Considering we have a fraction of the WvW population of the other two servers I was really enjoying holding the bottom half of BD borderlands…
I knew it would come to an end but I didn’t expect the late night crew to blatantly exploit.
Just fought about 50 DB on their borderlands, 1:40 am eastern time.
Can you explain to me how you were able to shoot past our bridge with arrow carts in hills?
If I’m wrong just show me where you place carts to do that, and how you AOE the Tower Lord from on the ground as well.
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I just hope this new ratting system works….
If you ask me the whole WvW score system needs a rework.
SBI has one of the best server communities I’ve ever seen, even outside of WvWvW there are always little events going on.
Right now we are lacking people in the WvW scene but when we do show up we rock!
Awesome job guys, thanks for the great feedback!
I was going to write a more detailed post running over the various flaws of WvWvW but I decided to come to the community first.
I spend a great deal of time talking with my server community (Stormbluff Isle) about how WvWvW could be a better experience, and we’ve discussed a lot of issues.
Let’s come together and post our top flaws!
Did anything ever come of this?
I play on SBI and you guys are putting up a good fight. We don’t seem to have the numbers we used to and I wouldn’t be surprised if Stormbluff eventually falls down a tier.
People just don’t seem interested in WvW when you play against a server in a different time zone.
Customers or not, the fact that World vs. World is balanced around a server having a full population at all times of the day and night is an absolute joke.
It’s not fun, and it end up being repetitive.
Did you know it is always day some where in the world?
Did you know it is always night somewhere in the word? What’s your point?
Customers or not, the fact that World vs. World is balanced around a server having a full population at all times of the day and night is an absolute joke.
It’s not fun, and it end up being repetitive.
It’s been around 8 months since the release of the game and I’m beginning to have a hard time caring about WvWvW for a number of reasons…
I find it incredibly difficult to log in every day/night to find everything I’ve fought for has been undone. There is no substance to WvW, It’s lacking staying power when everything you do it lost every night/week just to do it all over again.
eople tell me, “Well your server needs to recruit a guild to play at your off time…” That’s a kitten excuse for lazy balance mechanics.
You see servers dropping tiers left and right because guilds from different time zones leave in a mass exodus, and that really is a shame because it’s sending a message about how having a high populated server with guilds that log on at all times of the day is the only way to go up in tiers.
How do you stay positive when all your work is lost? How do you motivated people to keep playing WvW when they’ve grown tired of it?
Seriously, it sounds like an old man flatulating into a sea shell! It’s such a brief little spurt, and it really sounds terrible compared to most of the other sounds within the game.
Here is a compilation of warhorn sounds used in the LOTR trilogy, showing just how amazing warhorns can sound…
At the very least, the legendary Warhorn should sound different from all of the rest…
Same thing happened to Stormbluff Isle, then all of our Korean players left and we’ve been in T4 ever since.
I regenerate around 400-500 health every few seconds using this signet. It’s pretty amazing combined with adrenaline regeneration and 1,200 healing.
It has it’s uses combined with traits, but if used alone without traits it’s crap.
I use mace exclusively for my healing build, but it’s so glob kitten boring!
I find it odd that the mace dose not apply vulnerability, as it’s a blunt weapon that should crush/dent heavy armor, leaving them open to attack.
In fact, I think the Greatsword should lose the vulnerability on it’s 3rd attack because the weapon is just too good. If you want to be a DPS warrior you must use Greatsword….
You also will never see a warrior using a mace in the meta builds of sPvP because a hammer is just so much more versatile.
Keyword though: BORING!
I took a break for a few months and I’m really surprised at the lack weapon recipes for the mystic forge. The game has been out since August 28, 2012!
As most of us know, acquiring a cool looking weapon via a drop is incredibly rare thanks to RNG, so the Mystic Forge is always a safe way to get that guaranteed item, even it takes a long time to farm all that gold!
Let’s break down the number of weapons currently available through the Mystic Forge.
Axes: 5
Daggers: 3
Focus: 15 (Really?)
Greatsword: 4
Hammer: 2
Longbow: 3
Pistol: 2
Scepter: 4
Shield: 4
Shortbow: 3
Spear: 2
Staff: 2
Sword: 7
Torch: 1
Trident: 1
Please note, these are items with a fixed recipe, not RNG/Random Mystic Forge output items. (Also I may have missed a few items).
In short, are we going to get some new recipes or models exclusive to the forge?
So why should I spend 4 hours running Arah when I can run CoF for the same rewards x4?
The big thing this game is lacking is rewards for time spent doing an activity. Even WvW fails at this. You spend x amount of hours controlling a map only to log out and loose everything.
I could spend 6 hours farming for lodestones and get 1-2 if I’m lucky, or I could just farm gold and buy them instead.
Gold is king in GW2, there is nothing ells to do once you’ve been 80 for 2-3 months.
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Arah also takes hours to complete and you get kitten as a result
Didn’t they state a long time ago that they were planing on adding unique loot tables to dungeons?
I’ve been away for the last 4 months, but I remember something being said about this.
I haven’t been able to run CoF speed runs because I’m lacking a full set of zerk gear. I’m also not saying it’s a bad thing, but it’s currently the most effective way to make gold and it requires a certain class/spec/armor set.
All good points!
Interesting topic going on over at Reddit, basically discussing how CoF speed runs make a mockery of every other fractal/dungeon in the game in terms of rewards and gold/hour possibilities.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1d0p09/high_level_fractals_and_the_loot_joy_and_sighs/
What do you think?
I have been trying to complete this event since I first started playing months ago and today I was able to get it started.
I even invited a friend to tag along so we could record the awesomeness of the events and the Quagan games!
We did three events and sadly figured out that after training the two champions the next event does not trigger! This is sad news indeed and I really hope they fix this event chain!
The Quagan says, “Booooo hoooooooooooo”
Video bellow of the event, the sound bugged out so you can only hear one person on mic.
I was at the karka event and didn’t get anything amazing, but I was told that people who complained about missing the event were mailed pre-cursors.
I got a named focus, and the 25+ stat item.
I agree, and sadly 99% of all the times in the chests are crap to begin with!
Braham has the coolest shield I have ever seen! I’m a huge HUGE wolf lover, and I’m trying to collect all the items in the game that have any kind of wolf theme to them…
His gloves even have wolves carved into the bracers!
Is there any chance his shield will be a future item? It’s amazing looking! They eyes glow when he equips it!
50+ Keys no weapon skin :\
I feel like I have been cheated and robbed by a cheap money making scheme. I understand the game is free to play, and that money must be made, but it’s not fun throwing away real money in hopes of getting a skin drop.
Why not make it so for each chest you open you get a 2% increase chance to get a rare item?
I just spoke to a friend who only opened 8 chests and got a skin, others have opened 100+ and received nothing of value…
This is the worst thing that could possibly happen for me…
I was so excited to see what Cantha would look like on this amazing engine and for it not to be in the game is a travesty…
I almost feel like quitting knowing that my favorite zone won’t ever show up.
There is a issue with steel-series mice where the mouse will sometimes double click. They came out with a software to run when you start up the computer to fix this problem but I had just logged in really quick after work to move my tokens to my inventory.
I saw the prompt come up saying “Do you want to delete these items” and was pretty sure I clicked outside the prompt box, but I do not see my 250 tokens anywhere so I assumed the worst…
I honestly don’t think I will be able to run HotW again for a long time, I was only a few runs away from having enough for a complete set of armor and having to grind through this now boring dungeon again has be so turned off…
Has this happened to anyone?! Is there anything I can do? :C
All those pro players in their uber alliance basically kittened up the top teir
What’s the deal? Why is Henge not even trying? It’s kind of hard to play WvW when it’s only 1 vs. 1….
WvWvW is so broken….
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The wailing audio bug has happened 5 times for me today while in Cursed Shore, each time I was doing events with large groups…
I’m sure it has to do with some combination of sounds or abilities being used…
Has this been happening to anyone ells on an increasing level?!
I think the future of this game will be amazing and they WILL listen to what the fan base is saying when adding new content.
However, I think for now we our stuck with a game that might leave much to be desired for long term players. It’s just a matter of waiting and letting Anet do their thing.
They move slow and methodically.
I’m so sick of every NPC that accompanies you in a dungeon falling flat on their faces. It takes away from the immersion and really makes the Pact members look silly.
Just reduce their damage by 50% and give them a boat load of extra health. I would rather feel like I’m taking part in an epic struggle with memorable NPC’s from around the world then worry about them doing “fair” damage in a fight.
This was brought up multiple times in beta and it’s something that still bothers me today…
First off, we could not target them because they would randomly reset during the fight if you pulled them more then a few feet away from the boss.
I have done all paths many times, but our group was having difficulties because the hunters were using their barrage, placing AoE all over the ground and then would randomly reset.
I also highly doubt the boss is supposed to keep applying “Jormag’s Shield” to himself while out of combat…
A stack of 66? That sounds broken.
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Where was the part about legendary weapons being easy to make? :P
We were able to reset the dungeon and completed it the normal way, hopefully someone from Anet will make note of this bug.
Today me and some guildies tried to run path 1 of HotW, after pulling the normal mobs that congregate in front of the second boss, Aldus Strombringer, we paused for a moment only to see that Aldus was summoning veterans.
At first there were just two, but when we pulled them back they reset, and then there were 3. They reset again and we tried fighting them in range of the boss but could not stay up due to the 3 veterans running around at the same time as the boss.
When we came back the boss had 5 veterans up and he also had 66 stacks of “Shield of Jormag” on him…
I have a screen attached.
http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd184/grifflyman/gw037.jpg
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Everyone, come!
Thanks for the info, it sounds tempting to do in WvW.
Stag armor leggings look amazing on a women, ;O
Come play on SBI and we will take care of you!
The image of the skins do not show the particle effects, unique animations or other effects the Legendary weapons might have…
At least that’s what I think…
Remember that they might be letting bots like this get away with it so they can find patterns within the botting code. Just be patient.
I think people are slowly starting to play for fun instead of outcome because nothing can be done aganst a server with more queue time then your own.
I think the key is to try and win the battles, don’t worry about the war.
I would love to try out a healing build for a warrior using shouts and banners but I’m worried that the only practical use would be in dungeons and WvW. I don’t like the thought of it taking me longer to kill mobs in Cursed Shore, but I haven’t tested anything…
Is your farming ability drastically dropped if your spect to heal/tank?
How much does your banner heal for and tick for with the trait?
Oh word? What about the Skeggox?
I have a question about weaponsmithing and the high-end weapons you can craft.
The Pearl weapons seem to be much much more easy to craft then the Skeggox or Destroyer counterparts, but the stats are the same for each weapon type and the weapons themselves don’t have any kind of unique skin.
You can take a look and compare an Pearl explorer axe with a Destroyer explorer axe bellow:
http://www.gw2db.com/recipes/8402-explorers-pearl-reaver
http://www.gw2db.com/recipes/11333-explorers-destroyer-axe
The lodestone seem to drop very very rarely so I don’t see why anyone would take the time to make a weapon with the same stats as a normally crafted pearl weapon…
Thoughts?