Guild Wars 2

i run rune of the undead with trailblazer gear, nice condi dmg for toughness bonus. since they changed perplexity rune to on using a heal skill and the nice synergy with wh is gone i lost interest in that rune.

And another completely kittened matchup proudly presented by Arenanet. A 3 World int. server against 2 national servers. I can even safe call now who will win this. It´s ridiculous what they are doing, they really have no clue whats going on. They are destroying national servers in the long run if they don´t stop this bullkitten and actually create matches where you don´t know the winner 1 minute after reset.

we are already a big hp sponge with no mechanics. so rather than adding more hp through healing i would like to see some kind invulnerability as an option coming to the board.

Veritas.6193:

What’s the problem?

Is that a serious question ? Dude you are either a troll or do not have a clue how wvw works.

Veritas.6193:

Combined Servers will never be balanced.

Congratulations that you´ve come to this insight. I guess that is completely new to the people posting here……

Honestly Arenanet, are you kidding me,

you are linking a 3 world server gainst 2 standalone servers ? Are you nuts ? Do you want to completely destroy any fun people remain to have in WvW on purpose ? We have constant outnumbered buff here !

Are you so desperately in need for the gem purchases of all the winning team joiners ? Then please figure out another business model !

p.s.

Since reset the first time in months i encountered skill lag, so even your servers can´t handle the mega blobs you create.

RodOfDeath.5247:

I like the girls analysis below. She’s a bit giggly because of obvious reasons but she makes some very valid points, some are a bit overboard. Overall, I just enjoyed the video and it was funny. At the same time, it made me sad that players like this are quitting the game. I think the best line in her video “expansions are suppose to bring players in and bring excitement, not drive them away”.

The community just isn’t going to recover IMO in all modes. Anets done too much damage. HoT seemed to break gw2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQFhL5_DJ-Q

Freedom of speech and transparency anet?

Didn´t know the video before, i feel sorry for this girl, she seems to have been really passionate about the game. But i can feel her point of frustration.

Jana.6831:

or you can be the worst player with any high rank – as everything in this game is cheese. anyway, I said why I want it and I actually want it displayed in wvw.

So you pretty much acknowledge that rank means nothing in the game and still you want show that to everybody ? Sorry mate but that´s the most pitiful reason i´ve ever heard, but good luck with your feature request

Why would you want to show this ? WvW rank means pretty much nothing, it´s only an indicator for how much time you spent there. You could be the worst PvP player with the highest WvW rank, it is simply irrelevant for the size of your kitten.

Dawdler.8521:

Aezyr.5304:

Subscription based models slowly dieing out. Even EVE online opens up now a (limited) ftp option:
https://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/introducing-clone-states-and-the-future-of-access-to-eve-online/

That would be so neat. I have been glancing at EVE for years thinking about giving it a go, but the subscription and the fact I can always fall back on GW2 has kept me from looking further.

I’ve always wondered why they didnt have f2p for “trash” ships you want to populate the world (fighters, bombers, small freighters/miners, etc) while requiring subscription for the larger and more advanced ships. It would have been an entirely logical division of player “class” within the game world while still keeping it playable for everyone.

And you can read here http://massivelyop.com/2016/09/02/eve-online-devs-address-the-potential-for-ganking-and-abuse-under-its-f2p-model/ what problems they will get.
I am not convinced that the F2P model will solve the issues EVE has.

First and foremost Mike o Brian has to understand and acknowledge that WvW<> PvE. Without that understanding all things Anet will do for WvW are doomed to fail.

vier.1327:

Baruch Bay can´t be link with other server. Lenguage problem and stuffs.

Welcome to the Club, German Servers are in the same boat. While in Germany it is common that people, specially younger people speak english (which is why i can´t understand that Anet refuses the linking in our case) , how is that in Spain ? Would it be theoretically possible to link you an international server or do you think that wouldn´t work ?

Would i pay a sub for a WvW game ? Of course i would if the developers would show effort an passion in

-map design,
-class balance
-populaton balance

Would i pay for a Arenanet WvW game ? Never ever would i pay a dime to Anet because they have showed over the years that they do not have clue in all 3 of these points. WvW in GW2 is ok because you already payed for that, but extra money ? Hell no.

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

Our goal with World Linking is good matches.

Than you better start doing this. The situation now is simply unacceptable. Why if you have matches with servers with equal population you allow linking with some servers and with some you don´t (Kodasch for example) You are creating unfair MU nothing else.

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

It is also important to keep in mind that this is the very first week of match-ups and it will take time before glicko adjusts worlds into their correct tiers.

People are fed up to get roflstomped MU after MU because of the ridiculous imbalances you created. So if you do even care a bit about WvW you better get your kitten together and fix this mess. People do not have to play GW2 you know, they simply do not log in anymore at some point.

Gildarts.2594:

well as national server u are doomed these days. Before server linking u were outnumbered during eurpoean daytime and were facing even higher numbers of people at night vs international servers. And now international servers get linked seems like a bad joke… wvw impossible on a national server atm.
best joke was playing vs SFR and Desolation as kodash and this server were not marked as full and kodash was marked as full and we had outnumbered buff on every border at every daytime, like they wanna troll german players

Same with

Piken Square & Blacktide (EN)

Piken and Kodash same population but Piken got linked. No clue what Anet is thinking when they do this, chance is nothing at all. Because pairings like this makes no sense and hurt the game in the long run. gg

Xenesis.6389:

mordran.4750:

and Anet made it possible. It is without doubt their responsibility

Meh Anet gave us options, players took advantage of it for their own personal greed and need to win. Even if Anet had come down with heavy handed restrictions for populations, we would abuse it and of course complain to them about that too.

Anet created an environment that is highly exploitable. Players will always

a) choose the easiest way possible
b) don´t give a kitten about population balance because of a)

This is, has been and will always be forseeable. So Anet has the responibility to create a as much as possible balanced environment for everybody, hands down. They horribly failed to do that. On my server people are simply tired of getting roflstomped constantly fighting against 2 linked servers while being the only one not linked for language reasons. So people simply don´t log in to wvw anymore, if that´s the whole point of that, congratulations to the Anet geniuses, mission accomplished.

and Anet made it possible. It is without doubt their responsibility

Since stealth in gw2 is really the no1 kittened mechanic with neither skill nor any form of awareness involved, Arenanet should simply rework the whole thing.

To the OP,

you already got your compensation. Almighty MO apologized, this has to be enough.

FrostDraco.8306:

Your experience in pvp must be little. Would you use a gap closer on an enemy that is standing still? Why would you?

Well, as Sororita already told you, Deaths Charge is also a leap finisher, so in combo with Executioners Scythe you get Frost Aura which chills enemies and reduces the damage you take. To be honest i find it disturbing that somebody who is so overaggressive and gives the impression to be the super mega hero of all necromancers does not know that.

Aereniel.7356:

Best practice is to balance for the top 1% while at the same time correcting outliers that erode the low-to-mid-tier customer experience, which is what Anet has consistently done.

And horribly failed. Balancing for 1% is the dumbest thing somebody can possibly do. Ask yourself who keeps a game alive, the 1% so called pro players or the rest.

dzeRnumbrd.6129:

Invulns make people switch target in PvP/WvW

And here is exactly the problem. Profession balancing is done by a team which is not connected to spvp or wvw. That´s why the pvp dev´s for example have to balance via amulets because they have no control over the skills. Grouch posted that a while ago on the pvp forums. So as long as this team don´t give a rat´s kitten about wvw, we will not see any improvement regarding disengagements or other core changes which will help in pvp game modes. Completely dumb but that´s the way it is in GW2 unfortunately.

The OP is imo technically correct. You are able to exchange real money to power in GW2, i think this is indisputable.

The question imo is what quality of power do you get for your money. Ascended items have better stats than exotics, especially the weapons, around ~5%-~8%. The armor around ~5%.

So is this a) enough advantage to call it p2w and b) is ascended equipment hard enough to get to make it worth to pay money for

Imo both times a no. I have many guildmates who do not have ascended items and they wreck people left and right in WvW so if you bring, the right class with the right build and if you can handle your char you have no need of that little extra power. In PvE raids it might be a different story, i have no experience in that, i do 100% wvw.

Second, it is extremely easy to get ascended items, it is only gated by time. So you just wait until you have enough laurels or guild commendations to buy your accessories, rings, amulets etc. For the armor and weapons you also need only time, no special items needed at all, you can get the ore nowadys nearly everywhere in the game.

So imo even if you can buy power with money in GW2 the benefit of it is so little that p2w does simply not apply.

Jeknar.6184:

FTFY

pls stop being ridiculous, thx

While i understand that shroud plus invul might be too much, i would like to have an option to get one on the effectiveness of the other. Tbh it is simply not understandable why warriors can have double endure pain with their damage output plus the ridiculous healing signet on top while the only excuse the devs have regarding necros is death shroud.

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

Hey everyone,

The walls not appearing correctly allowing some to walk through is a known bug that will be fixed in the next release.

Also, the Wildcreek and Rogue’s Quarry changes were deliberate.

So is this fixed with todays patch or were you guys to busy with bringing in a BL nobody wanted ?

Dawdler.8521:

Whats worse for WvW on the whole: A 100 man guild moving to another server or a 100 man guild quitting the game cause they are stuck in a rut?

Or 100 random players quitting WvW because they get perma destroyed by these ultimate zergballs of lameness Arenanet created with this megastupid linking.

Seems like they will loose people anyway

People in my guild had a lot of strange situations lately in wvw. For some people textures like keep walls are just not there, so they can basically walk into a keep. It does not happen every time and on every wall. The strange thing is for whatever reason the problem goes away and then reappears out of a sudden. Maybe the guy in the screenshot suffers from something like that also. I have never seen something like that before and i am playing since release. For me it seem that the last “performance” patch regarding the walls in wvw did seriously break something.

This situation has been absolutely forseeable. Anet should have a lot of experience with the “bandwaggoning” problem throughout the years. But this is only another example of how distracted the devs are from their own game.

Compared to ESO wvw performance is golden in GW2. With the exception of large Blob fights i do not encounter any skill lags at all. Most of the times i run in small groups of 3-8 players behind enemy lines. So leave the zerg and it will get better.

szshou.2193:

whereas WvW is just a mindless ktrain or sit on an AC and press 1 and rake in the bags.

The same you can say about spvp where you standing around on points waiting for somebody to stop by, boring as kitten.

Each game mode is what you make out of it

I run something similar, good team fights and entertaining video, thumbs up.

Please no more transfers and please Anet get your Math together. To fight the international Servers which are basically always consisting of two server as a national server ist just ridiculuous, what a big kittening fail Anet. Population balance in those matchups is through the roof with all the band waggoning to small servers because the big ones were full.

Mmkay one borderland less to go to………………………. thx Anet

Vexd.1238:

Gandara Charr Male Scrapper, guild with the LIE ticker.

Wears white grey armor and just stands still confidently until somebody engages him, then plays great and wrecks!

Seen sometimes with a Gandara Human Female Druid, Salty Sea Dog title.

You two are hard to kill and it’s fun to bump into you every now and again!

Wrong forum mate, they don´t allow MU threads here, the alternative is http://www.gw2wvw.net . But congratulation that you found a gandarian with a sense of sportsmanship, in general they are big drama queens, logging out if they loose or whispering you nasty things.

classes with stealth, most stupid mechanic in GW2

Lahm.7056:

how necro is underwhelming in solo scenarios but forget it can be one of the strongest professions in small skirmishes with the right group, with the right the peel and support, you will rarely lose an evenly matched fight if the enemies are unable to take you down before you downed one of them.

Yes this is the case since release, Necro shines if supported, but to be viable in roaming means also that you have to be viable on your own and there necro lacks badly compared to the other classes. Developers just don´t give a rat´s kitten about that.

Maybe you should first buy a few cheap exotic sets and try some setups until you find something you are comfortable with. Condi vs Power is often a matter of taste to be honest. You can also play condi in bigger groups and be useful. For condi i can recommend Trailblazer gear to you, the survivability and the damage output is insane, but unfortunately rather expensive.

BattleRattle.5420:

it still seems like the devs never really do anything to change or alleviate the problems in some way the players find useful.
It’s like they make a lot of changes, which never really address what the players want changed.

This is the way since the release of GW2. Anet has one of the worst balancing i´ve ever seen, they do not balance at all. What they do is they shift the meta with each bigger patch and the result is that every 6 months a few classes are ridiculous strong while others ridiculous weak. Plus, they do it around their failed pvp wannabe esports bubble which means players who pve or wvw are even more kittened because the outcome may be even stronger or weaker through gear, food etc. .

Ishtar.6457:

and also try to warn anet about this thing months ago on reddit, but anet said it’s impossible to hack something and ignore this person who actually trying to help and warn them to prevent this kind of security breach.

Pride goeth before fall, a lesson Anet repeatedly not want to hear. History repeats itself unfortunately.

Zoda Slayer.4176:

Mo isn’t giving any VIP treatment he is explaining the damage the hacker caused was not made by a GM.

Sorry but what “damage” has been caused to others than Gailes account ? He/She took over her account and gave out her stuff. Bad for Gaile, i guess nice for the people who got her stuff, end of story. It has been said that her account had no acces to cheat or manipulate the game itself. So i don´t get the fuzz.

Obtena.7952:

Is Social Engineering a clever way to say “charmed”? I’m just not familiar with such a term.

Social Engineering is one of the oldest “hacking” procedures if you would like to call it that way, it requires no technical but instead social skills. It means that you get person A to give you something that is the the property of person B (be it information, data, whatever) by convincing person A that you are person B. In times of digital communication this has gotten easier because you don´t see each other face to face. One of the more spectacular cases of SE happened 2015 where a student got access to the private mail account of CIA director Brennan for 3 days.

Breaking News at 8pm: A GW2 Account was hacked……….

Honestly how many times did that happen in the past and how many times the man in charge came to the forum and told us about it. I mean if the president of Arenanet has the time to come to the forum and talk to us about every hacked account in the future, fine, if the affected players get the same vip treatment !

Josh Davis.6015:

the PvP team is not responsible for profession balance.

LOL well then it´s no surprise that things are like they are………………………

This whole change of Ascendend Utilities aka enrichment slots shows that again you did not think of wvw players. First, the enrichments we can buy are a joke, +20% Gold from Monsters, +20% Magic Find, +20% Experience from Kills and +15% Karma…. Are you serious ? How long did it take to figure that masterpiece out ? 10 Minutes ? This is crap, and by the way pretty expensive crap, 20 or 10 Laurels, i mean honestly….

Second, to make it even worse you only refunded the infusions but weren´t able or willing to refund the laurels. So the more wvw chars you have the more screwed you are, thanks Anet for nothing.

LOL Moderators banned me for posting the two links to the Nemesis Videos. GG Anet, you can´t stop the spread with your bans, they will be posted elsewhere, you have achieved nothing. Your handling of criticism with your game is just awful, censoring does not work on the internet.

And now you can ban me again, i don´t give a kitten.

lol all these chronomancers trying to justify their own ridiculousness. This is by far the most OP elite specc closely followed by herald.

You should never go after the videos of somebody. In these videos you see of course only the best moments which is not what you will find always for obvious reasons. It comes down how much tolerance you have to dying. You can´t reset a fight, if you go in or get jumped on, you win or die. Of course you can roam, every class can, but you will have a 10 times harder time than a mesmer for example. You should ask yourself if that´s a clever thing to do. If i were you i would spend a few days in eotm, level a mesmer and join the condi pu aids force, this will spare you some headache.

Before they nerf reaper they should remove chronomancer from the game. That is the most overpowered stupid kitten i’ ve ever seen. After that we can talk.

Nemesis.8593:

… and who ever wishes to challenge me.

i’am very curious if some of the haters here will have the balls to do that. After reading the posts regarding your videos i doubt it.

meepeY.2867:

Hello guys,…………

At least you are constructive and not using lame excuses like this guy

Pink Ninja Man.4375:

I agree it is frustrating to be running then just die to 3 stealth theifs or whatever but to me it’s part of the game.

But all your tips do not solve the problem that most of the time you don´t see somebody coming. And the amount of burst mesmers for example or full yolo thiefs can dish out is simply obscene. If i know that a stealth class is around at least i can prepare for an engage but most of the times you don´t.

There is way too much stealth in the game, it is too easy to achieve, it is too forgiving and has really low risk high reward. If a thief is engaging you he can try his luck and kitten away if you don´t drop at the first engage. It´s simply stupid and there is no skill involved at all

JDjitsu.7895:

Another easy tip if you have a weapon that cleaves on AA and have an OK crit chance

When will people start to realize that damage is not a counter to stealth and cleaving the air like a kittening kitten is not a solution for this problem.