Yngvi.3452

With the increase in particle effects and silly stuff like druids blue poo and other "ability" effects that mask important effects like boss killer fields and enemy squads field attacks is there any plans to fix the cursor. I activated Cursor Contrast in options and its totally unuseable. A arrow cursor needs to have its target or hot spot at the exact point of the arrow head not some fuzzy place inside the head of the arrow. I asked in chat and someone suggested I edit the png file but that sounds like it would be breaking the eula. Another was to use an add on but I'm not keen on using a lot of third party add ons. It bewilders me that this feature is so poorly done. Could someone please look into this.

fighting huge squads in the last week has made me think they don't need anything else to run HUGE invunrable squads... the changes will just make it easier for those squads to take over the entire maps and just farm any stragglers that run by. Pretty sad. Just going to induce the upswing of ktrains again. Everyone else will leave the maps. How about put limits on HUGE squads. Reduce boon time, make it extremely expensive to put down siege and reduce points for gutlessly running down one guy which even now has no way of out running them. Pretty sad... If your going to reduce range/amount of boon strippers atleast prevent the squad from instantly getting them back by putting a ward on the ones that have been stripped so they can't put boons up for several seconds after. HUGE squads are going to make lag even worse than it is now and most of the good players that don't want to be part of their feeding frenzy atleast will be able to play. Not to mention the toxic guild play thats going to occur when those 5 guilds take over the game. It will be worse than what it was 6 years ago. I think the direction your going is wrong anet and will just cause a mass exodis after everyone gets thoroughly bored with running around in a huge group doing the same thing over and over until everyone goes away run. People in this game can be very toxic specially guilds that run huge squads. How are you going to prevent that? Or maybe make a new map where these HUGE Squads can run with out interfereing with ppl that just want to fun.

They don't even have a clear way of reporting bulling and cheats. Right click bulling/cheating. Not click on the perpatrator, make them a friend get there username fill in a report off line in support. I understand there would be a lot of reports but they could monitor it and anyone getting multiple reports over and over could then be looked at. No more excuses please.

I play in squads but again after an hour or so its boring repetitive game play with no real goals. I like to develop builds and play in different situations. Putting everything in one mode is asking for disaster I think. Anyway we will see.

I totally agree with what your saying. It will be a shame if anet removes runes, gear and trinkets for the sPvP amulet system. I want more variaty not less.

Happens a lot now and is fun and in the moment. I think people learn more in these times about their play than running about in a mindless hive. Fighting with out lag or pressure to play only what the squad wants you to play. Figuring out that your builds suck or not is fun. Being told what to eat for breakfast 24/7 isn't.

You have a lot of toons 🙂 I'm at only 16 now and try and rotate most of them. I have nearly two of each class because the build and gear add ons ( can't remember what they are called the ones you buy in the store to expand your toon ) are too expensive and I like creating characters. With two of each class I can make builds of each type eg: roaming Mirage, squad mirage, roaming Chrono, Squad chron... and then PVE dirivitives of (spelling is gud) or different WvW builds. This is what I enjoy about the game. The ability to make builds and play with them to I find I can't survive or that are not that fun to play.

I'm not trying to hold it against them I've played this game for years with out any real changes. Its different from any other game I've played. I just think that narrowing it down to a huge feeding frenzy lead by one individual isn't healthy either. There has been a faction in this game that has always wanted it this way both developers and guilds. It gives them power on who goes with them, how you build your characters, and fame for their guild and commanders. At the moment I can bring a build in any way I want and its how it preforms that tells me if I'm going to continue with it or not. Its explorative and a blast sometimes trying to get things to work. With these changes "oh sorry we want only people that fit our beliefs it what the meta is sorry". I can see the this happening all over again. You look at someone new coming in and they can barely afford equipment let alone figure out how to use new builds. This narrowing is going to suck the fun out of the game for I think alot of us. Sure give them some tools to use so they can run about... but let the rest of play the game self determined and fun.

Not if its geared to huge squads with less boon stripping and more boons... the most organized and equiped squads will win and everyone else will leave. Sorry but you can't convince me this is healthy for the game.... Look what happen in wvw hayday... tons of ppl all queueing up to be lead about, if you were not geared you didn't get to play if you did't have the "discord " of the day you didn't play. That lasted for about 12 to 18 months then everyone got bored and left. There was no one left to take their places. This will happen again. Running about in huge squads is fun for only so long... its like ktrains just f... boring after a bit.

again farming isn't much fun so who cares how efficient it is. I play games for fun and competition. Running about in HUGE squads with one person leading again is supper boring and not very skilled once you get the meta down and listen to the leader. Sounds like you got sold a load of crap from a few guilds that want it this way. Not everyone cares to play in a HUGE squad. And usually huge squads are only at peak times so what happens when your fighting one squad that peaks at 2 and your guys don't get in till 7:30.... This will result in the same issues we are having with mag and them fielding huge numbers nearly every part of the day... which just kills it for everyone else. At the very least look into where this is the way you want this game to go and stop listening to the few for a moment. Farming ppl, farming bosses farming pretty much sucks after awhile. Put it some place for the rest of us that don't want to mindlessly run around with some egotist tag please.

I understand all that... but with the changes anet i think your fooling your selves about anet leaving it gearing for huge squads. Look at the nerfs and how they are molding game play. Squad play is fun but its not everything in here. Pickup pugs and roaming is probably the most fun in the game. Having one guy tell everyone what to do is okay for an hour or so but after away its f... boring. Specially if all they do is set up for a huge bag farming event which it seems is all this is turning into during the test. What happens in a few months when everyone including the tag gets tired of mindless eating other groups. If there is no diversity if there is no other goals then this mode is going to be worse off than what it is now. I no there is a core group that wants it too be huge squad against huge squad but is it sustainable.

Just wondering not everyone likes to run in a HUGE mindless group attacking other HUGE mindless groups. Seems like its going to become very one dimension and when those leaders that love running about in HUGE mindless groups gets tired is there going to be anything left for the ppl that don't play that way. Just curious whether I should continue to invest time here.

Again I agree does anyone on your team even play Mezmers?

Guess they don't want us in the game... Can't play mirage they are nearly useless now, Chrono's to me are like taxi drivers they provide speed which is not needed any more mostly, mass stealth which I can do with less stealth not more and, portal bombs at the expense of anything else that is more fun to play or important to survive( like blink). Please find a way to give us some thing to play instead of nerfing us like this. Hell look at thieves you continually improve on them. Finally after 10 years you got rid of the ridiculous permanent stealth only to give them buffs and superspeed 4 days later. Resulting in near permastealth and even more impossible to catch up with.