Guild Wars 2

If you press B and then Rank and Abilities you will find your rank and see if you have any bonus chests (which you gain automatically by ranking up).

Sleel.8365:

Not really. Any server not labeled as a specific language, is the default international language. Which, despite all the knickers that get in a knot from various nations, IS English. You wanna chat up in anything else, you can whisper, chat in your group, or in the growing number of nationality guilds.

We had this conversation back in the old thread, and yes, while English is AN international language it is not THE international language.
There are more.

Yes, it is those chests that you get (1 for place 3, 2 for 2 and 3 for 1) at the end of each match-up.

No, the only thing that effects those rewards are the placement your server has at the end of the match-up.

Have you seen any horses in Tyria?

Xae Isareth.1364:

Tell that to the WvWers in Underworld. We tried, we kitten tried.

But what the heck can you do when populations are whacked this much out of imbalance?

As said I am from UW (form more or less the only WvW-guild that actually stayed no less).

What we can do?
Well not give up for one.
I am seeing quite fun fights daily during these match-ups. And we can get quite a few people going if we just try a bit.

But I suppose people only playing for rewards as opposite of for fun might not find this interesting.

Well with an attitude like that of course you will fail.
But on the other hand, what does constitute a fail?
Not getting top 1?

In my eyes it is much more of a fail to just give up without a fight than placing last in a league (my server will most likely place last in EU silver, since we have yet to be even close to win a single match-up).

Even if you lose the league you can still “win” by not giving up and actually put up a fight.
The main issue is that people only see rewards instead of playing for the sake of fun.

Well, this was announced weeks before the league started, so it is not really something new ^^

And if that was not the case, most people would simply get their meta and then transfer to a winning server and thus invalidate the whole league.

Becka Williams.4978:

Good for you. Some of us need a reason to fight, not just fighting for it’s own sake.

And that is one of the biggest issues with todays gamers.
Instead of playing for the sake of fun, they feel the need to get something as a reward for playing.

And if you don’t think you are contributing, then you are clearly doing something wrong in WvW.
In WvW every single person is able to contribute in a real and useful way.

Also keep in mind that you actually need to get the Meta done in order to get rewards at all.

There is one big issue with NPC-helpers in GW2.

Dodging and avoiding certain attacks.

Either it would have to be extremely OP by avoiding every single attack the enemy made, or else they would be unable to avoid anything. And none of those situations are good.

Guhracie.3419:

You’re not going to use the original call for topics each time? Why not just rank everything and go down that list instead of wasting a week to gather and calculate?

Because things might change?
And some topics that were listed before the first topic might have been addressed before the next topic would be selected and thus would no longer be relevant.

It is a WvW-zone.
People are just playing as intended.

If you can’t handle it either don’t do them, or get a group of people and fight your way through.

And if they don’t give us details people whine about them not telling us what they are planning.
So what can they do?
If they don’t tell us people whine,
if they tell us but things turns up people whine,
heck even if they tell us and everything goes exactly as expected people whine.

It has more to do with certain traits getting removed and new added then traits being reworked.
So technically they are still new.

But how can you claim that you are right, when you are not the one in charge of the lore?

Things do change after all.
Back in the history of mankind we knew that the Earth was flat.
We also knew that the sun rotated around the Earth, not the other way around.

Just because some lore is one way at one time doesn’t mean it is stuck like that.
After all most lore we get is from in-game characters, and unless said characters are All-knowing (which they aren’t) they can very much convey incorrect or faulty lore.

Of course you can speak up.
But action speak louder than words, and clearly there is more than enough people that actually buy the RNG-keys in order for ArenaNet to be happy with the current situation.

It most likely won’t happen until at least after WvW Season 1 is over.

Tiger Ashante.1792:

Hmm i thought Halloween was purely an American holiday, yet we’ve had 1 month worth of it. I know some places have taken up the idea as well but as far as i know it’s an American thing.

Very much incorrect.
Halloween is not an American Holiday to start with.
It might have been popularized in the US, but it does not originate from the US.

Don’t really see why it would matter.
As long as everyone have the same stats in sPvP I don’t see an issue.

Technically they could all just have White-gear stats and it would still work.

I actually think there was something data-mined some time back about a gem-store item that made the next Nourishment work for 24h instead of its regular time.
Almost something like this, but it might not actually be added, time will tell.

stale.9785:

Comparatively, the power traders, who add literally thousands of gold to the game daily, directly cause inflation, even after allowing for the TP “tax”.

Hm, I might have missed something but how do power traders add thousands of gold?
I was under impression that they traded, and thus didn’t add a single gold to the game, but instead removed some of it due to the tax.

No gold is created on the TP, it is people trading gold for items, so it is just changing hands.

Cribbage.2056:

Are you saying that offered the following 3 options:

1) Play fair (i.e. fun) WvW with a very long queue on the server you are on now

2) Free transfer for you whole guild, including influence to a low population server, where you would also get fair (i.e. fun) WvW due to dynamic pop cap

3) Stop playing

You would choose option 3?

Your question is not really “why should people on a high pop server be penalised?” It is “why should people on a high pop server be given the motive and means to move?” and the answer is BECAUSE WE NEED BALANCED SERVERS.

Only people who stubbornly believe the game should be fixed for them, without them needing to contribute, will defend the right to stay on a server with a population that puts other servers at a disadvantage.

I am personally on a server that is outnumbered 95% of the time.
I still don’t think it is a good idea to punish people for playing on a server with high WvW population.

The thing is, no matter what they do to try and balance the servers there will always be someone that is punished, and I simply don’t think that is the way to go.

Also some guilds actually care about the server they are on, and won’t transfer even if they would get special treatment and so on.

What should be done is trying to get more people into WvW, not trying to force people to transfer off their server.

Visiroth.5914:

Because the intention is for population to balance itself.

A dynamic cap is the only way for there to be truly balanced matchups. But ANet has already vetoed this idea, so I don’t know what the point of bringing it up over and over is.

But it won’t balance itself.
It will simply make people stop playing.
It is most likely impossible to get every single server to have around the same amount of WvW-players, and as such a dynamic cap will always hurt at least one side.

But a dynamic cap is not really a good solution either.
Why should my server be crippled and unable to play WvW because the server we meet can’t muster enough people?

ThiBash.5634:

Think of it more like an audience telling a writer wheter or not they like his/her new book and what exactly they like/dislike about it.

That is however what is happening here in some cases.
There have been several situations where people have said that the lore-writes were WRONG and didnt know the lore. And THAT is quite silly, since they are after all the ones writing the lore.

He is most likely referring to possibly putting former DUNGEONS in as Fractals, which they have already started with.

Well, the dollies are supposed to be protected after all.
So I would personally say that the part about them attacking dollies is actually good ^^

They are most likely doing all they can.
The thing is that they can’t just blindly ban everyone just because someone reports them.

laokoko.7403:

And it’s not so much about Anet want to make money. It’s about why price is high now but not before.

Hm?
I am quite sure that everything in the gemstore costs exactly the same as it did back at release.

Pache.9406:

This could easily be one of the best suggestions I’ve seen. It’s ridiculous how they haven’t done this already. ANET!!! TAKE NOTES! And add this on the next patch. Economically you’re gonna benefit tremendously out of this. Just remove the key rewards on lvl 10 missions (keep the lvl 30 and 50 reward because NO ONE will farm those and call it affordable since it’s gonna take for ever) so they’re not exploitable. 1 scrap per chest is fair, and this should had been in the game since day 1.

Can you really guarantee that bold part?
Because if you can’t then it is a rather silly risk for them to take.
They have after all sold skins directly in the store before and yet they still keep up with the RNG, which would imply that the RNG is making them more money.

Sure a few more people might buy the keys if they make the scrap guaranteed. But will it really be enough people to outweigh the current amount of money spent by people?

Interestingly enough this is most likely caused by the fact that some WvW:ers complained about being unable to finish Living Story Achievements/Dailies in WvW.

Kitten if you do, kitten if you don’t.

Iason Evan.3806:

Fractals have to make it this year. Period. We voted for Ellen Kiel and she promised a Fractal. I don’t want to hear any, “politics” as an argument. It was a game decision made by the devs. If it doesn’t come out this year we should get a re-vote because she won’t deserve to be in office anymore and this isn’t a case of art imitating life.

So if something unexpected happen so that they simply CAN’T release it in time they should make a completely new release (which will take even more time) in order for us to re-vote?

Laws and regulations.
Keep in mind that the vast majority of the countries in the world are excluded.

Yes in all three leagues yes.

The thing with this is that if it happened they would probably remove the ability to get a complete ticket as a trade-off.

RNG clearly sells, so why remove it?

Personally I would have more of an issue with them if they were the same after 250 years tbh.

The world itself have gotten into industrialization but a school of magic have not been able to advance at all?
Seems quite unlikely.

I think those are actually for sPvP tournaments.

But if they are for WvW it would be the winner of all three leagues getting the 1st place one and the runner-up in all leagues get the 2nd place one.

There is no “gold reward”.
All #1 gets the #1 price and so on.

The classical Druid archetype is already taken up by Ranger (nature-based magic) and Norn (shapeshifting). So I don’t really see how it would fill any gaps and thus it would be pointless.

If you want a druid simply make a Norn Ranger ^^

Isn’t it quite silly to assume something is a PvE-focused map when all we have seen is a single person running around ALONE on an unfinished map?

Would you say the regular WvW-maps were PvE-focused just because you happen to run around alone?

How can people claim that it is more about PvE?
Of course it would look like PvE when they were ALONE on the map.
The regular WvW-maps would also look like PvE if you were running around on your own.

It is probably a matter of population.
It is likely that the amount of people that would benefit from such a data-center is too low to justify spending the money and resources on it.

Jayne.9251:

My money’s on an ascended back piece because: it’s been asked for in WvW for a while now, most living story big rewards were some kind of back piece, and they have plans in the works to eventually allow everyone to get a WvW ascended back piece, so those screaming will be placated, and the winners of the leagues will have the benefit of owning one for a couple of months ahead of everyone else.

It is extremely unlikely that they would reward a few servers with something as significant as this, especially if it is a “couple of months” before the rest of us can get them.

But how would it actually work?

If I write something like:

Are you suggesting that they somehow spend time, money and resources to have a filter that checks some kind of database with all English words to decide if the message is written in English?

NvN.4321:

I flipped entire UW border with 3 guys only this morning.
I’ll emphasize this to avoid further confusion – 3 GUYS ONLY.

That can’t really have been during the MORNING, since I was online during the morning, and we saw several groups of 10+ people running around capping our stuff.
But sure, you can run around and believe that you were only 3 people if it makes you feel better.

Merlin Dyfed Avalon.5046:

hmmm..
I have high hopes for this map…
But….I am missing the goal/purpose of this map, except maybe another zerg champfarming map with some pvp added.

Being able to test new possible things for WvW without putting them on the “real” maps is not a good enough purpose?

Vayne.8563:

I’m sorry how did the Living World impact the beauty of the world at all? The world isn’t any less beautiful due to the Living World.

They destroyed Kessex Hills with an ugly tower and corruption!!!!!!

(Sorry, I just had to, I actually like the changes..)

People seems to miss a rather major part of what this map is about.

It is a place where they can test new stuff to implement in the current WvW-maps, without doing massive damage to said WvW-maps due to lack of large-scale testing.

First of all:
How do you know it was a bot?

It is one of the earlier zones so it is fully possible that it was simply a new player that didn’t know any better.

Secondly:

Most of the bots are created on stolen accounts, thus they are not really risking anything.

The main issue with this is that the only languages that can actually be blocked are those that use non-English letters.
Loads of other languages uses the same letters as English, but still wouldn’t be understandable by someone that only speaks English.