very sad to hear RIP
Are we still complaining about things that are still entirely speculation? Really?
Its not speculation, they stated that ferocity on celestial would be made equal to other stats. This will result in a reduction of critical damage to below that of zerker where previously it was above.
why haven’t they said anything yet? are they waiting to see if this really does anger the community like the flamewhatever armour?
I hate to say “give them a day”, but you really do need to give them a day.
Why? How did it get through QA in the first place? It isn’t hard to realise what the response would be.
eh they did a terible job on the first wvw cdi. The 2nd one went pretty well and chris said we would revisit the population topic so that the most important issue will get a real discusion.
But has it been discussed since?
Well, to be fair they are attacking the new map, not the “real” WvW maps, and I would say that is a rather fair compromise.
Its a WvW overflow map created specifically to deal with queue issues no the regular WvW maps so it is a real WvW map.
I understand where you are coming from. I still don’t see this as P2W. I do see this as a gateway or the first steps onto much worse things. It’s a slippery slope after all.
Agree with this its not strictly P2W but its definitely on a slippery slope. Seriously does no-one at anet review these ideas. This is getting absurd.
I’m reminded of a town meeting in VT on the Bob Newhart show. He said, “what we need here is a stupid alert.” I like Bob Newhart a lot. CDI has to do with cooperative development. That is what I have a problem with. A game should not be cooperatively developed. That’s the job of the game developer. Hopefully they have some ideas whose time has come. The old Anet that marketed this game had a lot of great ideas. Those ideas seem to have faded to the extent they have interacted with the playerbase. Sad, really.
TBH a lot of the ideas thrown around on those threads are ideas that arenanet should already have come up with themselves.
You’re not addressing the point about the dev statement.
As far as I remember there is no “GvG”-mode in this game? We only see zerg vs zerg and we honestly have no idea why people meet in the arena to fight a zerg with their zerg.
You do realise that the arena in OS was created for GvGs right, this is straight from Devon’s mouth.
So…is this tied to server vs server? Or do we que go in and it’s just split up randomly. As it stands right now Kaineng can barely field enough players to defend our own Borderland, let alone go in the EOTM, does anyone have any info on that?
Its all servers in the 1 map and overflows of that map I presume. All serves of the same colour for the week will be on the same team in EOTM.
I am definitely going to expose the impact between previous CDI and evolution in the live game when I get time (More observant community CDI members will already see evolution).
What about the WvW CDis? Seemingly nothing is coming from them. Devon has been silent. Josh has come in and created his own feedback thread which has served to create confusion on what is exactly happening with WvW.
Some how Anet thinks players want more Scarlet.
The mind really boggles at the inclusion of her in this.
Hey Anet, this guy has connectivity issues, could you please turn WvW off for every other player.
no one wants to play if this one guy has problems.
Its not a connectivity issue the servers can’t handle the load when all 3 servers have large amounts of players on a map.
Since the CDI has technically been nullified by the switch of people in charge and the existence of the “Three likes & Three hates” thread,
Has it? I think we need feedback from Josh on the CDis, given the push Chris Whiteside is putting into the initiative I doubt its been discarded. The 3 likes/dislikes thread has really served to confuse the issue.
I understand that but I just want to know how the refund process would work because I’d like to use it how it is now but I don’t want to have to trash my ascended armor with runes of traveler or spend the gems/gold to get transmutation splitters to get gems back if I don’t like the new one.
Don’t worry you won’t cause its too hard for them to solve that problem.
Seems like information about the coming update have started to turn up. And the main thing seems to be Edge of the Mists (which will be invaded by Aetherblades).
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/coming-soon-the-edge-of-the-mists/
http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/01/28/journey-to-the-edge-of-the-mists-in-guild-wars-2s-next-content/
http://guildmag.com/aetherblades-invading-edge-of-the-mists/Much earlier than I though, but very nice nonetheless.
Except……………….. more kittening scarlet. Seriously WTF!
You’re on SOS……………. nuff said.
I have an account on SoR, I played on both during leagues.
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Well then you’re playing an entirely different game to me. I saw SOR being overwhelmed by numbers I hadn’t see before (and I had been on SOR since March last year), I saw the pugs losing morale and not logging in as a result (albeit also with some mistreatment by some (not all) guilds) and I saw the WvW guilds still coming out but not putting in overtime cause there was no point.
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Another concern is that ArenaNet may not want legendaries to be commonplace things.
Except they are commonplace. And they are meaningless, being simply pretty objects to display. This is the issue with how anet have implemented the legendary system. It should be a trophy reflective of skill, of overcoming a hard challenge, but it aint. As it stands the liadri mini is a far better trophy than a legendary.
Its not an excuse its genuinely the focus for the major guilds, and they didn’t tank in S1 they were overwhelmed.
No they tanked, the first week they worked with BG to hold JQ off to third place, by midweek BG turned around and made sure Rall stayed in second and not challenge for first. Then when week two came BG got one guild midweek to coincide with a 20k point comeback, all of a sudden SoR major guilds were no where to be found and the pugs floundered and left because no one was around to lead them.
You’re on SOS……………. nuff said.
I would buy one.
I myself prefer the fights, I play for PvP and sieging stuff, scort dollies, scouting is boring to me… but I also like to win, the server competition to see who is better so although I think it is little bit boring to care about PPT I also feel that sometimes I need to do something to help the server get more points… maybe if ANET changed the PPT system and rewards but it is an old discussion.
What I would like to know is how is it going on right now on the other servers?
Play for both, some of the best fights happen over objectives. As someone who recently transferred off SOR one of the issues was playing for open field fights to the exclusion of everything else.
The more I hear Rall shouting out that they only play for the fights, the more it looks like an excuse that they can’t compete anymore, even more so since the season when they tanked. What, they think they’re the only server to face coverage odds? pfft.
Its not an excuse its genuinely the focus for the major guilds, and they didn’t tank in S1 they were overwhelmed.
I personally feel that the SAB loot system got it right. You can play the content and get lucky with a rare drop, or you can earn tokens and trade them in for an account bound version of the same skin. And for players who are just too lazy or dislike the content to do it themselves, they can buy skins from the players who were lucky enough to get a sellable skin version.
Marvel Heroes has an interesting twist on this – they have tokens that you can turn in for various special things – new hero unlocks, random rolls on epic gear, etc. These tokens can drop randomly from mobs and are affected by their version of magic find, but if you don’t find a token after 10 minutes of playing (I think, it might be 8 minutes) you get one dropped from the next mob you kill.
Anet has tokens but it is very inconsistent with the way it uses them, I’ve taken it as a sign of a lack of overall vision in relation to the reward systems and probably in terms of the way the game is project managed at the top level.
Yeah, frankly its been very uninspiring and a pretty big let down. Considering the ANet behind GW1 delivered so much epicness, with such little employees, it boggles the mind how GW2 fails to deliver.
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Personally it feels like ANet used to be made up of awesome guys and girls who were passionate about their job and the game they made, but with GW2 it just feels soulless post launch.
You’ve really got to wonder what happened to the anet of GW1, maybe its the other 2 founders leaving, maybe its Eric Flannum being marginalised…..
Not really, the company is thriving in a market with intense competition. They are obviously doing something right.
Are they? This report reveals that GW2 is not even in the top 10 online games based on free to pay earnings:
http://www.superdataresearch.com/blog/us-digital-games-market/
A top 10 list that includes swtor.
True, the lack of “pay to win” holds them back a bit, but being able to look yourself in the eye while you shave makes up for it.
swtor isn’t p2w as I understand it. Plus given the prevalence of gambling boxes and mechanics driving players towards buying gems anet cannot hold its head high ethically at all.
Not really, the company is thriving in a market with intense competition. They are obviously doing something right.
Are they? This report reveals that GW2 is not even in the top 10 online games based on free to pay earnings:
http://www.superdataresearch.com/blog/us-digital-games-market/
A top 10 list that includes swtor.
Yep the current likes/dislikes thread is really just a rehash of the original CDi choice thread.
When is account bound WXP being implemented?
When is the Edge of the Mist Map being rolled out?
When will we see the fruits of the 2 CDis on WvW to date?
What was the intention behind increasing the power of Arrow Carts?
Various ANet devs have already pointed ou several times that the GW2 game engine is simply not capable of handling larger maps than are already in the game. That’s just an unfortunate fact of life that will never change. It would indeed be nice to have more maps, though, but they’ve also stated that making a new map is probably the most resource-intensive activity for the devs … and we already know that there is less than a handful of them assigned to WvW.
And yet EOTM is significantly larger even than EB.
As requested I will stick to 3:
Likes:
1. Running with my guild (only thing keeping me playing)
2. Intense large scale PVP or GVG fights but not at megablob status, (20-30 ppl, can be anywhere including in and around objectives)
3. The dynamic nature of the mode.
Dislikes:
1. Lack of commander/grouping functionality (see CDi thread)
2. Inequality of matchups, from T1 (BG ruling all) right through the tiers.
3. Power of siege (restricts good fights even over objectives)
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Why is it that no one wants to seem to duel in OS anymore? I really want to dual legit players 1v1. There is not a real sense of 1v1 anywhere else in wvw.
Tried to recently only to be ganked by a group of Riot from BG.
The only question I have is whether that’s a good thing. And that is 100% a matter of perspective only. It’s great for the games economy. It may be less great for the player base.
In looking at the type of game that this is, ultimately its a theme park mmo with somewhat of an open world, I would say that its not a good thing. Its not an economic simulator, its not a sandbox where players create the content.
Better take all your screenshots of LA folks, cause it’s gonna get invaded by a dragon and destroyed ;|
Where does it say that?
As for the article itself, its pretty standard suck up to arenanet.
We won’t see any WvW changes until end of march because Elder Scrolls Online arrives at 2014/4/4.
Q.E.D.
See that just makes me more determined that I will move to TESO.
As someone who does the Tequatl event on a daily basis: ember consumables shorten the time it too to kill her, but are not an essential component in the capacity they are currently used. Perhaps they play a greater role in a smaller group, but I haven’t experienced less than a full (or nearly so) map for the event.
I have and I think you’re right. The essential components are numbers and organisation.
Given that T1 is currently not a contest at all and hasn’t been since the second week of the league the comments about not being overstacked relative to other servers ring hollow.
False. That was SoR and JQ effectively giving up, while BG wanted the win.
Thats just your inference not what necessarily happened. And what about since the league ended.
I’m tired of (ex)SoR’s whining over coverage and population when they continually state they play for fights. Don’t complain about getting outmanned when you keep insulting your pugs and kick/banning visitors out of your teamspeak.
I’m not complaining about being outmanned or talking about whats happened on SOR internally. I’m simply pointing out where you’re wrong about SOR’s population and that your comments about BG’s population do not match my experience.
I’m sick of people badmouthing (ugh… forum censoring… can’t use the term I want to use) BG when we’ve worked hard to get where we are today. As a server. As a community. This constant barrage of claiming we buy guilds (when every tier 1 server has done the same), of being overstacked (no more so than JQ or SoR), or other such comments.
Given that T1 is currently not a contest at all and hasn’t been since the second week of the league the comments about not being overstacked relative to other servers ring hollow.
Which happens to coincide nicely with when ESO is launching. You re-anchor the core and provide fresh new content for the casuals to try to keep the migration to a new AAA MMO limited. Set the bar higher for a conversion so that it isn’t just “I was bored and wanted to try something new”. MMOs tend to be addicting. You want the “siren’s call” to stay with your platform
Yabbut they run the risk that by then ppl just won’t care.
Has there been any beta of ESO’s RvR? Given the lack of news and press about it; it will probably be even more neglected than WvW is.
There hasn’t been much press about TESO at all (for whatever reason, my guess is that they are wary of overhyping the game). My following of the development tells me that the RvRvR is far more central to the game as a whole than WvWvW is supposed to be in GW2. Therefore yes they are properly resourcing it. As for the game the feedback I’ve seen of the most recent beta is that the game is clearly improving from previous betas.
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I think we must be playing in different games and you’re just not where the BG blob is.
Dat 25 man militia blob during OCE. Sure. If your guild can’t handle a militia zerg, then I really don’t know what to say. Of course, based on my counters of your guild the past couple of days, I can clearly say that you can’t handle militia zergs. Your guild can’t even run in the same direction.
Resorting to personal insults now? Pity.
I know, it’s absolutely ridiculous. It’s truly disheartening to think that we’ll have to wait 2 months or so for account bound WvW XP, I mean, honestly, they should never have even said anything if they weren’t going to deliver soon thereafter. kittening kittenes me off. I mean how kittening hard is it to just get account bound xp?? I understand Edge of the Mists is more difficult,
User testing for EOTM finished 2 weeks ago so it must be almost finished.
Last testing, it was far from being finnished…
What do you mean? That they may have more testing? Thats not according to what I know which is that user testing for it is completely done.
Since players wanted more DPS, they kept spamming the fire ele, which caused intense graphical lag
The lag wasn’t that bad, I’ve done Teq many many times with TTS and not once experienced bad lag and my computer is not top of the line by any means and I’m in Australia.
I feel a 10-15mins cooldown would have been met with much less anger.
I guess the way it was worded in the patch notes also annoyed a lot of people. It’s understandable that these are being used to make hard bosses a lot easier to a point that the designers hadn’t anticipated,
But they aren’t easy even with embers. In fact all the feedback on Teq is that it should scale better so that smaller groups can complete them.
Btw, Chris BG does not hold its ground during EU. Check the last few days around 12 to 5 server time. Today specifically we lost everything but EB and was ticking at around 100 ppt.
125 at its lowest and you shot straight back up to 325 in just over an hour.
I think the WvW devs have taken to the idea that if you cannot say something nice… don’t say anything at all.
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All we want is an update on EOTM and Account Bound WXP and an explanation for delays if they have occurred, nothing earth shattering.
I know, it’s absolutely ridiculous. It’s truly disheartening to think that we’ll have to wait 2 months or so for account bound WvW XP, I mean, honestly, they should never have even said anything if they weren’t going to deliver soon thereafter. kittening kittenes me off. I mean how kittening hard is it to just get account bound xp?? I understand Edge of the Mists is more difficult,
User testing for EOTM finished 2 weeks ago so it must be almost finished.
Its always funny to read this thread. Reverance who is actually on BG and speaking the absolute truth VS others who are either on JQ or SoR thus they would never ever admit they are losing on equal footing at certain timezones, .
You’re being sarcastic right.
Fine, I’ll bite and answer your question. BG is no more stacked than JQ or SoR. I’ve kinda been saying the same thing for the past 5 pages of this thread.
So…….. according to you: “Now, SoR treated their pugs really badly and lost most of their population (and still are feeling the effects today). That is their problem and their’s alone.” Yet BG is no more stacked than SOR.
Sorry no-ones buying it.
SoR has some of the biggest WvW guilds of any NA server (WvW in JQ and ND and KnT in BG can compare). The fact that they can get rid of nearly all their pugs and still have such a strong presence in WvW is pretty evident that their population is still there. It just means that there’s less people there to help the server retain PPT while those guilds go off looking for fights (I’m looking at you Choo and TW).
This displays a complete lack of knowledge of these guilds and the server, you do know half of TW went to RET just for example. What popualtion are you talking about? I doubt SOR has a bigger pop in WvW than TC now.
SOR still has some guilds but has always had less PvX pop than JQ or BG, its been one of the issues for the server. My guild has just moved to JQ and there’s a clear difference in the PvE areas.
Plus, I think a big reason why so few from BG are online in that time is cause the Oceanic time zone in general is a dead zone. There’s very few fights. If there are, you’re facing a giant blob of 50+ SoR or JQ made up of NA staying up and SEA logging on early, combined with whatever Oceanic guilds they have online. It gets old pretty quick. Most of our Oceanic players play either NA or SEA these days and just avoid OCE in general.
I think we must be playing in different games and you’re just not where the BG blob is.
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- unfortunately, the creatures were not specifically designed to the constraints we have on pets in general. They are way more costly than your average ranger pet. In fact, they are exactly the same as the versions you fight in the open world which is what makes them so powerful.
So the solution would be to rework them so they are more along the lines of pets, not put a cooldown on them that renders them completely worthless.
You say you don’t want to completely destroy them but you have. The ember is powerful, but glass, it gets destroyed very easily. This is just a typical example of arenanet taking the easy way out of a problem and overshooting the mark. And you say you’ve had this in mind for months……….. well you had time to implement a proper solution then.
The proposed changes to critical damage gear aren’t specifically PvE-focused, but focused rather on the stat weighting of critical damage itself. We’re not aiming to make crit damage unviable, just to bring it closer to other gear sets.
This does not apply to celestial and prima facie the proposed changes look like making that set completely unviable even for those classes that it suits. Arenanet must look at this.
Fine, I’ll bite and answer your question. BG is no more stacked than JQ or SoR. I’ve kinda been saying the same thing for the past 5 pages of this thread.
So…….. according to you: “Now, SoR treated their pugs really badly and lost most of their population (and still are feeling the effects today). That is their problem and their’s alone.” Yet BG is no more stacked than SOR.
Sorry no-ones buying it.
Its quite stunning comparing the sPvP forum with this, they get fairly frequent communication, such as on the balance updates but we get nothing. Josh has introduced himself but nothing really beyond that.
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