Guild Wars 2

Where can I watch the mentioned POI?

I play WvW only.

No rally week sounds really cool. WvW would even be friendlier for uplevels without people calling them rallybots.

If they plan to keep this stupid server system, they need to cut the number of servers by half. Simple as that. There’s just not enough people for 24 servers anymore.

Monkey D Oni.5967:

yup, or just put my server JQ in tier 3/5/6/8 (for example), but yeah, modify the glicko ratings xD

Do you want to tick 600+ all the time and have nothing to do? …

Hope you’re right. This server system is stupid.

Awesome. Thanks.

I felt invincible.

Less talking and more links to this so called OP build =D

Didn’t lose a single 1×1 last night with my shatter condi. Surprisingly enough, my two toughest fights were against power rangers. They’ve amazing condi cleanse now.

Thieves would just melt. I would even /sit and wait for them to attack me after they used shadow refuge.

Oh, my first main. Roaming with you will be so much fun again <3

Skill lag for every single player when 3 zergs are fighting isn’t an ISP problem.

At this point, everybody should know that.

What situation do you thing T1 servers are right now? I logged in three hours after reset last friday, and there was a queue just for EBG.

Anyone who wants small scale fights should come to T1, lol. Few hours after reset and that’s pretty much what you have for the rest of the week(end). Sure, there will be a float group with large numbers sometimes on NA prime, but they’ll just keep floating as needed between BLs, and if zerg is not your thing, just don’t follow that big group.

This game mode is not what it was one year ago, people really need to stop talking as T1 servers had kittentons of people 24/7. I wish.

Preventing wp in enemies keeps sounds like an attempt to reduce the night capping impact. It will help a lot of lower tiers servers.

Vavume.8065:

yanniell.1236:

Vavume numbers are way out of line. 5k camps flipped would already be insane. Every achievement should be made with an average of six months of continuous playing to get them in mind.

Why should they? 6 months is nothing, some of us have played WvW for nearly 3 years now, so the achieves need to represent that in some way, nothing wrong with having an achieve that takes 3 years to get imo, its called difficult, there is already far to many easy achieves catering to casual players, there should be at least some that cater to the hardcore.

Its a waste of time to make achievements for the 5 people that will keep flipping camps for 3 years straight non-stop.

And 6 months is not at all casual. It is 6 months working towards that goal. A legendary weapon takes less than half of that.

Vavume numbers are way out of line. 5k camps flipped would already be insane. Every achievement should be made with an average of six months of continuous playing to get them in mind.

Vavume.8065:

@Phantom , your numbers are far to low imo, for a start 75k for realm avenger, this would be totally unfair on the guys that have already got the title and killed 250k players, and no I am not one of them, I have 125k. 250k should stand.

Same rule applies to a lot of your other numbers, as example you want 7.5k yakslapper, I already have 27k yaks killed, you also want 7.5k camps capped, where I have 19k camps capped.

What I think would be fair is if Anet check the stats and see what people have already achieved for each category (The Highest) and then set the number to just above it, so lets imagine for a sec someone has capped 24k camps then Anet should set the total amount at 25k.

I really do not want to see another situation like with spvp ranks where people got shafted for all their hard work, its just not fair.

How long have you been playing? If you’re playing for more than a year, your numbers are already much higher than it needs to be. Any achievement that takes 6 months of continuous and hard playing is really fine. If you need to play endless for almost 2 years to get an achievement, there’s something wrong with it. A 6 months dedication towards an achievement is a pretty good long term goal. More than that is just stupid.

If that make to the exp, it’ll really kill D/D thief.

So we’ll still be able to level with Tomes of Knowledge? Lots of people are saving them to use on the revenant.

People keep thinking about the WvW from 2 years ago. BG is a wasteland in every timezone but NA. There’s not enough people playing this game mode anymore.

Josh Davis.6015:

Hi all,

Trying to achieve the Lavish Llama at the current rate would be, as someone aptly noted, madness! The good news is, next week will bring some concrete details on how you can start earning them at a much more rapid pace through participating in select tournaments.

-Josh

U gotta be kidding us! If this achievement is madness, what about WvW’s? For more than 2 years we’ve been listening to you guys saying that it’s too complicated to cut off some zeros of the achievements.

Can you at least tell us if it’ll be fix with the release of HoT or if there’s no hope for that at all? We’d sure appreciate some feedback like people got in this tread.

If create a checkbox and check if you’re on the friends list of the person you’re trying to whisper is complicated, then there’s no hope at all, lol.

Get statistics from the last 3 months average server’s wvw population attendance and set the server status accordingly.

Do it every 3 months. Problem solved.

Blackouts won’t be an issue, unless big guilds are willing to stop logging in for long times, like more than one month. Unlikely to happen. And the servers status will always be true to the server’s WvW population.

I’ve never seen the game with so few people just 3 hours after reset.

Prysin.8542:

yanniell.1236:

In that especific case, they should upgrade their Pentium III servers. Or, in reality, their game engine can’t handle that much at the same time. Since we’re in 2015, with 2015 hardware and a decade old engine, I can guess which one is more likely.

brilliant deduction.

please send ArenaNet about 3-5 million US dollars to hire in 100-150 workers so they can rewrite the entire game engine, optimize, recode ALL existing code and weed out errors so that it can work with DX11 or OpenGL 4.2.

Or you can admit you are WAY outta your league and either quit the game, or stay silent and keep playing.

Even if I’m right and the game engine ends up being incapable of handle 240 players without skill lag, and they messed smt up in the last patch that made things even worse, I can still criticize it. There’s not just “pay for the fix or shut up”. That is just stupid.

In that especific case, they should upgrade their Pentium III servers. Or, in reality, their game engine can’t handle that much at the same time. Since we’re in 2015, with 2015 hardware and a decade old engine, I can guess which one is more likely.

I know that there’s A LOT of calculations when three zergs clash, but I’m sure as hell that it’s not even near 100 billion per second. And I’m even surer that just the stab change didn’t add that much more calculations to make that much of a difference in a 100 billion calculations universe. Nowadays, we have so much more than enough processor power to make all the calculations needed for a game like GW2 that I don’t even know how to begin to explain.

Anyway, long story short, it sounds to me much more like engine limitations and/or bad code.

Any i7 can make more than 100 billion calculations per second. Even 240 people fighting in the same spot at the same time wouldn’t get near that much calculation. Maybe it’s the game’s engine. How old is it?

It’s like I’m playing from the past. It was already bad before the patch, now it’s smt else.

Not even #1 works anymore.

Pls, Anet, give us at least a feedback.

If you design a game where 3 teams with 80 players each can fight each other at the same time, make sure that your engine and your servers can keep up with it.

Thank you.

I’m never coming back to mid/lower tier servers. I like my massive multiplayer online to be massive, tyvm.

And rewards. WvW players must be rewarded as much as a PVE player. No more being a second class citizen. How is that people do a bunch of fractals and gets tons of ascended kitten, while I’m rank 1100+ in WvW and can count on one hand the usufull itens I’ve got?

If PVE players don’t have to do WvW to get cool stuff, WvW players should not have to do PVE to get cool stuff also. If I had played invested the amount of time I did on WvW in PVE, I’d be filthy rich by now.

Enough is enough.

Geez, they’re really completely clueless.

Prysin.8542:

only one server fits that description

Blackgate NA Tier 1 during seasons

Probably this. They’re even working on an app to help organize raids or smt like that.

Skill lag is Anets problem. When 3 zergs are fighting, and everybody’s skills take 10s to work, it’s not an player-sided problem.

For WvW, I’d say a tanky guardian. You can follow the zerg, and won’t die too fast, giving you time to use your skills.

There’s a reason it’s called “massive multiplayer online role playing game” and not “just a few multiplayer online role playing game”.

Big scale chaos everywhere is the reason this game mode exists.

Rimmy.9217:

Newbkakes.4971:

2 pages and no dev reply?
I really feel bad for the players who joined servers like Devona’s Rest/Anvil Rock/ET or any of the lower servers because when they enter WvW they’ll never get to experience the true glory of the game mode. Just a baron wasteland.

I don’t know who this Baron Wasteland is, but you know that ET shot up the ranks from dead last, and even though it has peaked and dropped somewhat, it’s still in the top tier of bronze, right? Still lots of fights at that level.

If you haven’t been on the higher servers, you don’t know what “lots of fights” really means. I speak from experience.

Call it Shinigami.

joneirikb.7506:

ammayhem.5962:

coglin.1867:

Neglect? Like all of the changes coming up in the expansion?

You mean adding another map the lower servers don’t have the people to cover? In addition to the already empty maps that are currently in…

The new WvW map is not making a 5th map in the weekly match-ups, it is another “borderland” map, which will begin to rotate the other borderland maps. So each week you will get EBG + 3 borderland maps, and the borderland maps will be a random mix of the OLD BL and the NEW BL. So you can end up with 2 new BL’s and 1 old BL for example.

TLDR: Still 4 maps.

That would be stupid. You would end up with the new BL with 200+ people queues and noone wanting to play on the older BLs.

AFAIK, they don’t know yet how they will rotate de BLs nor how they will introduce the new BL to the already existent maps.

coglin.1867:

You chose to ignore facts, simply to support your negative attitude, that you want to have. That is fine. It doesn’t change the fact that it is disingenuous, given that a great many changes were made based on various CDI discussion, player feed back, or other discussion.

-They took out the water and added an entire new mechanic for points for spiking.

-They added righteous indignation to prevent flip spamming. Made multiple changes to it.

-Removed orbs from EB.

-Added WvW seasons.

-Added, restructured WvW trait lines.

-Ran tests for PPK

-Ran test for sword removal.

-Completely changed population cap per server map.

-Completely changed AoE cap to 5 due to massive community outcry.

-Completely changed boon buff cap due to massive community outcry

-Added different PIN colors.

-Added Art of war upgrades.

-Added siege razor to aid with under populated times on a server.

-Added new maps through edge of the mist due to massive community outcry

- Added siege names to the build sites to prevent troll siege from being built.

- Added slimmed down ram build sites.

- Added siege disablers.

And almost nothing of that came from CDIs. In fact, I’m almost certain that only the PIN colors were subjects of a CDI thread.

Sounds promising.

This trait unlocking system was one of the worst ideas ever. I’m glad they’re getting rid of it.

If they dont fix it with the expansion, they’ll never do.

I don’t even know if 1kk dolyaks spawned since the game launched.

Fix WvW. Just that.

I would recommend JQ. TC has already a lot of people, and BG doesnt come out to play unless there’s something at stakes.

SobeSoul.6910:

XacTactX.6709:

Akeldama posted the correct answer ^, there is a 200 point rating gap because t2 doesn’t have the coverage to compete with t1, the gap between the tiers is not artificial, it’s there for good reason. Every time a t2 server competes in t1 it gets stomped, that is not a coincidence.

This is completely false. T2 has queues on weekdays. Last time I looked BG had no queues or very little queues and even outmanned in EBG for good periods of time.

Because BG hibernates. Last week the 3 servers had a push week, and BG had queues all the time.

If BG dropped to T2, people would come to play and would be an unfair fight. When there’s something at stake, BG is probably the strongest (most stacked?) server of the three T1 servers. Just look at S2, S3 and the last push week.

In time, I really don’t like this just play for real when there’s something at stake attitude, but I kinda understand.

Nops. They were trying to sinc the push weeks. And that happened last week, when all the 3 servers had a push week.