Guild Wars 2

Hey Mike,

when do we get a new blogpost from you? We really like to hear more about the culling issue, orb hackers, lag issues etc.

We would also really like to hear your reasoning behind taking down Wv3 with a 15 second warning, and your plans for in game bingo while people stand around in LA waiting on the buggy Queue

I think a lot of us would also like to hear about why free transfers are still effective and unchanged while they continue to decay the WvW quality and server pride.

All this data collection (ratings as well as queue times) is pretty, but it’s like judging this week’s weather forecast based on how well the last weatherman did.

Until server transfers are locked down, you really can’t presume this week’s Dragonbrand deserves last week’s Dragonbrand Glicko score.

Thanks for the update. Nice to see Blackgate in Tier 1 where they belong and (obviously) IoJ does not

Rankings are a complete joke at this point. People just all transfer to winning server anyways. Broken and unplayable at the moment. Please fix devs. I don’t want to server hope, this sucks.

There is no server pride and they never will be until server transfers are stopped.

Gunnar’s Hold server has suffered because of the nightcapping and recently server transfers as we lost most of our WvW guilds who flew the coup to Blacktide as they wanted to win more than they wanted to create a community.

Your server rankings are worthless and mean nothing until WvW is fixed.

P.S. I’ll be kicking butt in PS2, NC faction until Arenanet actually do something…

mhm…can you please post the rankings as text?

No congrats for Devona’s first win? I see how it is :P

Would love a post with less stats showcasing which world has the most players on them, and more posts on what is being done about the issues:

1)Imbalanced servers – current score on my server is 52,000 to 6,000 to 1,000

2)Orb Hackers (every week for the past month (or longer))

Congrats Devonna’s Rest!!!

was cool playing with you thursday night mike

Am agreeing with Ender, could we pretty please have them in text form so I can copy paste them in my Spreadsheet?

northern shiverpeaks wooooh!…

Just wondering, are we ever going to see those in real time? It’s quite… curious… to only see them once a week in a jpg. It would be cool to have them available online and constantly updated.

What I would like to hear, if anything other than what has already been mentioned…

What is the philosophy behind the orb bonus? Currently it seems only to serve the function of ensuring that a World that is already performing well, gets rewarded with +5% MaxHP and +50 all stats, so that they may perform even better. All this does is create a monopoly-victory condition for the leading World, rather than encouraging fun, close matches.

This bonus perhaps needs to instead be given to the currently last place world, or set to replace the current “Outnumbered” bonus and the Orb of Power bonus rethought.

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Yeah, I have to agree with people that WvW is broken. At this point as soon as one server gets all the orbs, they completely destroy everyone else with about 85% of the total points earned. Maybe if the bonuses were less significant, like a fifth of what they are now, it could work. I’d also suggest there should be some events where occupied locations occasionally attempt to revolt and return to their default ownership.

^I’d have to say that is wrong. Last week SBI didn’t have all the orbs. We came from nothing, and dominated. We ended up winning. Explain that with your statement.

Did you have any?

outmanned and orb buffs should be reversed

Are the Devs planning to make a live view of the ranks instead you you guys posting them in the forums?

Because you already have the system in place, expect we – the players cannot see them.

Not quite live, and kept up by the players not the devs, but there is a decent score tracking website already.

http://mos.millenium.org/matchups#NA

I am so happy the October 5th topic was unpinned. It was driving me crazy.

A reward for doing well isn’t rediculous or unfair, but the magnitude of the reward could be…
The only rewards I can think of is a performance/stat booster or a monetary booster (such as +X silver for every X minutes in WvW)

OR

The orb boosts could be kept, but only having 1 would give a minor boost, and posessing the other 2 wouldnt give a stacked boost, it jsut would prevent the others from having it.

OR

To inspire server pride, give a performance boost to players in PvE (such as +10% speed) and let everyone know it’s from WvW. This would make them aware of WvW and encourage them to contribute to their server. Possibly even a reward for every WvW match won for everyone, whether you participated or not.

As far as the server switches go, there should be a cool-down period for WvW-ing. Half a week, or maybe a full cycle. It wouldnt prevent, but it could deter.

I would say switch the orb bonus with the unmanned bonus. You get more stuffs for winning you get a stat boost when your outnumbered. I’m surprised this hasn’t been thought of before.