I appreciate that you are interested in finding out more of what will be in the new map, but we didn’t show anything about it in the trailer that could lead you to the conclusions here. We’ll be talking about it a lot more and showing it off soon. At the least I’d hope you can reserve judgement until then.
Tell you why I for one think it sounds like another EOTM, the wording of the announcement: “Navigate treacherous heights with traps that blow your foes to the depths below and ferocious defenders to help keep the enemy at bay. Map objectives will be more important than ever before, as they’ll unlock new strategies, tactics, and play mechanics that you’ll want to use to your world’s advantage!”
Sounds like EOTM to me.
I’d honestly recommend Blackgate. If you know what you’re doing, several of our guilds would probably accept you tagging along if you’re on teamspeak and get into some decent fights. It’s less likely that will happen on the other two T1 servers
Poor form, how the kitten would you know what happened on the other 2 servers? Most JQ guilds accept non guild members tagging along and in TS with them, in fact we prefer it.
LOL, Anet’s lack of any sort of decent testing strikes again.
Raiments of the lich in particular is such a good outfit that only having it on sale during halloween is an utter waste. Instead we get the godawful arcane outfit.
EU or NA?
For EU: any server in the top 3 tiers (#1-9) which you can find here : http://mos.millenium.org/eu/matchups/
You would be aiding in the death and staleness of WvW if you transfer to the #1 ranked server. The other servers are just as active and have just as much if not more guilds.
For NA: It seems all servers #7 and below are essentially casual wvw servers now. #1-6 are the active wvw servers.
For NA its 1-7 not 6. The issues at the moment is the 7th server slipping into T3 and thrashing the T3 servers.
Cele type builds are a jack of all trades. @ high might stacks they almost out do Zerker bursts yet still maintaining high amounts of heals/vita/toughness. These Cele builds pushed Zerker builds out of the meta due to their damage and tankiness. They can enter any team composition and succeed
So they do this because of the might stacks, which is being nerfed.
Yeah unique doesn’t really mean anything unless you’re familiar with mmos.
And not even then, its not a generic mmo term across all mmos.
With might nerfed, does sigil of battle still needs further nerfing? Anet’s balance history teached me that when they double nerf something, the risk of having it getting overnerfed is high.
The risk? I’d say certainty that it will be overnerfed.
Someone fairly recently wrote a blog post on this very subject. I don;t think its been posted here, if it has I apologise but its a very good analysis of the issues with GW2 reward systems:
I’ve been arguing this for a while. Frankly, this issue is core to all of the major complaints we’ve had for the past year+.
Past year, try last 2 years, ever since Nov 2012. And the fact that they are now giving significant rewards simply for logging in points to a significant decline in players.
It’s a good change if you like karma training and avoiding fights. That’s all. Everyone should hate it, and rightfully so. It brings less fights, reduces map awareness, forces players into scouting (an awful boring role). And more or less casts a fog of war on the map. If ANet thinks that’s more fun, well, it’ll take some time to adjust. White swords have been so important for so long is pretty tough trying to defend without them
Spot on, exactly as peoepl predicted.
The temporary rule changes will be implemented with the release on December 16 and will last until the first release of the new year.
In the middle of a match! Really?
Ascended gear was practically demanded shortly after launch. “Dedicated” players beat the game, exhausting all traditional “endgame” content in roughly a week and exotics only took a day or two to acquire. There was nothing left to do and the next content update was more than a month away. Legendaries, cosmetics? Useless. In other MMOs, this is where dungeon grinding and raiding for gear would have taken place for several months. GW2 didn’t offer any of that.
This was shown to be a myth ages ago. There was no overwhelming forum demand for a gear grind.
I quit playing gw2 since july of 2014, and i got back into it about a week ago. When i quit there would almost always be a queue to join Eternal Battlegrounds, and half the time a queue for the borderlands on Jade Quarry, but now i find that we are always outnumbered? Is this just Jade Quarry, have guilds transfered over somewhere else, or is this game wide, and just a lot of people quit?
I think JQ SEA left to play Archeage
You already know what feedback you’re gonna regarding the white swords, there are hundreds of posts on this forum telling you why it’s a bad idea. It does not warrant any testing.
Agreed, its baffling. Its like they either don’t want to give up an idea of theirs without a fight or they simply can’t properly determine whats good for the game and make a decision on it but it fits in with the CDI program in that respect.
Why is everyone raging here?! This is a good change. it encourages groups to go scout stuff, and not everyone sticking to 1 commander mindlessly following. You can still do that but don’t complain if they ninja keeps from you…
Scouts are required now to accurately report on whats causing the swords and/or to pick up attacks before the swords come up. This won’t change that it just makes it easier to take keeps and karma train.
Here’s an update for you:
It’s clear that quite a lot of you would like to have greater flexibility in using the Currency Exchange. Our intention when we designed the new interface was to streamline large volume purchases, which make up the majority of transactions.
In light of your feedback, we will update the Currency Exchange so that you can decide how you want to use it. We will keep the new streamlined system and also offer a new “Custom” button on the panel that you can use to exchange any increment of gems or gold.
We anticipate rolling this out soon. Stay tuned!
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Sorry for the delay in posting this, but out of respect to our international community, we wanted to be able to post in several forums at once.
This is why I have stuck with Anet for nearly 10 years! since Gw1 launch!
They listen to feedback and do the right thing.Thank you Anet!
What about the fact that they knew what the right thing was before launching this? Does that come into play at all for you? I mean…they aren’t stupid. They are smart enough to make an MMO and sell it to millions. They know what they are doing.
This isn’t an “Oh mai gawsh, we never thought about this..so you want to be able to manually enter in your amounts?? Got it! Thanks”.
This is a “We’ll force them to overbuy and over pay…lets wait and see if they reach a 10.0 on the ‘Rage-o-meter’ we have on the wall in the office. If so, we have the code ready to go to create a ‘Custom’ button..so we can appease them and give off the appearance of listening to their feedback. Either way, win win for us!”
Spot on at what point does the fact that they keep making these poor/greedy decisions and then having to roll them back register as an underlying issue.
Removing white swords from objectives to give defenders a stronger role in alerting their team as well as giving attackers more of a chance to get through having their siege disabled.
This would be a mistake.
First of all John thank you for making this thread. Your communication with the community means far more than you can ever know. It is appreciated.
Yeah it is except for the fact that it is at least 18 months too late.
My preferred solution would by no. 2, I’ve got ~3,700 hours up in the game, no precursor drops, and I barely get any exotic drops at all nowadays. This game is basically the least rewarding game I have ever played.
I don’t mind a token system either but I would think in terms of the issue with farming, anything high end bought with tokens should not be able to be sold on the TP.
Wait, if the game is bleeding players, and WvW is as good as dead, why would they need to raise server caps?
Cause caps are based on total accounts inactive as well as active.
So all servers are at Very high…
Until you fix how you calculate server population based on WvW alone PLEASE stop raising server caps. You are imbalancing the server even further cramming people into top 4-5 servers…
Following servers should be full and transfers to these servers should be closed so that people go to FA/YB….
BG, TC, JQ, SoS
They want everyone to stack at the top, it solves their pop problems.
There should be some sort of handicap system based on WvW population at each tick (and not including EOTM).
I think what they mean is on BG the guilds usually run tagless except reset nights, so each individual group is typically outnumbered because the other servers (TC and JQ) will all run together.
In ocx time JQ is in smaller groups and BG and TC are both grouped in large blobs.
Interesting to see how they do raids in the absence of any real roles.
I would have loved to see an SoS TC JQ matchup. The quirks in each servers coverage could have made it quite a battle. TC and JQ already have some of the best ppt battles when the 3rd server is a non-factor, throwing SoS in the mix would have shaken things up a bit.
This should, have been the 4th week match or even 3rd week, quite ridiculous that it wasn’t.
This makes no sense.
I just lost a weeks WvW rewards (week 1) after putting 60 hours into a loss.Are we to understand that we simply lose credit for doing something in a computer game?
Key word is “computer”… which are inherently more than capable of retaining data… such as a player reward record.
There is absolutely no good reason for players to “lose” credit for their contribution.
You’re right however look at how the previous 2 seasons rewards were kittened up. I would hazard a guess that this solution was arrived at to overcome those problems. However as you and the OP state it creates new problems which I wouldn’t be surprised if they weren’t even considered by anet. The ideal solution would be to make the rewards be able to be received as soon as you earn the achievement. They give out chests through the achievement system once an achievement is gained why can’t it be done in this case?
If we actually make the game mode competitive we might draw more people to the game. There are plenty of people looking for a good RvR game and this one has the best potential.
No it doesn’t the fundamental systems aren’t in place. In terms of potential TESO is better because it has a better RvR design, the issues with TESO are unrelated to the RvR design.
Don’t merge servers. Disband them. Start with the top 6. That probably does more than disbanding the bottom 12 in terms of spreading out population.
What would happen then is that you would have all the people from each server transferring to an agreed upon new server to keep together.
kinda feel sorry for the devs, since theyve taken it upon themselves to try to read so many repetitive posts.
I don’t, I agree the lack of back and forth is a problem, but it is a problem created anet due to the format adopted for the CDI threads and these WvW threads which are in the same format. They explicitly only want user suggestions which they can comment on as they see fit.
only 3 games and things that trump anything in GW2 by few orders of magnitude.
Difference is those games are upfront about it, and at least in the case of SWTOR it takes a very minor amount to unlock preferred status. GW2 isn’t upfront about it, as has been discussed in many threads before the reward system of the game has been reduced to earning gold and the ability to exchange gems for gold.
- Cosmetics for monetizing v. as an endgame pursuit. Given ANet statements that armor skins are time and resource intensive to create, cosmetics were simply being asked to do too much in this game. With such a conflict, armor skins as rewards were always going to come out on the losing end.
Given the way SWTOR comes out with armor sets this rings a bit hollow.
GW2 has one of least invasive cash shop in industry and no sub. It goes as far as lot of people complain theres “really nothing of interest in cash shop, just fluff”.
Gw2 is subtly invasive so subtle that most people overlook how invasive it actually is. Someone could write an article analysing the systems and how successful it has been for anet whilst all the while screwing players over as much as other f2p games.
The word subtle and invasive or actually quite opposite. That’s what’s called an oxymoron. If it’s subtle, it’s not invasive. That’s the difference between the words.
Invasive: “tending to spread very quickly and undesirably or harmfully.” I disagree that this spread or permeation can’t be subtle.
Scaling PPT is always going to be a curly one because of the compromise between rewarding players who play outside primetime and not penalising those who don’t. I suggest multiplying it by a scalar of the mean population of the three servers at the scoretick. This means a server playing with 250 players against 0 and 0 (to use an extreme example) is getting a third of the points they would if both other servers had 250. It means that outnumbering servers doesn’t reward you as heavily, but it’s still stupid not to defend if you have the people to do it.
I agree some sort of PPT scaling is another option that should be considered. Something along the lines of what you have proposed is definitely worth considering.
GW2 has one of least invasive cash shop in industry and no sub. It goes as far as lot of people complain theres “really nothing of interest in cash shop, just fluff”.
Gw2 is subtly invasive so subtle that most people overlook how invasive it actually is. Someone could write an article analysing the systems and how successful it has been for anet whilst all the while screwing players over as much as other f2p games.
I think there is certainly a lot of benefits to server mergers, but it won’t solve the problems in WvW unless the number of servers are severely reduced. If just a couple of server are merged, you’ll still have the same problems as now, but with less servers. Only if the number of servers are severely reduced to the point that there will be around ~12 servers for each region, will the effects of coverage be lessened on population imbalance. Because at that point I think that there will be enough active players in the game that any remaining imbalance won’t be so extreme like it is now.
I agree with this, merging serves may be the best option but it has to be drastic and it will cause a huge outcry. Plus there has to be free transfers along with it.
Free transfers may also have a positive effect just used on their own but the ranking would have to be made a lot more flexible to account for sudden changes in WvW pop.
Just on battle groups I don’t think it would work because there’s nothing to give a battle group a sense of identity, colours as used in EOTM do not cut it. If you do look to this as some sort of solution you would have to look very carefully at how to give each ‘faction’ an identity, and obviously it can’t really be racial.
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Clearly the anet solution is for everyone to congregate in the top servers and if you choose to stay in the bottom tiers they don’t care about the imbalances, but they don’t want to be seen as forcing the players to move.
The only point is to make money from transfers and give them an excuse to have a break from the living world.
To arenanet how about you actually be the game developers you’re meant to be and provide possible solutions which we can then comment on.
This is the whole problem with the CDI process you get ideas from players but you then filter them and wind up with an interpretation that is consistently not what players wanted.
Most of the people in EoTM, if they weren’t in EoTM, would not be in WvW at all.
I agree yet anet use EOTM in their WvW population stats.
I’m in a big fight in the middle of EBG, I stomp some one, I don’t get any experience or loot, I don’t think the system works as intended…
Given that other similar systems limiting loot etc clearly have bugs this wouldn’t be a surprise.
But the point of the siege disabler is to counter throwing down a blob of sup rams and melting a gate in 15seconds.
And its to stop the silly tactic of throwing down a cluster of cata’s right upto a wall. So you dont have to waste time charging the things.
Or how stackings cata’s together allowed chaining the bubble to indefinitly protect cata’s from a lot of counter siege.The siege disabler isnt a single counter to all siege. But it punishes certain rush tactics.
Where has it been said that this is the point? Plus it does act as a counter to all siege and there are other changes that could have been made to counter such rush tactics without such an overwhelming effect on WvW as a whole.
It would be really nice to get confirmation on whether this is a bug or not.
You mean like they salvaged the mess they made with traits and the megaserver……………. oh wait.
Someone in my guild sais that couldn’t join the Teq map because it was asking him an item to do it… I’m not sure what to think since he’s a newbie player and we told him how to join maps for the first time, but if that rumour is true… well, i need confirmation before speaking about.
Anyone can confirm?
Yeah the item was datamined. It’s stuff from the Chinese version of the game that allows you to teleport to your friends. Up next, VIP program where you can pay an optional sub fee!
Wow, an item that you purchase from the cash shop?
Simple, take a look at what SWTOR have done recently with guilds, it has been done well and added more variety to the game, even had a mini revitalisation effect on it.
I would also add given the disastrous implementation of some previous CDI items that before you actually implement anything that you actually get feedback on what you plan to implement.
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Same things happens with us last night in Edge of the Mists. We wanted to go full guild party but the “join” button was gone.
Wow! This has to be a bug.
There are also some funny glitches happening that some in my guild experienced like random teleporting.
I suppose that in concept the Siege Disabler was intended to boost a small defending force’s capacity to hold out against a larger attacking force, and maybe in some instances it does that. In my brief experience of the practice however, it serves principally as another advantage to the larger force.
Yep of course it does and such consequences were immediately obvious. It doesn’t help defenders defend. It helps them delay the attackers long enough so that the zerg can finish what its doing and get there.
Another thing it works through doors like certain aoe abilities so defenders don’t even have to risk getting up no walls to stop rams.
So now the blob has to start thinking .. this is a good thing Guys!
OK – so the siege disabler seems OP (I haven’t had the chance to check it out yet and I’m sure I’ll rage about it as well when my ram is disabled constantly) but let’s see what counters we can come up with before screaming for a nerf.
Its a projectile so it can be blocked by projectile blocking skills. However there is essentially no animation to it so you can’t see it coming and a thief or mesmer can stealth up to the siege before using it. So its hard to counter. Based on tonights experience its going to make attacking much more tedious.
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Already tell there needs to be a cool down on this thing. I like the concept but one player effectively turning off attacking siege indefinitely is pretty stupid.
And anet were told well prior to implementation that this would be an issue.
Is it unfair that some players were able to profit immensely from this, while screwing the rest of us over? Absolutely. Is that a realistic part of a trading system based on real-world stock markets? Yes, and you already knew that.
So don’t create an mmo trading market based on real world systems in mmos that aren’t sandbox mmos. Never mind the fact that with all of anets supply side manipulation and the increasing number of items that are introduced and unable to be sold this is moving farther and farther away from a real world market in any case.
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