[World Linking 12/22/2023]

Hadn't read. Got it. 

[MAD KING CHANGES PLEASE! Please look 'em over. Our countdown to October 17 has begun.]

Dear ANet festival goddesses, gods, and folks who make changes.

A WONDERFUL suggestion on the WvW boards is for some Halloween in WvW. I am compiling the suggestions, and adding a few since this is my absolutely favorite festival, for your perusal.

Thank you in advance for your consideration to making changes.

1. So our official Bonus Event suggestion is that during the Halloween event, Steve should also be running amok in WvW. He could randomly pop out during fights in keeps and towers, indiscriminately attacking both sides. Defenders would get defense credit for fighting him while attackers would get attack credit. If he is taken down, the rewards should include Halloween stuff of course, like cool Halloween skins as well as piles of Candy Corn. As you most likely know, many WvW players have Candy  Corn Gobblers with rapacious appetites, so Candy Corn rewards would be most welcome there. There is not much time before this year's Halloween event so please get those event Devs working on this asap!
    
2. Have Steve spawn between the inner and outer walls of SMC attacking all sides that are in the area.
    
3. Madame Cookie for the home instance to hold onto during those long, lonely months when Steve is stuck in a wall.
    
4. Imagine the terror when Steve appears in the middle of a battle for a fortress or a tower. He's strong, doesn't distinguish between friend and foe, and will hunt you down until you kill him... or he kills you.
   
   - Give all the participants of the successful battle their deserved loot.
   - However, a minimum number of gathered players to fight Steve is required.
   - Steve will be back soon to test all WvW players during Halloween.
    
5. I'd really like to see anet add holiday wvw maps, like imagine if we could turn DBL or one of the alpine borderlands into a mad realm inspired map for Halloween and a scaled up version of the infinitarium for wintersday
    
6. New challenges and titles such as when Steve kills you for the 100th time you get to be Steve’s Sweetheart.
    
7. An opportunity to get his greatsword from Halloween bags.
    
8. Put festival food back in the bags! 

 

[Halloween, The Lab, Steve, And WvW! - A Bonus Event Suggestion]

On 10/1/2023 at 1:15 PM, Chichimec.9364 said:

Well, Anet, you asked for it, so here goes - my WvW guild's first official suggestion for a WvW Bonus Event:
For reasons beyond my feeble comprehension, there are folks in my WvW guild who are madly in love with Steve. In fact, a couple of them have a fierce running battle going over who gets to be Steve's girlfriend! 😱 

Now our guild will be running all kinds of fun stuff during Halloween including a 24 hour lab marathon, but we figure it is way past time to bring Halloween fun into WvW too. So our official Bonus Event suggestion is that during the Halloween event, Steve should also be running amok in WvW. He could randomly pop out during fights in keeps and towers, indiscriminately attacking both sides. Defenders would get defense credit for fighting him while attackers would get attack credit. If he is taken down, the rewards should include Halloween stuff of course, like cool Halloween skins as well as piles of Candy Corn. As you most likely know, many WvW players have Candy  Corn Gobblers with rapacious appetites, so Candy Corn rewards would be most welcome there. There is not much time before this year's Halloween event so please get those event Devs working on this asap!
EDIT: And this suggestion was too good not to add here...
 

Oh, and this is not a Bonus Event suggestion but I was instructed to include this request, under pain of getting kicked in the butt if I didn't! One of our Steve lovers has Madame Cookie's mini to keep her company but she would also like Madame Cookie in her home instance to hold onto during those long, lonely months when Steve is So Far Away.

This is the absolute best suggestion. I would be thrilled to have my favorite festival in WvW - my preferred GW2 playstyle.  If they would throw us a bone it would be wonderful!!! 

[WvW infusion]

What the heck? Why do I have to buy this infusion in power? I get that you can pay MORE to stat swap it, but how hard would it be to actually have a healing infusion available in the first place for all the people who prefer support? Or condi for.. those people. Or.. other stuff for other people. But really, NO HEALING IN THE FIRST PLACE? No respect for career healers. 

[We need new titles for Halloween!]

Hey Devs! Where's the best place to suggest some new titles and/or things for the Halloween Event! 

[Any NA Server looking for EU Pugmander ?]

All NA servers want an EU commander!!!! xo xo 

[Baron Mung]

May Mung rest in peace. He was a man with a kind soul and a generous heart and I enjoyed his company thoroughly. 

-Sonja

[Halloween 2022 [Merged]]

16 minutes ago, Randulf.7614 said:

As for someone saying about communicating at the top of the year, I’m pretty certain they hadn’t set it in stone until they knew when other things were releasing. Schedules chop and change all the time, so if they had set a date, but had to change it, there would be more complaints. 

Sure. But they knew before today it wasn't starting tomorrow. That's my complaint. Just communication. Hey - Halloween is going to run x to x.  And I'm all for WvW Beta. if it's actually changing/testing/improving WvW. 

 

[Halloween 2022 [Merged]]

40 minutes ago, Konig Des Todes.2086 said:

And honestly, do you really want the same repetitious grind in Labyrinth for 5 weeks? Did you play every day for all five weeks last year? Or do you just say you want it, because you think you do, and you'd get tired and move on to the more lucrative year-round farms two or three weeks in like most people?

 

You like what you like. I like what I like. So yes. I DO want the Lab for 5 weeks where I do jokes and trivia and bag runs and puns. I did play every single day last year.  This is my absolutely favorite event. Am I crazy. A bit. yes. Is is lucrative - not really. I open every single bag. It's for the fun. I do two things over all other game modes - WvW and Halloween Lab. So you do you,  but yes, I'm angry that they dropped TODAY that it doesn't start tomorrow. If they had said earlier this year it would have been easier to organize my guild events around but we had no knowledge. And yes I am in the lab every single stinking day. My friends all know it. 

[Halloween 2022 [Merged]]

1 minute ago, yoni.7015 said:

Three weeks is standard for every festival in game. I don’t understand this crying. 

Because for some of us - this is what we enjoy best about Guild Wars 2. And look through the history. We had 5 weeks last year. So the "crying" is because we expected the same this year as last year and all it would have taken was a post at the start of the year or even in the summer saying the start and finish. Why are you holier than thouing about 3 weeks? Why do you care that we care? I'm crying because I love this event, I had high expectations for it, I planned guild events around it, and I was cut off at the knees. 

[Halloween 2022 [Merged]]

So I am self admitted RABID Halloween Lab fan. Steve is my boyfriend. I have been counting down to Lab and arranging guild events based on the only information we have had. What would have been really helpful is to have announced, months ago, the dates. I scoured everything for dates before I started setting up items and now, I suppose, bad on me, that it's all trashed. Disappointed is an understatement. Why can't we communicate? And I agree with the other posters, 3 weeks is too short. I can't even start on this. This sucks. 

[Halloween 2022 [Merged]]

So here's the best part about festivals if you don't like them. You do not have to play them or enter them. Just do your own thing.  Oh for the people who were complaining that three weeks is just enough. If some of us want it for 5 weeks you can just not play it for 3 weeks or 5 weeks, doesn't make a difference. 

 

[We really need an achievement for both killing Steve or being downed by Steve during the Halloween Festival.]

As a huge supporter and fan of the Halloween Lab experience, I suggest that a new achievement/title be put in the game for facing the Labyrinthine Horror aka Steve. If Steve downs you 100 times you could get the title "Steve's Lover" and if you kill the Labyrinthine Horror 100 times you could get something like  "Terror of the Horror" 

[New changes to retal hurting Support FB in WvW]

5 hours ago, ArchonWing.9480 said:

I mean ofc you can just hang out in the back and then tag enemies once you make contact, but then again you can also have firebrands just camping staff and not even switching to the other set/tomes. Point is actively trying to do your job as support runs contrary to this goal.

 

 Anet is not going to institute some extra arbitrary  formula to a system they've depreciated which nobody can even agree on here, when they could just bump reward and skirmish track rewards. That solution would require much less effort and affect much more people. But that's always confused me about these parts; it's just as bad as the "don't reward zerging" comments that are just out of touch with reality.

 

btw you should also blank out as much as possible the extra posts.

 

Edit: Side note, I'm the only one that seems to have posted any verifiable data in this thread.... Some people should get on it.

 

Archon, thank you for the data. Most folks have kind of missed the point to track the changes - I appreciate your contribution.  The people who actually run support to support, and not to find ways to tag and increase bags/xp, also see you. Thank you.

 

[New changes to retal hurting Support FB in WvW]

6 hours ago, Leaa.2943 said:

During all this years we have raised the question why do other support not get loot through hps as you do in other games.

 

I couldn't ask for anything more than this ^. Spot on. 

6 hours ago, Leaa.2943 said:

After about 6 years i think it was or was it 5?  I can't remember now they sort of added something where you first had to damage and then if you heal you get participatiion. And if you actually do play support in the way you said and the way i always done which is first my group then loot, which means i am not gonna swap to damage spells to get loot when my party need me. So having to think about doing the damage at the same time as i have to playing the UI and do the support i am there to do then my loot is secondary. We asked for better changes and nothing happen after that.

I am completely 100 with you. I'm not going to think about damage to get xp or loot. Not going to happen.  I think you are right with me. 

 

6 hours ago, Leaa.2943 said:

But now the Firebrand suddenly reaslise that kitten this it terrible loot, and instead of supporting the other support during all this years to make the changes back then when they still had their loot stick, they now rage over how bad it is. 

 

So i wanted to poke them in the eye abpit ot, because it was always that bad but Guardian are the babies of Arena Net so what they want they will get i have no doubt.. But i would not be too suprised if the fix is for Guardians and can not be for any other support class because that is how it always was. So me reminding about it is not really that bad from that perspective, right?

Nope your point is right on point. And if Guardian really are the babies of Anet like a lot of people think that perhaps, just perhaps, this change will make them think about support in general instead of Firebrand in particular. xo 

[New changes to retal hurting Support FB in WvW]

Thanks, MLinni! You sound like LadyHawk and myself. If you grab any data on bags, let us know! LadyHawk and I both play to support our guild groups or server groups. Shockingly, we have fun when our groups take "heightened risks" because we are supporting them through them 😉 

 

 

[New changes to retal hurting Support FB in WvW]

So Leaa - this isn't Firebrand crying by any means.  I actually play all supports - it's what I prefer to play. I don't actually count bags and levels per se in any of those forms for the reason why you state there. I am not against any class - I think it would be fantastic to focus on the entire support genre for exactly what Risen points out, but the patch that just happened made a clear and obvious change to Firebrand, hence why we are collecting data.  It's pretty normal, and always has been, for DPS to outshine support. You want to bring up support ele. I am with you. I also love my support ele. And my support scrapper. See a trend? Just so happens that a friend of mine and I who both play Firebrand decided to try to dig into this particular scenario and ask anyone else who plays it to look for this. Why? Because no matter what people always ask for Firebrands  - it's a commonly played class, a meta class so commanders alaways want them and an obvious choice to find and collect data. 

[New changes to retal hurting Support FB in WvW]

WvW Support FBs unite and count your data! My dear friend Evi and I have noticed an unintentional change as a result of the recent patch that the bonus event is making far more obvious. With the FB change to retal, support firebrands are taking a huge loss in WXP as compared to what a DPS earns in a squad. Example: 3 Hour WvW raid. Two Guardians. Same play time, same bonuses, and, boosters. In the WvW raid (very successful raid) support FB getting only 10-16 bags. In five days the DH DPS got 67 levels. Support FB has gotten 36. Can you please count your data? Post here or send it to womisar.5294 or LadyHawk.5319 or message us on discord. Special event is not very special for support FB. Retal change making it difficult for people to want to play support FB. Even if you start a WvW raid just note how long the raid is, how many levels and bags you make and how many the DPS make. Then send it to us. We are collecting data. Thank you very much.

[New changes to retal hurting Support FB in WvW]

WvW Support FBs unite and count your data! My dear friend Evi and I have noticed an unintentional change as a result of the recent patch that the bonus event is making far more obvious. With the FB change to retal, support firebrands are taking a huge loss in WXP as compared to what a DPS earns in a squad. Example: 3 Hour WvW raid. Two Guardians. Same play time, same bonuses, and, boosters. In the WvW raid (very successful raid) support FB getting only 10-16 bags. In five days the DH DPS got 67 levels. Support FB has gotten 36. Can you please count your data? Post here or send it to womisar.5294 or LadyHawk.5319 or message us on discord. Special event is not very special for support FB. Retal change making it difficult for people to want to play support FB. Even if you start a WvW raid just note how long the raid is, how many levels and bags you make and how many the DPS make. Then send it to us. We are collecting data. Thank you very much.

[Inadvertent reset of NA WvW matches]

Arenanet, Kindly reset the scores or purposefully fix your inadvertent mistake. You are sending a message to the WvW population of NA and I would appreciate it being contrite instead of indifferent.