Guild Wars 2

Tragic Positive.9356:

Darkness.9732:

I only know that when my pet dies I can’ t use any F skills. All the other classes can use their ( stronger ) F skills whenever they want.

But they can’t use them while downed. We can.

IF they work at all. IF.

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Pets die too easily. There is no doubt about that and for Ranger to be truely competitive, it is one of the main things that need to be fixed.

In order to do this, people have suggested that they need a base reduction in AoE damage, while that would work, it would also make pets a bit OP. I think pets need to be in a place where it makes sense for players to focus the pet in order to kill it and disable the rangers ability. As it is now, they can just ignore it. But that is beside the point, we were talking about damage reduction, although, they are connected.

If pets are improved and it becomes a tactic to focus the pet, a base damage reduction would be unbalanced. Therefore, I suggest that pets get a damage reduction only when they are NOT the target, and the reduction could be as much as 50%, including conditions. That would allow pets to survive AoE and splash damage like in WvW and dungeons more readily and also allow for players to focus your pet as a counter play.

What do you think?

If the pet ever grew up maybe that would make a difference – but the pet is perpetually a juvenile without the strength of even the one we tamed.

Johje Holan.4607:

I just watched two red archers fighting each other in our tower lol. Then a green one appeared and it was a three way.

You gotta admit its pretty funny. And its not like WvW score really matters or is even affected by this. The most populated server is going to win like always.

Say that when you lose a tower or two and all your siege because of it…

We just did.

Ark Bladesteele.2943:

Anet breaks things all the time in updates that have nothing to do with what they broke. This should not surprise anyone. Also, the dev who noted the issues is already aware of this. Might want to read the whole thread next time.

Issues that impact the scores, literally, are not being addressed.

I read the “whole thread”.

Putting each in their own thread gives anyone a chance to see, much more clearly, that the issue is there.

Griefing me for posting what just cost us two towers isn’t productive nor very logical.

I searched for this issue before posting this thread.

Sorry the search engine has never worked but I am not sorry for posting this as a separate and gaming-changing issue that has yet to be addressed.

Dante.1763:

atheria.2837:

Lyp Sao.1375:

atheria.2837:

When trying to sort least to most or most to least in price; the database is not sorting at all.

It moves things around but does not sort them properly.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Trading-Post-Cash-Shop-Glitch

Ya know, when one does a search in this forum, not a thing EVER comes up.

Anet has the worst search engine – if they can’t comprehend that players do look for the issue before posting a new topic, they must believe that we are all completely ignorant.

They actually want you to google it first. Because its that bad.

There has to be a way to fix the searches without breaking any banks…

Lyp Sao.1375:

atheria.2837:

When trying to sort least to most or most to least in price; the database is not sorting at all.

It moves things around but does not sort them properly.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Trading-Post-Cash-Shop-Glitch

Ya know, when one does a search in this forum, not a thing EVER comes up.

Anet has the worst search engine – if they can’t comprehend that players do look for the issue before posting a new topic, they must believe that we are all completely ignorant.

Zephyra.4709:

Courtyard is legit the one true PvP map. You know. Player versus player. No silly NPCs or trebs or PvE interference.

People state their hate for it without explaining why they don’t like it, too often.

The only reasonable explanation I can understand is the map design itself which yes, I will share my slight dislike for as it is very tiny, cluttered & a lot of skills get obstructed etc. That or the inevitable experience(s) of being matched up against ‘premades’ may trigger hate for this map but at the end of the day – it’s players vs’ing players and people are spilling their super ultra mega salty orphan tears over a map that’s mechanic/design/game-play intention is working as intended.. genuine PvP.

It is very bothersome to hear players requesting more/new ‘death-match’ maps regarding PvP when what seems like a fair portion of the playerbase dislikes this particular map; death-match PvP.

Perhaps if the map was designed better/differently would players still feel the same negativity?

Feel free to share your thoughts/discussion.

Hate it.

Hate it more than Skyhammer.

I do NOT comprehend why we do not have a true capture the flag pvp map yet.

RedBaron.6058:

Best bug ever..:)

Gee, I am sorry I missed out.

heathercopter.1489:

Hello all,

So I’m a newbie and looking for some advice of things to consider before having a bash at world v world

Thanks!

Be willing to block those who disparage others and who don’t add to the teamwork at hand.

You will find that some of the most maligned people in the game are the ones who do a lot of the work.

Be willing to break from the zerg when appropriate if you find others willing to take a camp or tower away from the main force; getting two properties at once rather than one will benefit your server.

Be willing to use synergistic builds in groups – example: As a Ranger I have a shared water field and healing finisher that benefits a group around me – I also add fury and might – and in turn the boons I receive give me the power and conditions I need to stay up with heavies and even help them up when they fall in a field battle.

Most of all WvW is a community – a living breathing community – find those who are like yourself, who support you, play at the same time you do, and who find the fun in being the “wreckers” of the enemy and taking away their candyland camps/towers/keeps ftw.

Blix.8021:

welcome to the past 2 days

Maybe that’s why I was compelled not to be here for some of it…

WvW is important to many.

I don’t see how it was broken when not I didn’t see any physical changes or update notes to explain how all these things happened at once on a simple update that didn’t seem to have much to do with WvW.

Blix.8021:

welcome to the past 2 days

I don’t want that thread where there are three or more separate issues that need to be looked at.

Each one deserved their own thread.

One issue out of many was addressed – the rest have been here all day and not one person who can fix it has popped in to the forums to say they see the score-changing and ongoing glitches.

Dante.1763:

This didnt need another thread. Shoulda posted it here. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/STEALTH-BUG-after-Patch/page/2#post5084784

All this is going to do is get merged with the other.

When an issue isn’t addressed separately except in a long thread, they can tend to get lost.

So I put a few siege into a tower out of the range of any enemy – knowing where to place them so they are not within the 1200/1500 of any possible hit.

So in a place not able to be hit according to the “red circle of death” the siege, both superior arrow cart and superior trebuchet are destroyed while the enemy is at the gates and enemy Veterans are popping up like mad helping the enemy.

WvW has many issues that are impacting scores and proper play.

When trying to sort least to most or most to least in price; the database is not sorting at all.

It moves things around but does not sort them properly.

joneirikb.7506:

azizul.8469:

1. clear glicko score.

2. shuffle match up regardless of the tier

3. megaserver OS

I’m all for change, but not just for changes sake.

Blackgate vs Sorrows Furnace vs Ehmry Bay

That does not sound like a fun match-up for anyone involved. The differences between server sizes are so large (at least in NA) that making random match-up’s is just going to trainwreck the entire system. People most likely would just stop playing, which makes it even worse, and makes even more crazy glicko ratings.

In the end we would have for example 6 months where nobody enjoys playing WvW because most of the match-ups are so loopsided. And then everything would “finally” be back to the old glicko ratings we got now, and we would be stuck in the same match-ups.

And then people start talking about reseting glicko again…

Fix the root of the problem (Population/Coverage imbalance or the Point system!) not the symptoms (Glicko).

Agreed on OS megaserver/EotM style. (For those worried about the instances, just tax people in).

You said Blackgate vs Sorrows Furnace vs Ehmry Bay

I know it could work if WvW were given the same respect that all servers should be; going against the largest server with the same number but as, again, alliances.

If you took three servers that equaled BG – had the same number effectively – and pitted them against the larger server, who would win?

That doesn’t take away a darn thing from server pride but it does lend a larger pool of POSSIBILITIES of play while preserving the best of WvW.

Wouldn’t always be one against three.

It would, of course be two against one and then at the same tier you are at now.

So the “we want to play in our tier” is preserved for their rotation but a new dynamic becomes possible and alliances can build trust and respect even when we go back to beating each other over the heads in our own tiers.

As the title tries to state; enemy veterans are inside properties where they can’t be, shouldn’t be but are.

WvW is badly bend.

The glitches are impacting scores as they are exploitable easily.

What I don’t understand is how WvW became a game where the score is changed daily by glitches but never “reset” to the score before the glitches started…?

Michael Henninger.7451:

Match manipulation is a no-no.

So isn’t siege trolling manipulation?

Seems to many of us that spying in WvW in any manner hasn’t been addressed since it is manipulating both sides…

Chaba.5410:

I actually logged into my YB account to see who this person was (and then used the trebs to successfully defend against an FA attempt at garri) – is counter-espionage match manipulation too? I have my suspicions but won’t be naming names here. You shouldn’t really post that video here either, but send it into exploits@arena.net and let ProHeals take care of it.

Under a cover of secrecy?

We’ve waited for “help” and asked for it dozens of times – not one single “report” has stopped the siege troll.

The game is in danger of being abused, I thought this forum was for all to know what is happening on their servers and to communicate that to others so they can watch out for abusers and report them, which again, hasn’t helped in the two plus weeks we’ve had this person taking every last drop of our supply and changing the score massively.

Three times I can think of our properties being taken and we had no siege and no supply.

If the problem isn’t fixed within a day or two of the first reports, I believe that it is right and proper to show proof that the problems are not being addressed.

This is a community and more than one in every single server are doing everything they can to disrupt and destroy WvW for all – until these people are stopped from their destructive actions what else can we do?

Nothing.

We can do nothing except hit the report button which never, ever has any way to show the person reporting that any right and logical action has been accomplished to stop the person who wants all to suffer – laughing all the way because they know no one will do a thing to them unless and until someone posts a video and gets the attention of someone who can do something – who will do something.

Many servers deal with siege trolls in one form or another. For some it’s rams, for others it’s trebs but for all servers dealing with this issue one thing stands clear, the problem isn’t getting better, it’s getting worse.

The problem hasn’t gone away. This is just a few days ago and I will not start another thread – ongoing and destructive and mean.

Having a siege troll made the difference in score – if one just looks, anyone can see that the score at reset coming in four or less hours was so close that anything “disruptive” could have tipped the balance.

It saddens us all to see such people who hate others enough to destroy their hobby time.

Swagger.1459:

What do pets have to do with marksmanship?

What does a great sword and axe have to do with being a beast master?

Instead of niggling about the precise specifics, you all should read through the traits and use some common sense. You guys and gals would not try to fit a round peg in a square hole so use that same logic and you’ll see what I’m talking about.

Also, no, I don’t need to go into specific and detailed numbers and figures to provide this feedback. The spirit and feedback of this post is to point out the nonsensical trait rework. Open your minds people.

Edit- I’m sure there are a whole bunch of trait changes across professions that don’t make sense either, but I’m talking about the ranger here.

I agree with you.

Reading through those traits and where they are going to fall compared to what they are now? Confusing and disturbing.

Jaising.7253:

Vinegaroon.4369:

Worried about the future of WvW? worry about the future of the game. People aren’t playing wvw because anet destroyed it. Server transfers, lag, utility skill changes, there is no future here.

You forgot to mention cmdrs tagging up drunk screwing up maps, Any organized WvW goes though TS which has kitten berating you for any mistake or blaming you for all of them.

Like I play GW2 to listen to some pimply faced elitist kitten on me for playing a video game, I think there enough crow to eat in real life never mind some wanbe videogame hero.

Lastly I started playing and have tried to play this game for WvW only but it full of hacks, bots. afkers, elite punks, drama to the lama its actually not fun to play anymore.

Flame on don’t care, Iv’e heard enough crap from my server to know its full of lousy people, not play skill, just ignorant, self entitled ……. you get the rest.

FA server sucks stay away.

I wish I could give one million +1s.

Really.

Report bad players.

Report hackers.

And find a server that has your views – I finally did for the most part.

Dsybok.1405:

I am on Ferguson’s Crossing. We are going on six or seven weeks with the same server matchup, and things have gotten VERY stale. This week almost no one is showing up, and the people who are don’t care, are just there to knock out dailies. When we care we can crush the other two servers and have but it seems like as the weeks drag on, fewer people care. I see fewer and fewer of the WvW regulars who we rely on.

Are there any plans to do anything about this or is it all supposed to be fixed by the expansion?

I am sorely disappointed right now with the game, I generally only WvW and its gotten so dull and painful to play that my play time is pretty much daily’s and that’s it. I presume just about everyone else is having a similar issue?

I’ve asked many times why this year we have had no WvW season at all.

crickets

crickets

crickets

RedBaron.6058:

Ranger is easy mode. Is good to relax in WvW.

Playing a Ranger when F2 doesn’t work half the time is far more challenging than playing a one note thief or warrior.

Good Rangers are all over and many have very successful tag runs.

ragingsiux.6247:

Actualy, it is probably worst class for WvW. Rangers are good for roaming (5 and less people) but they sucks at everything else. I would say warriors and guardians are core of wvw.

Not true.

Depends on the player.

Depends on the build.

Depends on your expectations and what boons you love to bring to the table.

TyPin.9860:

I am considering to transfer back to FoW, for many guildies are there and we might wanna do some raid nights in WvW together.

I checked the transfer cost and was like: “WHOAAAAAAAHHHT?!!?!?!?!”

Why is the price for the lowest ranking server a full 1800 gems. Maybe there are many ppl on there. But they apparently don’t play WvW. For PvE servers don’t matter any more. So why not link the transfer cost to the actual average amount of players in WvW or WvW performance?

The lower tiered servers are being decimated by transfers and the larger ones like FA are reaping the rewards of buying – literally – guilds.

It’s wrong and the “balance” is gone.

If a server has “population” but most don’t login to play WvW, they should not be counted as WvW population at all.

I want to know the official timer on partially built siege.

If one is attacked and must run back to the siege being built, it despawns incredibly quickly and it’s darn expensive.

If I build it, even partially, it should stay – why isn’t it???

Aylpse.6280:

Title says it all.
Edit: The specs giving me trouble are GS/LB for warrior. And D/P / S/P Thief.
Any way to use S/D on Power by the way?

I can’t dent some warriors.

Even in protracted, long fights, some of them don’t take damage at all – I can’t believe this is skill – since zero damage just keeps going and going and going.

Starlightmagus.8654:

So I figured I’d put this in the PvP forum because that’s where it happens pretty much 99% of the time. The title is pretty self-explanatory. Pretty much on a daily basis I’ll have people whisper me, usually after I kill them or else make it VERY hard for them to kill me (generally involving 3+ teammates of the opposing team). These whispers are, by and large, hateful and derogatory. Calling me names, telling me I’m bad at the game (never mind what that makes them for having such a tough time?), generally just trash talking. There’s a REASON I avoid Xbox Live.

Now, this is rather annoying on its own. But these same…people (I’ll be civil)…tend to also Block you first before even whispering, so you aren’t even able to reply. I often get spammed with hateful, rude, and disgusting comments while I’m in the middle of another fight and unable to take my attention away from the combat to block THEM.

Now, there are ways around this. Creating a chat window that doesn’t show whispers while in pvp comes to mind. But the thing is…I’m often chatting with friends while doing pvp. So that doesn’t really work. I’m sure there are a couple of other methods, each with their own drawbacks.

One thing I’d like to propose is that if you Block someone, it goes two ways. So you can’t message them, and they cannot message you. This won’t stop someone from spamming hate and vulgarity at you and THEN blocking you, but it will at least prevent them from immediately blocking before going on a spiteful whining rant more befitting a misbehaved child, with no way to even respond to them.

TLDR: SPvP community is at times toxic and I’m rather weary of being blocked then spammed with hateful insults. Measures should be taken to prevent this, also leading to less bans from the inevitable reports just because someone got worked up.

…And the funny thing about hate speech and cyberbullying? It’s illegal in the state where this company resides and it still will not monitor the real trolls in this game.

This one follows me around, blocks my view with one or more players who follow his example sometimes completely stopping me from fighting in WvW at all.

Then, in this instance, he whispered the enemy, whom he ignored, then stood around while they killed me – jumping up and down and emoting for joy.

It’s in the news, gaming cyberbullying, cyberstalking is being ignored by many.

SUPER GOD.6857:

I applaud the banning of these hackers, but that video is nothing like the bans of gw1. Do something more extravagant, like maybe having a dragon bite his head off or poop on him or something like that. Otherwise, thanks for ridding us of a menace. claps hands

Ya know, until the trolls and cheaters are publicly shamed in a trial – literally of their peers online, in WvW, in real time, announced days in advance — we are never going to see the betterment of the gaming profile that has become so ridden with literal hate, cheating, revenge and stalking.

Ark Bladesteele.2943:

FlamingFoxx.1305:

Do you sincerely believe that you’re exhibiting a capacity for “Fair game-play in Guild Wars 2 by enforcing the User Agreements and Rules of Conduct” – could you point to the part of the user agreements and rules of conduct that legitimises the video you made?

Can you point to the part of the user agreements and rules of conduct that says this is not allowed? You can’t, because he is an employee, and the game security lead at that. Is there anything in the user agreements/rules of conduct that says it’s okay for Steve Whiteside to lower map caps? For GMs to be able to go invulnerable and switch servers at will while observing? For the programmers to completely disable the use and creation of golems at will? Etc, etc. If they were playing the game normally with their dev icons up, and then suddenly went invul when dying or switched to the winning team, that’s against the rules. But they don’t do that. They are granted additional powers that they can execute whenever they feel they need to, and that is totally their right. You do not get to decide that, sorry.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

Sure cheating is not ok, but there are wrong and right ways to deal with it. This wasn’t the right way.

I think it was absolutely the right way, because Anet has not been entirely transparent about the bans they’ve handed out in the past. Sometimes an example has to be made. Oh, and if you think this is wrong, did you not play GW1? In that game, GMs and security staff were able to execute a ban using a unique reaper-like avatar called Dhuum, which publicly shamed anyone who violated the rules — inside the actual confines of the game itself.

Your “cheating is not okay but this is going too far” defense falls flat when these individuals have spent all of their time ruining the game for hundreds of other people, for weeks and sometimes months on end. That’s going too far. What Chris did was an appropriate and tactical response to that behavior — if you cheat, prepare to have this happen to you. A good lesson.

I remember why I miss HoD – you and a few others made it livable and so easy to follow. And winning the season we did was a joy.

sadking.9625:

Yes another ranger QQ post.

Why Anet? Why can I not find a decent fight before some no-skill longbow ranger bursts me down from 1500 range on a wall. IT MAKES NO SENSE. There is no movement in their strategy, no thought in their skill usage and no variation in their builds.

It’s a kittening disgrace to a game that used to have fun combat.

This needs to change.

Since many Rangers can’t take down very many players, I have to wonder at your choice of build…

Otokomae.9356:

Anet has added a “How to Address Lag” guide: https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/91354558-How-to-Address-Lag

As you can see from the guide, you probably just need to update your drivers. I wish this was sarcasm, but the guide actually mentions updating drivers several times…

What an absolute crock.

Lag isn’t necessarily the “fault” of the system it is reaching.

Anet’s “pipe” is far too small to most of us and it shows.

Do they have SSD drives in ALL servers?

Do they have megabit or bigger pipes at all?

Stop blaming good computers and good practices – we aren’t at fault here.

Lag can be the issue of the computer player only if

Wrong video card/driver (sorry most of us aren’t that silly – we know that we need the correct drivers and do have at least mid-priced cards that can and do larger games without a hitch.)

Wrong speed internet connection (and hello – I’ve played on a slow DSL connection without problems until I hit WvW, then that connection was not good enough to go into WvW.)

….gee… a whole two issues…

…and the rest is on the provider of the feed that then must be translated into information on the side of the player – and if the feed isn’t large enough, can’t handle the many incoming and outgoing requests, LAG happens and it is absolutely not the fault of the customers out here who know computers and computing as well as networking.

Silvercyclone.1462:

I would like to point out that not everyone who posts the portal on map chat has acquired one. All one needs to do is go to the wiki and get the code to post on map chat. In case anyone is wondering the code is [&AgEMEAEA].

Glad to know that so many who posted may or may NOT have the real thing.

It’s pretty bad not to know now that the code is pastable into the program.

Face.4216:

Has ANet said or hinted at whether or not we’re going to have to unlock all our skills again in the new system? I know we’re going to get 400 points flat from leveling, but they also said that unlocking everything costs 465, and I don’t even think that number includes the Elite Spec line.

I’ve spent tons of skill points and gold to unlock all my skills and traits on the majority of my characters, but I only have a big chunk of world completion on 1 out of all 9 of them. If I log in on patch day and suddenly I’ve got to go out and grind Hero Challenges just to make sure I can have everything again… I’m probably going to leave the game, because you’ll have robbed me of skills and traits I’ve had for literal years in this game and given me only one very slow, very boring way to get it back. I’m not doing 65 (or more) challenges each across 8 characters simply to get stuff back that I’ve earned previously.

I shouldn’t be stuck doing PvE so I can have 100% of the options available to me in WvW, which is the only gamemode I play aside from SPvP. Either preserve the skills of legacy characters, or introduce another way to get Hero Points that isn’t so lopsided. ANet has seriously overestimated how engaging skill challenges are for players; it’s like their heads are in the sand with regards to the quality (or lack thereof) of their PvE content. And please: do not even try to pass it off like Skill Challenges in WvW are “WvW content”. Right now I can buy every skill and trait in the game with the XP and loot I get from kills and captures in WvW. After this patch, I won’t be able to. That’s broken.

I’m okay with using the new system on the Revenant, obviously, and any characters I might make after the patch, and for the Elite Specialization track, but I would sincerely hope that ANet will take the same route as they did last time and allow legacy characters to keep what they have. And if not, at least compensate us for the money we’ve spent buying skill books from trainers. I know I personally have dropped upwards of 30 gold buying Master and Grandmaster traits since the last change. To have that large amount of gold be gone forever simply because your first redesign of the trait system was a failure would be massively insulting.

And honestly, how long do you think it’s going to be before ANet is going to be designing yet another system for trait/skill unlocks because this one winds up being just as off-putting as the last time? This one will probably have an even shorter lifespan, as there’s not even a way to bypass the PvE nonsense this time, since Hero Points are earned “strictly” through leveling and Hero Challenges. You’re removing the ability to earn Skill/Hero Points when you level past 80, you’re removing the ability to buy traits with gold… this game is becoming so narrow and it’s making me sad.

Why is 14% (65/465) of a character’s functionality walled off behind Hero Challenges, when doing Skill Challenges now is basically grunt work you do for map completion, and doesn’t require any skill at all? A third of these challenges are just standing in one place with your arm outstretched, “communing”… how is that “heroic” at all? You must’ve seriously drank the PvE Kool-Aid if you think that something so trivial should be so strongly tied to a character’s functionality.

For what it’s worth, I do like the trait changes that are being made… but you’re killing experimentation by walling everything off into reward tracks, and forcing Skills and Traits to compete for the same limited currency, where there was no limit to said currency before.

Honestly, I’m probably so pathetic that I wouldn’t stop playing even if I log in and I’ve got to spend a week grinding out enough Hero Points to get back to where I was… but this all just reeks of a bad idea that hasn’t had nearly enough thought put into it.

What was so wrong with getting skill currency every time you re-leveled to 80? What was so wrong with just buying traits from the trainers, or, if you go way back, not having to unlock traits at all? You’re undermining player progression, and the game itself, by layering on new forms of artificial progression where they don’t need to be.

These are just my two cents, take them or leave them. If legacy characters get to keep their skills, or if a new, non-PvE-exclusive way to get Hero Points is introduced, then there’s much less of an issue I think. I obviously don’t think the HP system is particularly good, but I’d be happy simply not to have my previous progress erased by 14%. Definitely want to hear back on that point especially.

So we can’t get the most important question of all answered?

Many of us could well not buy the expansion or leave altogether is we’re told we have to do this ALL over again.

Kick in the teeth.

Disrespecting precious, precious time spent unlocking them all the first time.

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Already posts on the 1st page of the RForum about this.

Please post the link – then ask for a merge.

We need to know what is happening before we can ask that they don’t kill our present builds that are working.

Michael Henninger.7451:

Just a heads up in case you see the character GM Proheals doing any of the following:

*appearing/disappearing
*teleporting
*running really fast
*not dying
*moving players – very unlikely but I know if I don’t include it….
*changing teams (friendly to enemy at will)

You should not see me doing any of the following:

*fighting back / fighting npc characters
*standing in unclaimed land
*reviving players
*using siege and supply

Here’s my toon:
!http://i.imgur.com/TTVHVaB.jpg!

Questions?

Hope to see you on Yaks Bend soon.

Dream In A Dream.7213:

Go FA. They are probably the best choice for being green for a longer time if JQ isn’t open.

If you want to be on a server where many don’t and can’t speak your language, yep, go to FA.

ilmau.9781:

More than two weeks has been passed since the map cap reduction…

so, we have to assume this is this going to be a permanent change?

Hasn’t mattered to anyone on the top tiers.

Still the same queues.

Still the same lag.

Still the wrong way to handle the problem – we don’t need less people, we need SSD drives in these darn servers and plenty more of them.

Then they need to open the pipe to customers far more than they are. Many have very high speed internet that doesn’t hiccup in games with even higher specs than this one…

It’s not on the player’s side – when will they get that?

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

It must be really hard to take aim at your own feet, but it looks like they’re going to do it again.

I heartily agree.

I can’t agree with any statement more than this one.

Instead of fixing the myriad of issues that are in the game now, they are going to add a whole new level of problems and broken mechanics.

FrizzFreston.5290:

Personally I would’ve settled for a completely different system without the whole all traits that were previously belonging to a different system.

I think the one thing here that is more “damaging” is that they try to move from one system to another. All the old traits need to adjust to a new system which basically wasn’t made for these traits. Making the choices less "fun"as some are just alot less enticing than others, because previously you would combines some of the early traits for example. Also alot of people invested by buying specific armor and gear for their build in the form of ascended weaponary and such and after all that fine tuning they pull out the rug from under us because they want a new rug which will be better able for future additions. (Which could be explained as a necessary evil or something that’s not worth it) Plus who’s not to say they won’t do this later on when they change their minds again.

Both systems are fine imo, One has more customisation possible and allows for more experimentation. (something that was part of GW1) The other is very streamlined and makes it alot easier to switch between different builds because of the clearer and limited options. It’s also alot more accessible for new players. (Then again this game is too old imo to accommodate for new players, and should look more what it can do for the older players. Changing the foundations of the game to me feels like they’re just making the same game with the same content while changing how the game works, but not actually providing any sustainable new content. So hopefully this new system will allow for more future additions faster rather than changing the foundation again.

I honestly don’t think that anyone who has built the new system has even taken into account the hundreds or thousands in “gold” that have been spent on present gear.

Not one thought or care.

Silberfisch.3046:

My only problem so far is something that has been already adressed, but it remains my main problem: These changes reduce build flexibility, and quite drastically so.
No more option to use 2 adept or master tier traits if you want to. No more builds that use more than 3 traitlines.
These do cut down on the options availlable to players.

Admittedly however, I don’t see any really applicable fix for those with the new system. At least not for the second problem. So giving constructive criticism is sadly not really an option for me.

But I’m trying not to be overly negative. I’ll learn to adapt like anybody else. And on the plus side, a lot of the changes inside the traitlines look promising.

As with most changes, we get one part uppers, one part downers and one part candy.

Big problem that I will find hard to swallow… you hit the nail on the head.

If I choose two skills that are in the same tier, as I do on many of my builds, I will be completely lost – as will many whose skills match their play style.

My play style isn’t anyone else’s but these changes seem to want to force every single one of us to play, not our way, but a new and more rigid way without any real choices.

Ralanost.8913:

atheria.2837:

For those of us who learn by doing and not by videos, not by the game “showing” us, this is devastating.

For all those with literal brain damage – this game was hard enough – with the new changes you add a level of confusion and more that we did not need at all.

Wow, a whole one more elite that I have to choose over another.

Wow, a traiting system that is more than confusing, it’s harder to get through and harder to change from if you go down the wrong one??

Wow, “mats” for “tomes” and “skill points” that we sweated our hearts and souls out to get and keep for future use????

Wow, not making impossible mats available (*ahem ask anyone making a legendary how to get lodestones – any lodestones! and several other mats that are just about impossible – grind, grind, grind, grind, grind.)

Wow, not listening to players when you ask for our opinions and then throwing the lot of us under a literal bus.

I honestly have no idea what you are getting at. Is this sarcasm? I hope it’s sarcasm. Even so, your first statement just makes no sense no matter how much I read it. I have no idea how this is ‘devastating’.

If you can’t figure out a posting why denigrate the person posting?

I have dyscalculia – dyscalculia.org – you might learn why changes with huge chunks of math being necessary will destroy the game for tens of thousands of players for a very long time, if not for good.

It’s not one thing.

It’s many things.

Skills that go off, but do not do a thing.

Sounds going nuts again when you are totally alone.

TP not working again, and again and again through any given day.

WvW bullying is not addressed – ever.

Fly hackers who can and do change scores in WvW.

It’s like the game just imploded over the last few weeks – so many things not working…

…And did I mention the legally actionable bullying?

Josh Davis.6015:

Hi all,

Tomorrow I’ll be hosting a multi-hour AMA session with members of the design team where we’ll be focusing on deep-diving the newly announced specialization system. As part of this, we’ll also be giving you a first look at the reworks of traits, including a number of skill/mechanic changes that will be going live with this system. We have a lot of stuff to talk about. This also means we’ll be going over every single trait in their current iteration in our development environment. I’ll be pulling your questions out of Twitch chat, this forum post, and posts all over the forums and having our design team address them.

You can find more information on the specialization changes (part one) here: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/specializations-part-one-a-primer/

Tomorrow’s livestream will start at 12pm PST at http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2

Question Links:
General specializations questions thread
PvP-focused specializations questions thread
WvW-focused specializations questions thread

What I see in the traiting system so far will destroy many people’s interest in the game at all.

Confusing? Wow, no kidding.

Easy to back out of if you make a mistake with the “wrong” traitline? Not as far as I can see.

For those who can’t possibly theorycraft the new traiting system will be a game ender.

Stephen ClarkeWillson.1802:

One thing I have noticed is that sometimes people (including me) will adjust their graphics settings and not realize they have made permanent changes This is because the game continues to draw existing characters at the old setting and only new characters get the new higher (and potentially slower) setting. Then they map travel and suddenly the game is slower because all of the characters (players and NPCs) have been loaded at the new, higher graphics level setting. But it’s not obvious that the earlier setting change caused things to run slower later. We could “fix” this by doing a big graphics refresh every time you change a setting. That might annoy players but eliminate this problem. -prefereset will also ‘fix’ this problem by resetting your graphics settings which might be what you experienced.

I get lag with an ssd drive, an extremely fast internet connection and graphics settings set all the way to low.

The excuses keep rolling.

It’s not us.

It’s the pipe that is being given to us that isn’t wide enough to allow for spikes at all.

Fluffball.8307:

I don’t really do dungeons anymore, but it’s friday and I figured I’d fire one up. I join a “exp only 5k AP zerker only” group. Get two warriors who say “ew a ranger what traits?” “65030” “That’s not zerk you should be 66” Fluffball has left the group

I don’t even understand where these players came from. New players will know rangers are higher DPS than two warriors, or higher DPS than 1 warrior with slightly less party DPS. Old player will know the meta from LIKE 2 YEARS AGO.

Somethings will never change.

I will never be cookie cutter and I will never, EVER go into a dungeon again with anyone I don’t know well.

The Ranger garbage continues to persist and I can’t imagine it getting any better after the coming changes.

Gotejjeken.1267:

Changes all seem to range from ‘meh’ to just weird.

There are a LOT of helter skelter decisions in here. Take Ambidexterity. It apparently is replacing Offhand Training…but OH Axe gets ignored? Why would they trait lock specific offhand weapons?

Or Two-Handed Training…is this really in the BM line? What does it have to do with BM?

Instinctual Bond…why does this still exist?

Weird one…Beastly Warden…if it taunts and I use wolf fear F2…what happens?

Honed Axes…seems decent enough but why is it locked all the way into BM GM? So all condi/survival builds are going to have to go BM?

It feels forced.

Instead of being able to see a better game with what we have, we are now being told the whole system is being scrapped – literally – for a brand new and much harder to get through, seemingly much easier to make mistakes and harder to back out of.

The math of the thing is horrid for those of us in our society without the necessary math skills to “theorycraft” builds, needing to depend upon those who can and do much work, but now it seems we will be, once again, left hanging in the wind trying to struggle to figure out how to get what we need without benefit of a beaten path that is not insanely hard to follow.

Wrong choice – I already hate the “new” system from what I’ve seen and read about.

Gotejjeken.1267:

Changes all seem to range from ‘meh’ to just weird.

There are a LOT of helter skelter decisions in here. Take Ambidexterity. It apparently is replacing Offhand Training…but OH Axe gets ignored? Why would they trait lock specific offhand weapons?

Or Two-Handed Training…is this really in the BM line? What does it have to do with BM?

Instinctual Bond…why does this still exist?

Weird one…Beastly Warden…if it taunts and I use wolf fear F2…what happens?

Honed Axes…seems decent enough but why is it locked all the way into BM GM? So all condi/survival builds are going to have to go BM?

It feels forced.

Instead of being able to see a better game with what we have, we are now being told the whole system is being scrapped – literally – for a brand new and much harder to get through, seemingly much easier to make mistakes and harder to back out of, traiting system that will make little sense to anyone who has any learning disability, such as adhd or Dyscalculia but you add both of these together and the game becomes a nightmare to re-learn. This isn’t what the “experts” think it is, it isn’t “concentration” it’s a literal inability to understand math concepts – the brain rejects them totally. I am blessed, I was left with English skills off the charts, but I believe I would gladly trade those skills for the ones that will make this game either possible or impossible to master or even try to come close to mastering.

The math of the thing is horrid for those of us in our society without the necessary math skills to “theorycraft” builds, needing to depend upon those who can and do much work, but now it seems we will be, once again, left hanging in the wind trying to struggle to figure out how to get what we need without benefit of a beaten path that is not insanely hard to follow.

Wrong choices – I already hate the “new” system from what I’ve seen and read about.

For those of us who learn by doing and not by videos, not by the game “showing” us, this is devastating.

For all those with literal brain damage – this game was hard enough – with the new changes you add a level of confusion and more that we did not need at all.

Wow, a whole one more elite that I have to choose over another.

Wow, a traiting system that is more than confusing, it’s harder to get through and harder to change from if you go down the wrong one??

Wow, “mats” for “tomes” and “skill points” that we sweated our hearts and souls out to get and keep for future use????

Wow, not making impossible mats available (*ahem ask anyone making a legendary how to get lodestones – any lodestones! and several other mats that are just about impossible – grind, grind, grind, grind, grind.)

Wow, not listening to players when you ask for our opinions and then throwing the lot of us under a literal bus.

Galeskyring.9617:

I
TOLD
YOU
SO!

And I’m not the only one, those of use who knew this would blew up sat there and watched that stream and confirmed it first hand how much it ruins diversity.

Like 2% of the whole overhaul for each profession was justified while the other 98% was a complete funeral service to a vast majority of builds mine and many others just got buried in an unwanted grave.

Example they are over forcing theirs to focus on dodging a ton and or stealing for an unwanted amount of extra stealth while mesmers are being shoehorned into being ranged damage dealers who HAVE TO SHATTER regardless of preference unless they roll a hard phantasm build and took away another vital trait from a vast majority of mesmer builds AGAIN

engis already had a blast problem for might stack and invis but now they gonna unload gatling style with it while guards are gonna become heavy mobile tanks more so then usual.

I could go on but I’m not going to, by the time they got past mesmer I felt like I was gonna puke at how bad this was and even worse its gonna hit us before hot does.

So yes big fat I told you so’s all around because a countless many of us knew this 3 line lock was a bad idea.

Peace out, and RIP build originality you will be missed.

Weeks and weeks of the same three servers makes for teaming across servers and a lot of spying and trolling.