Guild Wars 2

Try roaming for a night and then tell me how much you still like this change.

Still happening, when will there be a fix for this bug?

Aileras.9460:

I crash sometimes but I’m playing on a potato. I never DC. Not trying to be a troll but just saying maybe it’s on your end. I ‘ve had problems in the past where my connection will drop because of line noise (DSL) mostly when it’s raining. But with a better internet it hasn’t happened in a year or so.

This guy isn’t wrong.

I have a very good system and was also getting disconnected quite often, once an hour was not uncommon. I then learned from a coworker that the cable modem, provided a few years ago by my ISP, was outdated and most likely my problem. I was running a DOCSIS 2 modem, even though DOCSIS 3 has been out since 2006 and 3.1 since 2013. My ISP never let me know these new modems were available even though I had often complained about speed and connectivity issues. But when I asked specifically for a DOCSIS 3 modem, they were happy to upgrade me for no charge. They simply don’t advertise it. Suddenly I went from 5Mbps to 50Mbps with no change in service, no change in anything but the modem. Since I upgraded of course I have not had a single disconnect other than an actual server crash when everyone gets booted. Not saying this is your issue as well OP, but do realize your ISP could be playing a role with your disconnects as well.

This is a terrible idea, how about a poll to remove all siege except rams and catapults instead?

Removal of all siege except rams.

Reduce siege\supply. Encourage lots and lots of small scale fights simultaneously. Tone down the damage to let fights last longer. Reduce damage from conditions, let condis be the CC but without any bite..has to be trade-offs.

Friday, absolutely no question about it, around 2:00 AM UTC (9 pm EST).

Glicko implemented properly works just fine. Before tiers were added and match-ups were random, it worked great. Creating tiers and arranging match-ups by glicko rating is where it all went terribly wrong. In order for it to work, all servers need to play regularly against all other servers. But people kittened about loosing to stacked servers when they should not have been concerned with winning or loosing, just doing better that match-up than glicko expected them to in order to gain points, or worse to loose points.

Dalamar.3940:

Meanwhile the entire tier is screwed up to appease a few of the WvW player base. How about making it so there is an even population so we can get good fights…. instead of stacking one server.

FA\YB had very similar populations but the problem in T2 was the small WvW population on SOS. All the T1 guilds going YB doesn’t help anything, you should have all gone to SOS.

Spent a bit looking at new games and ended up trying out Heroes of the Storm. Enjoying it so far.

I would much rather have a week of no arrow carts, ballistas, and golems.

EnderzShadow.2506:

what would be so bad by just letting swiftness stack?

Because reasons… Guardian’s Symbol of Swiftness was already changed to allow both stacking of the symbols and stacking of swiftness. The problem is that Temporal Curtain is a line who’s affect is instant when touched where the Guardian’s Symbol of Swiftness is a mark which pulses over time. The line is necessary for the directional geometry used with Into the Void and lines don’t work well for pulsing affects as they are quickly crossed over. Basically they would need to change a lot more than just how the boon is given and whether it stacks or not.

So it’s all BG’s fault that JQ get’s one pushed by groups half their size? It’s BG’s fault JQ became dependent on arrow carts to fight? It’s BG’s fault that JQ disappear within an hour of resets? All 3 servers queue up maps on reset, but only JQ quite within the first hour. JQ’s problems are internal and your environment is toxic as many others here are trying to explain to you, stop trying to blame your problems on others and take responsibility.

Because all accounts voicing dissenting opinions were banned from these official forums.

blur.7905:

Guys respect Anet decision on this. It is no use trying to bring up this topic again. If you don’t like it maybe it is time to do something you enjoy doing.

ANET condoned match fixing and objective trading? I must have missed that post, care to link it for me?

ghtchill.7613:

HARDOFREADING.7298:

Rules are rules & apply to everyone.

And its been clearly stated by Anet that 2v1 is not breaking any rules.

And there is nothing wrong with a 2v1. The question: is the collusion along with the wxp and tournament manipulation acceptable?

Wanze.8410:

Drakh.3128:

It’s pretty simple really. 2v1 on it’s own is fine and plays an important role. Two servers sharing the same TeamSpeak for direct coordination, keep/tower and camp exchanges to manipulate the score and farm wxp, and trading 1st place weekly to manipulate the tournament score is when it is not.

If they coordinate karma trains apart from each other, what is holding you back to fight one of the servers?

They are not apart and it’s not really a karma train in the sense that not everyone gets the cap, one just watches while the other takes and caps while leaving a small group inside the same objective so after the 5 minutes they can just re-kill the lord to flip it again. Fights involve a tag team; when one server gets beat up and starts loosing they disengage and let the fresh server finish off the fight for them.

It’s pretty simple really. 2v1 on it’s own is fine and plays an important role. Two servers sharing the same TeamSpeak for direct coordination, keep/tower and camp exchanges to manipulate the score and farm wxp, and trading 1st place weekly to manipulate the tournament score is when it is not.

RoChan.1926:

Rawr.5930:

Coverage and population wins matchups, can i now label “blackouts” and “stacking” a breach of code too? [..]

I would argue that those are more of a match manipulation then 2v1 is
.

TC got 10+ guilds from SOR, JQ got 2 guilds just from BG plus the others. BG got 2. So which servers are really “stacking”? Coverage in T1 is very even, with JQ being the only of the 3 servers with full 24 hour coverage. Coverage and has nothing to do with the current dynamics in T1.

Happens to me every single night. If you are wearing light armor, it can be a death sentence if also under AC fire. Please fix. This bug should never have been permitted to remain so long.

Insight.1683:

bg is farming during these weeks to buy more 10 guilds to win the S2 and make them happy and think they’re the best. I just can laugh

Let me guess, you transferred to TC after they had already made it into T1? Isn’t that exactly what you are condemning?

You should get an ointment for that burn. It sounds pretty bad.

1. Mesmer
2. Ranger
3. Elementalist

aaaand he’s gone.

Burl.9567:

Zerging/Blobbing works because the maps are too small. If the maps were 3-4 times the size, we wouldn’t see it nearly as much as we do. ANet has stated the game engine can not and will not ever support a larger map. Therefore, zergs/blobs will always be apart of this game. Get used to it.

If zerging\blobbing worked, SOR would be ranked #1. But it doesn’t work, that’s kind of the point of this thread. Blobs are great for steam rolling over smaller numbers, and causing server lag but it’s a terrible strategy for controlling a map as SOR seems unable to comprehend. JQ and BG’s smaller sized groups run circles around the SOR blob and while SOR can only take or defend one objective at a time, JQ and BG are taking the 2 or 3 other objectives left unguarded all at once. Keep it up SOR, you are just making this easy for JQ and BG.

scootshoot.6583:

Drakh.3128:

ThunderPanda.1872:

scootshoot.6583:

sostronk.8167:

scootshoot.6583:

sostronk.8167:

Blix.8021:

scootshoot.6583:

Furiousbeard.7602:

JQ is STACKED!

Wow, not the same server from 1 month ago.

JQ has all 4 maps on queue during Asian time zones….crazy I know, haha.

BG commanders during that time slot should instruct their players to stack and defend your home lands solely so the JQ players on the other 3 maps gets bored out of their minds.

All 4 maps are not queued during asian times, usually EB has a queue and maybe one other map if people are stacking to try to break a waypoint. People just communicate which map is being hit and drag people from map to map.

All 4 maps can be queued during SEA timezone and frequently is. I know because I have an alternate account on JQ and after being told this was the case I logged in on that account and found there actually was 4 maps queued. This was during the week, mind you, not on the weekend with people pulling OT from other timezones. Ive literally never seen BG with 4 maps queued during SEA when I have been there and I play SEA timezone ~90% of nights. On rare occasions SOR has had queues, but only a couple of times in the few weeks I spent there.

Once leagues start I suspect JQ will have queues during sea almost every night. SOR may be able to pull it off depending on just how much of an influx in numbers we see (from leagues). And BG probably wouldn’t pull it off without massive restructuring and timezone changes to get NA players to play during this timezone OR getting more sea guilds onboard.

Yep and JQ SEA gets more active once the weekend ends for North Americans.

Stead of spreading yourselves out this week and giving free bags to JQ, BG commanders should just stack everyone on their homeland map only during this timeslot and siege the crap out of it. Make JQ on the other 3 maps get bored silly for the full week.

Its still an issue because this would mean we can’t hold keeps on other maps, including waypointed ones. Not really much we can do. Meh. Coverage wars I will just get my stomps on.

Pssst, JQ at present is ticking > 500 vs another Tier 1 server bro…

Troll JQ SEA for the rest of the week and have everyone on stack your home BL to the gills during this time so the other 3 maps can stand around picking herbs for 5 hours.

doesn’t BG have any decent SEA?

Not since they all transferred over to join the queues on Jade Queues. Go back already, give us enough numbers to fight back This is boring for everyone. Why would you leave BG to stack into an already stacked time-slot and leave BG with nothing? It makes no sense. SEA guilds needs to spead out to more servers for balance. Right now it’s just PVDoor which is soooo boring.

PvDoor? So you on JQ now? Per your post history you were with BT of Blackgate just 3 months ago so I think you are part of the problem, not the solution, haha.

Nah, just too early in the morning and poorly worded. I’m still on BG. I meant give us enough numbers to fight back rather than just blobbing up and running over the couple of us trying to find some good fights.

ThunderPanda.1872:

scootshoot.6583:

sostronk.8167:

scootshoot.6583:

sostronk.8167:

Blix.8021:

scootshoot.6583:

Furiousbeard.7602:

JQ is STACKED!

Wow, not the same server from 1 month ago.

JQ has all 4 maps on queue during Asian time zones….crazy I know, haha.

BG commanders during that time slot should instruct their players to stack and defend your home lands solely so the JQ players on the other 3 maps gets bored out of their minds.

All 4 maps are not queued during asian times, usually EB has a queue and maybe one other map if people are stacking to try to break a waypoint. People just communicate which map is being hit and drag people from map to map.

All 4 maps can be queued during SEA timezone and frequently is. I know because I have an alternate account on JQ and after being told this was the case I logged in on that account and found there actually was 4 maps queued. This was during the week, mind you, not on the weekend with people pulling OT from other timezones. Ive literally never seen BG with 4 maps queued during SEA when I have been there and I play SEA timezone ~90% of nights. On rare occasions SOR has had queues, but only a couple of times in the few weeks I spent there.

Once leagues start I suspect JQ will have queues during sea almost every night. SOR may be able to pull it off depending on just how much of an influx in numbers we see (from leagues). And BG probably wouldn’t pull it off without massive restructuring and timezone changes to get NA players to play during this timezone OR getting more sea guilds onboard.

Yep and JQ SEA gets more active once the weekend ends for North Americans.

Stead of spreading yourselves out this week and giving free bags to JQ, BG commanders should just stack everyone on their homeland map only during this timeslot and siege the crap out of it. Make JQ on the other 3 maps get bored silly for the full week.

Its still an issue because this would mean we can’t hold keeps on other maps, including waypointed ones. Not really much we can do. Meh. Coverage wars I will just get my stomps on.

Pssst, JQ at present is ticking > 500 vs another Tier 1 server bro…

Troll JQ SEA for the rest of the week and have everyone on stack your home BL to the gills during this time so the other 3 maps can stand around picking herbs for 5 hours.

doesn’t BG have any decent SEA?

Not since they all transferred over to join the queues on Jade Queues. Go back already, give us enough numbers to fight back! This is boring for everyone. Why would you leave BG to stack into an already stacked time-slot and leave BG with nothing? It makes no sense. SEA guilds needs to spead out to more servers for balance. Right now it’s just PVDoor which is soooo boring.

8% of males and .5% of females are red-green deficient
.03% of males and .001% of females are blue deficient
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness)

I am red-green color blind and used to have trouble distinguishing the red from green on the maps, blue was not an issue. After the change, I can easily distinguish red and green on the map but still can’t tell which is which when looking at the score. As for the change to blue, it’s a bit more difficult to distinguish from green now than it was before the change. I would welcome resetting the blue back to the original purple but please leave the red and green change in place (now please add the new reg-green colors to the score sheet as well.)

I run GS\Staff and manipulations more often than any other builds these days. I do switch up utilities as needed (portal\veil or decoy if solo) but this is my standard zerg build: http://tinyurl.com/mhtxvmf

If AOE is what you want, Mesmer is not the class for you. Any other class will do, but if you are looking for light armored AOE specifically then perhaps try an Elementalists .

Avenge.1478:

Some people show up and fight it out no matter the odds (SoR), and some people crumble under the pressure (BG). Shame.

The same was said about SOR just last week, and the week before that, and the week before that……

Because then there would be no need for arrow carts.

Band-wagoners will flee a loosing server even faster than they swarm a winning one. Kaineng was doomed from the start.

Remove AOE caps. Zerging provides too many advantages beyond numbers, making it the inevitable response.

kitten es me off that even the [Decoy] skill recharge got nerfed for non shatter\condition builds since IC is now 20 extra skill points. Anet needs to understand that IC is integral to every single mesmer build, not just shatter\condition builds. As a power\precision build, I always made room for 5 points into illusions for the lowered cool-down, waisting 25 points just destroys any other possible build so instead all related skills now take 20% extra time to recharge. Very disappointed in this across the board nerf to mesmer.

Shatter builds were already terrible for large scale WvW with clones being so fragile, so making them even weaker makes no sense and leads me to believe that all they do is listen to QQ posts about people loosing 1v1s. Mesmers already had it rough and builds were already very limited, this patch helps none of that. There is just not much left for large scale WvW builds. Cheesy useless random interrupt build here I come. They should add a trait for chaos armor to make it interrupt attacks when hit, then maybe.

All Phantasms damage is based on power, why in the world would ANET bury [Illusionists Celerity] at the top of the condition line? That makes absolutely no sense! I thought the whole purpose of the reworking of the trees is so they would make more sense, not less! Might as well just remove that trait completely, I’d never spend 25 points in condition damage for a mesmer with our nerfed confusion.

How about just swap [Illusionists Celerity] for [Confusing Enchantments] since it has no place in the power tree?

ah it is there, but in red (can’t see that color too well, but that’s my issue). Thanks. Well then how about a way to configure colors for red-green color blind people like myself.

How about just making the skill only unusable when in range or give some sort of indicator that you are in range instead of just giving us the ‘out of range’ message and putting the skill on cooldown. Same goes for the exit portal, iBerserker and any number of other range conditional skills.

Burl.9567:

BG has the coverage. They just don’t seem to show up during the week for whatever reason.

It’s called a “job”

A number 3 server barely scratched out a win vs #9 and #10. Sure sounds to me like Jade was way over or Piken and Augury were under rated. Also realize that after months of stale match-ups, the top tier servers were absorbing all of the rating. It’s going to take some time to spread it back around. If a #3 server squares up against much lower servers, they should be crushing them, not just barely edging by. Seems to be working just find to me.

Cactus.2710:

That’s why ANet needs to get a clue and come up with a better way to make matches instead of server vs server vs server. NOTHING they do is going to offset the population inequalities of the current system, and until they fix the fundamental problem all this other crap is just smoke and mirrors.

How about having matchups based on guilds instead of servers, this is “Guild Wars” after all. Players can designate one guild as their matchup guild (in case they aren’t representing at the time) and every week all servers are brought down and ANET repopulates servers by spreading out guilds based on guild population and a guild rating based off previous results. Creating every week servers with new guilds to fight with and against and allowing ANET balance servers populations on a weekly basis. It’s obviously much more complex in implementation than this, just brainstorming here.

So ballista is 3000 and arrow cart is 2800 now? With such a small margin for error they’ll need to add a range circumference ground marking when siege is being placed. But then it sounds like arrow carts still require no line of sight so still easily hid from a ballista.

The rating points are now starting to redistribute down from the top tiers. For a glicko based system that is a good thing.

salluks.6017:

if u still don’t manage to be competitive, rather than recruiting more and more guilds, maybe look at the core problem?

Honestly I don’t see why you all care so much to begin with and I fail to see any “problem.” This tier is very well balanced at all times other than Euro prime, at which point SOR takes a sizable lead and holds it for 4-5 hours. This is the really only reason SOR comes out on top every week. And really, so what? What’s the big deal if we still have great fights during every other time slot? During NA prime, all servers constantly score very evenly and the populations are also equal with perhaps JQ slipping just a bit recently due to transfers. We have wonderful balance and as a result get great fights, what’s the problem again?

Though it is mostly ACs I hate seeing in WvW, and I hated and thought they ruined the game even before they were buffed , I’d be perfectly fine with all siege but maybe rams (as needed for doors) were removed.

Just make ACs adhere to line of sight and use direction and intensity targeting like trebs and catas. Problem solved.

Raven Paradox.1860:

Drakh.3128:

Raven Paradox.1860:

All Garrisons NA Primetime.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/841/gw054i.jpg/

Prime time NA would be when all times zones are home from work yeah? Still another 10 minutes to go on this side of NA.

Oh I’m sorry. I’ll take another picture of us holding all 3 garrisons in 10 minutes. Would that work for you?

Whatever floats your boat, just sayin’ PST prime time isn’t for another 2 hours. I’m sure you’ll be hiding in your keeps behind ACs by then.

Raven Paradox.1860:

All Garrisons NA Primetime.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/841/gw054i.jpg/

Prime time NA would be when all times zones are home from work yeah? Still another 10 minutes to go on this side of NA.

The sarcasm is strong in this thread.