Acidic mood in chat since tournament and hax/cheat suspect
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I used to enjoy WvW as my main activity. But recently… I feel like is has be soured a lot. I play on Yak’s Bend, and usually that’s a very friendly server. But the grouping we faced in the last 2 weeks have been continually going down the drain. I know, when things go bad, that’s to be expected. But seriously! I can’t stand it no longer, so I quit the WvW until another server shuffle comes on Friday.
I really think the matches of the tournament are horrible. I dunno what mechanics ANEt has employed, but both Fort Aspen (FA) and even more so now Stormbluff Island (SBI) have been overwhelmingly powerful. Yaks was in both matches the 2nd, I can’t imagine how the 3rd ranked may feel. After a time I hear FA and SBI are actually belonging in the Gold League, not our Silver League, but they played bad on purpose. I would not even think anyone would do that, because it sounds so hilarious and idiotic. Either way, IMVHO the entire matchup system is a catastrophe. In the first week we steamrolled the enemy, now we are being steamrolled, both isn’t fun, because in both cases you don’t make any meaningful XP. So I dont understand the zeal of powerful servers to WANT to have weak competition, because I found such matches dull and they give much less XP than balanced matches.
Second, maybe ANet should seriously monitor the chat. I hear commanders have been harassed and harrass each other now. Other commanders entirely dropped form the radar. As I said so many times: the WvW system just doesn’t allow the 2nd and 3rd ranked to really catch up. Once the first ranked is on top, there is a bad dynamics against the 2nd and 3rd, because people start to leave. Since the offense is WAY much more powerful than the defense, it further supports the First Ranked and makes catching up virtually impossible.
Now, everyone suspects anyone as spy, the mood is on the floor! And that’s just proof that the matchup and the entire WvW system simply doesn’t work. And then there is of course the problem that some servers had entire WvW guilds, so when your pick-up-Zerg is confronted by a pure guild Zerg, well guess who wins. All this is the responsibility of ANet to balance somehow. The players can do just so much! But I am just tired of either steamrolling over the enemy or being steamrolled over. That’s just totally absurd.
And one more thing about hax: I have seen small duel of 3 vs 3 or so in the WvW maps, and sometimes the health drop of some chars just doesn’t seem right. When 8 people take almost a minute to kill an Ele, or a Warrior fighting against my Ranger doesn’t get ANY damage for over 30 seconds, I know that is simply not possible. So either there are some bugs, or some people have cheats. Both feels equally troubling.
So. I just had to write this. As it is, WvW is profoundly soured to me. All the acidic comments. And it is so POINTLESS. SBI just has 5-10 times as many people, and I am just tired of being cannon fodder. The matchups are just absurd, and the entire WvW mechanic has a waaaay to weak defensive system. Once the enemy is ahead a certain point, you simply CANT catch up. Oh and dont even begin about clever strategy. In the long run, only superior number and superior gear counts. It just doesn’t make sense to put a casual server against hardcore WvW pro servers, and that’s exactly what’s happening now. We have good commanders and good players, but they are casual players most of them. Now the mood is down the drain, and all the arguing makes me sad and sick, so I can’t log in anymore, because it just drags me down. Didn’t think a hobby supposed to distract me and lift me up would actually more drag me down.
(The 45 characters for titles is TOO SHORT)
