Guild Wars 2

DevonCarver.5370:

Oren.1736:

Community concern is that incentives will be high enough to draw players to transfer up the tiers, killing even more low tier servers, over filling silver tiers with players and so forth for gold. Can you comment on any plans to address community size issues?

I can’t comment at this time as we haven’t finalized anything. In addition, you should look at it this way, if people flee lower league servers to get into the top leagues, it opens the opportunity for people to move to those lower leagues and finish 1st or 2nd, rather than being in the top league and finishing 6th or 7th. The rewards for finishing 2nd in the Bronze League will be markedly better than the rewards for finishing 6th in the Gold league.

Great, now just open up free transfers so I can transfer down.

Crafting update, and still no actual fixes to crafting.

Valin.4527:

Proposed solutions -
Siege trolling – tag siege with creators name to make reporting easier, task QA staff with monitoring abusers and taking action (maybe put a cooldown on siege placement that increments if reported multiple times – a lot of suggestions on the forums already about this one).

This seems like a no brainer. Games used to have DMs. Now theyre just fire and forget. Seems like they could hire a few people whose sole job is to monitor the game for abusers.

XII.9401:

urzen.7096:

I quit my Guild and WvW a couple months ago because WvW is repetitive. I only pop in to check out the new PVE stuff when it comes out, see thakittens mostly more grind for superficial stuff, and log out.

The inevitable fate of GW2. Devs just coming up with ways to squeeze the money before ppl quit a now stale game.

I don’t mind playing through the PVE story stuff. Its still an adventure. But WVW was supposed to be something you keep coming back to. If they never change it, people move on.

I quit my Guild and WvW a couple months ago because WvW is repetitive. I only pop in to check out the new PVE stuff when it comes out, see thakittens mostly more grind for superficial stuff, and log out.

I would love to transfer to a lower tier server. Free up a spot for someone to come bandwagon on SOR. But there is no way im paying for it.

4 months later, still none of this is fixed.

So what if people transfer to winning servers every month, or change servers often? Im stuck on the #1 server because im not paying a computer to run an automated script to assign my bits to somewhere more challenging.

This whole paid transfer thing is so 2003. It should be one free transfer once a month.

Zothras.4675:

ArenaNet, please listen to us…those who play WvW and want competetive, engaging, and fun gameplay.

GW2 WvW Players, please review the WvW Ranking options below and respond with your preference on how the WvW Ranking system should be implemented. Please use this thread as a constructive and informative discussion on our desire for the WvW Ranking system in GW2. Reply with your preference # from below and any pros/cons you would like to provide as to why you would like that particular Ranking system implemented in GW2.

1. Original glicko system that was in place since launch.
2. New randomized glicko system that was implemented May 31, 2013.
3. Promotion/Relegation system. (Similar to how European Football ranks their leagues.)
4. Other system not discussed before. (Provide a detailed description of a ranking system not mentioned before.)

Please ArenaNet, take the thoughts and opinions in this thread seriously and adjust the Ranking system the way we want it to be…your customers.

Thank you,
Z

4. reduce number of wvw servers and then totally random – you never play the same two servers twice until you have played every combination

Matt Witter.6982:

Greetings!

An issue was recently discovered with Burning Oil Mastery that needs immediate attention. While we work on the issue the Burning Oil Mastery line has been temporarily disabled. Players that have spent points in this line will see they have the abilities purchased, but the abilities will not be enabled. Players who have not purchased Burning Oil Mastery will not be able to spend points in this line at this time.“

I doubt anyone will notice…

That’s not really Southsun themed content.

For example

Quaggan island becomes Karka island, and the Quaggans are now building a tiki bar which if players control along with all the power nodes (now tequila nodes) sends Karka mobs to attack/defend camps/towers.

IM sure I could come up with something better if I was being paid. Just an example. Ideally, an entirely separate Southsun themed borderland which replaces EB would be great.

Well, Im tired of same opponents on same maps, so Ima quit WvW till something changes. Good luck yall.

kerona.3465:

Those in this thread that are defending this change are drinking the kool aide.

Some of us come from real pvp games where you don’t know theres an enemy nearby till you take an arrow in the knee. And its a lot more fun.

I would be perfectly fine with removing the easy mode map altogether.

How about just remove NPCs from WvW? Its not a PVE zone.

Personally I would be fine with removing the GPS map altogether. Would make WvW more fun to have less automated intel.

Azure Prower.8701:

GrandmaFunk.3052:

urzen.7096:

Why should siege be capped?

Balance and performance, mostly.

also, not having a cap would open the door to insane levels of griefing.

The real reason for siege cap:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KztvINdeJuo

Again, that only because seiege is cheap. It should be much more expensive to make it more valuable.

GrandmaFunk.3052:

urzen.7096:

Why should siege be capped?

Balance and performance, mostly.

also, not having a cap would open the door to insane levels of griefing.

If someone wants to spend money, time and supply spawning siege I have no problem with it. There is the problem of spies, but one thing you could do is increase the cost of siege, the amount to build it, and limit ram placement to gates only as well as prevent overlapping.

Why should siege be capped?

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Prescouting bounties kind of defeats the purpose, IMO. Its too bad they don’t randomize the locations and spawn the targets only when triggered.

Merlin.4058:

Right so; Cave Troll, Ancient Oakheart, Giant Boar, Wasp Queen, and Shadow Behemoth in Queensdale.

Why do any other event when these are easy, give decent enough rewards, and more importantly have a TON of players doing them at all times. I’ve never seen any where near the numbers gather for other events on other maps, not even the other races starting areas.

I’m a little frustrated yes, but something seems wrong here. Or am I at that really odd level of 30ish where no one does those events.

Its just a flaw in MMOs. There is not enough new players to keep all the zones filled, and no real purpose to bring vets back to the those zones. Once you’ve seen the movie once you don’t keep rewatching it every day.

lordkrall.7241:

urzen.7096:

There isn’t one. Which has nothing to do with war.

And yet this part of the game emulates war, therefore nothing should be against spying (which it isnt).
You were the one bringing up rules and being punished, which is quite pointless since said rules does not exist.

The point was there CAN be a rule, because this is a game, not reality.

Good to see BG didn’t give up after the last few weeks. Though I feel like SOR has gotten a bit tired of the same match ups, like JQ.

AN needs to change something before we all start transferring off T1.

Thesilentflute.8761:

I came upon this group of rogues out side sm

Everyone who has 2v1 on their card, do a shot!

Grimm.5632:

What is wrong with getting causal WvW players to the top of the JP so they can get 2 free siege a day? Not everyone on the server thinks WvW is more important then PVE we need to have a balance.

In order to get into the JP, you have to control a keep. If you haven’t put any time into defending that keep, then IMO, you should stay out of WVW. Furthermore, WvW enables all sort of buffs for PVE.

What does PVE do for WvW exactly?

lordkrall.7241:

urzen.7096:

This isn’t war, this is a game. Games have rules. Breaking the rules requires punishment.

So.. where are the rules that forbids spying?

There isn’t one. Which has nothing to do with war.

Preacher.9018:

Spying was part of metagame, still is to a degree, and is entirely normal. What i dont like is sabotaging- say wasting enemy supply, disinformation in map chat etc. but i am not aware of any organized effort for such things: just kitten individuals.

I don’t think most of us here consider it normal. Its bad sportsmanship, equal to filming another football teams practice or reading their playbook. Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should, and Im betting 99% of us choose not to. Which makes you abnormal.

lordkrall.7241:

Why would it be bannable?
It is part of war to find out the enemies position.

This isn’t war, this is a game. Games have rules. Breaking the rules requires punishment.

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SweetPotato.7456:

Players who run supply for repairs from camp to keep should get badges of honor.

its ridiculous that everyone is out zerging and getting tons of badges when this one person is not getting any because they are repairing walls.

Walls don’t wear badges, so why would you get one for killing it? A defense event completion reward makes sense though. If it helps Im sure we could all start a badge fund for wall repairers. I know we all have thousands laying around because there is nothing buy.

SilencingMachine.5049:

For all the many, many threads from folks constantly complaining that WvW lacks this or that…..that it should have better drops….better unique rewards…granular “leader” boards…etc…..keep in mind that from the beginning (look back at the design notes, pre-launch marketing, etc) that Anet said that their aim for WvW was for it to be CASUAL focused…

Well they sure got that wrong.

Saulius.8430:

Corvax.1675:

I have to agree here. As much as I like crafting and the crafting system, it is increasingly tedious to find a recipe as the list of craftable items grows. It’s all fine at the beginning, the colour sytem helps, but… I really wish there were separate tabs for refinement items. I also wish that the ingredients were grouped by the type of the end product, at least in case of armors and weapons. (e.g. all type of sword hilts under “swords”).

there is search field at the top of recipes list.

for me it would be impossible to cook without filtering down stuff

Exept the filters suck too. You cant uncheck higher levels if you don’t have them yet. And search shows items that use whatever youre searching for, and you cant filter for types of items. Etc

It wouldn’t be so bad if I hasn’t wasted fine materials because the recipes are named exactly the same (even with different levels) except for you cant see the master or rare in parenthesis. And when you craft a lot, you go quick.

Close match! xffgdfgdfg

For example, the names of recipes don’t even fit in the window. How hard is it to get someone to spend five minutes on small stuff like this?

Kurojin.3495:

Not sure where to post this, sorry if this is the wrong section. I mainly just do WvW and I’m finding it hard to see why thieves need such nerfs. Instead, maybe teach the other classes some tactics to use against us instead of just nerfing the class.

Other classes are easily on par, or superior to the thief in many aspects, the main thing other classes are good at is survivability. Why does a thief’s burst need to get nerfed when other classes can easily heal through it, stealth, or spam evasive maneuvers. Also, other classes can hit just as, if not harder than a thief. (12K killshot from warrior, 4-5K AoE hits from a guardian [like come the kitten on], elementalists have stun + spam invulnerability/evasive movement skills while burning you down with conditions and repeatedly healing themselves, mesmer can stealth and hardcore nuke with shatter, these are just a few situations off the top of my head) I’m fine with other classes being complete bullkitten in WvW, but stop nerfing thieves. Teach people how to deal with the class,. Stealth does barely anything, I often slay enemy thieves while they are stealthed by predicting their movement.

L2P. Other classes. Then you will see why a good thief beats them. Good luck trying to get a 12k kill shot off on a thief.

How about adding some gradual change though, not just one day theyre building the statue, and they next day its finished? LA only had 3 phases IIRC. No statue, half built statue, built statue. Nothing in between.

Yeah I was going to say, Ballista can already hit max targetable range. What we need is for #4 to have much shorter cooldown.

Breakouts are fine. They allow a outmanned group to accomplish something, even if it doesn’t mean much. The siege is outside the tower so its basically useless after you take the tower, and he only gives 100 supply to the tower.

And they are easy to defeat if the defenders show up.

Dayra.7405:

If I got it right, GW2 has a total of over 3mio players, and it has 51 server.
This results in an average population of around 60’000 people per server. At any point in time no more than 600 people (i.e 1% of total population) fit into WvW.

These few WvW-player don’t have much influence on the classification of a server as high or medium populated.

600 at a time over 24 hours. Say 2 hour windows means 7200 WvW players in a day. But that population counter might be accts, not actively logged in, so add inactive accts to get even more WvW players.

Ideally we need to stack all the WVW people onto a few servers as possible without causing long queues, to make WVW more balanced.

What about this ram placement? Intended? Its behind a wall 20ft from the gate.

fragnstein.3486:

urzen.7096:

Not only do we 2v1 BG, we also now have Devs fighting for us.

3vBG!

What better place to chech skill lag then with the biggest zergball server!

Seriously. We had some major lag last night, and 3 or 4 devs showed up.

Not only do we 2v1 BG, we also now have Devs fighting for us.

3vBG!

Would be better to simply get rid of loot other than badges which are automatically added to your inventory. I could care less about all the trash that people drop when I stab them. Almost none of it has any use.

rizzo.1079:

I don’t find them boring at all, though I’ve stopped doing Jormag because waiting for an hour plus for him to spawn IS very boring.

What exactly do you find fun about autoattacking a giant mob for 3-30 mins?

iiMulch.2138:

There’s a reason why good guilds always have scouts in the places they own. A scout can easily tell you if there is a big force incoming or if it is some random attacking gate for fun. Quaggans also can cause contested buildings.

Irrelevent. The W kitten till closed whether theres a big force incoming or not.

I thought warbanner only worked on downed, not dead, things.

Again, this is already settled. AN has said before they do not want a single tap to contest a waypoint. They are working on a way to fix it.