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Since the WvW update many server face large queues again. There should be some playerfriendly and intelligent changes how queues work.
1. You don`t queue with a character but with your account
If people are forced to queue up for sometimes hours, why dont u give them the convenience to switch characters while queued without losing their spot in the queue? So people could at least do something usefull plus they could switch to more needed classes while they queue.
2. If u have a spot on the map you can occupy that spot for 2 minutes to reroll to another classs
WvW is a teambased gamemode and if u have large queues but your squad f.e. needs guards desperatly, give people the chance to switch characters in a narrow timeframe. This would improve the gameplay so much. If u leave wvw, there could be a window with a “leave” and “switch charater” button to chose from so people who are really leaving dont occupy a spot on the borderland for no reason.
As I am mainly WvW player but playing PvE/PvP as well I would really love to see the possibilty to create at least 2 profiles with graphic-options you can save and chose from depending on the gamemode u are in. I could play PvE in all it’s shininess but I have to lower settings because of the massive ammount of players in WvW to keep it playable. So switching between profiles fast and easily would be just awesome.
Only 3 less? I think 6 or even 9 less would be more realistic
Although I agree with u that in theory this would be a good thing, I think that would cost WvW a lot of players when all existing communities get destroyed by a full reset.
First of all i wanna point out that u are not able to balance anything while u don’t change terms of transfering. You can show us the shiniest numbers of nearly even population but what is it worth if this balance only exists for a couple of hours and is completly blown of when the bandwaggoners start to transfer to the new hypelinkings?
So before u work on more even coverage u need to restrict transfering.
Making even more server feels like a really bad idea when u dont even have enough ppl for existing server. So if u wanna spread population and make smaller worlds, why not closing several server for transfer and lower their population step by step?
In my opinion linking doesn’t work, it made the situation even worse and a lot of people want to play for the server they chose and not for a link even if it has some different name then, that changes nothing.
U guys at anet need to get used to the idea of closing server instead of making even more. Give those people free transfers to other worlds and close the high populated server for transfering so those players spread on server who need coverage anyway. With that being done u can stop linking server and match ups are fun again hopefully and winning is not a question of being linked anymore.
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If winning match ups and skirmishes all over a sudden matters in terms of rewards, linking needs to go since it’s gamebreaking.
Look at this week
No server without a link is able to win a match up against linked servers since coverage is still everything.
Blackgate have no link and is winning T1 against Maguuma+Eredon Terrace and Fort Aspenwood+Sanctum of Rall.
Tarnished Coast have no link and is winning T2 matchup against Jade Quarry and Yak’s Bend+Anvil Rock. Keep in mind that JQ have no link and is also ahead of YB+AR.
Your argument about “servers without links cannot win” is flawed.
I was talking about the EU situation which is different from US anyways since at least german servers usually don’t have ppl from different timezones. And in EU none server without linking wins a match up.
If winning match ups and skirmishes all over a sudden matters in terms of rewards, linking needs to go since it’s gamebreaking.
Look at this week
No server without a link is able to win a match up against linked servers since coverage is still everything.
As a commander i really would have wished u guys would have added another channel for this
leading mostly during the day needs a lot of maphopping and since posting waypoints in mapchat leads to being restricted because of “spamming” after a while, teamchat was used for that
I think it’s ok to try stuff like linking to see, if it has a positive effect on the problems that should be solved.
But you have to be able to admit if it doesn’t and try to figure out other possible solution instead of sticking to that idea and make it even worse.
What does a linking that changes every 4 weeks solve?
Tbh: I don’t know
It doesn’t solve the problem of the insane bandwaggoningmovement that started with the linking in a quantity that provides a new dimension to the bandwaggoning that has been always there, but lately it seems to be stronger than ever.
What will be increasing are the problems, that come with linking, Every 4 weeks communities have to deal with a second or even third community, that stays for 4 weeks and is leaving then again, either followed by a new link or none at all. That scatters communities and is an organisational effort for the hosting server. Servercommunities need to have the chance to grow on their own and have a healthy enviorenment. Bandwaggoning is a permanent danger to destroy healthy communitycores and destroys the feeling to be part of something that is worth staying with instead of transfering around all the time.
So I would be interested in what Anet thinks does improve with a 4 week rhythm. And it better be another interest than having their transferincoming doubled.
I am only talking about EU, can’t speak for US
Get rid of the linking
Close some server, the ppl on those server get a free transfer to another server, so the population of the closed server spreads a bit.
Limit Servertransfer to 2 transfer per year per Account.
Just so you all know what was going on…
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/53jc4b/wvw_dead/?st=itaouat5&sh=3baa1e0b
The fact that there is official information about this issue on reddit but not on their own forum feels like a bad joke.
Populations will continue to shift as players change servers for whatever reason as the wind blows. We need a design that takes this into account.
The Problem is: Anet is earning money with all those servertransfers
How can u balance the population if transfering starts as soon as the new links are published?
There would be several solutions like:
U can only transfer during the last 2 weeks before the new links are published
Transfering to any server who is linked costs the transfer of the most expensive link
Transfering is limited to 2 transfers a year
How exactly do you spawncamp the citadel?
I mean dont get me wrong, the possibility that FSP had the ~400 men on the border required for such a complete siege is very strong indeed but somehow I still question it.
Talking about EB
12:24 PM
FSP is Spawncamping again in order to deny us to retake our garisson
Surprise
What does anything you say have to do with linking?
You keep describing every freaking server that has dominated a severly unbalanced matchup between high and low ranks in the last 4 years.
Kodash has been there too.
Hmm, let me have a look
What might the fact of 2!!! linkings to FSP might have to do with the fact of unbalanced domination in this MU?
It’s not only this MU that is severly unbalanced, every MU against u ist unbalanced.
And let me explain to u why it gets even worse, the more u dominate. FSP is the shiny bandwagon lately a lot of ppl are transfering to. If u are a single, not linked server, like BB for example, they declare u as full with less of the population FSP has by now and transfering is over.
But lets make it simple numbers: FSP is ranked as very high, means they have a population somewhere around 75% to under 100% since they are not full. They are getting linked to 2 medium server, which have a population of 25%+ but less than 50% since that would be “high”
To keep it simple we go with the lowest numbers so FSP has a population of 125% by now, yet the server as a whole is not even declared as full, since those declarations are made per single server. So where do the bandwagoners now transfer to exactly? To FSP for 1800 gems? No, ofc not, since u are linked to 2 server that needs only 500 gems to transfer to. So FSP can stack a playervolume of over 150% where not even a single server of your cluster is declared to the next status, in this case for FSP “full” or the other 2 server “high”. And even then, transfering to your server is still possible.
So Anet created a monster, and it is very attractive to join it for those, who are bandwagoning since years anyways. And the reason they did this, is because they told people that they needed a balance for the 2 french Megaserver they created. But funfact: Frenchies where never dominating on the fightside, they are just doing insane PPT. And did u hear so many of us complain last week when we faced Vizu and BB? We knew, we wouldnt win, cause 2 insane PPT server against a german server that has no handy other countries with the same mothertongue in other timezones.
So in the end yes, matchups were always a question of population and coverage, but with server who have a limit of 100% population u can compete and u have at least passages during the day where it’s fun to play WvW, no matter if u win the MU or not.
But with that state of WvW at the moment, where we have outnumbered buffs with 40 ppl on tag, that’s just ridiculous.
20 o’clock… kodash cant take garison back for 10 hours actually at ebg cause we are outnumbeed hard at every daytime… thanks arenanet for making balanced matchups for fsp but forget about the germans ofc who cares about german players… kodash would even be outnumbered vs fsp if fsp would not be linked with another server (kodash was never linked… arenanet even posted a cheap announcement why)… lol… and thank u for just ignoring german forums as well…
Well 3 hours later BB attacked the homelands… FSP steamrolling us during the day, BB at night. But yeah we have “enough” players and our server does need linking…
To be perfectly clear: linking in T1 is BS, i always thought they would link bronze and maybe silver together and not gold servers.
Where you complaining in february before the links when a rank 5 Kodash met rank 9 FSP and won with with 110,000 points due to nightcapping?
If you say yes, well you know the matchup is kittened, not the links. If you say no… well there you go. Everybody loosing complains.
Do you see the little difference between 5 – 9 without linkings and 1 – 9 WITH linkings?
You have been pushed by ANet to spot 1 so that they have a third server against the 2 french servers and now you get linked with 2 servers which are not linked and you beat the crap out of them. GG WP. If we loose against your server only, i would not complain because it would be our own fault.What’s the difference?
You do realize that the current T2 matchup is kittened up and linking got exactly nothing to do with it?
How about another example of a matchup: SFR vs Deso vs Kodash (rank 1 vs 6 vs 10). Guess who won with 375 377 points and who lost with 139 914 points. Just take a wild guess.
Will you blaim linking for this? Because that matchup was 2 years ago. Eerily similar, huh?
You don’t get it at all do u?
No one is crying because we are losing. Of course we will lose the MU against FSP
The way it happens is what upsets us and by now really makes us angry cause u guys are on a more than stacked server, u would not have needed a link at all.
And what u are doing while u are so overcrowded is just disgusting. Not only are u holding our corner on EB for hours, sieging “our” garrison up like there is no tomorrow, you camp our EB spawn not just now and then, no, permanently so the completly frustrated player on kodash dont even have a chance to put a foot on that map.
Is the MU bullkitten? Yes it is! Are u bored? Ofc
Do u need to behave like kittens? I don’t think so
That like kicking a person that is already laying on the ground in the face.
So no, we are not complaining about the fact we are losing, we are complaining about the ridiculous overstacking of player on FSP and the fact that u are hyped to No1 artificially in a gamemode that should be competetive. And we are complaining about the way your server behaves while dominating everything.
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To be fair, Deso is the last server who needs to complain, being linked 2 out of 3 times and facing now what they did to other server for 4 months straight.
Ok, maybe you enjoy such cat and mouse games, I don’t. I dont wanna secretly ppt maps, i wanna fight cause (big surprise comes now!) it’s a pvp mode and therefore i am not that much interested in pvd.
But facing server who are constantly outnumbering you or are close to non existent during the day (hello baruch bay) and have insane blobbs after 11pm as well, there is not much fighting.
The whole matchup Kodash vs Baruch vs Far Shiverpeaks & Whiteside Ridge & Fissure of Woe in a one picture.
Needless to say: I´m out of this.
Pssst .. there’s two other exits. Sneak out the back and flip something behind them. They’ll lose their minds and stop with the stupid spawn camping.
Pssst .. guess what happens, if you sneak out and flip something elsewhere? Right, a group of fsp-gankers or the whole zerg shows up. And they will do so continuously.
Btw we still did not manage to get back our keep, cause they are spawncamping like crazy and the garrison is completely filled with siege. A very fine matchup indeed.
Pssst there are three other maps. EB tends to be for the new at wvw, you likely won’t get that on the other maps. And with nobody feeding them loot bags from spawn on EB, they’ll get bored and go away.
Or you can continue to feed them.
Fun Fact:
We joined a border with 40 people and were outnumbered.
And @ Anet
Better stop this BS now, linking the way you do it obviously failed. I dont even get why you think the top server need links at all. I am pretty sure, a lot of people had in mind, that linking should bring low tier server together so their wvw is not like a wasteland. But i am pretty sure u earn a kittenton of money with all the transfering and bandwaggoning going on with every new linking.
Monday Morning on Kodasch: loging in, everything on EBG belongs to FSP… starting a little Zerg with ~10 people, flip some towers, try to flip SM – a wild FSP blobb appears – wipe. Ok, lets try our own gari – a wild FSP blobb appears – wipe, Ok, lets try to flip their homeland gari – rushed through the watergates – a wild FSP blobb appears – wipe, Ok lets try to defend our Homelands against FSP – a wild FSP blobb appears, wipe. kitten this kitten iam out.
Thx anet, kittening thx.
Have you been playing your own game lately? And i mean WvW and not that PvE or PvP BS. Oh and btw. why does noone care about the german forum?
Entire weekend, Kodash zerg cap everything on FSP border them leave. FSP roamers retake things over the next hour… Then Kodash come in with the full zerg and cap every keep again. Repeat hourly. Hills they sometimes held to T3 on FSP border. Everytime one poke it, entire zerg comes to defend (and then cap garri and bay before leaving).
Zergs gonna zerg. It has little to do with FSP links. All the matchups look the same if you look at VP. The only difference is that in kitten and T4 the currently lower ranked servers are winning, lol.
Edit: kittens sake I dont even want to kittening know why kitten is kittening censored.
So did this Zerg flip your entire Map, build everything to T3 and spawncamped you the whole day so you didn’t even get outside Citadelle?
No they didnt?
Guess what u did today
The only comfort is, that it hopefully bored the kitten out of u that there was nothing on eb going on for hours.
So why is sustain and healing so important and popular atm? Simple: With HoT came such an overflow of CC and random damage everywhere that good movement simply doesn’t do the job anymore
How is an ele who plays glascanon supposed to survive when tons of revs in zoneblobs spamming their hammer 2 everywhere and u are possibly a one hit?
So playing with more sustain and healing is just a logical consequence of the insane randomdamage and cc boost that came with the update
A lot of people mistake cause and effect.
This is completely true. The sustain meta was born out of necessity when the amount of CC and damage cleave was massively increased with HoT. But now that it’s a thing, you can’t get out of it by nerfing damage. Both sides need to be addressed and it seems only logical to start with the one currently being (ab)used.
How is it an abuse? It’s a way to deal with the circumstances and btw it’s not like there is no counter to that kind of healballmeta. Boonstrips and focussing the classes that give such sustain f.e.
In Blobs even easier cause u still cannot survive a proper bomb just by sustain and heal, cause publics are not that organised.
In guilds u need to change your fighting strategies against those builds. Smallscalewise it’s one of the few possibilties you have against all the braindead conditionspammer.
So if there would be no counter at all, yes, u need a nerf, but ppl have to deal with changes in meta and adapt their strategies.
So why is sustain and healing so important and popular atm? Simple: With HoT came such an overflow of CC and random damage everywhere that good movement simply doesn’t do the job anymore
How is an ele who plays glascanon supposed to survive when tons of revs in zoneblobs spamming their hammer 2 everywhere and u are possibly a one hit?
So playing with more sustain and healing is just a logical consequence of the insane randomdamage and cc boost that came with the update
A lot of people mistake cause and effect.
Since Anet loves numbers and statistics, lets see, what u are doing here Anet
Kodash and Baruch Bay are playing against the french connection at the moment
And because of the insane numbers they have with 3 server, they do a hell of a ppt job and of course, they will win the match.
Let`s see how they are doing on the fightside
Fort Ranik [FR] & Augury Rock [FR] & Vizunah-Platz [FR]
Kills: 28,754
Deaths: 43,283
Ratio: 0.66
So what u are doing Anet, is to artifically hype a server that is so weak in fighting, that not linked servers just run over their zergs and produce such a K/D ratio, into T1 of Goldleague where it simply does not belong with the argument, that FSP needs 2!! links to compete with them.
U sure guys?
Like really?
I dont want to play WvW on my alt accounts, I want to progress my ultimate dominator + wvw rank + reward tracks on my main account.
And why should I try RoS? It is paired with SFR now and all the bandwagoners left RoS again now because SFR is a tier 3 server.
Your type of WvW Player is exactly the problem why balancing WvW will never be successfull.
If a server is not utterly superior, people like u bandwagon away, always searching for easy mode. That is the only reason why Deso appears weak atm, if ppl would stay although there is no linking anymore that made Deso ridiculously strong in comparison, that server would be fine.
And so the bandwagontrain rolls and rolls, leaving servers behind with a tattered community that needs months to recover until something similar happens and it starts all over again.
The sad part is, that Anet profits so much from this behaviour that they will never do anything that makes server population more stable and stops the disgusting winning team joining.
Thing is, this game is called Guild Wars and no other gamemode represents the name better than WvW and still u treated it like a stepchild the last years, even denying there are players who are basically wvw players. Yes, ofc we all do PVE or PVP more or less, but why? PVP for better knowledge of classes and skillimprovement, PVE for getting geared.
So will FSP be matched against the frenchies for 2 months constantly or what is the point in that consideration you guys did at Anet?
Seriously, pls hire someone for your team who is a world vs world player and let him do some consulting to stop the aweful cluelessness the anet team, who is deciding this bs, is suffering from.
Half an hour of event, stacked the Buff up to 10, no reward at all
WTF?