You do realize that each map has a maximum number of players that can play, thus the reason for Overflows. So in essence, Overflows show the popularity of the LS content, thus more reason to release similar ones going forward.
Perhaps what the OP is really asking for is LS content being fun whether you’re in an overflow or the main map.
I was suggesting to spread the content over various maps or if not possible, then block the guesting to server maps that already have overflow.
ArenaNet , please don’t add/create living story or Boss contents in specific areas of the map if your servers can’t handle it. In other words, overflow for weeks after weeks kills the LS.
This is Iyma Twerkit, one of the people fro GoF responsible for attacking the yak parade. Firstly i would like to say that the group that did this disastrous atrocity was a collection of 5 of us, we do not represent the entire GoF guild in our actions. I just don’t understand why this can’t be taken to a PvE area via guesting to not take up room in a tier 1 wvw competitive environment? Irregardless of current score im not particularly fond of losing our natural tower, bay or any other territory because our BL is qued due to “yakkers”? Sorry for the yakicide.
The event was on TCBL. Everthing in your post has been said before for months, to put it to you quickly: lolno, we’ll do it again next week. have some fun next time, both the tower and the keep were wooden, and you lost basically nothing. srsbsns
Not everyone reads the GW2 forum and you shouldn’t assume that everyone who plays the game see this post and pay attention.
As a new member of GoF, I can tell you that our guild leader and commanders always enforce us to have respect for other guilds on both home and opposing servers.
I was not there when this happened but I hope you guys can continue with your traditions and yak parades in the future even though I do agree with some other comments, suggesting this might be better on PvE maps due the server queues.
Personally if I see your yak parade, I would gladly join it.
My friend and I transferred to BG from a Tier 3 server last month and it has been a blast. The commanders really know their stuff and you will learn a lot about WvW and strategies. The TS3 talk is clean and none of that lifestory telling chatter stuff going on. This has been the best 1800 gems that I ever spend to transfer to BG; and the rewards are priceless.
A couple of points:
The queues are not that long as I originally thought which held me back from transferring earlier (0-5 minutes max) (15-30 min reset night).
Players and guilds are very welcoming.
Blackgate TS server is very active for any kind of contents (even living story) and everyone work together as a team.
If you find WvW so incredibly unacceptable in its current state that you’re willing to quit en masse, then maybe GW2 just isn’t the game for you? Play the game for what it is right now, not for what you fantasize about it being in the future.
Yes I am playing GTA V and it is a blast. Thanks for the advise.
So I go and kill the Maw or Tequiti in the world events which take 60-120 seconds and get two rares, one from the daily chest and one from the boss chest.
I go and cap 5 keeps and take 10 supply camps (with a zerg) for an hour or two, and get a fine/masterwork and a siege weapon (worth less than a silver) from the rank chest.
I am not sure what else to say….
you expected to get the same rewards in WvW than in PvE? this is where you went wrong
lemme introduce you this nce PvE game, maybe you havent heard about it. its called GW2.
Yes I have heard the name and it stands for Guilds Wars, which means guilds to war to protect their homeland (Server) in WvW.
This is the end game content for many of us WvW’ers.
So I go and kill the Maw or Tequiti in the world events which take 60-120 seconds and get two rares, one from the daily chest and one from the boss chest.
I go and cap 5 keeps and take 10 supply camps (with a zerg) for an hour or two, and get a fine/masterwork and a siege weapon (worth less than a silver) from the rank chest.
That’s because there is no incentive to defend. You get NOTHING to defend except spare change-like wxp and karma. There literally is no reason to defend, there is more reason to let the ball drop and recap. And for a game where keeping the points you have is equally as important as gaining points from other sources, they sure do a bad job of rewarding the defense.
If you give incentive to defend, you will have the opportunity to kill something that isn’t programmed.
I said this in another thread, and I’ll repeat what I said here for clarity, the issue with rewarding defending currently is a problem with a way the content is built and how it determines participation. Until we solve that problem, we won’t be increasing the rewards for defending because it is far too easy to game the system. That is why escorting Dolyaks is not very rewarding. Once we do solve that, we will make big moves to incentivize defending so that people who are helping out, whether it be escorting yaks, or defending objectives will see more rewards for doing that.
I truly don’t see how difficult that can be.
You already have an afk kick system plus you can simply put a timer for when a zerg attacks a camp/keep until they cap it. If the timer expires by the time that the invader zerg caps it then the defenders will get some wxp or reward.
Also for scouts you can have a system where if a zerg attacks the camp or the bay and the allies get there before it is capped then the scout gets a reward and wxp.
I already have a dps warrior but wondering if having a banner warrior brings any benefits to the team? I am taking about a full support banner build and not just half/half.
Doing so would invalidate the time people spend acquiring that gear. I think the heart of your post is in the right place, but what we would rather do is make possible for people to get the gear by playing WvW with a sprinkling of PvE, rather than the other way around.
Is it possible to acquire an ascended weapon just by playing WvW then? Not just the RNG chest, but the actual crafting materials etc….
I am also puzzled by why all the WvW rank chests give blue/green armor when you can do a PvE level 15 event get two rares from the chests???
Great post. After playing 5 months and still being new to many aspects of the game, I have come to the sad realization that ANet’s focus is PvE and there is very little done on the WvW front. We can wait and see what the WvW season brings us and keeping my fingers crossed for some new maps etc.
In regards of the communication between the developer and WvW players, all you need to do is to go to the living story forum sub and you will find many comments from the devs on different posts. Sadly you come on teh WvW section and it is a ghost town and players basically talking to a wall with an illusion of someone listening and the hope of change.
Went against JQ and FA zergs in SM and it was a lag fest….Couldn’t even heal or do anything….I was getting around 2-5 fps…
My PC specs are ATI 7970 3GB and AMD 8-core 8350 and 8GB of RAM on my network connection is on a 50 Mbits LAN line (not shared) in case if you going to blame it on my PC spec.
Looking for a group to help me out with TA forward/up path as I am missing this from my DM achievement and have tried it with a lot of guilds and groups but no luck.
Congrats. I’ll keep that in mind when I put together TM for the next world.
Maybe 1% of players will get this but there is nothing to keep in mind about it.
If you are planning to start having contents that are targeted only for certain players then please let us causal players know in advance….The gantlets champ 1v1 fight were already hard and now this….I understand that you need to satisfy both casual and hardcore players but I guess this is going to be the new way of things.
Congratz to the players that complete this achievement.
I factory reset my Android phone and lost the authentication Google code. Is there a way to deactivate the authenticator without having the linked mobile app?
Even though I was able to get both meta achievements for the two recent Living Stories ,(Clockwork Chaos and Queen’s Jubilee), I hear that some people are struggling to complete the achievements due to lack of players in these areas.
Queen’s Jubilee defeating mobs achievements is totally not doable anymore since the area is dead. You either have to ask players to join you or be in a guild that has a lot of players who are willing to help or are in the same situation.
Also the Clockwork Chaos invasion achievements are hard to complete due to lack of players and less focus on winning and some afk players on the map.
So this raises the question if these LS need to be completed as early as possible when they are released or you will have a hard time.
I still enjoy the game but down deep in my heart I feel the game is turning into more grind and starting to feel like a part time job than a casual game.
With the introduction of ascended weapons and soon armor and later on legendary armor skins and what not…we keep grinding everyday to get that next thing…which is starting to remind me of other grindy centric MMOs (not gonna name any)…
kitten the 2 weeks temp LS grid on top of it and you get 5-6 hours a day of just grinding for the next thing…
As much as I am not a big fan of Jumping Puzzles, I have to say that I am kind of glad the last two Living Stories didn’t have any Jumping Puzzles and looking forward to this one. So far I like the idea of having JP LS and other LS separate.
250,000 Total Kills in WvW Ultimate Dominator (almost 800 hours) gives a total of almost 50 achievement points when a living story 10 hour content give the same amount of points?
Offering the free weekend during this LS map farming and removing culling at the same time is a cheap way of tricking new players that your PvE maps are always active and full of players when we already know that is not the case.
I have had this game for 6 months and had my share of joy and enjoyment with it, but it seems to me that ANet focus is moving towards bring new players rather than adding more end game, WvW or fractals or dungeons, contents.
Why Anet refuses to add more dungeons or even include the existing dungeons that were introduced in the previous LS? Because it will kill PvE maps even more….
I just don’t see how it is going to be so much easier than gw2lfg.
Sure, you won’t have to alt-tab over to the internet, but is that really that much of a chore? I guess it would make it slightly easier, but your reasoning doesn’t really “prove” that we are lacking an in game lfg.
Not that I wouldn’t use it, I just don’t see it making my life appreciably easier/better when looking to do dungeons.
It is actually very simple. There are queues for each dungeon and people enlist themselves and get into the dungeon when the queue gets 5 people. Kind of like tPvP when you join without being in a group and it automatically put you in one.
After always looking for dungeon groups on map chat or gw2lfg, I decided to start a guild solely for PvE Dungeon master groups. After 6 hours of my reddit post , the guild was almost full.
This is another proof that an MMO to this magnitude is lacking one of the main features of MMO. There should be a in game lfg that can match players and be able to group them for PVE dungeon/frac/arah runs.
PS. This guild is not recruiting and it is still far from perfect since we are still trying to find better ways to group players. I just wanted to put this here so hopefully a ANET dev sees it and realized that this feature is truly needed in-game.
Torture you because the wxp ranks arnt account bound? a_a they arnt for many reasons I think anet stated before, and it would be pretty weird seeing an upleveled bronze general running around, theyre just titles too, they dotn actually mean anything and will simply repeat with the new valuable mineral at the start
lol. Who cares about the titles? I am talking about WvW skill points and achievement points. Seems like you didn’t read my post.
copy/paste from the latest The Queen’s Speech patch notes.
“World vs. World XP and Point adjustments We’re making it easier to earn World XP points for playing normally in World vs. World by increasing the WXP rate across the board! As an added bonus, we’re adjusting World vs. World Ability Points so that your total points are equal to your current rank. New characters will start off with one ability point, and all existing characters will receive one more!”
NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
We need the WvW stats to be account bound and not solebound (just like PvP). If it because of the WvW XP chests, then you can take them back. I don’t need the green item and the siege and the 1 silver.
Also we need WvW achievement points to be balanced. For example 250.000 WvW kills (800-1000 hours or more on a Tier 1 server) for 50 achievement points (All 6 tiers combined) is freaking ridiculous.
Why you try to torture us WvW players? Aren’t the WvW efforts the main source of all the PvE boots and bonuses for the servers? We deserve more…..
Queen’s Gauntlet will return, possibly as part of the activity rotation or even other events. In any case, you’ll be able to complete those achievements at a later date.
I don’t like this update. I’ll join the club and complain.
Challenge is good, but it needs to be dosed. Throw us Liadra in a dungeon or in Arah, I’m perfectly fine, but a solo boss:
1- Not instanced (which brings FPS drops)
2- With an orange floor (which make AOE invisibles sometime)
3- With weird camera angles 4- There for only two weeks
5- Asking for silvers of repairs and tickets every time
6- With a waiting queue… 7- …AND WITH LOADS OF BUGS/GLITCHS
… IS INCREDIBLY STUPID.
I referenced NickChabby because it basically sums up the LS.
IMO:
This is my first ever MMO and been playing since Feb 2013 and already have over 800 hours in the game and 4 lvl 80s. I enjoy the game to the fullest and I feel there is so much to do in this beautiful world.
But then I am starting to feel frustrated with all these stupid mini games and solo bosses and feel that this kind of unnecessary challenge in a Living story is killing the fun. Every time I log in, I have to open up a second laptop to look up LS guides and search youtube how to kill the bosses in the LS or do the mini game to win since I don’t have 10 hours to find out everything by myself with trial and error with two weeks. Yes I know….you gonna say if I don’t like it then I don’ have to play it….but I feel that GW2 has so much more to offer…I am sure the amount of work that has been put in this game is more that we can imagine and I want more and not less…
You wanna have a living story then fine, go ahead and make some new stuff but enough is enough with all these challenges and jumping puzzles and mini games.
Where is the fun in collecting 1000 baskets and flying 200 balloons?
Why don’t you add a new area and increase the level cap to 90 or whatever. Why not add new dungeons or fractals? why not add these LS mobs/bosses on the actual world map? why not give us a real story about dragon and us defeating our homeland? what happened to all the races joining together and fight together? Why you enforce solo challenge LS in a MMO that is suppose to encourage social team play? If I want solo challenge then why on earth I would play an MMO? There are so many things wrong with this LS approach that I can go on forever but I want to be optimistic for a better future in GW2 world.
Looking for a team to complete Dungeon Master Achievement.
I have a zerker warrior, healing/dps guardian, healing/cd ranger, cd engineer. Over 4k achievement points (6 months playing). I have completed fractals up to level 10 and lots of dungeon experience TA, CoF, CM< CoE….
I just crafted an engineer to lvl 80 since I don’t have time to level (yes. shame on me). and don’t have the patient to grind another toon. This is my fifth 80.
Could someone quickly summarize or point me to engineer build for PvE and WvW as of the latest patch? I love condition damage builds but I know it is capped in PvE, so I am guessing PvE and WvW builds for engineer are very different. In that case, I would like to focus on WvW build.
i’m going to use dark souls as a comparison since its literally a perfect example, if you go into that game new and inexperienced you are going to die, die, die, die, die, RAGE, die, RAGE, die, SUPER RAGE, destroy something.
Are you seriously comparing Dark Souls with GW2? In Dark Souls, every boss has a very different AI mechanics and beating the boss actually feels like an accomplishment. In GW2 I have dungeon master and fractals level 20 and never felt accomplished beating a boss. Why? because what matters in GW2 boss fight: dodge AoE, dps spam the boss’s large health pool, don’t get downed, and done, move on.
In Dark Souls, no boss can one shot you if you are in the right gear and have balanced your stats correctly. On the other hand in GW2, it doesn’t matter if you are a tank lvl 80 guardian with exotic/ascended gear and all the traits set right or if you are a level 10 in fine/blue armor. You still get one shot. You might as well fight naked.
Also in Dark Souls NG+ or higher, every boss’s health is balanced. You can actually one shot the boss with the buffs. Is this possible in GW2? No? Because GW2 boss fight is is not about challenge. It is about spam/grind mechanics.
Here is the video of one shotting one of the hardest bosses in Dark Souls. So please don’t compare Dark Souls with GW2 PvE. GW2 PvE is a joke to any other game.
im comparing it to dark souls because A-net is trying to make dark souls quality bosses and failing hard, they wanna make skill gated content for a very small minority to lazy to look for a challenge or go to somewhere else for a challenge.
I am sick of having to change my traits/build/stats to fight these LS bosses. Had to do it for candidate trials and now this. As I said many times before, This LS challenges are becoming more work than actual fun. Too bad I need the achievement points…otherwise it would be a skip on my part.
i’m going to use dark souls as a comparison since its literally a perfect example, if you go into that game new and inexperienced you are going to die, die, die, die, die, RAGE, die, RAGE, die, SUPER RAGE, destroy something.
Are you seriously comparing Dark Souls with GW2? In Dark Souls, every boss has a very different AI mechanics and beating the boss actually feels like an accomplishment. In GW2 I have dungeon master and fractals level 20 and never felt accomplished beating a boss. Why? because what matters in GW2 boss fight: dodge AoE, dps spam the boss’s large health pool, don’t get downed, and done, move on.
In Dark Souls, no boss can one shot you if you are in the right gear and have balanced your stats correctly. On the other hand in GW2, it doesn’t matter if you are a tank lvl 80 guardian with exotic/ascended gear and all the traits set right or if you are a level 10 in fine/blue armor. You still get one shot. You might as well fight naked.
Also in Dark Souls NG+ or higher, every boss’s health is balanced. You can actually one shot the boss with the buffs. Is this possible in GW2? No? Because GW2 boss fight is is not about challenge. It is about spam/grind mechanics.
Here is the video of one shotting one of the hardest bosses in Dark Souls. So please don’t compare Dark Souls with GW2 PvE. GW2 PvE is a joke to any other game.
