Guild Wars 2

For the last few weeks I have been trying to finish map completion. I have been stuck at 99% because I’m missing 6 spots, all on two WvW maps. While I understand that adding WvW spots to the requirement gets us to try it, what is upsetting is that it has made it virtually impossible for me to complete.

I am on Yak’s Bend. I love my server. Yes, we’re going through a rough spot in WvW, but nothing an infusion of players wouldn’t solve. That’s not what I’m here to talk about. Yak’s has been RED for the last five weeks. This means convincing a group to take the towers/keeps which house the POIs, and having enough people to actually do so.

Because I’m not in a big guild, this hasn’t happened. That’s left me at 99% for weeks, not knowing when or if we’ll ever be green or blue so I can get these points.

Please, ANet, relook at this requirement? POIs in supply camps or other accessible places I’m totally okay with. Same with Skill points and Vistas. However, requiring people to get points inside of places they can’t take and access is rather ridiculous.

Anyone else have this problem? How long did you have to wait before you were able to resolve it?

I was at 99% for about a month before I was lucky and got the Vistas I needed. We were consistently green on my server and I needed red BL garrison vistas. Got lucky one day when I checked and it was flipped. I think that colors should be changed weekly and I can’t figure out why Anet wouldn’t just put everyone on a constant rotation. It doesn’t make sense to me either to keep a server at the same color for weeks, they need to fix this imo as well.

colors are randomized each week as a side-effect of the matchup randomization system, but matchup randomization depends on relative server ratings, which means that your chances of getting a particular color may change depending on your own server’s rating as well as the ratings of other servers.

based on the current scores, I’ve calculated estimated probabilities for next week’s matchup. for the next match (i.e. the day after tomorrow), YB has a 24.1% chance to get green, a 19.9% chance to get blue, and a 56.0% chance to get red.

if you play WvW a lot, map completion shouldn’t take too long — objectives don’t typically stay the same color all week, the trick is to be on the map when it changes to your own color. and being in WvW a lot makes it more likely for this to happen.

if you can’t do that, then you can rely on the randomization instead, although that may take longer depending on whether you’re lucky or unlucky with the dice rolls. in that case it’s better to start working on it very early, rather than leaving it until the end.

-ken

Everything needed for map completion can be taken or broken into at some point. If you need a tower, get a friend or two, buy a guild catapult and whack the wall during off hours. Same thing, but with more people for keeps… Plus as a side note, why do you think so many people have commander tags?? We all needed map completion at some point we just spent 100 gold where if you take my advice you’ll spend maybe 5 if you need extras.

P.S. Oh no! People actually having to work for their shinies the horror, the horror!!! Oh wait… It’s in wvw, never mind proceed to working extremely hard for barely more than nothing… And be happy about it! Sarcasm

It will eventually pop since color selection has a randomization factor to it. Your server just needs to roll very high or low to get you into the right spot. In the “old days” there was no randomization but players could easily transfer since it was free. In the “less old days” after transfers cost money players were screwed because servers would be locked into a color for months. BP went over 13 weeks without ever getting green.

So you don’t have it as bad as it once was and not as good either. Keep up hope that eventually you will get there.