Guild Wars 2

I was playing a tournament with my guild, we were at the snow map, we had all points but the gate and were about to win, and suddenly, in one bang, the enemy had all points, without conquering them!
We had the points with no one fighting over them, no crossing swords, and BANG they have all of the points all of a sudden…
Can anyone explain what exactly happened?
Were they using hacks of some sort?
Their guild is called “Dishonored”, me and my guild are from Desolation

Fix your game anet.

Surely he is talking about Tranquility.

Posts like this is the reason why ANET refuses to give rangers more control

I’m 99% sure he’s trolling; the buff has a sound " YOUR ENEMY HOLDS ALL POINTS"
and visual que; “Everyone on point gets knocked off”

It’s the tranquility buff. It spawns at 8:30, and it’s the one next to the water down from the gate.

If you use it, you capture all points.

in the tunnel by gate there is an objective on that map that spawns at 8:30, if someone takes the objective their team gets all 3 points.

It also pops at 2:30, if the game lasts that long.

I can’t facepalm hard enough…

Take a picture and send anet

its a buff that spawn on the bottom area of the map inside the cave. it allows whoever claim it get all points/nodes for their team. buff called tranquility.

Shar.3402:

I can’t facepalm hard enough…

No one can facepalm this hard

The Tranquility mechanic is poorly communicated. Most of the sPvP map mechanics are poorly communicated. How many people honestly know what all the buffs in Temple of the Silent Storm do? The tranquility one is even worse because it doesn’t appear for most of the match.

What about running the orb on the Spirit Watch? A lot of players won’t know the difference between running the orb to an enemy point, an uncontrolled point or a party controlled point. Unless you are watching the score UI or paying attention to a point’s capture status when you run an orb there, you wouldn’t know there was a difference. How many people will you see on the Skyhammer that have no idea why they keep getting hit by a giant laser?

They need to do more work on communicating the specific map mechanics. To some extent players should learn by doing, but some of these mechanics are really difficult to pick up on, especially if you are new to sPvP.

I don’t know if the announcer needs to be more pedantic with some announcements or if they need to better utilise the hint’s system in sPvP (not the ideal format for hints) or if a map specific tutorial needs to exist, but I think player awareness of map mechanics is a lot lower than it needs to be.

I will admit though, Tranquility is the worst offender.

A solution:
First time you enter a map ever you are presented with a join red . blue team and a small tutorial of the map. example, the following example would be played out like a scout in PvE, once viewed you would not see this again unless going into help options:

Legacy of the Foefire
In the lands of Ascalon the battle between the charr and humans raged. Take your team to victory in this battle ground

Important Features:
Enemy Base: The enemy base is where the enemy team spawns and where the enemy lord resides [zooms on a base position on map, colour coded with text]

[Lord Icon] Enemy Lord: The enemy Lord is worth 100 points to your team if you can defeat him. Working a lord kill into your strategy can help your team win or lose if too many resources are spent. Warning, the lord is protected by 2 soldiers and mages.
[Zooms on a lord position on map]

Enemy Soldiers: A strong foe that protects the enemy lord

Enemy Mage: A strong foe that protects the enemy lord.

→Got It? (selectable icon to get rid of the screen, never shows again unless going into help but must be selected the first time you see it).

I figured out what the buff did after a few games of that map, but only in this thread did I learn about the 8:30 spawn time.

Newer players just don’t know this stuff, whether or not the OP was trolling.

waka.9826:

Posts like this is the reason why ANET refuses to give rangers more control

made my day
And unfortunately sad but true…

Gaiyeerishima Cat.1082:

It also pops at 2:30, if the game lasts that long.

Does it?

I know it appears at 8:30 and 5:30, didn’t know about it at 2:30 as well o.0

Kuruptz.4782:

Shar.3402:

I can’t facepalm hard enough…

No one can facepalm this hard

… it would actually remove their face.