Showing Highly Rated Posts By Balthazzarr.1349:

World Linking 6/24/2016

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

I think I am done with wvw now.

… just call me … Tim :)

Paired Q's

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

This grouping of servers is terrible. 20 minutes in queue I gave up. Frankly I don’t want to be a blob drone either. Give me my little Borlis Pass back please. Until this grouping ends I will no longer be in WvW… This Gold General, ranked 2224 (means I’m a die hard wvw person … or was ) .. says goodbye for now to WvW. If this is what the majority wants then that’s all good… but seriously it’s not for me. Being a blob drone is bad enough… queuing up for ages and ages to be what I don’t want to be is worse… my new warrior name is: Bye Wvw Love Tim Have fun all… see you in PvE if you know me…

… just call me … Tim :)

Pulse check time.. finding the way to fun..

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

In the last 1503 days (4 years) I have played 7663 hours up to this moment across all characters. That’s an average of 5 hours per day. GW2 addiction or what? Well it used to be.

There was a time when I didn’t even know these forums existed and pounded in GW2 / WvW for all it was worth. Finding friends, finding enemies to go after. Some days were as much as 12 hours on weekends. As I’m reading my email this morning from one of my friends asking (where have you been?) I realize that those days are gone.

I’ve said it in the forums how my 95% time in gw2 was spent in WvW at one time, and now it’s diminished. But my time in the game period has dropped to an all time low.

It’s the same song you keep hearing here about the direction of WvW and server linking. I have seen so many of my WvW die hard friends just drop out of WvW (or gw2 altogether), or do what I do and that’s go into WvW for missions or maybe a bit of havoc for a short bit and then leave. With the linking we have the one big issue that we no longer have a server to represent. Just a host, which in this case trolls us a huge amount of the time unless we just do our own thing quietly, that I personally have no interest in supporting.

Other hosts have been much more receptive but at the end of the day they are hosts and NOT our home world.

I figured I’d post this little bit in its own spot since I logged in this morning to GW2 to do my daily pickup of mats (not sure why I do that except out of habit), and then log out since none of my friends are in yet. While I was in I thought I’d to a /age check and surprised myself at how much I see I used to play, which is about 4 times the amount I play now.

Ah well, I will keep coming into the game to see friends but as things are going, (and obviously will continue to go), I will not likely tag up in WvW in the foreseeable future if ever with the current set up. Nor do I have a huge amount of interest in the same old other stuff this game has. The only reason I haven’t stopped altogether is because there is no monthly subscription. Or, (as in the case of WoW), it would be uninstalled.

ANet, I realize this makes zero difference on how you will continue to do things moving forward. But I just wanted to post my personal stats here as my final post to these forums. As I said in one forum entry.. it’s like spitting into a gale.. and frankly I’m going to keep my face dry from now on.

… just call me … Tim :)

make wvw purely guild based

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

BAD idea! Where’s the huge thumbs down key!

… just call me … Tim :)

We are temporarily shutting down servers

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

oh hey… seriously while you’re at it, since the wvw goodies are account wide now you should also make the gear that we buy from the wvw vendors account bound instead of soulbound. Matter of fact all gear should be account bound. I really don’t understand the purpose of making armor and weapons soulbound.

… just call me … Tim :)

Decay timer?!?! Are you kidding!

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

@Baldrick… I’m not even going into wvw now, and won’t until/unless this is corrected. Totally pointless.

… just call me … Tim :)

Get rid of Desert BL

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

don’t say nobody. we have a group that practically lives on dbl. Just cause some hate it doesn’t mean everyone does. I seriously do not like eb period.

… just call me … Tim :)

(edited by Balthazzarr.1349)

World Linking Beta

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

Diku: In my humble opinion after reading lots of your very good posts as well as the well thought out posts of many of the other people in the “lower tier” servers I have honestly reached the conclusion that this kind of thing is happening..

Person in favor ( including ANet ) reads posts in here and in his/her mind: yes, yes, yes, blah blah blah, yes yes yes yes, blah blah blah… etc. They aren’t going to change what they’re doing. They will continue to use the so called majority to justify what they have already decided a while back no doubt in “brain storming” sessions with people that truly don’t understand the great culture that had been built in WvW until the big changes started happening. Honestly this will be my last post in here. Like you I will no doubt go into WvW… but I stopped tagging up a long time ago and won’t be doing it anytime soon with the small exception of guild mission squads, and even that the tag can be dropped after forming the squad. My days of going into WvW EVERY DAY for hours are over. I now go into WvW now and then and usually only for an hour or so (used to be 4-6 hour runs for me almost every day).

This culture that some of us talk about doesn’t matter really to anyone but our so called minority and after the dust clears and everything is settled, if it keeps going the way it is right now, WvW will turn into what you suggested above… a fast paced 24×7 fight fest action film that gets tiring… well it’s already tiring for me. I still find quiet times now and then but it’s few and far between and so on and so on.

Place your head firmly between your legs and kiss BP goodbye… As a home server it’s gone. As a community many are still fighting for identity. (can’t even get sups from citadel because we are nomads). … and WHEN we are moved to yet another server we will continue to be pugs with no identity other than the inside one we create for ourselves. We can’t even really join a guild in WvW on the Host server and expect it to be permanent since we will soon be most likely gone from there… oh @#$% I’m rambling.. I’ll stop now… Loaded the game today, looked at the screen, logged out. This is a first for me… and probably not the last…

and fwiw.. I’m not angry so this isn’t an angry post. I thought about it a lot.. it’s how I feel about what I see and I’m just worn out… that’s all…

… just call me … Tim :)

(edited by Balthazzarr.1349)

World vs World Holiday Sneak Peek

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

I stopped reading all the “thanks for listening” notes… because although this is a little step in the right direction ( carrot dangling at best to me ), it’s nowhere near close to responding to what people are really saying. I used to spend 95% of my time in WvW and now it’s about 5% at best. These changes won’t pull me back in, nor will they benefit small groups really since now they won’t be able to rez their own dead against a bigger group and so on. Bottom line is that this is a straw that has been thrown at a haystack of requests ( to me ). As it is and will be when these small changes are implemented, I will continue to pound the HoT areas and keep hoping that maybe even HALF things people are saying will be responded to.

… just call me … Tim :)

World Linking Feedback [merged]

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

I’m not sure if this was mentioned anywhere in the 5 pages of posts here… but at the end of the day the majority of people voting would naturally be the people on the BIG Host servers. The minority is the server group that has been merged. With that fact alone it’s pretty clear to me that this vote will “pass” to keep world linking since the minority’s voice is still NOT being considered, period. imo

… just call me … Tim :)

Removed crafting stations and vendors.

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

So if I run out of food/sharpening stones/oils and wish to craft some more or I wish to access the materials in my personal bank I have to leave home border and re-queue.

If someone calls out in map chat that they need help defending something while I am crafting I won’t see it any more because I won’t be crafting on home border.

Why?

I have seen plenty of complaints in WvW, but the presence of crafting stations wasn’t one of them.

Kind of makes me chuckle. At best I’ve seen maybe 3 or 4 people actually crafting at any one time at Citadel.. and that’s VERY RARELY. But… I do see people standing around spawn at EB quite a bit, not crafting, just standing there doing, who knows what? Probably getting the reward tracks built up? Not sure really. I never used the stations in WvW but I never saw a problem with them. They definitely do NOT cause any sort of issue with queuing.

However, after being in an EB queue for 20 minutes then finally getting in and seeing 10+ people just standing around spawn is disheartening at best…

… just call me … Tim :)

Decay timer?!?! Are you kidding!

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

Agreed that it’s too aggressive… BUT… Perhaps that will filter out the big amount of people that seem to hang around spawn for 10-15 minutes gathering their pips before logging out of WvW.

I think it should NOT be as short as it’s been made now… but definitely shorter than what it was before. Like ONE cycle, not 2 or 3 before it starts winding down. 1 minute is seriously just ridiculous, imo.

Sometimes it takes a couple minutes just to get to the other side of some bl’s! That seriously puts a big flaw in this change…

… just call me … Tim :)

FIX THE RELINK

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

5years later and I have all but left the game now. I have no confidence that this will ever be fixed and as some have noted in forums here and there this has gone from bad to worse.

My money has now gone into another mmo and so far I am loving the change.

If things ever do get better in wvw then I’ll reconsider putting my “hat” back on.

… just call me … Tim :)

Removed crafting stations and vendors.

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

What we have here as a discussion, is about a lost convenience for people that use GW2 for WvW and PVE. For those using only WvW, they impose their selfishness on a service that was not really affecting them, This is a myth., to be consumed by fools.
The real reason for the change is that ANet wants to make more money with their inconvenient airpass system.
For those WvW that only do WvW, you will get this, as a thank you note from many of those that play both worlds, we’ll come less often or stop coming.
What is your benefit: Guild crowds that will ravage your maps and much less peoples to defend and scout.
Scouting and fixing camp problems, killing Dolyaks, guards etc is a thankless job and is done often by people hopping in to clean the maps and restore services. This is what is being degraded here. So, full time WvW, let me tell you this: You will suffer from being so obtuse, sooner or later and I hope you enjoy your empty maps.
WvW is up for the Slow Death, as simple as that. Anybody doing PVE, knows very well that we can make far more gold and having far more interesting drops in PVE than in WvW. Anybody running any outfit needing traffic knows this basic truth: ‘you need to attract peoples for success, not make their life more miserable’. It is easy to understand that if one is in a spot, waiting for a dragon to appear for example and having some free time , that they use in WvW to clean their bags, to clean up a few camps and maybe a tower and go back to the dragon fight, as an example, they won’t bother to come anymore, this is what the short-sighted get. Same applies to commanders whispering for help, they will be much more likely to be ignored.

I agree with this. Even though I never crafted in WvW many of the people I run with in WvW would stop to craft things they needed during ‘down’ times etc. I hardly ever saw more than a couple people at the crafting stations, let alone a bunch. The times that I went to these stations for anything at all was to get into my bank.. super convenient!

Now seriously due to a few people and ANet’s believing that this was actually a problem causing thing.. we have lost these very useful to WvW people items!!! sheesh.

… just call me … Tim :)

Something MUST be done about the RP in DR

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

Many people don’t know this but there is an instance called Rugnar’s Steading in Wayfarer’s Foothills just a few steps north of Dolyak’s Pass Waypoint. Everyone you want can go in there.. it’s not exclusive to a single person… a ton of people can go in and be completely apart from the rest of the GW2 community. You can RP to your hearts content with NOBODY hearing or caring.

To answer your next question of how to let people know.. Simply let the people that you know where it is… they can tell their friends and so on. It’s a real easy solution if people are willing to just give it a try.

Make that the RP zone.. nobody else uses it for anything.

The only objection I can see to this suggestion would be that people actually ‘want’ other people to see their rp instead of having it just between the rp’ers.

Are you sure there aren’t people RPing there already? Basically, your advice may likely be falling on deaf ears as RPers likely already frequent the area every now and then.

DR is often used likely because it is the human home town and there are more human RPers than other races.

Lastly, RPing is spontaneous and isn’t always isolated to a single area. Things may move from place to place. A better question is, why is it so offensive that other people are using /say and /me (programmed to be local means of communication) to communicate with players locally in-character?

Of course it will fall on deaf ears. I actually didn’t expect much more than that. People of one mind are like that. Does anybody that RP’s in DR actually understand that this is Guild Wars 2 and not the “Meet and Greet” game? There are actually games all over the place designed just for this purpose. They can, and will, stay in DR because they WANT people to see what they are doing. That much is clear…. they scream that we are intolerant but the fact is there is zero consideration for the thoughts and feelings of others who have to continue to read this drivel. This is one of the main reasons I bought a pass for a different spot.

Heck, Lion’s Arch takes too long to load to be a home base and DR was a great place to go to for the quick loading. But I’ve moved elsewhere now (for another 1000 gems) but definitely worth it. :P

… just call me … Tim :)

WvW tragic

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

Hey Qurly…. you might fall even further when I tell ya… I’ve been in this game since it came out… and FUN is the only reason I play. It’s about the people I know and simply having fun.. No glicko, no ppt, nothing like that… in WvW I like the fights here and there, and knocking down t3 keeps and towers when we can but there is NO score in my sight. Unless you call FUN a score… that’s it…

… just call me … Tim :)

Desert BL [the case for removal]

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

Kills made in total on Borderlands are roughly 40% : 40% : 20%, that alone shows its not populated anywhere near the Alpine map.

and yes Alpine is stale and old however it does have decent balance. The DBL whilst having some nice points and ideas does not have good balance and it is certainly not much faster to move around than Alpine. Certain parts are, if you hold shrines etc and make use of the jumppads or flying portals but then someone flips a camp or shrine and you’re screwed.

These changes that have been made on the DB map have made them even better imo. Of course you can fall midflight if someone takes a shrine out from under you as you’re jumping. That’s the risk of it. Seriously this game isn’t supposed to be a snap.

The DBL is nowhere near as bad as the people say it is. If the time was dedicated to the DBL, (even half the time as ABL) then people would eventually learn the ins and outs of it. It’s really not that hard to get around. Once you really know the map it’s not as slow as you think. Yes it’s bigger than Alpine but so what? To me that’s the challenge and fun of it.

I have to suspect that no matter what different type of map ANet might come out with there will be complaints. That’s the nature of things. But going in and screaming NOOOOOOO then posting about how it needs to be removed truly isn’t going to be helpful… once again.. in my opinion..

*Edit: Note, the first iteration of DBL was totally terrible. It was definitely designed to be painful for anyone and everyone. The changes that have been made to it since then have made it much better.

… just call me … Tim :)

Ranger discrimination.. lol

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

I have to say I understand a lot more about the team dynamics of a squad operation when it’s run well.

My poor Ranger is standing in a corner crying but I had to explain that there are times and places… When I’m roaming, alone or small team I will use Ranger because although someone up above yapped about picking off Ranger’s with his thief.. well I’m about 50/50 on that one.. a good thief can get me a some of the time, but most of them either die or run away.

The meta for the Ranger isn’t so great imo but that’s not what this thread is about.

My Rev has been cleaned up and rebuilt for team play and had a lot of fun last night running with a big group (OUT FRONT!)… So out of all the jabbing back and forth in this thread there did come some good. Thanks all

… just call me … Tim :)

Stopping enemy players from messaging you?

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

You block them.

Raging is just childish and ignorant.

… just call me … Tim :)

Shrine Buffs Problem

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

The Desert borderland Shrine buffs are such that it’s impossible to rely on them.

Conclusion

  • I believe that if there is to be a buff, it needs to be reliable, not one that could just vanish when it is needed as part of a strategy.
  • The “zero fall damage”, “safe lava/portals”, and “invisibility cloud” are all great ideas, but they aren’t implemented in a practical manner.
  • Numerical bonuses would be more appropriate for the “maybe it’s on, maybe it’s off, who cares, it’s just a bonus” nature of the Shrines.

Actually it’s quite the opposite. They are very easy to spot when available and very easy to rely on, when available.

- You can see the ‘fall damage’ buff in your list of buffs
- You can see the fog easily
- You can see the ‘Lava Portal’ text over the portal if it’s available.

Also, one very quick glance at the map will tell you if the required Shrine(s) are yours.

It’s NOT difficult at all. Seriously if you can’t see when they’re available and make use of them accordingly then you really just need more time getting used to what to look for at a glance.

… just call me … Tim :)

North american servers

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

I could be wrong.. but I honestly believe that the “beginning of the end” for WvW was the introduction of the Megaserver in PvE. Once we were unable to pop out to the cities and put out the call for help in WvW for our own server the crippling began.

Don’t say we can still do that now because now you are shouting out to all servers and letting everyone else know that you are putting out the call for help… which is why, of course, you don’t see that in the cities anymore.

The next thing to damage WvW was the world linking. On the surface it seemed like a nice idea to the blob festers but it has not really done much more than demoralize many linked server communities and create an environment where more people than ever don’t care about winning or losing. Sieging Keeps and Towers and keeping that siege refreshed used to be something people were happy to do. There are a few that do it.. but much less than before since the k-train blobs can actually pretty much take what they want when they really want, and k-train blobs is mostly what makes up WvW these days.

A few of us still continue to run small havoc squads in our little community that doesn’t seem to have any desire to break up and move to other servers (yuck) and we avoid the blob fest that most are involved in. We aren’t “server loyal” really since we don’t have a server. Just “yet another host” each 2 months.

I could go on but I won’t… there’s really nothing left to say. I play this game still to have fun with friends. The game mode and “features” stopped being an attraction a long time ago.

… just call me … Tim :)

Idea for color blind Commander Tag

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

Being one if the colour blind people what I would like to see is a tag that glows if its the one I am following. Similar to what it does when you cursor over it now except it doesn’t stop glowing.

That would make it super easy to spot always.

… just call me … Tim :)

Stop whining, Anet is working on Wvw finally

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

ok let me be the first person to say I was wrong. Lots of opportunity for havoc here and there… and holy crap… the huge blob fighting was actually a crapload of fun! Tried it in the past and didn’t like it… things have changed I guess because it was a super blast!

I’ll figure out how to deal with the “identity crisis”.. in the meantime I’m actually having a lot more fun than I thought I would.. To all those people that said “back off and give it a chance”… yes.. that was a good idea…

… just call me … Tim :)

Targetting is horrid

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

No argument here… the autotargetting is pretty bad … why on earth it would target a gate or wall is beyond me.

… just call me … Tim :)

Input on 8/23 Roll-back

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

Always gonna be whiners about compensation… for what? “lost time”? Forced to communicate with the real world for a few hours?

As a programmer I understand the pain of having to roll back something, although I haven’t had to do anything so huge. But also as a programmer I have to wonder why it is that almost every ‘update’ to this game, small or large, comes with a handful of bugs.

If there is a TEST bed for Quality Assurance Testing then I have to think that it’s not being very well utilized. Seriously, something like this soulbound bug should have been easily noticed by the testers if they were actually Playing and Testing all aspects of this game as they should be considering the bugs that are continually introduced each update.

THIS is my issue. I don’t want compensation… What I would love to see and hear is that ANet has created a solid QA team that ensures the new code is working properly and not affecting other areas in ways it shouldn’t before rolling it out to the public for “live testing”.

… just call me … Tim :)

Input on 8/23 Roll-back

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

Phh. Apparently an ascended drop wasn’t worth replacing. Thanks guys. I think I’ll take a long break from this game.

Did you try contacting support?

Twice…. on two different subjects and I still haven’t received a response

omg… do ya think that maybe they have a LOT of tickets and requests to deal with right now? Stand in line I’m sure…. be patient, or go away, your choice.

… just call me … Tim :)

Who will be the next to leave wvw ?

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

Well we really won’t know who will be the next to leave. After all is said and done, the ones that threaten to leave continue to play the game and complain and continue to threaten to leave. The ones that do leave just leave.

From all I’ve seen with people saying they are “done with this game”… they keep coming back to both play and whine. It is what it is..

As I said, people who have really had enough just leave. I know a few of those people and they refuse to come back and have moved on to other games… and yes you won’t find a single post from any of them in these forums.. because they were the true minority that was fed up enough to leave.

imo all games have issues with people. Can’t please them all. I really can’t stand most of the stuff that’s going on with WvW but I won’t threaten to quit because frankly even with all the pain I still like it best.

… just call me … Tim :)

The PoF Beta... what do you think so far?

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

Got in… did the first part of the story on it… then found “mastery point”. Yay a mastery point, right there in the city. Oh wait… it’s more like a “heart”…. and super pain in the butt exercise that I finally gave up on. I’m not sure why this was implemented this way but I finally gave up on it… went out into the desert for a few minutes… and I haven’t been back.

Probably won’t be back until the update comes out. For me at this point, I’m not seeing a compelling reason to go back there. I spent a bundle on it so I suppose I’ll have to go there when it comes out just to try that Mastery Point again and ride some mounts. But for now, it’s back to the ‘old world’ and WvW for me.

I’m not saying it’s a bad implementation…. but what I am saying is that by the time I got that far (which wasn’t very far) it didn’t hold my attention enough to stay.. and as a matter of fact that MP was enough to just make me leave.. But that’s just me, I’m sure that many others will go a lot further and have some fun, although I don’t see anyone on my long friends list in there anymore either so maybe they feel similar? not sure….

… just call me … Tim :)

(edited by Balthazzarr.1349)

WvW Poll 12 July: Repair Hammers (Closed)

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

Hey! I know! Why just stop at spamming siege and repairing it while hiding behind a structure!

We can build on this whole idea of winning the game without needing to fight at all!

Let’s introduce farms and medical centers! Some players would have to level Ag specialty and tend to the fields in order for other players to have access to food!

Other players would need to level up medicine as a craft while injured players would have to spend a set amount of time on injury leave! Be careful! Too many low level medic crafters and you’ve got gangrene or MRSA!

Maybe we could create an operations center where people could role play logistics, delivery and supply management! Better have Grand Master Administrators or your supply and map rewards just vanish into thin air!

Wait wait! I know! Hedge fund management! We could just outspend our enemies and impoverish them with unreasonable treaties!

These ideas keep rolling out guys!

-Or-

We could just try to keep this remotely a fight game instead of turning it into a tedious Siege/Supply/SabotageWarz.2

How about automatic siege! Set it up then walk away and see which siege wins.

… just call me … Tim :)

Glicko making it impossible for CD to move T3

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

I frankly don’t understand how the “ratings” can be valid in any way other than in the current matchup.. I mean how can it determine how a server moves up or down when that host server may or may NOT have the same servers linked to it in 2 months or less?

Seriously, what’s the point of ratings, points, win, lose, etc… WvW has really just become a place about fights these days. Nothing else really matters at all since the points really aren’t an indication of any one server, period!

… just call me … Tim :)

Who will be the next to leave wvw ?

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

I don’t find condi to be as much an issue as the stealth classes’ abilities to remain in stealth.

I have NEVER played ANY GAME where a stealth class can attack and remain in stealth. For balance purposes, no game, save this one, has ever allowed that. I’m seeing thieves with the ability to remain stealthed and attack and stomp. All other games I’ve played understood that to be verboten in terms of balance. But this game and its developers apparently do not.

Totally agree on this. It’s a cheesy way to play but since it’s been created of course people will use it. Like mesmer, the thief should be unstealthed the moment it scores a hit on a target.

… just call me … Tim :)

World Linking Feedback [merged]

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

lol Josh… I don’t think the average player skill is any better on any one server. There are exceptional players and groups that you can find almost anywhere. But even on these “big” servers most of the people seem to just blob around and many of them run like rats when they encounter a tight guild group that knows how to fight. Or, as the enemy did a couple nights ago ( they outnumbered us easily 2 to 1 ), they hid in SM and jumped down everytime they thought we were leaving, then we came back and either killed or chased them back inside, again and again… I am BP… One could say that because BP was a T6 server they had poor players… or you could be more accurate and say that we simply didn’t have the blob numbers that are out there now. We had, and still have some very good players and groups… and now they have more people to link with (which some of us are doing) to make more fun!

I hated the switch at first.. I’m loving it now… for myself, I don’t want to go back to a situation where most of the day is pvd…

… just call me … Tim :)

OMG If you only knew this - tips for new players

in Players Helping Players

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

So many of these “tips” are outdated and wrong. No I don’t need to list them. ANet should please go in and make the appropriate updates so that people have current information to go on. imho

… just call me … Tim :)

Q: Will there be shrines on the Alpine BL's?

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

I personally want the Desert bl’s with some minor changes… 1. Make all WP’s usable because it’s stupid to have them the way they are. 2. clear out the middle so it can be used for field battles and disallow siege on it. Those two things alone would make it so much more fun. in my opinion anyway..

As for losing people… if anything I know that the groups that I run with will most likely increase. So many people really hate the new bl’s and just won’t come play anymore except for wvw guild missions then they leave. With the Alpine coming back I know that a lot of them will come back and will love the fact that they don’t have to grind with Keep upgrades etc. The way it’s set up right now with the yak numbers coming in make it more interesting. So blending the new with the old should actually be pretty interesting. I still prefer the new overall, but if people come back and run with my tag like they say they will then I’m all for trying out the new/old/new.. lol

… just call me … Tim :)

(edited by Balthazzarr.1349)

WvW living story , when?

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

I hate to break it to people but as much as I love WvW I bet that even if it went away GW2 would continue to thrive with the content that it has now, and continue to add to as time goes by. Since I adjusted my way of thinking in WvW and allowed myself to focus in other parts of the game I’m finding that there’s lots of fun stuff to do if you have some guildies and friends to do it with.

Yes I agree that WvW could be better… but I will also agree that I don’t have the answers to the problems…. and so I decide to just find ways to enjoy this game that hooked me 4 years ago.. knowing that I don’t have a fraction of the knowledge to program even a small part of these games.

I do believe it’s an incorrect assumption that ANet doesn’t have a WvW team that cares. I think they seriously care, but if you think about it.. they can’t please ME and YOU and the other 500 people that have different ideas… All they can do is provide what they think might be some gems (colored enemy dots was not one of them) and try to do what they believe a majority will want and that makes sense to them etc etc…

Slamming a company that charges you nothing for a subscription, (although they provide value added gem store items), just makes me shake my head in wonder. Do people really think that they should stop what they may be doing and start implementing all the stuff that so many people say MUST be done to save WvW from dying?

.. in closing … no please.. NO living story for WvW ever… (imho)

… just call me … Tim :)

Any viable power ranger build for roaming?

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

lol, yes nobody can get within 1500 of a ranger… :P

… just call me … Tim :)

WvW: Destroyed By Its Own Devs

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

You want to talk about community? The Borlis Pass web site used to be popping with activity… it slowly wound down since linking started to being basically dead now. The things that the server used to do as SERVER activities don’t exist anymore. Sure BP folks are around and many still go into WvW. But these days I see a lot more other folks than I do the BP folks I used to run with a lot. .. and as I said, the site is dead.

Yes I can see when I go into wvw that it’s busy in there a lot of the time but at what cost? So many people including me simply don’t play like we used to. -sigh-

… just call me … Tim :)

WvW: Destroyed By Its Own Devs

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

I don’t agree at all. The server linking did allow for much more diverse gameplay, more population on small tier servers while maintaining the server-identity.
Forcing servers to merge would destroy the latter, destroy the small communities you are talking about and make a lot of people very angry.

You think the small communities haven’t been adversely affected? I don’t know what makes you think that the small servers retained any identity other than knowing that they used to belong to a server that fought other servers and had their server name showing in the wvw menu and rating scores.

What identity are you talking about? I’ve been BP since I started this game. I have friends that are still BP… but BP isn’t what it used to be. The community events don’t exist anymore. The ’FIGHT FOR BP" is gone. We simply pug for CD.

… just call me … Tim :)

Discussion: Strategy for Small Party in WvW

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

Strategy in WvW? hmm… get with a commander that knows how to run a blob; get into ts so you can follow his/her commands quickly; shoot to kill and don’t die. For the most part it’s simply a case of putting on your borg gear and listening to the voices in your head blessing your for accepting your assimilation without much struggle.

THAT is the way of WvW these days.

… just call me … Tim :)

Stop whining, Anet is working on Wvw finally

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

My biggest problem now is that BP has no identity. Effectively I am a member of a different server but not “OF” that server, so just a guest helping out. It just makes me feel disconnected. I joined a group last night but it was like I was a dark sheep running with a bunch of white. Not matter how long this ‘merge’ continues I will always be BP and they will always know it and I know we will always be considered the “little” guys that are helping them out a bit… and THAT just isn’t fun for me.

Not sure where this will all go, or if this feeling will change. I hope that if these linking remains in place that it will simply be a permanent servers switch somewhere because being a guest sucks. At least if it’s ONE server then we will just become part of it and not have to feel that we will be moved somewhere else at some point down the road. At this point it’s hard to judge this as good or bad, but like I said above, it definitely makes me feel disjointed…

… just call me … Tim :)

Pips for commander

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

The best way to teach new people, in my opinion, is to get some into a small group and run them around in a roaming/havoc fashion and explain what’s happening on the map. If they prefer they can just follow the zerg/blob and pretty much learn nothing.

I believe this may have been the intent of ANet when they implemented this 5 or more squad reward.

Agree 100%. Which is why I also think we should discourage the pip-training blobbing behavior we’re seeing in WvW right now. Give the outnumbered bonus to small teams that are facing or being run down by the blob. Establish a numbers differential that qualifies for ‘outnumbered fight’ like + or – 10 players. This to encourage MORE smaller groups to work together, and make MORE smaller fights possible. This buff can only be given to groups of 5 in a squad/party together. Sorry my dueling, roaming friends.

I’m going to say this a little tongue in cheek.. but with conviction…

Frankly in my opinion there should be an invisibility buff that kicks in automatically when a group of 5 or less is about to be run over by a huge zerg in the field. Or, as you said above, give a bonus but also give “iron hide” to the tiny group so they can at least go down in a decent fight and maybe even take one or two enemy with them.

I know it sounds even a little silly.. but as a roamer who has played in WvW since the start of 2013 I know that for me it would make it a lot more fun. Even if I was in the zerg and coming up against a small group. Having a little battle of it instead of steamrolling them would truly be a lot more fun.

… and as I do like to say a lot in my guild.. FUN is what it’s all about!

… just call me … Tim :)

Don't supress squad scouts, please!

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

It’s for the squad… so squad chat sounds like the best place for your reports.

… just call me … Tim :)

Remove Boonshare, It's gonna break WvW

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

Omg there are counters for everything if you know how to play your class. Stop whining please and play the game. I mean, what do you want? Everything to be so balanced that you just spam 1 and see who dies first??

… just call me … Tim :)

WvW Poll 12 July: Repair Hammers (Closed)

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

A good example last night… We were harassing the enemy at their bay. Two decent sized groups that fought a little bit on the field but they mostly only came out when it looked like half of us were gone. Most of the time they were inside. They had 2 shields outside in the field to protect their siege they absolutely needed against us I suppose. Balli, 2 cannons, mortars… It took me about 10 minutes to sneak and destroy their shield gens and 4 deaths but got it done. If they had these hammers then those gens probably would never have come down. Frankly I already don’t like this hammer idea at all after dealing with the so called ‘siege humpers’… :P

… just call me … Tim :)

New WvW blog post June 1 2017

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

Finally! A reason to go into WvW other than just hanging out with some friends. Of course there will always be people that find something wrong with ANY change.. but this one, in my humble opinion, is pretty much all good to me. There is zero comments that can or will change my mind on this.. I’m happy that ANet actually has been listening and has done something positive.

NOBODY has all the answers, or can implement ALL the solutions that make everyone happy. But this is a pretty good one!

Thanks!

… just call me … Tim :)

Love gliding!!!

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

Get rid of territories, it’s annoying having to capture an area in order to glide in it.

And in instances where one owns red keep on EB and someone else owns Orgres, an invisible wall appears, like all those you added to PvE maps, to prevent people from red keep flying in.
And if you own both, the wall is disabled and you can fly in.

And dont say you cant code it, or it’s too complex, cos it isnt for a real dev!

lol.. seriously?

… just call me … Tim :)

Love gliding!!!

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

So you’re saying it’s working as intended?

No I’m saying imagine if you have redo the heart quests on a map in order to fly near it, and then you have to redo ALL the heart quests in order to fly anywhere on the map.
But then imagine this being on an hour timer (WvW towers and camps can flip within 5-10 minutes minimum) and you having to redo all those all over again in order to glide.

You wouldnt accept that on a PvE map, so why a WvW map?

Capturing a tower to be able to access it via gliding has absolutely zero to do with redoing hearts in PvE. zero…

… just call me … Tim :)

Removed crafting stations and vendors.

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

The NA queues aren’t bad at all.. maybe in T1 and T2 they might be? I don’t know I’m not up there… but when I was with the first round of linking it still wasn’t bad except on reset nights.. so at the end of the day despite some of the people spitting venom at the crafters.. they were NOT a problem in my opinion.

… just call me … Tim :)

Bring Back the Desert Borderland!

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

hahahaaaaa This was totally predicted. People that don’t come into the forums much probably hadn’t seen the weeks of posts from people crying about the Desert BL’s. Now the Alpine comes back due to apparent popular demand, ( when all they really needed was some good fixing )… and now we’re seeing people screaming for the DBL’s back. I’m not sure which is more fun… the earlier posts or these… Oh man always always always going to be someone screaming. Just give me a borderland set that isn’t ridiculous like the DBL’s were at first and I’m happy. The latest updates to them made them very good to be in. These old Alpine bl’s are nostalgic but for me… truly ooooh so boring.. though most of my friends don’t agree with me.. it’s just my opinion. Whatever people manage to get is fine I guess as long as I can have fun with my friends.

… just call me … Tim :)

Decay timer?!?! Are you kidding!

in WvW

Posted by: Balthazzarr.1349

Balthazzarr.1349

Simply put. The patch turned this wvw completely into EOTM 2.0. Welcome back EOTM. Don’t defend, don’t roam without a large group, flip everything and let it get flip so you can flip it back for participation. Bad update. Bad.

Time to do <alt> F4 and uninstall if wvw rewards is your game mode.

Hate to have to say this but for the most part I agree with that statement to a degree. It’s a lot more about PIP farming now than it is “defending and fighting for our land”.

Last night I saw a lot off callouts for help that went unresponded for the longest time and even someone getting picked on for calling for help and asking if anyone was going to come… The other folks were busy taking other objects and as we know… yes it’s our “garri” but that too can be flipped back for pips… and so on. :P

… just call me … Tim :)

(edited by Balthazzarr.1349)