Guild Wars 2

Besides saving a minor pittance on armor repair what is the buff supposed to accomplish?

In no way does it help actually DEAL with being greatly outnumbered. The only thing it’s really any good for is a warning that your enemies have a lot of people on the map which is rarely a surprise for those in the situation.

Wouldn’t it be great if the outmanned buff was identical to the new bloodlust buff? Or in ANY way helped you out vs the enemy hordes? Or maybe it gave all your structures on the map those “guild” buffs to help you defend a bit? Or double R.I. on things you cap while outmanned? Or maybe things cost a little less supply? The options are endless, but giving magic find just encourages killing PvE stuff since you’re not likely to kill any enemies. It’s like saying “you can’t fight their #s so just go farm for a bit”

I mean, if nothing is going to be done to fix population imbalance (actually doing things to make it worse) is it too much to ask for at least some help dealing with it?

Devs seem think that if it actually gives stat boosts players will rage at people for coming onto a map, removing the outmanned buff and as a result the statistical advantage they would have had if said person didn’t zone in.

bradderzh.2378:

Devs seem think that if it actually gives stat boosts players will rage at people for coming onto a map, removing the outmanned buff and as a result the statistical advantage they would have had if said person didn’t zone in.

That fear is unfounded. How would they even know it wasn’t an enemy server’s players leaving the map that removed the buff?

Even so, a simple solution would be that the buff scales with how outmanned you actually are. The game is already constantly checking this, so it wouldn’t be a server burden. It would just change the calculation from “yes or no” to “how much”

It should be swapped with the bloodlust buff. They’re stupid if they think it would encourage people not to come on just so we can keep the buff. I’d rather not be outmanned at all than have the + to stats. But if we’re going to be outmanned, the stat bonus would atleast give us a fighting chance. Most people just log off or go PvE farming now when we do have the outmanned buff. No point in fighting on the losing side of 100 vs 10. Extra MF, big fracking deal. I’ll eat an omnomberry bar and go PvE farming. It will get me more than being spawn camped by the uber zerg in WvW and maybe taking a camp and killing a couple people before getting rolled over by the sea of red guys.

Yeah, i don’t understand that buff either. It doesn’t help to deal with situation at all especially when you face a server with very large population and have to defend with very few players.

In wow at least, when you were outmanned, you did extra dmg, had extra defense etc.