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I love the “battle” icons on the map that show when there is fighting.
What I’m not sure I like is the icons showing an objective is under attack even if the only fighting is PvDoor or PvNPC.
It seems to me that getting rid of the icons showing when something is under attack, without any sort of sizable battle, would:
1. Foster strategy, scouting, and recon
2. Allow for sneak attacks
3. Make secret entrances actually mean something (the underwater door is less fun when your presence is announced anyway)
4. Require communication
5. Make waypoints even more valuable as a way to see when something is under siege.
Showing when something is under attack makes it easier to rally to defend or for people to find action, but I’m not sure the former is something that should be done in this way, and the latter is taken care of by showing the swords for actual battles.
There are other things that could be done too…perhaps allow a player to tag an objective of theirs as being under attack if they’re within a certain proximity of the attackers. Or just make that icon an upgrade, rather than a default.
I like this idea. I don’t want necessarily KD or those type of stats up (because they encourage to much of an individual K/D mindset) but I would like some sort of ranking system in place (maybe even similar to those in LoL, HoN, Dota2 and other MOBAs).
A k/d mindset isn’t necessarily bad, especially since players who run with a well organized team will dominate k/d leaderboards.
I know, I know — this isn’t DAoC. However, many on the A.Net team has said they were inspired by, and greatly admire, DAoC.
One of the best parts about DAoC RvR, imo, was the Camelot Herald stat tracking. Points, kills, kill death ratio…sortable daily, weekly, monthly, all-time; broken down by class, guild, server; so on and so forth.
So what I’d propose is attempting to emulate that. From the outside looking in, it doesn’t seem that technologically difficult. Give players points (beyond just XP) for each kill based on their contribution to the kill, and have a web-based (or in game, or both) leaderboard where one can see where they’re at on the leaderboard relative to their class, their own server, all servers, etc. The game already keeps track of kills, so it doesn’t seem that hard to publish.
Some things I’d like to see tracked:
- Kills (or “points”)
- K/D ratio
- Points per death (although this is basically just K/D ratio)
- Points per time spent in WvW
- All sortable by daily, weekly, monthly, and all time.
- Comparable within servers, against all servers
- Tallied up in Guilds (perhaps the guild you’re representing at the time) to compare all the same stats above but between guilds
Some I’m probably missing.
Thanks!
This, imo, is the second most significant problem plaguing WvW (after broken queues).
Watch from 12 seconds on. First with Shadow Step (wasn’t working), and then with Blinding Powder.
Watch from 12 seconds on. First with Shadow Step (wasn’t working), and then with Blinding Powder.
The thing is I’m not near water when this happens. I could be standing perfectly still.
I don’t know if stuttering was the right word. The FPS is definitely lower, but it gradually gets there and just feels…odd.
Not sure if it was last night’s patch or the night before. Had this issue in BWE3, but not the stress tests and not since launch.
Basically, my frame rate gradually degrades to be constantly stuttery. It fixes (even in the exact same area) for awhile after minimizing out and coming back in, or restarting the game, or even changing a graphics setting that requires a screen ‘refresh.’
Running AMD 6970+6990 in crossfire with i5-2500k 3.7 ghz. Should have no problems crushing the game even maxed out at 2560×1440.
Anyone else noticing this?
This HAS to be fixed. I can literally be being attacked by someone a few feet from me and not see them because there’s too much on the screen so not everything gets rendered.
Has a.net acknowledged bugs with the queue?
I don’t exactly know WHAT is messed up about them, but something is. People queuing long after getting in long before someone who queued up earlier, etc.
It’s brutal, and really hurting WvW. Something has to be changed.
- just happened in the dragon fight in frostgorge sound. This confirms that it’s almost certainly something to do with fight size.
It’s also a borderline game breaking bug.
Two for now, but will update as necessary.
1. Skills randomly not activating in WvW. Started recently (yesterday?). It has led to several deaths now, and it’s awful.
I took a video of it happening while on a ballista, but it happens with all my skills at times (most annoyingly, my heal skill).
Yep, I had something targeted. And as you can see, I had no debuff on me.
2. Sound cutting off in WvW, only to be replaced by a “woo, woo, woo” alarm/siren like sound.
Only has happened in WvW, and it’s really bad since the only way to fix it is restart game which means you have to go back into the god awful WvW queue.
Not just me, either. http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/59661-weird-random-sound-in-wvw-bug/