I always thought this skill needed some love. This skill is just not usable as it is because of the target selection which is quite unpredictable (especially in large WvW battles).
Could you please consider giving this skill ground targeting (or allies targeting) instead of automated unpredictable target. It would make it more usable and would seriously improve our gameplay ?
Judge intervention already have targeting so it would be coherent to have targeting as well for merciful intervention (either ground targeting or teammate targeting).
Please give this skill some love, both passive (+90 doesn’t worth a utility slot compared to other heal skill you can put there) and active (cooldown way too to long and effect not significant) effect are not worth it compared to other professions similar spell.
Could you please consider giving this skill some love ?
So you realy think you would win if the player numbers were the same at night?
Cause on day time its pure 500vs500 and u lose
Since you use the commander bug exploit and requeue group exploit (which it seems allow to overridde map limit) it’s not 500v500 during day, this has been reported and confirmed that it allows a full group to enter despite the map beeing full (at least we are aware of this now).
This added to the flying/speed hack to steal orb and the inside spying, no need to say we have lost any respect to this server.
The worst thing is that even with all this cheating you still lose …. pathetic !
Please ban the cheaters and fix the exploit allowing to bypath queue and map number limits.
This is not an exploit but a game bug/limitation and it is the same for everyone. We surfer from this too at VS but we are too busy playing to come here and cry, that’s the difference
Either stop WvW, transfer or organize your server. Crying like you do is just giving a bad image of your server and make us having even more fun crushing you.
There’s nothing to fix, if you want balance you have sPvP, WvW is not about balanced fight accept it or leave.
At least im going to stop playing cause wvwvw its broken and FarShiverpeaks just prove that by winning the weekend and losing cause of the 710 [FR] score in non weekend night.
Sorry for the bad inglish
You are taking the right decision, WvW is not for crying babies.
I feel sad for the real WvW Far Shiverpeaks players and guilds who offered great challenge and fight this week end. I honestly hope for Far Shiverpeaks that all the whiners here will leave WvW for good so that this good WvW server will get a better image.
At least we, at VS server, knows that you have good and challenging WvW guilds, too bad there are so much whiners here destroying what you have done this week end.
I love the moderation inconsistency here, one day bug compilation are not allowed and closed and the next day it is sticked ?@*?!!-//
- Rune of Dwayna : The 20% regeneration increase doesn’t apply on Guardian shoot “Hold the Line”, it applies well on “symbol of faith” though.
- Honor Trait : Writ of the merciful => Not working at all (no heal on symbol of swiftness)
- Virtue trait : Vengeful (+25% retaliation) => Not working at all (no retaliation increase)
I don’t know if it’s a possible answer to queues problems …
The answer is simple to the queue issue, fix the queue
Population is a way smaller issue than the bugged queue issue as often you will NEVER enter WvW despites all your guildmates does and this while queuing after you, later going out and then re-entering.
Low population minors the effect of this issue, still population is not the biggest issue with the queue time.
ArenaNets’s post just show that they don’t realize how much the queue is bugged, this must be number one priority of WvW “to do” list.
I would like to propose something amazingly silly:
Why not make queues behaving a queues ?
I know i’m going too far but i just wanted to propose it !
No need to talk about server population when there is no queue and jut random lottery to enter WvW. Fix queue first then and only then talk about the rest.
The 20% regeneration increase doesn’t apply on Guardian shoot “Hold the Line”, it applies well on “symbol of faith” though.
I guess it doesn’t work on some other utility skills from other classes.
as a guardian i expected to be able tank… well something. this isn’t the case. i’m consistently be taken down in 2-3 hits from dps classes. (7k-10k in a single hit).
L2P issue here, you have dodge/roll/aegis to avoid taking damage and you have then regen/protection/heal when you can’t avoid damage.
Look at the build i posted as i am truly able to tank in WvW and i always stay in the melee. I honestly feel almost unkillable in WvW, there no way i can lose a 1v1 (i don’t necessarily win all them but opponent just give up).
As for reward i have not noticed any issue with it, as said above i am in the melee applying boons and healing so i am always able to hit opponents before they die. Boon/Support rewarding system would be nice though.
There are some issues with guardian but survivability is definitely not one of them.
We all know WvW is all about range attacks and melee is kind of hard to deal with,
Well … no it isn’t, especially with guardian.
I play a 100% melee support build (no ranged skill). It is one of the only class able to provide good support in the melee while being able to survive (of course you need to stack vitality a bit).
Just as a general out there question, while you are queued for wvw, how often are you changing zones? Are you requeueing for any reason? Are you entering and leaving instances?
I tried almost everything (queuing from overflow server, sPvP, story mission, re-queuing every 30 min, queuing once only, changing zones often, not changing zone, …) and i haven’t been able to find something coherent.
At least i can confirm that queuing from overflow server, sPvP, story missions works, you get the same random result and changing zone doesn’t prevent you from entering or at least not each time.
Still not even a word on this issue from ArenaNet, it seems WvW is not a priority in this game.
Not an option, no “low pop server” for some language plus we have guild structures and alliances. If the alliance and its followers move then the low pop server (which doesn’t exist) becomes a high pop server and we are then again at the same point.
It should not be necessary to repeat this every 10 posts, it’s common sense.
This thread intends to list bugged guardian skills/traits in the hope to get them fixed.
Pending bugs :
- Writ of the merciful => Not working at all (no heal on symbol of swiftness)
- Vengeful (+25% retaliation) => Not working at all (no retaliation increase)
- Strength in Number => Not working at all, nearby allies doesn’t get +30 toughness
- Symbol of Swiftness => In some occasion going into it will not give swiftness.
- Elite Focus => does not extend elite durations (someone else can confirm ?).
- Might of the Protector => seems to be active without picking up the trait (someone else can confirm ?).
- Battle Presence => If you have points in Virtues, it increases the duration of the Boon; But Battle Presence is a non stacking boon, so it pops immune, then the buff lapses. In effect it skips every other tic of the buff leading to a 50-66% loss in effectiveness.
See https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Guardian-Traits-Honor-XII/first#post43371
Fixed :
- Shield of Absorption => In many cases and especially in PVE detonate is not working
Please help to complete the list and tell me if you notice one of these bugs has been fixed.
You’re missing the point, some guildmate can’t enter while some other queuing after will without waiting much, this is not about server load.
And please stop with the server transfer which is a foolish argument. First there is no “low populated server” for my language for instance. Second guild structures and alliances has been created before the game launch so if alliances move then any “low populated server” (which doesn’t exist anyway for my language) will become a “high populated server” (some players will follow any alliance move) so we would be at the same point. Or maybe this game is not for guild structures and alliances ? Is it what you mean ?
So we won’t have any answer from arenanet on this, this is normal to have a bugged queue ?
This is normal not being able to organize guild events in a game called “guild wars” ?
@Frosty, not agreeing with you, it is starting like SWTOR, fixing useless stuff and leaving some game breaker stuff not fixed and not even acknowledged. So we are yet in wait state.
You are able to enter fine for you, most of my guildmates can’t as they play after job from 19PM to 00PM and cant enter WvW in this time period mainly because of the queue bug. They are level 80 and WvW only player, guess what they are not so happy a the moment (waiting 5h at lions arch is not that fun).
Don’t be confused, queue length is a thing that need love we all agree with that but our main issue is that queue is bugged and unpredictable (in some cases you will NEVER enter whatever the server load is).
Once in I can jump between the maps using the waypoints without it putting me in a que.
Then you are lucky, even when i (and my guildmates too) am in WvWvW, i am impacted by the (broken) queue like if i was queuing for this map from outside.
Any solution that allows guild event is fine for me, preventing WvW guild events as it is now is ruining our game experience (at least for WvW guilds).
The 2) won’t fix the queue bug (sometimes even after 8h hours of queuing you won’t enter despites some guilmates enters after less an hour of queuing meanwhile), plus for some languages there is no “low populated” server to transfer on.
Average time to enter WvWvW on my server is not 1h but 4 hours and we have guildmates queuing all day (more than 8 hours) without being able to enter while some other can enter, go out and re-enter meanwhile, so there is definitely something screwed with the queue.
Second point, some WvWvW map are less populated and everyone would benefit from knowing how much people are queuing for each map.
The key point is that if you bother creating a guild structure, build alliances and you are not able to log in and play together it is not worth bothering.
These issues (bugged queue and WvWvW population limit) must be addresses and i (and my guilmates) really long to hear something from arenanet on this.
WvW queue doesn’t behave as a queue. Queue time is random and we have guildmates queuing all day (sometimes up to 8 hours) without being able to enter while some other can enter, go out and re-enter meanwhile.
We all agree with queue time (although they should be reasonable) but the current random access to WvW preventing any kind of guild event is not acceptable and seriously ruining the WvW guild experience.
What should be in place
A queue behaving as a queue and indicating your position in the queue. We agree to wait but we want this time to be reasonable, the same for everyone and we want to know how long we will wait so that you can manage events.
Separated queue for each map and single map queuing only.
Population indicator for each map to help players to queue where it’s needed and faster to enter.
Question to ArenaNet
Do you acknowledge the bugged queue issue ? What is your plan to fix it ?
