Guild Wars 2

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The hell? Who are these people, because I haven’t run into any of them. Gliding is as it should be, a shortcut to get you from point A to point B. That’s it. People are all acting like gliding stole your girlfriend, and kicked you in the kittens…. get a grip.

Yeah, if we can get an answer on what kind of matchup to expect this week, that’d be great.

Jumpin Lumpix.6108:

HazyDaisy.4107:

It’s a merged thread because there’s so many complaints about a 3-1/2 week old system. I’m not going to read the previous posts, because I wasnt talking to only 1 of the previous posters in paricular.

Whatever anyone doesn’t like about the system for whatever reason, understand some people didn’t get anything whill leveling wvw, not even the joy of waiting a couple of weeks for the possibility of something.

I thought wvwers don’t care about rewards. I thought it was all about the joy of playing wvw. Why do they care what happens with the rewards?

It’s not that we don’t care about rewards! It’s just that was pointless for YEARS to hope we would get them. The closest thing you could hope to acquire as a ‘reward’ was maybe an ascended chest on rank up. Or maybe a ring. Other than that… crickets

Not all of us had ‘thousands’ going into this. I had 25 tickets left, due to spending them for weapon skins a while back. Remember that you’ve got people, including myself, that assumed this currency was done with, considering anet said no more tournaments.

Meta is not recent, unless 2013 is recent. For a good long while GWEN was what you strived for, and then revs were added to the mix. Maybe some of you guys are recent into the game mode, but… yeah, this isn’t new, kids. The freaking endless whining from people about not wanting to adapt and maybe (!!!!!) play something useful instead of trying to pound a square peg into a round hole really is too much. Meta classes are a thing in every game mode; I’m not sure why you’re so surprised your medium armor wearing classes aren’t zerg-friendly.

So…. due to my main machine having issues, I’ve been attempting to run the game on an older one. All that happens, however, is the game will open a full screen window for a split second and then close. I don’t even know anymore if this thing CAN run the game, but I figured I’d ask.

Windows Vista SP1
Intel Core2 Duo E7300 @ 2.66 Ghz 2.67 Ghz
3g Ram
Intel Integrated G33/G31 Express Chipset Family 286 mb
1600×900 display
I’ve downloaded the 32bit client since this is 32bit

Am I really just boned for a while?

WvW already losing players and you want more of what causes it to lose players? Brilliant.

We had a lot of people (and awesome commanders) on AR and SoR. We’ve been closed for quite a while, so the only numbers coming in were via the links. When the links were removed, we reverted back to pre-Feb numbers when we were in T2. It’s really not that surprising if you think about it logically.

The problem with this question is that every person you ask is going to have their own idea of what ‘perfect’ wvw is. Some like to scout/siege/sentry, others like to zerg, then you have the roamers, guild groups, and havocs. Changing any part of that instantly closes someone out of the way they play the game, in favor of the way you want them to play.

Spurnshadow.3678:

Yeah, it was pretty dumb that JQ was full and got 2 links. I think when the last linking happened, they weren’t full, but became full less than a week later. Either way, they shouldn’t have gotten 2 links. kittened.

JQ wasn’t full when we were linked. We were far from it. Everything about this thread is hilariously sad, especially since it comes from someone on BG.

WvW-ers are forced to do total map completion, and you guys moan about a few days of WvW. Sigh.

1) Make sure you have the guild hall buff running. 2) XP boosters (the yellow ones). If you don’t have any, you can either get from gemstore, or get a 30 min version for 1 laurel each. 3) Don’t be a horrible person and repair walls for it — I don’t even know why this is a thing, but it is. Anet needs to stop giving participation for repairing. You’ll only be a hindrance to your fellow servermates and it’s not THEIR fault that you’re there, so don’t take it out on them.

Okay, so lately (last month or so?) I have noticed that if I have to afk for any amount of time, when I resume playing I end up with 800-1200 ping, and 2-5 FPS. The only way I can fix it is to reboot the game. I’m really not sure what could be happening when I afk that does this.

I have windows 10, 64 bit client, reshade(or maybe it’s sweetfx, not sure?) and that’s about it. I play in windowed mode. Everything is on medium, no shadows.

It’s 100000x worse if I have to afk for a few minutes in WvW. I can’t even get back to the fight because it’s a lag nightmare. Normally I would get ~25-35 fps in fights, and I get maybe 5?

I’m befuddled.

Actually, AR and SoR aren’t totally dead, they added a shedload of pugs and a few guilds. JQ wasn’t full when we were linked, and I can’t imagine we’ll be full once relinks happen again and we (potentially) lose the linked servers. That’s something only anet can determine as they calculate population. We still can’t compete vs BG’s numbers, since they are winning the match quite handily, while 2nd and 3rd place are even.

Did you ever consider that the server in question only has the population now because of those links? I will bet you did not but trust me that this is the case.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Whens-the-next-WvW-tournament/first

Really needs to be stickied because someone opens a new thread EVERY WEEK asking the same question.

Should be April 28, unless anet needs more time or something.

Everyone wants fights, and T1 is regarded as somewhere where they aren’t any. Therefore, you have people doing whatever they can to stay away. Mag knows it, and I think even BG knows it, but you’d never get a BG to admit that there’s something good in any other tier, because …. well, it’s BG and they have some weird T1 fetish. It would take a scoring change to fix it, or anet stepping in.

Your idea of repeal/replace makes as much sense as…. well, do I really need to say it?

Okay, I suppose, but useless on somewhere like SMC where it’s seemingly always under attack. The walls are always under constant pressure from red keep or elsewhere.

I blame the lack of a search function on the fact that you guys open a new one of these threads every 3 weeks or so. A season isn’t content, stop pretending it is.

Cool, so just stick YB up there as the 3rd server and leave the rest of us alone.

You couldn’t pay me to move to T1 (not even with 35k! >_>). We spent the whole night having non-stop fights tonight, and that just doesn’t exist in T1. Blame anet, sure, but blame BG for endless ebola pin sniping and hibergating, and Mag for being bloated and boring. This problem with TC isn’t going to end with it, however. Whoever is holding the short straw once everyone is done xfering off TC, will find themselves in a similar situation realllly quick. Nobody wants that 3rd server spot, and there’s nothing anet will do to fix that. I was going to say ‘can do’ but we know that there’s plenty they can do, they just won’t.

Yeah, really wish I had known there was a way to do the collection BEFORE crafting all of those. I don’t need/want the weapons, I just wanted the achievement/ap.

I’m a little confused here. I did the story, received the greatsword and thought wow, I’ll complete the collection. This is where it gets confusing.

I crafted the 4 orbs and 4 scions, but I cannot figure out how to actually craft the weapons. Do you need to first do the HoT story 4 more times (ugh, please no) and then use your orb/scion/vision crystal each time?

I don’t even know what to say about JQ being closed. We lost 3 guilds in the last week, we’re barely keeping our heads above water in T2…. but sure. Trying to decipher what anet does is like trying to figure out why my 3yo nephew runs around the house holding a wooden spoon and a shoe.

One of these years, anet will stop falling for BG’s hibergating in eotm. I mean, we’d tell them that this is what BG is doing, but it’s a broken record at this point. This tier is the most boring thing in the game right now. I’d rather do map completion than spend NA trying to find a fight, only to need to get them in combat once you do because they’re already running away unless they’ve got a full map queue.

I’ve noticed that the ‘get ported to a new map’ bug seems to happen most often when you’ve died in Alpine BL Hills, and you will end up in Desert BL spawn once you rez.

What tier do you even play in, because you have, by far, the worst ideas I’ve ever seen and that’s considering the fact that anet gave us golem week.

Why would anyone need this ever? Is it somehow difficult for you to build siege? You mention ‘squads’ so clearly you want to take your squad to a structure, all jump in with the gun, kill the lord, cap. I mean, IT IS NOT HARD TO PVD AND YOU WANT TO MAKE IT MORE BRAINLESS? No. Man up and take things with siege even if you have to fight the oooh scary people.

JQ will get run the heck over when we get to T1 again. Just the way it is. We have too much for T2, and not enough for T1. Locking these servers is not going to spread the pop to T3/4; the population moving is just going to land collectively with a thump onto a server that will make it to T2 (or 1 with a crazy roll), knocking someone else down to T3/4. There aren’t enough people still playing to have everyone getting what they want. Even if you gave incentives to move…. the prospect of missing out on good fights/being away from friends/shaking up your guild/potentially getting your guild split once anet senses the moves/etc. makes it not worth it. If you don’t think this is a concern, you don’t really understand that guilds need 1) people to play against and 2) guilds to run WITH on a map. Plonk too many onto a server with these super crappy ‘lower’ population caps, and guess what happens?

Not sure what wvw was ‘supposed’ to be, but clearly we were meant to just all be playing pve and spvp, because that’s the only thing that gets attention. We get crap like this and crap like ‘5/4/3’ being considered attention from anet when in reality they are changes that required nothing and offer us nothing. The only thing that could make this crap sandwich worse would be for Mag to keep their link tomorrow. I’d say there’s no way, but this IS anet.

It makes sense for them to close when relinks are being done Friday. They likely did a ‘final numbers check+historical data check’ then closed the 4 servers to make sure that giant swings in population didn’t occur. After all, those can happen overnight/in a matter of hours in T1/2. Plus you can and WILL get locked manually if anet detects large numbers moving in, it happened last time BG was open.

Did you happen to die in Hills on that map? I always get the bug when I use the minimap after a death in Hills.

Nobody I know on JQ is upset with the change. So, please don’t include us in your 95% . See what I did there? Including whole groups of people without actually asking them? But seriously, the change is fine. I don’t get the whinging about it.

WvW is like that dog left outside in the cold, trying to maybe get some scraps when the trash is taken out. In other words: I would very much love to get these ‘scraps’ but I doubt it will happen.

Caliburn.1845:

Every few months players/guilds get randomly assigned to newly created “tourny” servers that are Anet balanced. Transfers during the tourny are locked. These servers play a tourny for a month, winning server gets some bragging rights and rewards. Then everyone gets returned to their normal server for the off-season for a couple months.

No. Many things need to happen to wvw…. this is not even remotely one of them.

Having the same issue. Here’s what I’ve got:

1920 allocated virtual memory. Windows 10 64 bit. AMDfx-4300 quad-core processor 3.80ghz. 8.00 gb ram. Nvidia geforce gtx 750. This machine is about 2.5 years old.

It happens randomly, but has happned 2x this week which is why I’m concerned.

You MIGHT get an answer if you ask on reddit. Usually doesn’t happen around here.

Let me just clarify: Nothing in this game, other than boredom, has burnt out/drove people and commanders from this game like the 3 tournaments we’ve had. I’m sorry that you think this would be something fun to do, but it’s not for a great number of us. People are competitive, people want to play and have fun. They can’t do both, usually, when these things are run. The only way most servers can compete is to burn themselves out, and this was when the population was UP. I don’t even want to think about what it would be like now with so many people gone from the game. What you find to be a fun! event in theory, would be horrible in reality. They can bring back the tickets as skirmish rewards or something, but really, this is a horrible idea.

For the love of god, no. Unless you want even less people playing WvW?

For real though? We weren’t able to play either unless you think JQ had some weird work-around to play when literally nobody else was? Here’s a spoiler: we weren’t. My guild called raid 2 nights in a row because nobody could stay connected. Indo’s group had 8 people at one point before he called it. But sure go ahead and believe you’re losing (you’re not?) because the other servers could slam ‘full map queues’ into disconnected maps.

Mag has Kazo, which is ~30-40 players. JQ doesn’t have an EU guild, just NA players that play during that time. TC has cern which runs with an EU commander. BG has a decent EU pop, but they’re closed for xfers. EU coverage can be rather spotty for most NA servers (as I’m sure off-hours is for EU). You either get blobs blobs blobs, or you get 3 guys and a cata vs 2 people with an ac.

We are currently attempting to build up our EU, so now would be a good time to join us. We have a few NA commanders who run EU when they can, but not a solid presence from EU.

It’s pretty easy to understand why a ‘winning’ server recruits more players/guilds. You can have all of the active population in the game, but if they don’t have anyone to lead them (or those who lead are tired/burnt out/etc) you need to find people with the enthusiasm, patience, and personality to fill those roles. This game is kinda old, and people get bored. They wander off to other games.

As for JQ, yeah… we’re totally killing it being ranked #6, losing to TC.

1. How do you feel about this proposal?
I’m not sure. The whole ‘smaller pops’ and ‘everyone linked’ thing just leads me to think we’ll be in queue hell. It feels like it could work, but something about it feels off.

2. What, if anything, would you change about this current proposal?
I would say kitten it and blow up all existing worlds. Make everyone choose a new home, and start this over fresh. I think it’s the only way it COULD work. Erase glicko, erase it all. Turn it off and on again.

3. Would you be interested in transferring to a new free world?
See above. Otherwise, what incentive would I have to do so?

Why…. just WHY were matchup changes polled against rewards/loot? They are two very different things. It should have been “Should we implement 1u1d, y/n?” and “Are skirmishes staying y/n? Are we giving them rewards? y/n” and…. instead we get this.

Unlinked is better for JQ, as we at least stand a chance at opening at some point. The linked servers tend to close due to the smaller capacity. I just feel bad for ET at this point.

Whether or not they earned/didn’t earn their place is irrelevant. They should have almost an 80-90% chance of staying there if they are currently winning the T1 matchup. Let TC fall to T2. They will win, but that’s okay. They are at least fun to fight.

If YB is winning the T1 matchup, they need to remain in T1. They would demolish T2 at this point. 75 might actually be too low in this case.