Guild Wars 2

Eeeeen-teresting! Sounds like fun!

ykyk.2740:

Look the server that got stacked is doing so well against servers that didn’t get stacked, props to them!

Server that got stacked is really going on a tear recently, we’re so Excited™ to see what the future holds for silver league this time round!

I can tell you what’s happening in Silver right now ;P – the top 4 or so servers are desperately trying to out tank the others so they don’t take Maguuma’s rapidly falling place.

Would be so easily solved by locking rankings at announcement – you’d think that after 2 seasons of this happening ArenaNet would realize this – but hey – guess it would cut into transfer sales!

Stora Ge.9207:

1) Fix the rankings for the tournament the day the tournament is announced. This may require some other restriction on movement or participation (if you do move) after the announcement to prevent flocking to the top servers.

This is all that needs to be done. Rankings need to be fixed on the date of announcement. However I really don’t expect Arena Net to do anything about this. They’ll just look the other way, after all – it’s only WvW.

As for transfers – just make all transfers between the announcement and start 2K gems – that way they can soak even ore out of those of us who mainly WvW for pretty much crumbs.

I can’t speak for anyone but me – and as distasteful as it is, if Mags tanks better than us – that’s it for me. I’m just having way to much fun in a certain other game to deal with the frustrations imminent with this tournament

Encrypting will do nothing, especially against a DDoS. Your encrypted packets would have just as much trouble being routed/received/sent as a normal packet – the problem is much like a freeway at rush hour. There’s just FAR too much traffic right now

*Edited to add that this is in NO way Anets or NC’s fault. There is a huge spike in traffic right now – there’s absolutely nothing they could do short of running a dedicated line to your house. I don’t think any of us are willing to actually pay what that would cost

It’s a real time "attack’ tracer

blur.7905:

I like the idea of showing server player hours. It will also show how WvW as the whole is doing. The point per player hour may be misleading and does not show true player contribution. Not sure how hard will it be for Anet to add this to the current wvw.

I definitely wouldn’t mind seeing player hours published! However, I have NO interest in seeing points per hour, especially if that information is public! I spend far too much time (being one of the few who bother) doing mundane things like escorting Yaks (over 6000 now ;P), making sure upgrades are running, tagging and setting up siege. Many times on a given NIGHT, the only points I’ll earn are for taking down a few walls with trebs. The last thing people like me need are a world on our case because we have low to zero points per hour – and you KNOW that is all that would happen!

Yaks Bend server (have been here on this server since launch)
Finished all achievements
Achievement in panel says 1st (we were tied for second)
Achievement panel says reward chest unlocked
Have not received the chest!

Yaks…

DragunKnight (or just DK – so nice to see him back again)

Lyorkie (insert whatever the current last name is – just leads to have fun, and makes no bones about it. Always seems to rub some of the ‘hardcore’ people the wrong way – you know the ones, with an opinion on EVERYTHING, but no tag oddly)

Oh…and anyone from OTG with a tag – although that’s more just feeling sorry for anyone trying to lead a group of people using walkers over hilly terrain

Lord Kuru.3685:

Dayra.7405:

(2 rounds for 9 would be enough.)

This sounds ridiculous, put it’s pretty much true!

In Silver League (NA) we’ve reached “equilibrium” by week 3/4 already: every future matchup alternates between being the same as week 3’s and week 4’s.

YB has only had 2 sets of matches, and unless something drastically changes, that’s all we’ll have for the entire 9 weeks (HoD/FA and us, and IoJ/NSP and us) Sadly, the team we’re technically ranked closest too, is one we’ll never face (SBI)

I MUCH preferred the way the first tournament was run. All this is doing (at least in our bracket) is breeding fair weather WvW. If it’s the first matchup – people just don’t show (queues on all maps are gone within 2 hours on Friday night) whereas for the second – well we’ve had off and on queues for different maps all weekend

Junkpile.7439:

Well i think that it’s more about commanders not numbers. Every side have numbers at start, but after couple clash only one side have big zerg left. EotM players can’t really handle wiping that well. Many will leave if they die one time or enemy actually decide defend something.

This isn’t always the case though . . . This morning, WvW was boring – we were sitting at 400 PPT – so I decided to check in a new matchup of EotM. From the start of the match, we (blue) had the outnumbered buff. Within 30 minutes, Green controlled the entire map.

You’d “think” anyone with half a brain would realise “Let them capture some stuff – so we have stuff to take back” but no – they just sat at spawn and tried to farm us.

As it stands – the map is a failure. So much promise during testing. All gone!

*Edited to add that I’ve been Blue and completely dominating the same way – it’s the numbers, and they’re just wrong. It’s not right that one team should have enough numbers to easily defend all 3 keeps AND enough to roam around.

I’d actually like a simpler version of this suggestion. Allow a claiming guild to over-ride an upgrade. I pretty much never claim now simply because of the mass of people who think fortify is everything. Guilds should be allowed to ‘redirect’ upgrading efforts (at 50% or even 75% loss).

As it stands – claiming is not really worth much now. The buffs – especially with the advance of players, are relatively meaningless. This would at least allow some semblance of control. It would also be fairly easy to observe and report (whether anything would be done is another matter) guilds ‘gaming’ the system.

Yeah, it’s way off in the IoJ/BP/YB match too. Total PTT from the general screen is only 545 (I wish they’d let us know when they delete keeps and towers – would save on defensive siege) Our (Yaks) PTT on the General screen was showing 200, yet above beside the supply (On the main game screen) it was showing 130. On the general screen we dropped to 185, and on the main game screen went up to 140.

A little messy!

Yeah, it’s been a mess since this afternoon! Totals are way out of whack. Adding up the score shown on the general screen comes to 565 for our servers – we’re ‘missing’ 130 points. If you check each individual server – EBG is fine, Borlis BL is fine, Yaks BL camps are fine, but only 1 tower is listed and no keeps, and IoJ BL has 2 keeps and 3 towers listed (camps are fine)

Also bugged!

Wasbunny.6531:

I’m starting to think for some reason the forums aren’t being moderated at the moment. The lack of reply and action from ArenaNet these last couple days are starting to be worrisome. I hope everyone’s alright over there.

Allie Mark and Chris are all active on the forums today. Others have been active in this forum as of yesterday. This particular topic, it appears, is being ignored.

Decided to try one more time today (third attempt today) Red down – full uptime but no loot, Blue to 15% then boom – healed to full. So glad that’s fixed. Thankfully finishing the achievement chain can be done with dailies. This, without a doubt, the most bug ridden LS release to date. Hope this isn’t a harbinger. As for me, I’m out of LA. Let Scarlett have it. There’s more loot to be had in the Frostgorge champ train.

….and we’re back to the same pattern AGAIN. First attempt this morning – using the zerg method (map wasn’t even Oflowed since I came in at 8:58 my time) First two knights went down fairly easily. Gold level participation, Power/Crit Ranger in all epic/ascended, full uptime – and again no loot.

This seriously needs looking into – I can run with the zerg and hit one of the champs twice, and just stand back after that – get silver or bronze participation and get full loot. Participation rates have already dropped dramatically on Yaks – there’s no reason to go through the frustration.

*Edited to add…numbers dropped – and we had maybe 20 people on Blue this time. Took 11 minutes to down her – again continuous uptime – hitting between 1.2 and 3.5K per shot – Gold level participation – and no loot!

Sinbold.8723:

I noticed the patch notes say, “Defeating the three assault knights simultaneously is the key to reaching Scarlet’s airship”, and it occurred to me that when the OF I was in killed the knights, it was NOT simultaneously. We did it zerg style, as voted by the OF population. Apparently, no one read the notes….

This is the exact portion from the patch notes…

“Legendary Assault Knights will drop 5 Deluxe Gear Boxes and a chance at an Assault Knight Power Core, which can be used to color the Tempered Spinal Blades back item. Defeating all three knights within 6 minutes will award several masterwork items, a luck bonus, 1 Obsidian Shard, and 5 Blade Shards.”

The only thing that SHOULD matter is defeating them all within 6 minutes for the achievement. Fairly obviously, defeating them should award SOMETHING, yet in many cases it is not.

Last night, 3 dropped loot out of 10 Knights (the 3 that dropped were the first 3, and were done solo. The last 7 were grouped)

Today 5 out of 8 dropped loot – all solo – none in Oflow. Out of 18 Knights killed, I have gotten ONE! power core. Random is fine, this however is abysmal!

Ignavia.7420:

I assume you mean the assault knights. According to

Legendary Assault Knights will drop 5 Deluxe Gear Boxes and a chance at an Assault Knight Power Core, which can be used to color the Tempered Spinal Blades back item. Defeating all three knights within 6 minutes will award several masterwork items, a luck bonus, 1 Obsidian Shard, and 5 Blade Shards.

you should get five chests for killing such a boss. I only got those once however. The second time I got 3 Bags of Alliance Supplies and the third time nothing at all. It could be that you only get the chests once per day. I hope that the Power Cores are not restricted, however.

I think it is bugged. I started out with Red, killed red twice and got 5 chests both times, only got one Core though (It does say a chance at it, so that might be the random part) then killed Green, and again – got 5 chests, no core though. COntinued trying, and we zerged down Red/Green/Blue two more times – absolutely nothing from any of the 6 – not even white loot

*Edited to add I’ve killed perhaps 25 champs – and gotten loot from every one, it’s only the Knights that don’t drop anything (after the first three set of drops) The last Knights kill was after the daily reset as well FWIW

*Edited again to add 3 more kills (2 solo and one in a group) gold credit on all three, and no loot whatsoever.

So, be VERY careful if you’re running from the tri-key chest area of the tower to floor 3! It seems every second step you take on the ramp down causes fall damage. Enough damage and quickly enough that you go straight to dead. Apparently Kasmeer was serious when she said keep going up! It’s hazardous to your health to head back down!

Yeah, it’s not so much of an issue for damage dealers, but for pure support characters, it can just be awful – they may SEEM like they’re not contributing much – but they sure do help

Came across something odd this morning while going after the Ori node in Frostgorge. Jormag was not up, but the center part of his ice shield was visible on the top of his hill, and anytime I tried to get the nodes near the hill I’d be randomly feared for a few seconds.

Also bugged in game

*Edited to add we just killed him at 9 AM server – and the ‘bug’ went away. Might be the remnants of a previous failed attempt?

T2 as well – but I think they’re broken. A guildie zipped right into EBG just after I entered the queue (which I remained in for about 35 minutes)

Ran into something like this earlier this morning. Queued for EBG while doing more world completion – and just after I said I had queued up – a guildie just zipped right in. I ended up waiting about 35 minutes for my ‘space’ to pop

EFWinters.5421:

8 myself along with 4 WvW ranks and 35 spikes!

:(

So THAT’S where all my spikes went!!!

Genev.2450:

Red is best :o

Actually, Red is not the best

It’s the only keep that can be directly attacked from SM, and the layout makes defense of the Anz/Speld/Mendon’s side harder than the other two teams face.

Perhaps if enough people bring this up though – Arena Net will randomize the starting positions!

RazGerb.6173:

I’m pretty sure Yak’s Bend is the most populated server in terms on WvW.

Honestly, normally we aren’t! We very rarely queue EB – although two weeks ago it was a fairly good match and we had short ones, however tonight it seems the bandwaggoners came out of the woodwork, and the EB queue was 2 hours+ I’ve been on YB since early access and it’s never been that high.

I do know that we did get a couple of transfer guilds in, and that may account for some – not sure where the rest is coming from though!

Anyways…great fun in EB tonight (once I got in) Hopefully it’ll stay fun for the next 6.5 days!

Johje Holan.4607:

No FA/SBI/BP matchup? That sucks. Comeon Anet, learn to make a schedule. Its not that hard.

This isn’t a schedule…it’s just…I don’t know…awful!

I’m having great fun in our current matchup – but seriously…with 8 other worlds – why is the exact same matchup repeated on the 7th week!

SafiMoyo.5130:

I don’t understand what the problem is. All the BL’s are the same; does it really matter what color you are? Is the problem because of those JP achievements and map completion?

Green is (arguably) the easiest side to defend. Red keep (Overlook) is the only keep that can easily be hit from SM.

…and…since they’ve decided to add so many new achievements – why shouldn’t completion be a concern. The current setup is a whack across the head to any new players, not to mention all the trouble we went through this spring trying to get starting positions somewhat randomized – only to be placed right back at square one!

It’s no better in the Silver league. While SBI is Green all 7 weeks, YB, NSP, IOJ and EB never see green once.

Seriously, did no one look at this stuff before it was implemented? After all we went through in the Spring to FINALLY get starting positions somewhat randomized, we’re back to the same old same old?

Not good Arena Net – not good at all!

YB isn’t either. Frankly, this entire schedule is a bust. I really like the idea of a league – but its’ implementation has been just downright awful!

Solstice.1097:

Devon did state he will be on NSP and will be getting the meta achievement.

However it is suspect whether NSP will capture SMC 5 times in the entire season, let alone a single player present all 5 times.

Oh come on – SM is not THAT hard to take….if YB can take it from SBI (more than) 5 times in one week, then NSP will manage to do so just fine

SRG.3607:

I had the exact same issue. I really thought it was due to my hits not having “marked” the boss due to too many people around hitting all the time / lag issue.

I thought the same as well, except that on my first kill of the Viscount – I got loot – but oddly no achievement. Took 4 more tried before I did finally get the achievement (The otgher two came on the first kill)

First, I’ll admit I haven’t checked extensively, but after a cursory examination of both the Blue BG and the EBG – I have found no Candy Corn nodes at all. Why? Last year we had plenty.

Why is there no reliable way for WvW’ers to get candy corn OTHER than PVE. This goes against the very thing we’re been told for the last 6 months that equivalent rewards are the goal…. Except if you want that 20 slot bag – then you have to PVE.

Why are there none in WvW? They were all over last year. You tell people that you want rewards to be comparable – but – hey if you want that nice 20 slot bag – go PVE for a while!

Yak’s Bend is having a similar problem. Melandru is bugged out.

Gates of Arah metas are also bugged out – I have bugged in game – but this is rather annoying – Warmaster Chan AND the pact survivors do nothing – just stand around in a group.

A server reboot would be nice?

I’m sure Anet sees the numbers, and they’re seeing that it’s worth it to make it soulbound. It’s unfortunate – because I’d be someone who does buy it if it were account bound.

Apparently there’s enough people buying it that they don’t have too (make it account bound that is)

I’m glad I saved 5K corn from last year – made a nice profit today!

IF it was account-wide – I’d be all over it! Heck – I’d have purchased all the permanent gathering items – however unfortunately (for Anet) I’m just not willing to drop nearly 17K gems to have them (Who I gather on – on a particular day is random)

I WOULD be willing to drop 4800 gems on permanent items if they could be shared across my account!

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

We’re aware of the issue preventing Tequatl from spawning. We’re investigating the issue and will update you when we have more information. Thank you.

What a poor, canned response. A community team lead should know that a response like that just will not cut it. We UNDERSDTAND you don’t have answers – however telling us that while sounding like Siri just isn’t acceptable. (Hint, a little empathy goes a long long way!)

Breezer.9273:

People said that Anet posted on Twitter that he reset to his old timer

There has been NO communication from Anet (About this, or anything in the last 4 hours) Not on Twitter and not on the forums.

TTS was told that someone who apparently knew someone from Anet in their guild – that Teq may not spawn until after the patch tomorrow. That’s as close to official as we’ve gotten

It’s ridiculous that en event that requires this much co-ordination is simply…broken – and the only way we hear about it is from someone who knows someone who apparently has an Anet employee in their guild.

If you KNOW something like this is going to happen – please let us know? It’s not a very good business practise to let hundreds if not thousands of people just sit…stewing – and say nothing.

Definitely a sour taste from this one!

4 TTS Overflows – the fourth filled around 5 server – and all are waiting. I’ve been in the second Overflow since around 4:10 server.

It sure would be nice if all this communication we always hear is so important actually happened!

Something has changed.

Please tell your players?

*Edited to add, this is a reasonably difficult fight, almost impossible without some organization – with a time limit to boot that is very unforgiving! Why is it on a random timer at all!?

Pretty happy with most of the changes…just get rid of the time limit. All it does is penalize off peak users on many servers forcing them to guest, or miss content – especially on certain fights (like Jormag) where there is a critical mass of players needed.

Only boss that was done poorly (IMO) is Fire Elemental. Increasing his health and doubling the amount of fire does not do anything except cause frustration when you dodge roll from fire into 3 others.

Just lose the timers. Why actively penalize servers with lower population?

Banzie.5248:

So wait what I’m getting from this is that people this yaks bend is gonna auto win silver league? Not even gonna give IoJ to prove themselves eh?

I hope we DON’T win – in fact, I hope we end up fourth or worse!

bjchase.3074:

That won’t change the situation, just the servers involved. People have already transferred so if you get a server that is today now Gold material (due to transfers) when they were clearly Silver a month ago, they will just steamroll Silver. But than again with 12 rank differentials there will be a couple of servers that will always steamroll and a couple of servers that will always get steamrolled.

Then simply make it so that anyone who transferred after the announcement, gets the rewards of their original server. There’s NO way they can’t have that information. You may be right in that it can’t change anything, but behavior like this is unacceptable – and there’s NO way people should be rewarded for it.

Lord Kuru.3685:

IOJ (the OP’s server) is ranked #15 and Yak’s Bend (the first reply) is ranked #13.

Not surprised you guys are excited for your free rewards.

Though in the end, prepare for disappointment when all you’re doing is spawn camping 24/7 for half your matches.

The ONLY thing I’m looking forward to is the new WvW achievements. When a server actively tries to sabotage its’ ranking just to make sure they fall out of the top 12 – it leaves a very sour taste in my mouth!

My fondest desire is that we do end up 13th – and SOMEHOW servers 14 through 20 manage to completely trounce us.

Anet needs to pull a quick one on this, and use rankings from a month ago – before the announcement and gamesmanship started.

Karka Queen – easy zerg fest even IF you have to claim the towns – not to mention VERY rewarding. 30 Ore

SM take – depending on defense can be VERY difficult as well as time consuming. 9 Ore.

That’s just wrong.

When camps are giving 2-3 Crystals per take, yet JP’s are giving 7-9 – well – I can hit the 12 easiest JP’s in under 2 hours now – around 50 crystals per hour. No way one can take 15-25 camps per hour.

Rewards for WvW are definitely sub-par.

**edited for my fumbly fingers…9 not 12 per JP)

Yeah – was wondering this myself. With bag space at a premium, was hoping for an answer too!

style.6173:

It is not too easy to cap. In fact it is too easy to defend if you have a server that knows what they are doing.

This is true, however if you have an attacking server that knows what they’re doing – you can be almost through the inner gates before SM even shows contested.

Golem rushes need to go!