Guild Wars 2

duster.7013:

rune of vampirism on engi is hilarious

12 seconds of god mode if you take alchemy

Does alchemy affect the mist form?

uglydan.1638:

It didn’t surprise me to read that JQ feels it needs even more numbers to swell their already overwhelming numbers in most time zones, especially SEA, where they hold a superior advantage.

JQ has the worst NA of the top 4 servers, is reasonably equal in OCX and holds an advantage in SEA but its not overwhelming now.

The arguments here are not about server stacking but about being able to play with friends and family.

Xillllix.3485:

I’m pretty much jealous of every other professions elite skills at this point. It seems only the elementalist is destined to get get kittenty elites.

Don’t worry the class killer is working on 1 or 2 of the other classes as well so they are bound to have poor elites as well.

uglydan.1638:

At least for T1 NA, TC and BG need to be opened up, and JQ needs to be locked for at least 6 months.

Um take a look at the results for the last 2 weeks especially during NA.

Embolism.8106:

I share your worry, although there hasn’t been quite as much outcry against Chronomancers as I expected; so I’m hopeful we won’t see huge nerfs.

I thought there had been quite a bit of hate directed at chronomancer.

CalmAndCool.5938:

I read all these posts and summarize that this game is seriously flawed. There is a reason it is now #19 on morphs list. With everything I see this game could be #1. I can do nothing but surmise there is entrenched incompetent management who are making horrible decisions and probably driving all the talent out of the company. If I am correct please infract away.

Yep pretty much, its got a good combat system, both good small and large group pvp, and for PvE a good blend of open world and theme park mmos. And its beautiful to look at. But it has been horribly managed for the most part since launch. Its quite amazing how the game was setup so well only for it to be so badly managed after launch.

I’d rather just get the basics right first, just fix the radius.

Just have a look at coverage wars for your timezone and see which server suits you best.

ViolentOyster.7534:

I like how people just say it’s “balanced” without that even being the point here. The point is Stealth, which is basically the Speciality of thief is getting stolen by a mage that can make clones and teleport a whole team too. #ClonesForThieves

So what, perma stealth is overrated in sPvP because you can’t do much with it.

Browrain.7346:

I’m sure this has been a topic before. Engi magnet bugs/desyncs way too much. It’s even worse now than it was pre-patch. I’d say about 60-70% of my pulls fail. The enemy usually just falls to their feet in the place they were standing.

Pls fix

Its a fairly hot topic in the engi forum.

Chi.2943:

Urban.2814:

Not trying to derail the thread much, but I just got GW2 and I’m torn between rolling on a tier 2 or tier 3 server. I have trouble finding info on if the servers are west/east coast ( just for general population reasons ). I mainly don’t want to play somewhere that is lacking WvW because of low population/ times i play I was thinking Maguuma, any suggestions? btw im east coast!

Well good news! You don’t have to make a choice because T1 and T2 are locked by anet right now. T3 it is for you.

SOS is full now?

The only real issue is in WvW, with this and the complexity of the new keeps in the desert BL its not going to be worth sweeping and the keeps will change hands more regularly.

Why blame PvP players? Anet could balance separately for PvP and PVE/WvW they just choose not to.

There’s also the issue of win trading.

Phil.8901:

Players WON’T be matched with only people of the same division.

Dota and LoL work in the same way, because like you said, there would be super huge queues if people of your division aren’t online at the same time

Whats the point of having divisions then? I’m not a great player but I want to test myself against players of similar skill not continually get farmed by players in the legendary division. I’ve had my fill of that in ranked leagues in other games.

And then there’s the issue of having a soloq, there simply must be one for this to work.

Jayne.9251:

SkyShroud.2865:

i think that if people have to keep saying that t1 is the only viable place for sea and ocx, it just means they are not confident with that “fact”, thus is a propaganda.

Or the SEA/OCX players organize like the GvG guilds did and spread out over three servers in lower tiers (cheaper xfer rate, guaranteed fights, friends/family can join, etc.).

JQ has 2 ocx guilds, BG has 1 or 2, TC has 2. I know if 1 of the JQ guilds left it would place an unreasonable burden on the other that would have a detrimental effect. There aren’t really enough guilds to spread out.

Haralin.1473:

So if all the other Specs were good, there is now a higher chance that anet make a bad Spec

Only 2 are good.

Raif.9507:

Xillllix.3485:

Argol Vazin.3061:

morrolan.9608:

My issue with it is not that, its that the class is meant to be primarily a ranged magic caster

Then you clearly have no clue about this game if that is what you think.

Yet that’s what elementalists were in Guild Wars 1…

With all the issues I have with Tempest, I don’t agree with Elementalist being only a ranged caster. Yes it was that in Guild Wars 2, but we can all agree that the Guild Wars 2 Elementalist is nothing like the original and can either be ranged or melee.

I would postulate that the sheer effectiveness of melee range builds is largely accidental and it was originally provided merely as an alternative. We are the class with the least passive defenses in the entire game given we are light armor and have the lowest base health. And indeed that the lack of decent use of ranged builds in sPvP points to the need for another ranged option rather than another melee range option.

Coldtart.4785:

Raif.9507:

With all the issues I have with Tempest, I don’t agree with Elementalist being only a ranged caster. Yes it was that in Guild Wars 2, but we can all agree that the Guild Wars 2 Elementalist is nothing like the original and can either be ranged or melee.

It can only be ranged if you don’t care much about winning.

In sPvP sure but not in PvE or WvW

EdwinLi.1284:

EvilZombie.6801:

i saw the trailer and the forge is using some kind of flame hammer attack and its also a movement skill too

condi engineer cheers !!

I think Forge may be more direct damage rather than condition damage.

However, it depends on what the Drones bring to Engineer’s gameplay.

I would hope it can be condi oriented given the complementary kits: bombs and toolkit.

Tyler Allen.9047:

Controllers! I loathe playing games with a KB&M. Full on Hate!

Why? KB&M gives fine control not possible with a controller. In PvP this level of control is vital.

OtakuDFifty.2965:

The “hate” seems to revolve around “if it can’t replace PvP metas it’s trash.” That’s a problem with all the class boards here, so kindly ignore it.

My issue with it is not that, its that the class is meant to be primarily a ranged magic caster and its why I play the class, and the ranged options are either fairly poor (scepter) or mundane (staff). The class is crying out for more ranged options and what do we get, another melee range brawler option which doesn’t suit the class. I don’t mind having an option for melee ranged combat but to focus on this area…………….

apharma.3741:

Where because it wasn’t very obvious.

There’s a preference setting but that is a preference, still put me in stronghold.

If you’re in a group with someone else who has it ticked you can still get it. After a couple of tries at it everyone I was grouping with unticked it and we never got it for the rest of the weekend.

I’ve decided I can’t stand the mode, it diminishes actual PvP far far too much. I won’t be playing it when it launches. And to apharma above you get the option to opt out of it.

Anet should enforce their terms of service and get rid of the daily custom arenas. Its frankly ridiculous that they let players get away with this.

gennyt.3428:

stof.9341:

There’s 0 chance the populations will end up balanced if you leave it to the player themselves with no hard rules to enforce balance.

You do realize that the core design of WvWvW is self sabotaging, right? An international gaming community playing an open world conquest mode that’s 24/7 scoring for a week on not one but four different maps will never be balanced. Ever. And if I couldn’t play with my friends, then that’s pretty good reason to not play the game and I wouldn’t ask them to come down to a server that’s dead when we play.

This is pretty much why there should be no overall server caps and the driver for population control should be simply the map caps. They can do this and still retain a gem cost for movements just make it a standard cost for any movement.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

This is a follow up to the situation on TC.

Impatient much? Your expectations are unrealistic: you can’t believe that a mere three weeks is enough for them to deal with this, especially since this isn’t something that can be solved with a simple press of a button. Give them some time. They are quite busy right now, you know, what with HoT and all.

Besides, they already promised that WvW would be number one topmost priority! after HoT launches. And they’re not the type of devs that go back on promises, right? So what more can you ask for?

Five or six months down the line, when WvW is number one on their agenda, they’ll surely take care of your troll. Just have a little patience.

You need more or a sarcastic tone :-)

340 is slightly high even for oceania, I’m in australia and average 280-300.

god forbid the abjured play conquest as its meant to be played.

Hmm a specific PvP update and WvW only gets more motherhood statements.

Lexiceta.4156:

Yea let’s have a beta test without any testing

What? Beta tests are not usually done in a production environment, this is the only online game I know that has done it. For PvE it doesn’t matter but for PvP it sure does.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Zok.4956:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

it’s not likely to be as “fun” if they entirely remove RNG from the reward system.

For the “unlucky accounts” it would be much more fun without RNG.

Except that there aren’t any “unlucky” accounts; all accounts have the same chances. Play enough, you’ll get good drops and bad ones. If you don’t play often, then it hardly matters.

Of course there are unlucky accounts, even if its not because of something in the code they can still be simply unlucky.

Vavume.8065:

phokus.8934:

Auto-loot should be standard and not tied to a mastery.

Just be happy they are giving it to us. For me this is one of the best things coming in HoT and I’m quite happy to grind some xp to get it unlocked.

No if they implement something poorly they should get that feedback.

McWolfy.5924:

Another big problem is the balance. There are some thimes when literaly no rangers in the game. After the updates you always see some, but nowdays that profession is nearly dont exist in wvw. If a profession is more important as an other i have no problem with it. But this is dissapointing.

What? There are plenty of rangers in gank groups in T1.

nearlight.3064:

So translation: The first version of the skill was extremely OP and needed to be nerfed as to not break the game.

Yabbut it needn’t have been nerfed into the ground. This is the problem with balance in this game, stuff gets over nerfed.

Robert Gee.9246:

I hope that helps. I’m looking forward to reading your feedback on the Chronomancer from the BWE!

Thanks for the feedback but the issue is the change appears to make it functionally useless, and not an elite people will use.

Ayrilana.1396:

Palador.2170:

Ayrilana.1396:

Maybe you don’t understand that this is common in expansions?

I guess I don’t. In my (admittedly limited) experience, CONTENT is locked behind the barriers, and QoL things that improve the game as a whole are not.

I’ll try to remember to lower my expectations when it comes to this game.

Sarcasm aside, it has nothing to do with lowering expansions. Expansions are not strictly content only and can include other things such as QoL updates.

They aren’t normally locked behind an ingame progression grind though.

MesmerizedNYC.2479:

Ugh this is terrible. I went to Maguuma to check out the Tier 3 action from Yak’s Bend 8 weeks ago. After 2 weeks, I had to leave the game for six weeks while traveling on biz and on my return, I find I can’t get back to YB! I guess I have to start spamming the world selection at different times to try to squeeze back in!

It doesn’t work like that any more. Its fully locked until guilds and players on YB move to other servers.

BTW your sig says you’re on Blackgate, or rather said.

I vote keep original pull and float effect and increase CD.

Dusty Moon.4382:

morrolan.9608:

lil devils x.6071:

So all the players who come into wvw to do dailies and craft are going to count against the wvvw popualtion. On the top servers, there are enough PVE players that come in to do dailies, craft or use portals to keep the server full forever.

This is actually a good point and something I hope they considered in the caps but somehow I doubt it.

They said that are taking that into consideration. I mean they have logs for everything in this game.

I guess Samuel did say :“it’s looking at many aspects of the ways players are interacting with WvW to determine a server population.” which would cover it but it would still be nice to have it confirmed.

Good suggestion OP

No he swapped from cele to marauder. I noticed it as well.

Berserk Steve.1530:

WoThe one map that allows this is never in the horrible map rotation selection thing.

In ranked? No but it isn’t a ranked mode. In custom, dunno as I don;t play that mode.

However it frequently comes up in the unranked queue choice. Played for 2 hours last night and it came up 4-5 times.

lil devils x.6071:

So all the players who come into wvw to do dailies and craft are going to count against the wvvw popualtion. On the top servers, there are enough PVE players that come in to do dailies, craft or use portals to keep the server full forever.

This is actually a good point and something I hope they considered in the caps but somehow I doubt it.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Stephane Lo Presti.7258:

Hi, I’m posting today the transcript of the statement that John Corpening, game director for World vs. World, made last week at the beginning of the World vs. World Desert Borderlands Invitational. Enjoy!

Interesting that we hadn’t heard about this statement in the forums until now. No WvW forum regulars got invited as PvE streamers took all the slots? Or maybe some did but took the statement as the usual non-newsworthy spin?

Reyana and Chemsorly are hardly PvE streamers.

Why was it felt that autoloot, something that should be a gameplay option was a suitable ‘ability’ for a mastery?

Autoloot as part of a mastery? Something that should be a gameplay option, that is pathetic.

gavyne.6847:

Might I suggest the devs open up communication with players and ask for help, ideas, and suggestions. I know it’s a tough pill to swallow because it’s your job to do. But the players who play this game mode every single day for years might just know what makes WvW players tick more than you do.

They’ve already done this with the CDI threads and got a lot of good info from them.

Exciton.8942:

X T D.6458:

Kungsmurfen.2861:

X T D.6458:

-How often is the server status determined?

Today Dzago went from Medium to High so I guess it updates quite often.

That is interesting, but I wonder how long it took for it to update, maybe a new calculation was started last week and just updated now for example. But I can see at least it doesnt take like a month or w/e to update because of your example.

I think someone saw Fort aspenwood went very high for quite a while and back to full within a day’s time.

When was this? Within the last few days?

But yes as the OP said they are questions that really need answering and surely can be without revealing confidential info like the actual caps.

I appreciate the communication and the words but you have to follow through with actions. Plus please address the suggestions coming out of the CDi threads.

On night capping, as an Australian player I really with you wouldn’t refer to it as this, after all it is not our night. Plus as has already been mentioned locking the top tiers for all time zones will actually make this problem worse and in all probability lead to OCX and SEA players leaving the game.

And John, please come back to this forum.