Guild Wars 2

zealex.9410:

Rastaaa.3752:

Ok so first and foremost I wanna say that the number one thing killing my group during this fractal is the anomaly spawning at irregular times during the third boss. For example, the bloom phase will be up and an anomaly will randomly spawn and when the blooms creep near any splash damage you have on the anomaly will knock the blooms back. This cuts the amount of time you have in half and usually results in a death.

Another problem is the anomaly appearing during the disappearing floor phase cuts LOS for classes that use ground target. I have a feeling this shouldnt be happening though and goes back to what I initially said

The fractal it self isn’t overly difficult but when you have these overlapping one shot mechanics the fractal goes from being skilled based to entirely RNG.

tl;dr please playtest

The anomaly isnt that tanky u usually have time before the bloom phase ends to deal with it. I have never seen the anomaly spawn somewhere where theres no floor at all. But still u can have a condi warrior a guard or an ele range the anomaly.

I have killed this boss twice now so I know that health is not the problem. What I’m saying is the anomaly is spawning at inconsistent times.

Ok so first and foremost I wanna say that the number one thing killing my group during this fractal is the anomaly spawning at irregular times during the third boss. For example, the bloom phase will be up and an anomaly will randomly spawn and when the blooms creep near any splash damage you have on the anomaly will knock the blooms back. This cuts the amount of time you have in half and usually results in a death.

Another problem is the anomaly appearing during the disappearing floor phase cuts LOS for classes that use ground target. I have a feeling this shouldnt be happening though and goes back to what I initially said

The fractal it self isn’t overly difficult but when you have these overlapping one shot mechanics the fractal goes from being skilled based to entirely RNG.

tl;dr please playtest

Sweet Sanity.8593:

My point is you are judging based on a couple days in which numbers are declining rapidly. Come back to the forum with the numbers in 2 weeks and let’s see the difference

You mean when they move up? Like my entire point was about? Because they don’t actually belong in this tier?

Again, congratulations

Sweet Sanity.8593:

I will say in the end though they are quick to blame lack of numbers for all their problems.

DH/FC
NSP/SF
HOD/EB

Because we totally were not outnumbered.

It’s clear to see that you don’t actually understand the point. Even with statistics and opinions from players outside of the four server merge. It is still the same “Darkhaven is complaining for no reason.”

Congratulations.

Balthazzarr.1349:

4days \= overnight

To achieve a 60K lead in four days you would have to have some sort of consistent lead from the beginnning. If you do basic math, that would mean an increase of 15K per day since reset happened. The week is like 60% done and the match was decided on
the second or third day.

Sweet Sanity.8593:

The majority of the posters upset about this pairing are from darkhaven/eBay. Both of these servers were in t4 already. The other two server groups fighting in t4 have people who were in different tiers before this week, but the ones who are upset were.

As much as I rip on dh though, really it is eBay who got the short end of the stick here. They did great with hod at the top of t4. They played very well and had a lot of good fights, but then they got stuck in last place as a guest to a dead server

Courtesy of kandle.2367’s post with numbers that are up to date as of now from wvwintel.com

Blackgate
Kills: 17,750
Deaths: 14,540
Ratio: 1.22

Kaineng & Eredon Terrace & Borlis Pass & Crystal Desert
Kills: 26,777
Deaths: 21,115
Ratio: 1.27

Ehmry Bay & Darkhaven
Kills: 11,456
Deaths: 14,739
Ratio: 0.78

Ferguson’s Crossing & Gate of Madness & Sorrow’s Furnace
Kills: 18,149
Deaths: 22,234
Ratio: 0.82

These servers together have generated more kills AND have a higher kd than BG/AR. People are not complaining without a reason. Not to mention the fact that we are four days in and they are 60K ahead of everyone. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t they say they wanted ppt this way to prevent a winner from being chosen overnight?

I am not saying they should be matched against BG/AR, but they just should not be here.

Tris Apollumenon.6435:

@Rastaaa: Sweet Sanity said they were from FC. That’s from the three-server alliance, not the four-server alliance. It looks like they are currently second place in that matchup right now, although there does not seem to be a massive difference between SF/FC/GoM and and DH/EB.

Edited.

Sweet Sanity.8593:

I’m on FC and we are actually enjoying this matchup. Yes the quad server usually has more people but there are tons of fights that come in all different sizes. Yes dh is still losing, but dh was losing before because the fc/dh pairing had even fewer than the eBay/dh pairing against enemies with more people than even the quad team. eBay is the largest single server in this match. If they tacked on a third server to you guys it would be unfair as well. DH will have to accept they have to actually have enough people to help their “guest” server and not be carried by them.

The mobs of the quad server will fade in time, but you can’t blame the numbers for everything like you did with fc too.

I can’t tell if this is an actual troll or if I should respond

Four guilds transferred off of Darkhaven. They did not update the pairings for three months and for that reason we dropped to the bottom. Faced with a constant cycle of the same thing for a month. There is no way we should be hosting. The population status does not reflect the real numbers out right now.

But of course there are no complaints coming from your side, you have people.

I would just like to start by saying that this is a DH/EB perspective.

The idea was to join these four servers together to give some sort of competition to SF/GoM/FC & DH/EB, but they have held a consistently high PPT for the last three days bringing them 40-50K ahead of everyone else. There is no competition at least when it comes to points because of their ability to be in every place at every time. Nobody will pass them by the end of the week.

There is maybe a 1-2 hour window outside of NA primetime to actually compete with them in fights, but as soon as that is up we’re back to where we started. Unable to actually defend any of our objective’s because we can’t fight that many people without pulling our commander off the BL for the night.

The fights with SF/GOM/FC are good, and I think most of us on DH/EB are enjoying them. But something has to be done. DH/FC were in a pit against NSP/CD for 3 months and that drained whatever interest I had. I was optimistic about the new server pairing but it seems that we’re back where we started.

Please do not take this as QQ’ing or whatever. I simply want an enjoyable experience for not only myself, but for my server and the server we are paired with.

Since I am not SF/GoM/Fc, I really cannot say much. For those of you who are apart of that pairing and care to comment, please feel free to do so. I’m curious as to what your experience is so far.

Reading what was posted here , we are expecting to get new server pairings for reset next Friday.

My question is how soon can we expect the information regarding what the upcoming server pairings will be? Because I would hate to find out who is matched with who 30 minutes before server reset.

insanemaniac.2456:

Jelly Pain.8027:

All I know is Darkhaven does not have a strong time. there is no weaker server. The damage was done by pairing. This is Anet’s fault!

in my experience, fc doesnt like dh either. at least we arent begging for a carry.

This is such a mess of a post.

Nobody is asking for a carry. We can all agree that the Darkhaven/Ferguson’s Crossing pairing was a huge mess from the start. I guess they will just use the defense that we were in beta for a coupe months so sorry if we ruin your WvW experience as a result.

Darkhaven lost at least 3 guilds recently with each of them having a 20-25+ core from each guild. Ferguson’s Crossing is not to blame for this. The server pairing “beta” should not have been this long. One month is more than enough time to gather whatever statistics they needed to calculate future WvW pairings.

Nsp, and HoD both got servers that can supplement their already huge numbers. Ferguson’s Crossing should not have been placed with Darkhaven. It just statistically doesn’t make sense at all. I am in no way saying this is Ferguson’s Crossings’ fault. You cannot expect people to constantly get moshpitted by other servers, and keep doing it for months on end. That is why Darkhaven lost a ton of people and that is why this pairing has been especially disappointing

TL;DR PLEASE DO NOT EVER DO A WVW BETA FOR 3 MONTHS WITH NO CHANGES ESPECIALLY ON THE LOWER END IT IS HORRIBLE 2/10

Higher tier premade queues (Diamond/Legendary) of at least 3-4 people will make you want to just queue by yourself. I have a screenshot somewhere of a five person premade group I was in from two or three days ago take almost 60+ minutes to find a match, and even then we just went our seperate ways because people just gave up and wanted to either sleep or solo queue.

Facing a 5 man party isn’t what annoys me, it’s the fact that I’m in queue for 20+ minutes for a match that would only last 3-6.

I can honestly say that this season has just been filled with a lot of disappointed. For starters, I was on the bad end of the win/losing streak situation and have been stuck at the beginning tier of diamond for about four or five days now. The losing streaks make you lose interest really fast. I’m sure this isn’t what the developers had planned, but if you are making it impossible for players to progress at all with maximum effort, can you really fault them for losing interest or giving up entirely? Definitely not

They also never bothered to adjust the health of the Lords in Legacy.

aaaand we all know the obvious problems with Mercenary amulet regarding Necromancer & Mesmer, Chill Damage, and Polymorph Moa

I really REALLY hope that they read the forums a lot before they release Season 3. Because if it ends up being like it was this season, it’ll be the determining factor in whether or not a lot of people in the same boat as I am, continue playing this game or try to find something else to play.

This is just a simple request since we still have our division icons near our names.

Allowing us to do ranked matches without being given pips. Unranked is interesting to say the least and I’m sure everyone can agree on that.

Chaba.5410:

The stab from Stabilization Core was merged into the trait Final Salvo. Please verify you are using the Final Salvo.

Then the bug is not with the gyro but with the very first trait in the scrapper line as it says 2 stacks of stab for 11 1/2 seconds

The concern I have regards losing pips to pre-made teams that you have chance no chance of beating if you solo queue. 80% of these matches end up being predetermined as they have a sound strategy, understanding of proper rotations, etc. Leading many on the team to afk as they know a pip loss is incoming.

As a person who has done majority of the matches solo queue , I can be the first to tell you I have no problem facing these teams with 4 other individuals as long as the system you have in place has lower expectations for a solo queue group.

I lost two pips this season to a pro league team and our team was entirely composed to solo queue players. ;-;

My client crashed as I was in the beginning stages of a Niflhel match. I immediately tried to log back in and was thankfully placed back into the match. We did end up losing but after leaving the match I was placed on a 35 MINUTE dishonor timer.

It feels like I’m actually being penalized for trying to make an effort to get back to my team

Is this intended?