Guild Wars 2

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Swiftly.2385:

Sticky this? 15char Rangers

I have PMed multiple devs about getting it swapped with the “post your build thread” in the sticky, but no replies.

Ridiculous – I’ve been watching this thread for a while – too bad Anet isn’t.

coglin.1867:

Tongku.5326:

I would love to see what happens if the map cap got reduced to about 30-40 players per map.

Not me. I have more guildies then that on one map regularly. I have no desire to turn large scale WvW into mediocre scale WvW.

Chaba.5410:

emendez.3705:

even is YB climbed to tier 1 i can assure you from someone who is tier 1 you will have the same problems if a tier 1 server gets put in tier 2 but worst. Sucks i know

I agree because the T1 servers have better off-hours coverage than YB. That doesn’t bode well for YB either.

I am not entirely certain you are aware of why they are even competitive enough to be put in the T1 discussion. The entire point is that there are both alt accounts and full guilds that were giving that coverage on T1, are now supporting YB with it.

I am with you.

Lowering the map caps isn’t the answer, not by a long shot, not when everyone WANTS to find fights but can’t.

phirefox.2568:

Niiiiice. Good to see this being fixed in the future

Attachment: Sacrified myself yesterday to get a nice Screenshot of another case (although it wasn’t really an outnumbered situation here)

Know what’s just as bad? Elevation accounted for, a ballista can’t hit many from keeps or towers. That’s just sad.

Siege is broken in many more areas than just arrow carts – all of it needs to be real world or showing magic enhancements (yeah right).

Nike.2631:

Are you aware there is a bugs forum on these boards?

And you must know that we’re not getting any attention with this bug that makes scores less or more in a game of competition with thousands of players at any one time, right?

Apparently not.

We need help in WvW – deny it, please.

TheLastNobody.8319:

Zenos Osgorma.2936:

no just pets i think , this was done Ages and ages ago before the WvW seasons last year.

due to pets dying in 1 hit vs World bosses and some champs for fractals and dungeons they added bonus health to pets to help them survive.

WvW stayed the same as they wanted this to be more even to the Spvp health levels of pets.

Couldn’t they strike a happy medium between the two for WvW though considering WvW has more and stronger build variation than PvP?

Totally, absolutely, unequivocally, no.

Pets should have the same high health they have in PvE.

Why?

Ok, let’s go with your premise PvP, that means everyone in WvW will be stripped of trinkets, skills, buffs and anything that can help in a large group.

Nope, doesn’t work.

Pet’s need to:

Grow up

Become stronger with training

Never have less health than the day we find them.

AND not have Anet lower it in PvE, which is what I know they would do if they looked at it, so our pets would be totally useless in PvE as well as WvW and PvP.

No.

Pets need to be fixed – f2 and their health pools

Mokk.2397:

Your right I never noticed that before .For example my Ice drake has 39385 health in Silverwastes but drops to 22975 in WvW. Also noticed a slight difference in character health (maybe a hundred points) but not that extreme.If (as I understand ) the pet is an extension to the ranger then that is yet another disadvantage to chalk up. Nice call on that. But I’m curious to know if that also applies to clones and minions.Just a thought.

I’ve been saying it for two plus years and I still haven’t received an answer from Anet to two questions, one of which I asked.

The second is why pets never grow up.

So they become our pets when “juveniles”, don’t grow up and become less powerful in WvW – and this is fair how?

Anet?

Anet?

trunks.5249:

there have been times where i push f2 and the pet doesn’t use skill. its happened a lot today.kind of a pain pet leaves me hanging when i needed him the most lol or can pet skills be interrupted ?

I’ve been saying this for two years – it goes off so seldom that I am dead if it’s a skill that could help in any way.

Nice job huh?

It’s not skill lag, it just doesn’t work even if the animation goes off, IF it goes off.

Gotchaz.7865:

It’s because Rangers have super fast burst power and AOE and piercing arrows so we can attack lords and hit tons of players making us loot kitten. We also have little to no group utilities to help out a zerg and this game is all about Zergs and who can drop the most combos. I love my Ranger and yes I’m a loot kitten

Much of what you said is fine, but when you say we have nothing to bring to groups, I have to stop you and stay bull.

My build brings might, swiftness, protection, reviving at lightening speed and more and I am SICK of people saying we don’t bring anything to the WvW/GvG “table”.

Some are starting to get the point that we are valuable, but some, like you, still need to be educated on what a Ranger can really do in a zerg or group.

Ranger hate isn’t going away until more people play Ranger and find the utility and fun and destroying-goodness of being one firsthand.

Kageseigi.2150:

stof.9341:

Well +1 role looks really a lot like a MOBA roaming ganker. It IS a role really :p

Thieves feel more like the squishy, little minions going from Point A to Point B. It is sad.

Sagat.3285:

Everything must be suport then.

This is my reasoning for this thread. “+1” isn’t a Thief role because it can be accomplished by ANY profession. But the Thief is limited to ONLY +1 engagements. That’s why it is a limitation, not a role.

As for a role, even a support role, think of Dungeons and Dragons. A Cleric can fill the role of a healer very well. That class has the abilities to do it. A Barbarian, on the other hand, would not be a good choice to keep the party healed through a fight, but it can be a great front-line striker. Each class has a role to play that they are skilled at.

I could understand the Thief having a Venom Share support role. I could understand the Thief having a stealthy Ninja Nurse support role. I can understand the Thief having the role of scout and coordinator. If the Thief were given the power or the survivability, I could see the Thief having the roles to assassinate lone targets or to intercept and harass enemies off-point.
Those are roles that the Thief can or could fulfill. You can try to argue about (de)capping being a role, but whatever the case, “+1” is just math… it’s not a role. Anyone can +1. The Thief is actually at a disadvantage compared to other professions even in a +1. It has mobility, yes, but it lacks power and survivability.

Tagline video kudos 1,000+ – and the truth keeps on rolling, but only by players.

andysix.9640:

I just came back to the game only to find that a bunch of hardcore wvw guilds have gone to yaks bend and pretty much own everything in wvw 24/7 SoS and FA don’t even stand a chance of winning agaisnt their numbers why is anet allowing people to all xfer to one server so they can just win all the time while the other 2 have to sit at spawn crying about it in chat..

Ft. Aspenwood, until about five weeks ago, was winning every single match.

I will not surmise the reasons but I will say that FA has given up, while SoS is the same zergy-ness it needs to be in its time zones.

Don’t blame Yak’s Bend – blame Anet for not seeing what FA is doing, the state of WvW and the ridiculousness of the population/maps that are allowed to play one another.

Every WvW person knows that a server can go up or down if a few decide not to field their guilds or moves – but this out of balance can also be manipulated by players, which should show Anet that its model for WvW populations isn’t working and hasn’t been working since at least the beginning of the Second WvW season when the megaserver destroyed recruiting and so much more that was WvW.

Let’s put the attention where it needs to be – population/lag/skill-lag/bugs/trolls.

Anet needs to do more for WvW rather than relegating it to second or third place after TPvP or PvE, the latter of which doesn’t need help like the other two.

Sorry that they had almost three years before releasing a major release, but WvW has needed help from the first day and it is still not getting it. Still.

Melanion.4892:

Hi.

A few weeks ago we had a dev do some amazing work reducing the lag in wvw and being completely honest with us about when/what was being done about it.

That was great, because skill lag really decreased in wvw. I was in SM fights with probably 40 players per side with minimal lag, but now it’s back. Did the same thing happen? Is it new problems?

Skill lag is back in a big way.

Skill lag is back in a big way.

Skill lag is back in a big way.

That’s about how long it takes many/most skills to go off after being hit repeatedly – read each line three times while hitting the 1 key and by the time you read it the third time, your skill might have gone off.

Or not and you are dead.

Thanks for more lies Anet.

I am not asking players. I am asking Anet.

How do you expect a pet to live with half the life that it had before it entered into WvW?

This is totally ridiculous and against common sense in any way.

coglin.1867:

I disagree.

It is no better or worse then direct damage. What I feel is the problem, are simply specific skills, and every profession has them, that apply abnormally high stack counts of a specific condition.

I often read complaints about conditions, only to find out the one complaining, isn’t utilizing all of the traits or skills avaliable to them to counter what their complaining about.

Your complaint in itself is so broad, it cannot support a real discussion, in my opinion. If you are going to complain about damage your taking, you should list the build your running, thay you are basing your complaint on. Unless you do that, you have no reason to blame design in my opinion. If you list builds with good cleansing, then you can have an argument to make. You could at the very least, list skills you feel are problematic, and suggest how they compare to equivalent direct damage skills.

As I see it the problem isn’t conditions, it is damage out put as a whole. Direct damage is no higher or lower then condition damage out put right now.

Sorry, you are very wrong.

I have condi clears, three or more of them without pets as a Ranger, and with some condi there is no clearing available that will EVER work.

Something is wrong when I clear all and still can’t clear many or any and am dead in less than three seconds without a stomp.

Aerial Melodies.4938:

Jayne.9251:

Then maybe EoTM is factored into WvW population. Is yours played a ton?

I may be wrong, but I believe a dev said that EOTM does not factor into the calculations as it’s not considered part of the actual WvW matchup (if you go into EOTM and look at your inventory, it shows karma instead of badges).

If you can find that reference it would answer one question.

BUT then the question remains…

Why are low servers showing the SAME population “amounts” as what we KNOW are high servers like JQ…

Chaba.5410:

I wonder if the new calculation considers the movement of population to different servers. Like, does it immediately remove a “WvW” player from a server’s total and add it to another server’s total when that player transfers? Or is it painfully slow to adjust to population movements like Glicko is?

Many have asked if EOTM is being taken into account.

That question needs to be answered if it hasn’t been officially – because not one of us in WvW believes that EOTM is WvW in any sense of the word.

So, Anet, why are you ignoring a question that is important to over 2/3 of your player base?

Asking a question in these forums and not getting any answers is not doing your reputation much good.

This is an urgent and important question for anyone who cares about the state and health of WvW – the True End Game in Guild Wars 2

It was still broken the last time I went in – and until it is truly fixed and posted I am not trying again – talk about wasting people’s time.

And still no update.

So many aspects of this game being broken are being buried in endless and unanswered forum postings.

StinVec.3621:

I logged in just now after reading the booster changes and went to claim the free booster in the gem store.

Upon trying to claim the booster I was given a message stating that the listing has expired and that the page would reload to display the current listings. At this point it still showed the booster as being free, but no matter what I do it will not grant it to me.

The listing says that the sale is ending soon…

Am I out getting this free booster despite it still being there for me to claim?

They will merge my posting with this one I didn’t see, but my points need to be read by every single player annoyed by this garbage.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/complete-booster-overhaul-and-dwaynas-weapon-set-in-the-gemstore/

It’s still “available” in the gem store – I have the screenshot – below.

What really should rankle all players is the “free” stuff that comes from the Gem Store, many of us miss because of three things and all need to be addressed.

1. In this particular “announcement/news” there is NO mention of the free booster.

2. Why not “announce” it like you do ALL changes, with an in-game email that informs and takes the player to the Gem Store at the page you want them at most – with the free offer at the head and words to entice to go farther?

3. This booster as of this writing is STILL “available” but clicking on it will give an error, instead of the booster being “gone”, it’s a tease to keep you in the gem store – but what it really does is make people less prone to trust Anet – I don’t.

Marketing at Anet is worse than Radio Shack.

Pretty sad to have a bug last over so many months.

Zevix.1479:

steve.2945:

At the beginning i found myself dying pretty fast against the mordrem, getting hit for 2k+ per hit, and when i have to survive till dawn, more then 1 can really ruin the experience.

Oh no, the mobs on lvl 80 content hurt. Why not play something other than glass cannon?

Excuse me? I am no glass cannon and I am eaten alive by singles let alone mobs.

This map is confusing and overramped – if we are to believe that single players are never going to be able to get down the the bottom of whatever it is that map is supposed to be, then tens of thousands of players won’t play the map.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

If you are unaware of the procedure to open a ticket, it’s: Top/Bottom of this Page – Click on the ‘Support’ link – Click on the ‘Submit a Request’ link in the upper right – fill out the web-form, and be sure to choose an option from each drop-down menu

Good luck.

Tickets are for account issues more than anything, but we ARE supposed to report bugs here.

I have been scolded for putting in tickets rather than putting issues here first.

Cyrael Pelingar.9650:

To progress in the mastery skills, including glider, you need to enter the hero panel, go to the mastery tab, and click on the desired mastery. The mastery bar will replace your EXP bar at the bottom of the screen. Once it fills, that mastery will unlock. When it fills again, the next tier will unlock, and you can spend mastery points to open it. Hope that helps clear that up for you.

As for the waypoints, from the start, head north, and around to the west. You’ll encounter a treehouse village. It’s very twisty, and took me a while to locate the route, but look around, and you should find it.

I am on glider mastery – doesn’t matter if you can’t get the points to advance towards it with bugged events and overpowered npcs.

The rest of your note was a bit helpful but not since again, the events aren’t doable by a few who can’t find the path and the rest are laughing at those five to seven stuck at the first or second waypoints for over two hours.

Stop with the glider mastery – I can’t even think how to get to the content when the events are bugged so much they don’t work.

Glider mastery will be easy for some and incredibly hard to impossible for others – is that how this is supposed to work?

Thanks for the non-hints here and for the great support from those who get their gliders without any effort whatsoever.

Zonatailurus.1764:

Same thing happened to me.

I have five of those… sad.

Many of us trying to find our way to the waypoints at the top of the map and further west are not able to find it even after over an hour of looking.

Bugged events galore and no idea how to progress to get the “glider” that everyone laughs about having hours after the start of beta.

This is a travesty in action – some of this should have been seen in alpha/closed beta play, not left for live beta events to destroy a person’s will to play altogether.

I paid the full price for this mess – and boy did I and so many others get ripped off.

Fernling.1729:

Oh my… 3 new legendaries are being added with the expansion. It really feels like this expansion is being super rushed. Most days I’m reminded that the $50 price tag isn’t justified.

Be glad you didn’t go for the most expensive as I did for my gifted account/expansion.

I am sad that a birthday gift is now more than confusing – not equally applied and the “new” content is hard as heck to find/follow.

Totally agree.

Game companies must comply with all ADA laws but are not even willing to try to do so.

Tiger Ashante.1792:

These snipers one shot my mesmer every time i come across them, they need a bit of toning down imo. It’s especially bad when there’s more than one of them, it’s insta death, not fun.

Darn. A skill that can finally kill the Mesmer who can kill three or five if left to their old builds and devices.

Now you will have to dodge just like the rest of us and maybe lose – again, darn.

Too bad that doesn’t happen in WvW…

Like the two most deadly toons in WvW really needed a boost.

Giving Guardians, which have taken hit after hit after hit, a new set of possibly worthy skills to bring people back to Guardians, was smart.

Giving those same kinds of upgrades to those who are already the hardest to counter and have skills galore to call from? Not smart at all.

Why have the rest of the toons been left out of these massive changes in elites?

Why are Necromancers and Mesmers, the ones that receive yet another wrecking-ball skill or set of them?

Really?

With the condi meta not being able to be cleared by many toons, you’d think that the real changes that need to be made would be obvious by now.

Finally thieves don’t always kill but mesmers, and some necromancers and warriors are so deadly three hits and you are dead.

So now warriors, mesmers and necros take the place of the once venerable and unbeatable thief? That’s certainly not balance.

Charrbeque.8729:

Every time I sell an item in the trading post my mail carrier activates for each item sold. It seems to only happen when I sell stuff instantly. If I list items that sell later the carrier doesn’t activate.

I’ve also witnessed this happening to other players standing in front of a trading post NPC with 1 mail carrier after the other flying away from them.

It seems to be the send mail animation where the carrier flies away from players as if they are sending multiple mail to other players.

Thanks for the heads up.

For those of us who have repetitive motion sickness issues that would be a game ender.

Anet should know better than to use it for the TP – it’s a bank transfer over the ethereal network that has nothing to do with carrier mail – if they want to be genre correct, they need to remove that ridiculous action.

I would never buy something that popped up every time I sold something, hundreds to thousands of times a day.

No finisher I choose works in pvp or wvw…

Anyone else not seeing their finishers working at all?

islarose.7356:

Not sure if this has been filed yet, but I just noticed when running the first chapters (up to level 20 so far) of Personal Story for my sylvari character, the voice dialogue isn’t playing – typically for Caithe (usually her first few statements don’t play in each cutscene), but occasionally other NPC dialogue fails to play as well.

No issue with player character voice dialogue in said cutscenes, and I’m not sure how long the issue has been present, as I didn’t have a problem in the PS for my human character last month.

Only half or less of all voiced sequences are playing at all.

It’s not one race, it’s all stories.

Junkpile.7439:

I don’t see problem. If you wanna fight go EotM. If you wanna PPT and play map tactic go normal WvW.

So not the reality.

PPT is in WvW – on many servers.

Tactics? What WvW are you playing – only a few even drive the main force to a battle or objective and it’s not all tactically correct or even close.

DeWolfe.2174:

DiscoJacen.1590:

For example one of our biggest problem is the population: too much on top tiers with giant queues

Oh kitten … NO there’s isn’t “giant queues” any longer. The only world with ridiculous Q’s is Yaks Bend during NA right now. They have almost 200 players total sitting and waiting during NA. The rest of us are lucky to Q 1 map! Even for reset on JQ, we just Q’d the 4 maps for an hour or so. That’s after shuffling and asking for players to come into WvW to begin with.

Sorry for barking at you but, this imagery that T1 has massive q’s filled with all the players it absorbed from the lower tiers just isn’t true. The games just bleeding that many players. There’s so much apathy toward the mode it’s becoming malaise. A lot of players just don’t care and it’s dragging down everyone.

You are very wrong – Yak’s Bend, is queued most of the day and all night now – but that’s thanks to the many new guilds who see a community, not a server…

Arimas.3492:

Because Anet doesn’t even play their own game.

Just a minute ago in WvW on my guard, came across condi mesmer, I have 5 cleanses on this build I’m running with meds. Condi mesmer bombs me with 10 confusion and 9 torment in about 2 seconds then i cleared it and went after him, he stealths and comes back to apply another 8 stacks of confusion on me and 6 torment. This goes on 3 more times when I’ve used all my cleanses, 2/3 of those times i had double digits of torment and confusion applied to me in seconds. And now because I have no more clears I’m dodging trying to get away and in the end I died with 21 confusion stacks and 13 torment.

Talk about broken

Totally agree.

If Anet, not a few, but all of them had to play this game two hours a day, things would change in a month.

KStudios.2850:

Some points of interest in things I’d like to see happen. Some of these things are long time thorns in our side, I might add. Like, since release. I honestly felt that before this latest mass overhaul patch we as rangers were finally beginning to balance out in the PvP areas of the game. Just to be thrown way back into Nerftown all over again after we slowly crawled our way out with only our fingernails the first time.

1.) Pets need to dodge when we do. No need for further explanation.
2.) Pets need to stealth when we do. Trapper runes, etc. This has been a major problem for Trapper rangers. As any intelligent player opponent can, and will, follow your pet and know your approximate location when in stealth. Which completely nullifies the entire point of having stealth in the first place. This and number 1 have been problems since the game was released, and are well beyond the point of needing to be addressed.
3.) Stowed pets need to stay stowed when taking falling damage. The bane of ranger JP runs, because they’re ALWAYS right in your camera, and take a few seconds to be able to be stowed again.
4.) Spirits need their mobility back. This is a big one. Spirit rangers as of right now, are dead. I called them dead the moment the Devs announced they were becoming like turrets in that overhaul podcast ages ago (and got banned from commenting as a result I might add). They take a full second to cast, there’s four of them (four seconds overall cast time for a full spirit build), and the cooldown is 20 seconds. No ranger in PvP or WvW has the time to do all that casting, running, and casting again to have ANY hope of survival. If spirits are not given their mobility back, that’s four useless utility skills we now have that need to be scrapped for something else. Cause spirit rangers again as of right now, are no longer a thing outside of PvE.
5.) Might just be my opinion here, but Nature Magic is utterly useless now as well. The entire trait line, is just… blargh. Below mediocre.
6.) Bark Skin needs it’s original stats back. The current above 90% thing is just asinine, and it wasn’t even overpowered before. It was a great thing to have back in the day, now relegated to a less than 1-2 hit boon.
7.) Spirits no longer use their skills upon death, and are killed far too easily to be of any worth outside of PvE.
8.) We STILL have significantly less condi clears than most classes. Again, been that way since launch. Which considering the new mege-condi-meta means there’s a whole lot of us rangers out there dying in seconds to overwhelming condition damage and not a thing we can do about it but dodge and pray for the best.
9.) Would also be nice if ambient creatures (rabbits, owls, etc) no longer set off traps. This however isn’t a huge deal.

After the last major patch, using trapper runes was great as long as I remembered to stow my pet.

Pet’s not stealthing when we have stealth pets, is not just wrong, it’s crazy. Programming that part would be reusing a dll or two. Geeze.

The rest of your points and many more can be made about Rangers state – which isn’t good and isn’t respect by any single person I know except those who have been helped by and lead by a good Ranger.

We need attention more than any other toon – and after almost three years we are worse off than we were in many ways than before the game was ever out of beta when Rangers were on the same level as any other toon – the skill of the person behind the keyboard was difference between winning and losing, not the forced and failed mechanics and skills (ahem f2)

Rangers are forced to try to fit into while others are destroying us with more condi or power than we ever have access to or clearing to mitigate.

Shadelang.3012:

Survival skills with SotF. Shouts with soldier runes work pretty well also. Depends on your playstyle really.

If your running longbow odds are you only need to break enough condi’s to get out of gank situations. So either of the before mentioned will work. Putting two survival skills on your bar (I use HaO L.R. Q.Z. SoS and SotP as my utilities) is probably all the condi clear you need to fight “most” classes.

if you insist on getting close to condi spamming classes than you might want to add in evasive purity (adept in nature magic) combined with empathic bond or SotF depending on what utilities you take.

We still have decent condi removal options. We just can’t shed condi after condi without much thought on whether or not its worth burning them on a cripple or saving it for a necros weakness bomb.

He asked for condi removal not stun breakers.

We have so little to remove condi compared to most we melt under any good burst of just a single toon against us.

If we go completely defensive, as some are suggesting, we aren’t much good to ourselves or others.

Shen Slayer.3058:

Why wasn’t Healing Spring fixed in the last update? Did they forgot or was this a nerf?

What’s the point of Healing Spring at all if it doesn’t heal pet nor allies.

It’s one of the very reasons that Rangers are not included in any freaking metabattle groups or best of because we bring the least (we can argue all day long, this is what OTHERS who run WvW BELIEVE) to the “group” table!

I am sick of being told that we don’t matter by the inaction of this company.

Anyone even notice that others are getting “new” elites but Rangers are not?

We bring the least so as many of us have stated before, Rangers need a major revamp.

The way we are now, no other toon is so disrespected or hated.

Sevans.4619:

atheria.2837:

Sevans.4619:

On my PowerShout build I use Empathic Bond and Lyssa runes. I’ve found that it’s been sufficient since SotP is on such a low cooldown; Activating SotP to convert five conditions to boons along with its original affect is kind of like turning on Gameshark codes.

Basically Empathic keeps me sustained, Lightning Reflexes prevents death by immob, and Lyssa conversion is there for me when I make a stupid mistake.

What’s your build? Could I get a link?

Thanks.

This is what I’m currently using.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNAT8XnUqAtsg1CCWsActgBChaL9Aoq75t1Th/Lm2cvgTHA-TVDFABNckAOUlAEOIALpMY7DQAAPAhsUCGz+DYq7JJleGquDBXAgEOgABAQAu5NzmtZbezbezH9oH9oH9o9dJOxJOxJWKA62aB-w

Zealot’s?

How do you keep your bird alive at all?

Unfortunately pets die faster than they can even be used in most situations in WvW.

IF they actually grew up and had some protection from experience, that would make a difference, but they are weaker than the day we tamed them and never improve.

nearlight.3064:

Power Rangers are infinitely more common in low-mid tier pvp than condi builds, whether they be settler’s survival or carrion trap. Why is this the case, when everything we really know about rangers suggest that the condition builds are overall better than power builds?

Usually speaking, the meta builds are much more commonly seen than the non-meta builds, and the general consensus for the past years has always placed condi ranger as more meta than power, even if it was only truly meta during the spirit ranger era.

What do you guys think about this, and what is your reason for not playing condi?

Because nerf?

Or not being able to find a single viable link to a condi build that even comes close to what I had before the last major patch.

Anyone having any condi-attack/clearing builds should be putting them here for reference or proof that condi isn’t dead and yet I don’t see a single one.

Sevans.4619:

On my PowerShout build I use Empathic Bond and Lyssa runes. I’ve found that it’s been sufficient since SotP is on such a low cooldown; Activating SotP to convert five conditions to boons along with its original affect is kind of like turning on Gameshark codes.

Basically Empathic keeps me sustained, Lightning Reflexes prevents death by immob, and Lyssa conversion is there for me when I make a stupid mistake.

What’s your build? Could I get a link?

Thanks.

Crapgame.6519:

lordkrall.7241:

Can I have your stuff?

No one in their right mind would let a single week out of almost three years decide what they should or shouldn’t do with a game.

I somewhat agree with your thought process regarding one week vs. three years.

On the other had I can see the OP’s point and actually agree. I’ve been toying with the idea of pre-ordering to the tune of 200 bucks. Maybe even 300. We have three people playing. The optimum package to buy is the ultimate because you get 4,000 gems and a character slot. Gives you some beta access which is also nice. That is how I came up with 300 bucks. Still with me? Ok, this is where it gets to the OP’s point of view.

1. Lack of WvW information with expansion pack. Yes, we know of a map but not much else.
2. Still no operational player portal with weekly, monthly statistics for players, guilds, by class, etc that focuses on WvW play.
3. Golem rush – event was in WvW not EoTM – weekly scores still counted and a bug
4. No communication or acknowledgement from Golem Rush feedback or complaints
5. No rewards compared to PvE (defending, building, roaming, controlling NPCS, etc)
6. Population and wall clock coverage issues
7. Server tiers – top / bottom are stuck – middle can’t move
8. Borderland maps – great concept, no movement – ruins dead
9. No alliances
10. Never ending ranks, bogus or meaningless titles, should focus on WvW traits or abilities

“If” or should I say “since” I mainly play WvW and those are just 10 issues I have off the top of my head, valid to me, maybe not you, why would I buy the expansion? Serious question, not trolling?

After a while the same format of play gets boring especially when the server you play on can’t move up or down due to population and 24×7 coverage. Since the 9 issues I list, my issues granted, and no information on how to address them I am not going to play 300 bucks for a new map…

EDIT: I come from DaOC for a bit of background. Not perfect but at least it had a player portal for guilds, alliances, players, by class, by week, by month

Edit 2: Added 10th item for ranking system – needs work, lowered, changed, focus on WvW abilities or traits

If Anet actually had a real beta program

AND a properly working reporting system they’d not be going through so much pain about what matters and so many things that have been broken in WvW and every other gaming mode since launch.

I agree with your posting 1,000,000,000,000%

Stephen ClarkeWillson.1802:

The number of players allowed in per team all follow the same rules on all instances of each WvW map.

The numbers you see on the World Transfer screen are based on the number of players who have signed up for that world: what we call the membership count – which is not the same thing as the number of players active at any one time for that world.

Tell us what the numbers cap is for each map.

Tricare.2946:

Uraoen.5640:

Well Crystal Desert seems to not tolerate our own players using the exploit.
Right now I am sitting in spawn as a Maguuma guild full of exploit users are spawn camping and near 1 shotting everyone. This is ridiculous and makes the best feature about GW2 a complete joke.

Get off your up-level and go out 1 of the other 2 exits.

You do realize that many of us are not on uplevels and there are times when all exits are blocked, right?

Are you even listening?

This event isn’t working as intended at all and it’s making a mockery of WvW.

JediYoda.1275:

Working as intended?

Don’t even try to say this is an intended consequence.

So is my supply being used to build my golems also an intended consequence?

Go look, it’s one of the things that isn’t supposed to happen this week.

Anet screwed up.

I haven’t seen such a mess since they destroyed the best events of the game the “second” time around ahem Pavillion

Anet seems to really be asleep at the wheel here.

Want answers? Go to twitter, speak to parent company and the computer gaming magazines.

It’s time to tell the gaming gurus out there that this game is being torn to pieces from within.

Even GMs are bullying some people or just as bad, sending form letters that have nothing to do with the issue being reported…

“Play like we want”, has now become “You will play like we want you to and if you don’t like it, tough.”

Missy.7356:

Xantalas.1732:

Official reply to my report, not forgetting to add that i tried MYSELF!

“We wanted to let you know that we are aware of player concerns about WvW griefing. In fact, the development team is currently reviewing WvW and assessing some of its properties to try to discourage disruptive gameplay while allowing players to gain their achievements.

World-versus-World gameplay is designed for everyone, and we do not want to discourage players from fighting for their world, whether they are daily players, occasional achievement hunters, or people who are completely new to the format. The team will continue to look at possible improvements for the future. We don’t have a timeframe for any changes that may take place in the future, but we wanted you to know that this subject is a point of discussion and consideration amongst the devs.

Regards,

GM Corvt"

Read: WE DO NOT CARE!!!

Thats a copy/paste generic answer, I had one that said exact same thing about 6 months ago when I reported a siege troll (who is still around today)

These GMs are abusive and are neglecting their “jobs”.

If it is a paid position SHAME on them.

If it is a volunteer, SHAME on Anet!

Terrorsquad.4802:

JediYoda.1275:

send all the info pics/video to exploits@arena.net

Is that even real? o.O

Yes, it’s real but you’d never know it from the responses not seen.