Guild Wars 2

Jayne.9251:

Easiest way to break up a zerg is to have a few suicide into them while they’re stacking, to disable/interrupt the group buffs. Then your team comes in and wipes.

Well that kinda used to be where the melee train came in handy. You see more ranged chars than melee these days in wvw.

Before the stability changes a guild group made a good chance on hurting a zerg. But these days even guilds run in zerg mode, or worse, zerg size :/

They didnt report you, just something a sore loser says.

In Silver EU where you are up against national servers there never was any roaming to begin with. AG has roamers, GH has some, but the national servers feel lonely so fast., So they roam with a full zerg.

Getting in fine myself. But we are outnumbered so perhaps it’s not just you.

Could also be that people left sfr by the boatloads perhaps?

From going to pvp starting area, lots of people having lagg and unplayable matches too.

Vayne.8563:

aspirine.6852:

Vayne.8563:

aspirine.6852:

The Wizland.8435:

I’m inclined to disagree, the events were very good. Most of them were just bugged this beta weekend. .

That’s one problem right there. The new maps are suppose to be all about events right? And even now so many maps in GW2 have bugged events, after almost three years!!

By percentage, the number of bugged events is pretty small. There are a handful, but there are well over 1500 events. There’ll always be bugs in every game. That’s the nature of the beast.

I’ve read the interview too, 1500 in total, I dont think thats 1500 in just pve. And whenever I enter a map for daily event there are always some bugged, some have been bugged for a long time.
Some events dont matter much, but the chained events not working kinda sux. It would hurt hot a lot.

There aren’t that many dynamic events in WvW and there are none in PvE or in personal stories. There are a couple of random one in dungeons but not many. Even if you say 1400 events, it’s a lot (as many events as there were quests in all of Guild Wars 1) and that doesn’t count any of the events added afterwards.

I do find bugged events, occasionally, but not all the time. I don’t think every map has bugged event as you claim, and I’m not sure there are 50 bugged events over all even. It’s still a small percentage.

But right now, we’re complaining about bugged events in a beta anyway. If you don’t expect bugs in beta, I’m not sure what to tell you. I expect bugs in beta.

Bugs in beta ok, there where a lot in gw1 beta. HoT one map with bugged events, meh. How many events are there on this map?

Teniz.5249:

Hulkmaster.1724:

Dear Arena Net,

<emotiaonalPart>
I REALLY like game your team created – it’s enormous. The ideas your programmers made true are fantastic. But your game designers.. or level designers – i don’t really get whom should make pve locations – failed.
That’s what i’ve seen from BWE
</emotionalPart>

Events:
Boring. Especially the one with sniper rifles
Make the one, who created Silverwastes lead level designer, please – he knows what to do with pve map!

Map itself
It was interesting, but it’s not really guessable (when you visit map first time and don’t have gliders or else), that the bridge (bottom of the map) could be not destroyed (it was, when i came), so i was forced to make pretty big and boring circle, to get to boring rifle events

Mobs:
They, actually, were fun! Especially these little raptors

Don’t get me wrong, but there were 3 years since start of GW2, and i was really looking forward for this addon, but if the whole addon is that boring, or only 1 zone is interesting, like silverwastes, then… i don’t know… i love the idea too much :c

Whom i’m trying to fool?! i will spend money, and buy the most expensive packs, and then i won’t play for years, waiting for next addon, believing in"Now, when 5-6 years passed, they DO know how pve should look like! they will make it!"

So, please, Arena Net, don’t let me spend money on air! Make Pve zones really interesting! i like wvw, pvp, but MOST i like pve, and i want to see really interesting PvE zones

Regards!

As a day 1 GW2 player I have to agree with you.

We waited so long for the expansion and there are still missing SO MANY things.

I dont want to go into detail but for example almost all elite specializations are …. meh it kinda looks like they just thought what weapons are ppl not using thats why we got so many shield specializations. And they kinda suck.

If you look at the ele he can use now F1 F2 F3 and F4 but he gets a huge cooldown on switching attume again and every ele player nows, this is a huge dps lose for pvp and pve!

But I dont want to go too much into detail so

yes hot is meh, but I play it anyways.

So far GW2 felt like D3 at the beginning it really sucked, and patch after patch it got better. After the expansion it took a huge step into right direction and with the upcoming patch it gets better too.

So I just wait it out…

I’d be a happy camped if they brought back templates back from gw1. Out of combat switching for the right situation, gimme gimme

Vayne.8563:

aspirine.6852:

The Wizland.8435:

I’m inclined to disagree, the events were very good. Most of them were just bugged this beta weekend. .

That’s one problem right there. The new maps are suppose to be all about events right? And even now so many maps in GW2 have bugged events, after almost three years!!

By percentage, the number of bugged events is pretty small. There are a handful, but there are well over 1500 events. There’ll always be bugs in every game. That’s the nature of the beast.

I’ve read the interview too, 1500 in total, I dont think thats 1500 in just pve. And whenever I enter a map for daily event there are always some bugged, some have been bugged for a long time.
Some events dont matter much, but the chained events not working kinda sux. It would hurt hot a lot.

The Wizland.8435:

I’m inclined to disagree, the events were very good. Most of them were just bugged this beta weekend. .

That’s one problem right there. The new maps are suppose to be all about events right? And even now so many maps in GW2 have bugged events, after almost three years!!

No one in their right mind wants to go to blacktide. The amount of kitten you hear and see from that server is enough to say dont go there.

On our server Gunnars Hold there were 2 trolls and very active in chat being as annoying as they could be. Like normal 12 year olds would do, and being racists on top of that. So we reported them many times to Anet and it did take some time but in the end both of them are perma banned.

You want to go to either Gunnars Hold or Aurora Glade. Below that the servers become a ghost town.

If you can let people be unaffected by it, so they are not pvping against their will why not?
Or even dedicate a special part of the map that is hardly used in PvE. No world events and no world bosses maps as example.

Just be really sure that the guy you want to report isnt just a very good mesmer. AG and it’s guilds have been respected for quite some time. Even from opposing servers such as mine, been against them many times. And I have never heard anything about a member from a well known guild to be hacking and/or cheating.
They can be annoying those people on AG, but they dont need cheating to win a fight.

OP must have had the joy of meeting a condi mesmer

Sometimes I do, sometimes I dont. Today for instance was annoying so no Ididnt finish them.

Meh there are way better weapon skins from gw1. never liked the mursaat skins really :/

Exciton.8942:

aspirine.6852:

Exciton.8942:

After watching WTS, do you guys srsly think mesmer stealth is OP anymore? Every meta class has find a way to get great sustainability. Stealth is just mesmer’s way of surviving now.

pvp and wvw is a whole different game. Stealth in wvw is way more valuable than in pvp.

I completely agree for wvw roaming. That’s why thief and mesmer have always been the best roaming class no question. But you can’t ask for serious balance for wvw roaming….

Roaming no, that is quite impossible. But it’s kinda weird a profession can stealth as long as mesmer AND have a skill that can port an entire zerg into a keep/tower.

ArthurDent.9538:

Elxdark.9702:

Random Weird Guy.3528:

Elxdark.9702:

Chaith surprised me, people always understimate him but he played as a beast, did he fail any moa? I don’t think so and even with soldier amu he was doing enough dps to pressure foes.

Not bashing Chaith or anyhting, but you realise that the animation on mesmer moa is far more recognisable and therefore easier to dodge than the AoE moa skill from elixir?

Well ya, you have a point.
But He threw the moas in the right moment(rampage, cleave, disengage) I remember that AoE moa when orng was ressing rom and all died from that play.

Elixer moa is 1/2 second cast time + slow moving projectile for a fairly small radius aoe while signet moa is 1 second cast time but more range and no travel time so it is pretty balanced in that regard.

However the key thing is that it seemed like everytime Chaith threw down the moa it was at the perfect moment. On top of your example he did a great job at stopping ROM’s rampages generally only allowing him to get off one or 2 skills.

Well he is kittening great at the game so no suprise there. I didnt see all the game, but caith didnt go down a lot afaik. He was pretty kitten good.

Ranger is the easiest, go for that

As long as there are wvw exclusive and pve too, I dont see a problem with pvp exclusives.

coglin.1867:

Avit.3165:

coglin.1867:

Where have you been having lag? I was in EB all night last night and tonight, and I am not having any lag issues, I am in T1.

Looks like you are the only person, whos playing WvW without any lag, please tell us your secret.

What an odd thing to say. There are less then 20 posters in this thread, out of the 7,500,000 copies of this game that sold.

I would say it is more like 7,400,000 (I will generously give your actual 27 posters credit for representing a hundred thousand) who do not have lag issues to any relevant level enough to cause then to comment on it.

Since you asked though, I simultaneously, upgraded by processor in the same week I upgraded to a better ISP.

Everyone on my server and the opponent ones have this lag. None of them however go to the forum and post about the lag. Because they know anet doesnt give a kitten about wvw and the lag.
It doesnt have anything to do with an isp or your pc, it’s the server that cannot handle the load.

Exciton.8942:

After watching WTS, do you guys srsly think mesmer stealth is OP anymore? Every meta class has find a way to get great sustainability. Stealth is just mesmer’s way of surviving now.

pvp and wvw is a whole different game. Stealth in wvw is way more valuable than in pvp.

Gmtsai.6349:

with such an International Tournament, we only see 6k viewers. Such esports.

Look at LoL or Dota, some random player’s stream has more viewers than us.

People are sheep, so what that some boring game has more viewers?

Schadenfreude is our Friend.6950:

Khyber.1284:

I sensed a storm when I read that title, But never mind false alarm~

I’ll be “that guy”… mesmers can permastealth with 30s of stealth stacked now, they are going to be virtually impossible to sweep out of keeps now if they spec for it.

Indeed. 2 mesmers are enough to do this all night long.

Caedmon.6798:

Im getting so kittening tired of it at this point,anet..do something about it,dont wait till kittening hot gets released please.

Agreed here, sorry for the misunderstanding earlier. It’s unplayable for me now, hasnt been this terrible since ages. Skills took almost 15 seconds to complete on EB and siege would not even fire at all.
Fix your godkitten game before releasing an expansion.

lag is back to insane proportions like it was a year ago or so. Fix your godkitten game before you’re making an expansion. Your servers cant even handle the load right now.

Abjured came back awesome. But I must say, those first matches they lost to OL, that was more fun to watch than the final.

I noticed this in WvW last night. 2 mesmers basicly perma stealthing kept on porting entire mobs into SM. What a great idea to give mesmer so much stealth combined with a skill to port a massive zerg. Some great minds at work here.

Ok it’s a bit older video, but still:

https://youtu.be/Je7ktc2MHqs

Or:
https://youtu.be/ei-P8KUgVrg (patience, it starts slow)

coglin.1867:

aspirine.6852:

Junkpile.7439:

Sounds like op have l2p issues and bad connection.

My connection is fine, better than a lot on my server. And learn to play, how do you learn not to lag again?

I dunno, but when your comments suggest your issues are very extreme compared to others, it is either an issue on your end, technically speaking, or your not being completely honest, by over exaggerating. Either way, it lends support questioning your statement.

I think there will always be some exaggeration with these kind of things. I always ask right away in map chat if others have the same problem. And this weekend it was like that. Zerg fights where we could not even press 1. So bad the other server decided to move away from our keep because they too could almost do nothing.
We are up against Piken and FSP so big zerg fights. And if everyone if having these problems it’s serverside. :/

Junkpile.7439:

Sounds like op have l2p issues and bad connection.

My connection is fine, better than a lot on my server. And learn to play, how do you learn not to lag again?

Arborstone(our opponent in this matchup) just stopped playing. There seems to be no-one around from that server

Algreg.3629:

only in those featuring showers.

:D

Absolute Ze Woah.1074:

I agree. Sometimes it’s ridiculously hard to find my mouse when there’s flashing lights everywhere. I didn’t really notice it before till I started doing fractals, but it’s hard to time dodges when I can’t even see the npc’s movement fast the visual effects.

Try yolomouse. Saved me quite some times.

The good thing about it, and yes that is sarcasm, is that you can feel the zerg moving towards you again

Tich I am on GH aswell as on gandara with my second account. Weird enough we hardly have ques on gandara this week/weekend. EB on prime time still has some, but weird enough so does GH. Because there is just no-one at the BL in our(terrible) matchup. The worst thing about such a machup is we can own it all and not make a lot of progress in the glicko scoring system :/

BTw. I had a longer que on GH EB than on gandara EB during friday switch

Wut seriously? I only get 79 even if I open it with a level 80 char.

Or perhaps fix the servers so that the MMO part actually can be called massively..

Why is this not max level equipment btw?

5 per map good enough for ya? There is a game mode without zergs, just so you know.

You buy them for real money or get some luck and get one to drop for you.(next to impossible) and the chance that you get nothing but crap is huge. So no they are not worth it at all imo.

Soooo, top 10 servers in EU are full. I wonder how they measured this because some are way more full than others… Anyone at anet want to explain how this full works?

Last couple of days it’s not been fun at all for both my chars. One is in a dead matchup, other is in zerg fights and the server cannot handle it at all.

Yep same here yesterday and just now on EB, insane lag is backittenpt on walking up a pair of stairs only to start back over 4 times in a row.
On a fight, even outside the zerg fight my f1 did nothing, my skill 1 did nothing.

Hymi.7265:

DiscoJacen.1590:

You’ve got more players, that is your strength and that is respectable.

On top of that you have/had hackers and so we decided to not play, that is our problem/right. And someone constantly spamming our map chat with propaganda and reporting our actions to your side (scouts or not you just can’t deny that).
It is/was taking the game away for us and by extension from you as well (I can’t think it is fun to cap everything on reset night and then never having to cap anything for the week.).

However coming here to try and pretend yourself a victim is simply ridiculous:
-All the Blacktide players we talk to in-game are well aware of the hacking and sad to see it happen.
-All the so-called “hacks” we also do according to you are just either videos of ppl using trapper runes or screenshots of someone soloing something (when you don’t have 7+ friends to call asap that’s how you do it) with absolutely no trace or exploit or hack.

—> So it means that either your knowledge of the game is null for thinking such core mechanics are hacking OR it means your doing it on purpose.
—> So it means you’re either one of said hackers trying to defend yourself by minimizing your actions or someone who knows them and therefore is helping them. Or for that matter you could be that guy who stands in our EB spawn to spoil mapchat with your Blacktide propaganda and spying.

Either way, you are ridiculous and if anything you are proving us right at every turn.

We’re sorry you’re bored enough in-game so that you feel forced to come here and troll. We hope reality won’t hit you too hard when you finally face a real challenge.

Is someone doing that? We’re sorry for that, we don’t know who does it. Just report him. We’re also sorry that we have hackers, BUT they haven’t been active in over a week I’ve heard, so you can join WvW now… Also, that spy, we don’t know him, and he’s not from one of the big guilds, so we don’t have any contact with him, which means we don’t know what he knows, so you can’t accuse us for spying just because one guy trolls on your borders.

He is active today, this morning BT almost had a max tick, I think it was around 620. So you still have some of these losers running around on your server. Not that you can do anything about it, let me make that clear. Only one who can do something is Anet.

Sheer incompetence that this has not been addressed yet.

I respect what Vizunah is doing right now, climbing back on the ladder. I wish you succes in gold, seems like you guys and girls are ready for it