Guild Wars 2

More options for combos would be great. But please no random field trait or anything random. Random = bad.

We got already a buttload of rng in our traits we dont need more. Its just to much hit and miss. Maybe something along the line how our glamour fields work. For example:

- Etheral fields become light and light becomes etheral

This could push our support capabilities greatly.

The first 8 months or so i bought gems with real cash. And i bought everything a PVE player bought too. Transmutation Stones, chests, dye packs whatever everything what a PvE player bought and i only did WvW. After i realized that anet treats WvW just like gimmick mode i stopped spending cash. Gold→gem transfer only.

So i think you ask the wrong question. You should rather ask why people don’t spend real cash on the gemstore.

Try playing mesmer with scepter and staff equipped. You are pretty screwed if you dont have blink or phase retreat ready.

If its allowed or not won’t be your biggest problem. You will probably quickly run into the spam protection. I just remember posting our servers teamspeak adress every 1-2 min at Tequati fights. I found myself pretty quickly blocked from any form of chatting in-game.

Jayne.9251:

Well not free to Piken anymore. That was fast.

Afaik server population varies on the amount of players logged in (correct me if im wrong but in the past even a very high pop server could drop to high status and people could join). Its reset night so ye i wouldn’t be suprised that over the next couple of days Piken will be back at medium in off-hours.

I just was suprised not to see SFR to be at medium pop. Are they still med pop off hours? Didn’t follow pop status past weeks. That would make me chuckle.

Edit: For EU those who are interested. List is sorted by predicted rankings taken from mmos.millenium status 13:50 GMT+2 and i added their population status.

1. Seafarer’s Rest Very High
2. Piken Square Medium
3. Vizunah Square Very High
4. Riverside Very High
5. Elona Reach Very High
6. Jade Sea Very High
7. Baruch Bay Very High
8. Kodash High
9. Augury Rock High
10. Abaddon’s Mouth High
11. Desolation Very High
12. Gandara Very High
13. Miller’s Sound High
14. Gunnar’s Hold High
15. Aurora Glade Very High
16. Fort Ranik Medium
17. Underworld Very High
18. Far Shiverpeaks High
19. Drakkar Lake High
20. Dzagonur High
21. Ring of Fire High
22. Blacktide Very High
23. Ruins of Surmia Medium
24. Fissure of Woe High
25. Arborstone Medium
26. Whiteside Ridge High
27. Vabbi Medium

Its safe to say that Piken will be the winner of these transfers.

1 month of free transfers at launch had been fine i think. But what i think is hurting more is that there is no reason to be loyal to your server. You don’t like PvE on your server just guest, you want to play with your friends, just guest. sPvP is cross server anyways so doesn’t matter too.

Free transfers would have to be permanent if at all but i don’t see what that would solve. Servers would just die even faster. 1 week your server is T1 and next week you come back and its dead. Do you really want to have that?

Even if you would only allow low pop servers to be free. You know what will happen every freakin “hardcore” wvw player will funnel into those servers. That means the imbalance will just shift to other servers and that will happen over and over again. In the meantime other servers who managed to somewhat stabilize will die off. And those servers with high pve population are screwed anyways because they will never be at low pop status.

The whole dilemma we have with guild transfers and “hardcore” wvw players transfering is just a sad state of our “WvW community”. Anet might as well give us a “Fantasy League” so we can bet on which guild transfers and which server will buy the next guild. I would probably spent more time on that than actually playing the game.

The domino effect started when we had free transfers and it just gotten worse. And Anet will not give us free transfers, because it works in their favor. And they will keep pushing WvW players to transfer. And we pay with non stop community drama.

Traited iduelist + ethereal field + scepter 3 + cof is the best way to apply confusion imo. Confusion on interrupts i think are a good way to support confusion bombing. And with confusion on clone death i wouldnt even bother (low stack, to short and no control over it).

But ye like all condition builds on mesmers they share same problem no pressure whatsoever. Your opponent has to commit to a fight. In my experience thieves for example tend to commit always to a fight, because they kind of feel save with stealth.

makku.2508:

canadez.5328:

They had a chance to give some value back to BoH and failed (Laurels really?). But lets be honest did anyone really believe that they would do it right?

You don’t need to log in daily to get BoH. What counts for them is users that log in daily, and Laurels encourage you to do exactly that. That’s why all the good stuff in the game requires Laurels, it’s just a business decision.

And you believe 1 rank worth 2 dailies is “good stuff”? 1 Rank won’t make anyone do his dailies. What made players do their dailies was asc. gear, minis, tonics. Someone who has the slightest interest in WvW will make a couple ranks in 10-20min and those who don’t care about WvW won’t care about WvW ranks.

The whole gripe about BoH is that Anet refuses to give BoH some value as a currency. Guess what if BoH would have more value it could get players into WvW. But that we don’t want right?

Since the very start of the game BoH was at bottom tier of all currencys. Players kept hording BoH. Players had to get rid of them because they filled up bank space. After a while we got the wallet -> problem solved. Then they introduced achievment chests which increased the inflation of BoH. And each time anet introduced an item which might be interesting, they attach another more valuable currency to it. That means players hesitate using up their BoH. Only time you could argue Anet did something for BoH was making siege equipment tradeable at the TP. And that move did more harm to WvW then anything else.

So here we are again we have an item which is actually pretty interesting. An item which is a good investment for your BoH.

- Players spend their BoH and actually gain something of value for it
- At some point Players won’t have thoushands of badges anymore (BoH gains value we might have to think about how to use our badges)
- Being able to buy valuable items with only BoH gives players a reason to join WvW

But now hold a second Anet wants me to pay additional laurels. A time gated currency. Do i really want to spend my laurels on an item like that? I dont think so.

TL;DR
Anet doesn’t want to be BoH a valuable currency. And this is hurting WvW as a whole.

Luthan.5236:

Does not seem to interesting with the laurel cost but I guess they needed to limit it cause I’m sure a lot of people have tons of badges at their bank(especially with the badges from achievement chests and now the sieges buyable at trading post – no badges needed -> more to farm and save at the bank).

I hope the drop rates for that items that should drop from player loot bags are going to be okay.

Without laurels people would have a good reason to use up their badges (for example leveling alts). Laurels are way to valuable to waste on 1 i repeat ONE rank (we have 9,945 ranks). Its like buying gear boxes for laurels who does that?

In regards to the chests given out for 1st, 2nd and 3rd. I really hope they’ll introduce weekly achievments exclusive for WvW like 10-15. And only if you have done all of them you qualify for the chest(s). At least like this only players who have participated in WvW get the chest and it gives some incentive for PvE players to join WvW (chest+additional achievment points).

But i kinda doubt that it will happen.

Cares Less.9631:

Just to clarify from my perspective I don’t think they need a nerf, no one has stated they will be, generally when the vocal minority whinge so much bad things happen, hence why I said “if” they are nerfed. Just my opinion. Thanks for the replies.

It’s pretty easy to answer why they haven’t been nerfed or why anet refuses to give any response to the complaints. The runes aren’t available in sPvP and they don’t effect PVE like everyone knows confusion is pretty useless in PVE. They have stated already before that they don’t do class balance for WvW, because they don’t want to do balancing for 3 modes. Up until now pretty much every buff/nerf has been done for the sake of sPvP or PVE. When they did the confusion nerf they just brought it down to sPvP levels. So the best you can hope for WvW class balance is that we get the sPvP changes.

Even if they nerf them i will still use them. Do i think they need a nerf? Yes.

6th bonus is a nice side effect for a mesmer but not that important imo. The added duration and on-hit effect is way more interesting. It helps to keep a steady flow of confusion stacks. You dont need those runes to get high stacks of confusion. But before those runes you had pretty much nothing but bleeds to help out with dps between “confusion bursts”. Low stacks of confusion were just to short even with high condition duration. It didnt make any difference. But now even those little stacks matter.

Anyways this is just my perspective.

They will probably never nerf/balance those runes because they’re not available in sPvP and aren’t affecting pve. They dont bother with proper class balance in WvW. The only time i remember them “balancing” something for WvW was the confusion nerf. And there they just brought it to sPvP levels afaik. Pretty lazy way if you ask me.
They didnt even bother finding the middle ground for WvW or how many people use confusion builds in sPvP?
Now confusion is only viable when you get 10+ stacks on a target. Granted they made Mesmer confusion builds viable again. But only because of the added confusion duration and confusion on hit.

I just wouldn’t get my hopes up for it. Abuse it as much as you can, because hey its WvW and WvW is imbalanced so no problem right?

If you really want to encourage more small groups. Ask for bigger / better maps with more small objectives (which are properly spread out). Supply camps / sentrys isn’t enough. Zerging is fine the problem is there is just no room and not enough reasons to roam as a small group. But giving bigger groups a debuff of any sort is just the wrong way.