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Are you serious? having a dev on your side provides you nothing. They are just a giant target and rally bots. By the way whoever is on the loosing side complains things are broken, including Mag. Anet barely has enough resources to even say WvW and you thing they are going to totally revamp balance so there is no boonball or no cloud play. What you see in WvW is what we have and its an exercise in futility to think it's going to change in any substantial way. FASTFACT.

I think I've reached the point where I think ANet knows exactly what needs to be done for WvW and what the WvW community , for the most part, wants and I think they want to do all of that for us. I just kind of feel like they are being hamstrung either by NCsoft or some other factor. The engine seems to be very labour intensive too, not that I would know since I make my living yelling at green hands. The other thing is there is no way Anet hasn't been affected by high turn over like EVERY SINGLE industry these days. I've been in a constant training cycle for almost 2 years and that is a massive drain on completion time frames. Maybe I'm being too gracious, I dunno. For me I think their biggest mistake was in how they communicated in those rare moments of communication. It's starting to feel like " in the coming months" all over again. As in they said the right thing to placate the masses in the hopes that it would buy them some time. But the time has come and gone. Anet you just aren't doing enough, no where near enough. You ask for ideas for events, not like we've been giving you ideas for a decade. Maybe I'm being nit-picky here but there's been 4 expansions and not even a single new graphical asset from the expansions were introduced in WvW. I'm not even talking about complete reskins, you couldn't even add anything to the spawn zones to change it up a bit?. I can't be that hard can it?. The other thing too is people are always going to whine and complain. I've been one of them. But I do believe that's been born from the sheer lack of, well, anything done for WvW. You did give us a new borderland map and its beautiful but its tone deaf in design. Gave us gliding and I was luke warm on that. Warclaw shouldn't have been introduced and thats a hill ill die on. I do appreciate the legendaries for WvW although the armour looks like it should be white starter zone skins. In a very verbose way I'm saying you've just made too many missteps and the community in general is very jaded. Good memes in discord though so thanks for that content. Not that I really think it means anything anymore but here are my event ideas. Rotate in EOTM for a match up, have a raptor mount week. The starter raptor has basically the same leap distance anyways. Have a no elite specialization week. Have a hunger games week where you start in white gear and you can only equip gear from drops. Have an event where siege projectiles are re-skinned. I mean anything at this point is better than what we have. Lets not kid ourselves either because winning and loosing mean ABSOLUTELY NOTHING so the skies the limit. Maybe Honeymoon really is an Oracle. I remember him saying when alliances was announced that it will never happen and it's looking like he's as accurate as his call outs. Anyways I'm, uh, enhanced? while writing this and its probably disjointed enough so I'm out.

At this point I'd just be happy if they introduced graphical assets from the new expansion into WvW. I'm surprised they never did with the other 3. It's the mists, they can pretty much do what ever they want and have it make sense. Stuff happening in tyria or wherever the latest story is taking place bleeding into the mists. I dunno maybe it makes more sense to me than others, but yea thats where I'm at. So little has been done for WvW I'd be happy with new things to just look at in WvW.

If you're running arcdps, try uninstalling that. I was having crashing issues after the patch, I even updated arcdps until someone in team chat suggested fully deleting arcdps and i haven't had a crash since

I have to admit, I'm not opposed to this idea. I mean what else do we have going for WvW right now. I get people being concerned about being able to jump or fly into keeps and all that but winning and loosing means absolutely nothing right now. Maybe the last week of any match-up is mount week or something like that. Everything is so stale as it is. While we're tossing out ideas, how about a vanilla meta week? or rotating in EoTM for a week? or a hunger games week where you can only equip whats dropped?. The community needs something, even the Mag threads have become boring, and I'm Mag !!!

I already jump around servers when I get bored. I'd love for Anet to do that for me for free so I don't have to buy gems. So........Punish me daddy !!!

Ok, Ok. Lets pretend Anet never gives Mag another link, or lets pretend Anet dissolves Mag. What do you really think will happen then?. People will just find another Bogeyman to complain about. What will that forum post look like? BG and RAWR boonblob needs to be stopped!!!. Indo cheats because Honeymoon has bullet proof call outs !!!. Penguinz is clearly cheating because he can zerg bust with 15 !!!. There is always someone to point fingers at when you can't win and you believe you should be. It's been said before, nothing is going to change how any server plays or how any guild plays until winning and loosing means something. Until then your just screaming into the void like my mom complaining on Facebook thinking she's making a difference. We ( Mag ) aren't going to change how we play. Sorry to break it to ya.

As a Mag player I never get why this is a shock to anybody. Literally 10 years playing this way. And people ask Anet to do something................ people are so myopic with this stuff. We are literally confused in team chat why you guys, either of the servers we are up against, literally just stack up and don't move. What to you want us to do, /clap for you while you guys figure out what to do. On Tuesday NA prime, I cant ever remember the server at this point, did the same thing for 2.5 hrs straight. Busted down their spawn keep door, stacked up in the doorway, got farmed to your spawn, Mag went back inside the keep and you guys just kept doing it. We were literally laughing at you. We have done hunger games runs where we only equip gear that drops from kills and still farm. LEARN.TO.PLAY.THEN.COMPLAIN. I'll be the Charr necro /rockout every time we one push your groups. Why is it that BG and RAWR have figured out that the way to deal with Mag is to comp up and double team and absolutely no other server even tries. Everybody just wants the free ride. I'm gonna go yell at my green-hands now. OP owes them an apology.

I'm a friend of this dude. We have been working on this identical issue together. We have a mutual friend who does tech/network support for a major online retailer and he's been helping us through this too. We can rest assured this is Anet's server side. Both Bandana and myself are NA. I'm Western Canada and he's Mid/West states. I've been using a VPN and it helps, but doesn't eliminate the problem plus it quadruples my ping.

There is more to this game than just PVE ANET. Stop picking the low hanging fruit every kitten time and pay attention to the entirety of this game...........................................

I actually pretty much agree with Obtena on this one. Reaper is a tough nut to crack. My own subjective opinion on Reaper DPS is that the first place ANET should start looking is at the weapons Reaper has available to them and make % adjustments there. After they do that my hope is that Reaper in and of itself would be easier to balance. Who knows at this point though. To OP's point, There is enough Alac out there as it is. Reaper would just compete with existing classes that are better at vomiting out Alac and reaper still would be lacking. Selfishly I would WAAAAAAY rather have ANET add stab back to the Reaper kit and/or give meaningful access to aegis. Granted I'm pretty much exclusively WvW and Mag at that, so I just farm salt and get my stacks of bags. In hindsight my own sources of stab and aegis would probably get me banned............

Thanks for the Lip Service Grouch. How do you not acknowledge the clear disaster that this balance patch is. How did this make it to release? Who signed off on this and why, what made you or any of the powers that be say " yep, this is good "?. For all the inroads that you and a few others have made with the community this has set back a lot of that progress. You can say all you want that sometimes you can get things wrong, we all do, the thing is it's been a decade of this nonsense. It would be great for you or any other Anet representative to make a blog/forum post that isn't 1 of the 20 posts saying "we need to do better" or "we missed the mark". Just do better because I am not the only one who is fresh out of goodwill.

Ok I get it OP, you hate Mag. Well so does everybody else. Here's the thing though, and you can take this however you want. There are ZERO penalties for loosing and there are ZERO incentives to winning. So as a life long Mag player, like many on Mag, we created our own content because we all know ANET won't. That content is KDR/EBG. Yes we have trolls/toxic players and so does every server. We play how we play and its not a secret. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING will change until the great white whale, the unicorn of unicorns, Alliances roles out. And I have zero faith that it will. So maybe instead of complaining on the forums about Mag, you should channel that energy into petitioning Anet to have winning/loosing actually mean something. If servers have something to gain or loose they would likely change how they play. Also if you don't enjoy your match up, transfer for a week or 2. I've done this more than a few times and so have a lot of other players. It's a crap thing to have to do in order to enjoy the game mode you choose to participate in but it is what it is. And if you find me and kill me, drop troll food or siege on me. I don't feel alive anymore unless I know another player hates me. Until then, thanks for the bags !!!

Harbinger is still just a slightly better feeling core necro with far less utility. Reaper is still far better at power builds and has its shroud to tank, Scourge is still just as good if not better at condi application and has built in self and group support. Core necro still has actual build synergy with it's traits and has the abilty to control fights and hold points. Harbinger really doesn't do anything at all. It has been repeatedly said that this was meant to be high risk high reward. When I see that statement now, i read it like I would a clickbait title on youtube. " The all new Harbinger is high risk high reward, click here to see why! ". Then you click and you feel lied to. Pick a direction. Boon share is a non starter and so is power in the Harbinger kit. At this point, do your jobs and figure those out or just scrap them. If you aren't going to allow access to the very uninspired potions while in shroud, you need to change the interactions with skills in shroud. Literally all we get is a half second stun and a 3 second float that you can RP walk out of because the cast time is so long and the tell is as obvious as a slap in the face. No interactions with chill, no interactions with fear. You are led to only use 2 skills in shroud across all builds. The movement skills were decent, now it's just annoying to use them. As far as potions are concerned, it's pretty clear to me that you've hit a wall with them at this point in time. May as well just add an effect of some sort, a puff of smoke that matches the colour of the potion icon and add whatever arbitrary sound effect you want. Right now potions are boring and forgettable across the board. Just do something like this and call it a day, give us something flashy to look at like the plebs you seem to believe us to be. And just like I said in the Bladsworn feedback......................... The cats out of the bag when it comes to power creep. We are pretty much a decade in to the game and course correcting now is too little too late. Maybe, just maybe, you might want to look at how players interact with NPCs in fights. Maybe you should be getting creative with that instead of creating enemies that you can just auto attack down and then nerfing all damage because the 10's of thousands of target dummies that exist in PVE take too much damage. Again, just like I said in the BS feedback forum. Maybe I belong in the group of players with an over developed sense of entitlement. I can put my hand up to that. Here's the thing though. Between the over 3 year absence on communicating a single thing about alliances, The very spotty balance passes, The hilariously poor communication ( up until recently and I do commend you all for that ), getting gauged for build templates and the like, and the botched IBS fiasco. I'm just cynical now. I just don't trust you guys anymore.

Bladesworn........................................... I don't even know where to start. I wish the dev team that came up with this new e-spec would answer 1 simple question. Why would I play this new espec over whats already available to me on Warrior?. Another thing, and this is me being generous, although I appreciate the attempt at a creative theme with Bladesworn there is absolutely nothing that it offers that would ever lead me to take it over any other mele build in the greater warrior kit. And pistol..............really?................why would I take pistol when literally anything else available to warrior in their off hand is better and offers more. Gunsaber is just another great sword. I honestly find this to be lazy design. It even shares animations with great sword. Minimal interactions with explosions, Flow takes to long to build and diminishes way to fast, the blink is pathetic, the utility skills offer nothing of any real value that would make me choose them over whats available in the rest of the warrior kit. The cats out of the bag when it comes to power creep too. Why nerf the DPS. It was the only thing that made BS even marginally playable. At this point just make enemies more of a dps sponge. We are almost a decade into this game, course correcting now when it comes to DPS is too little too late. If I'm going to offer any solutions or ideas on how to improve BS and make it more playable, it would be this. Just don't play BS. Any other warrior mele build is better, has actual trait synergy, and is nowhere near as clunky. I'm actually surprised at how agitated I feel about not just this e-spec but like 80% of them. I'm usually the "screw it. it's just a game kind of guy" but between the 4 year absence on addressing alliances, the complete lack of communication up until very recently, very spotty balance, and the IBS fiasco, now these e-specs. I just don't know............................ maybe I belong in the part of the GW2 community with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement. I'm just left feeling frustrated, and Bladesworn is what pushed me over the edge.