Guild Wars 2

I sent one off for my guild a couple days ago, hope it goes through!

So I received this email from edgeofthemists@arena.net

“Greetings, and thank you for your interest in joining the public testing of the new “Edge of the Mists” World Vs. World map!

After reviewing your submission, we feel that your guild and its members would be a great addition to our testing program! As part of this program, you will be joining hundreds of other passionate Guild Wars 2 players from around the world and have the unique opportunity to influence the development of both World vs. World and Guild Wars 2 through your feedback."

Etc etc…

It looks somewhat legitimate- the links do go back to the real website. My only issue is I don’t even think I finished that application submission for my guild to be in EoTM, and I have no idea which guild this particular invite is for (if its legitimate.) None of my other guild members seemed to know.

They sent me a roster to fill out for members to extend the invite out to, again looks somewhat legit, I’ve done enough beta testing in general to know what looks right and what is iffy.

So the question is, is this email legitimate- and which of my guilds was it for? So that I give the sort of testing base that was intended by this invitation.

I am really hoping the paper bags make it in the game. The only good charr helmets besides Tier are gemstone stuff, not complaining about how the gem stuff looks- but it would be really nice to be able to buy a just new helmet skin to run around with in WvW.

Mariulo.2019:

My own version of Test Drive I did a while ago. It simpler than Maeried.6458’s because it only focuses on the theme without trying to ape the other parts at the same time.

Test Drive – How to train your Dragon – John Powell

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Frayta.4816, I direct you to my cover of the morrowind theme which is very similar, but much more easy to do. You can really do a choir with a flute:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/audio/The-New-Flute-Sheet-Music-Collection/page/2#post2613440

I’ve been playing that a lot lately- which is why I requested dragonborn- at least the initial stanza of the song.

KeeZee.7312:

Maelwaedd.5842:

KeeZee you mad cos you switched from BG to JQ a couple of weeks ago, yeah you mad

Frayta there are many on BG that wish for nothing more than a balance to the top servers if we could get 9 servers that would be awesome, but its not gonna happen we have tried and managed to get 5 nearly 6 balanced servers before free transfers ended and everyone stacked onto one or 2 servers now leagues came out and they stack to the top 3

It was many months ago (July), when BG already had map queues on all 4 maps and was winning vs JQ and SoR.

And BG has no interest in an even match up. I was there, I know to what lengths BG will go to avoid it.

Nice attempt though.

Again, congratz on buying the EU guild to stack the server………again.

This is what the problem is about, Just because someone is on BG doesn’t mean they were one of the people who helped fund the transfer of an EU guild, but you’ll attack them for it, because they are on BG.

I understand competitive animosity, I really do. We are fighting each other often, and BG, SOR, and JQ are rivals- I don’t expect people to be caught up in niceties. But they are legitimate competitors, People buy players on football teams mid season all the time-it’s called getting an edge. Your server has the same right as they do to acquire more players.

The rules of WvW are entirely fair, the players opinions- and circumstance are what make it seem not so.

Another request from me.

Dragonborn (Skyrim)

It may work better for the trumpet, but still some semblance of it would be cool.

All the crying, and whining and general QQ about the seasons match ups are lunacy. The only difference about leagues is we are getting extra stuff for doing what we already have been doing.

The problem is how its advertised. This “Best of the best go head to head.” stuff is nonsense. As a T1 server fighter myself, I would KILL to fight other servers of a T1 caliber other then just BG and SOR- I like the idea of fighting other servers besides them, but they should be ready to fight us.

Gold league would have been a much more interesting thing if it was NA Vs EU Teir 1.

My biggest wish would be if Teir 1 was consisted of 9 servers instead of 3, (I’m talking competitive strength here.) It would be a lot more interesting and fun that way. But that won’t happen since there are no WvW exclusive server types.

If you hate armor dimorphism, then, and this is a serious suggestion. Play a charr, or asura.

These races have a culture where, like you protecting themselves with their armor is more important then it looking “Attractive.” They don’t care to separate themselves with different clothing. (Other then males sometimes being topless in charr culture.) So the armor isn’t different male or female.

Now if your saying, you want to be humanoid, and have non dimorphic armor, that’s going to be a big uphill battle for you. Game developers and their customers mostly expect to be given sexy, slim fitted women. (While trying to draw a line in theory LMAO.)

I hate it myself- but it’s something I fully except every time I make a female humanoid character, even the plate armor is going to show skin.

Will you guys at least change the loading screen back to what it used to be afterward?

The carvings depicted may not actually be shown, but the new one is ugly- and to my eyes, looks very lazy in comparison to the old one. (Which was very beautiful.)

The issue was fixed, thank you.

Restarted several times, rebooted the computer, cleared the cache- restarted the modem- Yup it’s broken all right.

Hopefully it won’t take them too long to fix the only thing they care about on the Mac Client.

(The regular TP does work.)

My biggest critique of it atm is that WvW leagues shouldn’t be listed under living world, because it’s not. It belongs in that nice little WvW section of the achievements. Theres nothing living world about it, you just put it there to get people’s attention.

A lot of unwanted attention I might add. It gives people the wrong idea on whats expected of them when they play that game mode, and only wanted to participate to get the meta. But still only cared for their own meta instead of actually helping their team.

Mmmm, this quickly turned from discussion to “Tell Anet exactly what to do to about world v world population.”

A lot of these paragraphs are essentially the same ideas- but no one felt they needed to read other peoples ideas- because of course, they have to explain it to devs.

Since we have plenty of that on the table already, why not talk about what we, the players could do to improve WvW competition and balance of our servers. What tools would we like, to help with it.

Player and Guild recruitment is something the servers have used to grow their WvW teams since the beginning of the game- it would be nice if there was something along the lines of a more complicated LFG system for guilds, Looking for server in game, and players on those servers could all have the chance to pitch their server to these roaming guilds.

Since I would like to see more servers be suitable competition for JQ other then BG and SOR, it may be fun to have set server team weeks, like ET and BG vs SOR and AR SBI and JQ- they could go to each others maps and help out or something. Could be fun to help the underdog, while not essentially letting your enemy win.

And, last but not least- A basic voice chat system built into the game would be nice. It’s no Vent or Ts3, but being able to talk to someone can make a difference, and not everyone is comfortable using 3rd party software, (or unsure how to use it.)

lol I sort of said what Id like again, but much of this requires effort on our own part so. Santa baby~

In other games (WoW comes to mind) PvP instanced games (like Alterac Valley) Were balanced in numbers via Gating.

How gating works:

The system sets a base number of players lets say 20 spots, and the amount of slots would increase incrementally based on flagging certain events. Side A hits 15/20, the gate is raised to allow 30 people total- But Side B and C fill out the 30 already. The gate will not raise again until the lowest sides population hit the next gate. This was done in games to prevent 5 on 40’s, the game would not even start until the minimum gate was filled (10 people in the case of AV)

The Pros of gating- curbs victories soley dependent on number of forces. Balances out numbers incrementally, the cap can be raised based off of demand to get into the game.

Gating calculations could provide functional data to set up future match ups- It would provide average players based on the time of the day.

Cons of gating: Would cause strife for WvW players of non NA times, If ET has no oceanics then very few of the opposing sides would get to play against them.

Gating does not push out players if the other side’s dwindle- It simply won’t let more join until enough leave to be under the gate. So if nobody left on one side you could be left with a 90 on 20.

Gating isn’t easy to program, and takes a constant stream of code to function. (I don’t have a lot of confidence Anet can pull it off without adding a bunch of lag, and bugs they wouldn’t bother fixing for months.)

While I understand the cumulative point total is ultimately the deciding factor to the winner of the league, I find it extremely questionable that some of you are declaring war on JQ’s lax weeks, when your also predicting we will beat you in the 1v1 weeks.

If we do beat you on these next weeks- then ultimately the victory is ours- and the league serves its purpose. It weights the strength of the server in a multitude of match ups. We got third first week, but if we placed first in a unique matchup against every other server- does that not mean we won fairly?

Rednik.3809:

This is viable tactic. Adapt.
Yes, this phrase comes from a man who spent 1h+ yesterday assaulting garry under constant banner resses.

Agreed.

It should be noted that in most situations most of the warriors blow too many banners too early- so more often then not zeros run out of banners from being hasty and uncoordinated.

If that lord really was revived “20 times in two hours.” It means A: You take six minutes to kill the lord every time. B: The enemy in your case was well oiled and very coordinated. And Or C: You were never a match for the enemy to begin with, and they engaged in a farm feast.

A good and long equal sided large scale battle is what most people CRAVE in WvW fights. They don’t come very often- but those banners are part of what allow them to happen. NPC’s cant be downed, only dead. So unless they enable a downed mechanic to Lords in WvW there’s no reason to change the ‘banner’ or any revival skill.

Oh Hell yeah, I bought one for my main today (A charr).

I love them, their ridiculous in the best way, it’s like a chibi. I normally go for a very serious look on my character- but this gives me a good giggle, (plus those jokes, lmao)

I’d just like to say, the majority of us in the T1 servers aren’t fresh off the boat transfers, and we care about our communities- I would go on to say that it is our loyalty to the server that brings out the recruitment. T1 servers have been recruiting from lower tires for a long time. My guild got recruited from ET to JQ. ET didn’t give a flip about us, we were just another player, just another guild to them. When we came to JQ five months ago-(long before leagues were even hinted at) we were greeted with open arms, friendly remarks and the most helpful of information you’d be surprised to find from a hard core PVP server.

Most of these queues are triggered as a result of these added achievements. Oh JQ also happened to be one of the highest PVE servers too, go figure. So while, maybe 10% of the new bodies in the queue are transfers the other are those who haven’t WvWd before, or just want achievements.

I’m not complaining, its better for us to get new bodies to the server from the server, it costs us less time and money, (Yes sometimes we help people get over) to train internally then to recruit a 50 man guild from a random server.

Do the queues suck? Yes. But the queue doesn’t sniff at the number of your tier, queues suck whenever you get them wherever you get them. We can QQ, or QQ about the QQ all we like- but it’s still there. We are all better off finding things to do when in queue, then complaining about it, or complaining about complainers.

I just put in a bid, ankitten ow waiting for a sale on dawn to complete Sunrise

We don’t like getting the “easy weeks” either. It’s incredibly boring- and we’ve had so much of them, people start not even showing up in the end because there is no challenge.

Having been in both ET and JQ now, I can honestly say it’s worse having Nothing to do because you own everything, then struggling to take the smallest of points.

It’s frustrating to fight overwhelming odds, but when theres nothing to do you might as well not even play.

A longbow that turned the skin of the user to be “on fire” where it was entirely made of fire- it would leave scorch marks as foot steps.

The bow itself could look like some living ember, or magma creature.

To spice things up it could have a blue flame at night.

That or some undead themed weapon- that changed the skin of the character to their skeletal structure.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

^— It’s sort of ONLY tiny studios that release both OSX and Windows clients – the reason for which being that if they don’t they have an even smaller market than their already small market.
Very few major studios produce games for release on both windows and OSX. Notable exceptions being racing games and recently SimCity (which was a disaster on both clients and EA is just not a good company so yeah…)

I would say I’m disappointed by this news, but it’s not really news to me. The OSX client works for the majority of users, and works well. Most of the issues that are experienced can be fixed with the deletion of a folder and the performance is not altogether that much lower than the windows version – provided you actually have a decent mac, but you need a decent PC to play the game anyway because it just really isn’t very well optimised.

Actually, whether or not a company goes both ways is a lot more rooted in the choice of engine- then the market share. Take blizzard for example, all of there games are available on mac, linux, and windows at launch, because they built the engine in such a way that it can port natively with relative ease. This is also why indie developers can peg all systems more, we choose our engines most of the time, and we choose ones with the best porting ability. The problem with GW2 is that the engine is archaic, it still uses the GW1 engine. Though heavily modified to increase graphical possibilities, it is still GW1 engine, this means like GW1, it does not support mac natively.

This is also what makes the game lag so much in WvW while other games can handle these encounters of large size very well, the engine is simply stronger- the architecture is more stable. Culling was something in place to help alleviate the stress of an old engine, now it’s gone and mac players got a huge hit from it.

Thing is, I don’t think we’ll be seeing a native client anytime soon- unless word from the hills suggest that Gw2, is getting a new, beefier engine which was designed to port to most computer systems from the go.

Don’t get me wrong OpenGL does take more effort to learn, and use- for example it doesn’t have a built in audio support- Companies like blizzard usually will write a windows version in directs anyways- because that is more native to windows then OpenGL.

In the end off all of this, the ultimate reason we don’t have a Mac native client, is that Arenanet team is too lazy or busy to do anything regarding Mac, unless we can make it worth there time- or someone in there decides to take pity on us, and actively work to make our experiance better.

When I spoke to a dev a couple weeks ago- they were working on stuff for mid-september, so they must really be working deadline to deadline. So I like to think they are simply stretched too thin.

Aikata.7095:

Frayta.4816:

Is there any chance that we can eventually have the front page just have the music notation when you click on the song- instead of linking to the posts? Perhaps putting credit to the side of the song of who found it/composed it?

It would probably clean it a good deal- and keep new posts here.

Aikata.7095:

This is a test post for the new thread.

Guild Wars

Sunny Glade Theme (Super Adventure Box OST) - Sylentir.8913

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SAB Sunny Glade Theme

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Lost Woods - Rayti

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Song of Storms - Rayti

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Zelda's Lullaby - Rayti

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Epona's Song - Rayti

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Midna's Lament - diese.7168

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Midna's Desperate Hour - diese.7168

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Midna’s Desperate Hour

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Like this? I originally proposed this on the old thread and even took around 4 hours writing up the code including all of the songs from the original thread. Unfortunately, the character count skyrockets to something that isn’t feasible with a 5000 character limit per post, especially now that we have over 200 songs and growing. I really, really wanted to, but it didn’t work out. :/

Having the permalink takes the user to the original post, which’ll show the creator, any important notes about playing from the creator, and also links to videos and such. It seems to be the best solution for now.

Alright- I see what you mean-!

On another note, a lot of Rayti’s compositons have more complete (and in my opinion better sounding versions) of several pieces, like Beauty and the Beast, Jurassic Park-

The exception being Anastasia, which has the full version beneath it.

Is there any chance that we can eventually have the front page just have the music notation when you click on the song- instead of linking to the posts? Perhaps putting credit to the side of the song of who found it/composed it?

It would probably clean it a good deal- and keep new posts here.

quakeroatmeal.4829:

Except there are no girls on the Internet.

It’s because we wear disguises.

By the way, don’t look too hard at that tree over there, it’s not moving I promise you.

You DO NOT want the cider wrapper, it’s terrible!

Once they actually make a native client to the mac OSX, linux should be easy peasy.

Aikata.7095:

Frayta.4816:

I LOOOOVE the ones you did for princess mononoke- if you want to take a crack at Spirited away songs like dragon boy- it would be awesome, even more if you could do it for 2 instruments <D

Thanks! It’s been my favorite film from Studio Ghibli for quite a while now. Spirited Away is definitely up there though. Do you mean something like a duet? I’m…actually not sure if that could work.

I could definitely work out both parts and notate it in our new “bracket notation” standard, but it wouldn’t show how to coordinate the two parts together. That would require more complex music notation, which is counter intuitive to keeping the songs accessible and easy to read.

If I wrote out the notes, you would have to figure out how the two parts fit together by listening to the song, but it would be in a different key so that may be…difficult. X.x

But yeah! More Joe Hisaishi pieces! I’ll see what I can do.

Yeah it’s way hard-

I have the bare minimum knowledge for music- it’s been a challenge for me to just start on getting ‘Tribe of heavenly gods theme’ done, and it’s at least paced slow enough to detect the notes- If I knew how to hear or read them out xD..

Aikata.7095:

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

That princess Mononoke theme is awesome! I’ve been playing that a lot, along with Come Little Children. I made a small change to the first part of the song:

The Legend of Akittenaka – Princess Mononoke

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^ I added some full stops behind some of the notes, as also happens in the actual song.

Thanks for the extra detail! Added it to my original post.

Btw everyone, working on getting the list updated right now. I’ll be done before the night is over with…

I LOOOOVE the ones you did for princess mononoke- if you want to take a crack at Spirited away songs like dragon boy- it would be awesome, even more if you could do it for 2 instruments <D

Sometimes things just break in mac versions, because of the cier wrapper- for example i’ve been getting 80x the random artifacting since Scarlets invasion patched in, extremely annoying considering- I get more artifacting on higher res- and low FPs, but on low res, I get flashing HUD, and unloaded visual content for so much stuff on random.- I simply can’t win.

But id rather play the mac version, and keep pushing through bug ports- and the issue of making a native client then to install windows osx completely- or buy another machine- because frankly, SOMEONE has to fight for bigger companies to support OSX natively.

As an indie dev its much easier for us to port to what ever we want, because we didn’t build our engine, we use stuff like Construct 2, Unity- ETC, Anet built the GW2, and frankly its getting very archaic, and shows that it was used in GW1.

I hope when they make the native client they take the opportunity to really remake the engine to be a lot more powerful then it currently is- or it will not stand up to the future next gen MMO’s performances.

A gift box- to regift gem store goods to friends, that we already have bought (or happen to have obtained more of from BL chests)

Request:

Ushiwaka’s apperance- Okami, it’s done with a shakuhachi- so probably would work in the higher tones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKvQrY7-49M

Request

Tribe of heavenly gods theme- Okami -hopefully this is slow enough for a flute version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEmpN4Q4veM

Treeline.3865:

Kronos.3695:

Frayta.4816:

While I sympathize with your desire to have every mini-pet, demanding they give you access to something that was intended to be a special item for those people at gamescom, is a bit outrageous.

Blizzcon, has been giving out special thing like this for people who attend every year, and it isn’t just so people attend to get the latest miniature. Its to commemorate the event itself.

Blizzard also gave the first Reigns of Alar, and an entirely unique bow, to a terminally ill Child named Ezrah Chatterhorn, now, what would you say to people who were outraged that they didn’t have access to this bow? Would you agree with them- or would you be willing to bend, that in fact that bow was given as a gesture of good will to someone- and shouldn’t be tempered with.

I’d agree with you if the mini wasn’t on the minis tab.
It’s part of a collection, and now the collection could lose all its sense.

Ditto! If they didn’t put it in our faces I would not have a huge problem with it either. But as it happens it is made quite clear that this is not just a “unique gift for a special few people”, it is a hole in our collection in the truest sense.

In that way I do agree- that sparkles shouldn’t be in the mini’s section- if it has to be a collectable make it a “Conventions” tab or something. That would be a good solution to this- as it would ease the minds of mini-collectors, but still give sparkles the purpose it was meant to have, which was to be a gift to those who attended the gamescom and went to the presentation.

-Also giving less force to those who are selling sparkles- which is a very sad thing, as something that was meant to be a gift, or rather a thanks to who who went to games com- is now being abused, since it takes advantage of the average Gw2 collector.

To prevent sparkles from being sold from a third party all together- Anet may be smart to require a ‘GW2’ log in email, so that these mini’s can be delivered directly without chance of resale, abuse or in some cases, having gone to the event, but the special item was out of stock.

While I sympathize with your desire to have every mini-pet, demanding they give you access to something that was intended to be a special item for those people at gamescom, is a bit outrageous.

Blizzcon, has been giving out special thing like this for people who attend every year, and it isn’t just so people attend to get the latest miniature. Its to commemorate the event itself.

Blizzard also gave the first Reigns of Alar, and an entirely unique bow, to a terminally ill Child named Ezrah Chatterhorn, now, what would you say to people who were outraged that they didn’t have access to this bow? Would you agree with them- or would you be willing to bend, that in fact that bow was given as a gesture of good will to someone- and shouldn’t be tempered with.

Because people buy those rares to attempt to forge a precursor a la mystic toilet.

Dawn. Dusk, Leaf of Kudzu, and Colossus, are some of the most sought precursors- and so have the msot expensive exotics and rares.

I don’t think the economy of GW2 is old enough to say as to if it is healthy or not- market trends and stuff are usually only known years after the fact- and whether or not they were good for the economy.

We aren’t all out on the streets begging for coppers- its better to have a means to aquire gold and it to be a little more available, then for only a select few people (those who buy gold) to have enough to comfortably do most anything.

Ususally they won’t change a gem price unless something goes on random sale A la, new content patch- or nobodys buying it because they think it’s too expensive case: Riding broom and tunneling drill.

Theres usually a sale on SOMETHING once a week- I dont see instruments go up often though.

Edit: if you mean buying gems with gold- then they are updated constantly- when someone buys gems with gold- the price goes up, when someone buys gold with gems- the price goes down.

That’s what sale discounts are for.

Anet has enough customers buying keys to not need to lower the price for them. Should the chance to get something better be higher? Ideally yes, but- they will do what is best for their business.

The fact they even give you a currency exchange to get gems other then buying them- is a privilege, not a right. If you cannot afford to buy gems with RM$, then save up for them with gold.

Diviner.7405:

Why do they have to be legendary or ascended?

Why not just make the mini’s you listed?

Does the color of the name really make that much of a difference?

^this. Id rather the TP stay clear of anything purple that doesn’t pertain to making a legendary. Because you know they’d make legendary mini pets tradable.

tolunart.2095:

NCSoft/Anet is not a non-profit organization. Their goal is to make money, and the more money they make, the more “stuff” gets put into the game. When they stop making money, they cut back on expenses and the game suffers.

If they really wanted to gouge their customers, the only ways to buy gems would be with cash or plastic. That you can buy items in the cash shop using only in-game currency is a bonus to begin with.

My wife used to play Farmville and similar games, until she realized that you reach a point where you have so much “stuff” that you need to buy a bigger farm to fit it all in. But there’s a limit to how many tokens the game gives you towards that goal, and to get a big enough farm you have to use a credit card. Many games are set up this way, with GW2 you never have to spend real money on anything but the original fee for the account.

Well said friend, it’s good to hear someone understands this. GW2 is one of the most honest F2P game models i’ve ever seen. And so I spend what I would usually spend on a monthly game sub-in the gem store. With what has been going on- I view it more as the value of gems is going up rather then gold value decreasing. The fact Anet even gives us a currency exchange device (that goes both ways) is something most game devs wouldn’t do. With enough work someone could buy everything in the gem store with gold. But that’s the point- buying gems is easy because it supports the company- gold takes longer because gold only supports yourself.

Romek.4201:

seriously? who cares for finishers?

bring unique armor skins per season for the best – and same for spvp too – to show off

finishers? lol

Aye, I want something that draws the lovely question “Where did you get that?” and so entices them to help compete for their server next season

Look, WvW isn’t fair, it isn’t on Tier 8, and it isn’t on Tier 1, the bigger blob is a stronger force- and some tier’s happen to have the bigger blob all the time.

If all you care is about the rewards, then go to a higher teir server in your group. BUT! If you truly care about your server, you will work kitten hard to recruit people from PvE into WvW. The ‘wvw’ population is a very general thing. Everyone in the same their has the same cap of people they can put in WvW. Don’t be contented until your server starts hitting queues.

HELL, go and recruit guilds from Tier 1, it’s what we do to you guys. Why? because we care about our server- we don’t just sit by and let the numbers dwindle, we do something about it, and that’s why we are tier 1, we care enough to serve the WvW fight beyond the battleground.

If you are so ill-contented with the state of your WvW server do something about it- Devon won’t. Get together a fundraiser, start pooling up a lot of gold, cause I’m telling you now- people wont be interested in the transfer at all- unless it’s paid for.

Cufufalating.8479:

Someone has got to be really very sad to spend months spying on another servers WvW…..

People will make multiple accounts to do this, the higher Teir you get, the worse a spy problem can get. Sometimes it could just be someone who transferred for one reason or another but still has loyalty to their home server, when its needed. We ourselves have plants in the competing servers- but that’s just how the game goes, and it serves as a means for brief alliances, to get the upper hand.

If anyone can make a spy- spies should have a means to be countered so +1 to op’s idea’s, they are all reasonable and good.

JQ has a verification system in our Ts3, we’ve found a couple lurks in there by using that system- but it’s a kitten shame when only the 3rd party software has these sort of things in place.

I would almost advocate that blocking someone removes their vision of you entirely- but that could lead to some issues. What the OP suggested is all within good reason and I am all for it.

Viking Jorun.5413:

Well, I know I’ll be camping the transfer screen to get to JQ as fast as possible. If anyone has a better offer and thinks that their server will prevail, shoot me an email. As far as I’m concerned though I’m screwed on Gate of Madness. The entire reason I moved BACK was because TL left GW2 and matches meant nothing.

If you manage to get in, shoot me a message friend- i’ll see you find a guild that suits your needs.

They will probably remain the same since it isn’t an armor stat. Magic find on food is remaining unchanged.

Not to mention they would be smart to avoid giving the middle finger to people who buy the boosters from the gem store- or get them from BL chests

9/10 my warrior shares the exact same dyes for the helm- and pants- and it gave me quite a lul.

Since theres that, here’s my thief with a couple combos since mediums are a bit trickier.

Speaking as someone who’s been in Tier 8, and 1, the learning curve is generally higher in Tier 1.

However, when my guild was in tier 8, we had to do things creatively to get anything worth while- you never have a decent zerg in ET- so you use havoc squads.

Now that knowledge I learned in ET is applied when I play in JQ- they certainly zerg much more- but small groups are a lot more present then you think. Last night my havoc squad happened to take out the walls of Red Bay, and came in to cap it, along with a few stragglers.

Tier 1 servers care very much about their WvW, we constantly recruit guilds from lower tiers, and bring them up to keep up with the other tier 1’s and keep the server healthy. My guild was recruited by Jade Quarry, and we were in a tier 8 server, they liked us because we had a good approach, and could get things done without a zerg.

But tier 1 isn’t for everyone- some people don’t like it and actually go the opposite way, and try to build upon the worst WvW servers. Which is good- because then they can grow stronger too.

The random match-ups are good for everyone but Tier 1. After three weeks of stomping Fort Aspenwood- we were so bored, people didn’t even go into WvW by the end of the third week.

However- I DO think that matchup’s should be randomized via server pupation. IE Tarnished Coast should face off against Sorrows Furnace- very different in tier, but they have a decent number count to put up a fight. We beat TC ourselves, but atleast it wasn’t a face-roll we did have to work for it.

Back when my guild was on ET- we had held SF at bay in our keep for over an hour- to the point of where- it was just so kitten epic, you didn’t care if you lost. Then all of a sudden- fergy came in the back- helped us kill SF, and then, just left.

We were speechless on Ts3 for a moment, then had decided- we wouldn’t attack fergs for the rest of the night. We even took a tower from SF in their third, and let them cap it.

The alliance only last the night and we were back to killing each other the next morning, but it was a moment to remember.

If stuff like that was forced on you- it wouldn’t be nearly as nice. Not to mention servers hold a lot of antagonism towards each other- Just look at how people act in overflows- they don’t care what they say because it’s not their server, they feel no responsibility or respect for fellow players.

DevonCarver.5370:

MRA.4758:

Deniara Devious.3948:

The amount of computations needed at the server side e.g. which targets your AoE or cleaving attack hits grows exponentially with the number of players in the same map area.

Please stop spreading this piece of misinformation. I know that this is a direct quote by Devon Carver, but there is no sane reason to believe that the need for computational resources is indeed exponential. As I tried to explain in another thread, it is much more likely that the growth is quadratic. While this still may be to much to find a viable real-time solution, quadratic growth is substantially different from exponential growth.

~MRA

It is not misinformation, it is the reality of our system.

This is exactly why Mac Users crash in zergs too- the Cider wrapper cannot process, and convert that many lines of code- and keep up for long. You have to remember every action in WvW makes a chain of actions occur. Now imagine 270 of these actions occuring at once, which multiples the action result by 5, then it must calculate the result of such actions.

Gw2 isn’t running on Frostbite you know, it’s not a very meaty engine.

Solid 8, Khan instantly makes me think of Khan-Ur though.

Khala Bloodgrave- blood legion warrior