Guild Wars 2

Maybe get rid of the season achievements. So sick & tired of reading ‘let me take the ram as I have mastery’ or ‘only people with level 3 -5 mastery’. Are people getting worked up over this because of the demolition expert achievement? (you can get this without using a ram).
What’s changed….more people on our server meaning competitive matches. Now a rarity to see the out manned sign which was so common in the past.

Ragnar.4257:

Sreoom.3690:

Sorry. Still am wondering what if…

Like I said, people would idle in spawn until they could play again, so they don’t incur the penalty for not getting enough wxp before leaving.

It would significantly increase queue times.

You cannot idle in the spawn too long as it is because you get kicked for being inactive.

Had about five drops today from loot bags.

Tarkus.4109:

This has been an issue since launch and they can’t really do that report option as it would be abused too easily

Yes; when i first joined WvW, during the learning process – I used supplies to repair a wall in stonemist, some players decided to throw abuse my way and did not like it when I gave it back; in doing so I got labelled as a ‘spy’ etc. Problem is there are too many childish players who would report people at a drop of a hat for no good reason whatsoever.

If players are spying for other servers how much success does it lead to in reality?

Until someone figures out a way to even numbers out in world vs world, little is going to change. Free transfers to the struggling servers is always helpful. I know vabbi, fissure of woe & whiteside ridge in the EU bronze league need a lot more players (as an example).

Which would be more frustrating; being on a server where there is no guarantee of playing time because of massive numbers or being on a server unable to compete due to lack of numbers?

Going to be a real challenge if three strong sides play one another – as an example ros,drakkar, blacktide. So far all matches have had two strong servers vs one weak server.

Respect !. Know you guys struggle for numbers and have horrible match ups a lot of times but you fight hard. Good luck, hope the recruiting goes well.

Ayrilana.1396:

My opinion is that SM should be held but not actively defended. It takes so many resources to defend it and the outer wall will almost always be down. I’ve seen servers lose so many camps/towers at the cost of holding SM.

Good point; Ros did exactly this today. Commanders were so focused on getting Stonemist the opposition were running around capturing all camps & towers around our keep plus attacking our keep on numerous occasions.
Alternatively sides still want to capture SM & defend it as they gain the advantage of being able to treb towers & keeps if they are in reach which puts a lot more pressure on any server trying to capture SM, as you can almost be assured a large zerg will suddenly appear inside SM to oppose the attacking side.
To my thinking, if a side holds SM for long periods of time there is a good change they will win the match up.

gawd i feel sorry for some of the lower power servers as they have no chance whatsoever – they are an easy target; in saying this I had to laugh last week when we (ros) were having a large scale battle on the walls of stonemist against rof. While this was happening fow sneaked in and took stonemist.

Ros can come back & win although we might need to start employing the same tactic’s. Form a couple of giant zergs so we can combat the giant zergs running around the maps otherwise it might be a case of running around in circle’s trying to recapture everything. Guild vs guild only works if all sides are doing the same.
Spies in garrison’s or stonemist? how unusual…..isn’t it why sides do sweeps for mesmers & thieves?

Yeah….unfortunately not a lot can be done if you run into over powered groups. We have the problem at the moment of 40+ zergs camping in our spawn wiping out anyone brave enough to venture out or small groups of thieves hanging around the keep picking people off.
Think reality is, these days you need to run with a reasonable size group or even zerg to be competitive or have a chance of surviving and i’m playing on a bronze server.

Nev.5316:

I think they should make it tradeable, this would make it easier for the people who do not want to rely on rng to get it, and it will help people who have excessive amounts of them to sell it to those who do not have enough. Specially that ascended armor is coming out soon.

Agreed, trade-able would be the way to go.

They sure are plus the exotics are costly to craft. Even more ironic considering the inscriptions are worth up to four times more than the crafted item.

Being able to craft the different runes of holding would be nice as they are relatively expensive for the sake of bag crafting.

Crafted a knight’s pearl blunderbuss then salvaged and received 3 dark matter. Made 3 other exotic items and none dropped dark matter. Going to be a real case of hit & miss.

Found WvW is good place for obtaining components for rune & sigil crafting

Okay, was not aware of the time period. I’ll keep trying.

So we need globs of dark matter for crafting ascended weapons; that’s all fine & dandy. I have been playing this game for a year, during the past 12 months I have salvaged many rare/exotic items using black lion salvage kits, mystic salvage kits etc. So far I have had one glob of dark matter – why oh why is it so difficult to obtain an essential crafting material for ascended weapons? Also assume you might need some for legendary weapons too?
You cannot buy dark matter through the tp. Can you obtain any in dungeons?
This is becoming a source of frustration now.
Is it a case of crafting items between level 400-500 then salvaging?

What are people’s suggestions?

All commanders were new at some stage; not all people will succeed as a commander, such is life. As for trolling; happens whether we like it or not; surely most players would have enough common sense to avoid the particular person in the future.

Rangers not necessarily good at one on one from my experience (maybe it’s just me); however we rangers can be very effective in a group, using ranged skills with the long bow which can cause a fair amount of damage to a few players. Like any class you need to work out how to approach battles so you have an advantage over the enemy.

As for thieves, man they are annoying lol. Got to be the best class for roaming and picking people off. had a group of around four roaming between our keep & stonemist last week picking endless people off.

That was the most insane three way battle ever experienced for SM this morning (ever experienced full stop) – not quite sure how we held off both AS & BT for such a period of time. Congrats to AS for the persistence with eventually taking SM .

I would like to know what percentage of WvW players are so called ‘hardcore’ and played from the beginning vs other players that ended up playing for different reasons. I got into WvW after looking into crafting legendary items (8 months ago) and finding out you needed badges of honor and have not looked back since (now heading toward level 270). When I run around PvE maps the numbers are not huge by any means unless new content has been introduced, in fact it’s not uncommon to come across only one or two other players on a map which lead me to believe PvE had died to a certain extent.

Reality is people can join WvW whenever they desire; they can decide to become ‘hardcore’ or play on a more casual basis or just go in for the achievements – who are we to decide otherwise?

Even before the changes to world vs world there were tons of people lurking around in Lions Arch which made me wonder why our server struggled for numbers in WvW. Yes the numbers increased over the last two weeks as a free transfer had been introduced to ros, plus some guilds came back. I am glad numbers for WvW picked as ros can now compete in the bronze league. We have queues now although the waiting time is a lot less than high or very high pop servers (maybe 20-30min).
I have experienced the same on other online games; having to wait various lengths of time to play on my favorite servers; little can be done if a game is popular.

This issue is across the board; W v W & PvE; just not quite as bad in PvE.

225 dolyaks is slightly less than the original numbers…..took 8 months to kill 1000 of them lol

No one playing……won’t affect the league.

Looks like most people are experiencing the same (if not all). Might be a blessing with the lag. World vs world has become so popular the servers cannot handle the traffic….haha

Seems like the game has crashed now; I cannot log back in and yes the lag today is terrible; unable to use my weapon at times, even farming for ore was impossible.

Not quite sure why we were so obsessed with capturing SM tonight; well defended bt! battles big & small going on all over the place, towers & camps being lost& recaptured – bt & arborstone fighting back, this has been so much fun; can ros keep hold of their lead for the rest of this week?

Banzie.5248:

johnnymiller.5968:

Whatever the issues are, its not just on W v W; Since Blood & Madness became active weird things are happening on some of the P v E maps too.

Not many here care about pve maps :p

No doubt lol; just a thought – there are issues across the board so to speak, could all be related……

Whatever the issues are, its not just on W v W; Since Blood & Madness became active weird things are happening on some of the P v E maps too.

Had to queue this morning for the first time in at least 3 months due to all the transfers on to our server (ros); I was more than happy to queue as ros finally has numbers to compete. Mind you waiting for a few minutes is a kitten sight better than 4 hours. Perhaps if people end up waiting hours for W v W the numbers might start evening out across different servers.

skill lag is present in the bronze league too, so bad at some stage I cannot even use my weapons and there seems to be a bug with reviving people too; outside of that its been a ton of fun so far today.

Been a few awesome large scale battles today! I am surprised at the numbers on ros now – this could end up like last week if bt in particular do not make a fight back.

Understands the frustration. Currently stuck on the Ossuary of Unquiet Dead; had numerous attempts at trying to beat this solo, cannot get past the lower chamber section, my character is a guardian which has a lack of ranged options which makes it easy to be wiped out.

Wxp is still the same? are the pouches & badges & random loot given out after taking a camp, tower, keep etc?

One thing learned when playing French servers; tell them they can’t fight or mention how they run and they will fight & not run. Perhaps it takes a bit of gamesmanship to get the best out of them or the French might have a more relaxed attitude toward W v W, who knows.

The German servers are always good to battle against in my experience.

Can anyone list all the servers in the bronze league? And to coin a phrase ‘lets not count our chickens before they hatch’. Hopefully ros has a chance of winning. If you win the bronze league do you head up to silver? (have not read up on this) as it looks like certain silver league servers are having trouble too with gap’s in numbers so many of their matches could be one sided.

To think we played some of the fore mentioned servers and now they are out of our league – Mind you FSP crushed us last time ros were matched against them guess it explains why they are silver now.

I am ‘oceanic’ on ros although the only one left from my guild (one man guild….)

Madthunder.6581:

to be honest im impressed on how well vabbi can hold onto stuff when against superior odds the other day we had to treb bravost from valley just to get near the gate if you guys keep that up you might one day get the transfers you need to get to higher tiers

Yeah, both sides put up some very tough battles at times.

As for bt warring on us, often been the case in recent times

Hamham.7504:

I’m curious if RoS can win bronze. With so many bandwa… transfers coming, I wonder if it’s enough.
What do you think? Aimed at anyone of course.

Edit: I changed my mind about coming back, sorry. :<

kitten ed if we do & kitten ed if we don’t? Ros are in need of more people so we can have a chance against higher ranked servers otherwise the match ups will be against vabbi & wrs, fow all the time leading to these stupid one sided matches, unless Anet promote free transfers to the fore mentioned servers too or combine them into one……
There is no pleasure in winning lopsided matches (at least not for me).
should it matter where players/guilds decide to play? without being labeled?
My first week playing WvW was on the Piken Square server which I decided to try during the free transfer week earlier this year as i wanted to see the difference in PvE numbers, guess it makes me a ‘bandwagoner’ to for going to back to my original server lol

Being in the oceanic time zone you can end up in NA & EU prime times – especially during the weekend as well as covering part of the SEA time zone plus being able to cover the hours people in EU & NA are sleeping. I’ve had to queue before on Saturday & Sunday morning’s not that its an issue by any means.

6am – 3pm (NZ time) covers EU & NA prime or part of it at least. SEA prime would be mid evening through to probably 5am here depending on which country they play from.

Finished the yak slapper achievement as it was scaled down and there is no title associated with it same with master of disaster & realm defender.

Laxus.3062:

oh my ros is making this too easy

trebb really?? X’D

Haha – use whatever means necessary. Think it was aborstone last week which had set up a treb down the gully between orgewatch & pangloss to treb veluka. Also been trebbed from Danelon passage before while trying to defend Langor.

Loewenherz.1036:

I’m thinking about transfering over to RoS because of the WvW but also the normal PvE. As the Server is only medium populated (mine is high but i think there are so few pople on) idk if it’s worth it. How’s the Server Population compared to other worlds? And how is this World performing in WvW?

Compared to Piken Square where I played for one week during the free transfers the number in PvE & WvW are far less, also I play from New Zealand so my time zone impacts on the amount of players around when I’m logged in. It can be very quiet in PvE & WvW between 3pm & 9pm NZ time.
Generally in WvW ros has struggled against at least one side so I am guessing our server rank stays static or on occasion heads backward. This may change now players/guilds are returning plus some new players/guilds transferred over.

The current match up is totally one sided, sadly.

Yeah, same thing with our current match up although we are the winning server.

YuGiOh.4906:

johnnymiller.5968:

Wsr & vabbi are putting up some good fights tonight and winning back territory – I cheered to myself when wsr won their keep back on EB and I’m enemy. Refreshing to see the scores evening out a bit!

Even out? Are you seriously saying you think is fun for any server?

RoS should count themselves lucky this week, neither Vabbi or WSR have a fair fight, other than each other of course. RoS have it easy, boring but easy, we have it hard, extremely hard. Neither Vabbi or WSR can pull numbers this week and thats why your bored.

It’s a PvE / sPvP week here soo… its not a total loss :P

Yeah fair call; I was thinking about the potential points you see at the top of the screen anytime logged into world vs world – instead of being say 545 points like it is today the potential score had dropped down to the low 300’s, the game at that stage was not one sided.
Think about this, some of us may want to see your servers doing well & competing. Not quite sure why we should consider ourselves lucky though, if this round was a fair fight 24/7 and ros did not come out on top so be it.
Vabbi could not pull numbers last time we played each other so I assume this is an ongoing problem. Bored? far from.