Guild Wars 2

Wryscher.1432:

Major wvw over haul
-golems are now free to build
-golems now move 100% faster
-golems now do 100% more damage
-golems can now use gliders.

Done and done

-To use golems, you need to have HoT, full HoT map completion, gold in all adventures, and grind 20mio exp for mastery.

Now that we lost the primary reason to complain, the WvW forums have suddenly … gone silent.

JoeytheHutt.1742:

saturn.4810:

Wanze.8410:

Inoki.6048:

If you don’t get my answer that’s your problem. Most stuff with HoT is aimed towards people giving up after a while and reaching for their wallet. Gated items, gated progression is what my post was about, all for one and one reason only.

All the gems in the world cant help you fail an event.

You can spam everyone that does the event with expensive gemstore gifts (or legendary weapons), so that they can’t help but look at them

Saying that this is what Anet intended goes a bit far, though…

still, some gems can get you enough gold to buy most of what you want directly from the tp without doing any event at all, wich I think was the point.

While this is true, the question of OP was explicitly not about something you can buy with gems or gold.

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

saturn.4810:

Wow a dev comment on WvW! On reddit of course…

Probably because more people are reading reddit than the official forums.

No wonder if the devs prefer to post there, and not in their own official forums.

Wow a dev comment on WvW! On reddit of course…

As an engineer main, this remains one of those things I’d love to see addressed…But the reality is we need the bulk of our own internal engineers (coders!) to continue to focus on stuff like our major WvW overhaul right now we’ve been working on for over a year that’s much higher priority for the game over-all.
This remains on the someday that’d sure be awesome list.

Major WvW overhaul (re-)confirmed!

Melanion.4892:

So far that’s 2 people on the thread that say they’ve been on the map when it’s been queued or closer to full. Of everyone complaining, that’s 2.

I don’t think everyone would ignore WvW if they took out EBG, by the way. And I didn’t say take it out forever, just take it out for a week to see. There’s really no harm in trying these things. People didn’t quit for golem week any quicker than they’re quitting for the current state of WvW.

Probably no harm done, but players would still complain a kittenton. Remeber golem week…

Not that this would change much nowadays, though.

“Dungeons in Guild Wars 2 once rewarded players who enjoy organized parties, epic challenges, and delving deeper into the secrets of Tyria.”

“Once, there were tremendous risks for those who brave the dungeons in Guild Wars 2, but the rewards used to be great”

While they’re at it, they could also remove dungeons, and replace them with fractals and raids.

Edit: Just saw they actually added fractals.

The only way to make Anet respond is to bait them with a positive thread.

Too bad it’s impossible to make a positive thread about WvW nowadays.

Ayrilana.1396:

saturn.4810:

Ayrilana.1396:

Gify.1249:

Is advertising for a group to farm a home instance acceptable? Like I have a fully loaded home instance that I like to invite others to farm…can I use lfg for this?

*Edit: I’m not selling it, I’m just inviting others to use it for their benefit.

No. I think it was stated on the 2nd or 3rd page that it was not allowed.

Not allowed, but you can disguise it as “qaggan home instance party, complimentary nodes included”

Not really.

Why not?

Wanze.8410:

Inoki.6048:

If you don’t get my answer that’s your problem. Most stuff with HoT is aimed towards people giving up after a while and reaching for their wallet. Gated items, gated progression is what my post was about, all for one and one reason only.

All the gems in the world cant help you fail an event.

You can spam everyone that does the event with expensive gemstore gifts (or legendary weapons), so that they can’t help but look at them

Saying that this is what Anet intended goes a bit far, though…

XP in WvW counts for nothing, and Masteries do not work in WvW.

This is intended, as stated by the devs:

We wanted to keep PvE progression (Masteries) separate from WvW progression (Ability Lines).

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/The-new-auto-loot-doesen-t-work-in-WvW-Merged/first#post5679969

Ayrilana.1396:

Gify.1249:

Is advertising for a group to farm a home instance acceptable? Like I have a fully loaded home instance that I like to invite others to farm…can I use lfg for this?

*Edit: I’m not selling it, I’m just inviting others to use it for their benefit.

No. I think it was stated on the 2nd or 3rd page that it was not allowed.

Not allowed, but you can disguise it as “qaggan home instance party, complimentary nodes included”

Probably not intended, just an oversight.

In the past Anet fixed such problems. No idea when, though.

Rising Dusk.2408:

I brought this up to the Fractal team in my most recent report on the matter, so they’re aware of it and we’ll have to see what they do, if anything. I wouldn’t expect a developer response here, however.

Thank you!

We’re lucky to have such a great forum specialist here

They’ve gone to design raids.

I don’t think they exist.

Anet’s creativity for fractals seems to be nonexistent. They should at least have added new fractals before nerfing dungeons.

Concerning dailies, doing X swamps and Y molten boss fractals is a chore mainly because it’s so boring.

Kaffeglass.5371:

Me Games Ma.8426:

I didn’t read all of this but I’d like to add:
Mesmer blocks last a max of kitten (with continuum) when you just don’t mindlessly hit them while they’re blocking

Can i ask you how to predict a mesmer to block when its instant?

You need to read his mind.

Wasn’t he the dev that occasionally posted on reddit?

Anyone that doesn’t have this HP yet better grinds some masteries now.

If you want to tank, then ascended armor would indeed be very helpful.

From achievement chests every 500 or so AP, and some daily login rewards, I think.

Espire.9723:

saturn.4810:

How can you complain about Anet’s lack of PvP support if they just have organized a pro league with 200k cash reward?

Isn’t that the ultimate sign of how much Anet cares about PvP?

Sarcasm?

Just trying to understand Anet’s point of view.

I mean they support and care about PvP, just not the parts we (solo PvPers) would like to have supported.

How can you complain about Anet’s lack of PvP support if they just have organized a pro league with 200k cash reward?

Isn’t that the ultimate sign of how much Anet cares about PvP?

If legendary armor is not raid exclusive, what will the pro raiders have left to show off?

Yes, why bother? Wouldn’t you rather have fun in the game?

Nice gz!

Now I’m waiting for the threads about raids being too easy and boring, that will surely emerge soon (as a matter of fact, a few already did).

The new BL is definitely the best map of HoT.

I believe I can speak in the name of the whole WvW community when I say that we all appreciate the effort Anet spent in developing this wonderful map. Thus I want to hereby express my and everyone else’s most sincere thanks to all WvW developers.

May we have countless hours of fun with this great activity WvW has grown into, and look forward to changes in the future that will, without doubt, make our favorite part of GW2 even more awesome.

The server prideless: Now it’s finally time to remove servers. All but T1 is dead anyway.

The PvE player: New borderlands would be successful, if they had proper PvE content like hearts and world bosses.

The forum complainer: WvW is boring anyway, but at least something new to complain about on the forums.

The Anet dev: Why are WvW people not enthusiastic about raids and esports?

Ping exotic armor or kick xD

Problem is, when someone is filling a raid, why should they take people without full ascended, when they can have people with full ascended?

That 5% more armor might be the difference needed between wipe and success.

As said, raids can theoretically be done with only exotics, but only with skilled players and good organization. So best bet would be to start your own fixed non ascended raid group.

Fully agree. 2h cycles are NOT casual friendly.

And plz shorten the race phase before tarir defense.

Don’t go near skritt xD

If it says historical, it’s not available atm (unless wiki is wrong).

Sometimes Anet brings old items back for some time. Some items are seasonal. Raiment of the Lich will probably be available next Halloween.

Keep it positive and Anet might reply

It’s not that I don’t like the new borderlands, the new borderlands don’t like me.

Also here, they need also to balance the classes around raids and PvE in general.

That makes it really hard.

Not prepaying gives the opportunity to not buy the expansion if it turns out badly.

samuelmcdevitte.5647:

This would be a good place to start with buffing thief would it not?

+1, all classes should benefit properly from alacrity. And thieves need a buff.

Definitely. Ranger sword is sooo annoying.

Bigsexy.8302:

Here’s the latest reddit thread https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3tx4eh/wvw_is_broken_here_a_list_of_bugs_and_issues/
And I know you will read it because your employees always reply in threads where you are being praised.

The reddit thread doesn’t look like the devs are praised xD

It’s allowed. Buy the raid if you want, but beware of scams.

Disable stronghold before queue. And you get a vote everytime.

Linfang.1087:

Which World? People say world first but never say what server they are on. oh yea. Mega server. so no one cares

Most non WvW people don’t care about the server. But since OP is in a WvW guild, it might be interesting

Swagger.1459:

Urosh Uchiha.9732:

The waiting is always there. Even when I play with my 9 friends you still have to wait a lot, take breaks very often. Cause out of 10 people someone will always have to go do something at some time. And this will always be an issue, unless you find 9 people to raid with you who have no life and only play the game without any interruptions.

Then that’s a raid design problem ultimately, not a player created problem.

Clearly it’s the raids fault when people need to go afk all the time? Did I miss your sarcasm? xD

Umm, what’s your point?

Mesmer is hard to master, and good to great in every game mode. As a downside, you don’t have the raw power of the ele or other classes. You influence the world more subtly (but the effect can be just as strong, if not stronger).

Mesmer is not so fun to level, since the best stuff comes only when you have chronomancer unlocked.

Mesmer fits the dark magic caster type partially; while there is definitely a dark theme, it’s also pink butterfiles everywhere.

Thief is even harder to master imo. Especially in dps gear (that you will be expected to use in instanced content) you have very little HP, and you need to actively evade pretty much all attacks. So you need to know the fights well.

Thief is probably best in WvW. In PvP and PvE you don’t see thief very often, and the forums are filled with complaints how bad thief is.

If you don’t plan to go with the elite groups, you could also put more tanky gear on thief, and do just fine.

Maybe you could also consider necromancer (the primary dark magic caster), but I don’t have experience with that class.

For some reason, I don’t remember overly long waiting times when raiding in WoW vanilla with 40 people.

Is there something pecular that causes the waiting times here? Or have people simply become impatient?

Notsoperky.2348:

The bigger problem comes when the person you chose to boost to 500 scribe decides to ‘take a break’ from GW2…

Then the 5k gold invested take a break too xD