Guild Wars 2

How about this:
Each garrison gives an orb bonus. So controlling the garrisons in every borderlands will give all three orb bonuses. There is no longer a physical orb.

I like the way the orb is designed, but until the bugs/exploits are taken care of, this could be a good solution.

Another FA exploiter was glitching through watergate in Ascension Bay. He’s been reported. But in trying to track that guy down, and click on him in time, we lost focus on the real attacks happening. All these bugs are frustrating. The game is fun. I don’t know why people keep trying to ruin it for others. Maguuma’s been in last place the whole time, but we keep throwing money at it, and investing long hours into building things up, despite having orbs vanishing into the sky, and other exploits defeating hours of our work. It does, however, make less people play. And that is hurting us a lot, because we already have fewer players to begin with. I think I have something like 14k total supply used. I’m still trying.

Do not limit a perfectly designed griefing system in a pvp environment. It is one of the highlights of the game. Anet needs to crackdown on fixing the numerous exploits people are using and patch more frequently.

Yeah. They don’t last long at all. I’m using D/D to test it so far. Quickness on 2nd dagger. I think it works okay for D/D because you are spamming abilities in close-range constantly, but there’s probably better rune choices.

I’m going to test this out because I play with 15 arcana and my attunements already have a 12s cd; so after using all 4, and setting up the next rotation, I should be able to get 12 stacks and maintain them, or higher.

The limitation does not want you to be able to get 25 stacks on your own, which is fine, because that would be 875 power and condition damage. Every good tournament team is going to try and stack to 25 at the start of every match. I, personally, prefer WvW, and every advantage I can give myself there is eagerly welcomed.

Fort Aspenwood took the orb from north, while we took our garrison back. They then ran it back to garrison without realizing we took it and tried to take the orb there. My level 3 warrior killed the carrier and capped the orb in the garrison they previously had.

It is very annoying. You’d think the other teams would notice, and pick up the orb from the top and let you kill them, but they don’t. They put it in their base and use the exploiter to their own advantage. I agree with “disable the orbs until they’re fixed.”

From my experience, it’s always just been a bugged skill point. You have to bug report with a screen shot, and it’s usually fixed in a day or so.

A simple player portrait with their name on it to the right of the current target would suffice for this. On a toggle (for those who might lag from this).

This seems like something that is needed in this game. Especially in WvW and PvE where you can’t simply look at the party frames to determine where/when someone is taking damage.

Other targeting options:
/tar [target]
/focus [target]
These you would enter from the chat line.

The ratings haven’t been updated at all, despite saying 10/5.

I really hope they add a c.o.d. to the mailing system for trading.

Yes. Please add more options. Such as the ability to delete someone. It only lets us report someone. ???

Adding a small text box to put in who’s who in your list would be nice. So you can remember by their in-game name for a specific character that you more readily recognize. Or add their real name/ voice chat name. Etc.

And the Looking For Group thing needs to let us put what we’re looking for. As in the dungeon name, or short name.

An open world pvp would be great. Because WvW gets extremely dull when you’re dominating the map by day 2. When it reaches a two week period, it’s just going to get boring faster. I’d like to at least be able to duel people. Have it only enabled in the Mists if it’s a big issue. I know a lot of people don’t want to be spammed with duel requests.

All drama aside, I believe we at Maguuma have spent more money while winning than while losing. I, personally, have spent 3-4x more than I did on day one the last few days. We like to hold what we take with an impressive force. If you push us, we’ll come back 10 fold.

So much trolling in this tread. Maguuma has about 10000 guilds. 20 people try to lead. 50 people troll those people. There’s very little organization or money being put into siege, and upgrades. We lose more people every day. I’ve been in maybe 3 parties this entire week. Only one of them was mildly successful. It fell apart when the rest of the team didn’t follow suit, and we wasted time on day one with trebs in a pointless area, when rams would have been 10x faster. I think I did 2-3 puzzles for siege because they were always packed with enemy and 0 teammates. There’s no alliances. Give it a rest. You make yourself look foolish every time you moan about that. We have no alliance with each other, either. That’s how bad it is. It’s just one big argument. Money wasted. Plans neglected, or trolled. Playing for ressurection and repair achievement titles 90% of the time. lmao

What Mog just posted was complete nonsense. See my 2nd pic (directly above his post) for proof.

Top pic: The approach to southern SM from Maguuma.

Bottom pic: Ehmery Bay’s approach from northern SM resulted in them attacking us, instead of Tarnished Coast, the owners of SM. /facepalm.

Battle for first. Not second. Kthx.

I really would like to be able to prove to my team how much work I’m doing to repair our keeps, and money I spend on siege, but all those achievements require months of work to achieve for their respective titles. I’ve ran so much supply from supply camps to keep, instead of taking it from the keep, and I’ll get trolled with having taken it from the keep instead. sigh

When a team has a high rank, then is pitted with a similar ranked team that has a higher population (in pvp); that’s when it goes down the kitten-er.

I can solo every npc as an elementalist. They are not too hard. You should not be able to solo an entire supply camp, but it shouldn’t be impossible. It isn’t impossible. The only mobs that are truly annoying to kill are the kraits underwater. Sometimes 4+ will attack you underwater, then one of them will glitch invulnerable. It never fails.

It costs lots of money to upgrade keeps, camps, and towers. I don’t think making it easier to take them from people should happen.

There are wonderful siege available for breaking apart zergs from inside your bases. Use them wisely, and with friends.

I think it would help to be able to track the enemy’s dots on the map somehow. Perhaps give that to an out-manned team. Mini-map max-range only.

Please make waypoints available in every base, and purchasable with badges. Something like that. Maybe not every base. All the zone running is probably the biggest flaw in WvW, outside of outnumbered.

I think you should be able to steal supply from killing an enemy’s dolyak. That would be fun.

The reward of finally completing the EB puzzle vs relentless griefing makes it that much more enjoyable. As a solo player, it’s obviously really annoying, but every pvp game needs things like this. Chin up, buttercup. Rangers have a massive advantage in there, however.

“3. Reduce the effect of night capping”
Agreed. If one team has less than 20 players, all walls and gates should be 2x harder to kill at the least. If you control half the map, go to sleep, and wake up to having none of it, you’re not going to play that map anymore. I think out-numbering shouldn’t even be allowed.

As for PVE puzzles (4), that is one of the biggest griefing parts of the game. Preventing the other team from getting free siege and badges is actually helping your team.

Re: 9. I’m pretty sure everyone wants to auto-loot badges. There’s nothing worse than being dead beside a loot bag you can never get back to.

Can someone outline the pros and cons of DAoC? I never played it and am curious what improvements could feasibly be made with WvW.

In my perspective, the biggest drawback is lack of players on one server over another. And then buffing the bigger team with orbs, and large zergs. It only makes less people queue. It’s getting worse.

Outnumbered kills Maguuma every time. Go to sleep, people. Geez. It’s not winning if there’s no pvp.

Weapon damage
Power
Precision (40% crit or higher recommended), (If you’re using the heal on damage signet, this ends up being the best way to heal by far.)
Crit damage
Armor
Vitality (16k hp minimum)
Toughness
Condition damage (situational bump up list if you’re using that kind of spec)
Healing Power

Have at least 2 cc breaks imo.
Glyph of Elementals is the most diverse ultimate, (while not underwater).
Tornado when zerging into a massive group of people, or holding a node. Knocking people off things. etc.

What I did was buy all the karma gear in WvW for 6pc. And bought green weapons off the Trading Post for under 5s each that gave me crit instead of toughness/vit. Bought all accessories, etc. from TP with all crit, too. I use Mist Form, Armor of Earth, and either Teleport, Arcane Blast, or 10% speed signet.

There’s times when you’re just spamming an auto-cast because everything’s on CD and you can’t switch attunements. Weapon swap would solve that. I mean, you have to end in fire or air spec every time (especially air if you’re kiting), or you’re sitting in a trash damage spec until attunements come back up, even with an arcana spec.

Should be enabled for WvW. sPVP might be OP. I dunno. I dislike having to out-range to switch, only to be kittened with a staff out in a DW spec. Put a 10s cd on it if it’s so scary.

I’ve seen a warrior do 15k in 1 hit. Get over it. Whirlpool is easy to get out of range of. L2P issue. ie. If you’re following an ele into the water and they stop fleeing, you should know why. Any guardian who dies to an ele is just plain bad.

Mediocre at best.

I’d think you’d be a waste of a member if you sat in water in tourney play. I do it at the gates beside rams in WvW. It helps the team a lot. I’m always the first rezzed because people like seeing (passive) +336. I don’t even use healing gear. Weapon swap really needs to be enabled in WvW because of wall range/ melee range being so back and forth there.

I never survive being downed unless I can get LoS with mist-form. I focus on never getting downed.

I’ll stick to 200 point range from just kills. Let me swap to staff in combat and I’ll bump it to 1000.

That how2 warrior video was hilarious.

Thief is insanely OP. People get equally enraged when you mention it.

Steal. Pistol whip (4 crits). This is not survivable. You have to 1. See the thief first. and 2. Use invulnerability. Otherwise it’s such extreme damage that your dead in 1s. Literally 1s.

Kyros’ build helped me a lot. When I ditched the staff in wvw the game actually made sense again. The only thing I don’t like is that we can’t swap to staff in combat to AoE above gates and things. I forgot all about being able to swap weapons yesterday. lol I was thinking “I need to respec because no one is taking out the wall siege, and we’re getting owned.” Also, healing, and sometimes the sprint, are better with staff.

I found this video yesterday, and it made me lol. I’m not sure if it was posted here or not. It’s pretty accurate when describing thieves. http://youtu.be/Hh5zjK7ITpQ

I would like to know how people play each class 1v1 in WvW?
Especially since ALL of the gear is toughness, and your crit becomes 30% (while using the signet). It’s pretty harsh. I would like 50% crit. I’m using sceptre/dagger. Haven’t tried focus or DD.

I completed the EB jumping puzzle today. Proud moment. lol. Didn’t have any pesky opponents in the way. Other things I do aside from WvW: 61% world completion. It keeps me entertained. I try to do random achievements, and find all the jumping puzzles. I’m sure I’ve missed plenty, but I don’t want to read spoilers until I complete the world % thang.

Some really good feedback in here. I’m more impressed with the forum community than my particular server’s performance in WvW. Hah.

If they took the repair costs out of pvp deaths, that would help people who are saving tokens for items, and want to purchase upgrades and siege for their realm with hard-earned coin. You could leave in repair costs for times when a turret/ cannon/ Guard / NPC kills you. It’s really hard to make any money when you’re always getting zerged. This makes people leave. And then it’s a giant battleground of doldrum.

I agree that “winning is the reward for winning.” Add on to the fact that your server had the most amount of bonuses for your realm, and that you kept 2 other realms from getting max bonuses.

1. The winning team will have the most buffs (the orbs)
2. It becomes a waste of money/badges to buy siege after a certain point, thereby making it even easier for the winning team to hold the map.
3. People on the losing teams stop playing, so you’re almost always out-numbered.
4. There’s no hope in hell of beating a server that has max players at all hours when yours only has people who play between 8pm-11pm most of the time.

Overall it’s hilariously unbalanced, and all you do is waste money on siege and repair bills.

What I’d change:

1. Out-numbered should buff your hp/toughness, not magic find. That just makes people ignore pvp and run around farming lettuce.
2. Provide more siege drops from enemy NPCs.
3. Have it so if someone finishes the opponent that you also did damage to, give you a badge of honor, too. It’s a zerg to finish people off all the time.

And, apparently, we’ll go to two week matches, which would make it even worse. The only practical application of playing after losing badly after day 1 would be to get the bonuses for your realm, and then go back to PVEing. That should not be what the game comes to, but it is so far.

You can’t do anything vs any melee class as an elementalist. It is in no way balanced whatsoever. Guardians are god. Warriors stun-lock, spin and win. Thief hits you 100 times before you can cast. Ranger kills you before you can heal. Every class can out-run you, and out maneuver you. This is like the complete opposite of what I’m used to for a caster. Try doing the jumping puzzles in wvw as an elementalist, and you’ll get owned repeatedly. There’s literally nothing you can do about it. /end thread.

Info:
*In-game name: Leafy Lass
*Playing a Sylvarian Elementalist

*Male 36
*Play everyday.
*42% world completion (finishing this and personal quest have trumped all else thus far)
*544 achievement points so far
*Currently in my own guild with 1 other member I don’t even know because I wanted to see what a guild looked like.
*Friendly
*Highly Competitive in pvp
*Mature
*Decent PC (78 FPS)/ 30mb/s u/d connection

I have vent and a mic.
Prefer to be relatively casual until I hit 80.
low level tailoring and artificer (below 50s)

Main goal is finding a large guild that is organized in whatever they happen to be doing. One that is drama-free. Casual/srs.

Other MMOs played:
WoW until Cata/Firelands
Rift
Diablo 3
Never played GW1

Preference: Interested in Kripparian’s guild, if possible. Enjoyed his D3 and GW2 videos. I’m not trying to zerg to 80, or be elitist.