Guild Wars 2

How are you finding Season 1 of the League?

1 means you’d rather eat your own vomit than put up with it anymore.

10 means you think it’s an absolutely extraordinary gaming experience that will be written about long after we’re all dead. Future e-sport events will be modelled on it, it’s that good!

Format you’re reponse thusly: League/rating

For example: Gold/5

Bronze/5

Its OK. But it didnt balance anything out and we still get boring matchups.
Winners are predetermined already, unless someone gets xfers.
kittenty implementation of a good idea.

Silver/1

use to play WvW 1-3 hours a day, every day… .since the leagues started I’ve played a total of 2 hours.

3/10

… just run out, get steam rolled by enemy zerg 2 – 3 times our size, go back… PvDoor until we get zerged again… rinse repeat. I just get frustrated and log now – i used to play all weekend.

Silver – 1

Every match is a complete blow out.
Lucky to have +100 PPT.
Living story is killing yaks with vet guards protecting it.
Guildies have started quitting the game.

Only good thing so far: I started to sPvP which is saving me money seeing as I don’t have to buy gems to support my siege habbit anymore, everything in sPvP is free and there is no Living Story being forced down my throat either.

1 the matchups so far have been way to lobsidded for it to be fun

I’m going to go with 7/10 on GoM in Bronze. Best fights I have had in a long time last week, and our server is pulling together again to steamroll this week. All in all it’s been a good time.

Silver, 9

The reality is, the RNG gave us the same match ups. It is fun to see the scoring system play out in the standings. I also enjoyed seeing Dark Haven edge out Furgesons Crossing.

Watching t1 implode and QQ has been very entertaining too.

I really like the scoring system better than the Glico junk. Some achievements that are actually attainable has been good too. I am getting closer to that 5.5k achievement chest thanks to the WvW achievements.

I also have enjoyed the amount of people showing up to WvW. Reset night kind of sucks for queues, but no matter the match up, it is a very fun night. Even our Blowout of EB and NSP last week, had a fun reset.

We are only in the 3rd week, and we will see some good matches and bad ones along the way. I really can’t wait to see how this ends.

3/10

Now that everybidy get their meta achiev it looks like no one care about WvW.

Gold league

Gunna have to rate a big fat 1 here. The only thing wrong is the queues really, but on my crappy mexican dsl internet with bi hourly disconnects the queues are game breaking for me. And as someone who WvWs almost exclusively there really isnt much else to do while I’m waiting in queue… sometimes I go champ farming while waiting, now they’ve nerfed that too.

It’s pretty disheartening when your server is losing by vastly superior numbers while half your guild sits in queue watching the ticks go by.

The only way this can be fixed is by allowing more people into WvW.

root.9415:

Gunna have to rate a big fat 1 here. The only thing wrong is the queues really, but on my crappy mexican dsl internet with bi hourly disconnects the queues are game breaking for me. And as someone who WvWs almost exclusively there really isnt much else to do while I’m waiting in queue… sometimes I go champ farming while waiting, now they’ve nerfed that too.

It’s pretty disheartening when your server is losing by vastly superior numbers while half your guild sits in queue watching the ticks go by.

The only way this can be fixed is by allowing more people into WvW.

Allowing more in WvW would not help. The lag would be terrible, and the population imbalances would be even worse in a lot of match ups.

Sadly, you are stuck in the deal with the queues, or transfer category. Kind of sucks, but the season has surely brought out a lot more people.

Gold/1

Season 1 has ruined my WvW experience almost completely. WvW used to be a reliable place I could go for some fun. Now it’s either so queued I can’t get in, or, as things are right now, we’re up against JQ and nobody bothers trying.

It’s sucked for weeks straight, and seems primed to continue sucking for weeks to come. What a disaster.

I seriously apologize for being incompetent but I don’t quite understand the format so;
Silver/7, 7 being our place but there’s also another 7th place below us. That’s what has me confused, so again, sorry \ :

But I’m loving it personally. Although I still love WvW whether we’re getting roflstomped or kicking kitten I’ve been finding this season really fun. It feels a bit more competitive and we’ve been having some really crazy wars going on in Stonemist in particular. I haven’t been around as long as some of the veterans but WvW is just about all I do so I’ve witnessed quite a bit in my time here, and since this season began the action has picked up quite a bit. Not substantially but still noticeably so and I’m excited to see how it progresses.

I would have to list the pros and cons as:

Pros:
New people, new friends
Feels like there’s more of a purpose to it
(Extremely subjective but,) feels nice for those of us who haven’t been around long that still know more about the WvW mechanics than the PvE’ers
Extra rewards are awesome
Awesome to see the server taking things more seriously

Cons:
Some of the PvE’ers are more of a burden than a help (but I’m not trying to tell them to leave, it’s their game not mine)
If your server tries to take any kind of a break the score will drop like a stone because of the higher activity
Losing really, really sucks
Q times get a bit frustrating but it’s not without it’s purpose

1- There really is just no reason to have a bronze league. Maybe in gold league where most all the servers have queues all the time on all the maps the matches might be interesting. In bronze league though the difference in population/coverage from the bottom of bronze league ranking servers and the top of bronze league ranking servers is insane. Every match so far has had one server that could easily take on the other 2 servers combined. Just no real need to have a league to tell us Sorrows Furnace or Gates of Madness have more players than us. We know this that’s why there ranked way higher than us.

Chuck Zitto.2367:

1- There really is just no reason to have a bronze league. Maybe in gold league where most all the servers have queues all the time on all the maps the matches might be interesting. In bronze league though the difference in population/coverage from the bottom of bronze league ranking servers and the top of bronze league ranking servers is insane. Every match so far has had one server that could easily take on the other 2 servers combined. Just no real need to have a league to tell us Sorrows Furnace or Gates of Madness have more players than us. We know this that’s why there ranked way higher than us.

I don’t think you are following all of bronze league. Dark Haven and Furgesons Crossing have played the best match of the entire league (NA) so far. Dark Haven pulled out a 2k win right before reset. Was fun to follow that match on MOS.

Silver League has an insane population coverage as well. It is what it is.

And the problems are also in the gold as well. Look how SoR has been getting pounded.

So far, each league has only 2 viable teams that can compete…. JQ, BG…..FA, SBI…HoD, SF.

Gold/1. Week 1 was fantastic, so I hope week 7 will be the same. Since then things have quickly gone down hill. I only play wvw, and my guild is wvw centric, putting t1 servers against non t1 gold league servers is ridiculous, they can’t compete with coverage and just take an instant third. Our 1v1 with SoR was interesting at the start, but they gave up somewhere in the middle of last week. We’ve almost waypointed their garrison and it’s only Sunday, I’m not really looking forward to a week long karma train.

Basically, I loved what t1 was. Optimal competition basically, now it’s a kitten version of that. 1v1 with a third wheel that can’t win. I don’t envy JQ at all, with three weeks against two non-t1 servers I’d probably quit out of boredom.

Silver 8/10. I enjoy being heavily outmanned and using it as a growth opportunity. Just im really quite surprised at the lack of decent guilds in Silver League.

Typhus.3502:

Gold/1. Week 1 was fantastic, so I hope week 7 will be the same. Since then things have quickly gone down hill. I only play wvw, and my guild is wvw centric, putting t1 servers against non t1 gold league servers is ridiculous, they can’t compete with coverage and just take an instant third. Our 1v1 with SoR was interesting at the start, but they gave up somewhere in the middle of last week. We’ve almost waypointed their garrison and it’s only Sunday, I’m not really looking forward to a week long karma train.

Basically, I loved what t1 was. Optimal competition basically, now it’s a kitten version of that. 1v1 with a third wheel that can’t win. I don’t envy JQ at all, with three weeks against two non-t1 servers I’d probably quit out of boredom.

gold/5

Like he said, week 1 was super interesting T1 fights. Week 2 started nicely before some BG offrered TC gold for a 2v1, bought a russian guild to fight coverage wars… and well “win by any means”. As much as it sounds like complaining, I dont really care, I’ll keep trolling them on the forums, but this whole league killed the really nice and balanced matchups we’ve been having BG/SoR/JQ.

Also, its been a long time since i’ve seen sabotage by wasting supply to build rams in supply camps. Of course, the famous DDOS on ts (though this would happen magically when BG pushes hard even before league)…

The biggest annoyance with the leagues on servers with a high concentration of WvW guilds and players is the queues that we had even during the weekdays by ppl trying to hunt AP for an unsure reward that not only depends your final rank but anet’s amazing talent of hyping a reward only to give something kittentier than what can already be done/obtained in game.
And before anyone says anything about that, WvW population (yes even in T1) is peanuts compared to server population and on highly competitive servers, performance is automatically diminished.

You also got a lot A LOT of ppl ignoring the PvP of WvW and any strategy, mindlessly zerging for AP…

darkhaven can pull it’s weight – but tonight we had the outnumbered buff – and thanks to the grind for getting ascended weapons, I found myself up in kessex hills trying to get the new spores drops – the area was so packed….i was having major skill lag and kept getting disconnected. – everyone was farming spores lol

so while we have intense moments in wvw, our server is pretty well balanced with pve and pvp. Our community is fun, but the burden placed on the players is killing the flow of the game in every way possible – even for pve – since these events only last a fixed amount of time – everywhere they are gets flooded with players. – considering there were 3 events in living story – everyone was all over the place.

the game is great, the players are fun – anet is making everyone psychotic trying to keep up with everything..

so I’d have to give it a 1

it was so bad tonight – I’ve decided to find another game because this game just got way too stressful and I need an alternative to just play a fun relaxing game – not gritting my teeth at every possible issue and spending more time on a forum than in the game – even when the events are fun – you get skill lag and disconnects – there’s just always some problem either in balance, in grinding, or in lag.

In beta – all i played was wvw, – for most of the game – unless maxing a new character – i’ve been in wvw….i can honestly say i really don’t appreciate the direction it’s going and feel like i need to break a nasty habit.

I think I can see a trend here. The people who think leagues are great are the people who are winning, and the people who think leagues are bad are the people who are losing. Except for the few who think leagues are now boring because they can faceroll over any servers for most of the matchups.

Gold/3

Blowouts every week~

sephiroth.4217:

Silver – 1

Every match is a complete blow out.
Lucky to have +100 PPT.
Living story is killing yaks with vet guards protecting it.
Guildies have started quitting the game.

Same, but I’d give that a 2. I still play, but I’m not sure that I will once I have the meta-achievement. No point in steamroll wins or losses.

Opc.4718:

I think I can see a trend here. The people who think leagues are great are the people who are winning, and the people who think leagues are bad are the people who are losing. Except for the few who think leagues are now boring because they can faceroll over any servers for most of the matchups.

Well leagues could be a very fun thing, if the main issues with WvW would actually be addressed prior to it… for instance imagine how different NA gold would be if all 3 of the T2 servers had a fighting chance at winning against a T1 server.

Gold, 8

Never been one to care about score. Winning Gold League would have been cool but it is what it is. Am happy to see BG recruit more players, more people to kill is never a bad thing. Little disappointed to see some of my server mates rage quit but having the outnumbered buff is awesome. Roaming with impunity !!!

Gold/7

Queues and need to have a handicap system so every server in league as a chance.

Gold. 1/10 the further stacking of t1 servers has reached ridiculous levels due to the league

gold.
1/10

Leagues have completely ruined my wvw experience.
It was fun facing t1 servers almost every week before leagues, atleast there were always fights, but now, JQ is starting karma farming on a freakin saturday. And they tell us we have 2 more weeks of this? I know QQ, but when you are ticking almost double the other server comined, what is the point? The only decent fights to be had, are if you happen to find yourself on a BL with the other servers 2 or 3 guilds.

So many pveers with fragile ego’s have made EB a complete waste of time. I used to love commanding in there, but now, theres no point. Unless you are karma farming, find yourself with half the people you should. And once a fight starts, expect half your followers to run off in every direction. You try to tell them to stop running and they tell you to shut up, and stop following you all together.
And not just EB, it has also effected the BL’s in the same way, to a lesser effect.

When there is no good fighting going on in most of the BL’s, and WvW is nothing but a giant karma farm, what is the point of playing WvW? Seriously tempted to take a break from WvW altogether until we face BG again.

Gold EU. / 1
The 1st week was quite intense but ques ruined even that good thing. Now its boring as hell, and its gonna be like that till week 7.

PS: but who cares, when “New Armors and More Available in the Gem Store!”©

had to leave my server due to insane lag and queue times. Have completely stopped playing WvW and will move back to my server when the season ends.

Silver, 8/10
Guildies started doing more of the WvW because of the achievements, but some of them are there to stay.
Matchups in my league are interesting for the most part (at least for first 3 days or so, and if 2 of the losing servers are close enough they fight tooth and nail for that 2nd position).
Skill level went somewhat down, but let’s be honest, most of the WvW population even pre-league used arrows for movement and didn’t use keyboard shortcuts, so no big difference there.
I also find myself spending considerably more time in WvW then I would pre-league.