Guild Wars 2

Hey,

something is still broken with the pips you earn on the ticks. Noticed that several times that the short handed buff is ignored and you don’t get that extra 5 pips.
Was roaming around for some time, was on rank 6 already, saw the buff symbol and just got too less pips (lacking that buff pips).
And often 3 seconds before the tick the buff disappeared, the tick came and the buff just reappeared.

Something is broken there.

Sometimes i see outnumbered displayed on my homies but not on me.

@Galmac: What you describe happened before the change to the outnumbered buff, because it was assigned dynamicly according to the real life population balance on your current WvW map. It can no longer disappear before the tick and reappear after.

The outnumbered buff is now applied directly after the tick if the condition of being outnumbered on that map is met and stays until right after the next tick. If you are still outnumbered, it stays until right after the next tick, if not it disappears. You get one guaranteed outnumbered tick this way. You do not get the bonus pips on the same tick the buff first appeared, which may seem like it gets ignored as you describe. It is working as intended.

@Offair: This is possible because you can join a map that is / was outnumbered between ticks. To get the outnumbered buff, you have to be on the map when the tick is being awarded and your side is still outnumbered to get the buff.