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Can We Have Another WvW Tournament?

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Would make wvw exciting again, and would make winning at the end of the week mean something.

Would also be a great way to add skirmish tickets which many have been complaining about.

NO. Learn from PvP. The more you try to make a game mode “competitive”, the more it’s going to fail. WvW has already been down that road with the tournaments. Let’s not repeat history.

PvP still has tournaments… so I am not sure what you’re supposition could be.

Tournaments and unlinking the servers is a necessity.

Every single real WvW’er misses the tournaments as a way to shine in the darkness – literally.

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How to stop outnumbered abuse

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there is two problems just now the jumping for abuse of outnumbered or troll the outnumberd ones and the afking in spawnpoints
the first problem can be solved giving the bonus in a stack form: every minute outnumbered you get one stack when points are awarded you get one point per stack
2ond can be reduced giving a form to cash out your participation, most players afk before leaving to get credited(pips and reward route) for their acumulated participation before decay

There is ALREADY a mechanic in place for afk’ing your participation. It’s called Obsidian Sanctum. You get pips, and your participation counts down. We don’t need another.

No one uses the Sanctum.

All of them are either standing at spawns of any keep or they are hiding in the map in places where they ‘most likely’ won’t be found.

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Remove WvW Linking - Give Us Back Our Servers

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We would be a lower tier but a winner in our tier, so why can’t we prove it.

There really isn’t anything to prove in a system where population and coverage determines wins and losses.

You can’t speak for all of us.

Many of us are not playing WvW anywhere near as much as we used to – and with good reason.

We are being dismissed like FA can not understand because it is a host, not a link.

There is a huge difference between being a “link” and being a “host server" and therein lies the real issue – you can’t understand it from our point of view but we can from yours having been on both sides.

Links have failed.

Links, with the addition of Legendary armor, which is a long term endeavor, has made playing WvW during most prime time hours an impossible to improbable waiting game.

If the scores after every match were very close, I’d say the linkings were doing something good, but as it is anyone can look at the score history and the slammed state during prime times and know the linkings are a disaster to any who are in the links and don’t prove the server host can do anything by itself any longer.

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How to stop outnumbered abuse

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Changes to how the outnumbered bonus is acquired is coming in the next release.

Undo the linkings.

That would stop almost all abuses I can think of including pip afking.

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Remove WvW Linking - Give Us Back Our Servers

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Unlinked servers were a disaster of their own with bottom tiers nearly void of players during huge swaths of a day. Linking is the lessor of the two evils.

You’re so very wrong.

I was on Jade Quarry.

Guess what server couldn’t pull togehter five people on any tag that decided to tag up for over six weeks?

No, the servers are being manipulated by buying and selling of servers and the mercs rule when people play and when they do not.

I have been on six servers (wish Anet had a history somewhere) was on FA to start, moved to IoJ for a microsecond, moved to HoD until the end of their winning season, then moved to two other servers and then to Yak’s Bend.

I spent 3.5 years on YB.

I moved to JQ.

I moved to Ferguson’s Crossing, so whatever number that is, I have a lot of experience outside of normal NA prime time.

Linking has made for a disjointed and untenable “I don’t know you so why would I work with you” on most servers. Trust can’t happen in a link, not really.

Add Alts to the equation and it’s more than just a mess, it’s much worse than lower servers not having anyone for hours. Much worse.

I love where I am now. We would be a lower tier but a winner in our tier, so why can’t we prove it.

Why are we not allowed our server affiliations to mean what we are not what we are forced to be – and be dismissed or even derided for being the linked server… Many have seen it… Many are sick of it.

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Balancing Conditions for the Next Expansion

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So all you want is more conditions on top of the existing ones and some arent cleansable? Anet should hire you.

No kidding! I’ve never seen such a dry spell of any real balance – one in which healing (rewards for) as well as power are equally dangerous to a condition build.

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Remove WvW Linking - Give Us Back Our Servers

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It’s good that it’s that way, though. Excluding BG, everyone wins some and everyone loses some. You can’t expect to always be at the top unless you’re always manipulating the system.

I can understand when people get upset over losing objectives or having unfavorable match ups but the obsession with always being #1 is something I can’t understand. Sometimes being on the losing team can be fun, you get challenging fights and you don’t have to go far to find action because it’s always at your door step.

Start looking on the bright side.

I can’t say I’d be against unlinking servers but I just want to remind anyone who reads this to relax and to remember that score and rewards aren’t everything. Being passionate and competitive is one thing, but when it gets in the way of your enjoyment, you might need to remind yourself that there’s always next week.

Mag doesn’t have a dog in this fight.

If you have an alt, and many do, (I do not) you’d see what I am told over and over and over.

They go back to the ‘biggest’ server becuase the smaller ones are linked in incomprehensible numbers against tiers above them.

That’s not fair nor equitible in anyone’s book.

I’ve played against almost ever server since 8 months after GW2 was released ( I was a late starter, I didn’t know WvW existed…), when you are outnumbered you may get rewards but you also get people not wanting to come in when 5-1 or queued for 20-50+ minutes. It’s demoralizing. It’s not fun and that’s why commanders are screaming for big fights on most servers, they can’t find numbers unless its a blob they have no hope against.

There are many different elements to the linking, but one thing it has done is taken away the ‘down times’ that are necessary for any server to be able to make gains when everyone else is asleep – except with linking the strongest servers are hiring mercs, and their populations are 24/7 with a link no matter whom they are against.

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Remove WvW Linking - Give Us Back Our Servers

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There is no point giving me back my server now, linking killed it, everyone left to other servers. I just hope they blow up all the servers and start again with 12 new ones.

If the links are unmade, the servers will shake out. I know it’s true because I went to a ‘smaller server’ even though it is a link for others. What makes it different is that I know people on it and I trust them, not the server itself. You will find friends, and that’s where you will be HAPPY to play no matter what.

I found out after 3.5 years of my heart and soul on one server, made gold galore, my reward tracks flew by but it wasn’t fun and it wasn’t friendly.

I found friendly people – and that’s what everyone in this game wants… a community spirit and a loyalty to friends as well as our servers when we get them back, we will rebuild them.

Those who desire a smaller server, will go to smaller servers.

Those who want BG will have to wait like everyone else who has had to wait to get into it over the last five years.

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Remove WvW Linking - Give Us Back Our Servers

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I would love to have some of the older servers but server link was done because of the low wvw population some of the server. A-net put incentive for wvwers not to bandwagon. Still A-net need to find a way to make wvwer want to spread out to balance all servers. Coverage issues will always exist I do not see how A-net can fix that issue which has plagued wvw since the beginning.

You need to take a stand.

Anet won’t care unless all of us do as well.

The linking has made WvW during Prime Time in NA impossible for those who have families and jobs and can’t play any other time.

It’s also destructive to players who are on linked servers, we’re treated like crap.

And don’t get me started on the real life mercenaries being paid to come into WvW, destroying whenever they decide to move.

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What Should Change In WvW!

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So my friend came up with a cool idea for wvw this is it.

So the main reason I think people are stupid in WvW is they think you must absolute protect your EBG corner and your BL
That’s so stupid because if a server takes our Garrison and we take their Garrison, is that an even trade? yes it is. Then why in the F do people have such a hard on about protecting our own Garrison if we own another BL’s entire map? If Garrison or EBG was to matter there needs to be a penalty in losing it: You get a reduction in your progress in your PPT If it was at 2100., losing it brings you back to 2000. At this point, holding onto those objectives make more sense. But also, taking it from the enemy servers makes it desirable because you know it would cost them

Linking.

It needs to go.

See my post…

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Remove WvW Linking - Give Us Back Our Servers

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Linking has failed.

Many servers that are linked ride a wave of ‘winning’ only to fall hard once the link is changed or removed.

On top of that mess, the queues since adding “Legendary Armor” has pushed Prime Time queues to all time highs – at least since the last official tournaments.

Please, give us back our servers and watch as the populations and the queues even out and get better.

Give us our servers back – we didn’t sign up to be linked as an add on to a host server.

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[BUG] Multiple Instances for WvW Maps

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zhonnika

So, something is ….. strange. We seem to be caught in 2 different instances of BG, and JQ borderlands. We had people in both instances and had to do some crafty hopping to get everyone on the same map. I don’t know if it’s strictly a T1 NA error, but it’s really messing with our ability to do anything. Similarly, camps aren’t flipping the right colors when captured. GREMLINS.

More Details:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/6kxjmn/multiple_instances_of_wvw_maps_spawning/

Anet,

This is sounding like a rather serious problem. And as one person speculated in the above reddit post – it could explain why some servers in last week’s matchup were at times seemingly receiving “double” skirmish points"… (as seen in the below post)…. because they were potentially getting points from multiple instances of the same map?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/PPT-Score-Bug/first#post6632434

Could you please look into this situation before it really gets out of hand – i.e. we cannot get our troops to the real Home BL to defend our garrison because half of them goto some “ghost/twilight zone” BL instance or something.

Thank you!

I’ve been telling Anet and showing screenshot after screenshot that they have massive database errors (plural) for months but they won’t listen to anyone, not even computer and IT experts.

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WvW is bugged

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I saw a camp and a tower showing the wrong color on the map, it didn’t match the actual state on the ground. People actually built cats to try and take the tower back.

I can show Anet dozens of map glitches, wrong colors, icons turned the wrong way, scores not posting.

Problem with reporting?

They aren’t listening, so they don’t see it and don’t care.

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((691522)) instead of Verdant Brink

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It’s been saying this dumb code for over a week.

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There is no "living world" in GW2

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Your choices don’t matter

Race, profession, personal background, and personality choice don’t matter.

Profession only matters in combat, everything else is merely cosmetic and/or an abandoned child. We have two full-fledged campaigns and three so-called “living world” seasons, and yet those choices only matter in a very small portion of that overall content.

Once you step out into the world to fight dragons, you are as replaceable as the tires on your car. It doesn’t matter who you are and where you come from, the dialogue and storyline remain 99.99% the same for everyone. Neither does the story and the dialogue vary depending on your race, nor are there any more racial-specific quests, let alone profession-specific ones. And don’t even mention personality-specific paths that could make for a unique experience in this game.

All that minimized the replayability enormously. The first time is exciting, the second time might be fun, too, but then it becomes 100% repetitive.

That said, they could have just left it like it was in GW1, where you could only play humans, it wouldn’t make a difference in GW2. The dialogue fits only human characters anyway, and maybe asuran too to a certain extent, but it absolutely doesn’t fit a norn, charr, or sylvari outside of their initial racial storyline.

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Everything is frozen in time

Your character’s progress doesn’t matter at all when you roam the lands of Tyria. Everything remains always the same as the last time you passed through that township or desert or jungle. NPCs won’t react differently to you. Things you have already accomplished don’t seem to affect any areas in the slightest.

You cleansed Orr, defeated two elder dragons, yet people on these maps are still terrified of the undead and of Zhaitan, and there are still Mordrem worshipping a still very alive Mordremoth. Who cares? — You saved Logan from a terrible fate and helped him move on and away from his Queen, but he is still residing in Divinity’s Reach the next time you enter the building and doesn’t recall any of this? Of course!

There is nothing “living” about this world.

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Even festivals are 100% frozen in time

I don’t think I must explain much about festivals. We only have a handful, and those are repeated over and over again, year after year.

They were fun and exciting the first time around, but then they become boring like the rest of the content. “Been there, done that.” — This title reflects all you need to know about GW2 in its current state.

Instead of developing new festivals each year, or at least a nice variation of the existing ones to bring some diversity into the picture, we have exactly the same problem as in GW1: everything remains the same, always.

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GW2 is no RPG

In most MMOs, the label “RPG” is falsely used to describe the fact that you have characters you can level, that you have a crafting system, and the likes.

That is not what RPGs are about. If you have ever played pen & paper RPGs, or great, classy computer RPGs like the Elder Scrolls or the Dragon Age series, you know the difference.

In a RPG, you have interaction with characters, you make choices, and those choices matter and shape the progress of your story. You don’t have that in GW2, and in that regard it is exactly the same as GW1: an online multiplayer action game, nothing more, nothing less.

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Contemporary language

In the past couple of years, GW2 has moved away from coming accross as a serious fantasy setting with fitting designs and dialogue; instead it has developed a tone that makes it sound more and more like you were wandering the halls of a junior highschool.

Go into the Divinity’s Reach home instance and compare the NPC chatter there with recent dialogue. ’Nuff said.

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PVP is no fun, because…

The whole skill concept of GW2 has flaws. The way elite specializations have been implemented did not help and has been a hot topic ever since, because of the imbalance and the very rigid meta that resulted from it.

Now, I love the concept of PvP, but the rank system is a joke, because in your (higher) rank you will often find people who still play like this was the first time they ever entered a ranked match. Add the imbalance caused by the completely random composition of teams and the resulting unfair advantage for one side (as you can’t even decide with whom you want to team up before a match), and you can forget about PvP.

It really is no wonder that there is such a high toxicity to be found in PvP.

Well thought out post.


I agree with you. Season 1 was great – from there is just slid until now we don’t even know what is really happening – not really – we have zero continuity with Aurene, how she’s supposed to be growing and bonding with US as her companion!

People lose connection with a story that is constantly losing connection with the elements that matter.

Aurene matters, so why was she left out of the last update and living story?

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Disconnecting at the end of Personal story

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Why is this still happening? Can we please get this fixed Anet? Going through the content repeatedly is getting really frustrating.

I had it happen to me too. Lately. Still.

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FIX THE RELINK

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Darkhaven has been now linked with DB for 6 months, COME ON! Anet this has to be some kind of sick joke.

The LINKS need to go!

Give us back our servers.

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LFG WVW does it make sense at all?

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IC your point apharma but..
In EOTM do people use LFG in EOTM ?

LFG might make sense IF they abolish the servers completelly, and make game per factions, keep using server like eotm on WVW IMO doesnt make any sense at all, if they keep rotating servers inside the 3 colors… looks like a mess w/o any logic behind as well.

I check LFG often, even WvW and not once have I seen anything posted in that category or many other categories that are beyond useless.

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Feedback: Pip Acquisition [merged]

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So I have ground out enough pips for 2 weeks now getting diamond though a combination of regular play and outnumbered half afk farming. I been reading a book and this works out well for me but it has also left me time to think about the effect this unbalance has on game play. I am writing this post as I sit half afk farming pips while maintaining t6 participation. The effect I see that is unhealthy is that this type of pip bonus has the added effect of disincentivizing active game play in favor of what I have been doing with a lot of other people during off NA prime hours. I have also seen people hopping maps trying to catch outnumbered before a tick. Each week I received a majority of my pips and chests through the outnumbered buff as opposed to regular play because of how potent that buff is.

The solution to this I feel is to reduce the number of pips a player earns to 2 for outnumbered.

To offset this restriction in pip income I would suggest adding a couple different means of earning pips that are linked to more active game play. For example every time a player gets credit for successfully capturing/defending a sentry, camp, tower, they would get 1 pip per tick for the first one of each type they captured/defended. Then add in a 2 pip reward for capturing the first keep and maybe 3-5 for capturing SM. Give a 1 pip reward for defending a keep or SM to incentivize defense. To fully control the open faucet of pips a maximum amount per skirmish available could be set up at the Dev’s discretion.

I know there is tangentially a pip thread but this is a fully thought out proposal for a tweak to the pip issue regarding the outnumbered buff specifically. Please let this stand alone as a subject for discussion since its the first thing I have bothered to post in years.

TLDR: nerf outnumbered to 2 pips and add in pips for capping/defending to promote active gameplay.

AFK’ing is a disaster.

Needing to use the restroom on an queued map is normal, and allowances should be made, but I see some AFK’ing for an hour or more.

So, Anet, how are they doing that and why are they allowed to do so, when I know I get dropped if I need to use the facilities many times – and getting back into a map with a queue sometimes doesn’t happen for a very long time, but again, AFK’ers take that space where an active player is rejected due to the queue.

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Feedback: Pip Acquisition [merged]

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It’s not discrimination. It is rewarding those who’ve played wvw for years. Why should new players, who might leave wvw altogether when they have their rewards, get the same amount of pips as those loyal to the game mode?

I welcome everyone new to wvw, and hope you find it fun, but you have to earn your ranks and rewards like the rest of us. Wvw has been neglected for ages, so it is past time for those of us playing this game mode to get something from it.

Please remember, someone else’s rank doesn’t take away from your fun and rewards. Stick with wvw and you’ll get there soon enough yourself!

I have to agree.

Those who are in WvW now might stay but more likely once they have their ‘rewards’ they will leave, leaving huge holes where we need people.

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Any NA Pro-Thief Active Guilds?

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I have been on all servers except BG. I have fought against all servers. I move around for the best fights, different kinds of fights and to play with returning friends though they rarely stick around more than a week or so before they move onto a different game.

NSP Os Guild.

Random roaming, kittening people off, and one of the more solid WvW fight guilds.

I don’t see you guys playing (I am currently on SoR). When do you normally play?

I was on NSP a couple years ago and it was nice then. Unfortunately this week NSP has been siege throwing, corpse dancing, etc against targets that fought well or were grossly outnumbered at near ridiculous levels. Doesn’t matter much on my end but not sure I want to play with so many friendlies that feel the need to be an kitten after they win.

General state of WvW. Do you really think honorable players would play a game with this kind of small-scale meta? No way.

Many of us play only GW2 – and WvW is in a dire state – guilds seem to be falling apart and mercenaries are the rule.

Note to Anet : Paid Mercs suck and ruin any game.

I am looking for active guilds for pvx, not just WvW at this point – active being the key word and not just two hours a day.

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Explain to me how Axe is a "hybrid" weapon

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ANET keeps insisting that MH Axe is a “hybrid” weapon. Up until now, I’ve only seen it being used as a condi weapon in both game modes.

Is there a super-secret build we are unaware of, that takes advantage of Hybrid damage the same way there is a secret build that allows Mesmers to benefit from Might on their phantasms?

Please enlighten me about this so-called Axe build that ANET knows so much about that we don’t?

Number 1 on axe boosts both power and condition damage.

The other two skills are purely condition related.

So, as one out of three, hybrid would be a stretch if it weren’t for the stacking that #1 can do which helps, especially with boosts, food and tools.

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My humble opinion on WvW.

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If you want to break up Zergs, introduce friendly-fire! Haha, imagine if they did that, it would be hilarious…

That’s just funnier than I ever imagined it could be!

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Unplayable. 5 years in.

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aka the 1st tier problem, solution: change home server

It’s not a ‘first tier problem’.

It’s Anet forcing any server out of its tier as well as the links, which have failed their ‘beta’ test.

Between the two, WvW is very unplayable 50-90% on any server most especially during NA Prime time on NA servers.

This guy never left t1

What does that mean? I a not in Tier 1 – FC is currently linked into t2…

Tier’s matter – even if you don’t think so.

…And I am not a guy – good grief!

1. Tiers matter, I never said it doesn’t – it’s literally what I’m saying this whole time, so transfer down if you don’t like never ending queue

2. Noone cares if you’re a guy or girl or both or neither. Why would you even get offended? Just accept the fact you are on internet and no one knows anyone’s gender. Even if a person claims they’re are not a guy, one of the most important rule of internet states that everyone is a guy before proven otherwise. Because there exist people who likes attention. Also, should I put “this guy/girl” in everything? Would that mean I’m disrespecting people who are neither or both or whatever gender they associate themselves as? So please just leave this gender discussion out of literally the entire internet.

There are queues in the lowest of servers during NA Prime Time and most weekends
.

And please don’t lecture me about my gender, it does matter to me. Sorry your control freak attitude won’t allow me to be an adult woman on a game board. -sheesh

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Relinking?

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McKenna, can we completely unlink EU servers?

I’ll send you cookies.

The common sense of that request is lost on those who would do it. Linking is bad. Very bad.

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Long loading screen in WvW

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Four months and this is still happening.

My screens can take much less time but even a minute is far too long especially when an emergency waypoint is thrown to our screens!

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Pip / Reward track farming abuse

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So, there is a guy on our server, who is tagging up regularly. He mostly closes his squad but I managed to join it once. Its mostly joined by about about seven accounts, most of them seemed to be quite new, with names like dsfsldfhsjhs (example) and about 50 achievement points, staying on different maps. He then runs up to the upper right corner of desert borderlands, where continuously an opponent runs towards him with autorun, he kills him, he comes back, he kills him and so on.

So this is a really obvious attempt of abusing the reward track/pip system. I reported that guy quite a few times but nothing happened so far. Please look into this issue!

Many of us are seeing abuses that are being ignored in WvW.

Anet has shown it doesn’t care by allowing anyone to stand at spawn, keep or tower for HOURS which scales the maps and destroys the integrity of the intended ‘reward for doing’ mechanic.

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Cant gain pips after home world change

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As a returning player i noticed that the guilds i was in in my home world (Aurora Glade) have died, and while playing WvW i have joined a guild in Ring of Fire. 3 days ago i have changed my home world, and because of that i wasn’t eligible to receive any pips. I was ok with that expecting that today i would receive pips once again, but that is not the case. That also means i have to go trough a whole another week without getting any pips. While I understand why this system was made (so you cannot move from worlds that are winning or in some cases loosing just to receive more pips) i dont think it should be active if you change your home world from one to another if they are paired in WvW.

One week.

Just one week without pips, then it resumes.

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Need help with crafting as a wvw player

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Making Gold To Get To Ascended

1. Participate in organized in Looking for Group and use boosts for Silverwastes, including guild magic find tonics, birthday boosts(et.al.), magic find food and tools. Why Silverwastes? The 5X magic find boost gives even the poorest of players decent loot. Second best is Cursed Shore – run by two amazing people, FARM runs these events much of the day and night.

2. Consume/salvage/eat mf from all blues and greens under 2 silver (or set your own ‘low", that’s mine)

3. Use gathering boost from gathering and then follow gw2efficiency.com to iron, platinum, wood and more.

4. Go into WvW, set and participate your chosen reward track ascended pieces (backpiece, rings, amulets, and earrings) from Bloodstone Fen, Lake Doric, Bitterfrost Ember Bay and Draconis Mons.

5. Do dailies and your story for more salvageable and salable loot.

Gold is easy. Mats take time but not much and are so worth gathering.

If you need other help, please send me in game mail.

Cheers.

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Unplayable. 5 years in.

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Posted by: atheria.2837

atheria.2837

aka the 1st tier problem, solution: change home server

It’s not a ‘first tier problem’.

It’s Anet forcing any server out of its tier as well as the links, which have failed their ‘beta’ test.

Between the two, WvW is very unplayable 50-90% on any server most especially during NA Prime time on NA servers.

This guy never left t1

What does that mean? I a not in Tier 1 – FC is currently linked into t2…

Tier’s matter – even if you don’t think so.

…And I am not a guy – good grief!

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Unplayable. 5 years in.

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Posted by: atheria.2837

atheria.2837

aka the 1st tier problem, solution: change home server

It’s not a ‘first tier problem’.

It’s Anet forcing any server out of its tier as well as the links, which have failed their ‘beta’ test.

Between the two, WvW is very unplayable 50-90% on any server most especially during NA Prime time on NA servers.

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commanders kicking Rangers and Thief

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Posted by: atheria.2837

atheria.2837

Just play what you find fun. Dont feel forced to reroll just to be part of a blob/zerg.

Handle the kicks then. Its teamplay, log something useful and problem solved.

A toon one plays well is useful.

Just because you can’t play the other classes well doesn’t mean others can’t.

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commanders kicking Rangers and Thief

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atheria.2837

I love these "I’m a great wvw player so why oh why do I get kicked for playing a roaming class (ranger, thief, engi, mesmer). You are playing a roaming class. Go ROAM! If you really wanted to zerg, you would play a zerg class. Good commanders will allow crappy guardians into squad and kick amazing rangers, WHICH SHOULD TELL YOU SOMETHING!!!

I find your post the very essence of what is wrong in WvW.

The very thought that those classes should be termed roaming is where you and so many others are so wrong.

I pick up more heavies on a healing/hybrid druid and save more fights than most other toons.

But I am not blowing my own very capable horn, I am also including incredibly skilled mesmers, thieves, and engi as well as druids and rangers.

You want a comp that might not work or do you want to win the fight with better players than the other side.

Good players on any toon are better than mediocre players on your ‘wanted’ comps.

WvW was far better off when there were no ‘comps’ in groups and everyone brought what they played their very best on.

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Arrow Carts Destroyed When Not Taking Damage?

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Posted by: atheria.2837

atheria.2837

Burning damage from guardian AC killer build?

No, as in no red circles and nothing to indicate that there is a player near enough to do any such damage.

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Feedback: Pip Acquisition [merged]

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Posted by: atheria.2837

atheria.2837

Wrong, new and old players who step on PvE will get the same number of AP for completing some achievement, will get the same reward for finishing a Dungeon, Fractals, Raid and other events on general.

Can a new player in rare gear jump right into lvl 100 fractal? A raid?
Please think about the whole picture before posting your incredibly ill-informed bias.

No on Fratals no cause agony, but on raids i am pretty sure that there are groups who made it using only green gear…but still, a group can carry a new player through a Fractal and even if he didnt do anything, in the end he will get the rewards as well. This is very common actually, people even sell spots on groups for players in exchange of gold.

Great, none of those scenarios are relevant to the current discussion here, thanks.

Why not? I said that other game modes(PvE and PvP) reward all players the same, no matter for how long they the game…you said its was false and i proved to you that it is actually true….how is this not relevant?

Because you are relating AFKing and carrying to active participation. This topic is about new and old players putting in the same time/effort.

The clarity of spawn having anything to do or not to do with the score has still not been made by Anet.

And now we really need this clarified.

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Feedback: Pip Acquisition [merged]

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Posted by: atheria.2837

atheria.2837

It’s not discrimination. It is rewarding those who’ve played wvw for years. Why should new players, who might leave wvw altogether when they have their rewards, get the same amount of pips as those loyal to the game mode?

I welcome everyone new to wvw, and hope you find it fun, but you have to earn your ranks and rewards like the rest of us. Wvw has been neglected for ages, so it is past time for those of us playing this game mode to get something from it.

Please remember, someone else’s rank doesn’t take away from your fun and rewards. Stick with wvw and you’ll get there soon enough yourself!

I have to strongly disagree for one very specific reason that Anet hasn’t taken into account at all.

Rank does not always mean ‘time in WvW or EOTM’.

Nope.

Back in the day when WvW was younger and we still had tournaments, we had World Experience Potions [
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Keg_of_Liquid_World_Experience ]

From Drop to Thimble to Taste to Swig to Jug of Liquid Experience, people bought their way up the ranks and did a lot less WvW than many for their ranks.

So, I believe it is fair to say that the system just implemented isn’t fair at all.

And no I am not a new WvW’er or new player, but since I’ve been playing since pre-release, I can see where newer players and those just now being tempted to come into WvW would be and are upset.

And rightfully so.

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Servers Forced To Fight Out Of Their Tiers

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Posted by: atheria.2837

atheria.2837

Cuz people were going “Screw glicko!” and they’re right, given the imbalances and limited amount of factions.

But then they reached an incorrect conclusion that same matchups were the cause of problem.

“Tear down the glicko wall! People will love the variety!”

So Anet adds more volatility, essentially making it not matter.

And now you get this.

tl;dr stop peddling magic solutions that only cure symptoms

To all to answered – there are people manipulating the present system. I know personally several guilds on several servers who are playing to beat the present system, and they do.

I am just asking to allow us to fight in our own tiers so we can have a chance against people who work against the program.

Please.

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Undo server linking

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Posted by: atheria.2837

atheria.2837

Linking isn’t a good idea, never was, never will be.

It’s not just about the queues, it’s also about server identity and ‘playing your way’.

It’s an awful system that never should have been entertained.

Linking was probably the lesser of the evils. The question is what were all of the evils. Links where at least the community sorta exists, blow up some servers and merge them or blow up all the servers & start completely over all come to mind the quickest. What other options are there beyond those and which option will anger the fewest players?

I haven’t seen a single player who is against unlinking the servers.

Not one.

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Botting in WvW? Wow.

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Posted by: atheria.2837

atheria.2837

Not botting. A lot of WvW players take short breaks and stick coins between keys to avoid getting booted while making a sammich, bio etc.

Just an observation over the years.

It’s botting when they stand there for more than 10 minutes.

And many are.

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Servers Forced To Fight Out Of Their Tiers

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Posted by: atheria.2837

atheria.2837

Links are bad enough, but the tiers either mean something or they do not.

Tiers mean exponentially more players between tiers, so how can any week be fair to any of the servers who are being forced into incredibly lopsided game-time?

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Undo server linking

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atheria.2837

Linking isn’t a good idea, never was, never will be.

It’s not just about the queues, it’s also about server identity and ‘playing your way’.

It’s an awful system that never should have been entertained.

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Botting in WvW? Wow.

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atheria.2837

So, I’m on a server that’s usually on T1 or T2 and have noticed a trend lately. People staying at the spawn and botting, so they don’t get autologged. You can tell because they have a skill that stays on CD.

Just fair warning. I’m reporting you for botting if I see you do it. Sucks that I have to wait in que enough. Why should you hold your place while everyone else logs off when they leave?

No less than 10 at spawn in any map at almost any time.

This is botting.

If Anet tells us it doesn’t affect our scaling, great, but until then, this is just morale breaking at times.

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commanders kicking Rangers and Thief

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Posted by: atheria.2837

atheria.2837

To be fair, rangers and theirs are trash in WvW in squad lol I usually kick rangers and theirs too

You’d be alive far longer if you respected all good players on any toon they choose to play.

Don’t tell me you don’t wipe – all of us do, but when some are spec’d correctly and know their skills and abilities better than the other side, you get a huge bonus in all areas.

Not using all good players in a group because of ridiculous biases is why some very good players go into WvW, play for a while, do well but are never respected for the massive gains they are delivering to the team effort and almost never included when they absolutely should be in all things WvW, leave and never come back, being happier with groups that do foster cooperation and communication – which can be found in many groups in all other game modes BUT WvW. And this is especially pronounced in the last year.

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Green server cant get into Blue borderland?

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Posted by: atheria.2837

atheria.2837

Hello,
We from FSP cant join gandara borderland after reset.
We are green and cant join the Blue map.
Only Blue and Red server can join the blue map.
We have a Q of 80-90 to that Blue map but cant get in.

We need a new map – yesterday.

If Anet was going to put pressure on WvW, and they did with the addition of a legendary, then a new map is a necessity. Not alpine and not desert.

On top of that, we need the links gone… again, yesterday.

Linked servers is a failed ‘beta test’ – give us our servers back!

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how long is the wvw pip ban on transfers?

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Posted by: atheria.2837

atheria.2837

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/No-Loyalty-Bonus
Everyone is starting at ground zero to get the loyalty perk we have to have 100 pips for three weeks. Then we start getting the bonus but you must keep reaching the 100 pip a week if you don’t anet deems you not loyal. You then have to restart over getting 100 pips for three weeks

That post says ACTIVE not TRANSFERRED.

The question is a good one… Three weeks from what?

The answer is this ‘requirement’ should have been told to players in an email to ALL players so they wouldn’t have this issue but hey, this is Anet we’re talking about…

It’s baloney… and it is yet another thing that players will give as a reason never to play WvW again.

Loyalty isn’t ‘from three weeks ago’, loyalty is a server that isn’t being abused by links and queues.

LOL seriously?! Players are going never going to play again because they have to wait to get a reward that they were never getting before? WvW players have been playing for years without these rewards. Sounds like the bandwagons wheels are starting to wobble a bit.

Not one word of your comment made any sense.

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No Loyalty Bonus

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Posted by: atheria.2837

atheria.2837

We need to update the loyalty pip description.

You need to earn at least 75 pips for 3 weeks in a row to earn the loyalty bonus. We wanted players to have to participate in skirmishes to be considered loyal.

Those who moved, who should have been warned in an in game email, are not getting a thing.

You penalized anyone who moved because of bullying. And I did.

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No Loyalty Bonus

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Posted by: atheria.2837

atheria.2837

We need to update the loyalty pip description.

You need to earn at least 75 pips for 3 weeks in a row to earn the loyalty bonus. We wanted players to have to participate in skirmishes to be considered loyal.

Hello, I’m not quite clear on this.

So you need to get
75+ pips on week 1
75+ pips on week 2
75+ pips on week 3

And then so long as you remain on the server, you will get the loyalty bonus?
Or will the streak reset if you miss a week, and you need to do all 3 again?

Needing to earn 75+ pips weeks 1, 2 and 3 is correct. If you miss a week you will need to do all 3 again.

Given that some PIPS are based on rank why is that lower ranked players need to show more loyalty (in terms of time in WvW) than higher ranked players? Surely loyalty should be the same for everyone irrelevant of rank?

You bring up an excellent point. Someone at diamond rank is earning 4+ more pips per tick than someone who is below rank 1,395. That’s a significant amount of pips, especially considering that someone below rank 1,395 could be earning at max 10 pips per tick, and that’s assuming their server is winning the skirmish and that they have the loyalty bonus, are commanding a 5+ man squad and are also outnumbered.

Also, I agree with Azukas, simply not transferring off the server for 3 weeks should be enough to grant you a bonus pip. Maybe we could have another bonus pip for active loyalty, where you earned at least 100 pips for 3 weeks, and maybe that one could even stack up to 5 or 10 bonus pips?

I think 3 weeks is too short to decrease the bandwagoning to another server.

The loyalty-bonus pips should be in several stages:

3 weeks on the same server -> 1 pip
6 weeks on the same server -> 2 pips
9 weeks on the same server -> 3 pips
12 weeks on the same server -> 4 pips
15 weeks on the same server -> 5 pips

Yea, that’s what I meant. Reward both short and long term loyalty with the bonus pips.

I moved servers after three years because of massive bullying.

Anet ignores all bullying, ergo many (or quit) move because of it.

So we’re going to be abused yet again, by anet, because anet won’t stop the incredibly immature people who harm other’s reputations?

Rewards for loyalty should be to the game, not to a server where one puts heart and soul into it but bullies get the last word….. Bullies win.

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how long is the wvw pip ban on transfers?

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Posted by: atheria.2837

atheria.2837

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/No-Loyalty-Bonus
Everyone is starting at ground zero to get the loyalty perk we have to have 100 pips for three weeks. Then we start getting the bonus but you must keep reaching the 100 pip a week if you don’t anet deems you not loyal. You then have to restart over getting 100 pips for three weeks

That post says ACTIVE not TRANSFERRED.

The question is a good one… Three weeks from what?

The answer is this ‘requirement’ should have been told to players in an email to ALL players so they wouldn’t have this issue but hey, this is Anet we’re talking about…

It’s baloney… and it is yet another thing that players will give as a reason never to play WvW again.

Loyalty isn’t ‘from three weeks ago’, loyalty is a server that isn’t being abused by links and queues.

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STAY WOKE. This patch didn't improve WvW

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Posted by: atheria.2837

atheria.2837

Looks like someone didn’t have a Mallyx resist spam Rev in their squad/party… idk at least they changed how Epi functioned, if only slightly.

Condis only hurt when you don’t know how to fight vs them or don’t know what to watch for. You will typically lose a lot until you learn this. Some classes have more ways to deal with it than others (resistance, stealth/mobility, range, lots of clears, evades…etc). Its a matter of wanting to adapt and learning. If one doesnt want to learn to adapt or learn, then they deserve to lose.

I think you are very wrong.

When you are pulled more than your mitigation allows, then conditions are overwhelmingly above and beyond any mitigation or stun breaks that we have been allowed while conditions have grown and grown and GROWN.

If the mitigation doesn’t ALSO grow with the ‘buffs’ seen such as in condi, then condi is abusive.

Tells? You have to be kidding! “Knowing” tells do nothing when you pulled six, seven and eight times into red circles.

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STAY WOKE. This patch didn't improve WvW

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atheria.2837

Guys, I know everyone is happy about the new patch and how godlike it is, but Condi balance in WvW is still utter complete piece of donkeys poopoo. Condi players spamming defensive abilities can deliver as much dps as active power player while requiring less effort.

The game mode has not improved one bit, because we still have stupid balance where every class can literally run condi cancer build and annoy you all day long. Yes, I am talking mostly about thieves.

STAY WOKE PEOPLE.

I agree.

Anet just made WvW a never-ending waiting list and one that you can’t even be in the queue and ALSO do pvp.

Players will leave in droves – like they haven’t already…. over 200 of MY contacts no longer play the game.

Even more left WvW and don’t play that mode any longer for the abuses and negligence over the past five years.

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