Guild Wars 2

I don’t know how hard it is to do, but this game needs a seperate free to play PvP client. It would help grow the PvP playerbase. I have friends who want to try the PvP but don’t want to buy a full game.

Isaiah Cartwright.8569:

A lot of awesome ideas here.

Here are some questions I’ve been wondering about.

How often do people actually join squads and use the features that are there? (4 different way point markers, /supplyinfo). What would make you join squads more?

How much is spies a problem with commander system?

Should the commander icon be shown above the commanders head to the commander?

Should we allow a WvW upgrade to see enemy commanders (not on the map just on screen) ?

Squads: I know only of very few commanders who ask pugs to join their squad. I think the main problem with squads is that there is no real incentive for people to join one, aside from only seeing 1 commander, resulting in people getting lazy. This in turn makes using the squad options completely inaccurate because you will never have your whole group in your squad. I would much rather advertise my server’s TeamSpeak than ask people to join my squad. To resolve that, you need to give squad members benefits (if in a certain range of that commander or something so it doesn’t get abused). So bottom line, it’s very rare that people join squads and even if they did, squads as they are now are always inaccurate representations of your group (/supplyinfo might show just half your group, pings might only be seen by half your group). TeamSpeak >>>>> Squads.

Spies: I really can’t say much about this… It’s always hard to tell for sure if someone is spying or not. Even if you are getting spied, what can you really do against that? The league system definitely did NOT help the issue at all because it actually made WvW a real competition (which it should have never been imho).

Commander icon: Yes, but we should have the option to show the commander icon to everyone or privately (to guild, party, friends). Because right now organized groups have no reason to run with a tag, therefore getting left out of all the potential benefits of having a tag now or in future updates.

Enemy commander: I personally don’t think this should be in the game. It could potentially force people to not tag up at all.

I think everything has been said already. I would still like to add two things that I didn’t see (sorry if it was said and I missed it).

When buying a commander tag, it would be nice to have a special stash for siege. I have multiple stacks of most siege equipement and it’s taking a lot of space in my inventory, so I’m being punished for wanting to be a good commander and have a lot of siege ready. Not only that, but an easier way to access your siege equipement. Right now you have to open your inventory, look through your it for the siege you want, double click the siege, close your inventory, and then lay the siege. That’s a lot of unecessary actions when under pressure. There are probably multiple ways to solve this problem, like having a special commander UI with siege icons you can click on to lay down. I was thinking maybe have a unique skill called “Lay Siege” or something that would act kind of like a bundle, but your skills would be replaced by siege equipement. So all I would have to do is use “Lay Siege” then press the key that corresponds to the siege I want.

Second thing is, having different commander icons is great, but I think your icon should represent your experience as a commander/experience in WvW. So maybe have different icons depending on your WvW rank or something. On a side note, it would be awesome to have an icon display besides your name that would represent your rank, because right now there’s no way to know what rank your allies are.

Was looking forward to this matchup again. Shoutout to VR and Ark for the fun fights on TC BL.

Gully.7358:

Finally a skirmish and it seems everybody is enjoying it! No walls, no guards…

Not to mention, it’s the very first day. Everybody is eager to go in and have a look. You can’t expect people to play by made up rules straight away. My tip, just come back tomorrow or go to your same old spot for the duels

Says the guy who randomly attacked me when I was just watching duels and clearly had no intention to fight? It’s not about playing by made up rules, it’s about not being an kitten to other players. But hey, if killing players not fighting back is what makes you feel good about yourself, who am I to judge.

Fun reset in Mag BL even though we were outmanned the whole night. Shoutouts to VR and LGBT for the good fights.

Could see the rune being used for roaming warriors with Signet of Rage, Dolyak Signet, Signet of Might or something like that. I’m going to give it a shot on my shoutheal zerg build and see if it can work over soldier runes, but I don’t have good hopes for it.

I don’t see why the sigil would be used by anyone though. I think it’s probably always better to get your survivability from gear and traits rather than a temporary buff.

Great fights in SoS BL all night. Thanks for the lootbags JQ and BG >:D.

Renny.6571:

I think I can speak for the whole of BG when I say sorry SoS! We’ll try to be gentle.

All good, the fights in SoS garri have been super fun so far. Wiped you both a few times.

Chris.3290:

This is interesting reading for those of us who were for a 2v1 against JQ.
http://gw2wvw.org/?region=1&tier=1

Apparently JQ played it almost evenly (slightly more against Mag, probably all from Monday) and SoS and Maguuma focused more on each other than JQ.

Let’s see if we can work on this in two weeks. SoS and Mag have the highest RNG compatibility in all of WvW so we will see each other when the league is over and can get back to bashing each other then (unless it’s SBI, in which case we’ll both beat them up on principle).

How dare you use statistics in this thread!

Let’s get a nice and friendly karmatrain going today shall we.

Need a fix for this, our characters are locked into this game and can’t get out…

You were probably in my game, I’m still stuck in it too.

Super fun reset night. Thanks for the fights Mag and TC.

Thanks for the fun fights SBI and SoR, had a blast this week.

Good mutual karmatrain going on in SoS bl right now, thanks SoR haha.

I used so many catas today because of those kittening mesmers…

Shads.9468:

Any chances SoS could tank for the rest of the week please? I’d really like SBI to stay in gold

How about NO >:(

Radioactive.1248:

Yes the SBI community is quite torn. The idea of fairweathers out in full force compounding for seven straight weeks sure is tempting. For the first time we get plenty of people to fight in NA prime, and for the first time in weeks there isn’t a queue on any map for most of the nights. Kinda lulzy but [TE] is enjoying the ability to map hop and fight where we want. This has been the best week in WvW in recent memory. [TW], [FEAR], [Choo], and others on SoR have been a blast to fight during NA prime, also shout out to [Rx] and [CNB] from SoS, I respect your tenacity in defense of SoS BL, it’s inspiring!

Shout out to all the other battle brothers on SBI who are gunning for gold with me and [TE}, kitten the score, who cares anyways. We’ll bore the off hour coverage of tier 1 into transferring off their servers, and come out to fight during NA.

Star

Thanks for the shoutout, even if we’re stuck defending our garri most of the time haha. I don’t know why so many people are whining in this thread. This is the most fun I’ve had since Rx transfered to SoS. Good fights to SBI and SoR again today.

Jubelum.3472:

Really SoS and SBI, please form some sort of double team, I think a lot of our main WvW guilds are taking a breather this week, you could come out and fight what’s in the borderlands right now and score some real victories, please please PLEASE don’t avoid WvW this week because you think it’s futile, there’s lots of fun to be had, I’ve seen a lot of Rallians levelling new toons in the BLs, it’s mostly karma training which isn’t very organized, this would be a good time for you guys to really show up in full force and put up your best fights. I implore you! Pleeeease! with sugar on top, and and and cherries! just um, pwease pway wif us?

Hey you VIG guys killed me when I was a quaggan with a kite, not cool bro.

Fannwong.3059:

To the SOS Commander and troops of Overlook in EB, I have nothing but the sincerest respect for you. The battle for Overlook that stretched 2 hours ending at 1130pm (GMT+8) was really tough. The tenacity and the never say die attitude of SOS soldiers are awesome. You guys never ever gave up and for that we salute you.

FW

I was wondering if I was the only one having fun around here.

This thread has gone to kitten so I thought I would drop a positive message. Despite all the skill lag, the long fights we had at SoS garri were a ton of fun tonight. Good kitten to SoR and SBI.

Luvpie.8350:

Dear TC.
3 orbs plus 25-30 EP not fun.
Sincerely
SoS

And after capping everything on our BL you guys keep 3 big guilds there? Where’s the fun :[. If only you were looking for fights, but you’re just keeping your megazerg together.

[Rx] Prescribed – Sea of Sorrows

Hi! [Rx] Prescribed is looking for dedicated and active WvW players that want to step up their game, wether you are a beginner or a seasoned veteran. The guild is composed of 162 members that play all aspects of the game and we have a smaller group of core WvW members. We recently transfered to Sea of Sorrows to seek a better WvW experience and we’re looking to expand our WvW group to ultimately pull off good numbers every night. What you’ll find in Rx:

-Great bunch of guys/girls who want to have fun above all.
-Experienced commanders and WvW players.
-We have skilled PvP’ers and PvE’ers who are always ready to help.
-TeamSpeak 3 server.
-Website.

If you want to be part of a guild that wants good fights and get things done in WvW, Rx might just be the one for you. If you’re interested, please contact Noziro ingame @ eksn.7264, Obi @ katsu.4052 or Lumynna @ jboltz.4805.

Thanks!

Hey, I’ve been playing GW2 since beta but I just started on PvP. I’m looking to get very serious with this. I played games like Counter-Strike and League of Legends at a high level and I have good communication, teamplay, and I learn fast. I’m looking for a team who would be willing to tryout that kind of player. I’m located on the east coast and have plenty of time to play and practice.

I’m not sure if this has been discussed before, but in the likes of League of Legends and Dota 2, how about releasing a free to play version of the GW2 PvP?

“ANet won’t make money if it’s F2P.”
F2P isn’t a charity, it’s a business model that games use to bring the most amount of people to try their game while still making money. Riot Games and Valve are making WAY more money than they spend on the production of their games, and ANet already has a well implemented microtransaction system. Adjusting it for PvP for things like buying your armor and weapon skins with real money, but still having the option of unlocking through gameplay like LoL does it.
ANet wants the PvP to be seen as a legit, competitive eSports title in its own right, but since it’s attached to the PvE (as in you have to buy the PvE to play th PvP), most people just see it as just another PvP of some other MMO, or want to try it but don’t want to pay the full price.
If you look at some of the most popular competitive eSports title out there: League of Legends, Dota 2, World of Tanks… They are f2p and make a TON of money, and I think going the same route could give GW2 PvP the shot it deserves as a competitive game.

“Do you even play LoL or Dota? Their communities are horrible because of f2p.”
The same can be said for any community. The Starcraft and Counter-Strike communities are arguably worst, and they’re not f2p titles. This is about bringing the most amount of people to notice and ultimately play your game.

There’s plenty of arguments for and against f2p. What do you guys think?

I still like the look, I just wish it was as good as the female version. And no, I don’t want to change gender.

Arah helm + gloves + legs, pit fighter shoulders, Twilight Arbor chest, Primeval boots.

2 more: http://imgur.com/a/6wj2H

Hi, I have a male Norn ranger with (almost all) T3 cultural armor. Compared to the female version, it feels extremely underwhelming: http://i.imgur.com/rDxTYAy.jpg

The female version seems to have more details and way better textures, while the male version doesn’t even have any shiny metal parts, it’s all matte.

Any of you who bought the set feel the same way? I guess this is kind of a request to Anet to refine this armor set a bit to bring it up to par with the female version.

Hi, it’s probably been suggested before, but I thought I’d make a quick visual example of how showing/hiding your kit backpack could look: http://i.imgur.com/V3GbFar.jpg

Having this weird clunky backpack over a cool armor set that you’ve been farming for a while just feels a bit underwhelming.

I’d like to make another suggestion too: why not have kit skins depending on your level so level 80 engineers have awesome looking kits?