Guild Wars 2

It has been difficult enough to get people onto ts, switching over to discord would probably mean losing most of the community again.
Last time I heard someone suggest to switch to discord during a server meeting there was a lot of confusion because most people never even heard of discord.

Jezereal.4321:

I often see a lot of groups, massive blobs of people 50-70+ walking around with no commander tag. Since people rotate in and out of WvW, I thought tagging up would be smart. Just so people know where the blob is at when they go to join that map. Instead I get some angry people being like ‘move maps’; ‘go away’; ‘bad commander kek’. I don’t understand the logic here…

Have you considered simply ASKING them why they are running around tagless?

My guess would be that they want to get rid of people who are not on ts. But rather than asking random people on the forums you really should go and talk to the people on your server.

Lord Trejgon.2809:

volpenvieh.3201:

- Heavy boon corrupt from Spellbreaker and Scourge. Rather than focussing on applying resistance it might be better to focus on actual cleansing.

boonstrip, not boon corrupt – at least for the spellbreaker huge difference as spellbreaker at best can make you receive damage on strip while condis from boon corrupt seems be quite a more….. problematic

ah sorry, corrected

Just some unorganized thoughts after watching the guild chat livestream and 5 hours of reset yesterday:

- Definitely a lot of conditions flying around.
- My second thought when I saw the guild chat livestream was pirateship but there’s also a lot of projectile hate going on so maybe not.
- With Soulbeast, ranger will definitely be viable in zergs and might jump in for some missing guardians (Leader of the Pack -> Dolyak Stance) allthough it’s not as good as core guardian double stability of course.
- Heavy boon corrupt from Scourge and boonstrip from Spellbreaker. Rather than focussing on applying resistance it might be better to focus on actual cleansing.
- Not sure about the Weaver yet, the skill set looks too selfish to be viable in the frontline of a zerg (apart from the heal skill) but I haven’t taken a look at it’s backline viability with a staff yet.
- Deadeye still not viable for zergs, too much single target damage + no group support and not enough mobility to play as backline. Maybe focusparty but there’s better builds to do the job.

So far I’ve only tried Soulbeast, Weaver and am currently playing Scourge so forgive me if I got anything wrong.

Masenko.8527:

I could never find a place where I could do proper research and look at specific builds.

https://metabattle.com/wiki/Warrior

Masenko.8527:

Well if my trinkets weren’t ascended then maybe I could but I think it’s too late now.

Obtaining ascended trinkets has become rather easy with HoT, just play some of the new maps, gather winterberries etc. and you’ll have new trinkets in no time

Sorry, I might have missed it, but which gamemode are you playing and do you plan on playing condi, power or a mix of both in the future (I know you’re playing a mix at the moment but do you want to continue that or are you open for a change?)? Might make it easier to give you specific advice.

Depends on what you’re planning to do until PoF will be out and what gear you already have. There’s no need to gear up for story of course, but if you really want to get into raiding before the launch of the new addon then yes, it would be best to already craft ascended gear and spec Berserker. (Note that you can always change the stats on your ascended armor later on but it can be pricy as you’ll need the exotic insignias with the stats you want + new runes) If however, as you say, there won’t be hardly any time left after you finished the story and went on vacation then maybe it would be better to just sit out a couple of days, play some parts of the game that don’t require ascended gear and just prepare for the launch of PoF (e.g. you can already set aside some ascended trinkets, collect missing mats for ascended crafting, complete missing hero challenges etc.). Depending on how many hero points we’ll need to spec the new elite it might even be possible to spec Berserker AND spec Spellbreaker right away from the left-over hero points, but we’ll find out more about that starting this evening once the demo has begun.

P.S.: If you haven’t already done this already, start crafting time gated materials like Lump of Mithrillium NOW. ^^

How about finishers that can be unlocked via WvW rank or reward track (like in PvP)?

Love the siege finisher idea, how about a ballista blueprint? :P

It’s nice and all, I just wish the devs would spend their time on other things.

I’m honestly surprised about this thread. Played the demo story twice before reading this, first using elementalist (my main class) then using ranger (well, probably the easiest class?) and honestly thought the story to be fairly easy (too easy for veterans, but as we need to keep in mind that a lot of new players are going to start with PoF it’s an okay difficulty to introduce new stuff etc). I even replayed the story using a warrior after reading this because I thought “well, maybe it’s more difficult if you stay in melee range”, but… not really.

Anyway… let’s try and give actual advice to people who are struggling :-)

1) After entering the pyramid clear out the mobs. Don’t pull aggro of all groups at once, just clear them out step by step. Revive any dead Lionguards after clearing out all mobs and wait for the Herald of Balthazar to arrive.
2) Herald of Balthazar: As melee, try to let the lionguards pull aggro, attack Herald from behind, dodge out of aoe (big orange field, hard not to see). As ranged, well… just keep your range, put aoe on Herald and keep autoattacks up?
3) After entering the village, just ignore the Herald. Start clearing out mobs group by group, don’t pull all aggro at once, blabla… if your health drops too low, just pull away, heal up as much as possible and start clearing out mobs again.
4) Veteran Forged Warhounds: Focus on one Warhound, don’t keep switching targets, dodge aoe, don’t stand in the fire.

Djinn.9245:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

ZombiiDuud.1428:

Tanner Blackfeather.6509:

What I’d really live is some way to get the commander tools (like markers), and preferably the tag, to use in a squad whitout showing a tag for the entire map.
Make it possible to hide the tag for non squadmates, and it can be used in Open Worls guild stuff without confusing outside people.

I want to +1 this like forever

ANet has said they don’t want this, because it defeats the purpose of squads.

Do you have a link for this? Because it doesn’t make any sense. People join a squad to follow the commander. No reason the squad leader has to be visible to those who aren’t in the squad unless they want to.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Can-we-have-something-Private-Tag/first#post6554291

penelopehannibal.8947:

You can use an apple one for free if you don’t like the price.

Mentor tag doesn’t work in WvW.

Tanner Blackfeather.6509:

What I’d really live is some way to get the commander tools (like markers), and preferably the tag, to use in a squad whitout showing a tag for the entire map.
Make it possible to hide the tag for non squadmates, and it can be used in Open Worls guild stuff without confusing outside people.

It has already been stated before that this will not happen.

raykor.6723:

“the data showed us that Maintenance Oils were worse than Sharpening Stones for power DPS, so we threw out their concept and repurposed them as the Utility category for support builds”

DPS isn’t everything -.-
Oils were fine as they were. I optimized several of my builds around the use of Furious Maintenance Oil – not because of the Ferocity but because of Vita. Now the oil – that I spent a lot of gold on to craft – is kittening useless to me.

Servers are down at the moment, all we can do now is wait.

Dajas.4715:

First thing I did was look on the wvw lfg and guess what it was empty (I was a little surprised but not to much)

Hardly anyone uses lfg for WvW, try map chat or teamspeak.

Menyus.4610:

Then why he aint get falling damage?

- falling damage is also effected by lag → will occur a couple of seconds after the fall
- the person recording this didn’t recieve much falling damage either because they both “slid down” the edge of the cliff which often spares you from taking damage. the necro just looks like he’s falling straight down because of the lag.

It’s clearly lag, you can even see him “blink” back couple of times when you’re chasing him past the ruin…

Having elite spec icons in PvP makes it even easier to predict which builds your enemy team is running which would make the matches even more about “which team can best adapt to enemy composition pre match?” and less about skill. Pretty lame. Plus people running vanilla builds would probably get flamed by their mates before the match even starts.
I personally think that elite specs shouldn’t have different class icons at all as they’re still the same class. But that’s just my opinion.

usnedward.9023:

One thing I have watched is people swapping toons before match. I will say I dislike that option. Throws off matching maybe?

A lot of times switching class is necessary. You often get “awesome” team compositions like 3 thieves on one team, none on the other. Or you get a team with only support classes and almost 0 damage. If people don’t switch classes those matches are 95% guaranteed loss (I say 95% because I’ve actually won matches with 3 thieves blabla but it’s very unusual).
Until Anet manages to fix the problem of class stacking and we start with near perfect composition into every match, being able to switch classes is vital.

Usually when that happens it’s best to just take a break and come back tomorrow. It’s annoying if you really want to spend time playing pvp but chances are you’ll just keep loosing and get frustrated.

Did you check if his rating really was that low?

Vicariuz.1605:

tU beat the condi version by ignoring it and forcing it into teamfights where it’s exceptionally useless

Huh, I like to play dd condi thief because it actually does pretty well in team fights. Probably a l2p issue.

You can’t compare direct damage and conditions when it comes to retaliation. If I play a power build and notice that an enemy’s retaliation is causing me problems I just stop attacking until reta runs out (just as I wouldn’t fire projectiles into a reflection wall or a magnetic aura). If I play a condi build I can’t just magically take back conditions that I already applied.

we won btw

Same goes for the treb in Kyhlo.

Depending on the situation and which build you’re playing stomping might sometimes be better than cleaving, e.g. if you don’t deal much damage but need to give your teammate a quick rally.

I once played a match on staff “by accident” (forgot to switch weapon before the match started) during off season and was surprised to find that it worked so much better than d/f. Ended up playing many more matches on staff and it was awesome. However I did switch back to d/f for the season because getting flamed before the match even starts or even after the match is won is annoying as kitten. Currently ranked pvp is so toxic that I’d rather limit myself by playing a weapon set which for me personally is not the first choice than giving people any more “reason” to flame…

tldr: staff isn’t bad, people are just toxic

Deniara Devious.3948:

I love this idea.

Even better if all HoT-related stuff could be disabled for one week in WvWvW. I mean stuff like Durability runes, viper/trailblazer/minster stats on armor and weapons and HoT specific (overpowered) consumables, such as Plate of Mussels Gnashblade.

Please give us the old vanilla back for at least 1 week!

And you expect people to buy new equip just for that one week?

Sounds like a fun event you could organize with your server community. Just make a public vanilla raid and maybe even ask your opponents to do some vanilla server vs server fights. But please don’t try to force the whole WvW community to play without elite specs, that’s insane.

I’d love to have courtyard back exactly the way it was and with a separate mode preference called deathmatch.

I sometimes noticed this problem when I only started the mission towards the end of the jp, shortly before I reached the point where the guild mission is completed. As long as there’s still a timer behind “Abandon Mission” I would not receive a reward for completing it. Just waiting until the timer runs out and then completing worked for me.

Hugh Norfolk.2798:

We want to reward players for playing the map while it is in Beta and give a cool title to represent that you were there during its beta phase.

What happened to that, eh?

Played episode 3 together with my boyfriend, he received the achievement “Vigilant” (probably because he was instance opener) but I didn’t

If you are in a guild with the Gilded Hollow guild hall you can get there by leaving the hall through the portal (as a little work around).

Obtena.7952:

I don’t get why anyone would need to delete all their characters just to choose a realm/world to play on. Is that a real thing?

Yeah, I actually delete all my characters on my second account to transfer servers for free and take a look at different wvw communities. Since I mainly use that account for pvp and daily rewards I don’t care much about equipment etc and leveling one character to 80 (if I actually want to run around in wvw) is much faster and easier than farming gold to pay for a transfer.

Sounds a lot like the Lunatic Inquisition that we used to have before 2015. Would love to see that activity back next year.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lunatic_Inquisition

Did you ever consider that people just might not like your character design? :P
I personally recieve a lot of compliments when I’m on my main asura elementalist allthough it doesn’t stand out much (no bright colours or anything, fanciest thing she’s got is the broom and that’s just a recent addition).

P.S.: Oh and then there’s of course my ranger! People might hate rangers but they just can’t hate him Funny story: I already named him after a bat (because of his dark skin and big ears) before bat wings were even added to the game

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

• When objectives were captured, the name of the guild that contributed most when capturing the objective would be displayed. For example, “Objective Captured! [Guild Name] has captured [objective name].”

Oh you mean like when you are capping a camp alone, kill all the guards etc and in the last second another person jumps into the circle and for some reason he can claim first? No thx.

Please stop trolling, a dev might get lost in this section of the forum one day and take those suggestions seriously.

gert.7698:

I placed a heroes banner in mad kings lab en after 5 min it was gone. Happend twice. Didn’t left the instance. Is this intended or a bug?

Happened several times to me as well. Getting really expensive to place new banners every 30min.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I just did ‘Mad King Says’ with 14 whatever those things for correctly responding are called, and only received 2 key pieces.

Sigh.

Any chance you already received 1 piece earlier today? You can only receive 3 pieces each day.

MashMash.1645:

Thiers a few weird things happening – I also got ‘Mad King Says’ ticked off but hadn’t actually done the event.

The range of that event is rather large so that sometimes you’ll get participation without realizing. E.g. I was standing at the trading post earlier today and received participation for not doing an emote when he didn’t say “mad king says” ^^

I dropped ele in pvp when HoT hit because I didn’t enjoy bunker (I really enjoy playing melee tempest in wvw but in pvp it’s just booooring). Played condi reaper for quite a while, dropped that class when they removed one of the amulets (forgot the name). Started playing ele again because oh well, I’ll always come back to that class in the end even if it bores the kitten out of me… Dropped it again when they removed cleri amulet. Now I play condi cancer thief just to annoy people because apparently that’s the only thing that brings me joy nowadays…
Didn’t even bother with ranked pvp last season because there’s no “valid” class I enjoy…

After a few rounds of pvp and stomping numerous players I was surprised to see that I still hadn’t finished the achievement “A Stomping Good Time”. I already had a hunch that this was because I was playing thief and using Impact Strike so before entering the next match I took a look at how many Mad King finishers I had, how many stomps were already recorded and then compared the numbers after the match. Result: finishers were being consumed by both impact strike and normal stomps but only normal stomps count towards the achievement.
Seeing as the finishers are being consumed when using Impact Strike I really think it should count towards the achievement as well.

Zelulose.8695:

Voting no to solo or duo que implies you play wuth premades and enjoy stomping solo quers with superior organization rather than mechanical skill and adaptability.

I always solo queue and voted no because pvp is teamplay so why would you stop teams from entering? And I’ve probably destroyed as many pre mades as I got destroyed by them so yeah… don’t really think premades are that much of an issue.
Can’t really blame people who want to queue as a team either because let’s face it, randoms can be a pain in the a… If my friends were into pvp I wouldn’t want to bother with randoms either.

It’s only natural that PvP rewards less gold since you spend way less as well. 3g per sigil, 5g per rune, 10g for an amulet and you can use them acount wide whereas PvE and WvW players have to equip every single character (or craft ascended armor to move around) which is way more expensive.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Searching-the-Forums

Pretty sad that they never even bothered to repair this but then again most of the devs only post on reddit anyway so yeah…

Only started working on the Capricorn achievements on my main account after Coliseum was already released because I hadn’t realized that they were time gated before (well, it’s always that one time you don’t read the patch notes that they contain important information) and spent all my time playing on my other account and guess what? It was more than enough time to finish the achievements.

Got a very grumpy boyfriend sitting next to me who is experiencing the same issue.

I wasn’t a big fan of deathmatch when it came out because I was fairly new to pvp at that time but it actually improved my teamplay a lot and by the time it got removed I had become very fond of this map. So yeah, I’d really like to get deathmatch back AND have a seperate mode preference.

Tyler Bearce.3427:

Our primary motivation for avoiding running another tournament, is that at the end of every tournament we saw a permanent dip in the number of players playing WvW. Presumably this was due to players burning themselves out during the tournament.

However, we can still run a poll to see if the majority of the community wants another 4 week tournament, even if it might be bad for the long term WvW population numbers. Though even if ‘running another tournament’ won the poll, we’d probably hold off until we get the scoring updates in.

- Not likely
- Even IF we get another tournament it won’t be anytime soon