Guild Wars 2

Hero points are also soulbound and they are stored away in the hero panel without taking up any inventory slot

UmbraNoctis.1907:

I still won’t find any enemys (because there are not much and even if there are some, i won’t see them because the wonderful map design is blocking my sight).

Work on your map awareness. You’ve got the “marked” buff from sentries, white swords if an objective is under attack and you can easily guess where your enemy is by using a livemap (or just taking a look at those new pop up messages). If you still can’t find any enemies with all of that then I’m sorry to tell you that the servers you are playing against are apparently dead and switching back to the old borders would change nothing.

PauloJr.6410:

You are so out of touch with the current situation that is not even funny. Right now, boderlands are deserted simply because nobody likes the new maps.

Actually no. A lot of people claimed to have left WvW because it’s too empty, not realizing that thereby they add to the problem. In our guild we even had this one commander who would hop borders before even arriving at any enemy structure because “there are no enemies” (we were outnumbered so there must have been some). And then hop again 10min later because we were jumped by a group that was “too big”. But of course it was only the fault of the new borderlands! As if you always had the perfect guild group waiting to fight you at your spawn on the old maps… The rest of the guild decided to give the new borders a chance and lately we get a lot of awesome fights and already found several good spots for GvG ;-)

MasterGuruu.8345:

On a more relevant note, if the maps have increased in size, adn the player limit has not been increased, maybe they are tryin to change it to a more small group aproach.

Hmmm I don’t think so. With the long ways between camps and towers, everything always being upgraded and guild catapults nerfed to “not worth it”, smallscale is harder than before.

It would have been a good idea had it been there from the start, yes. I often feel like I want to try new builds but it’s very expensive to change gear and a lot of stat combinations can only be accessed by doing PvE so I mostly stick to what I already have or try builds in pvp first (which isn’t really the same). However I would be really frustrated after having equipped several characters for WvW only if that gear would now become useless And I’m definitely not gonna play all of those characters in PvE. Also I belong to the people who mix stats so please no amulet as it exists in PvP.

I like the new maps. I just don’t like autoupgrades, the permanent waypoints and the laser event.

briggah.7910:

PauloJr.6410:

briggah.7910:

Or you can do something productive like learn the maps.

Shut up honestly. Its because of bad players like you that loves to talk but never really played wvw that in the end made us get kitten makes like the desert boderlands. I really don’t have any patient with tha kind of stuff anymore. For anyone who played the old maps decently and put some effort in the new ones, it is very clear how better in every aspect the old ones are. It is not even a matter of opinion.

LOL 9k hours 4.6k rank.. who doesn’t play wvw? if you have more hours than me and out rank me then I will shut up. Till then suck it up and learn the maps or just refuse to go there like a lot of people are doing and help kill the game mode.. k thx bye

/sign

Really bad placement of the text, if you would place it on the left and add an outline and/or background it would be much easier to read. Also the choice of font is boring and the colour red implies a certain aggressiveness which might fit your cause but is almost never a good choice.

Please fix guild chat. I already reported this issue many pages ago and it still happens. Every time I try to ping an item in guild chat it lands in the chat of the guild that I’m currently representing even if I select a different chat beforehand.
E.g. my chatbox says g4, I paste the item with shift+click, box still says g4, I press send and it appears in g3 (my main guild). It’s very annoying, especially since I write German text which then appears in an international guild so noone understands what I’m talking about and when I write “fc” it appears in the guild where I originally wanted to ping the item and everyone is confused…

Sviel.7493:

I didn’t like it at first, but I think it’s probably for the best. There have been many matchups where a server got all three WPs and were basically unassailable for the rest of the week. This way, it’s possible to get a decent attack in. Not to mention, both servers have a huge incentive to hold that side keep now.

I always loved the challenge to take back an enemy waypoint on your home border. And always keeping an eye on the upgrades before the waypoint finally appeared. Oh and the fear that the enemy will use their keep as a golem factory. It was exciting. Now those keeps feel soulless.

Piken Square could also use some new commanders :-)
We are a friendly community with ts, weekly server meetings, community forum and a lively shoutbox. We also have a community guild that functions for cross-map communication between scouts and commanders and can provide siege if necessary.

Here’s an excerpt from the server introduction on our forums:

Back in the days of the Guild Wars 2 release our beloved Piken was colonized mainly by Scandinavians; as time went by our cultural heritage grew and now we are a strong knit, friendly and open-minded Community from all over Europe.

In World versus World, Piken Square is – and always has been – the population underdog; fighting the giants with respect, pride, honour, power, fun and success. As Piken is a guild-based Server, it has been the origin and the home of some of the most well-known and most successful WvW Guilds in Guild Wars 2.

Our dreaded Guilds run Raids on the Borderlands and on the Eternal Battlegrounds, always looking for fights, as we prefer fighting to playing for points. However, not only are our Guilds dangerous, our scouts and roamers bring the fights to the enemy with such malice, many flee in shear terror.

As guild-based as Piken is, the Community of Piken Square plays and stands together. We are constantly communicating here on our forums, on our Teamspeak Server and ingame, to simply give our all for Piken. Everyone has his or her voice on Piken and so everyone is welcome to our weekly Community Meeting to spread and discuss ideas and thoughts

Some might say Piken is archaic in our honourable attitude and… yes, yes we are! We respect our friends and foes by constantly aiming for fair fights and to not interrupt open field-fights, scrims, GvGs and duels of other Pikeneers. We try to act as good sportsmen, staying fair and friendly and having fun in the competition of fighting other like-minded people. Piken has a fair number Guilds, so everyone is more than welcome to find a new crew, no matter if GvGing, Raiding, Smallscaling or Roaming is the personal preference, Piken offers everything.

Looking forward to fight alongside you or to fight you as a foe,

The Piken Square Community

Kilver.7094:

The fact that players have to post vids on how to get to objects you want to attack/defend speaks volumes. It’s not only bigger it’s a lot more confusing…

There also used to be guides for the old maps and a lot of people don’t find their way around eb without help either :x

How difficult can it possibly be to remove a daily from the list…?

I used the first week when WvW was deserted to explore the new maps, find my way around and find some useful siege spots. Convinced my guild to give the new borderlands a chance instead of going to eb or even edge of the mists every raid and we actually had a lot of fun the past few days. Yesterday I even started commanding again after a 2 month break.
I also miss the old maps and all of their familiar bugs but I don’t hate the new borderlands and I’m not gonna quit. I’m actually planning to introduce new players to WvW.

I see a lot of people logging into WvW during the day, many of them even new players (running aroung without guild tag, low wvw-ranks etc.). But because everyone is either busy doing PvE or boycotting WvW because they don’t even try to give the new maps a chance there are no commanders around outside prime time so people leave WvW after a couple of minutes and that’s that. But every time we have a commander we manage to get a queue on the map fairly quickly and 2-3 full maps during prime time are normal.

What I’m trying to say is: The players are there, but it is the community’s task to keep them in WvW.

I’ll just quote what I wrote in the Piken Square shoutbox earlier today:

Colin: (…) we did this with WvW tournaments as well which are currently on hold until we’re able to resolve the core issues with WvW I mentioned earlier
“they could have just given us a season before the addon. with the same achievements as the season before, tournament tickets to buy some stuff, not even necessarily new skins, the old weapons would have been fine. just to give us a feeling that the matchups count. but no… and now there are so many issues to be worked on that we’ll have to wait months before there’s even the chance to get a season…”

Abe Kleine.3568:

But there is currently no real gain from winning these WvW matches

If you win a match you get more rank up chests and rank up chests contain proofs of heroics which you can use to unlock elite specialization.
—> good match = more chests = faster unlock
It’s something I guess.

Btw I also have tickets stored away in my bank.

Infusion.7149:

I can understand why it’s not a currency. It’s currently soulbound.

So are hero points and they are also stored away in your hero panel without taking up inventory slots

+1

Masteries don’t work in WvW.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/The-new-auto-loot-doesen-t-work-in-WvW/page/2#post5695627
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Thoughts-on-Auto-Loot
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Let-wvw-players-use-auto-loot
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Autoloot-from-Mastery-not-working-in-WvW/first#post5674701

Yeah it happens to me, too. Most of the times it happens when I open the hero panel and only the character is blueish green. Don’t try to take a screenshot of it with the ingame function because that will crash your game in 99% of the cases. Sometimes the error spreads out to character models running around me in WvW and only once did I see this error on the options window. Usually when I notice this I can keep going for a while before the game finally crashes. Just don’t try to take a screenshot.

The errors I get in the crash report are
- Texture missing mip chain
- Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices
- LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘root’ not found on model
- LightningSetActionPoints: lightning ‘fluxsystem’ not found
and sometimes a few missing combofinishers

That’s what people keep saying but in reality there’s a lot of salt going on.

Nah, I’m actually starting to enjoy the new maps and the only place that still confuses me is the air keep ^^

I would however prefer if we could get rid of the autoupgrade and fortified gates. Last night we were trying to do some smallscale and recaptured towers on our home border etc. but yeah, we encountered some t3 towers and with 2 superior rams it almost took us 5 minutes to get through one gate despite mastery…

I also don’t like some of the new lords. It’s good that lords now scale with the numbers of attackers. Most of them are easy to kill with small groups but don’t melt in mere seconds when attacked by a full zerg but some of the lords just have too much health (sm) or do some crazy stuff (fire keep).

And please bring back guild bank and repair npc in keeps and fix the outfitters… please…

Nidome.1365:

It looks like they sorted out the borderland ones – when I checked it earlier in the week it only had emblem redesign and larger guild licence options.

Strange, for me it has been working since the release of the addon. Must have been a bug.
But no guild npc on eb indeed.

From what I’ve read anet removed the npcs to highlight the importance of the guild halls but I guess they didn’t really think about commanders not wanting to leave the map to pick up siege and people having to queue up again during prime time if they leave. Or maybe it’s just a strategy to make people buy the superior siege that is now available in spawn for proofs of heroics.

Btw what’s also missing is a repair npc in the keeps and the outfitters in keeps are still bugged and try to sell me siege when I really need salvage kits >.>

tico.9814:

Unranked is where you would test builds

The problem with unranked is that you can’t change any skills, traits etc. after the match started. You can’t even add a second pet if you only started with one into the match because of the ranger pet bug. So you might already realize a problem with your build in the first encounter and have to spent a whole match playing with it, that’s not really helpful for testing purpose.

I personally would have never started playing PvP if it weren’t for the practice button. I mean, I didn’t even start as a complete newbie because I had been playing a lot of WvW before but I was always very scared of embarrassing myself in PvP. But the practice button gave me a save feeling of “well, it’s not that bad if I mess up there, it’s just practice” whereas unranked was that scary place where I didn’t dare to go until I found a build that I felt very comfortable with.

And I really really don’t think that you can expect most new players to figure out the hotjoin system hidden away in the third tab…

If you wanna go afk and farm rewards just join one of the many farm servers.

Why not go afk in a regular match? Because others are still trying to have fun and give their best, they don’t need people like you ruining the match.

Obviously you can’t be enjoying playing a lot if you are having thoughts as you write them down above. Either adept your playstyle or suck it up.

Every time I try to ping a skill in guild chat it always lands in the chat of the guild i’m currently representing, even if my target channel differs.

E.g. I have g4 as target channel and shift click on a skill but as soon as i press enter the message lands in g3, the guild that i’m representing.

The chests of the mist which contain the coins are account bound. So just open them on whichever character you need them.

The problem is, like all masteries the mentor tag doesn’t work in WvW.

So… with the new masteries anet basically gives away commander tags for PvE people for free (well… 1 mastery point and a tiny amount of exp) while WvW people still have to pay 300g. And the only difference is that we can change the colour? Yay~ Doesn’t seem fair to. Especially not if you consider that commander tags in WvW are very important, not only if you want to start commanding (and really, who wants to pay 300g to give commanding a try and realize that it’s not for him?) but also very useful to show positions on those huge maps.

As zxstanyxz already said, if you want locked groups go play unranked. Or go find an arena which doesn’t allow spectators.

Is there any way to read the crash.dmp file? Because I don’t even get a chance to look at the crash report, it just closes down before I can do anything…

Red supplies in blue spawn on new borderlands = can’t take spawn supplies.

Depends on the server you’re playing on. If your server has a community ts or even forum it would be best to ask there
From my experience (I used to be on Riverside and have now been on Piken for a couple of months) most servers use blue for open tag and yellow for guild raids. Red can be either caster or harvoc. Purple is sometimes used for karmatrain but can also be scout lamp or focus party. Either colour apart from blue can also be used as golem tag.

1. Bring back guild banks in keeps. I understand that you’re trying to make guild halls more important but a lot of guilds store their siege in the guild bank and if there’s a queue on the map you don’t want to leave it just to pick up siege.

2. Bring back +5.

3. Reduce supply amount for guild catapults back to 25 (or make it 30, I would be just as fine with that). I wasted a lot of gold on those and now I can’t be bothered to use them because I’d have to run 4 times to build one catapult alone which means I could just as well build a superior catapult.

4. Fix outfitters in keeps.

5. Do something about the lag issue.

At least bring back the practice button if you want to keep the rank requirement. Not everyone feels comfortable joining a custom arena. New players might not even figure out how to do so since they are hidden away in the third tab.

Item: Bat Wings Backpack
Race: Asura
Profession: any
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Details:
Wings are attached too low, they look like they gow out of the Asura’s bottom.

Boss at the end of cultist fractal drops hammer but the third time it keeps disappearing. You can shortly see it lying on the ground and then it’s gone. Whole group had to die to reset him and it happened again at the exact same time so we couldn’t finish the fractal.

Josh Davis.6015:

Courtyard is no longer in unranked (or ranked) queue. Your options are “Conquest” or “Stronghold”.

noooooooooooo, I love that map

asura gates on eb not working

In friend list/ guild member list the location of some players is missing. It’s a blank in the list and the mouseover only shows the server in brackets. (I’m guessing they are playing the story)

When defending our lord in WvW we see his red aoe circles even though it’s our lord. (If it’s not a bug which i doubt at least change the colour to white)

misterman.1530:

Genavelle.9516:

Domey.9804:

played the new borderlands for 10mins, got really bored from fighting pve mobs.

i just hate myself for buying this expansion…

You didn’t even have to buy the expansion for the new wvw maps….

You do need to buy HoT if you actually want to explore the map…and get the Hero Challenges. You need masteries to get to many places. Fun times, fun times.

You don’t need masteries in WvW. The only thing you can’t use without addon is apparently the shield generator.

I also dislike Skyhammer but what’s wrong with Deathmatch? In my opinion that’s real PvP, not that capturing stuff :x If I want to capture stuff I go to WvW.

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

So, wait, wait… +5 is gone? Like gone, gone or just locked behind guild hall? And can I get a guild hall just by myself?

Well I didn’t find the buff in the guild panel so far so I’d say it’s gone but I’m not 100% sure because I haven’t looked at the keep/tower upgrades yet.

We fought our way through the guild hall with 5 people which was possible but tough. To claim your hall you have to move around the hall and kill 5 champs with about 3min for every champ. To make the champ vulnerable you have to kill mobs first. Every time you fail to kill a champ before time is up the toxicity rises. After the 5 champs you have to kill 1 final boss which can pretty much oneshot you. So you probably won’t be able to complete this alone but maybe you can ask 4 people to help you?

Get this error when I try to use waypoint in guild hall.

Got this error after we claimed our guild hall and one person left.

Skritt tunnels in Silverwastes don’t show where they are leading, only how far war away they are.

Yeah, WvW guild buffs have been removed. But at least that was announced.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/rethinking-guilds/

PvP panel is sometimes cut off. The amount that is cut off differs every time I open the panel. One time it was cut off after “Favorite Profession” and the profession symbols were tiny and alligned to the left of the “Games by Profession”-box.

- outfitter in Hardened Rampart on blue border not selling salvage kits etc. but siege (keep is fully upgraded)

You can’t be serious. I just spent a lot of gold during the past few weeks to build guild catapults and know a lot of people who spent their last influence on the same – just to find that they now cost 50 supply.
Why would you make such a harsh change? Did I miss an announcement for that?
I know that guild catapults are op but let’s be serious, a zerg that can build high amounts of guild catapults won’t really care whether it’s 25 or 50 supply. The players you’re effecting with this change are roamers and smallscalers.

Loosmaster.8263:

Cecilia.5179:

I believe they intend to add different WvW maps for the borderlands in the future, or at least have considered it.

Supposedly, they will revamp the Alpine map and bring it back in the future and possibly have a rotation with the Desert one.

Hopefully they’ll fix some of the old bugs before they bring them back ^^ Oh right, I wanted to make a thread about that weeks ago… narf…

I’m thrilled that we get to explore something new just the timing of alpine being switched out for desert when winter is coming (lame pun detected) on the northern hemisphere is a bit off – or is it intended to make us feel warm in front of our screens?