Guild Wars 2

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

………………………………… Final Score …………………………………
Win % | 0-199 | 200-299 .. | 300-399 .. | .. 400-499 | 500
0-19% | … -1 … | ….. 0 ….. | … +1 ….. | …. +2 …. | +3
20-39% | . -1 … | ….. -1 ….. | …… 0 ….. | … +1 …. | +2
40-59% | . -1 … | ….. -1 ….. | ….. -1 ….. | … 0 …… | +1
60-79% | . -2 … | ….. -2 ….. | ….. -1 ….. | … -1 …… | +1
80-100% | -3 … | ….. -2 ….. | ….. -1 ….. | … -1 …… | +1

This seems correct according to what’s on the wiki (notice that there’s no “0” when odds are >= 0.6, only point gain or point loss), if we assume that the number of pips gained/lost is managed the same way ladder points used to be.

khani.4786:

Kal Spiro.9745:

Q: Will the fall damage trait be removed and implemented into each class as a basic class feature?

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I like the idea of moving fall damage traits to a mastery line. I hate having to keep switching to/from my fall damage trait when I want to cliff jump.

Thing is, IIRC, masteries will only work in PvE, and fall damage reduction is also useful in WvW. That would be a shame to have it only in PvE, I think.

Let’s turn that into a question for today’s stream: Will damage reduction traits be removed completely? Or do you intend to move it to another system or have it in another form?

My questions:
- When this system kicks in, will existing characters get hero points depending on their level and the number of skill challenges they already cleared? Or will we have to clear skill challenges again to earn enough hero points to unlock everything?

- You said the skill points we have in excess will be turned into crafting materials for the mystic forge. Will we be able to choose which materials we will get, so we don’t end up with materials we have no use for?

- How will we able to buy crafting materials from Miyani or upgrade siege weapons without skill points?

- What will happen to scrolls of knowledge? Will they turn into crafting materials as well?

Thanks for doing this AMA and for the work you put in for this expansion pack. I’ll definitely be watching PoI on Twitch today, so good luck!

Lusios.1562:

Btw, any aZm know if Lisomorphe stopped playing? She was a member of aZm months ago at least, but not seen her around lately.

Yes, she stopped playing around May/June.

As for Saturday, we were like 5 aZm, so we tried a multi-guild raid with SoW, BL and a few others. During that fight, we were 15 or so, and around 20 later in the evening. I do remember our fight in ruins, where you pulled us to the stairs, you above, us below. You had the upper hand and it was definitely not our best move to jump in there. Once you killed a few of us, it was over, so we went back to regroup.

Too bad we didn’t see you after that, though. Did you switch map?

As for Bay, there was no glitching of any sort involved. Just mesmer with a perma-stealthing thief hidden somewhere in the keep from a previous assault. They were in my group and I definitely saw them stay in that Bay for about 30 minutes or something.

Anyway, whatever happens tonight and tomorrow, gratz to FSP for your fighting spirit. Even if you were 20k+ behind two days before the end, you managed a great comeback. I’d say some of us thought the match won on Wednesday morning, I hope our lesson is learned, whether we win or loose (but I kitten sure hope we’ll win!)

Good luck for you matchup next week, and see you next time!

Nice matchup!
But you think you can get closer than this? ^^ http://mos.millenium.org/servers/view/14/63

Good luck till the end of the week! (would have been awesome if this matchup somehow decided the last spot for silver league or something…)

Burl.9567:

DevonCarver.5370:

insanemaniac.2456:

can you do something about it resetting your maximum supply to 10 when you pick it up while holding 15?

We can look into it. I was unaware it did that. Any chance you can give me a more detailed explanation so I can have QA track that down?

I thought that was fixed? Was it not?

Something that was recently fixed is the bug that prevented you to take 5 more supplies from a guild-buffed camp if you already had 10.

The bug that resets your supplies from 15 to 10 after killing a dolyak is still active (happened to me last week again).

About transfers, I know for sure that two guilds with more or less 20ppl stated they came to FR, but that’s it. IMO, it’s more about ppl coming back to WvW to up their rank or play without culling…

Back on topic, I’ve been on AM for three days straight. Yesterday and the day before, it was hard taking your T3 keeps because FSP was almost totally absent (while EU prime-time). We had big zerg v. zerg fights though and, while it was reallllly laggy, it was pretty lucrative in the end. It’s too bad you don’t seem to have really organized guilds on your homemap during prime-time, with equal numbers, or sometimes slightly outnumbered, we usually win (we loose when we are totally outnumbered or when we fail a move or an impact).

This evening was quite different. FSP were definitely present and we did try to take Hills, which wasn’t up. However, DEX guild stood their ground and gave us a really hard time. Getting wiped twice or thrice in a row isn’t fun, but you were better, no doubt about it. It was great seeing a guild with actual movements and actual impact for a change. Props to you! So we ended up taking Bay instead, and we even managed to take Hills much later after AM players almost opened both doors and we wiped them inside. :p

As for AM players, you did try using mesmers for TP, especially when we fought in Bay and later in Hills (cf. just above), but it failed both times and we ended up winning. It was quite astonishing, especially for the Bay fight, because it seemed at that time that you were at least twice as much as we were.

Anyway, I can’t wait for tomorrow to have other interesting fights.
Plz DEX, come back, we want revenge! >:D

Does Siege Bunker only work on you or does it apply to the siege weapon you’re manning as well? (I kinda expected the second one, but the wording is making me doubt)

Other question : Is it possible to reset your WvW abilites and then to spend all your points to get something else (just like traits) or are your WvW abilities acquired once and for all? If it’s the second one, will we have the possibility to change our WvW abilities someday?

Ironvos.9014:

FR also seem to have some reinforcements i haven’t seen last week.

If you have any guild tag in mind, I’d be interested to know because, AFAIK, we didn’t receive any external reinforcements since last week.

As for the reset, we had quite the hard fights, especially on FS BL. It was fun having tri-factions fights in Shadaran around 3am. It turned out we managed to seize it while UW was taking Garrison, but unfortunately, we weren’t able to push back the UW players that were waiting on the rampart, so they took it quickly. =(

Good fights, though, props to everyone.

Seems like this week will be fun and challenging.
Have a good week and keep it fair!

Well, that was quite the number FsP were on our BL last night, but even more than that, it was impressive to see your coordination and tactics during fights. Unaware as we were, no wonder you were able to crush us.

Hopefully we’ll adjust by the end of the week, though. We just arrived from T6, but we definitely intend to stay here.

Wish everybody entertaining fights and let’s keep it fair!

To Za Playing Nurse: I cant’ speak in the name of Fort Ranik, but I still want to thank you as a player for your honesty and action. It’s people like you who make this game better every day. Thank you!

To Ilesyt : I don’t find this shameful, tbh. Going “hey, let’s go and take their tower just with ballistas! lol” or “meh, we don’t need to go with our armor, just let’s go naked” would be shameful as in disrespectful to you.

To me, using the breakout event even if you are less than us (something we can’t possibly know, btw) means “it’d be safer to to go with the NPC commander, who knows how many they are or what siege weapons they put in defense?” as in “we can’t allow ourselves to relax and attack mindlessly, they’re still defending and they’re good”.

That said, I wasn’t there, so I don’t know what really happened. But if it were me, I would’ve done the same. It’s all a matter of perspective, I guess…

What would have been respectable (or any word meaning “not shameful”) in your opinion?

EDIT : Didn’t notice the tower was already ours, my mistake. Kinda breaks my whole point, to be fair, nothing to say.

And you did a lot at reset…
First few hours were plainly horrible.

Props to XT guild though, several 20v20 fights on our homemap that felt really good. Hope to have more during the week. =)

Good luck and good fights to everybody!

Ok, thanks for the clarification.

If, at some point, somebody figures out the new cap, feel free to post it here (and on the wiki)!

First picture: In the beginning, he was a thief (and he liked to pose)

Second picture: After quite some time, he changed his hair color and started to wear plates (and he was quite happy coz’ this JP in Lion’s Arch is pretty hard the first time)

Third picture: In the course of his adventures, he geared up quite a bit (and was wearing this helm even though he didn’t like it because it rendered him beardless for some reason)

Fourth picture: Then he visited the lair of the Mad King after collecting it’s memoir (here, he’s thinking “I’ve already seen this face somewhere, but I don’t remember where it was…”)

Fifth picture: Then he built snowmen and got a nice candy-cane hammer because it was Wintersday (he still uses this hammer, btw)

Sixth picture: Finally, he got himself a big Norn greatsword – because he loves big Norn greatswords (no innuendo) – and completed his barbaric armor (and started seeing glowing hay bales, for some reason…)

Seventh picture: But, in the end of the day, he still likes to pose (do these goggle make him look silly?)

Don’t sleep, take keeps!

All jokes aside, I don’t think a “simple” system such as less opponents = less points would solve anything (which is what is suggested here, if I understood it correctly).

Or rather, it would have A LOT of drawbacks, such as:
- “So, we have a strong night team, but always suffer during prime time? Let’s just not show up during prime time at all, that will reduce the value of their points, and just let’s take them back during night, as usual.”
- “Hey, they have a golem army, I don’t think we’ll be able to prevent them from taking our keeps!” “Ok, then everybody leave, it will reduce the value of their points, we’ll just take back everything when they’re elsewhere”
- “ kitten the match-up is almost over, they’re catching up and can end up first… Ok, everybody leave WvW, that will reduce the value of their points and let us win this match.”

Maybe those situations would not happen, that’s right. But they definitely could happen, and that is enough for me not to support this kind of system.

What I want to say with this is two-fold:
- I think that a system in which YOUR score would be dependent on your OPPONENT’s presence is a bad system (they’re your opponents = they want to beat you = they want to have a better score than you => they will imagine and do whatever it takes to prevent you from scoring)
- Human beings tend to chose the easiest solution to a problem. In this case, as shown above, it would be : just leave. I don’t think anybody would enjoy non-fights because all your opponents left just because they din’t think they would win (currently, people fight even if their chances of winning are low because that’s the easiest way to prevent opponents from scoring).

Of course, I don’t say the current system is flawless and perfectly fair or balanced. But I believe that a system in which my score would depend on whether my opponent decide to be there would be even worse.

Hi there,

Recently, a friend of mine told me that the maximum karma you could have “in you bag” was 1 million.

However, during this last WvW night which was eventful (and karmaful), I happened to acquire a total of 1,001 million karma (1 001 542 to be accurate).

So, my question is : if there’s really a karma cap, can anybody tell me which amount it is?
Thanks in advance!

Well, in the beginning, there were like A LOT of Dzagonur players in their homemap or their side in EB. So, we did try to go and take their points or mess around to prevent them from coming to our homemap, but it wasn’t very convincing…

Therefore, it happened to be a lot more interesting (and profitable) to get your points, trying to stay close to Dzagonur. That lasted during the first few days of the matchup.

However, since two or three days, we’ve noticed a significant drop in Dzagonur’s numbers and we of course took advantage of this situation by paying them regular visits and taking their towers and keeps (especially keeps, we love keeps) !

Anyway, we haven’t given up on victory just yet. ^^

P.S : You really gave us a hard time last night on EB, it was tough but fun, nice going!

As for me, it happened a few times, but recently, it was on Sunday during the Ancient Karka event. I died and tried to TP to a waypoint but was stuck on loading screen.

The other recent occasion, for which I can provide a little more details, happened on Tuesday, around midnight (CET), during a PvP session (server is Fort Ranik [FR]). I was playing on the Raid on the Capricorn map and died while trying to hold the beach point. After a few secs, I wanted to rez and ended up stuck during loading screen.

It becomes more intersting now, as I waited for the game either to disconnect me completly or to complete loading. In the end, the former happened, I got an error message (something along the lines of “Client unable to access server”) and I was expecting the “choose your character” screen to load. That half-happened, here’s what I got (see first attachment). The icons at the bottom of the screen and the info text on the left are correct, but insted of displaying my character, I got this water-like background in black&white. No matter where I clicked, it wouldn’t disappear.

So in the end, I clicked “Play” with the same character I was using before this happened and I loaded the Heart of the Mists, which is quite normal, as I was disconnected during a PvP game. However, the loading time was unusally long (> 5 minutes) and, as I was wandering, checking whether everything was O.K, I got messages telling me “X is unstoppable” or “They took the beach” (see second attachment). While I was not in the game anymore, but in the Heart, doing absolutely nothing. It lasted for a few minutes and when it stopped, I resumed playing.

After that, I got two or three unusally long loading screens (5 minutes were gone in the match when I was appearing) and everything went back to normal little by little.

If you need more precisions, I could tell you a little more I remember.
Hope this helps.

P.S : My character at that time was a male Norn Guardian.

I was on the front line (like, between the legs of the Karkas) and I died twice or thrice, downed at least 20+ times, revived a good hundred of people. No broken armor.

wildcode.5403:

Where is the hoiday destination the consortium were so loud about. “Coming soon” “Unique holiday destination” “brought to you by the consortium”. Also consortium NPC’s suggest being in competition with BLTC, but the Consortium trader on the island represents BLTC.

The destination is Southsun Cove, more specifically Pearl Islet, on the south-east. If you go there, you will see merchants from the Consortium (drinks, souvenirs and stuff) and tourists in swimsuit.

Riselight.3695:

How can you know? There are French in NA as well

Sure, but between two incs from other servers, the only thing you can read during night time is “I’m going to bed, too tired”, “We take this camp, then I going to bed”, “So sleepy, but we have to go on”. Nothing like “hey, it’s sunny here. I’m leaving a few minutes to eat my lunch”.
Hence my “or they are very silent”.

Riselight.3695:

Btw: French topic where there is a FR JS alliance proposal

Indeed. Let’s analyze it (briefly).
First post “Hey, let’s team up against Gandara”.
Second to fourth post “FR/Js is camping jumping puzzle, kitten idiots”
Fourth and fifth post “Yeah, let’s take Gandara down, they built 11 enhanced golems. Sounds fishy”
Sixth post “T1 = many golems”
Seventh and eighth post “how does mesmer tp work?”
Ninth post “Everybody’s camping jumping puzzle, so shut up”
Tenth post “I’m from Gandara, don’t try to team up (you already do it anyway), it’s unfair”
Eleventh post “Pics or it didn’t happen”
Twelvth post “From what I see, it’s mostly Gandara+FR teaming up agaisnt JS”+"FR sucks anyway"
Thirteenth post “We on FR don’t team up with other servers. Plus Gandara and JS are focusing on our lands on EBG, so you’re one to talk…”
Fourteenth post “Saying servers team up is plain stupid. It never happened”
Fifteenth post “Yeah, we’re the target of Gandara and JS, but we still managed to turn the tables.”

It really does sound like successful negotiations indeed…
Plus there’s no known commander from Fort Ranik in this topic.
Definitely not the best “evidence” you could have found. And, as I was saying, everybody’s saying “the other servers team up against ours”. So please, think before saying we allied just because our server tag is [FR].

Darque Intent.1674:

Are there many NA players on the FR servers in the EU?

Not on FR (or they’re very silent).

Darque Intent.1674:

Do players from other severs join opposing servers and take up room and leak information?

Yeah, sure. One transfer/week makes it totally worthwhile. Totally.
(There was irony in that sentence)

Darque Intent.1674:

Does it seem from the data they have that 2 servers avoid confrontation while concentraiting on another?

Sure, it can happen sometimes on some maps. On every homemap, the basic strategy for the two invaders is to each attack one side of the defending server. But the situation is different on the other maps. There’s no such thing as “two server teaming up totally and keeping avoidnig each other on all maps during 7 days”. That doesn’t happen.

Darque Intent.1674:

Didji.4973:

Everyone sees the world his own way.

Seems like you and your server are reliant on that statement.

‘Cause it’s true, that’s all. You seem to firmly believe for whatever reason that we have a bunch of NA players and we team up with other French servers to bring you down. I tell you that’s not the case. Period. (It seems I waste my breath, though, so I’ll stop here)

northernlad.7315:

That said it amazes me how many french do WVWVW… were always outnumbered (even when we were against 1 server at a time) in a fair fight ie relatively same numbers zergs ect we were better than them… they only beat us with numbers and not skill… then when we were winning they decided to team up with each other and increase there numbers even more :p

Oh, come on! Idk if you’re the only one thinking FR and JS are teaming up or not, but it is a legend!
I’m on FR and I can kitten swear upon anything that we never formally allied, at any moment (quite the opposite, actually). From my experience in WvW, I can even say that we happened to be focused by you and JS, especially on your homemap.
Any kind of 2v1 will happen during a full week of fight, doesn’t mean two servers allied to bring the third one down.

Btw, it’s funny how we (FR) were saying the same thing of you last week, about how we were better than you and how you outnumbered us. :p We even thought (maybe wrongly?) that some NA guilds joined you, because you were much better competitors than two or three weeks ago.

Everyone sees the world his own way.