Guild Wars 2

This weeks matchup verses Millers Sound has really demonstrated this to me. It’s the first matchup where i’ve not seen a server drop below a ~450 pts/15 minutes threshold. Regularly they are up over 600 too.

The trouble is, as someone else stated a while back that once you own the map it doesn’t disperse but rather concentrates your forces. You have 6 points to watch in total. 2 spawns in each area. That’s it.

Now, especially on EB this is a big issue. With keeps being the first major obstacle that needs retaking it’s rather difficult to do because nobody has supply. You need a lot of supply to take a keep, else you’re banging your head on a brick wall. They have it fully upgraded, with supply from every supply line allowing them to repair any damage from player abilities rather easily.

Something does need to be done about this. I accept that Miller’s is a very good, at least relatively, server compared to Aurora Glade or Ring of Fire. But when we do have our small moment of primetime it takes forever just to get that one spot. Taking anything further afield is troublesome as it’s farther from a spawn and without places such as the keep on the way, is a short term victory.

If a server has 0 points could players not spawn with 10 supply? It’s happened every day so far, our server has at many points a day had 0 points income. Just a thought.

Awful matchup this week. Our guild Army of Albion (RoF) managed to hold two fronts in EB yesterday evening until the daft numbers of Millers just came and swamped both Ring of Fire and Aurora.

That’s why i’m coming up with this idea. It won’t help during RoF or AG off-peak hours because the numerical difference is insurmountable. But when both servers have their little bit of prime-time at least we can do something rather than conquer a small section on EB in the entire prime-time, go to bed and have nothing again.

If anyone doesn’t know what the matchup looks like, I think it’s:

1) Millers on ~160k points
2) AG and RoF on ~30k points

Matt commented on his small update that they were looking at WvW issues such as this:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Small-update/page/3#post498433

“We are also looking at ways to better support players that are getting shut down on maps. Again this is something very new, so we are not able to say anything on how this will work. However, the goal is to make players able to leave the spawn areas with ease, as well as provide assistance on capturing objectives when you are being completely shut down on a map”.

Thing is because of the time of reset in EU compared to US (1am Sat compared to 5pm Fri) most EU servers without US nightcappers wake up to start a new match already shafted..