Guild Wars 2

xtorma.1283:

It requires you to think about how to engage, your chances of success, and the ramifications of not coming to the proper conclusion.

You would have hated the original everquest.

This one time in Sebilis, I died 5 times just to get my corpse back. That was fun.

I like WvW. It’s fun when everyone in the guild is on and we are bashing heads against enemy groups of similiar or larger sizes.

We change where we play on a somewhat weekly basis, EB or a BL. I wish the 3 BL’s were different maps though, 4 unique maps > 2 unique maps.

I also wish there were some massive destructive force your server could release onto the other servers. IE final upgrade of a keep or garrison summons a dragon? Maybe a SM final upgrade? Make it something awesome, so that when the server is almost finishing it, its an all out fight to stop them/complete it.

I’ve grown tired of seeing IoJ and SoR though. I feel like they are my roommates’ friends who come over and eat all my food and drink my beer without offering any compensation.

If your team owns keeps and have waypoints built, use those.

If your team is so far away from your spawn and you die, but still have to run back to them.. why didn’t they revive you? If they are still there and alive, they could revive you.

But really, no, there is no easy way to cross the map without running or using waypoints or getting a revive.

How about the ability to light the corpses on fire with a torch?

Might actually get someone to use the torch weapons.

Kite Bombers. Go fly a kite that can go up and drop bombs, no horizontal movement, just vertical. AE drop bombs.

Sticky Bombs. Build a sticky bomb on the side of walls for massive damage. Takes a while to build, but it can do a decent amount of damage in one shot.

Road Blocks. NPCs get to use them, why can’t we? Low HP, low supply. Take up a small area, but are annoyances.

Volatility of 1? Never seen that before…

Kite Bombers.

You float above the field, but are tethered to the ground. So you can’t fly over a wall or any other obstacle, but you gain height and droppable bombs. Used for clearing walls and behind walls.

Nikkle.4013:

Perdan.1045:

Epic queue times boys!

This. I got in right away, then after we got SoR’s orb I got dc’ed.

Same.. We took CD BL’s bay.. go through a portal and DC

Same.. We took CD BL’s bay.. go through a portal and DCqueued for an pretty much an hour now

Epic queue times boys!

Not sure what you have fixed, but we still crash walking out the front of the spawn point on enemy Borderlands.

The number of people getting loading screens then crashing when passing through mesmer portals or porting back to spawn was amazing.

That was in the 5 minutes I was in the Borderland before I magically crashed and sent back to queue.

Who’s ready to rumble tonight?

I wish there were some in-game partying going on leading up to shuffle time. A big ball falling down just like New Years. Some fireworks for last week’s winners? Parades? Nothing

Anet should make it turn into a big deal, winning the previous week.. getting the mood set for this week’s fight. Jock jams playing in the Lion’s Arch. Something new every week.

It also standardizes the length of everyone’s name.

No tiny asura with the name “Dot” hiding behind a snowflake.

Guardian tome of wrath does an impressive job of getting people away from the gate.

Not every guild pulled back, but some of them have. I thought it made for great Wv3 last night. DB pushing their map, Goombas pushing their map. We took almost all of DB BL back, went to MG and started pushing there. DB recapped most of their map right after we left. That is awesome for everyone.

It has nothing to do with the possibility of losing tier 2, it is so we can build better relationships with each other. I can’t wait for the next 2 weeks. It’s going to get interesting!

Some facts:

1 – No SoS queue times on most of the BLs. We did see one person end up in a 2 minute queue when about 30-40 of us changed BLs real fast.
2 – There is “sloppy” play, but that is mostly because the keeps/towers aren’t upgraded and we will probably lose them again before the night is out. Even when we were on DB, we didn’t waste time upgrading/sieging up keeps/towers that wouldn’t hold.
3 – Everyone dies in WvW. No matter how many orbs you got, you still die. Get over it. There is nothing special about killing people in WvW.
4 – I’m having fun, why aren’t you? I haven’t even looked at the score today. I couldn’t careless what the score is. There are towers/keeps that aren’t ours, so we go there and fight over it. That’s fun.
5 – passes around popcorn

Proposed Question?
What’s the real zerg? A group of 20-30 players running around in an organized group killing and taking towers/keeps/supply depots? Or 20-30 players repeatedly dying and running back from their spawn to die again?

popcorn

ashlov, want some popcorn?

Still more angry people

popcorn

Server balancing just doesn’t include matching up servers that can achieve the same score as each other. If 3 servers can all achieve 200k pts a week, but they all have different peak times, is that a truly balanced matchup? Just flipping empty bases for half your prime time, with a small force to fight for the 2nd half? It’d be boring.

Server balancing includes allowing servers to recruit and find players to fill their time gaps. Without free transfers, you’d end up with 1 dominate server that never loses in each tier and that’d be it.

Anyways… Continue your internet arguments. I’m still waiting for the winner.

I see angry people….

popcorn

Of course people are going to rag on the server that is ahead. Its common to make excuses as to why you are losing.

As far as you know, the person doing the hack could of been a black gate transfer. I bet that’s what it is! Lets make up a story about it and then claim the entire blackgate world is a bunch of transferring hackers to shift blame!

@Vrumpt As far as I know only one orb was claimed by us with a hack. It was announced in general chat in Lion’s Arch and was met with quite disgust by everyone.

I feel it’s been a good match up. It took longer for one server to get a decent lead, which everyone should expect to happen as the servers balance out a bit more.

Its not a game feature than can be fixed without rewriting the graphics/data engine behind the game.

Its a large amount of data that needs to be sent to every client at the same time. It’ll lag you into the 1990s if your computer tried to render a massive zerg or portal drop.

we weren’t winning by more on sunday. I think the spread by end of day sunday was only 10-12k from 1st to third (DB to BG).

At some point sunday night/monday morning BG passed FA. We jumped ahead quite a bit during Monday Daytime.. And it appears we are doing the same today.

I thought this was guild wars? And yes, every guild that claims a tower or keep is stating that they took that tower for everyone on the map to see.

I agree that saying there are alot of people who are “unsung heroes” and/or unguilded/small guilds doing some of the grunt work. I appreciate it, I participate in it. What else is there to do early saturday/sunday morning but resupply and wait for the reinforcements to wake up?

Anyways.. our day time guilds seem to rock the wvwvw.. We were holding steady last night when I went to bed (midnight est). I checked this morning before I went to work (7am est) and BG was raking in 400pts/tally. But that picture up there shows a complete flip. That is impressive.

Actually going through a portal does not make you “invisible” you get no buff for invisibility going through the portal.

The only way to really get rid of the rendering issue, would be to have every person in the map pre-rendered on your computer. Then when the mesmer drop happens, the chars are rendered.

The next set of posts would be “my game is so slow in pvp it’s broken”. Think about what you are really asking for, before you get what you don’t want.

Ps. I’m not in Tsym, I wouldn’t mind being for wv3, but giving the orb to bg was an attempt to alleviate the fa Zerg off our holdings. By giving them the orb, the thought would be for FA to attack them instead of us. I don’t know what FA thought of this, but it seemed to work well enough.

Coron leads us to victory.. it’ll be great and your tears will be tasty.

;)

that might of been another time.

Saturday morning/early afternoon we had all 3 orbs. FA came into the bay and got the orb, but failed taking the keep. When the orb reset back to FA’s alter, we took it. But when they were in the keep, they broke our altar, so we had no where to put it. We ran it to the blackgate keep on the other side of the map and let them have it.

1. No. If there is no score, there is no motivation. If you see you are low on the scores, you know you got lots to take over.

2. IDK about jumping puzzles. They get camped at the end of the week.

3. If you are playing wvw right, you gain more money than you spend on repairs. If you are losing money and only paying for repairs, you must not be in your server’s zerg group.

4. I like this.

i am nearly to 1000 kills and i have 102 badges.

they are naked because their armor is broken from us, DB, killing them over and over. They used all their money on putting trebs on the cliffs.. but they got killed.. no money, no repairs, no armor..

glorious.

so after a portaling, all abilities go on CD for 5 seconds to let characters load?

what about walls? can’t break down walls now?

I guess if you want to break a cool ability and have only 4 people go through a portal, you’d never get a portal drop onto a group of 20 enemies.. it’d be bad for the portalers.

using the assumption that the spell won’t change, i think it’d be impossible to lower the graphic load far enough to allow 40 people to drop onto another group of players, rendering everyone for everyone and not lag people to death.

I like guardian.. 10sec symbol buff with 15sec cool down
25sec buff with 60sec cool down.

it’s not 100% but it is pretty easy to keep up. How often can you run for 35sec and not get into combat…

For those not in the know, BG has been in third place all weekend. They were slowly gaining on FA when I logged last night (around 11pm est). I think DB was up by 12k on FA and 14-15k on BG. So apparently they did a lot of work last night/early this morning to catch up.

Could make it a long week of grinding.. or 2 weeks?

blink.4239:

I love how people are so quick to defend the mesmer portal but won’t acknowledge the obvious rendering glitch, which is the biggest advantage that tactic offers. Once Anet fixes that glitch, the tactic will be far less useful.

What would you rather have? Immense graphics lag and frame rate drop from 40 people porting in then dieing? Or suddenly being aware of the invisible mob on top of you and dieing from it?

90 % of the time when I’ve portal dropped, I can’t see the bad guys. Quite a few of the times I run off AoE’ing nothing. I’d prefer invisible fights versus incredible graphics lag.

Alarox.4590:

I was there when we did this. All we did was have a Mesmer hide in a corner when we lost the tower, and ten minutes later we came back, killed a group of about 25 players, and our Mesmer jumped down and gave us the portal.

Not really an exploit. All you had to do was look around the tower instead of running off as soon as you took it.

Claiming that we glitched through walls is simply BS. It’s a pretty simple tactic: Mesmer hides, then gives portal.

I was there when this happened. It was the best move I saw all weekend. They didn’t find the mesmer in the corner, we waited a bit, portal’d in, retook the keep and continued the siege on the garrison.

The invisible characters does go both ways. When we got to the commander in the garrison, when all 3 teams were in there.. I could only see a handful of people. The amount of invisible people was amazing. I could see the damage rolling off of them, the red and blue finish them/revive icons floating everywhere.. It was amazing.

Gtx570.. I get 60fps most of the time at 2560×1440, might dip into the 40s during some largescale fights, but since most of the characters aren’t rendered, it doesnt drop a lot or often.

As a DB person from the start, we don’t like Black Gate.. Since you guys spawn camped us in the first weekend.

Atleast that is my overall feel. We don’t care too much about FA. Although we did screw em over on saturday in their BL. They broke our alter in the keep on the left and reset their orb. So when we stole it back, it we couldn’t hold it. We gave their Orb to BG. I don’t know if they realized we did that, they probably thought we were dumb. But that was planned.

Any update on the score?