I did some research and discovered an upcoming meta for WvW. With the Deadeye skills, a full zerg can pin snipe effectively, and wipe out enemies from a distance. What you have is 30 Berzerker Deadeyes and some boon strippers/stun lockers on voice comms. After your Commander marks the target, you boon strip and stun lock first, then everyone kneels and fires. The target enemy dies instantly. Between shots, your stealth squad will cast Shadow Refuge and hide your entire zerg. 10 players can hide up to 50! While in stealth, you move to prepare for the next spike.
This spike strategy was very popular in GW1 PvP. And thanks to Deadeye, it will make a come back.
I’m a solid tier 3 Gold solo player, and would like to win the monthly tournament so I can get a statue. I don’t have many friends, so I’m looking to find any pro league players willing to help me win. But I have some questions from PvP experts.
1 – Am I allowed to purchase game accounts for other players?
2 – Am I allowed to sponsor players for my website?
3 – Am I allowed to play on the same team of players I sponsor?
I don’t want to do anything that would make Anet upset. A Dev was nice enough to name an NPC after me, so I want to stay on good terms.
Since Anet tends to have player votes on important topics, such as removing a WvW Borderland or portable cannons, maybe we could have a mount vote? Because, you know, it’s very important for the up coming expansion.
One such vote should allow the entire player base to decide if Anet should invest Dev time into a special mount, the Corgi. The concept was already developed, so Anet’s already half way there.
What say you Anet? Can we please give the Corgi a chance? I would actually buy Gems to purchase it from the Gem Store.
I have not commented on that once. I think you confuse my lack of hysteria over Anet’s decision to be anti-punishment. My posts ITT are to point out ArenaNet punished the players exactly what they intended, and that punishment is not further affected by community opinion.. the 2 facts that Chris Cleary outlined on Reddit
The original threads by Anet said they take the reports of cheating seriously, and gave permanent dishonor to the players and their Alts. We players interpreted this as “all of the Alt accounts”, not “only the Alt accounts existing at this time”.
So it’s not so much the community outrage in asking Anet to ban a player, but more of the community asking Anet to follow through on publicly announced punishments. The outrage here is that it appears like Anet doesn’t care about PvP, and it’s slowly turning into a PR disaster.
great, it’s an old instance not a bug, now blacklist the dishonor dodgers and lock this thread to stop the public relations damage this thread has already caused.
“Community opinion does not dictate player punishment.”
-ChrisCleary
Chris Cleary pre-wrecking your post before you even pressed reply!
Ben Phongluangtham said they would be banned from all seasons.
great, it’s an old instance not a bug, now blacklist the dishonor dodgers and lock this thread to stop the public relations damage this thread has already caused.
“Community opinion does not dictate player punishment.”
-ChrisCleary
Chris Cleary pre-wrecking your post before you even pressed reply!
Ben Phongluangtham said they would be banned from all seasons.
great, it’s an old instance not a bug, now blacklist the dishonor dodgers and lock this thread to stop the public relations damage this thread has already caused.
“Community opinion does not dictate player punishment.”
-ChrisCleary
Chris Cleary pre-wrecking your post before you even pressed reply!
Ben Phongluangtham said they would be banned from all seasons.
Er…well if you have issues with minstrel. Then I wonder how you feel about Valkyrie gear being worn by male chars?.
There’s nothing wrong with a male character who freely chooses to wear a woman’s armor. There are some people who are born this way. But with the stat name issue, it’s merely stretching to say that Anet meant wrong by it.
I appreciate your view, and for most things you are right. But players don’t deserve that right within the actual game.
Guilds are player established, third party communication systems and forums are player established. That is up to the players to police.
Players should not have the ability to police a game established aspect.
I understand what you’re saying about players not policing the game. But bring up one of your points, don’t players deserve to be able to play a fair game without a bad apple griefing a whole map? Ignoring them is one thing, but to lose a tier 3 Keep because of their actions is another.
Private tactivators & reporting.
No you’re not going to stamp out griefing. No, giving control of a server to a certain group of people is not going to solve your problem.
~ Kovu
From my personal experience and that of many others I’ve met I can say that I wouldn’t rely on reporting, as not to throw off on Anet but it either takes a very long time for action to be taken or none is taken at all. As for turning off public tactivators yes, that can be of some help, but even that poses problems. If you don’t have someone from your guild posted there and you can’t get back in time to pull it or if you claimed it earlier then your group left the map or logged off it poses a problem for anyone who might actually need to use it. It is a mitigating factor and has its uses, but it does not fix the issue these players pose, nor does it stop them from taking supply, siege capping, or reporting your servers positions to their own.
All true.
Still doesn’t warrant a vote kick function.
I agree with people on that point, I just think reports need to be taken more seriously and dealt with quicker though I understand Anet isn’t perfect and can’t handle everything, but something is very much wish for since WvW is my main mode of choice and these types of players make it very tiring.
Agreed.
I would think that reviewing logs of the behavior mentioned would only show siege being built, walls being repaired, and tactics pulled. Differentiating a level of each that would cross a line of ‘way too much’ might be hard to determine as troll or helpful.
Of course, those of us that play the mode can tell a troll from someone who is just clueless…
But to ask a third party who isn’t witnessing it live, or has a verifiable chat line that details their intent, it would be hard to expect them to get it right.
And while you respect your server leadership, and many are very good, the
Potential for abuse is too high.
Server leadership (War Councils) are the backbone of servers. They unpaid, unthanked players who sacrifice their own time to coordinate maps. I heard back in the day, TC and JQ War Councils were tight, and that lead to a very stable Tier 1. That said, WvW is a player led competition, so there should be some type of option to take care of players that are unwanted. To make this fair, the server would have to front the cost of the transfer.
Communities are built up with like-mind players. If you have one bad apple making the game unenjoyable for the community, isn’t it fair to say that the bad apple should go? A Commander can kick people out of his squad, so a server kick would fall into a similar place.
Do not report them unless there doing something wrong “anet will ban you if report them for no reason”
So purposely wasting Keep defensive tactics before an assault isn’t against the rules? Pulling Invuln or EWP 5 minutes before 10 Omegas and a zerg of 100 descend on your wall could be considered a mistake if it only happens once. But when you see it happen a lot, you know something is up. Since there’s no report option for this, there’s no need to worry about a false report anyway.
As for why it takes so long to ban hackers, I don’t know what to say about that. But other competitive games allow players a /kick option. A realm vs realm type competitive game like WvW should have something similar.
And no, it can’t be abused, since War Councils are the most honorable players in the server.
What if 9 out of 10 games, you had a DC and lost? That means placement is based off of 1 legit game? Heaven forbid that you played 10 games, and all 10 were losses due to a DC. What then?
You need to realize that placement is just a UI thing. There is 0 difference as far as the algorithm is concerned between your first ten matches and the rest of the season.
So placement matches are meant to just hide your MMR until you’ve “settled” into where you belong. Fair enough. But what about the other problems being discussed outside of a forfeit game?
Apparently placements doesnt count leavers. Had a fantastic 3v5 game from start to finish that still counted towards a loss.
The game still shows as a loss in the UI but your rating is unaffected.
I did get an extra loss on the placement UI and it did count towards the 10 games.
Right. The UI shows the game as a loss, but your rating was unaffected. Usually when a teammate leaves the match you see the 0 for your rating change after the game ends. During placements your rating isn’t visible yet so you don’t see the 0, but that same result happens.
Well if it works like that you also do your placements match over 9 games only, which will place you lower than you could have been.
All aspects of rating (including deviation and volatility) are unaffected by a forfeit (4v5). If you get a forfeit during placements, your first game after will essentially have the same behavior as the 10th placement game except that the rating delta will be visible.
So if I’m understanding you, if you lose a match during your first 10 placement games, and the loss is caused by a DC, your placement is determined by the remaining “valid” placement games?
What if 9 out of 10 games, you had a DC and lost? That means placement is based off of 1 legit game? Heaven forbid that you played 10 games, and all 10 were losses due to a DC. What then?
And these situations are only if the system registers your loss as a forfeit. AFKers and poor players don’t count towards this, so being Plat or Legend is meaningless last season if you have Bronze or Silvers on your team now.
I was just wondering if there was a way for a community to remove unwanted player(s) from a server? Either by majority voting, or War Council Commander votes.
There are times when you have a player who does nothing but cause problems that you no longer want to play with. This includes spy accounts who pull Keep tactics like “Invulnerable” or “Emergency Waypoint”, and having the enemy server attack after the effects have worn out. Or players who follows a Commander, only to purposely die to rally enemy downed players in fights.
I fully understand that these players paid for their accounts, so they have the right to pick where they want to base their home server. But there are no options to report these players for what they do, and even then, no way to prove intent. WvW communities are organized by players and led by players, so we players should have an option to initiate a forced server transfer. We would have no issues paying the Gem fees to do so.
Honestly it depends. The winning server will always be the one with the greatest number of players in all timezones. But the best server will always have the highest KDR.
Other players sent in tickets, and Customer Support said they can’t reimburse the missing tickets if you completed Diamond before Tuesday. They go on to say you can make it up next week, since you can now get more tickets per week.
I think that a great addition to WvW would be the ability to kill your own server teammates. Sometimes you’ll run into players who purposely pull tactics early to make your keep weak for enemy attacks. Other times you’ll have players who cause problems in map chat that you just don’t like.
To avoid abuse, this option could be limited to Commanders with a squad of 20 or more. Then he could open a vote in which 75% of the squad members would need to ok before the game would open the target player to friendly attacks.
Edit – Or Anet could open team killing for a week, sort of like Golem Week. It would be fun to experiment with this type of every man for himself game mode.
This is akin to saying if you don’t like people in your country treating you poorly, you should just move to another one, and “trust us” its much better over there. That seems more like troll to me.
I’m just really surprised so many people come out of the woodwork to commend this type of behavior, on an issue of discrimination towards handicapped people, which overall is baffling and frankly gross, and yet at the same time, completely proves, showcases and justifies the OP point.
And yet it wouldn’t make sense for Anet to write a rule that forces players to do something they don’t want to. Commanders run a squad. If you want in, you have to be accepted by the Commander. It doesn’t matter what a Commander’s personal feelings are towards someone with a disability. If he doesn’t want you in, Anet shouldn’t force you to keep the player in.
I had a drug problem months ago before I sobered up. You could count that as a disability. If a Commander kicked me out because I could barely understand what I was typing, that’s his choice.
If no one is verbally abusing you, you’re not being bullied, and you’re not being discriminated against.
People aren’t bullying you because you can’t join comms. They are denying you. Learn the difference.
Do you cry to daddy when you don’t get the job you want?
OH so the definition for being bullied is verbal abuse? I’m sorry but that’s just not true. Denying someone from entering a group due to a disability is discriminatory and could be considered bullying by the one who is being discriminated against.
For Instance if i were to say, “no you can’t enter my group because I don’t like (insert ethnicity here) in real life.” Even if I was really polite about it, and didn’t swear or verbally abuse someone, ITS STILL discriminatory and against TOS.
So if I kicked someone from the squad because he had a disability, and not said anything in chat, would that be discriminatory in your eyes?
“You may not violate any local, state, national, or international laws or regulations.”
Its Federal Law in the US that you can’t discriminate against handicapped persons.
Federal and State laws have no power over a private individual’s actions inside of a video game. If Anet were to exclude disabled people from playing this game based solely on the fact that the persons have a disability, then they could get in trouble. Good luck proving it, since Anet has complete and final say as to who gets to have an account. We all agree to this when we click on the TOS.
So to get back to this topic, a Commander can exclude a player from their squad for being disabled if they want. Doesn’t mean it’s morally right, and I don’t personally support it as well. But it’s their squad.
I’m glad I sobered up so I could participate in debates like this.
To exclude disabled people is a direct violation of many rules. To exclude people because you don’t like them is bullying, plain and simple and to no net effect – you wont like them whether they are in squad or not, and they are on the map playing whether you like it or not. To exclude them from the benefits of the squad and hurt the squad and server and players (including players who object to this behavior who drop out of squad voluntarily) is hurting the game.
Why do people support this behavior? No one is asking you to play a certain way. You can play however you like. You can run a full or closed guild squad if you like and you can make exclusionary actions then. But this is not that scenario.
Look. There is no rule that says we can’t kick you out of squad because of a disability. We can exclude anyone we want, for any reason. As long as we don’t tease you in game for whatever ailment you have, I don’t see any problems.
We don’t support bullying people, but we support the right to add and remove people as we see fit. Commanders who lead WvW know what’s best for their groups, so excluding someone can be beneficial to the server.
A deaf-friendly wvw guild? This game is supposed to be handy cap accessible. Pretty sure excluding others for this could be considered harassment. Instead of suggesting that she goes to another server, why not suggest that fellow wvwers be more empathetic and understanding? Or consider having anet make some change to the mechanics which doesn’t allow others to exclude in this manner?
How is it harassment for a Commander to leave out people he doesn’t want in the squad?
We exclude people because we have that right. You have no inherent rights to join my group if we don’t want you in, but we can’t also force you not to follow the zerg. No TS or Discord? No problem. You can still play WvW.
We may have reasons to kick people out of groups. If you keep dying, or have a really poor build, you become a rallybot for the enemy. That affects KDR. If someone is really bad, not in the group, and follows the zerg, I would ping a WP in /squad and tell everyone to swap maps. But that’s never happened yet.
The same could be said of the power of every elite spec we have details on.
Scourge Barrier and Shroud interaction looks busted
Weaver’s nonsense 20% condi duration and damage + 40 more skills
Thief’s 150% killshot damage from 2k range
Firebrands entire overloaded kit
But hey we’re approaching blizzard levels here where in, if everything is OP then nothing really is.
Except of course, the core stuff. Playing a core spec build feels a lot like playing a character in GW without a secondary profession, only more so. It can be done, but
chances are you are going to be underwhelming in comparison.
In competitive play, the core-only choices offer too few counters to what the Elite Specs offer. It looks (so far, at least) like that situation is not going to improve with the new Elites. Honestly, that’s about what I expected.
Did Anet ever promise that there would be no power creep? It feels like if someone doesn’t commit to buying HoT or PoF, they shouldn’t play competitive.
BogOtter had access to the tests server, and posted a video of the Spellbreaker in action. This new elite is definitely game changing. No way my core builds will hold up. It’s one thing to be strong, but Spellbreaker is just silly strong.
I’m not sure if it was ever discussed, but what do you think about Anet installing a server wide voice chat system? With the amount of different players (new and veteran) on a borderland at the same time, it would help a lot in coordination for those learning the ropes. Anyone can bind a key to speak. And to make sure maps can be coordinated properly, voice comms can’t be muted. If a Commander yells out “South SM blue zerg inc!” in voice chat, you want to make sure they heard it. Far too often people are busy playing and don’t read commands in /Team or /Map.
Spellbreaker is anti projectile, so you need to counter with melee. But doing so brings you into range of their new dagger stunlocks. And even if you evade the stuns, they can avoid all physical and condition damage.
I did some study on Wooden Potato’s reveal of the new Warrior elite that turns him into a tank Thief. The ability to absorb all damage, counter attack with Daze, evade frames, and unblockable all rolled into a single move, is overboard. Warrior meta already has them able to negate physical and condition damage without PoF skills. Now they’ll have superspeed, lots of boon removal, more Resistance, a Heartseeker, and a powerful heal.
I don’t have HoT, so I manage with my core Ranger as best I can. I do well enough, but it seems PoF will be a must buy at this rate. Maybe Devs should take a look at the skill balance and see if an adjustment can be made before release?
Banning the only halfway decent players because you get bullied into doing it by opportunistic people faking outrage in order to further kill off their scene because all they care about is their own ego.
What are you basing these bans on? TOS being broken? In that case I advice you ban half of NA, including the people that probably endlessly whined to you about doing this.
IMO it’s none of anyones business other than anet of what people does w their ingame tourn winnings. The only way I could find a ban justified from your end is if someone actually changed the outcome of a match by cheating. Nothing like that happened.
But yeah, I’m sure jeff convincing you of banning the team that always beats him is all done in the ‘’fairness of competition’’ and not you getting bullied by whispers and not having the nuts to take a stance.
From your post, it’s like you’re ok with rule breaking. Shouldn’t you support the tourney’s decision to remove rule breakers, since you’re one of the top players in this game? Don’t all champions have honor and integrity?
With the talk of VPNs, if you had 5 people all use the same one, the IP would appear to look like a LAN party. And no VPN would disclose the home connection logs without a warrant, so there’s no way to prove a European connected to an American account, another European account, etc.
In my opinion, Anet should let this slide. Someone paid $2,000 to basically feel good. With a lot of players leaving PvP, I say the monetary payment is punishment enough.
I would name another company that does the same, but I don’t want to give them advertising like you are. I will say that they’re large and sponsor Esports teams, and yet they tend to sell a lot of fraudulent keys.
If you can easily defame a legit company, surely you can tell us all which company to avoid purchasing keys from. In the end you’d be doing a great favor for the community as a whole.
No, you’re right. Never buy from G2A. You can google search them and spend days reading about how greymarket keys are bad.
It’s a legit site as I’ve purchased from em’ before.
The keys are legit only up until Anet terminates your account. As others have said, you can activate the keys with no issue. But if the seller of the key does a chargeback to the source of the keys (Anet, Gamestop, etc), the keys are made invalid after-the-fact. The e-mail used to register the account is blacklisted, and you can’t recover it.
At least you admit to taking a chance at this purchase. So if latter you post about not being able to access your new accounts, you can refer to this thread and the warnings in it.
Keyword “If…”
You really think a company that sells ONLY cdkeys would commit fraud, be real. If they did that it’d show up on one of the many reviews for this company.
I don’t care about the company. If they’re just reselling keys, and one of them is bad, they can easily refund your money and claim ignorance. But with Anet, they’ll blacklist you permanently. I would name another company that does the same, but I don’t want to give them advertising like you are. I will say that they’re large and sponsor Esports teams, and yet they tend to sell a lot of fraudulent keys.
Key sites like this is easy to commit fraud. I could buy 50 accounts from a legit reseller, sell it to this site for 1/3rd the value, and cancel the transaction with my bank next month claiming I never bought these keys in the first place.
Save yourself the trouble. Just buy directly from guildwars2.com.
I’ve been playing core for a couple of years now. I’ve been yelled at and called a scrub, but I do decent with my Ranger in PvP (Gold tier 3 last season). Now I’m thinking about going into a Guardian build. I’ve heard the meta about Dragonhunter, but I don’t have HoT. Is there a way for me to build a core Guardian? I’m pretty new to the class, but people told me that it’s Burn builds are newbie friendly with just button mash.
I (rating 1569) just got matched against A DUO OF #1 ranked player and the #6 ranked player (rating 1949 and 1826). Obviously my team of soloq nobodies around my rating got absolutely destroyed.
If you want end game skins, and the new WvW Legendary is something you want, it becomes a fulltime job. Not saying I’m forced to do it against my will. But Anet set the bar high, and the tickets needed take a long time to farm.
I’ve been sober for a couple of months now, so I have more control over my in-game impulses. I’m just greedy and want more for less effort to get the skin.
It’s a legit site as I’ve purchased from em’ before.
The keys are legit only up until Anet terminates your account. As others have said, you can activate the keys with no issue. But if the seller of the key does a chargeback to the source of the keys (Anet, Gamestop, etc), the keys are made invalid after-the-fact. The e-mail used to register the account is blacklisted, and you can’t recover it.
At least you admit to taking a chance at this purchase. So if latter you post about not being able to access your new accounts, you can refer to this thread and the warnings in it.
