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3-22 | Kain - FA - TC | [week 3]

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Very close fights as we wind towards the end of the week. ^.^

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Jan 11-18 | SBI vs SoR vs TC

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Whats that TC? You’re going to golem rush our garrison when we only have 10 people on? Oh… how cute, you gotta get some combat skills before you think you can just seige your way to victory silly guys.

TC likely has only about 10 people there as well. ^.^ Looks like this time of day will be slow for all of us. New tactics to figure out. Fun!

12/28/2012 BG/SOR/TC

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I got my game face on this week!

Love that face! ^.^

12/28/2012 BG/SOR/TC

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BG still holding strong for as late as it is.

Not sure what SoR is doing. Playing for second place perhaps? Dunno, the strategy does not make much sense to me. It seems SoR has a chance at first if they push BG down during their off hours.

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22/12 BG - SoR - TC

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Had fun farming TC today
HB open gate defense bottled the entire TC server up the gate

EB? If so that was only one of our commands you bottled up there for a few minutes. The decision was made to keep focusing on our other objectives. Great work in any event! BG has really grown in tactics since we met last. We are learning from you, so expect reciprocal tactics from us in the future my friend. ^.^

~ Dao

Why many people are no longer playing GW2?

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Guild Wars 2 is still the #2 most wished for item on Amazon. I expect we will see a good influx of players after the various holidays.

I can’t really speak to the PvE content as i do WvW almost exclusively, however the problems with players eating up content too quickly for all types of play styles is a known problem in the industry. The costs to develop new content combined with operations costs need to remain less than the income gained by reducing churn (the number of folk dropping off vs the number of new folk coming in) for the game to stay in operation.

So then, players use up content and move on; subsequently those early adopter guilds lose members and begin to merge. In the larger picture there is a long tail of new players coming into the game. The volume and longevity of that tail of course will depend on how well the ArenaNet folk can manage their somewhat unexpected success.

~ Dao

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Badges of Honor, I hate you.

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I spend my badges on siege. As other have stated the armor and weapons are all but worthless. I would love to see that change. We get enough PvE in WvW as it is. I refuse to run PvE dungeons to get gear to PvP with.

We are each more likely to gain badges when we contribute more to the fight. Unfortunately healing and other support functions do not seem to count for much (if anything) in the calculation. Camp, Tower, Keep, and Castle bosses also drop badges. I think 100% as anytime i’ve soloed these i’ve gotten a badge or two.

~ Dao

Commander Compendium... problem + solution.

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I like the core concept here. We should have more guild wars not ego wars.

I don’t think we need multiple levels of this, simply a “member may represent guild as a commander” guild permission and limits on how many may represent at a time based upon the gold and/or influence spent.

Brilliant idea.

~ Dao

Why many people are no longer playing GW2?

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I am uncertain how we can tell if stealth and portal using classes are balanced as intended until more of the culling issues are fixed. Is Thief specifically a problem in sPvP for instance?

As for the rest of this, i think we often mistake micro-events for larger trends. Additional analysis might be in order.

~ Dao

12/14 TC - CD - FA

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Score update please?

CD hanging on. FA coming on strong.

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What is happening with the downed state?

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I really like the downed state. When going after someone and after downing them it is quite a rush to see them rally and spring back into the fight. I think it would take something pretty special away if we reduced this ability. As Elementalist, Thief, and Ranger i’ve not had much trouble with people rallying too often. Perhaps it is more difficult for other classes? As D/D (or even S/D — my most common weapons of choice in WvW) it is very rare for someone to rally back on me. It certainly is fun though when they do.

11/23 - TC, FA & YB

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Thanks so much for the spectacular defense by FA tonight in TCBL at Bluebriar. I’ve never seen such a minor objective defended with such vigor. While FA was outnumbered, GODS had multiple teams out destroying siege and harassing Bluevale camp while simultaneously defending Bluebriar and capturing camps in the north. The offensive lasted more than an hour with both the gate and one wall down multiple times and a 2nd wall at 30%.

/salute!