Guild Wars 2

Haleydawn.3764:

atheria.2837:

Haleydawn.3764:

Your screen looks normal to me. You need 8 Mastery points to learn the Advanced Logistics in Pact commander, and you only have 5 available Tyria mastery points to spend. So you need to get 3 more points in Tyria.
It’s Learning Fractal mastery now because that’s all that’s left, you wont lose the experience progression in the Pact commander line if you can’t spend the points on it yet.

How can my screen “look normal” when the mastery for Pact Commander is now completely GRAYED OUT? There is no access to it.

It is completely grayed out because you can not earn anymore experience in that line. You will be able to learn it once you have the mastery points available for it. Yes, your screen looks normal as it is not displaying anything to assume it is bugged.

As posted above, count all of your earned points and compare it to what you have available and have already spent.

Have you tried earning another mastery point to see if it goes from 5 to 6/8? Then it would be confirmed it was an oversight on your part. Since as posted above again, mastery points do not disappear.

I have the mastery points and can’t spend them.

Um.

Yeah.

Haleydawn.3764:

atheria.2837:

Haleydawn.3764:

Your screen looks normal to me. You need 8 Mastery points to learn the Advanced Logistics in Pact commander, and you only have 5 available Tyria mastery points to spend. So you need to get 3 more points in Tyria.
It’s Learning Fractal mastery now because that’s all that’s left, you wont lose the experience progression in the Pact commander line if you can’t spend the points on it yet.

How can my screen “look normal” when the mastery for Pact Commander is now completely GRAYED OUT? There is no access to it.

I have four pics – two won’t even post after several attempts. All say the same thing months after each other, missing items are being returned.

It is completely grayed out because you can not earn anymore experience in that line. You will be able to learn it once you have the mastery points available for it. Yes, your screen looks normal as it is not displaying anything to assume it is bugged.

As posted above, count all of your earned points and compare it to what you have available and have already spent.

Have you tried earning another mastery point to see if it goes from 5 to 6/8? Then it would be confirmed it was an oversight on your part. Since as posted above again, mastery points do not disappear.

When this is addressed, the mastery line not even being able to be chosen in my game, I will post the solution.

My mastery points did indeed go from one needed, all but one lit up to three now not lit up at all.

The are missing – the program keeps making mistakes in my account – this is the fifth time I can prove that it has.

Why in the world would I lie?

I worked very hard to get those “last three” mastery points done and had a LOT of help doing so.

Telling the truth gets one attacked more here than lying – and over three years I have seen quite a few lies and much dissembling.

There are two other pics that won’t even post after several tries. All say the same thing – returning things “lost” in the database.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

If you feel there is something amiss with your Mastery tracks, you can contact the CS Team via the ‘Support’ link above/below and ‘Submit a Request’ for assistance.

Also, the Pact Mastery line is ‘greyed out’ because you don’t have it selected. You have the Fractal line selected in the screenshot.

Good luck.

I did put in a ticket and over 24 hours later Anet has no answer – crickets

You didn’t read a single thing I said and aren’t looking closely at the screenshots.

You can’t CHOOSE that mastery line AT ALL – it was at two out of three stars done from the last three that are needed by doing only achievements – now I can’t touch the line at all, it will not allow you to CHOOSE it, forcing me into the ONLY thing not completed – fractals.

If you can’t understand that it can’t be chosen, and you can’t comprehend that you have the issue completely wrong, backwards and doing exactly what isn’t happening, then I can’t possibly explain it to you.

I’ve had four things “disappear” from my database in the past, all returned by GW2/Anet

Now two stars that were lit up are now dark after getting the very last mastery point.

I hope you can understand now that I was very careful about where I was, and that the category that you are saying isn’t chosen can NOT BE chosen any longer.

Because I already have those points – and the game made a mistake.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I believe this issue is on the Known Issue Tracker. (See Sticky above.)

We know it’s a “known issue” but it impacts OUR gameplay and has since it cropped up.

Maybe the fix is having separate updates for every single profession so they can be rolled back if something like this occurs to anyone.

jacceb.7918:

Sometimes my celestial avatar icon becomes super big. Usually after some transformation of some kind where i get new/no skills, like after a guild race or after Matthias has sacrificed me.

https://gyazo.com/dece9203d63e36a8d45f805ac937bd72
After guild race^.

It impacts my game as some skills are blocked.

It also happens underwater to other skills now.

Guess we’re speaking to air here.

LadyEvaArdent.1367:

Just thought of other suggestions.

A blocked player should not be able to add you to their list, and if your name is already on it, it should be automatically removed from theirs. Also, a blocked player’s name should also be automatically removed from your followers tab (the followers tab should allow the option to remove names).

This is now a cyberbullying issue.

They can still see you speaking.

They can still mock/abuse/swear at you to others.

This issue is becoming a huge one.

Ayrilana.1396:

What he got confused was the progress showing 4/5 which refers to 4 out of 5 masteries unlocked.

She didn’t get confused. I had two out of the three, which force one to go to the achievements.

It took me days to get that last one in Malestrom – and when I finally got the last one the whole thing reset and grayed out the category so now one can’t even get into it.

Why do so many not “get” that it’s not my issue, it’s the program’s?

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

You need 3 more Mastery Points to complete (attain) the last Pact Commander Mastery ability (5/5). You have gained all the XP for that line that is needed. Now, XP is going to your Fractal Mastery line, so it won’t be wasted.

Check your Hero Panel for ways to obtain more Core Tyria Mastery Points. (The Red Starbursts.)

Good luck.

I was on the last one, I had two of the last three that demand that one goes to the achievements.

I did the last one and it RESET.

Many people helped me with those last THREE points.

Mastery is now grayed out, so what you are saying is ridiculous when I told you I did the other two and the last one reset the whole thing back to three.

Haleydawn.3764:

Your screen looks normal to me. You need 8 Mastery points to learn the Advanced Logistics in Pact commander, and you only have 5 available Tyria mastery points to spend. So you need to get 3 more points in Tyria.
It’s Learning Fractal mastery now because that’s all that’s left, you wont lose the experience progression in the Pact commander line if you can’t spend the points on it yet.

How can my screen “look normal” when the mastery for Pact Commander is now completely GRAYED OUT? There is no access to it.

I earned them all, believe me there were many who helped.

Tapioca.9062:

Wildstar have recently announced that they’re letting staff go and are canceling their plans to expand into the Chinese market citing Wildstar’s performance since launch.

This is interesting in relation to Guild Wars 2 because Wildstar was built around the concept of hardcore raiding as its endgame and has experienced nothing but problems because of it. Wildstar started out as a buy and sub game but quickly converted to a free to play model once its playerbase started to collapse. This is because while a vocal contingent of players insisted that hardcore raiding was the best thing ever and the game was designed around that, the reality is that not only was it not enough to carry the game, but the difficulty itself drove players away.

Considering that GW2 and Wildstar are both made by NCSoft subsidiaries it’s highly unlikely that Anet were unaware of what was happening with Wildstar but decided to not only push ahead with raids but coupled them directly into the core story arc so you either have to raid or miss out on core game story unless you really like watching Youtube videos of other people playing the game. The entire situation here just strikes me as curious.

Do you think that Anet made the right call here? Either in regards to the development of raids at all or by tying them in so closely to the core story arc? I’d like to hear your thoughts.

Since I don’t know many who have been in raids, I wonder why the resources were used for that instead of fixing the many game-destroying bugs we still have or have added after three years of game-play…

And as far as raids being “end game” play, seems some haven’t been in WvW lately

WvW is the true end game of Guild Wars 2.

Ok, what is wrong with the program and what do I need to do to get this straightened out?

I did the goggles mastery as my last mastery point for my Pact Commander mastery – then I finally get that last mastery point and the Tyria mastery for resets to THREE “needed” and now it won’t allow me to do a thing in Pact Commander mastery at all – forcing me to be in the only one not completed now, fractals.

Khenzy.9348:

atheria.2837:

runeblade.7514:

Fluffball.8307:

EvilZombie.6801:

staff = pew pew pew v2.0

Can you explain this sentiment? I feel like the “pew pew” meme nonsense is based on people thinking LB is an OP damage weapon , but staff is one of the least damaging weapons in the entire game.

It is the weapon that gets me a lot of kills. It is far far superior than Longbow.

• It tracks players. You can not side step away from staff attack.
• It is instant. The moment you press the button is the moment the player gets damaged.
• Staff 3 is one of the best mobility skill in the game. Combine with GS, enemies can never escape you or chase you.

It is impossible to escape Staff pewpewpew. At least with longbow, I can see the arrow coming and dodge it when I see it near me. I can get out of range because Longbow doesn’t have a mobility skill.

I win more fight with staff than I ever did with Longbow or any other weapon.

Now, if I can just figure out how to survive when I switch to any other weapon – but it isn’t happening.

Funny thing is while playing WvW as of late, running an 80% or so zerker Druid (while solo roaming) wiht Longbow+Greatsword, my longbow proved 10 times more affective at killing people, I pulled 2v1s and 3v1s much more often than with the staff and I could disengage just as well if not better.
Point Blank Shot+Ancient Seeds proved to be stupidly strong, you also have like twice the pressure and burst, while with a staff, your enemy actually has to engage in a long drowned out fight of attrition becouse you don’t have any burst whatsoever, if you fight an even slightly tanky foe, you’re not going to kill it in a reasonable amount of time, if at all. The staff’s mobility is great, but stealth just proved to me again that it’s the strongest disengage tool in the game, by far. And with Hunter’s Shot and Celestial shadow, you have tons of it.
With Point Blank Shot+Ancient Seeds you can even land a full Barrage on someone, so not even that skill is wasted in 1v1s.
The Staff also has two wasted skills (which the Longbow doesn’t): Astral Wisp, which is not worth casting, like, ever; and Vine Surge, with its long cast time which makes it a stupidly unreliable skill.

I say this as someone who tested countless hours (in PvP and WvW) all the different combos. In WvW, Longbow+Greatsword zerker Druid with Defender Runes was by far the most effective combo while roaming that I could find.

Wow, I didn’t think anyone could misunderstand staff, but you sure have.

Staff is the best thing that ever happened to “Ranger” as are the glyphs and new pets.

Now if we can get Anet to believe that pets can and do grow up, maybe we’d have a chance against DH’s and Reapers.

Wondrouswall.7169:

I just wish CA 1 on-land came with a tiny bit of damage on it like the underwater version so I can proc sigil effects.

No healing whatsoever underwater – no staff.

How is this a healing spec again?

On land we are barely passable to do damage and survive.

Underwater we are like “gee, I am sorry, you are on your own”.

veggies.2178:

still an issue, it will be fixed SOON ANET

Still an issue but every time we try to direct attention any issue that is not fixed we are in danger of being interacted…

evildeadjunky.1576:

Chat bubbles are not working after current update to game build 3/08/16

Every single time there are any updates, yet another feature of the game goes wonky or stops working.

Chat bubbles should have their own setting so this can’t happen.

Terrorsquad.4802:

After the update of today, my characters are stuttering on my screen.

Everything else on the screen is not stuttering , except my character (when moving)
Running 64bit Client fyi

- Tried to relog
- Tried to restart

When using movement skills, there is no character-stutter.
It’s only when running.

Cheers

Nuh uh, not only are they stuttering but many times I get no audio at all, many players are ignoring it, I find it most unprofessional.

Some of the cut scene will speak, cut out and maybe start again, sometimes starts at in the middle or end or no sound at all.

No, there’s nothing wrong with my installation – unless your 64 bit client is even worse than the 32 bit and I have had far less occurrences with 64 bit, but even some of the spoken content not being there, not getting to whichever client it is being streamed to or buffered to, should be cause to make sure all the sound files are protected – right now they aren’t coming across intact.

runeblade.7514:

Fluffball.8307:

EvilZombie.6801:

staff = pew pew pew v2.0

Can you explain this sentiment? I feel like the “pew pew” meme nonsense is based on people thinking LB is an OP damage weapon , but staff is one of the least damaging weapons in the entire game.

It is the weapon that gets me a lot of kills. It is far far superior than Longbow.

• It tracks players. You can not side step away from staff attack.
• It is instant. The moment you press the button is the moment the player gets damaged.
• Staff 3 is one of the best mobility skill in the game. Combine with GS, enemies can never escape you or chase you.

It is impossible to escape Staff pewpewpew. At least with longbow, I can see the arrow coming and dodge it when I see it near me. I can get out of range because Longbow doesn’t have a mobility skill.

I win more fight with staff than I ever did with Longbow or any other weapon.

Now, if I can just figure out how to survive when I switch to any other weapon – but it isn’t happening.

anduriell.6280:

Pets are terribly slow. Any enemy with swiftness will be untouchable even for the HoT pets.
You try it with the smokescale and between smoke assaults will not be able to hit anything with +33% speed.
Not even traited with BM . Without it it won’t be able to hit any moving target with +25% (so everybody).

My pet can’t keep up with my druid. And that should say it all.

This is a joke. My pet should be able to hit enemies reliably (even with swiftness) when at least i treated it with BM , without the need to use one skill from the LB to be sure i can apply swiftness to it.

My pet is never, ever, ever, ever, ever with me. He’s always behind, even when I switch, they are always behind, so far behind that the person I am trying to chase or hit must be laughing their heads off as I die because my pet’s skills aren’t anywhere near where I needed him to be.

If I can’t even swap and get the pet close enough; if I have to wait for him to catch up with me, he’s not a pet, he’s a drag on what I could really do if given the real deal and allowed to have a pet that can at the very least stay up with me and be with me when switching.

Yuffi.2430:

What features does a good borderlands map need?

Rather than asking someone to guess what we want in a good borderlands map we can help by putting forward constructive ideas. Please keep to listing features and explaining why you think they are needed – this is NOT about existing maps. Also please remember that we may have differing opinions of what is needed – that’s ok: the purpose of this thread is to give Anet a better idea of everything our community thinks a good map requires. So make suggestions and explain them and we can hope they pick the good ones.

I have a few ideas to get us started but it’s not perfect. Please add your ideas too.

Keeps
Should be worth defending or attacking so must have some strategic value. Way points should be an upgrade and should be useable by whoever holds the keep. Keeps should be the hardest objectives to take on a map.

Towers
Towers need a strategic value, either because they provide support or refuge for an attacking force or because they provide a defensive role. Towers should be able to be taken by a standard party of 5 players.

Camps
Need to have value for defenders (supply for upgrades/repairs) as well as attacking teams (supply for siege).

Sentries
I like the idea of sentries “spotting” players and want to keep this. Sentries should be veterans that a moderately skilled player can solo. I’d put sentries on the easy routes between objectives, particularly at junctions. Perhaps sentries could have a talk-to interaction to give players directions to nearby places?

Terrain
Happy with a variety of terrain so no personal preference here as long as I can get from A to B and can see a reasonable distance. The terrain should give a variety of open spaces near key objectives such as keeps where large fights can occur, and in other places choke points to help prevent blob rule. I’d like to see some environmental things – I miss the houses and villagers (and chickens) we used to defend in the North of the old maps, and they provided relevant cover for sneaking about or chasing people round.

Routes
There should be one easy “pug” route to each objective so inexperienced players or people new to the map can easily move around. There should be other routes that are less obvious and provide some benefit, for example less chance of being spotted, or easier to defend if you’re being pursued.

Other features
Upgrades should follow a set pattern but require human interaction at each location for each step. An empty BL should not upgrade itself. Upgrades should take time and require a proportion of the supply held in the objective (denying supply to places under siege is a valid strategy and rightly requires the defenders to make tactical choices).
Yaks and sentries should drop materials for WvW guild upgrades so roamers, small and big guilds alike can collect these in WvW.

How about better thought and interaction with the NPC population?

I love the ogres, there should be more we can do with them, not just rescue them.

Same for dredge and frogs but really, ogres can do so much more and the pets!

Solo players deserve buddies too – buff up the NPCs and give them more oomph/depth.

If one sits at a tower alone, gathers all the sup for a single siege, gets through wall or door, one should be able to take that tower, just saying.

Buy Some Apples.6390:

No I want new maps as well as the Alpines back! Just not the Deserted BS ones!

In fact I want another 2 minimum! So that we can finally get a map rotation going on!

THIS!

BOTH.

Not one or the other, BOTH.

And don’t you dare touch EB. Just don’t.

Why in the world would Anet do a system that can’t be done easily from the achievement menu (which, is the worst thing I’ve seen ever and has many bugged steps in many achievements, we all know some of them…).

If there is a necessity for a guide, this is it, but there doesn’t seem to be a single one out there for mastery – and I am stuck needing three.

What a horrid mess.

There are so few organized DS maps it’s nuts.

It’s time to address HoT as an unsoloable map – and I am fine with that as long as there are enough players to get the events done.

AntiGw.9367:

I wasn’t very happy by the limitations of the Food article on the wiki, so I made a database that makes searching for the perfect food much easier. Enjoy

Guild Wars 2 Nourishment Database

The wiki is missing at least one (and now I am sure more) items that are either food or tools.

The one missing that IS a tool is Tin Of Fruitcake

[&AgEBLwEA]

When will the food/tool database be brought up to date? As it is Amazon Basin’s food/tool database was GONE for over a month…

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tin_of_Fruitcake

I am surprised more people haven’t used the database and it isn’t listed in any GW2 “how to” anywhere.. and should be.

Fluffball.8307:

EvilZombie.6801:

staff = pew pew pew v2.0

Can you explain this sentiment? I feel like the “pew pew” meme nonsense is based on people thinking LB is an OP damage weapon , but staff is one of the least damaging weapons in the entire game.

If staff is one of the “least” powerful in the game why am I now finally getting badge in WvW like never before at 2700+power alone and topping 3k in any zerg we run?

Staff just needs to be traited correctly with the rest of your gear and then it’s an AOE/protection monster.

So maybe the wiki and Anet need to be more specific in the notes and the game.

Mastery points are a joke – getting them is a true problem for those who can’t possibly figure out the “menu” which is wrong so much of the time it’s nuts as well as not giving enough info to “start” whatever chain you need to get those mastery points.

Enough of the lack of real instructions already.

I just finished doing nothing but World Completion because the wiki and all other sources state that you gain mastery points when you finish the world on your characters.

Didn’t happen.

Now what?

Why are mastery points so ridiculously hard to track and earn?

Wasted.9675:

Is it just me or is the mastery system terrible design? Whatever happened to the old philosophy of “play the way you want to play”? Now in order to increase that stupid little number beside your name or make use of gaining experience you have to do tedious little tasks that you normally wouldn’t do by way of achievements. For me, i hate doing jumping puzzles, they frustrate me and i’m plain not good at them, but Anet deems fit to force me to do these annoying little things to progress. If i don’t want to, then tough, i’m stuck with a little gray exp bar that wont move until i do.

I like where they are going with making experience useful (To an extent) but it was just so poorly implemented. Instead, why not give those points for every achievement and make excess points turn into something useful, spirit shards perhaps? Or even make it so you gain one just for filling the exp bar?

As it stands i have no reason to gain exp anymore and no desire to pursue those annoying little achievements

Please Devs, Fix this! This one little system has diminished my will to play almost completely. I’m sure i’m not alone in this either.

Sorry for the rant, just needed to get it off my chest..

I can’t figure out the achievement menu to find things to do for mastery.

Anet is one of the worst UI managers ever.

Mastery points seem just about impossible for those who can’t figure out Anet’s insane achievement menu and “hints” to their starts which sometimes never do, never have and never will.

Straegen.2938:

The Keep Lord spawning well outside the circle of a keep can make taking a keep nearly impossible when it is heavily defended. YB in T1 found this out last night first hand. The Keep Lord was well away from the circle. At times fully outside the keep. Because of this our Q’d map could not defend both the Keep Lord body and the circle at the same time from JQs Q’d map. If we split our forces, JQ zerged us down. If we unified they would either hold the circle or rez the keep lord.

This issue is compounded now that the tactivators are in full effect. It is hard enough to breach a T3 keep while it is being actively defended by a Q’d zerg but add on the defensive tactivators such as the Dragon Banner and the feat becomes extremely difficult. Even if a server can overcome that, the keep lord being well away from the circle makes it all but impossible.

The only option is to drag the keep lord back into the circle which we were slowly doing as the night progressed but eventually players got frustrated and left over the situation.

This was just ridiculous last night. No one had to kill the Lord, he was already dead by the fire.

Anet’s use of boundaries and random places for Supervisors and Lords has become a costly joke.

Yuffi.2430:

Saving WvW (if it can be done) requires resources to be committed by Anet, a commercial company. Perhaps one of the reasons that Anet has not seemed to take WvW as seriously as they could is that it probably does not generate much revenue for them. I think there is a missed opportunity here, so I’m going to imagine a WvW vendor that takes Gems and ask what would have appealed to you. All ideas welcome, from the serious to the seriously fun.

I’ll start with a couple to get the idea rolling:
Custom Golem skins (new item).
Guild claiming fireworks (already exists, unavailable atm but I liked them.
Guild “upgrade” so dolyaks from claimed camps show the Guild logo (new item).

So… what would you have bought in WvW?

Upgrade for all siege to lower supply cost thereof to a manageable amount for small groups

How about four servers against jq or bg?

How about three servers allied, server names and populations intact, attacking two servers.

What hasn’t been done could freshen WvW but Anet is thinking, still, very one dimensionally.

Three was never a good match – two on one and game over for most – but there are ways to make it truly competitive if Anet would open their eyes and read many postings on this very subject since they screwed us all with megaserver Edge of the Mists and upgrades only larger guilds can perform.

atheria.2837:

Karizee.8076:

Here’s a great little searchable database that lets you look up food items by level and buffs. Has drop down lists for the searches, just pick the buffs you want and it will give you a list of foods that have it.

http://wiki.theamazonbasin.com/index.php/Guild_Wars_2_Nourishment_Database

Great tool! Whoever wrote this little thing is a kind person!

It’s gone. Just plain gone.

I want to add something to the mix here.

Some of game skills use f4 skills, yes?

Ok, under your left palm on most badly made keyboards is the ALT key.

Many times lately I have palmed over the ALT key while using my f4 skill and VIOLA, game over.

Anet is the issue, their logic about keyboard layout and use is abysmal

If they want people not to seemingly purposefully abuse alt-f4, they should change it immediately to a combination NOT in the rotation of a skill use.

ALT-F4 should never have been used to “end the game” in the first place._*

batudivrik.7564:

Anybody get an answer for the pet bug in pvp?
its 1 week now without a pet and its annoying when the pvp weekend is going on

Try to choose a pet in the lobby – I know it’s not easy to explain since no one could explain it to many – you have to choose both pets – not one, both, not sure why they left a slot open after HoT but they did, and many Rangers/Druids “couldn’t” access their pets – until they chose them as they did the first time in pvp.

Anet made this mistake and didn’t explain it and didn’t mitigate it – so we’re stuck trying to help each other with little information and even less real instructions from the company who should be doing real Beta testing, not pretend testing on all of us.

webtoehobbit.4201:

Was just doing the meta, we had 2 blighting towers down, 25 mins left on the clock, then the entire map gets a loading screen for Dragons Stand and we all find ourselves in the same groups but just in a map that has reset?!

Lost all of our participation, entire event reset. What a waste of all of our time.

This is unacceptable. It’s one thing is a collection is bugged, but when people spend over an hour in a meta only to lose everything? This is the stuff that makes people quit games. This should be a top priority fix right now if it isn’t already.

Why am I not surprised?

Shirk.6421:

Sorry to say it but that’s clearly an L2P issue. Even tanky builds can shred thiefs with the use of bristleback + rapidfire. Also you need to get a feeling about the duration of their stealth. There’s a ghost thief build around using traps and trapper runes but they can’t kill anything if you don’t try to chase them down, just move on.

You are so very wrong.

Just because you don’t have the same issues doesn’t mean that the rest of us can’t play because we do.

anduriell.6280:

i’ve heard that the heal tempest is the new healer in raids and the druid is not needed anymore…

If a Druid is no longer necessary in a raid, then Anet has forsaken Druid and Ranger for good.

Agent Mulder.4531:

Hey guys, I was thinking of reinstalling GW2 and potentially buying HoT if the ranger situation has improved any. I’ve noticed on metabattle that rangers are not in the Raid meta, and our only meta build is still the LB spotter, even with the introduction of Druids. I’m guessing druids have been a complete bust for us in terms of competitive gameplay. Is it worth it to come back if I main ranger?

If Druid was as strong in WvW and PvP as they are in PvE there wouldn’t be much of an issue – but as it stands, we are dwarfed by those who have more damage, more stuns, more of just about everything than any Ranger or Druid can bring.

Even with 2700+ power and toughness and plenty of condi mitigation most Rangers and Druids are melting under pressure from very well and better built professions.

Druid is great if you are doing PvE – if you are doing a raid I can show you how to use a Druid properly – which is to stand in front of the darn thing when we are firing with a staff – healing – boons – instant-reviving – we can do quite a bit but not many are using Druids as the utilities and support they truly can be.

I agree, wait. So many have been disappointed when they realize their favorite character is ‘only’ good for fractals and pve.

WvW and PvP depend on others to be with us or we might as well not go out at all in most builds – Ranger and Druid.

Swagger.1459:

Diku.2546:

Swagger.1459:

Eotm is Megaserver

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Edge_of_the_Mists

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Swagger.1459:

Sigh, y’all are so silly… All of US severs can fight each other in eotm… All EU servers can fight each other in eotm… It’s ummm three sided for a reason, though, right? Hmmm, wonder why…

Megaserver hello? How long has eotm been around and y’all don’t even know your own game? Really?

How can you all provide suggestions on what’s best for wvw and be all anti-megaserver when you don’t know what it is, what it does, how it works in relation to wvw, don’t know it’s already happening in eotm and how successful it has been in eotm… Really peeps?

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Swagger.1459:

Eotm released 2/14/1014…

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Edge_of_the_Mists_

Going on almost 2 full years now and y’all don’t know?

/facepalm

Much sadness…

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Swagger.1459:

Umm yeah…. Completed in April of 2014… for pve maps…

The same player pooling map tech was put into eotm that was released 2 months prior…

Same same… Megaserver…

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http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/April_2014_Feature_Pack#Megaserver_system

The roll-out of the megaserver system was completed on April 21st, 2014.

Article mentions PvP & it’s assumed PvE, but it does not say WvW.

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http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Edge_of_the_Mists

Worlds will be matched according to which color they are in the current WvW matchup. For example, all green worlds will be on the same team in the Edge of the Mists.

Article specifically explains how the Match-up in EotM are done.

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@Swagger

You’re the leading advocate for Megaserver in our WvW Community. Would you please review the GuildWars2 Wiki articles & stop embarassing yourself?

You need to get a better understanding to explain the Megaserver mechanics properly, or nobody else will…imho.

Yours truly,
Diku

Umm it doesn’t say wvw because it’s not in wvw right? It’s in eotm…

Megaserver tech was used in spvp and pve and eotm…

I’m not sure why the concept is difficult to understand…

Notice how it was all launched around the same timeframe? Hmmm?

Only two of you don’t get it so far.

Eotm… All red side NA gets pooled together on one map… All green side NA gets pooled together on one map… All blue side NA gets pooled together on one map…. Same for EU…

When that first map gets filled, a second map is made…

When this second map is full, a third map is made…

And so on…

That’s called Megaserver… Been in place for almost two years in all areas of the game except wvw…

Edit- do you understand why eotm Megaserver is seperated into 3 colored sides?

Megaserver separated things as did EOTM – but the megaserver did something much worse to WvW than EOTM ever did, – we lost the privacy of being able to make a valid and working “map call” – and there ends the real and valid WvW as we knew it before the crappy and loathsome Megaserver.

greyseer.1806:

Ha! Like anyone actually believed them when they said that. And not sure after reading that I would call it a balance patch.

I see “improvements” where none are needed and none where they are needed in the extreme.

Anet isn’t balancing the game, they are destroying it for many.

Buy Some Apples.6390:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/profession-balance-goals-for-the-winter-2016-update/

So much for putting WvW as a priority after HoT!!!

Gamers are lied to by each and every single company – they never remember “promises” made and when they are brought up, one risks an “infraction” for asking a logical and necessary question.

Oh well, without a dedicated WvW manager WvW might as well be a game that no one plays – - problem is – most of us do.

unknownchaos.1425:

Ross Biddle.2367:

unknownchaos.1425:

Bad spec/ bad video.

This is how NOT to play a dire Mesmer.

Bad post/ Unconstructive.

This is how NOT to post on the forums, particularly the Mesmer forum.

You walked into the wrong thread, buddy ;D Have another go though, you might learn something.

I can post my opinion. Your build is bad. The video is even worse.

My post is very constructive . it will steer players that don’t know any better away from this sub par build.

Oh look, another “your build is trash” without posting a build and video of his own.

I am so sick of those who, even if they were telling the truth, won’t teach the rest of us even if it meant the demise of the game over time.

I am so tired of jerks and griefers in these forums – but I get infracted for saying much less “inflammatory” things like the truth.

Show your build and a “how to” video, or go shame yourself into uninstalling.

Good gosh.

I’ve had it several times and when it happened I couldn’t use any skills for several seconds.

Seera.5916:

pdboddy.4162:

How does one buy this as a gift when one already owns the expansion. I only get the option to upgrade, or to say no thanks continue to the shopping cart. Where I choose the option I want only to be given to the option to upgrade or say no thanks continue to the shopping cart. Where I choose the option I want only to be given…

This tornado’s heading for the trailer park.

Help please?

Buy it off of the website.

If you “buy it on the website” it automatically assigns it to your existing account.

Customer support is doublespeaking on this issue…

Notice also that no one from Anet bothered to answer one of the biggest questions about HoT – and one I see almost every day in game.

Anet doesn’t care about players, just about profits.

Gaming needs to come back to reality – players matter.

Being able to buy the game for portions of it, go look. But they can’t just say in the gem store that you can GIFT the GAME or UPGRADES to another person’s account?

Baloney.

Horrid marketing and even worse IT/database management abused by those who don’t understand computer gamers and our needs at all.

gatsu.2813:

Don’t take this the wrong way, but if a guild places a tactivator like banners in an objective, you and your server needs to take that into account and adjust your strategy for engagements. They are meant to resolve blob fights and fights in general faster due to them having increased target cap. The banners introduced are one of the very few anti-stacking mechanics that Anet has thrown to us and will serve a higher purpose later in the year when more guilds have access to it. The more they are used (especially in tiers with overstacked populations), the more we’ll see a shift away from the current meta of stacking on one commander tag. Otherwise, it will be simply just be a tug of war between servers who have the most banners. Again, this is an element that requires servers to adapt to. Also, support your ppt guilds as they are the ones who focus on eliminating those nasty tactivated objectives!

Never been able to use Tactivators – not once.

Humphrey Bear.2698:

No one plays Desert Borderlands and no one cares about it so why is it so hard to give back Alpine Borderlands for now before everyone eventually quits ? And then perhaps tweak Alpine Borderlands by like replacing ruins with something else . If it’s not hard bringing back events like Winstersday then why would Alpine Borderlands be an issue bringing back ?

If Anet and Guild Wars employees actually played WvW, we’d see changes, but they do not.

Ergo, no changes not related to a *non-dedicated WvW “team” that doesn’t exist*.

volpenvieh.3201:

Kilver.7094:

The fact that players have to post vids on how to get to objects you want to attack/defend speaks volumes. It’s not only bigger it’s a lot more confusing…

There also used to be guides for the old maps and a lot of people don’t find their way around eb without help either :x

Quit? Not many.

Playing less?

Most.

Dragonfeu.4356:

Which one was it pre-hot? Or is every t1/t2 server decent for it

Excuxe me while I giggle…

HahahahaHahahaahahhahahahahaah

Teeeheee hehehehe teeeheheheh

You can roam on T1 – depends on the time.

You can roam on most servers, depends on the time.

Knighthonor.4061:

When Anet gave WvW vets, a chance to test out HoT’s new WvW maps, why didnt you all bring attention to the problems when it was in testing period?

We did.

Anet didn’t care, they were bent on making WvW ETOM v.2 and not listen to any players – not one of us.