Guild Wars 2

I hate the new gear because we weren’t supposed to have a vertical gear grind in this game. I hate the new dungeons because it has destroyed the dynamic events in the higher level areas completely. I am very disgusted with ANet for putting that crap in the game.

Good job ANexxSoft

Avatara.1042:

moirweyn.9872:

dekyos.1548:

This week SoS won’t have a 1 time only event to skip in full force and jump 30,000 points instantly with. The larger portion of their lead last round was acquired during the 5 hour period when everyone was fighting that stupid giant crab for 20 slot chests.

Yea, I wonder what it will be like not to have an outmanned buff on me 50% of the time I play WvW this week.

GG All! Let’s have some fun!

Giant crab lasted a day, not a week…

Well, the map I was on, during the week was 50% of the time outmanned. Frakking fractal crap. And unless you switched servers, why are you giving me the business? It makes me sad. (SoS)

dekyos.1548:

This week SoS won’t have a 1 time only event to skip in full force and jump 30,000 points instantly with. The larger portion of their lead last round was acquired during the 5 hour period when everyone was fighting that stupid giant crab for 20 slot chests.

Yea, I wonder what it will be like not to have an outmanned buff on me 50% of the time I play WvW this week.

GG All! Let’s have some fun!

I am thinking at least 30 minutes.

Sernius Alathar.6538:

Don’t you think it’s a tad early for the usual noise from the PvP peanut gallery? They announced already that ascended gear would be available in other ways and places, wait more then a month before you get all agitated.

No. For those of us who only play to WvW this puts us at a distinct disadvantage in our preferred style of play, which ANet originally said should not hamper anyone in any way at all. Every style of play was supposed to give us the ability to be on an even playing field, gear wise. I shouldn’t have to do dungeons to earn the best gear out there, it should be attainable via WvW right now.

What if it was the other way around? The PvE peanut gallery would be freaking out because they would have to PvP to get the best gear. They already complain when we kill them at the jumping puzzles.

Tobias Trueflight.8350

The ArenaNet dev team for Guild Wars 2, however, does not work for you.

And in neither case do they “need” to be treated any less polite than you would wish to be treated.

If you are basing who they work for on who pays them, then, ultimately they work for the customers. We are the customers and without our continued support – they won’t have jobs anymore so… they work for us; however, the only control we have on them is money and bad word of mouth.

With the addition of the new and better gear they have essentially lied to us and I am not often nice to people who lie to me. The devs lied about gear progression, about being forced into a style of play (dungeons for gear progression) and about being able to get the best of anything in my preferred play style (WvW). Those were all big selling points for me, and I wager a large number of other players, and those are all gone now.

So be civil and constructive but nice – no they don’t deserve that right now.

arKRazor.8654:

moirweyn.9872:

arKRazor.8654:

It’s been mentioned that there will be ways to attain ascended gear through WvW as well eventually.

Is that anything like Soon™?

When it comes to WvW, that’s the standard.

SO, exactly like Soon™. Dungeons are like Windows when it comes to games and WvW is like the Mac when it comes to games. We’ll get the WvW version after the third installment of the Windows game is already released and we should be thankful for it.

arKRazor.8654:

It’s been mentioned that there will be ways to attain ascended gear through WvW as well eventually.

Is that anything like Soon™? And by that time, there will be a newer better version of gear because this is the beginning of the never ending vertical gear progression.

WvW gear should be whatever gear you have. The only problem I have is that the best gear is not attainable through WvW only via dungeons. There should be equally awesome gear attainable through WvW.

Yea, that’s just asking for it to be honest.

It’s to force the PvE’rs into WvW. I say they remove the 100% map thing and the jumping puzzles so we never have to deal with them in WvW.

One of my big draws to this game was the lack of the never ending gear grind. I despise that feature of these games. I especially hate that this gear is normally only available via running dungeons over and over, because I don’t like dungeons. I prefer to WvW and, as it is now, that new and better gear is not available via my preferred style of play in this game.

Personally, if that trend doesn’t change it will be the end of the game for me. If they change to a never ending gear grind for new gear without raising the level cap, that will also be the end of the game for me. Which is sad because GW2 ‘promised’ many wonderful things and it seems now they are going back on that promise.

The main problem is that NCSoft is a Korean company and their model includes nothing but constant unending grinding for everything including new gear on a regular basis.

This has been a fun/frustrating/learning experience week in WvW for me, thanks for the great fights SBI and JQ. I am getting better and better every day because of the competition. Haven’t had a queue since Saturday night personally so, that’s been nice. I expect once people get tired of the ‘event’ that may change.

It’s been fun and I here’s to hoping we can all keep it moving in that direction.

I would love to see the jumping puzzles removed from WvW, has no place here and it takes away spots from people who actually want to participate. Nothing like having half your force be on a stupid PvE attraction in a PvP enviroment.

ANet can make $$$ off of TPvP, what do you think they will pay more attention to? A bunch of people who play WvW and don’t have to pay money for rewards or the people who pay money to PvP?

Hmmmm?

We WvW players are an afterthought at this point.

It’s been a very enjoyable match and I am looking forward to more in the weeks to come.

As for Daish – keep him, we were tired of telling him to shut up and leave, at least the ones who haven’t blocked him yet, that is.

Someone is sitting in their office saying “I can’t help but feel like we forgot something…”

Anet doesn’t care about WvW anymore – they are just hoping we forget about it.

When they say PvP, I take as the structured 5 man crap and being such, I don’t assume it is connected to WvW at all.

That was a pretty kitten weak patch there. I wasn’t expecting an “I Win” button or anything but, something to make my traps a little more… you know what, nevemind, it’s ok, all is right in the world because…

Thieves got buffed…

W T F ?

When was the first balance patch?

Honestly, when the whole zerg is hitting you at the same time – it doesn’t matter.

Not excited about any of it. Not even a little bit.

I seem to remember a video where they said grinding was not fun….

Remove the orange swords and the whole thing changes drastically. In a good way.

TheBob.9863:

Sigh, this thread again. You dont have to sit inside the circle with 30 people, if only 2 of you stay in it he has to reveal himself to hit you for restealth and you’ll know where he’ll have to be to hit you. You shouldn’t have 30 people sitting inside the circle

Yes, this thread again. I assume it will keep appearing until it’s fixed so, I hope someone makes a new one every day.

And a thief does not need to hit anyone to remain in stealth indefinitely while preventing a cap. Bad, bad broken mechanic.

I especially love it when the tab targeting chooses to target an NPC mob far off in the distance instead of one of the 5 enemy players right in front of me.

My mouse is always getting lost as well.

Stealth is more of invisibility than actual stealth. Stealth means being able to hide easily and blend in with your surroundings. Invisibility means being able to stand in the middle of an open field and disappear from sight completely. Thieves, in this game, have invisibility misnamed as stealth. And they have too much of it available to them.

There is no real counter to stealth at all. Sure you can drop traps, 3 of them right on you but in order for them to be effective you may have to stand in a spot and wait for the thief to attack you. That is the last thing you want to do with an invisible enemy around. So, you drop them in a general area and start running around. The thief can see where you dropped them from the red circle on the ground and just avoids them while staying invisible constantly until either he can attack, stealth, attack, stealth, attack, stealth, or, just run away in stealth the whole time. You can also just equip a greatsword and spam 1 while running in a circle hoping to hit them but even then, they don’t come out of stealth because damage does not effectively break stealth and dots do not prevent stealth.

Stealth is a key part to a thief build but, when the class is built around the mechanics of one single aspect of their skill set, the class is imbalanced and that skill is usually overpowered.

We have effective counters, the problem is that stealth ignores those counters, making them ineffective.

The bond is nice in PvE, absolutely useless in PvP. It has, however, stopped me from crossing water in some places because I don’t want to lose the 25stack on the pet. I’ll use it when I know I am land based for quite some time and that’s about it.

I like the flowing jackets and stuff. I have Elite armor on my ranger but I don’t like the way it looks so I am slowly skinning it with stuff I do like. Going for something of a pirate-ish look but without all the Yarr and shiver me timbers stuff.

;)

WvW is team orientated and not meant to be a solo sport. All your suggestions revolve around rewards on a solo basis. Those who would care about a ranking system like that would never defend, never protect dolys, never care about building siege to protect a keep and would run from a fight unless they knew they were going to win. Sometimes going into a fight, knowing you won’t make it but providing a delay or distraction is vital in WvW.

Your suggestions would stop a lot of people from doing important stuff in there.

There is a ranking, a Server ranking because it’s Server vs Server vs Server.

The Pirates of Penzance was the play where that song was sung. “I am the very model of a modern major-general” is probably the most well known tune from that play.

Yea, I think I have run exactly two or three dungeons, because they were part of the story line and that was enough for me. Dungeons are predictive and repetitive and therefore, boring.

WvW is for fun, bragging rights, server boosts and fun.
Did I mention fun?

I am not one and I don’t want to be one. To answer your question:

Knowing that attacking is not the only way to win.
Knowing that defense is just as important, if not more important at times, than sacking another tower.
Knowing when to attack and when to wait.
Understanding that any army, even a virtual one, survive on supply lines.
Knowing when a tactical retreat is needed.
Never tells people to give up and leave for another BG.
Understands the value of pressure.
Communicates well with others and gives clear and precise direction.
Doesn’t just go for the kill counts but is actually thinking strategically.
Is not a d-bag

I am predicting this will be a baby step – hopefully in the right direction.

1200 range for a thief is fine with me. Make my Ranger’s short bow 1600 and my long bow 2200 and we can talk.

You get the up close and personal win skill, that’s your bread and butter.

Latinkuro.9420:

moirweyn.9872:

Culling is a part of the problem but, stealth needs to be reworked as there really is no true counter to it.

Or like I proposed introduce stealth detection skills for all classes.

That is not a solution at all. A skill designed solely with the purpose of defending against only one other class is a waste. Better to balance stealth.

If you want to roll over people – Thief or Mesmer. If you choose one of those classes only because they are so overpowered in PvP then I await your future crying when they get nerfed.

As for having fun with it, whatever suits your playstyle.

On point 4 – this is not just due to culling. There is a video made by a thief showing how he managed to stay permanently stealthed while preventing a supply point from being capped. Granted, he wasn’t attacking anyone and he did pop out of stealth a few times due to people finding him, but, until that point, he was constantly stealthed for about 2 minutes or so. Despite taking damage and having DoTs on him, he was still able to stealth, which is wrong.

Culling is a part of the problem but, stealth needs to be reworked as there really is no true counter to it.

Can you guys please, please allow things to automatically stack when placed in a bank? Or give us a sorting/stacking function in there? You know, double click the item while at the bank and it automatically goes into the current stack and not an empty slot?

Pretty please?

With sugar?

And a cherry on top?

I am fine with the thief mechanics a long as these two things are part of it…

Ahh a ‘the game is dying’ post. No it isn’t, join a good guild and/or do some research before you move to another server.

Should be once a month, minimum.

Lvl 400 nodes and that’s it.

Personally, I find Orr to be more the most blah area in the game. I don’t think Orr frightens people, however, I do think people find Orr to be very annoying.

Multi guild system is neat and I like it. If wars between guild were implemented (in a game called guild wars – go figure) then that system would have to go away or you could not be in both guilds at the same time. One or the other through the duration of the war and that’s that.

Seems to me the three factions don’t trust each other. With that being the case, it would not work.

All it does is make the game look better. It gives you no advantage, you don’t hit harder, see through walls, fly, run faster, look smarter, have more HP, more power, or any thing else.

Now, the NVidia driver is another story altogether.

I’ve been insta-stomped a few times. There is a definite difference in a quick stomp and an insta-stomp.

Downed………stomp. Ahh crap!
DownSTOMP. WTF?

There is a difference.

1) Completely agree – remove the swords.
2) Completely agree – siege weapons should be a no limit AOE.
3) Playes should do no damage when hitting a door without siege weapons. However, if that were the case, siege weapons should be much harder to destroy than they are now and have their cost reduced and their supply needs reduced. WvW is too kitten expensive when it comes to upgrading vs zergs.
4) Increased karma maybe for those doing it.

Downed in PvE I am fine with, but in WvW, it’s stupid and should be removed.

1) We don’t need bigger maps, we need different mechanics and some changes to make the maps feel bigger.
2) Such as?
3) That’s PvE, not PvP. If they added that we would have to hear how PvPers are griefing the people in the dungeons who are trying to PvE on a WvW map. I would be one of those people killing the PvEers in the dungeon just because they are taking a spot from a PvPer.
4) See above.
5) Orbs were taken away. That helped a lot.
6) Hope not, would create more imbalance and would make it harder for new players to get into WvW.
7) You mean the XXX Invader [TAG] thing? Why?
8) I hope not. That would make WvW into more of an individual thing and not a team based thing.
9) Cosmetic I am fine with – anything that gives any type of edge whatsoever – hell no.