Guild Wars 2

Damsel Delilah.9084:

For team queue will there be titles given out to the top 100 or so? like when qualifier points were removed.

The reason I could see them not putting out any type of rewards for being in the top 100 this time around is because 50% of the people in the top 100 abuse the lackluster decay mechanic to stay there…

Myrmidian Eudoros.4671:

Let’s get the matchmaking issues and new modes in first unless I’ve missed my guess and this would be a really fast thing to add into the game.

I agree with you on this 100%.

Cynz.9437:

no, they just can go mist form, earth shield etc., if all fails still have absurd heals

Plz don’t ever equate mist form and earth shield with stealth…every 4 sec stealth = 60 sec recharge on mist form right?

Hype.8032:

Phoenix and dragon’s tooth do the same damage as backstab, are we nerfing those at the same time? These kinds of posts are pretty good for a laugh in the evening.

You stay classy my friend!

Clearly the Ele using Phoenix and Dragon’s Tooth can hit stealth>teleport away if those 2 skills miss, restarting the whole fight right?

Edit: FYI this is in no way agreeing with the OP though, you just cant compare the damage for a class with no type of stealth to a class with it.

I wish both Solo and Team arena acted like Random and Team arena is GW1. Increased rank and glory for consecutive wins(add 25-50 points per win up to 5 wins or something) but allow a team to stay together for like 10-15 wins. But that’s just my hope.

Xista.7391:

So why weren’t the ToT bags rewarded alongside w/ the chests?

This, this, this, this x1000. It’s not like both rewards together would have been much anyway…

Karalaza.6021:

My theory: could it be that only the ppl who own a legendary occupy LA to show them off thus giving you a false sence that most people have it?

LA + Dungeon runners since they have the cash to be able to get the mats.

NevirSayDie.6235:

garethh.3518:

CachoDm.4639:

This game is addicting in fact I bet you 1g you won’t quit.

This game had like 3 million copies sold, just around launch?, like 1/100, at best, of those people still play.

Moral of the story.
Allot of people quit GW2, most notably because of PvP.

On the other hand, how many servers has Anet merged due to population drop?

Also, betting someone gold that he won’t quit is a 100% safe bet. If he quits, you don’t have to pay up anyway. Well played

Just fyi that whole they havent merged any servers yet is crap, they would have to merge 4 servers into 1 if they ever did it. Which means it will never happen.

Justin ODell.9517:

The balance changes are being done by the Skills and Combat team. The rewards are being done by the PvP team.

I believe we are getting close to revealing more details about the reward changes, but I’m not certain about when that will be.

The solo arena roster shuffling should be in the next update (11/12) unless we find a critical bug and have to back out the change. This change should eliminate the sync queuing, and do a great deal toward preventing lopsided matchups.

More significant changes to matchmaking will come sometime next year, and I’ve already been told I can write-up a blog post and start a conversation with you guys, so keep an eye out for that.

Was posted in another topic.

Funniest thing is, yesterday I was in a match and the AFKer was someone who probably shouldn’t be afk in PvP. Hint hint I can’t say who it was because I would be banned for 2 weeks. FYI this isn’t a whine or bash post, I actually thought it was humorous.

NevirSayDie.6235:

—Never stay in a pointless fight (e.g. people aren’t dying fast and you aren’t in control of the capture points). This one is hard—I’ve had to leave teammates to die because they’re simply in the wrong place. Some people call you a noob, but you do what you have to.

Everything in this post is correct, but I have to quote this part because it is one of the hardest things to do once you get caught in a fight. You HAVE to follow this advice though.

Honestly I wish could get some dev feedback on if it will ever be changed or not, asked 6? months ago but never got any confirmation on if we were supposed to still have the dolyak picture on character select when we are halfway through wolf rank.

clint.5681:

You really need to get out of the self entitled bubble you are living in. The leagues arent one big tournament, if it was then your issue of a lower rank server getting better rewards would be a real issue, but its not. As you should know its broken up into three seperate leagues, so the prie for coming in first in bronze has nothing to do with the prize for coming in 6th in gold.

If you were so concerned with the rewards you had plenty of time to transfer like everyone said.

He is from Mag, they live in a self entitlement bubble.

It’s because the only points that used to go towards those titles came from your points in the match so it excluded the points from the win chest. What’s happening here is probably the same type of thing, the points you get after a match ends don’t count toward the titles. FYI the people who tPvPed their rank became way behind in those titles for this same reason(I won’t get Avenger till almost rank 45). If this gets changed I hope Anet would look into evening up everyone’s title points with how many rank points they have currently earned since I would love having the titles avenger and ransacker….

SammiLinn.9273:

you guys can’t slaughter anything without 3 ballista’s a treb and 200 AC carts, but it was fun wiping you guys back

You guys talk alot of crap about siege, but I haven’t seen a single person with a build that isn’t the meta stunlock/immo bs. So maybe you need to stop trash talking and l2p before whining about siege.

coglin.1867:

ahuba.6430:

it goes hand to hand with the games quality

Your personal opinion of the games quality is not justification to be rude and hateful on the forums. It says a lot that you would even attempt to justify the general behavior at all.

Ah so disagreeing with what road the game is going, and explaining what we don’t like about it is rude and hateful? Because that what most of the threads that don’t get closed are like.

I want that staff right now. Noooooooowwwwwwww

Aphix.9846:

(char-bound, like pvp ranks).

PvP ranks are account bound just fyi, so WvW being char bound is doubly stupid.

Bad Element.4613:

Oh YB and FA… tsk tsk tsk How many times do we need to go over this?

You know PDoX owns the Obsidian Sanctum; quit trying & get back to your zergs.

Do you actually think this is something to be proud of? Kinda sad really.

SammiLinn.9273:

I just went to quote someone who thought wiping a map zerg from a tower with 20 people was cool, but apparently he realized how ridiculously awful that sounded and deleted his post…

ANYWAYS…fighting from inside of a tower with a bajillion arrow carts is not skill, its just silly. have fun with your seige please GVG a few of our guilds so i can come watch and giggle

Actually the defense I was talking about had 1 arrowcart and FA hurr durring it up the ramp over and over while we sat at the top. So maybe you should be quiet now? Thank You

Edit: and that “GvG” you are talking about is a joke.

etrigan.4213:

We didn’t trash talk in that other matchup thread, we simply stated truths, facts and what was going to happen.

We don’t care whether ONE speaks for your whole server or not, your server will pay the price of ONE talking regardless.

Well I was just trying to be a little nice, but wow the condescension in your posts is obnoxious. Talk all you want but when your queue zerg gets wiped by 20 of us in a tower 3 times you should lose all ability to trash talk.

etrigan.4213:

Frosch.7809:

FA seems to feel the need to trash talk their opponents down, ever asked yourself why this is so? Feel free to do so, we couldn’t care less about your opinion of us, actually.

Actually YB started it. Its hard to tell, since those posts were deleted/moderated, but that is why there is hostility.

We actually like YB a bit. Good memories back in the days fighting you guys before we moved up.

Actually I’m going to put this in here, FA started all the trash talking in our YB,BP,Ebay thread. It’s not really that big of a deal with most of us, also One DOES NOT talk for our whole server. I’ve seen some really good fights this weekend, but I’ve also seen alot of the coverage we had last matchup go away because the achievement hunters have been finishing it up. Makes me a little afraid of our matchups against SBi, but these leagues have actually made it fun ^.^. FYI if you see a Guardian from the [Mom] guild running after you, it’s best to just run away

Mmmm the taste of the sweet sweet tears.

Stice.5204:

He’s not joking. We play for the entertainment of our own guild and aren’t interested in mentoring people with no WvW experience.

This is not to say that we don’t do useful things for our server. We capture and defend objectives all the time, relay scouting information, build and refresh siege, and deliberately hunt large enemy groups to waylay and harass them. But if BP also needs pug instructors in order to keep up in the points race, they’ll have to find other guilds to do it. It’s not our thing.

Plus you even come on here and whine for your server about zergs. Clearly you are doing something right.

Evilzara.6378:

nikkistar.1409:

If some of you BP players are complaining THIS much about YB’s zergs, I hate to see how much you guys will when you go up against SBI and FA….

SBI did outnumber us a lot, but they did not flash build 3+ superior ACs in open field before zerg on zerg.

I’m looking forward to the FA and SBI matchups. We may get stomped by them but we can learn a thing or two.

Wait, wait, wait. Us using siege in open field is what you have to complain about with us. I’m sorry but that just seems like good tactics to use something like arrow carts to push a fight in your favor. Maybe command better?

Chris.3290:

For sale, for a short-time only in the BLTC gem store: The Season 1 “I press the 1 key better, so I’m entitled” booster.
This one day booster will cut your queue times by up to 33%. Only 1200 gems!

FIFY

Creepy Silent.9801:

Kronyx.2570:

BP, u mad bro?

In that screenshot, someone said ebay is our allies. Proof of the 2v1 conspiracy.

We have been very clear about that this week

Elixir.2169:

kitten yaks doesn’t have any skills groups just massive zerg after zerg. SoCo is the closest thing you guys got and they are not even from your server props to them though. Great fights every time. Hope SoCo can rub off on yaks make them more fun to fight! Ebay, always fun to fight you guys good work! Oh I almost forgot yaks has some decent roamers though and you guys know who you are, thanks for staying out of those mindless zombie zergs!

/bows to Ebay and Soco

Wow, first you say that we don’t have any skills we just zerg. But we have good roamers? Do you actually think about what you write before you write it? And I could say the exact same thing about both Ebay and BP, but it’s normal for servers to have a zerg and also have groups that do roaming so I don’t cry about it.

EFWinters.5421:

In our match up (as well as others I’m sure) servers don’t even bother to upgrade or defend SM because they want it to be taken so they can k-train it back.

WvW is nothing but a glorified champ train at this point.

That’s the way SM is supposed to work in an even match up like ours. Every server has enough people to keep flipping camps and killing dolyaks before SM can even get supply therefore you can’t upgrade.(Till today when we had enough time with our night coverage to get supply to it all day.)

Walabone.6713:

Perhaps BP has a right to complain about numbers? It turns out we’re starting to confirm that our BL has been bugged all week – improperly sending players to the queue despite only 25ish being logged into the entire zone.

THIS is know to be completely untrue. The times we have taken Hills on the BL there has always been a relatively large zerg there to defend against us. (40+)

Sykper.6583:

Guys, this is what we in the business like to call a three-way kitten-up.

Should have had Bacon.

- Jornosh, Suicidal Warrior of [One], giving a blank stare at a half page wasted.

You should have been here with the bacon earlier Jornosh, I wouldn’t have screwed up.

grabemx.9836:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/matchups/10-11-SF-ET-YB-zergs-bend/first
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/matchups/10-4-EB-YB-NSP-Blobstyle-Edition/page/6
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/matchups/9-20-SF-HoD-YB/page/4#post2923296

I’ll just leave this here since it is always BP complaining about YB’s numbers.

And if you look at what tier those servers are they have every right to complain about it. BP has equal numbers, just worse night coverage.

Edit: but clearly it doesn’t matter what I say since you are losing you must have less players.

GSSBlunaspike.4153:

It’s cool, in the coming weeks you guys will get a chance to show off your skill against equal numbers. I look forward to seeing that.

I love how it’s always BP crying about our numbers and not Ebay. The only time we have more people in WvW than BP is really early in the morning east coast time. We just have commanders that can manage all 4 maps much much better.

Siphaed.9235:

I’m not sure what server you’re on, but my server earlier today was non-stop P (player) v (verses) P (player) in all out war. Every tower we hit had 3-6 scouts that brought dozens of defenders. AC’s lined walls to prevent direct rams, causing havoc on close in attacks.

Cats were lined up with ballista and AC coverage in many area, even open-field trebs were up. With the new Bloodlust ruins in the mid, there’s all new places that the enemy can build counter siege.

At one point near a tower in the SE, we had 2 trebs, 5 AC, 4 Cats, and roughly 30+ players. The enemy? Oh, around 20 in front, 5 SupAC on walls, and then built a siege encampment of another 15 on the SE ruin [high ground above us] and basically did a whole closure on our well placed siege. Not really a “wipe”, but just over a handful made it out alive in the retreat.

Our commanders earlier today -proudly I was one of them- rocked in actually making sure it was PvP in the game instead of just PvD. Sure it was kicking a hornets’ nest, which brought the might of two armies onto Bay; but in all the Eternal Alchemy was it fun! Our defenses were great and kept Bay ours in a matter of a consistent 1.5hr siege against it, which was astonishing (and exhausting too).

The new, twisted strategies used to take defended towers are something that’s ….well, been missing in the past 6 months. There’s real drive now to take something that has people in it, and really PUSH to get bodies under our feet before crowning the hill*.

*Speaking of hill. There was even a single, memorable fight on the Z-hill near NW tower that we spent nearly 10-20 minutes just inching our way in a gradual push up that very short area. A very even, awesome fight that I applaud our enemy as much as our own troops for the exciting fun.

It’s been pretty much the same on Yaks Bend. Been ALOT of fun fights with both Ebay and BP, although it is sad that this may be the closest fight we will have this whole season. Gonna be fun while it lasts though.

Kurieg.4158:

Dude, should also see somebody about that burning sensation between your legs. >.>

But it feels soooo good

Faux Sheaux.6179:

sirflamesword.3896:

Just going to leave this here.

First you crash their party, then you pass out on the ground. Real classy, guy.

Something along those lines actually went through my head when it first happened lol

Just going to leave this here.

Frosty and Frosty Law Firm.4981:

sirflamesword.3896:

I haven’t played this other than the short game i needed for the daily…but it REALLY sounds like you are calling other players bad while at the same time whining about not being able to play through the game mechanics.

I don’t fault you for that. I admittedly worded it badly.

I just want a cooldown or something on the Mad King abilities, so that they can’t be spammed ridiculously to make it impossible to move without hearing “YOUR MAD KING SAYS…”

Ah then I take back what I said.

I haven’t played this other than the short game i needed for the daily…but it REALLY sounds like you are calling other players bad while at the same time whining about not being able to play through the game mechanics.

elitegamerz.4965:

Um…You do realize that rangers can use great swords right?

Shhhh Bearbow Rangers are clearly the best.

Amun.9560:

Dear EB and BP,

Thank you for all the bags you have graciously donated to the evil empire on reset night on EBG with your tactics of focusing all of your attacks on YB non-stop. Both EB and BP love to take the advantage of having the one server draw us away while the other launch an attack at SM or the towers on the other side YB’s area while staying away from each other’s area. Running away from us will only temporary delay the inevitable of your demise, although it was fun chasing your group across the map. But in the end we will find you and you will be face the wrath of the evil empire so just graciously hand us the goodies and drop dead.

Yup it was very fun getting the new Season 1 Kills achievement in 1 night.

Suddenflame.2601:

ilr.9675:

Mainly the punishment. See rule change in announcements if you haven’t already.

Basically any attempt to criticize anything Anet does now, or does not know about a class or a game mechanic, can be called a “disguised” personal attack.

These forums are now useless. I’d go into more details but I have to use a different site now

Your mistaking the wording. You can criticize, but you have to be constructive criticism not negative criticism. Basically,you can state you dislike something but can not say that Anet is stupid or insult them. Also,when you criticize make sure to state your reasons why you disagree. Also putting in your suggestions on how to fix the problem would be helpful as well.

Until they decide your constructive criticism was really an attack on bad game design, bam 2 week ban.

Sadly I gotta say you may be right….

chemiclord.3978:

I like the passage, as there is a lot of wisdom to be had there.

I don’t like it being used by angry, bitter, spiteful fans who try to use it as justification to spit mean-spirited venom.

If that was pointed at me then, well it’s probably dead on. Sad that after 8 years with playing games made by Anet that I’ve gotten to this point though.

Skan.5301:

Raph Koster. Good read.

Ya I’m actually looking for the link to add to my sig atm.

“People who tell you you’re awesome are useless. No, dangerous.
They are worse than useless because you want to believe them. They will defend you against critiques that are valid. They will seduce you into believing you are done learning, or into thinking that your work is better than it actually is. Especially watch out for the ones who tell you that nobody understands your genius.
Honestly, this is going to sound horrible, but self-doubt is one of your most powerful tools for craftsmanship. None of the designers you admire feel self-confident about their work in that way. None of them think that they are awesome. They all suffer from impostor complexes the size of the Titanic.
I am not saying that you need to lack confidence in yourself. (Heck, you’ll never put anything out if that’s the case! You need to have the arrogance to assume anyone will care in the first place). I am saying that nobody is ever done learning, and people who tell you you have arrived will give you a sense of complacency. You should never be complacent about your art.”

bravoart.5308:

ANet has officially gone crazy. Time to jump ship.

I’m starting to feel like this is the only option anymore… CLEARLY they don’t play their own game, and if they do all they do is gain like 1 level a month in queensdale or something. I’m actually really glad I don’t really like any of these skins, since the Mad Moon shield is too small imo.

Amy.6427:

This is my first Holiday Event I have been able to attended since GW2 came out, and for me I have enjoyed it so far. I haven’t really gone in depth with the Halloween Event, I only done Lunatic Inquisition [ Which is pretty fun! ], the Labyrinth [ I am assuming thats the grinding? which it did get boring after 20 mins ] and the start of the Bloody Prince Story.

I have enjoy everything I have done on the first day of the event. So I do look forward to doing much more before it ends.

Sadly if you really look at whats left after what you have just listed isn’t very much. Mostly get on for 10 mins and do the halloween dailies and then probably some tiny little Bloody Prince instance.

Edit: the worst part about this, is that the story of the Bloody Prince is 10x better than any of the Living story content we have gotten so far.

aspirine.6852:

Sanduskel.1850:

my thief wipes the floor with rangers. they are the easiest to kill in wvw.

Unfortunatly you are right, about the only thing that kills me are invis thiefs. Rangers are ok behind a group to LB things down so I’ll stick to that with my useless pet.

Thieves are incredibly easy to kill with a Ranger, with LB you can rapid fire and as long as you hit it before they stealthed you can almost always down them. Or you can you GS or sword to get away and evade.

Warthog.6870:

FirstBlood.7359:

I prefer letting my opponents bleed out. Who cares about a single score point?!

http://mos.millenium.org/na
Please take a look at the predicted ranks 6 and 7 right before leagues start – there’s one answer for you. ;-)

You REALLY need to learn what WvW rating is. A single point, or even hundreds of points from people Alt-F4ing out wont matter.