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Suggestion: Option to hide/change WvW rank

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Hey ANet WvW team.

It would be a really good quality of life change to be able to hide your WvW rank (Invader could be the default display just as it was before ranks were introduced)

Another suggestion would be to be able to change it to a rank you have already unlocked. I.e any rank below your current one

Anyway, just a quality of life change I think most would enjoy.

Thanks, Draeyon.

Pin sniping and “kill the highest rank” are hurting our leaders who are now running tagless more and more – harming the WvW rank and file.

I welcome hiding rank in WvW. One small change would help us all.

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So Anet are you...

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You need to stop gripping in the “X servers against one” argument my friend… It’s about how much people your server have and how much people the linked servers have. You really think it would be fair to put Yak’s Bend versus Eredon Terrace or Isle of Janthir? Seriously, it’s time you let it go and find another excuse for why YB disapear when they have no linked server.

Apparently you read part of my posting and didn’t take mine or the others seriously enough to read them.

It’s not about YB or any of the servers in specific – it is about the fact that three times your population being decimated by nothing more than numbers and the fact that Anet is ignoring the WvW population rather than just counting those who play more than one or two hours a week.

WvW is nothing more than a numbers game, which FC was fine with when it was ‘linked’ to YB.

When a game doesn’t honor a game mode, doesn’t count only those in that game mode, all problems and issues are dismissed.

WvW is the most ignored and abused of the game modes in GW2.

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So Anet are you...

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Or when anet match up are betweeen servers with triple population than the other, the competitive game is gone and the abusive play game of bullies and vicious players have become.
I have been one year playing, of which 3 months of wvw and we have been already matched up with servers 5 tiers higher than us.
people leave because of the frustration because they dont have fun anymore.
Something needs to be done right now. check other posts and ideas because from week to week people is disappearing and you maybe think that would make them change server and earn yo a few more dollars,no no, I would find another game.
thanks for reading.

THIS is the reason we are losing people in WvW.

Six servers against one – who ‘now’ doesn’t have a ‘link’ are going to lose – period.

It’s not about skill.

It’s most definitenly about coverage 24/7, which a server without a link can’t possibly do compared to five or six servers.

Anet ignores the real “end game” in its own game and people are tired of being not only ignored, but overwhelmed by what is no more than a messed up idea of what ‘linking’ was supposed to be.

Example:

If you had the smallest servers NOT linked with LARGER servers but only with small servers, and then only counting the WvW population that would be different than linking a huge server (including my own once upon a time) to any other server, that would be ‘fair’.


Linking just needs to be done away with if it’s not going to be managed with WvW only populations in mind.

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What to expect next Tuesday

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YB always builds walls to hide behind…..

YB?

Sorry, the siege thing is now more every other server than ours.

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So Anet are you...

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i’d command if they didn’t ask for 300g for a tag. Already have enough trouble getting gold to dump into WvW.

If you want gold, if you need gold, start doing the Silverwastes. An organized event and after, Silverwastes.

Not stay in Silverwastes, just do the events once or twice a day, consume all the blues and greens above your threshold (mine is still 2 silver – everything below that is consumed as magic find salvage).

With a 5X multiplier and the fact that Auric Basic is getting an undeserved nerf, Silverwaste events and the train that follows for either Pac-Man or a “shovel train”, you will do well with ‘loot’. Popping food and tools creates a good MF base for getting all kinds of loot, including the two precursors I’ve found in WvW – yep, WvW.

There are also many items that are wanted on the TP that people can and do make for ‘cash’, a tiny bit of research can show you what consistently makes gold to support our WvW experience.

Taking a guild buff furthers any map or event (Halloween, Christmas, New Years) magic find, but I see many who don’t have the buff even though they have fully formed guilds. WvW track boost makes quite a difference.

The track I take in WvW is usually Bloodstone Fen and I do the daily there everyday. Others use Bitterfrost or Ember Bay for Ascended backpieces and trinkets, which makes it even easier in WvW. So many hate crafting, it’s nuts. I get it.

Fleshing out your magic find and doing events where you get needed mats (not just T6 and remembering that t-5 mats can be promoted), is key to making the gold we need to do more in WvW.

Anyone else who can add to my list, great, gold isn’t that hard, even in WvW, but you have to have the magic find to support you first.

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Choppers in VB still down in daytime

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This happened earlier today in which the choppers from the night time event were still there and usable in the day time.

It can be seen very easily if one hangs out on the map for a few days, it will happen and it is trackable.

Please fix this Anet… it’s been doing this as long as I can remember doing the event – however long it was since it was released.

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Character Voice Bug

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Just updated the new patch and it broke the way my character sounds. I seem to be picking up random shouts and voices from others or something because it happens without pattern. Here is a video so everyone can better understand what the problem is:

https://youtu.be/ZzaucfjP1lc

I can live with, it’s pretty funny, but it kinda kills the immersion of the game. Hope it gets fixed or someone can show me how to fix it.

Most of the time I am on my druid and hear things that are not my druid’s character at all.

I hear every single profession and race – even when completely alone.

This isn’t the first time this has been reported – but it’s has never gotten any attention.

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WvW errors - Reported by not addressed

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Have you tried the `-repair` option to GW2, or deleting and redownloading the gw2.dat file? Perhaps some of the issues, especially vanishing models, are related to local corruption?

Repair has NEVER worked on my system – Anet knows it and won’t help. I have the emails. The fact that it doesn’t work for many should tell Anet something but they, to date, will not listen to any of us.

Secondly, I have already uninstalled and REINSTALLED in a DIFFERENT drive and a DIFFERENT file so it’s not my issue, it’s Anet’s ‘issue’.

I’m not sure if you are trying to say that “running repair did not fix [your] problems”, or “running repair didn’t work correctly”. It might be beneficial for this discussion to clarify that?

Being able to reproduce this with a clean install certainly suggests that it’s not tied to the content of the file. That does not rule out local hardware or software issues, though. In either case, best of luck!

I have tried many times since the release of the game to do a “repair”.

Go look it up, “repair” works for very, very few.

The game bugged to death, quest chains on many maps are bugged so it’s not just WvW, but when one can’t even see a property’s color or ANY of the above listed bugs that still to this day are not fixed, something is wrong, not with the computer, but with the information exchanged between server AND the client.

WvW is in dire shape, but don’t bother caring, you’re probably not even in there a tenth of the time most of us are who DO care about it and see the glaring inaccuracies and blatant neglect.

And my email has nothing to do with “not” getting answers from a ticket – I get emails from GW2 just fine… no issues on my side, but they don’t have ‘email’, they have a ticketing system that uses a form, not an email account that could possibly at the very least be trackable and provable. If we can’t track what we send, it’s our word against theirs… and we all lose.

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WvW errors - Reported by not addressed

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It is also worth noting that, while playing WvW, I cannot say that I have experienced that long list of bugs your mention. While that is just my own experience, it does hint that some or all of the issues may not be as universal as you suggest.

Have you tried the `-repair` option to GW2, or deleting and redownloading the gw2.dat file? Perhaps some of the issues, especially vanishing models, are related to local corruption?

Repair has NEVER worked on my system – Anet knows it and won’t help. I have the emails. The fact that it doesn’t work for many should tell Anet something but they, to date, will not listen to any of us.

Secondly, I have already uninstalled and REINSTALLED in a DIFFERENT drive and a DIFFERENT file so it’s not my issue, it’s Anet’s ‘issue’.

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WvW errors - Reported by not addressed

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If you are not getting replies to your web-form tickets, you might consider perusing this: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Not-Getting-Our-E-mails-Hotmail-Yahoo-Gmail-Comcast/first#post3785262

As indicated on the in-game Bug Report windows, those reports will garner no response.

Good luck.

Tickets put into the website, not in game reports.

It’s not my website nor my email.

Different issue: In game reports are doing nothing – absolutely nothing so why is it there at all ?

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Fedup with the state of Ranger

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cough you know that you can find groups that don’t demand you play in a way you don’t like, right? I’d suggest hunting for them. Sounds like a good deal to me, finding a guild that won’t make you play in a way you don’t want to.

Rumor has it that we get dagger MH for the next xpac, in what will highly likely be a DPS oriented spec, finally freeing us from being “the” healer. (Despite other classes, looking at you ele, having some serious healing chops of their own.)

No, no you really can’t find anyone who runs in groups, successfully, if you aren’t what they ‘want’. If you are downed, even if you revived every single one of them, you will be ignored.

Either you’re running solo and ok with that or running with what your group ‘needs’ most if you are in a guild… not sure which but my experience almost 5 years in WvW is above – and most will tell you it’s the same for them as well.

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WvW errors - Reported by not addressed

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Every time one of these happens in the game, I put in a report.

I wait, and wait, weeks on end without a resolution.

Why doesn’t Anet allow us to expand on the issue we are seeing when we put them in a bug report? They know who we are, they can ask any further questions if clarification is needed to reproduce the errors. Our emails are easily accessed – I can’t think of a single person who would see it as anything but a real help and interest in making WvW a fully formed gaming experience.

WvW is a mess, with errors galore from the beginning that still have no resolution nor care, such as the vistas which have an icon when seen for the first time but no names, no designations, no hint that this mode of gameplay is even in GW2-land…

Present issues still happening

Getting stuck in walls and rocks but the enemy can still kill you.

Icons going sideways.

Icons disappearing completely. NO idea what a property is or its color.

Weapons, then my whole character disappearing ONLY in WvW.

Mislabeled camps which are the wrong color regardless of who owns them.

I have so many screenshots of the items listed above…

These glaring issues I have reported and reported and reported. The second one twice so far, and that is the one I have least number of occurrences of, but the others continue to plague me week after awful week and only in WvW.

You want the pictures? Email me. I am an adult and I’d like to be treated like one in a game where I have spent an extremely significant amount of time in over the past four plus years. You email for tickets, well, you used to, not one of my tickets have been answered in over two months. I gave up trying to put in tickets, as many others have or will since there’s no response at all , not even a confirmation.

Doesn’t Anet want to know there are glitches in the communication between ticketing and the help desk?

WvW has been almost unplayable for the last few weeks – you have overwhelmed the servers and people who are in them – not caring that some actually wanted to be on a smaller, less busy server, now all are blobby, angry, spy-ridden and even threatening, besides the obvious collusion between some to overwhelm and change the score of others. It’s not a fair skill test, which is what I thought WvW was going to be, expanding on PvP in a huge and important manner… So bug umpteen is the stop-action-and-game-ending lag.

We need our WvW cared for – as one who uses it for MEDICAL reasons, the details of which I will certainly spare you, I can tell you that more and more older people will find this game to be of use for many different reasons, we need it to be healthy, playable and fun, not a ‘gee, my four servers against your one, 24/7 has yours locked to your spawns on all maps’ rage-quit and salt-fest.

Give us some hope for WvW, some modicum of help in there to fix what are becoming very game ending issues for many – at least in that gaming mode, where many swear they won’t set foot because it is so amazingly toxic and ‘you can’t play your way’ mentality.

We love our favorite gamemode.

Please fix it and give us back some balance – undo the failed server linkings and if you want to really give a boost to WvW players gamewide, please give us back our tournaments.

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New Scoring System

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When WvW AND PvP are SINGLE server/person matches, that’s when we WILL see who shines and who duds out.

Until then, it’s fixing a leaking ship.

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New Scoring System

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If you EVER want to fix WvW, make it one server against one server.

Period.

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Claiming queue needs to go

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Currently if there is more than one guild present that is able to claim a structure in WvW, it starts queuing for max of 3 guilds and a timer countdown starts for each guild one after another.

many times these guilds are not claiming and those who actually want to claim the structure needs to wait until the entire countdown completes which is like…I don’t know…15-45 seconds? That is a waste of time.

Claiming queue needs to go.
Whoever clicks first wins and get the claim.

The waiting time is bad because I might need to wait till I can claim it to get my +5 supply. If I just resupply without waiting to claim it, I get less 5 supply! If I wait I waste time! If I run to another claimed structure to get 20 supply I waste time!

If enemy group is right at the doorstep of the structure and I want to claim it to buff my group I can’t!

I agree.

It doesn’t work.

It’s far too slow and it leaves guilds out constantly.

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4 Servers Full manually?

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So does this also lower the population limits per map?

If not all this does is to ensure that the more populated servers continue to dominate.

When one sees SIXTY people on each side, six servers worth, green and blue attacking red, you know that there are no limitations at all.

And no logic.

Numbers are not skill, never will be.

I thought WvW was for skilled players and tactics… right now it’s nothing more than stacking servers and making sure you can 2v1 – 6v1 any other server.

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4 Servers Full manually?

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For population balance reasons, we’ve lowered the population thresholds for a world to be considered ‘Full’. This is to keep the population disparity between high pop and low pop servers more similar.

You can’t possibly be counting ONLY people who are playing WvW and you should be by now.

YB against six servers? Anet isn’t playing its own game so it can’t possibly see the inequities in any time zone or server.

This is just plain ridiculous to lock YB when we are nowhere near ‘full’ in reality.

Let us know when you count the WvW populations only, that’s when your ‘metrics’ and algorithms will finally make some sense.

Right now, they do not.

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Desert Borderlands Vote

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I like the desert bl.

I like the alpine bl.

Now we need a unique one for the third.

Grow, not recede.

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This is the worst I've seen WvW in 4 years

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The server linking was a big change, and so were skirmishes, but those only happened recently. They are good changes and Tyler has done a good job so far, I like the direction he’s taking it.

However, this should have been done a long time ago by people capable like Tyler. Even though the changes are a step in the right direction, this is very little progress for 4 years.

There are only 4 tiers in wvw right now and all of them are quite empty relative to what they used to be.

The main reason they eventually linked them is because the bottom half of wvw was a ghost town. T1 right now, even with server linking has the same activity level of t4 or t5 did 2 years ago from my memory.

The core problems have never been fixed. Score, population, and rewards. Its a mode that has been flawed from its inception because there has never been any incentive to win a match, because population dictates match. That also means you cant reward winners of the match.

If that could be fixed it would also be good.

If they want to save this mode they need to do something drastic and announce big PR for it as well. No covering stuff up. Whether it be completely redoing the mode or something, its the only chance theyd have at bringing back players.

I sort of doubt theyd do it though, because there may not be as much profit incentive even if a large amount of previous wvw players came back.

I totally disagree – the changes, skirmishes and linking were wrong.

What they should have done was shut down WvW on the lower servers and make the upper servers WvW capable – forcing those who DO play WvW into servers who DO care and DO play consistently.

Guess WvW will be on a lifeline until someone ‘gets’ that WvW is the end game and it is still four years on, being neglected on a grand scale.

Our tournament were ripped from us – no explanation – ever and then the changes started people talking about and moving to other game modes for longer and longer times.

Without tournaments and real WvW servers, WvW will die a slow death that will be painful for all those who put so much into it in time and gold.

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This is the worst I've seen WvW in 4 years

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The server linking was a big change, and so were skirmishes, but those only happened recently. They are good changes and Tyler has done a good job so far, I like the direction he’s taking it.

However, this should have been done a long time ago by people capable like Tyler. Even though the changes are a step in the right direction, this is very little progress for 4 years.

There are only 4 tiers in wvw right now and all of them are quite empty relative to what they used to be.

The main reason they eventually linked them is because the bottom half of wvw was a ghost town. T1 right now, even with server linking has the same activity level of t4 or t5 did 2 years ago from my memory.

The core problems have never been fixed. Score, population, and rewards. Its a mode that has been flawed from its inception because there has never been any incentive to win a match, because population dictates match. That also means you cant reward winners of the match.

If that could be fixed it would also be good.

If they want to save this mode they need to do something drastic and announce big PR for it as well. No covering stuff up. Whether it be completely redoing the mode or something, its the only chance theyd have at bringing back players.

I sort of doubt theyd do it though, because there may not be as much profit incentive even if a large amount of previous wvw players came back.

I totally disagree – the changes, skirmishes and linking were wrong.

What they should have done was shut down WvW on the lower servers and make the upper servers WvW capable – forcing those who DO play WvW into servers who DO care and DO play consistently.

Guess WvW will be on a lifeline until someone ‘gets’ that WvW is the end game and it is still four years on, being neglected on a grand scale.

Our tournament were ripped from us – no explanation – ever and then the changes started people talking about and moving to other game modes for longer and longer times.

Without tournaments and real WvW servers, WvW will die a slow death that will be painful for all those who put so much into it in time and gold.

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UI Still Not Fixed In WvW

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First it was tilted and sometimes missing icons for any property.

Now it’s missing icons again

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Whisper option not available

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Thanks for your reply;
Friends/GM’s were online and not in the unknown location.
I don’t have a free account.

But I just checked and the option is available again. Not sure what happened, if anet did anything specifically to fix it but its back.

I have had the whole chat box go ‘dead’ many times.

Even reinstalling didn’t help until after an update – so they know that the problem exists but haven’t pinned down where the issue stems from – yet.

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"Wintersday Skritt Hit" stopped working

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It hasn’t worked for many – the thread from over a year ago is active again…

This thing needs to be revamped or removed as a daily.

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Skritt Hit wintersday daily?

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This is one of the most badly designed and explained event ever done in Guild Wars 2.

Either fix it or remove it as a daily.

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Why druid cant have glyphs under water?

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Think it’s sort of ‘balancing’ made cheap. It’s really horrible what they did with the UW combat. They basically abandoned it after they noticed how broken it is and yet – after 4 years – they still haven’t done anything significantly against it.

Underwater combat should be a daily… if it were maybe people would use it more and understand it’s strengths/benefits.

How can you improve anything when you have so few using it? I’d like to see events underwater – even an underwater race…

Back to the ‘why isn’t Anet playing their own game’, as in every single employee and coder.. so they can see really experience the game instead of guessing from people who complain – and that’s how most nerfs happen… someone catches attention of someone who can and did change the code

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Why Wolf's Terrifying Howl so unresponsive ?

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After 4 years… How many time I could have saved stomps or have a clutch moment, only to see my wolf do nothing despite spamming F2 like a mad man.

It’s not the only pet either.

ps : title too long, left a word.

Pet AI is broken.

Pet AI has been broken.

Pet AI has never had an appreciable update.

In far too many instances the pet AI is will not go off even if you hit the button a thousand times, even more than ‘skill lag’ by far and that has been becoming worse as well.

Pet AI needs major work and the F2 should be instantaneous to stop the ‘skill lag times a billion’ or just failing even after seeing all the buttons go off and the animation just failing even when one can see no effects were blocked, it just didn’t work.

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Revenant bug list

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So long as you don’t say “CoR getting stuck on terrain” is a bug. It is intentional being a terrain based ranged attack with no other counters aside from dodging. It can also go through WvW gates.

Why does anyone start a thread that actually gets some attention at one time but then the ball is dropped and the questions and the issues are never solved?

Oh, wait, is this Anet or is this the government?

Either way, the game’s management is severely bent and on its way to being completely broken in all game modes, in and out of instances, with missing dialog and bugged events.

Come back Anet… Really, the game needs help. Soon.

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WvW Tonic Update

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To clarify you won’t be able to activate them while in combat.

So if you are transformed then enter combat you will not transform back to your regular model. So you can still fight as a kodan if you activate it before the fight.

Since I have seen people abusing tonics, as stated below in a couple of posts referring to them (mushroom, watchnight et.al.) why don’t you do what one smart poster said and just remove all tonics from any AREA except spawn in WvW?

Enough of the “Avenue of Exploits”, please fix WvW so we can have skilled fights without the added “I always win!” that tonics allow now.

Please just remove them from any area except spawns in WvW. Smartest suggestion I’ve seen in ages that is doable without many ‘changes’.

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Identities of Linked Worlds

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Wouldn’t be better if whole WvW divided into 3 factions instead of servers which named of corresponding pve order (order of whispers, vigil, durmand priory) and allow everyone that 1 time only free order change. Ladder ranking system(guild or personal) based on contribution to your order.

No.

No.

No.

No.

I like my server.

I want my server.

I need my server.

End of story.

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Mainhand axe...

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I know we have this topic since launch and I also know mainhand axe has it’s place in PVE but can we please discuss these weapon skills again?

Aside from that, that it’s animation looks like a monkey throwing poop, it really feels akward and the more recent buffs don’t help.

What is axe even trying to be? Is it a condi weapon? Is it a ranged or a melee set? Who knows? What’s with axe 2? Why is it so slow in general?

And wtf is the axe trait in the BM line? It’s a trait for direct damage for a “hybrid” weapon? Why???!!

Nothing makes sense. Only a mad scientist can create such a abomination.

To clarify things, I’m talking about the set from a pvp perspective. The weapon is just outdated. It was clearly designed for a very different meta, or maybe for pve only.

This weapon set does not need any damage buffs. It needs a complete rework. Why not add a CC/evade/combofield or a position skill an mainhand? AA could be a bit faster or maybe it should not be ranged at all.

I wish we had some harder hitting single strike skills like GS 2 since ranger makes use out of these with the MM line. Having these on axe would make more sense.

Make axe a burst or a condi weapon. Pick one Anet. You already have SB to cover the hybrid niche( this needs some thought too honestly).

Edit: Or at least give this weapon some harder hitting direct damage skills and add some condis. Mesmer scepter works that way and is not OP

As a Druid who uses an axe, I am appalled too that traiting an axe is in the BM line.

It really doesn’t make any sense at all and should be moved.

To take that one trait I have to lose so much to gain the ferocity I need but the rest of the line isn’t anything near ‘traiting’ a weapon and most don’t make any difference to a fight.

Blobbed down, no one wins, but in a 1v1 or 2v1 fight, yes, fixing the traitline would make a huge difference.

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Why is there no Stability F2

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Yes, group stability would be a good way to promote ranger/druid in WvW.

However, I’m tired of reading “druids only have 2 stability sources on a 60ish seconds CD”. If you look closer at druid spells, you will notice that we also have a stability source while in Avatar. It doesn’t solve the group stability topic but it might help you.

Natural Convergence (2 sec stab, 10 sec CD)
1) Start channeling Natural Convergence
2) Stow weapon immediately
3) Run around and enjoy your stab

You’re saying open or keep open the Hero panel and try to stow a weapon while fighting?

You really don’t WvW much, do you?

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Why is there no Stability F2

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Why is there no pets that Grant AoE stability on a reasonable CD (25-30 Sec)? With all the Boons and Conditions that pets have a variety of I don’t understand why this was left off the table.
You want to make Ranger/Druids more desirable in WvW team play ? This would be a quick easy fix to help in that department.

You have stability.

Now if you want a character that was left always at the mercy of others who share stability – Revenant.

Rangers/Druids have 2 stabilities both on 60 CD and are not AoE, you will note I said AoE, the point is to give them more Grp/Raid/Squad utility.

If you’re unhappy with Rev please direct yourself to the Rev forum, it’s below this one.

SotP got nerfed to 75s.

I disagreed with this change, it made my build so much less able to stay alive.

I had to trait it down to 60 seconds, but still, compared to some elite cooldowns in the 38+ second range, 48 seconds traited wasn’t unreasonable but Anet nerfed it anyway.

The garbage that druids are ‘too OP’ is still hitting the front page of the forums while stability is nerfed making us far less desirable in any group in WvW or PvE.

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Why is there no Stability F2

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atheria.2837

Why is there no pets that Grant AoE stability on a reasonable CD (25-30 Sec)? With all the Boons and Conditions that pets have a variety of I don’t understand why this was left off the table.
You want to make Ranger/Druids more desirable in WvW team play ? This would be a quick easy fix to help in that department.

You have stability.

Now if you want a character that was left always at the mercy of others who share stability – Revenant.

Rangers/Druids have 2 stabilities both on 60 CD and are not AoE, you will note I said AoE, the point is to give them more Grp/Raid/Squad utility.

If you’re unhappy with Rev please direct yourself to the Rev forum, it’s below this one.

I have 12 seconds of stability every 60 seconds as a traited druid.

My comparison was to show that we have some where others have absolutely none.

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Get rid of Desert BL

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No blood lust

Super hard to get around

No one goes to them but ppters

The server that has the red BL is put at a disadvantage

every keep can be glitched into

Do us all a favor and get rid of them. thx

No.

The Desert BL is amazing.

Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean there aren’t people who do.

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Holding Objectives being rewarded is bad

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Just promotes more night capping and sitting on siege. I have no clue why they added this is in the game. Guess they wanted to make it look like they were doing something.

I have a much better idea.

Get rid of the ‘three server model’.

Go to a two server only model and stop the idiocy of five versus three servers.

A fair fight is one v one – in any mode.

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7th VS 2nd & 3rd - Tiers should PLAY OWN TIER

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How and why are two tier one servers pitted against a tier three server?

Easy.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/big-changes-coming-to-wvw-matchups/

Is this a trick question?

Apparently you didn’t read… Anet isn’t honoring their word on this statement at all.

“To counter this, we’re going to partially randomize server matchups, with the exception being we won’t match servers against other servers whose rating falls outside of an acceptable range. This range will be determined by using your world’s rating and deviation (already listed on the leaderboards).”

The care they said they’d exhibit NEVER HAPPENED

Huh? This is how match-making has been working since that post. The “acceptable range” is +/- 100 rating.

The ratings of the top seven servers last match were:
1- 2 086.395
2- 1 953.507
3- 1 933.747
4- 1 922.419
5- 1 882.185
6- 1 863.060
7- 1 852.305

Now you see that many of those ratings are within the +/- 100 “acceptable range”. There was only a 10 point difference between rank 6 and rank 7 and 81 point difference between rank 2 and rank 7. That means the rank 7 server was well within the “acceptable range” to roll positive and rank 6 to roll negative. Ten points is too small of a difference to have an impact in the way the randomized roll will occur.

As for rank 2 rolling down, you can see that the rank 4 and rank 5 servers are also within the “acceptable range”, having less than a 100 point difference with the rank 2 server.

This answers your question as to how and why the rank 7 server ended up in a match against rank 2 and rank 3. Perfectly expected and “acceptable”.

Edit: I should add, the “acceptable range” used to be much wider, like +/- 200, when Anet first introduced the randomized roll. They made it smaller a few months later.

For all your blustering, the score at the end of the week tells more than any of your nonsense.

It wasn’t a fair fight in anyone’s world except those spawncamping YB for a whole week while guilds bailed and players put the game down for insane frustration.

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New Scoring Change - 21st Nov 2016

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https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-November-21-2016

Upgraded objectives now reward more war score per tick and when captured.
Points per Tick/Capture:
Objective Base Points Secured Reinforced Fortified
Camp 2 3 4 5
Castle 12 18 24 30
Keep 8 12 16 20
Tower 4 6 8 10
Sentries and shrines now grant 2 war score on capture.

Does anybody here see the logic in this?
I don’t see how this improves WvW at all. How, for example, does this tweak make weaker sides more competitive (in PPT terms, ofc)?

Nothing we say that should go straight to the Devs is getting through to anyone who cares about WvW.

More illogical changes not really explained to any of us.

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Identities of Linked Worlds

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I NEVER post but i think we need ANET to seriously devote as much time and effort into fixing WVW and PVP as they focus on PVE and new content. We all know the end game is WVW or PVP, PVE is only enjoyable with new content and its become quite honestly pathetic with the year after year continued events that never change either, i.e. the mad kings lab, really, the same AGAIN, cummon u lazy kittens ANET, do something better!!!

So, i have to say stop trying to invent server names for linking, that is NOT the problem with WVW, server identity is not was is killing this game mode, so ANET, listen up please…. if WVW and PVP completely die, so will this game for all players who helped build this game by supporting ANET through gem store purchases and real world money spent on this game.

ANET, please for the love of TRUMP, fix WVW first and foremost. You need to change the way servers are ranked, you need to stop introducing lame beta seige that makes the cancer worse in wvw. here are some simple, yes very very simple steps to stop the flight from wvw.

1. make all walls and doors stronger please… fortify status needs to be stronger, same with reinforced needs to be stronger, and also “paper” needs to be stronger, i would say whatever strength is reinforced now make that the new “paper level”, and bump up the levels from there, make reinforced now to foritfy, etc. u get my point. this will help buy time to properly defend against a zerg.

2. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD FIX LINE OF SIGHT. Give omegas back the line of sight they had before, jesus, whats good about an omega if you can only hit a wall or door. and NO player should be able to hit a piece of seige like they do now, thats the point of omegas, not players. hitting ac’s tucked so far on the other side of the wall and enemy AOE goes over the wall and halfway down the wall, thats lame!

3. Extend the hill’s (big hill between smc and red keep) height in EBG so that Red Keep and Stonemist cannot play treb wars all day long with each other, you fixed this on the BL’s with garrison and West Keep (bay, water keep, whatever u call it, you all know this keep and prior issue) This helped solve that issue, do the same for EBG.

4. Balance the dragon, turtle, centaur Banners better, these are not used because they suck, fix them for more fun for everyone to change things up a bit. But please dont make them so O.P. it defeats the point.

5. Last but not least! If you want people to spend time on Desert BL, and you want it to work.. You have to put in portals like worm tunnels in Mists for people to be able to navigate it. Seriously, how can you go from spawn waypoint, to fire keep or air keep and defend it, if it takes you 3 to 4 mins, thats enough time to flip a keep if a zerg is there. Make worm tunnels from spawn to warp to middle of map and bottom of map, that will give people the ability to actually navigate the map, that’s simple right? You already have that mechanic in place in edge, just add it to Desert BL! It would be nice to have on alpine also one worm tunnel from spawn waypoint to warp to dead middle of map, that would be very nice also. that would really be neato… PLEASE LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE WHO COMMENT ANET

all of the quaggans who lost their lake in alpine bl’s, please give those refugees a home! Bring them back to WVW! Bring them to South East camp, water camp, whatever you know which camp i mean.. I miss QUAGGANS!!!!!!

Aristocratic Asura
best mesmer NA

  1. 3 (NUMBER three since the program is changing my number to “1” AND NOT “3”)

is the most egregious error Anet ever did in WvW as far as I am concerned.

Someone tell Anet that putting a # before a number isn’t license to change what a person types to what they are hiding as a command.

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Tomes of knowledge

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Please please please stop giving tomes of knowledge in WvW. Please give us something more useful from the reward tracks and dailies. Siege maybe? Yes I know you can make siege from spirit shards and get spirit shards from tones, but that is extra work I’d like to pass on.

What we can get is useless for most of us. Tomes, Spirit Shards, even a plethora of Obsidian Shards BUT…

What we can not get – LAURELS – almost impossible to get how about a way to convert such an imbalance of false loot to things that are useful like Laurels?

Please.

Laurels or Mystic Coins would be awesome. Doubt they would do laurels but something needs to bring the price of mystic coins way down though.

I have Mystic Coins coming out of my ears, but I can wipe out laurels in a single gear change.

Yes, we get over 50 laurels a month, so what other than maybe *guild*siege would be more desirable for WvW players to get instead of the useless things we are getting now?

Spirit Shards and resonating slivers UGH are incredibly useless – I cringe when I get a chest with the latter.

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7th VS 2nd & 3rd - Tiers should PLAY OWN TIER

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atheria.2837

How and why are two tier one servers pitted against a tier three server?

Easy.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/big-changes-coming-to-wvw-matchups/

Is this a trick question?

Apparently you didn’t read… Anet isn’t honoring their word on this statement at all.

“To counter this, we’re going to partially randomize server matchups, with the exception being we won’t match servers against other servers whose rating falls outside of an acceptable range. This range will be determined by using your world’s rating and deviation (already listed on the leaderboards).”

The care they said they’d exhibit NEVER HAPPENED

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7th VS 2nd & 3rd - Tiers should PLAY OWN TIER

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atheria.2837

there should be no tier in the first place. even if there is, should not have been made public . match up should be random since the beginning.

but, alas, damage has been done. people flocked to winning servers. wvw is screwed forever.

If tiers were “random” then your server CD would have a chance of facing a current top tier server, that would be incredibly boring for everyone involved. Tiers allow for competitive play, your server will eventually stabilize in its correct tier. “Removing tiers” is not an option xD

Top tier is just coverage not competitive. would love to trash some garbage t1 guilds.

They will just throw numbers on you. That’s what T1 guilds are about. That when they aren’t 3-4 guild groups walking holding hands.

Just as an aside, YB misses its best link partner so far.

Rock on FC.

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Tomes of knowledge

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atheria.2837

Please please please stop giving tomes of knowledge in WvW. Please give us something more useful from the reward tracks and dailies. Siege maybe? Yes I know you can make siege from spirit shards and get spirit shards from tones, but that is extra work I’d like to pass on.

What we can get is useless for most of us. Tomes, Spirit Shards, even a plethora of Obsidian Shards BUT…

What we can not get – LAURELS – almost impossible to get how about a way to convert such an imbalance of false loot to things that are useful like Laurels?

Please.

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Make Defending Possible

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my server keeps getting paired against bigger servers or at least servers that can be active 24/7 while mine is only active at night

and defending is impossible because siege cant be placed anywhere safe from player exploits and attacks

by exploits i mean mesmers being able to aim their pulls behind the actual walls and pull groups of defenders to the cluster of attacks from attackers , we’re talking about 500+ range behind the walls , LOS needs fixing

rangers and eles can decimate whatever siege is placed

rangers and mesmers can summon their clones and pets behind the walls and ontop of the siege

Anet isn’t listening or they would understand that linking isn’t working.

Pitting servers against others even outside their tiers is happening and it’s wrong.

My post about that very subject drew the trolls – most don’t frequent the ‘official forums’ as they know they will be shouted down by people who have no idea what they are talking about but who can talk around any subject, negating it completely.

As far as the siege, there are places where most can be placed out of 1500 range but still usable during most attacks. It’s having the force to man siege so 10 can fend off 40; it can be and is done.

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Ancient Seeds is overpowered.

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That trait is 100% overpowered (and annoying) in WvW, and partially on PvP. If you don’t agree with me, you possibly don’t play WvW/PvP too much, or you have a very good condition removal.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ancient_Seeds

As a side note, before someone says I am “whining”, or think I am a Ranger hater, I’m not, my second main is a Ranger.

Wow, cry me a river.

Killing in stealth is the worst idea ever but I don’t hear you calling out a bad mechanic, just one that actually works on a Druid, unlike many other skills that still glitch out and don’t work at all.

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Why is there no Stability F2

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Why is there no pets that Grant AoE stability on a reasonable CD (25-30 Sec)? With all the Boons and Conditions that pets have a variety of I don’t understand why this was left off the table.
You want to make Ranger/Druids more desirable in WvW team play ? This would be a quick easy fix to help in that department.

You have stability.

Now if you want a character that was left always at the mercy of others who share stability – Revenant.

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WvW Frontline Druid

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I’d like a link to the build editor as well as the great google doc.

The detail in that doc is what more need to be doing to help mentor others.

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Best camping Weapon for ranger/druid?

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Hello guys, id like your help today!

Background: came back (quit just after hots came out), and trying to L2P (fractals and new map). Thing is, cant deal with moving, dodging stuff, watching bosses animations and performing a rotation at the same time.

DPS wise, whats better to camp? Shortbow or Axe/X? Is it better DPS to camp sword/X as power build? (with LB opening, i do know how to do that).

Also, what are the best pets for FOTM in pug groups that dont buff much? Tiger + Red Moa for fury uptime? Tiger + bear to tank / something else? Does bear even tank in fractals?

For power druid, Staff and Longbow -

For condi Ranger, Axe/Torch second weapon choice is open, no others can do what these can in AOE for a straight Ranger

I take camps faster with my Power Druid than with my Condi Ranger

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On the Topic of DDoS

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Why should they close the game mode when this acctually does not affect anyone in any way? What difference does it make if you win or you lose in WvW? And what about the players that only play WvW? Should they be denied of their game mode just because of server issues? Then better off shutting the whole game as people on PvE are suffering the same issues (in fact I lost my T4 Solid Ocean party 4 times because of the disconects).

Your first sentence is incredibly wrong.

Most of the other two server didn’t log back in over the last outage, leaving us, YB, free to finally get some properties back for the first time this week.

If you haven’t seen what can and does happen when some and not others have access, you aren’t playing WvW much at all.

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7th VS 2nd & 3rd - Tiers should PLAY OWN TIER

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I think you’re confused, OP. No one is double teaming Yaks Bend, they’re also fighting each other. The difference is, FA and Maguuma are defending their stuff.

Yaks Bend used to be the defense server, siege and scouts everywhere. You guys just have lost your touch and it isn’t a challenge taking your stuff anymore. Everyone takes Yaks Bends stuff because it is easy to do. It is too hard for FA and Maguuma to take each others stuff, not that we don’t try to take each others stuff, just that it is easier to take Yaks Bends.

I can’t say that I feel bad for YB or want them to get back to their roots, I’d really just like them to fall to the abyss of T4 and stay there.

You, like most others, are not addressing the issue in the title.

How and why are two tier one servers pitted against a tier three server?

You can’t answer that, and neither will Anet who is manipulating the servers and ignoring any relinkings.

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Rev assistance

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Getting help with any character after the first year has been very hard.

I too would love some experienced Revs to share their play style or rotations.

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