Guild Wars 2

Am I the only one that has this problem?

I can see the blue dots from people from my server but not those from the paired server in party/raid in wvw minimap.

I Duel/Roam so I respect the 1v1.
Those that do not respect it are kids/trolls/weak players.

I can’t see most people on my team…If I’m in a group of 50 on tag I will only see 4-5 blue dots. If I’m in a guild group I’m lucky if I see 1 blue dot. Kinda hard to find members of your team if you can’t see them on the Mini map

First time WvW server Link + soon after spring patch + its Friday…of course theres going to be queues

Silverstone.4539:

well I don’t know what you’re doing or how your playing so can’t judge.

Only roamers I don’t like. Are the ones that use food buffs vs people that don’t use them. Start the fight, but run or stealth if they look like they are going to lose, but keep coming back to catch me off guard when I’m hitting a camp. That to me is a dirty roamer… but I don’t know, maybe that’s what a roamer is meant to be nowadays? if so, that is a sad state of affairs indeed.

Roaming and dueling are 2 different things. Anything goes in WvW roaming. If its red its dead. Duels are a different matter and even then if you arnt using food its because your a cheapscate.

Dirty roamers lolz I’m guessing you dont roam too often. Buy some food breh it’s not that expensive.

Viable in PvP? I have no idea but it’s still viable in WvW.

reikken.4961:

Why sigil of energy? I don’t understand why anyone would take it in any build. It gets you 1 extra dodge every 40 seconds at best. unless you’re running Latent Stamina, which doubles its value

do you even know what sigil of energy does?

They don’t need to merge the lower tier servers…I liked the idea someone mentioned earlier of getting rid of the STACKED T1 servers and give them free transfers…of course they probably just stack to another server…cause you know…winning…

I have some friends that are interested in the game but not enough to buy it…I suggest Anet put out an affordable gift set so I could give them out to my friends…thoughts?

thx for the reply

Can you get a precursor/Ascended Chest from the Belt pouches you get from WvW? I was just wondering if i should open them with a lvl 80 or just send them to my low lvl alt to open.

Sunrise and Twilight…yea that would be epic lol

Sometimes i do not see the Dmg numbers from Churning Earth. Is this happening to anyone else?

I laugh when the PvE grinders QQ about WvW. I dont write QQ threads about having to do Guild Missions in Tyria. That is the only PvE content I even touch in this game.

I get some people find farming gold and skins and defeating AI (Artificial Intelligence) enjoyable and cringe at the thought of losing to HI (Human Intellegence)…

But…Its only 30 levels, Suck it up. Small potatoes compared to World completion.

If ANET gives you an easier means to get the Gift of Battle then I want Dungeons skins and Runes available in WvW. Everybody wins

Edit: I almost forgot, Fractal Gear needs to be Available in WvW as well.

I couldnt find the quote. And honestly I wouldn’t mind getting the same round of matchups every week as long as its enjoyable to play.

Ross Biddle.2367:

Actually if a tier 1 were vs a tier 8, the tier 1 would make less karma as most of the time there’s nothing to flip.

True but your missing the point of my post. Niether server is going to enjoy that match-up for a whole week.

Why hasn’t this been implemented yet?

Those unfamiliar with this concept its where the match-ups are divided into its own bracket. The winning server that week goes up a bracket, the losing server goes down a bracket, and the 2nd place server stays.

With RNG as the current system, servers are getting match-ups against servers 8 ranks above them. I doubt anyone thinks thinks that is fun at all for either server. The higher tier server just gets a free Karma/ WxP train and the lower tier server gets the short end of the stick.

With the League system coming up its going to be worse. The lowest tier server is guaranteed to roll a server 12 ranks above them. I can tell you that neither server is going to have much fun at all in WvW for that week. The lower tier server is just going to have to wait it out for another week and hope the next roll will be enjoyable. You know something is wrong if you have people saying “I cant wait till Friday maybe we will roll a FUN match-up”

1 up and 1 down method groups servers around its equal rank. It will also give the “winning” server a sense of accomplishment and awarded with going to the next bracket to take on more challenging match-ups. the only servers this wont effect much is the top 2 and the bottom 2 servers but im sure they don’t mind as their WvW experience will still be ENJOYABLE.

I just wanted to bring up an old concept. WvW should be enjoyable EVERY week and not get these shafted match-ups.

/end of rant

JamboHammer.4397:

to the 3 ferg in HP all gs mace/shield warriors even with ur speed hacks u still died 10+ times to our 3 man team u guys really do need those hacks to kill someone if u cant beat us with them lmfaoo as 3 stunlock dps wars

I was there, True story

Spica.9308:

Colt.9051:

Aevis.4632:

Just curious here but I was wondering where all my fellow GoM went? O.o

Seems like no one is defending our bl this match up. We haven’t had wp all day o.O

Why are we doing so bad this week? We were doing so well these past months. What happened?

We actually had all 3 WPs, but then a little thing called sleep came in and ET usually strikes us while we’re away anyways. With all the transfers out too, coverage wars aren’t in our favor.

Strange. NSP were attacking our EB right to the keep while GoM took advantage and try to ninja rush all our keeps with 3 alpha golems and 1 omega. That fight we lost our bay since I was solo defending it and I was busy changing builds. Later you went on to south Hills. I called some people and commander in EB and wipe you out and destroyed 1 golem. Then a few mins of pretending to be gone, some of you came back to garrison water gate again (while we were busy in EB) with 1 omega / 2 alpha golems and some of your people then you got completely massacred including all your golems swimming for their lives. So we took it further into your own borderlands. Lucky for you “The Patch” saved what was left of it (which was totally unfair for us btw!), we would’ve went all night capping everything that was green when we didn’t even really have any plans. It’s not to brag (we were quiet while you keep calling us names over and over). I’m just kitten ed how your servers keep looking down on ET. Hope you all earn your fall to the bottom of tier 8, you’re so delusional and noisy. BTW arguing about coverage and sleep ET is Medium-High at best population while GoM is still Very High certain times. Don’t even use server transfers as an excuse cause us and HoD fall from Tier 1 from “FREE transfers” so your experience with bandwagon transfers means garbage to us. -_-’

This post get Lolz, does ET plan on hitting NSP anytime soon? or you guys still playing for “2nd” place?

yes this is happening to me since the recent update as well, i get huge lag spikes that occur every 5 minutes and sometimes get the boot as well

TLDR………..

So why doesn’t ANET use a 1 up 1 down method to matchmaking? it gives clear winners of the week and losers of the week. The way it is now even if you “Win” the match depending on the rating of the servers you played against you can still lose ranking…so are the winners really winners? It also may give incentive for servers to Climb the ladder for concecutive wins.

Nyx Xox.3540:

LOL SOME of you GOM, your such kitten talkers. Never seen you wipe us with half our numbers. Perhaps many of you don’t know how to count You guys typically run away unless you outnumber us. Keep running your mouths, you get your points from PVDOOR. Congrats you so GEWD. err mah gawd.

Wow, a member of Kain complaining about PvDoor? Another Kain comment that gets Lolz from me haha

Excerpt from Kain playbook: Okay guys its YB Primetime. Abandon EB and get to GoM BL where their defenses are minimal, Take their stuff quickly before they can mount any type of defense and we will have 2 maps of delicious PPT!! Mwahahahaha

GoM playbook: If its Red its Dead, YOLO!!

PS: your plan backfired last night, we’ve seen you run that play too many times already Kain you need new scavenging tactics, here at GoM we don’t take kindly to scavengers hitting us from behind constantly

Martolly.2576:

kingcragus.6810:

Martolly.2576:

wvw is garbage.
Yes its zerg. vs. zerg.

Nothing else.

The people that talk about 1v1, or 1v2-3 only gets fights once every 45 minutes or so. (and thats being very lenient)

even when that is the case, theres a 99% chance that the person that you are fighting against is a very mobile class that will reset/flee the fight at any chance of loss.

There is no strat to this game for wvw or pvp. If you play a non mobile class for the solo game play and pretend being a scout means something then you are screwed. And just by the way, you add nothing to the wvw.

So if you have no interest in zerging, you have come to the wrong game.

Ignore this guys post…total bs.

You literally are lying by calling this “bull sh—”

Scouts honestly serve no purpose what-so-ever. This is a fact. I’m not sure what you are trying to sell here. But you do not need to lie to the guy. He came here for the truth of what actually happens.

The majority of the people on my server simply aren’t pvping this week especially because its only a zerg. vs. zerg.

Why would you tell a new person anything different than the truth. What purpose does that serve? As soon as they get to WvW they will see what actually happens. Clumps of terrible players taking battle objectives, “battle objective humping” as other games have previously coined the term.
There is no skill involved what-so-ever. Period. To say otherwise is nothing but a blatant lie in an attempt to preserve what ever type of false mentality you are trying to pose on the community.

If you are looking to solo, or small man, 90% of your time will be spent looking for an even fight that simply won’t happen more than once an hour. As i stated previously, One even small man vs. small man fight, or 1v2, or so on, is few, far and between.

You hit the nail on the direct head, mr. original post.

This game not only promotes zerging, it disables and hinders anyone not zerging.

These are just facts.

And if you want to call it ‘bull sh—" show me the server, any server. With a 30 minutes fraps/video of you or anyone doing small man, with out ’clipped’ streams i mean from walking out of base to the fights. Of more than 3 fights of even to near even odds, yes even if its a 5v10 sure, why not.

You won’t, you can’t unless its already rigged and you have already pre set up the video.
Hell you do that, ill personally give you 1000g in game gold.

But you won’t, because you can’t not on any server.

Period.

P.S. That’s a real challenge. Do it i dare you, show me! Please! Prove me wrong!
I want you to prove me wrong! I need you to prove me wrong, so that there is hope for this game!

Ignore Martrolly, It’s all BS

Edit: Not Hard to avoid a zerg in small groups if you pay attention to the map and /map chat reports of enemy movements but im sure its hard for the guy above to read the WvW chat in LA

TCDJ.5378:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

Kaineng also appears to be downright terrified of Yak’s Bend. So factor in the fact that we have to sacrifice a good portion of our offense to play non-stop defense against the 2nd place server, meanwhile the 1st place server gets a free pass on keeping most of their borderlands fully upgraded all week.

We seem to be winning most of our head-to-head clashes, though, and we’re able to nab top PPT occasionally during peak times, so I’d say we’re doing quite alright. If blue would start playing smart, the scoring would be a lot tighter and they’d actually have a shot at winning the week.

It’s different. If I have 10-15 rallians on me, of which I have may be 5 on Teamspeak, I’m going for GoM. To take today for an example: we held all your towers, garrison and hills at the same time.
Props to the defenders at bay, but we eventually got that too. I had sent scouts to YB BL and GoM BL just before we started on your hills, and the reports made the choice easy.

Just look at how later, when we did have bay but lost your garrison again, we went in again with the three omegas. Even after repeated calls they didn’t aim for your ACs but instead targeted the warrior that rushed outside, giving you all the time in the world to build siege at your inner gate. That was terrible execution on our part, and was also one of the reasons why I didn’t bring that group to YB.

Additionally your havoc groups keep showing up on our map. Taking a tower or two (or four) on your borderlands usually gets them to switch back. And because switching maps often costs a lot of players, we just stay and take whatever else is up for grabs. Operation “Low Hanging Fruit” commences and we stick around for a while focusing on you instead of YB.

I’m not saying GoM is bad. If you were, the score wouldn’t be as close as it is. However you definitely are an easier target to get our PPT up and remain in second place. Additionally, I think some of the decisions you’re making don’t work out in your favor.

Yaks focuses on us a lot to keep us from catching up – which makes sense, the server in 2nd place is the biggest threat for the one in 1st place. At the same time you’re hitting us to try to overtake us. So we’re stuck in an endless 2v1 (like WvW is supposed to) – we’re the most interesting target for both servers. If you have to retake your BL that gives us some breathing room to push YB back again.

I LoL when I read that, from our side in EB all we see is KG coming up our backsides while we attempt to push Yaks every single time, then I look at the map and I see Golanta uncontested…and you wonder why we push to your side all the time

I agree with TeamBattleAxe and you seem afraid of YB, maybe that’s not how it is but its definitely how it looks

Sororita.3465:

Sagabatou.1076:

You got lucky GoM, that new build saved OL, for now.

1. People actually get a hard match-up and chicken out of WvW
2. Pve Content

thus why we’ve been outnumbered, 3 nights/days in a row for a good majority of the time.

getting tagged teamed by a Zerg from each opposing server probably helped with that lol

Every week we get these GoM haters posting on the forums

Every week I get new people to laugh at

SeeBeyond.1486:

@FooDang
Are you emotionally distressed much?

No, im fine thank you
on another note future attempts to discredit our server and how you and your guild/server are so awesome will be a LoL session by me
I’m sure others will follow suit

@Seebeyond

Your gonna be one of those guys aren’t you lolz
we had one of those guys called Avalanche from FC on the forums
we all just laughed at him…

SeeBeyond.1486:

Well, now we know why GoM is in such a low tier with soo much coverage. They are so bad they never fight outside siege range. That is, their own siege range, and they always have tons of siege.

Outside of our siege range? oh you mean to go outside our siege range and fight in your siege range, I get what your saying.

Last I checked you guys have ballistas and ACs not far from where the fighting happens so you can fall back on it. I try and find some good fights With SF but they are always rolling 20+ deep, I get some good skirmishes with ET though, good fights.

As for rating goes RNG is just bad for matches as we never get anyone higher rating than us so we can’t milk off the higher ranking server’s points *Cough NSP *Cough

Archon.6481:

Main Point: Stealth is not a crutch.

ok my previous response got infracted so i guess ill keep this one moderately clean, let me explain why people say stealth is a crutch

you said previously if you make a mistake or low on health you can just perma-stealth until you are full on life again

let play out a scenario

unsuspecting newb: " La La La what a beautiful day in EB let me go and get some supply and run to the zerg"

Thief: "Mwahahahaha I live for this moment!! "
*Stealth
*Instagib

unsuspecting Newb: "AHHhaphuhenfeinsjdfbsahfiu /map I Hate Thieves!!

meanwhile the thief is too busy /laugh to notice the party of 4 jumping him from behind

Thief: "Nooooo, my legs!! help me im too young to die!! if only i had something, anything to help me get back on my feet….oh wait a minute *Stealth

Thief “Mwahahahahahaha!!”

Edit: I’ve beaten my fair share of thieves 1v1, I’m just saying the stealth mechanic rendering the thief unable to be targeted is a crutch and the class itself is a troll class

No flesh worm blows, it sucks, and is worthless, do not nerf it

Archon.6481:

Perma stealth allows you to easily GUARANTEE INITIAL BURST in someone, and WHEN YOU MAKE A MISTAKE OR ARE LOW ON HEALTH YOU CAN PERMA STEALTH UNTIL YOU FULLY RECOVER

I LoL when I read that, you guys die a lot in WvW? reroll thief and have the ability to reset fights even if you make mistakes, this is coming from a skilled player not me, want to instagib people? don’t worry your burst is guaranteed

Archon.6481:

Now, please stop calling stealth a crutch.

I’d hate to break it to you, its a crutch, but its cool, keep thinking your so awesome on your thief

the ability to break targeting is OP but I guess your delusional

PS. keep thinking your awesome, everyone else knows your not

Edit: look at it this way, any other class that does not have a stealth mechanic goes 1vX a group of people lets say 4, that’s 4 people that are focusing them, it takes skill to take every one of those enemies abilities, constantly, and survive let alone being able to stomp them and survive

stealth…it takes away the threat of 4 people having their targeting reticles on you, once you stealth its a guessing game, even if its for a few seconds that’s enough time to cut and run or line up for a ridiculous amount of dmg from backstab, Cloak and dagger? ive taken 5k dmg from cloak and dagger, and it stealths you when it hits, oh your stealth? heres a backstab for 9k dmg, 14k dmg and all you have to do is run up to someone and press 2 buttons while being untargetable and I have to guess a dodge roll because I cant see you, i’d like to welcome you to a troll class

I Solo roam with D/D ele, Necro, and Eng, no problems so far, perma stealth thieves are for Trolling and nothing more

Every vet WvW player has never said “kitten that thief killed me, he has pro skills”

but quite a few people I’ve grouped with that mains thief tries to roam with an alt and says, " kitten this I keep dying, brb on my thief " lolz

not saying every thief is bad at playing the game, ive grouped with skilled players that are just as good with alts, im just saying those that play thieves are either

1. people that need that stealth crutch or

2. Skilled players that want to Troll

It took me awhile to get used to not having those excapes and mobility with my D/D ele but learning the pros and cons of other classes and how to solo roam with them is very rewarding.

I run condition Fear duration build, if I see a thief stealth I switch start scepter/dagger, he hits me I switch to my staff with Sigil of hydromany to apply chill, stack conditions with staff and fear, switch to death shroud shackles and fear, that might be enough to take them down depends on the opposing players skill/build. if not rinse repeat stacking conditions with scepter, remember to stand in their smoke field to keep them from stacking stealth from heartseeker

I don’t have a problem with stealth, I have a problem with Cloak and dagger and Backstab dmg, 12k dmg from pressing 2 buttons? Im in the middle of a good small group skirmish and my health is about a little over half and here comes the thief out of left field and drops me. really? lol I guess I cant complain I appreciate the damage from thieves on my team

Colt.9051:

Had some great 3 way fights at our Bay’s lord room, great fun there!

And to DR; you guys have enough thieves on your server? Really, it’s getting old.

saying DR has got a lot of thieves is like saying Janth has got a lot of Warriors, both are true statements

Dont you hate it when thieves get you when your trying to type and your dead before you can react? you thieves are silly

Avalanche.5321:

FooDang.2498:

Avalanche.5321:

Avalanche.5321:

Hey GoM, what happened at the FC EB Keep there?

Arrowson’s Crossing.

Thanks for all the bags! Wiped a zerg force of GoM that was at least four times the size of our defending group. With Siege, Tactics, and Open Combat.

Proof is in the pudding, boys, FC = All the skill.

Awwwww look at the Fergie get all excited about using his siege in a defensive position, isn’t that cute.

Excited? Just proving a point. It’s a handicap, plain, and simple.

Handicap? you must be new to WvW

Welcome, pleased to have you…

Avalanche.5321:

Avalanche.5321:

Hey GoM, what happened at the FC EB Keep there?

Arrowson’s Crossing.

Thanks for all the bags! Wiped a zerg force of GoM that was at least four times the size of our defending group. With Siege, Tactics, and Open Combat.

Proof is in the pudding, boys, FC = All the skill.

Awwwww look at the Fergie get all excited about using his siege in a defensive position, isn’t that cute.

Mek.2947:

And the whole time you’re doing this, the other classes don’t have any cooldowns of their own to catch up with you right?

they do, what im saying is I get away most of the time, i don’t see how you cant… post patch i got chased by 5 guys from behind overlook all the way to QL before i got cut down (i was too deep in enemy territory trying to gank solo) so…i don’t know what your problem is.

Edit: granted I was borderline almost dead some of the time while being chased but still covered more than half the map in EB before I died

Edit: also use terrain to your advantage. Terrain is OP

I play D/D ele and I can get away most of the time.

I 1v1 a thief and if his buddies show up I mistform switch to water attunement which clears a condition.

When mistform is up im dodgerolling to get EA cleansing wave to clear another condition

lightning flash away and switch to air to get swiftness and RTL, switch to fire and burning speed,

Ether renewal when needed. how can you not get away?

Are they on your kitten switch to earth and cripple them and/or earthquake.

on your kitten again? switch to air for swiftness and turn around and updraft, updraft will put you farther away from them

Lightning flash should be off CD….use again

Burning Speed when possible,

I ask again how do you not get away? lol use the tools that are given to you

TLDR………….

My problems with thieves.

1. stealth gives them the ability to disengage ANY fight whenever they want, they can reset any fight that they want, if they die its because they were greedy and they felt it was worth the risk

2. Do you know when I get backstabbed most often? When I’m fighting someone else, multiple thieves? GG

its funny that the thieves that try and say they arnt OP try and list counters to thieves in 1v1 situations, it’s WvWvW not 1v1.

Sometimes I roam in a group of 3, 1 is a thief, I see how ridiculous they can be, I’ve faced against small groups where they have 2 thieves, that is even more ridiculous.

here’s a scenario:

You stealth…How can I focus something I can’t see? I can’t, so I only have 2 other options, focus their buddy or run

Option 1- Focus their buddy…I got a knife stuck in my back

Option 2- I run…oh man that thief is fast because I got a knife stuck in my back

as I lay there with a pole sticking out my kitten I go through the combat log and think, “kitten that’s a lot of dmg for only clicking a couple buttons”

I don’t have a thief. I’ve beaten my fair share of thieves 1v1 before…its when they are implemented in group play that they get out of hand. I don’t say they are OP I say that if played right they have an “Edge” over the rest of the classes. (I also say that about the Mesmer)

All the good thieves I’ve met say thieves are OP.

I just assume the ones that say otherwise are not good.

I Monk For L O V E.7528:

You are welcome FC for that GoM wipe inside your keep :P. I lead our whole EB zerg into your keep to wipe GoM. The skill lag that ensued was awful.

Your so cool… /off sarcasm

^ do it……….

@ Ninjapotpie

My 3 favorite things…

Are you going to be streaming in WvWvW? Or is this going to be strictly PvE content?