often while fighting. Its really not that bad and much better than picking up individual bags.

It’s not something new, I’m not going to call him a dev but BG had a anet tag running around a while back. He would run around on ebg with a commander tag and pull pugs from the main commander, run around the map doing nothing. Hes was quite rude when people tried to address it and it caused a lot of anet flaming on our server for a bit. For us it was blatant greifing so after a mass report he moved to SoR…not sure what happened after that.

Stark, so I agree, I don’t really think people would get mad if they lost the out manned buff (if it gave stats) I mean some people will but I doubt it would be the majority. Thing is anet is looking at it like people “might” get mad and harass players over it. So they won’t do it.

Honestly, I highly doubt we’ll see and changes to bloodlust any time soon. Regardless if you agree with it or not, its here to stay so adapt. If its just your guild or if you can get your server on the same page but either adapt to the current meta or die/quit. I know it sounds like a big middle finger but theres really nothing that can be done about it now. With seasons coming up, nothing will be changed in WvW till after the first season so unless bloodlust is changed this week were stuck with it for a minimum of 2 months.

The reason for bloodust not being just MF/GF/WXP/ect is because those stats don’t do anything for WvW. With the stomping for points and stat increase, it make the bloodlust nodes very important for your server to get. Not only do you want them but you don’t want your enemys to have them. This forces your server to fight for them or be at a huge disadvantage. If the buff was just MF/GF/ect most guilds or players wouldn’t waste time capping them.

The reason stat boosts aren’t on the out manned buff is because anet feels it will divide players. If a guild zones into a map and they are out manned, they would have a good advantage in fights but as soon as more people zone in they think players will get mad that they lost the buff.

Israel.7056:

I thought the devs just said that there wouldn’t be any new wxp trait lines added during the duration of the first WvW season.

I think they said there won’t be any changes to WvW as a whole during the season.

Burl.9567:

No WvW changes = More PvE changes

If the were serious about leagues they would have no ingame changes PvE and WvW while the season is going. PvE events effect WvW just as much and WvW changes.

Lord Kuru.3685:

lordkrall.7241:

The main difference is that in a game like WoW, the difference is so massive so that someone with lower tier gear CAN’T even defeat the other guy, unless the other guy is afk.

This is what I don’t get. How is it that PvP in WoW survives with this type of situation?

Because WoW started with a very different mind set. Any one that played in vanilla knows how hard it was to get gear and set up everyone to be very “hardcore” and time consuming. As time past it got more and more casual things became easier. GW2 doesn’t have that luxury, It started very casual, people had full exotics 1-2 weeks after release. The only way for GW2 to change is either give easy pointless gear progression or make it time consuming and harder. Problem is a vast majority will complain about things becoming harder. The mind sets between veteran WoW players and Gw2 players are much different.

That’s the way I see it at least. Anet made everyone feel entitled to easy content.

aragon.9314:

i started playing WvW with guild group and i noted i can do some crit damge but im not really usefulll for the group soooo i need a build that will be usefull

What do you mean by guild group? Are you talking about smaller engagements 5-20 players or larger scale 20-50+? Builds and plays styles will vary if your looking to maximize your effectiveness. Also you many want to look into what type of comp this guild group runs, this can effect what skills you might want to bring to the table.

Personally I feel for smaller engagements condi is king but for larger ones power is the way to go, this is debatable of coarse and not always the case but its a good rule of thumb.

Kimhyuna.1035:

Asklepious.6014:

We fight as one server, united; we did not get the nickname Beast Gate without reason.

Not really united anymore nor really ‘beast’ gate without MERC.

Please don’t post events out of context in attempts to derail the recruitment thread. Its true that some of MERC has left for there own reasons but there is still a large amount of them that have decided to stay on BG. This will only be a speed bump, we are still strong and united. The title Beastgate was around before MERC and will stay long after. <3

For the record, How many golems exactly was in that attempt on BG bay last night?

ketorin.5923:

fyi SoR will be invading this thread since our matchup thread is lacking forum warriors

and interesting @ MERC moving..

If you wouldn’t mind, Could you pick up the slack, There is still green and blue stuff on your maps….You’re better than this….

Niim.9260:

DevonCarver.5370:

Dese.1382:

MiLkZz.4789:

Imagine you taking down 1 gate/wall of a a keep/tower. Imagine 50 people inside which ain’t that abnormal. Imagine they all chaining their aoe into the gap. Good luck walking through and surviving.

Aoe cap is there not only for the servers, but also because some things will be just impossible to cap and some classes will be rediculously OP. Like Ele and ranger, no. If aoe is unlimited, make healing unlimited aswel and all the other spells. But OOPS, we are back to 0 than…

So yea aoe cap is there for a really really good reason.

There is a dev post flat out saying, in plain english, its there for the simple reason of server performance.

I will say it again. If the cap were raised performance would suffer greatly. That is why it hasn’t been changed.

To bad the same performance limitations do not apply to things like arrow carts.

Actually they do but on a much smaller level. There isn’t ~300 AC’s on any given map.

Zach.3264:

Zikory.6871:

Then again traited you could still only have 1 blast every 6 seconds at the cost of your DS CD. And looking at other classes its not that great but on the other hand we do have a lot of fields to combo off of so it could be quite strong.

EB doesn’t even work everytime you enter DS, it has like 20 sec CD or something anyways.

Yup, Bhawb already corrected me.

Bhawb.7408:

It’d be 15 seconds, its got an ICD

This might not be the right forum for this question as it doesn’t really pertain to WvW.

Since there isn’t a option to do so and I doubt they will implement it by the start of the seasons you might want to convert you gems to gold and pool up enough to have him buy the transfer. Good luck

Then again traited you could still only have 1 blast every 6 seconds at the cost of your DS CD. And looking at other classes its not that great but on the other hand we do have a lot of fields to combo off of so it could be quite strong.

I always that Enfeebling Blood would make a good blast finisher but the question would be if it was a issue with the trait that drops it on DS.

Sovereign.1093:

stomps will never be practical in open field combat. you only get to do it when you’ve killed the majority opposing team, and there are a few remaining in need of stomping.

Not completely true, Its a matter of fitting it into your guilds comp. It may not be practical for pug zergs but stomping out down players in the middle of the fight is very practical for organised groups.

Large scale open field, there isn’t really unless the buffs are even. As for small scale fighting, I have seen a huge improvement in T1. I have spent most my time in the middle area and very rarely do I find a group bigger than 15. Even then, that group normally just trys to zerg the nodes so the others are open to fight at.

As for the bloodlust buff doing MF/WXP/ect, sadly that alone wouldn’t be enough for any WvW server to really waste there time with. The points for stomps on the other hand is but you can at least make sure they are even and it would be fine. With the stat buff, its not only important to get them for your server but to make sure the other servers don’t have them. So right now it’s almost more important to secure 3 orbs then to have high PPT.

Personally I think they should lower the stats to 25 each (rather than 50) BUT since its only been less than a week it may be to hard to tell. Once every server figures out how to play the new meta things might change.

Also this is from my T1 perspective, Its the only experience I have with the buffs so I can’t comment on the lower tiers but I can see why its such a issue for unbalanced populations.

Start of season 1.

Anet has already said they will not implement a race change. BUT they are very helpful when you make the change your self. I also made a Human and later on wanted to be Asura. I opened a support request to ask for the following things, the unlimited gather items be moved to my new character and also ascended rings and amulets. Since these items are huge time sinks and/or unobtainable any more and they made all items account bound for me. I wasn’t greedy in asking for things like my T3 armor and other exotic items or any character bound things like WXP/skill points/ect. In the end, they were very helpful in making my transition to my new Asura very easy.

Btw you get 3 points to your total score for killing 1 yak. Does not matter how many people hit it. If this is still being discussed when I wake up I’ll find the Dev post confirming this.

There has been numerous post in the past about bring a orb like mechanic back to the game also new additions to the map. They did both. I like how you expect them to respond and respect the forum community when all everyone does is complain. Then when a constructive post gets a response, everyone thinks they don’t care about everyone else. If I were them I’d ignore these immature QQ anet hates us posts to. Fact is people are still playing the game, will keep playing the game, and until that changes they can do what ever they want and ignore you. Throwing a temper tantrum in a mall might get you attention but do you think anyone is going to think you have any creditably….

As for esports….please…I respect Sarcx for what he did in WvW but please stop regurgitating the same thing he said like you have any personal opinion about it. Just a bunch of bandwagon complaints. Pathetic really…

I’d like to point out that every post that has something along the lines of "(and get ignored, due to this being Anet and them not giving a crap about the players) " Gets ignored…Also insulting them will probably just end up in you getting your post deleted rather then looked at…

zhonnika.1784:

Cod on Cod.3694:

Jedbacca.6297:

Bla bla bla, my made up facts are better than your made up facts – Here’s something i made up to prove it

Fact: You get stomped, BG get points = you get loose on the field, and you get loose in the match.

Fact: This guy doesn’t know how to spell lose

Fact: This guy doesn’t get loose.

Merlin Dyfed Avalon.5046:

1) The lag is an issue we are aware of and a result of a bug we will fix as soon as possible.

lol…
sorry i couldn’t resist.. this has been going on for…… EVER!

Devon isn’t referring to skill lag and the same lag we have had. He’s talking about the extra lag that came with the patch. Two different issues.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Zikory.6871:

It’s all obtainable by all players. Even though some items are time gated, none of them require another to do.

1. Guard Stacks from WvW ranks – Takes time but obtainable by everyone.
2. Food stats – Obtainable by everyone
3. Stacking Weapons – Obtainable by everyone
4. Ascended Stuff – Time gated but still Obtainable by everyone
5. Orb Buffs – touchy subject right now so you can refer to the other 100 threads on this.

The way I see it is, if you want clear balance go to sPvP. They regulate everything. WvW should allow all of the above (Orb buff, I’m indifferent, haven’t personally played since the patch) Adding sPvP restrictions to WvW would be even more devastating to the current WvW population. Thats just my opinion.

Guard stacks and ascended can theoretically be obtainable by everyone but are bad for the game as a whole. Both these discourage alts — leading to less play variety and quicker burnout. Both these discourage newer players; to be disadvantaged for a short time while you learn the game is ok, but both these take a long time to obtain; no one wants to be disadvantaged for a long period of time.

I completely agree with you. Problem is anet doesn’t seem to. The way I see it is they should limit these things in WvW. Like before just my opinion.

Side note: I do think you shouldn’t be able to switch weapons and retain your stacks from a sigil. Though since any one can do it why does it matter…just feels like a bug they never fixed to me…

Terrahero.9358:

Zikory.6871:

It’s all obtainable by all players. Even though some items are time gated, none of them require another to do.

1. Guard Stacks from WvW ranks – Takes time but obtainable by everyone.
2. Food stats – Obtainable by everyone
3. Stacking Weapons – Obtainable by everyone
4. Ascended Stuff – Time gated but still Obtainable by everyone
5. Orb Buffs – touchy subject right now so you can refer to the other 100 threads on this.

The way I see it is, if you want clear balance go to sPvP. They regulate everything. WvW should allow all of the above (Orb buff, I’m indifferent, haven’t personally played since the patch) Adding sPvP restrictions to WvW would be even more devastating to the current WvW population. Thats just my opinion.

We arent asking for clear balance, but just to politely stop kittening up the balance even further every patch.

Guard buff is stupid. If you have so much time into WvW that you got those then you dont need an artificial numerical statboost to win a fight. Do you?

And the orb buffs dont do anything but buff a winning team. Maybe it would be a fun idea that next time a team scores in a team sport the other team has to send a player off the field.
Lets see how thats gona go down…

Thanks for quoting my opinion on the subject for your out burst. I know people probably won’t agree with me because I’m not regurgitating the same garbage that I read in the other threads. Its quite obvious that anet isn’t going to just hear what we say and drop everything because the forums don’t like it. So either quit like the other peoples ultimatums or constructively voice your opinion and go have fun.

Whether I agree with the guard buff or not doesn’t matter. Point is that it is obtainable by everyone. It’s in the game and until anet removes it its there. Personally I don’t have a problem with it, I have yet to feel like I lost a fight because of the buff. Same with stacking sigils. Also it’s really not that hard to achieve, with my last birthday booster I have gained 40+ ranks and still have 4 hours left on it. Plus the over all increase in WXP gained and Devon said liquid WXP will be purchasable with badges + some other currency.

The way I see it is anet isn’t going to just do what we say so I’m just going to embrace there choices of the game and just do what I have to, to have fun. If the game dies, then that sucks but there will be other games…

It’s all obtainable by all players. Even though some items are time gated, none of them require another to do.

1. Guard Stacks from WvW ranks – Takes time but obtainable by everyone.
2. Food stats – Obtainable by everyone
3. Stacking Weapons – Obtainable by everyone
4. Ascended Stuff – Time gated but still Obtainable by everyone
5. Orb Buffs – touchy subject right now so you can refer to the other 100 threads on this.

The way I see it is, if you want clear balance go to sPvP. They regulate everything. WvW should allow all of the above (Orb buff, I’m indifferent, haven’t personally played since the patch) Adding sPvP restrictions to WvW would be even more devastating to the current WvW population. Thats just my opinion.

Thrumdi.9216:

The PPT game was already almost dead from the randomized server matchups. The Leagues will probably kill it outright.

Depending on how the season is scored, I think PPT will be more important if you want to win. If its the same as the current system, it will harder for higher ranked servers to maintain a high rating when fighting a low rated server. You put the number 1 server with the last place server, the number 1 server is going to lose a ton of points just for being in the make up and in order to try and break even they will have to completely blow out the match up. Of coarse this is assuming that the scoring system works this way, if not the your probably right.

No different then other patches. Patch day is always a bit more laggy. We will have to wait to see if the new map changes are really the reason behind it.

Bro, The sky is falling! You better look up like the rest of us!

Though as your from SoR, I think it will effect our match up much different then most of the others. But time will tell, Next week will be very interesting if its BG/JQ/SoR again.

Mad Rasputin.7809:

Wow, what a confused patch. They remove a major part of underwater combat from WvW, but then introduce these:

•Rare quality underwater breathers

Best part is it sounds like its a rare drop from the event.

Deli.1302:

Zikory.6871:

Honestly a lot of work has gone into this match up from all 3 servers and no one is trying to build a super server like before.

JQ disagrees with you.

I’m not sure what part your disagreeing with. JQ has done quite a bit since they were number one and I know they are still working on filling some time zones. Personally I have a lot of respect for JQ. As for the super server, I obviously can’t speak for my whole server let alone other servers but it would sadden me if any one of us (BG/JQ/SoR) became a unbeatable server. So far this match up has been quite a lot of fun and like past match ups I like look forward to each week.

styx.7294:

Zikory.6871:

Honestly a lot of work has gone into this match up from all 3 servers and no one is trying to build a super server like before.

Tier 1 wants a ribbon for recruiting from all the other tiers?

No that’s silly, my post isn’t meant to brag. I’m sorry if that’s what you got from it.

I’m not sure that you understand the real issues with population in WvW. There just isn’t enough guilds outside of NA (timeslot) to make all tiers competitive, even just the top 9. The reason EU/OCX/SEA guilds come to T1/2 is because they know they will have people to fight and it won’t be all PvD. The random match ups and now leagues is what is causing imbalance. As it stands now SoR/JQ/BG is at the best its ever been. Look at the scores for us JQ (3rd) is only 5k behind SoR (1st) after the weekend, its super close. Honestly a lot of work has gone into this match up from all 3 servers and no one is trying to build a super server like before.

As far as the leagues are concerned, trust me when I say its a concern for the T1 servers as well. Rating and PPT aside, the difference in coverage will make for some very uninteresting fights. For our NA forces it may be fun to see all the different guilds from different servers but all the off hour folks will be bored to tears.

Check JINX out on the Blackgate server! Up and coming but Great Veteran Blackgate Commanders and a all around great group of players! Always a good time!

Out of curiosity are you referring to just the NA time slot or all time slots across the day? Are you taking into account the limited OCX/SEA/EU guilds that currently play on NA?

@Bunny, Hes talking about on reset when everyone stacks up in LA in from of the WvW portals to spam entry so you don’t get stuck in queue. Some people find it funny to put consumable items on the portals so when you try to spam the gate you select what ever they put down instead. Personally I have not had a issue with this but I would assume OP did.

Bunnymancer.6901:

Since when can you waypoint into a contested location?

In WvW, There is a event timer that contests the WP. When that timer hits 0 there is a brief time (maybe 2-4 seconds) that the WP is uncontested. In that short time you are able to WP in.

You don’t have to own the keep to get the vista/skill point but it makes it much easier. For the skill point you would need some one to tank the lord or stealth to get it if you don’t own the keep and for the vista you just need to be out of combat. Depending on your server, you can go try to “ninja” the keep by cataing the wall or golem rush it but you’ll need friends to help. My suggestion is to spend a lot of time in EBG and follow the commander, if he hits SM do everything you can to get into inner then rush your points for completion.

Durian.5419:

How about the time SoR and BG teamed against JQ? You should, because they were ALL THE SAME WEEK.

I don’t think this happened…SoR is ewwy…

Blix.8021:

Lord Kuru.3685:

Sli Fi.7980:

The problem with WvW is that I have to find people to group with to have any fun + success. I don’t have to do that with sPvP (I can just join a random team there). I find joining a zerg to be completely uninteresting farming.

Then solo roam. Or roam with pugs. You don’t have to run with the zerg.

Or make friends or find a guild, because this is an mmo.

But…but…play how you want…Forever Alone

I think build load outs would be a great addition to the game not just for changing between game modes. As a necro, I have 4 builds I’m geared for and it would really be a nice quality of life change. Though I have to say I don’t have a huge issue retraiting its more the different gear sets.

Sadly like my post this is just speculation of what we assume will happen, till it gos live neither of use can say either way. Honestly I don’t expect this to be a major issue right off the bat, I would guess that it will have a greater effect later down the line once the big change settles.

My point is that if some one wanted to grief (with the worst situation being 1 server has all 3 points) I think its safe to say you could easily die and get stomped 6 times every 15 minutes (that’s 1 death every 2.5 minutes) if there is enemys close to your spawn. Thats 18 points a tick from 1 person, thats more than holding a camp and a tower for tick. Now I’m just guessing the death rate I bet you could do more if your really trying to.

I’m basing my point off the worst possible situation, though unlikely that it happens super often, its still possible. Truthfully I hope your right and it does not become a issue, but I would still like to know what they plan to do if it does end up like we stated. Hopefully it gos live and its awesome, but from what I have heard it seems to easy to exploit.