I really don’t see the big deal here, sure resources could be put towards fixing other things in WvW, but I cannot see how this would break anything.
If for some reason this ended up being a big problem (I can’t see how), it could be solved quite easily via “cannot repair while in combat” tied in with “cannot repair if the siege is currently being used”. This would completely destroy any complaint people have of rams just being stacked upon and repaired through siege fire. Because for some reason this is being viewed as different from just building another ram immediately
It’s even funnier when u play a rev and pop demon stance condi vacuum skill and suck all the condi burn on all the allies around you onto yourself and realize u just fudged yourself.
You guys always make the most delicious Epi targets
Here’s a simple idea that I’ve always liked;
Instead of having a rank displayed in the name at all, copy something similar from NPC’s. Use the general idea behind Veternans/Champs/Legendaries and their different “target icons” (I’m dumb and can’t think of a word for this) ((the display at the top of the screen when you select something)).
If a enemy is bronze ranked, give their target a bronze border. Silver rank, a silver border …Etc.
For ranks platinum and above, you could also have unique Borders that don’t just display a simple Colored border, but also a unique design (Similar to legendary enemies).
As anyone playing any aspect of the game (pve,spvp,wvw) will already know that red names are hostile, you could just display (Servername) [Guild] as the new WvW nameplates.
Hope this made sense.
I like that idea but it removes an important part of the HUD. It’s probably not nice targeting the inexperienced but it’s just how things are.
Perhaps actually using colored lettering to denote ranks?!
Or maybe your idea isn’t so bad if they wanna reduce “target the no ranks first” to help bring in new people who won’t get frustrated being focused instantly at the onset of every fight.
I have added a picture to my other post, that should better show what i had in mind for the name plates.
No I understood what you meant.
But to see who is who at a glance in a group setting you would need to tab target through the enemies. Having rank atleast provides a marginal ID on the person whether you are focusing new people or the experienced player who is likely leading.
The removal of that is very much so intentional. As much as people (myself included) like to memorize guild Driver’s Rank for focusing or sniping purposes, I feel it needs to be toned down slightly, or at least more challenging.
This change would also allow the people who have not yet achieved a higher WvW rank from being targeted as soon as they are spotted. (I also love to kill me some “Invaders”).
Wait, so where the heck is the logic in this request OP. You want to take the most popular map and replace it with the most controversial and divisive one??? That has to be one of the worst idea’s I’ve read in a long time.
Its beginning to look as DBL isn’t as controversial as some have made it out to be.
And I doubt the reason that EBG is popular is strictly the result of its alpine design. Its a 3 way map and has a more balanced objective layout than the BL’s.
I personally voted to not remove DBL, despite wanting it removed from the game. The reason being is how they word these Polls. As much as i would like to never see DBL again, i also don’t want “Alpine Borderlands will be the only Borderlands map”.
I would love more WvW maps in the future, I just don’t want DBL.
Here’s a simple idea that I’ve always liked;
Instead of having a rank displayed in the name at all, copy something similar from NPC’s. Use the general idea behind Veternans/Champs/Legendaries and their different “target icons” (I’m dumb and can’t think of a word for this) ((the display at the top of the screen when you select something)).
If a enemy is bronze ranked, give their target a bronze border. Silver rank, a silver border …Etc.
For ranks platinum and above, you could also have unique Borders that don’t just display a simple Colored border, but also a unique design (Similar to legendary enemies).
As anyone playing any aspect of the game (pve,spvp,wvw) will already know that red names are hostile, you could just display (Servername) [Guild] as the new WvW nameplates.
Hope this made sense.
I like that idea but it removes an important part of the HUD. It’s probably not nice targeting the inexperienced but it’s just how things are.
Perhaps actually using colored lettering to denote ranks?!
Or maybe your idea isn’t so bad if they wanna reduce “target the no ranks first” to help bring in new people who won’t get frustrated being focused instantly at the onset of every fight.
I have added a picture to my other post, that should better show what i had in mind for the name plates.
Here’s a simple idea that I’ve always liked;
Instead of having a rank displayed in the name at all, copy something similar from NPC’s. Use the general idea behind Veternans/Champs/Legendaries and their different “target icons” (I’m dumb and can’t think of a word for this) ((the display at the top of the screen when you select something)).
If a enemy is bronze ranked, give their target a bronze border. Silver rank, a silver border …Etc.
For ranks platinum and above, you could also have unique Borders that don’t just display a simple Colored border, but also a unique design (Similar to legendary enemies).
As anyone playing any aspect of the game (pve,spvp,wvw) will already know that red names are hostile, you could just display (Servername) [Guild] as the new WvW nameplates.
Edit: BeeMother was nice enough to take time out and create this for me. Here is a great example of what i was attempting to explain above.
You have the time to get world completion, but spending a few hours in WvW is too much?
World completion is actually fun and you get to explore the world. WvW is just zerg around its a snooze fest. Again instead of trying to force players into the wvw maps improve the game play they attempted with the new WvW map with HoT release and they failed so they scrapped the new maps. Their attempts to make WvW fun so far has failed so all that is left to do is force players to participate.
So forcing you to play a game mode I enjoy, and forcing me into a game mode you enjoy aren’t the same thing? how does this not go both ways? Please, enlighten me.
You have the time to get world completion, but spending a few hours in WvW is too much?
After already spending the time to get 400+ ranks in WvW and saving up over 8000 Badges of Honor I feel entitled to get my Gift of Honor, yes.
My constant lack of inventory space is the only reason I didn’t buy these in bulk already..
As a player no longer that interested in WvW I do not wish to feel forced to WvW for hours on end. I did that bit and I got tired of it.
And as a solo roamer it is not a question of “a few hours” either, because my normal “in for 15 minutes, cap a camp, kill som guards, kill a dolyak, do a daily or two” is extremely inefficient when it comes to farming WvW Reward Tracks since I never get up to the full level of reward ticks.. Today netted me 2/40.. That leaves another 19 ish DAYS of doing WvW insead of having my legedary finished tomorrow.
It might not seem like the worst change in the world, especially to people who actually ENJOY WvW, but it is extremely disappointing to be SO CLOSE and then have the rug pulled out from under your feet.
And seeing a lot of comments on “cry about having to do WvW a bit more please” from people who have moaned more than once about “being forced to do PvE to get certain stats yada yada” just takes the kitten..
This isn’t even having to do PvE to unlock the stats; this is already having unlocked the stats (WvW rank 14 + 500 Badges wasn’t something you did in 30 minutes either, just to remind you..) but then losing the ability do use them unless you unlock them again.
Perhaps they should make Gift of Exploration a reward track as well. They should probably let everyone know in that patch notes that it’s going to happen in the future first though, but then when implemented, everyone who was at 99% world completion can come and state how unfair this is, and how much effort they put in.
No no , I think it only fair that we get to be “insertservernamehere” bronze major assaulter platinum diamond legend knight invader in SPvP and Pve!
I grinded hours and hours of door smashing fun to achieve this, why cant I show it off??? In fact, I refuse to play until this has been added, it only makes sense.
Players already complained about how long the WvW nameplates were before they added the spvp badges, Removing these badges was a small step in the right direction. If you need some cosmetic to show off how pro you are in spvp, wear the back piece.
Except that you don’t ever need to reach legendary division to make the backpiece, and it was never about skill, reaching legendary doesn’t mean kitten for skill; just that for some people the badge was our sense of reward and to take it away in the middle of a current season is unacceptable. Anet should’ve had the foresight to realize adding badges to already long nameplates was a bad idea since like you said, people were complaining even before the introduction of leagues and never put badges in WvW in the first place, or at least wait until start of season 4 before implementing this change, so that people don’t feel hard done by for achieving something.
They made a simple mistake and have corrected it, all is Ok now.
Players already complained about how long the WvW nameplates were before they added the spvp badges, Removing these badges was a small step in the right direction. If you need some cosmetic to show off how pro you are in spvp, wear the back piece.
P.s Or let me show my completely useless WvW rank that I’m oh so proud of off in SPvP and PvE so I can clutter the screen everywhere I go.
1. So far I’m quite impressed with the reward track system, However I would like to see these Tracks have more of a WvW theme (adding more WvW specific Tracks).
2+3. The participation/Track Progression for these seem quite fair, however I have heard (haven’t tried it myself as of yet) that these rewards can essentially be AFK’d. I feel this will need to be fixed if it is currently possible to do, as this may lead to people afking and taking up queue slots while not contributing to the matchup in any meaningful way.
4. A Larger variety of WvW themed tracks would be great to have. I’m sure a lot of people would enjoy Tracks that purely give Siege / Selectable (also untradeable) lv80 food Buffs. This could also be extended to Ascended armor as mentioned in other threads, although some balancing would be needed as not to make this an “Overpowered” method of obtaining the armor.
5. basically covered in previous questions, But I personally like the idea of Selectable Food / Ascended gear tracks.
Criticism welcome, but I doubt I will ever read any of it.
I have the same thing, but it seems to only be when i’m in WvW, have been to boss events and whatnot and i’m not seeing the same lag i am in WvW even thought there are like 1/6th of the people.
