Guild Wars 2

If any of you played DAOC they had RVR… aka wvw and i think a few ways this game could fix the whole WVW thing would be the following:

1. all of the maps are connected through gates, no more zoning to BL they are all connected by mini towers/ gates that can be controlled by a faction and broken easily.
2. Bring back Relics and change the bonuses to have minimal bonuses in pvp (slight upgrade) to huger ones in PVE: +% bonus to karma, xp, magic find (lol) any and all of the above.
3. there needs to be more of a reason to get people to wvw that dont really enjoy WvW into WvW, aka making a dungeon or zone that whatever server controls X number of towers/keeps/ etc etc gets access to this zone for money/loot/ whatever. its a zone that you can pvp in also.
4. Every server gets 1 local Zone in and WP, by capturing keeps and upgrading the WP then you may port around. but everyone server always starts out with 1. making it harder for zergs to just show up.
5. Guards and keep lords need to be even harder to kill, and siege needs to take longer on doors/buildings. i say this because right now its blob blob blob 40s, 50s, 60s make these things harder, smaller numbers can defend and put up a fight.
6. rewards for winning each week need to be more rewarding i dont know how you go balancing that but it needs to be beneficial for the server where everyone gets excited.
7. if you want to lure more pvers out , add a pve dynamic event somewhere (dragon). if you connected all the borderlands. EOTM is a great idea but all the borderlands Connected could be the same.

These are things id love to see being a player that came from DAOC, ive seen people cry about zergs in this game but it has nothing on the numbers DAOC had.. 200+ man zerg attempting to take a keep

was unable to play any of the beta tests because i work weekends.. NOW im curious how well will they do in pve? any decent specs out yet that i could look at and tweak? i havnt seen many threads or maybe the on the back page.. i mainly wvw, but i am going to want to do these pve raids…. Just looking for a push in a direction to where i could read up on them thanks:)

you need to borrow from DAOC and use some of their systems to make wvw more fun for both pvers/pvpers

- implement a pve zone that can lose/gain control based on keeps taken. this zone is good to farm for money/ t6 mats or whatever as long as it gets more ppl to come out to the WvW zone. Would also make people have a reason to go for keeps besides ppt.
- Make the keeps a lot harder to take once fully upgraded. If any of you are bored look at old Dark age of Camelot RVR videos where you would have 100v100 and even larger , but 1 side didn’t steam roll and take the keep. Guards hit really hard basically 1 shotting you.
- redesign the maps , connect them all with gates to capture and control, would make people spread out more and could run to each zone without having to “zone” or wait in a que. you all have a lot going in edge of the mist should move some of that over to otherside.
Its hard to balance both hardcore WvW and PvE ppl but you all have neglected WvW for too long, unless you make all new maps, and or add a zone to WvW to give people a reason to come out and fight.

I also wish there was a way you could connect all the maps so you wouldn’t have to port hop. make a gate with a wall and gates can be upgraded/ destroyed/ claimed for whatever server claims. so you can run to other borderlands instead of map hopping to flip it with a zerg. you like to mix pve with pvp, so you could put epics mobs out there etc etc. but right now if you like the siege mechanics. and big fight mechanics, you need to make it harder more challenging/ rewarding.

in WvW you need to make keeps harder to take/flip and have the guards actually challenging. I always refer back to DAOC days and a keep could be defended because guards/keep lords were challenging even for a zerg. and the more ppl attacked the harder they hit. I hate how Thursday /Fridays are “karma train” and ppl just constantly flip keeps. spread the borderlands out make gates/towers in-between like EOTM. Make it harder for a zerg to just flip an entire map. so smaller groups can do more and attak ppl.

my thoughts.

I need balth blah

any server opening it up tonight?:D

so how is to going to work with the crafted infusions you put into the rings? they going to refund? since all my gear is ascended with infusions giving me 55 ar, (including legendary) would I be getting the money back for these?

gg ark , arkham were you the fat char d/d ele chasing me around (staff ele) whole time? yo get off me haha <3

what I remember back when I used to small man was opp and riot running separate a lot.. then they started to lose to us and other small mans ( we were H.O.M.O) then they started to group up to 5-10. now when we fought bg a couple weeks ago all I ever saw was riot and opp 10+ grouping together chasing down solos. Made me laugh that they still claim to smallman even though they will zerg down 1s, 2s, and 3s with 10+.

relics helped but a good 8v8 still had no problem farming zergs, we are NS, and the ppl I ran with in DAOC we ran 8man on mid and hib and they only scary ppl were alb tank trains when they had all the relics, but besides that we were still able to farm RR and compete for awhile.

cant be number 1 yet:P havnt beaten us:D

you are both making a bigger deal than it needs to be, the buffs aren’t the problem. ever play a game called dark age of Camelot? they had a similar system with buffs but it increased your crit, crit dmg, and spell pierce but people still played and people still attacked the stacked servers. In the end teamwork and skill will win. im not trying to start a fight or anything but stop acting high and mighty. I was merely pointing out that if the shoe was on the other foot we would have lost no biggie gone on our way and continued to play (since its a scrim). it was fun times and should be fun for all.

no the buffs weren’t that big of a deal because we lost when your server had 2, it was a scrim doesn’t matter but rewatching the match and seeing the ele and necros running out of combat all the way back to windmill to stay alive shows how much it mattered to EP and it mattered to us. SO don’t complain about a little stat boost both teams were equally matched and it was fun. we wouldn’t have made the excuse with the stat increase since each match went so long it didn’t make or break anything it was fun all around.

had a scrim NS vs EP tonight with buffs didn’t make a big difference but until things change probably just scrim, but it was probably one of the best gvgs we have had in a LONG TIME
NS 4 EP 2 or 3 had some pugs interrupt us but I hope someone recorded it because man what an epic fight, each fight went on for a good 5 minutes.

UNOFFICAL GVG vs EP tonight was fun err scrim whatever, best fight we have had so far NS 4 EP 2 or NS 4 EP 3 either or was fun guys gg <3

nvm if I would have done a lil research its a bug so for anyone trying to do zone 3 of w1 , 1 bauble is missing

and every other bauble is the same in those videos so I am confused.

ya I guess they could have changed places but the videos worked for both zone 1 and 2 nothing changed.

7 min 35 seconds into this video shows 5 baubles 1 past the hole, as of right now only 4? am I missing something http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oePamp4jnqw

ran all over this map and looked at several videos apparently supposed to be 5 baubles ontop of one of the logs, and currently only 4.. ive looked everywhere and now I completed it and no credit for this zone

done rush and bounty looking for others I need 1 token ahh <3 anyone doing it tonight sept 5? or tomorrow before the weekend?:D

from the twitch stream today you said you will be sending this to everyone that has transmuted a legendary. NOW will it just revert back to 2 sep weapons or just Bifrost example? and will it be given on the patch day? thanks for info though

seems that agg follow ark around, ive also noticed since you lost to EP you don’t run anything less than about 35, which isn’t bad if you got your ppl on, run them all! but we did want to play you this week or last? agg and we were told “no thanks we want to concentrate on mag guilds” .anyways its fun to watch you follow around ark like a lil puppie dog
keep up the fights less forum wars more pvp~! just keep bringing numbers, all wvw is a numbers game

wat about eternity?! :OD

Mr Devon, why you need a DF type area:

you always have to balance the PVERS with the PVPERs in daoc DF forced the pvers to have to pvp. in the beginning of the game it gave ppl a more of incentive to hold points capture keeps because you wanted to cap DF. you asked WHY? at the time DF gave the best amounts of money/ accessories and even at the time weapons. You were also able to buy starter gear with tokens that dropped from mobs. not to mention the large scale raid monsters that were deep inside. How did this affect pvp? after capping and seeing “o our server controls the zone now”. you were able to go down deep fight ppl and if you died it took you out of the zone. So it was a cat and mouse game of staying alive to pve (if you chose too) or to flush out the pvers for your server.

Did it affect the overall RVR err WVW scene? NO because it actually made more ppl come out and wvw so they could get back to their pve time. it kept pvers happy because it was a great zone to farm in, but also pvper happy because it brought more ppl out to fight.

Could also look at a zone like passage of conflict or summoners hall. was a pve zone in the WVW zone that you had to zone into and was connected to all 3 zones and you could pve/ lvl/ do whatever, but you always had to be on the look out because at any time another player could come and kill you. did this affect RVR nope:D

not saying copy these mechanics but if you want to balance and get more ppl involved in wvw and reason to hold keeps/towers then you honestly have to make a zone or event that is affected by the overall score. not just orbs either… daoc had those too, but all it did was make you crit harder or your caster dmg pierce.

daoc had relics that gave + to dmg too and it wasn’t game breaking ppl still 8v8 and zergs still zerged it isn’t that big of a deal.

daoc did stealthers right, gave them an ability so that if they are dying they hit their “o kitten button” and can restealth instantly at the cost for 15 seconds you cant attack.

question, I have twilight soulbound to 1 character and I plan to make sunrise on another, mail it to the toon with the soulbound twilight then craft eternity and mail it back can it be done?

or will it be soul bound or account bound to that original toon with twilight?

you all make fun of this guy, but truth is if a decent/ to good player is behind a permastealth thief they CANT be killed . So yes stealth does need to be reworked, gw2 is the only game that helps stealthers restealth and stealth and stealth again over and over.

2 people out of town till Friday, and 1 is in process of moving so not too many people log in when its only 6 ppl in a guild:P

Dunno why so many ppl get kitten over PVP. this game was designed to be “competitive” but it isn’t. it is GUILD WARS, not solo 1v1. From what I noticed being on many servers it ends up being (majority of the time) memsers, thieves, and guards that show up to these fight nights. I dunno how its fun to 1v1 any of these classes I play a Mesmer and watching Mesmer v Mesmer or guard v guard duel is plain boring.
To these unwritten rules of respect , go play any other major MMO with PVP and there isn’t any respect among pvp communities. People usually add in on every fight, talk trash, or zerg you down. that is the way of PVp. If you want to dual that bad go to spvp but even then that’s horrible in itself. Until they actually add some sort of GVG system just roam around. if you are out in wvw and someone adds in on your fight, Well then that’s the way the cookie crumbles, come back fight again. Don’t run to the forums crying or trash talking.

MAN I MISS DAOC

only real reason jq won so much was because of coverage and jq had the most coverage during the day but we never had the zergs that SOR and BG brought but now 24/7 coverage 24/7 20+ zergs no room for small mans

why should jq hold on? when every zone now has bg and sor 30+ zergs . 2pm cst and my friend and I being camped at spawn by 6+ sor I just saw a sor vs bg zerg at least 100+ fighting then turn to camp the 2 at spawn lol..

bg having fun camping the 4 ppl on your map at spawn with a zerg?

ive noticed that because there is nothing to fight that’s why the zergs are so hungry for that one kill, I still dunno why ppl push so hard to win you don’t get anything why not just play to have fun fights?

T1 is so much fun every zone 30+ bg and or SOR zerg so much fun to be solo and chased by entire zerg . I think more zerg guilds need to xfer to T1 I don’t think its laggy enough as is /sarcasm

pfft it doesn’t suck flimpy:P ill bother you later jerk haha, I use it to stack more confuse + shatter = dead

I also don’t run glam build, that’s just shatter, ill get ya one with dmg gimme a bit

and sorry for the confusing:P post

got another SS of 16 I mean you can apply them easily, gotta use dodge roll cof+ mw and youll get up there, and I was just listing in general I also stack might too. I mean that helps with mw dmg since I only have about 1098 power. so I still shatter just as hard. so with shatter+ battle sigils around 12ish might stacks helps with your shatter dmg NOT just confuse

https://imageshack.us/scaled/large/600/gw005bd.jpg There iss a quick 13 stack, I couldn’t get kitten of killing someone with 13+ most of the time they dropped too quick so I just ran to some mobs got 13 and took the SS. .

I know crit doesn’t affect confusei, im just listing the stats I have 30 in illusion so that’s 8 right there+5 from scept, then a chaos field usually up around 13-18 easy

I also have 1854 condi dmg without stacks, and 42% crit

I run scept/focus staff 5+8 =13 + chaos storm randomly sometimes etc

I never ran glamour mostly just stack condis, and then shatter confuse at the right time someone gets on avg 13-18 confuse stacks, from myself, the baddie players still kill themselves so im not too worried.

so I run a condition shatterish build, just a lil different from flimpy and shattercat a cross between these builds ive seen, anyway even though confuse was reduced by 50% still hitting someone for 2700ish per confusetick + bleeds and burns. It still takes ppl down pretty fast and I don’t think im going to respec.

People that complained and cried about this just need to learn WHEN to shatter and apply the confuse

these builds ONLY work in spvp, I was making generalities about spvp well you and other 30 ppl enjoy spvp run your pro group and enjoy that esports

LOL I love how you assume I must be brainless and raged at my own dps and should respect my own spvp toon, no I hate how everyone runs the same tank build. there are really no difference in spvp build stack toughness be a tank and go
there is no versatility in spvp or the builds that you play in spvp

this game COULD have been an esport but its failed the 30 ppl that play spvp gonna love the custom arenas and spec mode. Problem is for a mmo to be popular and for a company to make money you have to appeal the PVERS first then the pvpers, BUT with this game being GUILD WARS, youd think they would have made it more toward the pvp. Either wvw or Spvp. Just should have made it a minigame que, you que up or go to HoM and play from there.