Guild Wars 2

I’m currently sittin at my college library right now reading a bunch of the wvw forums. everyone has he same complaint. but instead of a stupid wanna be digital riot, when I get home, I’m going to log in,

record myself exploring WvW and show how EMPTY it is. I’m not going to show eternal battleground because we all know that’s where everyone goes usually… it’s the only familiar place left.

here’s what I propose to you. I urge you to do the same. hell, even record during reset night and show how dull it is. make multiple recordings throughout the week. post nothing but those videos. new topics. this is what I’m going to try to do between classwork and work… work….

for me it’ll be easier because I’m a resident of kaineng. but I HAVE to know if the higher tier is in the same boat. which is why I urge anyone to record too

If you want to know how other tiers are doing, you can go to wvwintel and add up the total number of deaths in each matchup. That gives some idea of activity.

For example, right now in your matchup (T6) there have been 18,000 deaths. T1, it’s 67,000. And in T8 it’s only 5000.

In any case, I’d like to see some videos nevertheless.

Lord Kuru.3685:

If you want to know how other tiers are doing, you can go to wvwintel and add up the total number of deaths in each matchup. That gives some idea of activity.

For example, right now in your matchup (T6) there have been 18,000 deaths. T1, it’s 67,000. And in T8 it’s only 5000.

In any case, I’d like to see some videos nevertheless.

Any idea if there is a site that has Eurostats available since that one does not.

Instead of making videos which can be easily edited to fit a personal agenda (just a general statement nothing personal), I think it would be better to urge the devs to actually participate more in wvw, interact with players and guilds on all servers and tiers, and actually communicate more.

Yeah, that’ll happen. For sure.

I’ve never seen a Dev play WvW… ever… would be great to have a Dev tag along and see them get kittened by their own Banners and such.

Acually, in T3 it’s off or on, and you never can tell until you go there. Sometimes we get great fights in our BL’s, and others it’s a karma farm. EB is always active though in T3, really no down time at all. And at least on SBI (where I am from) we don’t often have a cue either. So we can get in and jump into the action at a moments notice.

T3 = SBI, DB, and CD. And to see server status http://mos.millenium.org/na/

Lord Kuru.3685:

If you want to know how other tiers are doing, you can go to wvwintel and add up the total number of deaths in each matchup. That gives some idea of activity.

For example, right now in your matchup (T6) there have been 18,000 deaths. T1, it’s 67,000. And in T8 it’s only 5000.

In any case, I’d like to see some videos nevertheless.

Does the site differentiate between deaths per border? The total doesn’t mean much if 90% is from EB.

10 pm eastern last night in T1. I was shocked when I clicked B to pick a map lol

Since every tier is open I really have to ask why people are not transferring to get the wvw experience they are looking for. If it has to do with gold that’s one thing as yes it is expensive to move as a wvw’er but it seems most people are just not playing anymore when they could farm enough gold in pve to move and maybe find what they are looking for.

I know in the lower tiers a lot of people stick around for the communities and it is hard to leave all the friendships you’ve built but then I read posts that say people are not logging in and playing so you are really losing your friendships anyway by not playing.

I know free transfer did more harm in the past but at this point and with so many people from each tier saying this game mode is dead, I don’t see any more harm being done if they allowed free transfers. It could lead to server stacking again but that’s a problem created by players in my eyes.

Some people want anet to step in and fix the the imbalanced match ups but I think players should also be trying to fix it and something like free transfers every few months could help. It could make it worse but at this point can it get any worse?

Anyways that’s just an idea off the top of my head and I still have mixed feelings about it lol

I’m just curious that with the shape that wvw is in right now, if anet did do free transfers would you take the offer and move or would you still stay where you are?

msalakka.4653:

Lord Kuru.3685:

If you want to know how other tiers are doing, you can go to wvwintel and add up the total number of deaths in each matchup. That gives some idea of activity.

For example, right now in your matchup (T6) there have been 18,000 deaths. T1, it’s 67,000. And in T8 it’s only 5000.

In any case, I’d like to see some videos nevertheless.

Does the site differentiate between deaths per border? The total doesn’t mean much if 90% is from EB.

It does not differentiate between border and EB, but when the total number of deaths is only 5000 (in T8, for example) on Thursday, you know something is terribly wrong.

And even in the higher tiers, I’m pretty sure the overall death numbers have dropped quite a lot since before HoT.

If transfering were free, I’d bet there would only be about 6-9 servers. This game just screams “transfer!” if you’re in a tier below 2 and playing WvW. There’s crap all to do. It’s extremely boring to the point everyone is just gone pveing, or elsewhere. Even EotM is horrible; where if you’re one colour, your team has 10% (at best) playerbase of the other team(s). It shouldn’t cost more money/gold to get out of the boring server you’re currently on. I’d rather just pve or play another game entirely (favoring the later, as pve is also stagnant now).

katniss.6735:

If transfering were free, I’d bet there would only be about 6-9 servers. This game just screams “transfer!” if you’re in a tier below 2 and playing WvW. There’s crap all to do. It’s extremely boring to the point everyone is just gone pveing, or elsewhere. Even EotM is horrible; where if you’re one colour, your team has 10% (at best) playerbase of the other team(s). It shouldn’t cost more money/gold to get out of the boring server you’re currently on. I’d rather just pve or play another game entirely (favoring the later, as pve is also stagnant now).

Actually, a lot of people talk about not wanting to play the BL (for obvious reasons), but that EB is not an alternative because it’s too zergy. Those people might like the lower tiers (T4, T5) where EB population is significantly lower and thus far less zergy.

My problem with EB isn’t that it’s zergy, it’s that so much as entering the zone and not even being near any zergs in primetime means I can add 3 seconds to my skill activation.