Guild Wars 2

Watching old videos of people playing WvW is more fun than actually playing it myself.

Points Per Kill is going to be awesome.

Now I just need to find someone to kill.

Donari.5237:

Ashen.2907:

To be honest I think that the CDI program was dead when in active use. It really did seem more like a distraction than anything else.

Are you kidding? The CDI’s on Raids and on Guild Halls went like gangbusters, miss a day of reading posts and you’d have enormous amounts to catch up on. A great deal of the discussion bore fruit in the systems we see now, albeit without exactly matching any one person’s suggestions (as we should expect).

The experience may have been different with PvE, but it certainly wasn’t stellar with the WvW CDIs. I can’t comment on the PvE ones since I don’t give a kitten about PvE.

The problem with starting “suggestion” threads is that it is difficult to get people to take the time to write up long posts with detailed suggestions and ideas when everyone knows none of it will lead to anything.

Even most beta feedback and the previous CDIs went ignored when push came to shove, so at a time like this when it appears as if no one is answering phones at Anet except Gaile, what’s the big incentive to waste time? The devs don’t even read this forum – only Reddit.

Core mes is still enjoyable. Frankly I’d rather play it and die more than touch pay2win chrono with a ten foot pole. It’s for bad players, much like Blackwater was back in the day.

Voraxas.2391:

As a long time WvW – player of Elona Reach I can tell you, that – for some reason – most of the guilds seem to love the new borderlands. Their* manpower hasn’t changed since HoT. And as you can tell by the help of the statistic, they went from silver to almost no.1 in no time. Solve the equation.

• “their” and not “our” due to the aspect, that I threw 100€ at Anet only for forcing me to quit the game I’ve loved for years a few weeks later.

The HoT disaster hasn’t affected the German servers much (not negatively anyway) because they tend to have a different playstyle (read: cannons, and more cannons).

The DBLs cater to zergs and blobs, which is the only thing we ever faced when matched with Elona, RS, or Kodash.

Shara.4716:

edited for danger

They won’t, nor will they develop any way to prevent those hacks from being used.

They will however give you an infraction for posting that link. Nice huh?

I think a punishment is warranted, to the tune of a week-long suspension or something, but longer than that much less a ban is not.

I say this because I spent years as a WvW main and reported and provided video of countless of hackers, people teleporting into towers and fully, painstakingly upgraded keeps to flip them, and if killed, teleport right back in two seconds. They were so brazen in their actions, emoting while they did it, because they knew nothing would happen to them despite our reports. And I know nothing did, because I added them to my friend list and saw them active and logging on unhindered.

Thus I feel that if unfair gameplay in a PvP game mode, where it actually hinders the experience of other players, goes entirely unpunished, then what difference does someone botting mastery points or vistas in PvE make? It makes no difference to me.

Yes, if you violate the TOS, there should be consequences. I just think when it comes to violations in PvE vs PvP modes, the punishments are completely backwards.

My replies, too, were getting deleted and infracted for no reason. I thought perhaps the thought police was on patrol again and had wandered into the WvW forum.

But then I realised I was being silly, wasting my time on exhibiting my displeasure on the forums when I could be playing the game like thousands of others, enjoying the exciting expansion content and grinding exploring in the new areas, unlocking the new elite specializations which enrich the game with more dynamic and engaging battles. Not to forget the latest great deals to be found at the Gem Store!

Daddar.5971:

Hahahaha YES! Here’s a fix for the population issues. The upper 3 tiers get Desert BL maps (you know, because they require real skill and all that). The tiers from 4 down get Alpine BL maps. THAT is how they can get people to transfer down.

Not only would I come back to the game, I’d transfer to be back on Alpine.

Just as a reminder, a guy running to catch up with his zerg isn’t a “roamer”.

I came across the former post-HoT much more than I did the latter.

Aeolus.3615:

all they need is to spend some time fixing what went wrong in the new bl, u guys want old alpine for easy karma train enemy bl???

Have you actually been to the desert(ed) maps? They are BUILT for k-trains.

Go to one of the national ones.

Here’s a build for you for the German ones: http://imgur.com/4rL23H1

They won’t. Because ego. Because Arenanet does no wrong, and it’s hard to come up with a good explanation as to why the Desert Boredomlands failed and being self-congratulatory at the same time.

Dawdler.8521:

Oh the irony, considering Alpha can only hurt doors, compared to Omega that can hurt walls as well.

Honestly, I cant think of any other 3 year old game that suddenly went back to being an alpha version. Will we see GW2 re-release soon? Another beta?!

Touché.

Norbe.7630:

sorry for the double post and this thread is tldr but anyway heres my suggestion
why not add the points per kill system like
a normal rank killed = 10point
bronze= 50 point
silver= 100 point
gold=300 point
platinum=500 point
mithril=1000 point
and last diamonds = 5000 points
that way, the defense and offense would be more tactical and the roamers would be more…..careful and skillful
what are ranks for isnt it
there is a saying that goes like this
with great power comes great responsibility
and also to prevent the camp spawning, have the team ability to bombard all enemies within 10000 radius from spawn at a 1 hour cooldown, only tanks survive the zerkz dead on the spot, of course this would trigger 1st within an x amount of players on spawn much like siegecrusher and siegerazer does

I think it would just make the alt-f4 routine more prevalent.

Babytater.6803:

Anet is doing some balances mid January if I remember correctly which will help some of the big problems.

March or April.

ArcheAge might be just the game for you…especially if your wallet is very ready.

Great clips. Thank you for sharing.

Svarty.8019:

Straegen.2938:

Now that the HoT meta is starting to settle anyone else notice that a handful of elites have become nearly unkillable in skirmish without heavy focus and many of these builds maintain a solid DPS?

Sustain has become too prolific in my opinion at least on builds that can output decent DPS. I have completely stopped engaging Dragon Hunters, Tempests and Scrappers. Any of the bunker Chronomancers also get a pass.

Not sure if this is a good or bad thing but a lot of fights have become an exercise in futility or a bring three friends sort of deal.

This is where being rubbish at 1v1 has it’s benefits. I can’t tell if someone amazing killed me or whether is was an OP class. I’ll always say it’s an OP class tbh.

No one has to be rubbish at 1v1 anymore.

If you are, just pick up one of the pay2win elites.

There’s nothing optional whatsoever about the grind if you want to unlock the pay2win elites, which were the biggest draw of the “expansion” purchase to begin with.

Not that map after map of condibomber mobs isn’t cool.

You numbskulls, it’s called “content”.

My doctor said after operating on the Osborne’s ligament on my arm that my hand’s function would not ever return completely to normal, but it mostly has. He said not to strain it too much, but that stupid idiot surgeon doesn’t know about the 20,000 mouse clicks. It’ll be shhhhh between you and me, Anet.

Because, after all, I paid 45 bucks for this garbage content, so I am kitten well gonna play it.

The automatic upgrades are fantastic. Anytime my server faces other servers of lower ranking, we can just flip their border and leave it entirely and it’ll be T3 in no time. It’ll be funny watching the one or two scouts they have trying to keep camps flipped to prevent the auto-upgrades.

Another great thing is, we don’t really need scouts either. It takes those lower rank servers with their small groups so long to get through our T3 walls on their border that even if they make it to lord we can wp in anytime we want and snuff them out. Even if we die, just instantly respawn right next to lord, lol. It’s hilarious.

Then again if they did manage to flip it and somehow upgrade it to T3, it takes our zerg less than 6 minutes from outer gate to ring up (I’ve timed it), whereas their small groups grow white beards by the time they see a glimpse of the lord room. So no big.

Please don’t change a thing; we don’t want to have to leave people behind from our karmatrain to actually scout, siege, and guard those keeps. This is working as intended.

Entenkommando.5208:

You can complain after they implemented stupid things they didn’t ask us for but not when they do actually finally talk to us.

They’re not talking to us. They sent their PvE forum liaison – who is neither a developer or a customer representative – to deliver information she doesn’t even understand, being that she is never in this subforum and doesn’t play WvW.

It’s just to deliver a statement about changes which take the least amount of effort for a game mode they will soon discontinue. And this is supposed to make our socks roll up and down?

Please, enough with the “this is why they won’t talk to us” bullkitten.

If people aren’t banned for teleport hacking in WvW even after Anet is provided with video evidence, then I doubt Star Wars spoiler trolls have anything to worry about.

I for one welcome our new eagle raptor overlords.

Go ahead and do it. You’ll feel better, like you did something. Just don’t expect anything to happen.

Not one of the many accounts I have reported for hacking were banned. Not even after providing video evidence.

Then again hacking in WvW doesn’t affect gem sales, so maybe your complaint will reach a live person.

How about just a button at the start of the JP which you can push to complete it and get the reward?

Four pages of back-and-forth about Star Wars spoilers?

Really?

It’s good to know that when the enemy zerg shoots me through the walls they can now get points for it.

Another bullseye.

For the sake of fun and nostalgia, link some good old Alpine fight clips that you find memorable… I’d like to see some of those drawn-out epic battles at Hills or what-have-you…

Here’s one I came across and found amusing… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgtqYBkRst8

Working as intended. Nobody cares.

You can add new content without removing the old. Perhaps one day Arenanet will figure that out. We’ll be playing something else by then of course.

Heibi.4251:

Many guilds are still doing PVE stuff to upgrade their guild halls. But slowly but surely they are returning to the maps.

lol

Because we don’t need one. Anyone with an even somewhat functional neocortex can see the developers responsible for WvW development are asleep at the switch. I doubt there is a “team” reading Archon’s emails, so why would we need a second one?

Archon is great. He understands the community and the concerns we have. He gets what we hate and what makes us tick. It’s Arenanet that needs to add people into the equation, not the community.

Buy Some Apples.6390:

Toys are disabled in WvW cos a few of them give an unfair advantage. So instead of fixing, they just removed, the usual Anet way.

Meanwhile, we get months of Hammer Revs…

In the irony to end all ironies, the moderator will move this thread into the WvW forum

ANET Logic, part 2: Make it per character, but remove badges.

If they ran their own voice communication system, they’d also be liable for providing support for it.

I can see already the tickets they’d have to respond to, people saying so-and-so called them a bad name, pls ban, with no way of being able to verify it unless they record the communication.

It’s just a massive headache they will not do. They already fail to do the bare minimum for what have right now.

Harder to zerg? Please, I’m splitting my sides here. The whole map is MADE for karmatraining.

It seems empty because the roamers are gone, as are most of the defenders. Zergs don’t stick around on the map after they flip it. Duh.

Our home border keeps getting k-trained on a regular basis and it is very rare that they bring golems, omegas OR discount. They simply do not need them. Just the other day it took the enemy blob less than 6 minutes to go from touching the outer gate to killing the lord. (Lol, t3 means so much…) There weren’t any golems.

Golems are useful for small groups, duos and trios of would-be defenders who have the ungrateful task of flipping their own border back. They are useful because of the increased supply cost of siege and the random, frequent interval at which the guard mobs respawn. You can’t run back and forth between the keep and the camp – you need mobile siege.

There is no excuse for this change. Not under the current climate anyway.

The number of guilds who have or will ever have the capacity to apply these upgrades is small, at least compared to the number of active defense-oriented guilds we had before.

The new system leaves many defenders and their small guilds outside with their noses pressed against the window. It is not an uplifting experience.

This will not result in a resurgence of defenders in any meaningful capacity.

I have seen many towers claimed by our guilds under the new system. I am yet to see a single one of those guilds come defend it when it is under attack.

Slowly but surely I am moving from being angry to just not caring anymore.

A hammer.

You’re welcome.

I don’t care if a guild group is farming EotM. I’ll just chuckle, assume they’re all incompetent tossers, and carry on with my day.

I would most definitely quit, I am close enough to it as is. It would serve as the last nail. Not just the game mode, but the entire game, seeing as PvE is dull as hell and sPvP is now a joke.

While it seems many people have trouble grasping the concept, server pride is indeed a thing. It’s about community. I don’t want to be in a WvW guild, I never have. I don’t enjoy running in a zerg or a pre-approved build.

If they had simply done the sentry and dolly improvement and some other fixes on the old borderland, plus class balance patches, but beyond that left it well enough alone, I could have kept on playing.

The game mode could have had years. But instead this.

The grind is necessary to make it look like HoT has content.

They move threads across subforums all the time.

Notsoperky.2348:

Fuzzion.2504:

these confirm that wvw alliance is happening

The really worrying things about that is the restrictions on alliance chat- and the fact that it mentions grawls, ie PVE in what is supposed to be wvw.

The application is using a search string for the word “alliance” so it displays all lines including that word, but not all lines are associated with one another. More than likely the grawl bit has to do with a PvE quest, like the Priory & Vigil stuff before them in the results.

GROMIT.7829:

Gonna have to agree with OP

I’m from Piken and to be honest our PPT is rubbish but the enemy flat out refuses to fight us and when they do they wipe 9/10 times, i’m struggling to understand why they are so bad at this part of the game (not an insult, just an observation).

We don’t PPT much but we PPT enough to keep our place, but honestly EVERY server we fight can’t fight back or just runs, it’s not fun anymore, what happened to all these servers ?.

I can’t speak for EB, but at least on Alpine home BL Gandara gave you fights if you came for them and didn’t bring a zone blob. I haven’t seen Pikens in ages though, but if our slide down to Silver continues I’m sure that’ll happen soon enough.

Just don’t expect to get many fights on the Desert boredomlands. They’re all in EB now, what’s left of our fighting force.