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  1. For anyone wondering what the fps situation is in WvW large scale fights on the AMD AM5 platform here are some clips. The fps monitor is on the bottom of the screen. This footage is at 1440p. Fps typically drops to high 40s to low 50s when the action gets going. There's 4 fights with one wipe, got the settings I use at the end of the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MuTQ3sGgjA&ab_channel=JohnDoe CPU: Ryzen 5 7600x overclocked to 5500 Mhz Ram: 32GB Kingston Fury Renegade DDR5 6000MT/S CL32 DIMM Motherboard: Asrock Steel Legend X670E GPU: Radeon RX 7900 XT
  2. These are just some thoughts I've had rattling around in my head for a while now. I'm in a big blob guild so things can get messy on-screen in drawn out fights and it can get tricky to keep track of everything. Information is power and it's all about feeding the player information imo. I think features like these would only add to the experience. Ability to have 600 radius glowing circle around raid leader and party guardian. Making it easier to stay withing range of important AoE casts. Ability to put arrow over the head of party guardian that only you can see. Is it just me or are guardians on walkabout half the time!? Ability to make the target on-screen healthbar smaller and moveable. Why is this so low and intrusive? It's constantly in the way when I'm trying to cast on seige on the walls etc. Customisable on-screen pop ups when abilities come off cooldown. Example. "stand your ground available" pops on screen in purple for a half second when it's off cd. Ability to resize individual debuff and buff icons. I'm getting eye-strain over here. This one I'm not so sure about but for those of us that use standard enemy models; I think it could be cool if the models were a different colour based on class. Yellow for warrior, green for necro etc. That way you could visually see what the enemy consists of at a glance. It might make it too easy to burst down high priority targets though. Is any of this additional functionality necessary to play well? No, of course not. Not that I play well mind you. It would certainly help with the learning curve and lower the skill cap. Maybe make it easier for new players and some older ones too, to get up to speed and play a little better.
  3. I'll just preface this by saying that I'm not a commander. The way I see it, one of the major issues for WvW is how difficult it is to get good at commanding. There are not that many comms on each server, making coveage even at prime time difficult on a lot of servers. More commanders = more content for everyone. Obviously it's an old game and there are comms with years of experience who just roll over new comms no matter what the situation is but I think more people would tag up if it was a bit more convenient/easier. One of the major issues I feel is that you can only really be an effective comm on Firebrand. There are outlyers who command maybe on warrior or mesmer but in reality having the commander be a beacon of healing, stab and cleanses has been proven to be by far the most effective method of commanding. The message is simple, 'get on tag, that's where the support is.' So you get a situation where a lot of veterans with a good understanding of the game, class cohesion, movement, stealthing and bomb placement; won't tag up because they won't play firebrand. Personally, I find the spec to be not very appealing, it's very busy, and difficult to play well. To get to the heart of it, I think more people would command if the spec that is the only real option at commanding was a bit easier to play well or if there were more top-tier commander specs. It seems counterintuitive, that the hardest class to play well is also the class you have to master if you want to even think about commanding at a decent level. I've thought this for a long time and have seen it pop up in posts now and then: if you're in WvW, on a map, and you want to change class, you should not have to re-queue. I can't count how many times I've heard "hey X wanna tag up" and X replies "I can't, there's a 50 man queue, unless you want me to command on rev xD" For instance, maybe the squad is getting a bit blobby and you want to do a split raid or maybe the comm needs a break etc. Those are just my own thoughts on it, I'm probably just bad and need to git gud.
  4. Easy, we'll talk about how they nerfed shattered aegis and it was glorious for all of five days and we'll talk about how alliances were mishandled and didn't solve/change a thing. Its gonna be great 🙂
  5. WvW feedback for Harbinger. It's pretty much all bad. In it's current state this spec will not be welcome in any guild or blob fights. There are a number of issues with the spec. The basic playstyle that evolved in my group was to buff with Elixer of Risk and Elixer of Ambition, then pop shroud to enter your 'dps phase'. The first issue is that the skills are condi and we are in a cleanse meta, so they get cleansed very quickly. The second issue is that Tainted Bolts and Dark Barrage are both projectile skills and there are rather a lot of reflect skills in the game, making it very easy for enemies to completely mitagate your ranged potential, and in full release you will see idiot pugs stacking a bunch of torment on their own group as they spam those skills into various reflect abilities. The third issue is the lack of synergy between the remaing skills in shroud, 2 leaps and one AoE, so your thinking, leap in, drop AoE, then leap out. But neither leap has the ability to "remove movement impairing effects" so in reality, you leap in, drop aoe, get stunned, try to drop shroud to pop Elixir of Ignorance for a stunbreak but too late your dead. Also the AoE Vital Draw is quite finnicky, it has to be targeted AND it has to hit, meaning the cast can be blocked or evaded etc so it only goes off about half the time. And on top of all that when you go into shroud you quickly have your HP pool halved. Making it quite high risk with pretty low reward on offer. To be clear the biggest issues are the fact that it's a condi spec (easy to cleanse) that relies on projectiles (will be reflected) to inflict most of it's damage. I hope this helps and thank you for the beta.
  6. Please Anet, I love the capes but the guild emblem is a must for me and many others. Please make alt versions of existing black lion capes with guild emblems on them. Here is a link to my GW1 character in her cape in all it's glory: https://imgur.com/a/KPPSHfe It's all about that sweet guild emblem. Please make this happen Anet - Take my money. The basic guild cape is good but the black lion ones are objectively better and I'd happily part with cash to have them emblazened with the glorious guild tag.
  7. It isn't you. It IS Server side. There's nothing you can do about it. Welcome to WvW. The gamemode that will die the second an MMO launches that can offer the same kind of experience without the horrific lag. Take some solace in knowing that every single person who runs in zergs has the same issue.
  8. I can speak for WvW rewards, 3k rank been playing since core. We used to have absolutely nothing, not nothing like you PvE guys think is nothing, I mean Nothing! No reward track, no pips, no legendary items, not even a weapon set for a long time after the tournament cos you couldn't get the currency anymore. Being a WvW player meant you were broke AF. We used to build up karma and convert to gold. That was the only reward in WvW. Nowadays it's great, between the jigs and the reels you prob make about 3 - 5g per hour. Which is freaking easy street when the hours slide by.
  9. I can't believe people are saying it's a doom and gloom thread because the OP pointed out that 2 MMOs are competing with each other. GW2 is also in competition with ESO and FF14. Oh the horror!
  10. The on screen UI for a start is very restrictive. Why can't I resize individual components. I'd like to make the buff icons bigger while keeping the skill icons the same size. Same thing for when I select a boss, I want to be able to see pretty quick if the boss has retaliation, I don't need to see it's name and HP bar taking up so much space on screen. Edit 1: A good example of where this would be beneficial is when fighting Cairn. So, I'm on a class that does increased damge while flanking, so I'm trying to see which way he's facing. But he's huge right and I'm obviously pretty close to him and I'm trying to angle the camera to get a look at his upper torso/head but the HP bar is blocking what feels like the entire upper 1/4 of the the boss. annoying. Oh and if I could increase buff size it would be way easier to see at a glance if I have aegis or if I should dodge in oh so many situations. A way to tone down the intensity of player skill effects would be welcome. It's easy to do a rotation on the training golem, it's not so easy when my screen is blooming with 20 different particle effects and I can barely even see my character. And no, I don't look at the skill bar, I like to look at the boss or I would if I could get a decent look at it passed all the clutter. Edit 2: I still mostly go by sound for the blue circles on Vale guardian, forget relying on eyesight for that one. Simple name plates for all players in PvE would be nice (The one that just gives them a dot). The screen gets cluttered with all the names but if you disable them the place looks barren on low character limit - which I do have to set it to for fps reasons. The simple name plate (the dot) would be a nice option as I'd still be able to see how many players are in the map.
  11. whoops fucked up the conversion
  12. is there a way I can upvote this like 1 million times?
  13. I wont be suprised to get online tommorrow and still nothing. I so gonna set my alarmclock to get in at 6PDT and i will hope it wont be a total flop like anet used to do with wvw. #alliance_system #no_Update_Msg #Will_take_till_GW3 If this game triggers you so much, maybe time to try something new. lmao valid critisism is pretty far from triggered. Game is good. developers dropped tha ball on this clearly. Either thyey kitten up by not launching the event at the right time or they kitten up by not informing the playerbase this event would start at a different time to every other event leading to a fair amount of confusion among my guild about what the story is with the event. Either way it's a kitten. but you go ahead and white knight for them buddy. It takes all kinds to make a world after all. A post is criticism. 7 posts is triggered. There is a difference. Well if you call 7 post triggered. It´s up to you. Tbh if i am triggered i you just get offline and curse anet. But i´m not, so i might explain you the content of the posts.And if i would like to write long posts i would have easy done it all in one but like you speak its more a conversation for me. Post 1 to 3 can theortically combined to1 i was annoyed that it seems delayed and no informatiion about it2 is a valid question3 i checked if there is rly any time mentioned that i might have forgotten4 i found out what happens if you Quote something, and tried to sum the stuff up5 pesimistic answer, and yeah will see if it is the same like the last times happened mentioned inPost NR. 76 critism about the system change they wanna do with wvw and the policy of keeping ppl updated8 explaination for why i´m so completly pessimistic9 = this = last = sum up for you all the postYeah i swifted a lot between topics, but the main announcement between all the posts is get the notification culture better, inform so ppl can see anything, and understand what is going on. Who are you, the moderator? Is there some new rules about how many times you can post now? once per thread max?? Also, I don't find your critisism one bit constructive tut tut tut shame on you Speaking of my posts since you cant delet it so i sumed it up. But yeah you are right i just called it post 1 2 3 4... with out to say i refere to my posts. My bad on this.oh in that case, great job :) I assumed it was some idiot trolling lul
  14. I wont be suprised to get online tommorrow and still nothing. I so gonna set my alarmclock to get in at 6PDT and i will hope it wont be a total flop like anet used to do with wvw. #alliance_system #no_Update_Msg #Will_take_till_GW3 If this game triggers you so much, maybe time to try something new. lmao valid critisism is pretty far from triggered. Game is good. developers dropped tha ball on this clearly. Either thyey kitten up by not launching the event at the right time or they kitten up by not informing the playerbase this event would start at a different time to every other event leading to a fair amount of confusion among my guild about what the story is with the event. Either way it's a kitten. but you go ahead and white knight for them buddy. It takes all kinds to make a world after all. A post is criticism. 7 posts is triggered. There is a difference. Well if you call 7 post triggered. It´s up to you. Tbh if i am triggered i you just get offline and curse anet. But i´m not, so i might explain you the content of the posts.And if i would like to write long posts i would have easy done it all in one but like you speak its more a conversation for me. Post 1 to 3 can theortically combined to1 i was annoyed that it seems delayed and no informatiion about it2 is a valid question3 i checked if there is rly any time mentioned that i might have forgotten4 i found out what happens if you Quote something, and tried to sum the stuff up5 pesimistic answer, and yeah will see if it is the same like the last times happened mentioned inPost NR. 76 critism about the system change they wanna do with wvw and the policy of keeping ppl updated8 explaination for why i´m so completly pessimistic9 = this = last = sum up for you all the postYeah i swifted a lot between topics, but the main announcement between all the posts is get the notification culture better, inform so ppl can see anything, and understand what is going on.Who are you, the moderator? Is there some new rules about how many times you can post now? once per thread max?? Also, I don't find your critisism one bit constructive tut tut tut shame on you
  15. You seem to think you're the only one posting in the thread, but to respond specifically to you, calling ANet pathetic and using "white knights" unironically is far from constructive. It's fair to say that they should have put the time in the initial announcement, or communicated better, but a lot of responses here are just people being overly upset. So do you believe the event was planned to start at 6pm pdt? I wouldn't care if the event was delayed for some reason but I'm not gonna apologize for calling bullshit on their response.
  16. Ahhh I see. The problem isn't that the devs do whatever they want and pass it off as "huh? no, you misunderstood" the problem is that I'm not being constructive in my critisicm. Dear Anet: Git gud. Constructive enough?
  17. I wont be suprised to get online tommorrow and still nothing. I so gonna set my alarmclock to get in at 6PDT and i will hope it wont be a total flop like anet used to do with wvw. #alliance_system #no_Update_Msg #Will_take_till_GW3 If this game triggers you so much, maybe time to try something new.lmao valid critisism is pretty far from triggered. Game is good. developers dropped tha ball on this clearly. Either thyey fucked up by not launching the event at the right time or they fucked up by not informing the playerbase this event would start at a different time to every other event leading to a fair amount of confusion among my guild about what the story is with the event. Either way it's a fuck. but you go ahead and white knight for them buddy. It takes all kinds to make a world after all.
  18. I love that they are implying it's all working as intended when every other WvW event ever has started at reset... pathetic
  19. Too focused on alliances... that must be it ^-^
  20. Whether or not you liked the no downstate week, I think most people would agree that for the first few days at least, it was a nice change.That's why I think it would be fun to have weekend events once per month. Friday Saturday Sunday, then back to standard WvW on Monday. One idea I had was that the players on a border with a negative KDR in a skirmish, explode into salt on death. Silly stuff like that I think would be fun for a few days.Other ideas:all cooldowns are reduced by 50%jump height and dodge distance increased by 300%warrior bubble cooldown reduced by 90%mesmers can use moa 5 times before triggering cooldown Basically the crazier the better. It is just a game after all (:
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