Guild Wars 2

The nerf to night capping is going to kitten off alot of people who dont belong to NA. Alot of people are complaining about the night capping; the same can be said to people who dont play NA (NA is night capping them). WvW is suppose to be a 24/7 thing. If the nerf actually goes through its going to be really unfair for the international community.

So? Nerfing classes kittens over alot of people as well. Yet it still has to be done.

The plan is not to nerf nightcapping (and morning capping and daycapping) but to reduce impact of score gained while no enemies are in WvW and increase points when more players are around and capturing/defending objectives becomes more challenging.

PAAAAAANIIIIIIIIC… Oh wait a minute, we dont have an idea how anet is going to implement this.

Lets cry when we have pain and not before having it, shall we…

They don’t have to nerf anything, just make it so that every time zone is equally valuable. Currently low-population timezones are magnitudes more valuable than popular timezones. This is how score can be fixed:

• Give points based on order of servers in tick and not tick itself (ordinal scoring)
• Remove points from dolyak arrivals
• Keep points from player kills
• Rework realm bonus thresholds to match the new values

Dolyaks are the biggest offender. They rack up tons of points if left unchecked. Ordinal scoring also encourages defending as much as it does attacking. Balanced matches become hectic fights over which server stays at the top. 5 point camp can make the difference between getting first place reward and second place reward.

Offair.2563:

PAAAAAANIIIIIIIIC… Oh wait a minute, we dont have an idea how anet is going to implement this.

Lets cry when we have pain and not before having it, shall we…

Honestly though, when we actually find out what the plan is, most likely it’ll be too late to change anything.

Erron.8976:

The nerf to night capping is going to kitten off alot of people who dont belong to NA. Alot of people are complaining about the night capping; the same can be said to people who dont play NA (NA is night capping them). WvW is suppose to be a 24/7 thing. If the nerf actually goes through its going to be really unfair for the international community.

The current state is unfair. At most 1% of the population making 33% of the warscore is ludicrous. Don’t get soft-hearted, a lot of these OCX PvDoorers have god complexes because of this.

Got to find a balance that encourages score for actually fighting players in decently balanced fights. Doesn’t matter what time zone. OCX heavy servers can’t get blobbed off every map during NA prime and then have no way to even things out later.

NA heavy servers cant struggle against larger servers, fighting for hours over every scrap of PPT, only to wake up next morning with tick at 20 and another 20000 points behind.

Just because an NA heavy server can wipe another server 70v30 over and over again for massive ppk doesn’t mean it’s not basically pvd.

TLDR most good fights = winning solution. Bonus points for encouraging more small group, havoc, roaming.

ThunderPanda.1872:

Offair.2563:

PAAAAAANIIIIIIIIC… Oh wait a minute, we dont have an idea how anet is going to implement this.

Lets cry when we have pain and not before having it, shall we…

Honestly though, when we actually find out what the plan is, most likely it’ll be too late to change anything.

Nothing new then. Let’s just sit and wait to see what it is going to be, then draw our conclusions.