Looks worse for small scale, buffed for large scale. I still spend most of every fight shedding condis. Good fun.
lol hilarious. A herd of catas on lord? Forget epi. Going anywhere near that would be death by cata.
Just make condi builds more glassy. It would force them to actually play the game. As it is now, many condi builds can afford to ignore several big hits while spamming cancer. Many of them can heal up and run too.
Best bet is just to get on a stacked server if you’re after big fights. Anything else will leave you massively outnumbered much of the time if you roll vs Mag or BG. Get a server that isn’t completely worthless though.
There are servers I won’t name, you can jump into 5 or 10 of them and it’s like PvE.
The condi crap is workable. You can stock up on cleanse and deal with most of the stupid, spammy condi builds. What gets me is they have to be so kitten tanky + great mobility too. Some of them can even heal up pretty good.
Pick 2…dmg/mobility/tank.
It would be nice if some of the big hitting condi application skills had more of a tell…similar to big hitting power skills. It really is annoying to have every condi in the game instantly applied without a chance to dodge it (aside from a timing guess).
Some classes get a bit too tanky in dire/tb for the amount of dmg they are able to put out. Condis burning through invuln is really annoying. Would be nice to allow control condis but nix dmg while invuln…at least with invulns that lock condi cleanse and other skills out.
I’m fine with this. The builds I’ve been playing recently could basically ignore ghost thieves but they were still annoying.
I WVW on a work laptop. It’s amazing what you can do at 3 to 5 fps.
Even vs blob servers I would favor a higher PPK. If your server is dumb enough to feed kills to the bigger server you deserve the PPK hit. If your server is smaller but full of competent roamers that can snipe, harass and peel zerglings off the blob you will be rewarded.
There has to be a balance for sure. You should feel some pressure to attack/defend objectives still but, if you’re outnumbered and still pushing high KDR, it should make up for things a bit better than it does atm.
Bubbles are annoying but constantly being outnumbered by 3x to 5x is what really spoils the fights. The 5 shield gens just add insult to injury and mark a lazy blob.
It does need a look in wvw but there really are only a few groups in the top two tiers that use it right. Until people catch on and stop talking about epi like some solo skill it really won’t be much of a problem.
It’s a bit annoying in larger fights where a zerker can run full glass + max might + unblockable and then hit 5 targets at 1500 range for 18k. Personally I love blowing people up with gun flame but it’s another example of max dmg at max range + spammable + cleave that’s kind of turning fights into a joke.
Found out last night that epidemic can be used off siege since they now take condis. It definitely needs to be nerfed.
This. Epi is an unblockable range 1200 skill with a low cd. In many cases the cast time isn’t an issue. Epi off siege/high hp npcs or epi bouncing makes the skill crazy for people that use it right. In most cases it’s not op at all but some cases could be addressed.
Yes let’s nerf one of weakest skills in game. Nobody even play condi necro in WvW.
Epi is absolutely stupid in wvw when used right. People are down in 1 or 2 tics…before cleanse can even save them. Epi bounce is nasty and puts out crazy pressure even through cleanse.
Nerfing it would be really tough on necros though. Maybe nerf epi off of siege and tower/keep lords. Limit stacks transferred. It should still hurt but epi bouncing shouldn’t be able to wipe people out like it can.
As it is, resistance is the best way to counter coordinated epi bombs but that just lets them stack condis up so the epis wreck the poor idiots that get their resistance corrupted.
Eh +1 to removing cast time. Stealth traps need buffed. Thief is more than capable of building for stupid amounts of evade to survive a couple seconds of revealed.
If you’re trolling a group and get revealed you deserve to die anyway.
Every time you see an anet tag it’s time to bust out the ghost thief army and troll hard.
Frog stomping people is a right, not a privilege.
I was enjoying the greater roll of PPK in wins. This change pretty much washed it away.
well from my previous hours WvWing 2 whole hours in a row were fighting over Hills
and i came to the conclusion that it was most likely a couple mesmers were exploiting or hacking allowing them to use their aoe pull further than intended because the incident dint happen as often as it did during the times i fought a particular guild this morning
Yeah there are a couple using some kind of camera trick. It’s only come up for me vs 2 or 3 servers. Its the same with the rare ele that can place a meteor shower without having to wrap it around the wall. They literally set it 30% past the edge somehow…which should be impossible.
Would be nice if you could have a bar view of the first 6 to 10 inventory slots. Then you could put food, siege, salvage kits, tonics etc there.
You would almost never have to open inventory.
There is no reason to go into WvW as a Druid.
Our Elite HoT class mechanic just got nerfed by 50% and we were forced into healing stats only gear if we want to have decent heals.
Would you want a low damage “healer” that can only heal 50% of the time and has pathetic stability? When it is not being CC’d it is on cooldown. You can’t count on it so it is rather useless. It went from being rather decent to complete crap for support.
Eh Druid is actually good at a lot of things. When you’re 25ish vs 70 for example, I actually think running skirmishy might be better unless you’re a super organized guild group. Pretty much every tier is set up for that atm so there really isn’t a reason to not bring a Druid if you enjoy playing them.
Right now you’re either on the side that’s blobbing everything down or your on the side that needs to kite like mad and kind of peel the onion to get a good wipe. Druid excels in the latter and is ok in the former.
If you’re trying to bring a Druid healer I can kind of agree. I’m talking a more skirmishy DPS build with lb. Heal Druid can be awesome at keeping people up but sometimes you’re just sacrificing damage to support bad habits. People need to learn to sustain, position, blast water fields.
Heal druid provides a +15% damage/condition damage buff quite easily when spamming ca abilities with quickness/rejuv tides. Heal druid also provides spotter which is a pretty big dps buff. Heal druids provide plenty of water fields, including sub. conversion with quick draw, healing spring, and rejuv tides. They are all on pretty short cooldowns. I don’t run glyphs either. But I don’t see how it’s a bad habit, most people already know how to sustain pretty well, but you can’t go wrong with significant damage buffs/extra sustain.
You don’t need the heal stat to cash in on a lot of this. Bring DPS and bring all of these buffs to your party at the same time. Druid still has access to CA skills even building for heavy DPS.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying don’t bring druid. Mostly saying building for heal is going to be very situational in big fights unless you’re dragging people that just can’t stay up for whatever reason. To each their own though and depends on who you’re running with. Sometimes you have to hard carry people.
There is no reason to go into WvW as a Druid.
Our Elite HoT class mechanic just got nerfed by 50% and we were forced into healing stats only gear if we want to have decent heals.
Would you want a low damage “healer” that can only heal 50% of the time and has pathetic stability? When it is not being CC’d it is on cooldown. You can’t count on it so it is rather useless. It went from being rather decent to complete crap for support.
Eh Druid is actually good at a lot of things. When you’re 25ish vs 70 for example, I actually think running skirmishy might be better unless you’re a super organized guild group. Pretty much every tier is set up for that atm so there really isn’t a reason to not bring a Druid if you enjoy playing them.
Right now you’re either on the side that’s blobbing everything down or your on the side that needs to kite like mad and kind of peel the onion to get a good wipe. Druid excels in the latter and is ok in the former.
If you’re trying to bring a Druid healer I can kind of agree. I’m talking a more skirmishy DPS build with lb. Heal Druid can be awesome at keeping people up but sometimes you’re just sacrificing damage to support bad habits. People need to learn to sustain, position, blast water fields.
Eh all tiers boring atm. Even tier 1 is a snoozefest. 4 easy steps to success…
1. Opened the most stacked server in the game, pulling guilds from competing servers.
2. Stacked server closes again, leaving remaining servers facing the reality that they need to stack another server to have a chance.
3. New stacking pulls even more guilds from what used to be competitive servers, leaving ex T1 and T2 servers extremely short on tags and coverage.
4. Short handed servers take the week off or just give up completely.
Executing this 4 step plan right after reset insured we’d have the optimum balance of 1 super dominant server per tier (except T4 which is screwed up with mismatched coverage instead).
I think these trolls mean, please reopen so i can stack already stacked server an give us more coverage then any other server.
Yes, plz re-open. I want to stack. No more 1v50s plz. Time for some 50v1s
TC is too stacked atm. It’s getting hard for me to find empty towers to afk in. In the interest of server balance, we need to re-open BG.
Yes please re-open. I wish to join my friends on BG.
I don’t have any friends, I just want to be part of the millions of players enjoying the experience on BG
I haven’t met my friends on BG yet. I heard they have cookies though. They will welcome me with open arms! Cookie arms!
lol re-open BG. I want to transfer there. We can have 70 on each map while a few hundred wait in queue. This isn’t broken enough yet. It needs to hit a place similar to the moment you realize you’ve cracked your 60 inch flatscreen or broke your $2400 DSLR.
At least there are some decent fights sometimes. Until people stop caring and leave the other servers to ktrain.
Yes please re-open. I wish to join my friends on BG.
This really screwed up the T2 matchup too. If reset doesn’t help…there’s not really a decent tier to transfer to at this point. Nowhere left for decent fights. I can’t even pay to fix it.
Might be gg for me. Kind of in a tough spot for gw2 atm. I need some reset luck.
Warrior is fun to play when I’m too drunk to play Rev.
So you don’t have to do dmg like this on a 4sec cd skill with 1200 range ?
Im clearly missing something or I don’t get sarcasm today.
Eh CoR is for nubs. Gun flame is better. Just sig up and fire into a blob. Things will die and your range is better.
Heh perma evade thieves are pretty annoying too I will admit. They are a dime a dozen. At least warriors need to know how to play their class. Seeing a lot of nomad thieves around lately just being stupid.
Server hibernates. Gets opened. Gains a bunch of new guilds from servers much worse off. Gets closed. Wakes up. Face rolls everything.
Servers much worse off lose players and coverage.
We should take the smallest NA server, break down the time zones and then get guild commits for each. We could build it right from the ground up…including coverage and tag rotations.
By the time Anet set it to full it would make BG look like a toy. Transfers would be dirt cheap too.
Guildless pugs are feared greatly. Disrespect them at your own peril.
They would also have got TGA another SEA guild. Good luck fighting those doors guys.
Im sure they wont see any difference. Thats all they been fighting for ages now.
Yep it’s actually a total waste for them to stack more SEA. The doors are already massively outnumbered. They need to stack NA so that they can grow up to be like BG.
Loving this actually. I was getting bored. Let’s break everything and see what happens.
ANet simply needs to balance more often. Balance every 3 months just isn’t going to do it.
Pretty much this. As for twitchy shooter games…lot of them are just too simple. Come around the corner head shot gg. I tend to be a fan of games where people can actually brawl decently.
Gw2 is that for the most part…just some balance issues. Shouldn’t be invincible bunkers and shouldn’t be 1 shot from stealth or 1500 range skills etc etc. Classes should still have to choose a balance of tank, gank, mobility, utility and range. Should be balanced separately for game modes.
Interesting. Could still pug around as a guildless scrub too.
lol good to see them having fun at least. Maybe JQ will actually take some time to stack NA this time. BG is just stacked all the way through so I’d prob stack more in JQ strong time zones (not NA) because you’ll be T1 buddies for awhile (if JQ blob would stop wandering around like a confused deer all the time).
You still need a third T1 server though. TC doesn’t blob well. Mag blobs well but couldn’t handle more than a few weeks + actually likes fighting. My vote would be YB because it’d be hilarious and YB seems to fit in. Would be hard to stack them as high as BG or JQ though.
Let’s set up T1 for PPT and get some good fights in T2
We should stuff one more server for T1 and let them all rot there in boredom. My vote is YB because the thought just makes me smile.
And then you have the ranger/druid community getting up in arms about how it’s not fair their favorite build isn’t viable and to then start blaming the commanders and serious WvW players for being mean when they get kicked…….
Just want to point out there have been a number of ranger mains in this thread pointing out that rapid firing into a zerg doesn’t make ranger good in ZvZ’s, myself included.
However rangers are fantastic for harassing the kitten out of their back line and cutting off the players trying to run back to the fight. It’s funny as kitten to tap the enemy keep and position yourself in the path back to the fight, if the zerglings try to fight you can easily keep 5+ busy without a problem, if they just try and run past without rescuing their buddies you will kill a good 50% of them or more.
Pretty much this. Which is why rangers get stuck in pick when there’s room. Medium armor classes are great at skirmishing. The ability to torment a backline and then disperse every time the blob commander has had enough…that’s where the fun is in playing these classes during large scale.
That’s why I mentioned hitting from the sides. Back if you can manage. Any reflects will only hit you (if you’re a potato) and most of the reflects and retal are concentrated in the main melee parties.
Backline eles and necros pop like bubbles if they lag behind a bit with cripple or get caught on the way back to the herd.
Would be hilarious if they opened them with like 3 spots apiece to troll.
Cram as many in there as you can. It’s like an epic clown car.
Recently next target has been failing for me a good chunk of the time. I’m pretty sure it’s related to the obstructed bug you get all over the place because I’ve noticed you can’t target players that are slightly behind walls even if half their body is sticking out.
Noticed this as well but more so the last couple of days for some reason. Thought it was just me.
Been having this issue as well, its basically like culling has come back. Sometimes I cant even see an enemy group, just their name tags. Lots of spells and effects are not rendering either making it extremely difficult to maneuver.
Same. I’m having issues seeing rev hammer and some aoes lately too. Even CoR is disappearing. Makes it tough when you can’t see stuff that can nearly 1 hit you. Had a couple instances where I’ve had a blob get really close before I could see more than like 3 of them.
Well I realize I’m being trolled. 8/10 btw. I’m serious about lowering pop cap on at least one map during off NA hours on NA servers though. Give us late night legit NA people a chance on at least one map.
You can even scale pop cap so if 3 goofy OCX servers end up in the same match they can stuff their 70+ blobs on it.
Why would you want to run 70+ on off NA hours while on NA servers? Not for decent fights. We wonder why coverage is so hard to balance?
Cuz you know some of us wanna experience blob fights and we can’t play NA prime?
It was so fun when Mag had a map queue (MGR) vs our map queue (Seph) but now it’s a deadzone with what 20 people on the map on all 3 sides? How is that fun? I mean you guys in NA prime have your fun big fights but the rest of us have nothing to do now but yeah it’s “balanced”.
Super selfish.
We could have a nice mix of fights sizes depending on the hour…even small scale havoc/roaming in the late hours. Instead we have servers begging for more so they can stack up NA along with the balance issues they are creating when NA time zones are sleeping.
No we can’t. There isn’t enough off hour population to support anything of the sort. Even JQ doesn’t queue more than 1 map populated regularly “off hours” and sometimes there’s no queue. You don’t understand, there is little to nothing left in OCX/SEA which is why all of them should be in 1 tier tbh. That way you get blobs, roaming, havoc, small fights etc which NA can currently enjoy while other timezones cannot due to this perceived notion that servers must be ‘balanced’.
T1 right now is deader than the old 2014 T4 CD/SoS/SBI but it’s all LALALALA STACKED SERVERS DIE PLZ WEEEEW.
I guess you just want BG/JQ/TC etc all to be dead except for the 2 hours of NA prime they play.
Selfish.
At least the folks on Maguuma tried to get off hours there so there’d be fights all day round.
Eh you don’t need to buy up oversees guilds and pvd every night to get “blob fights”. Nights are dead because one server is running friggin map queues while everyone is asleep. The rest of us crazies that stay up just have to let them cap everything while we back cap or stand around bored. We might have 15 or 20…could deal with that or even get some nice outnumbered fights against 35…but 70?
Lower the map limit. That way we can get good fights on one map while Chinese NA server or whatever ktrains the other 3 maps. Everyone is happy except NA people that care about PPT
You can ktrain away. I don’t give a crap. Just spread out and give actual NA servers a chance on one map.
I would really like to know what people mean by team play.Is it when the guardians/dragon hunters are so bunker-ed up with little to no damage tagging as many foes as they can while the back line does the real killing?Is that team play?Calling rangers out and calling us useless when we can plainly see the opponents going down one after another at the points of our arrows or under a barrage.That’s team play?
This is what I have to say about the so called “META” .It’s designed around selfish front liners that just want to tap while the rest of us do the real work.
ALL classes have a place in the battle field.Whether we’re running long bow or trapping we rangers are the ones at the far back watching over the back line ,bursting and disrupting the opponents front line and mid line.We flank to disrupt the opponents mid line and back line. So all you knuckle heads out there that think rangers don’t have a place in WvW need a reality check.It is ranger haters that need to stop being selfish and allow people to play the game .^ Perfectly said…. the REAL team players are the ones kicking kitten .. everyone else is just on a loot stick guardian because they want to brag about how many bags their toon gets… i love this guy!! Honesty at its finest!
Whilst I may not feel the same way (Yeah right, I totally do), I agree with what is being said.
If you’re gunna call the group comp running 500+ units ahead of you taking everything on “greedy” while you pew pew at pirate ship range “collecting bags” from tags, then y’all lost in here, druid sickness is real atm.
500+ units? Def no 500+ units where I am/fight mate. You don’t know about me and how I play. There is many times where I am up front with the tag (when I am not tagging up myself, where I typically stay in front as well). This is a perfect example of some people not realizing/knowing that some druids actually know how to play their part. I don’t usually stay at “pirate ship range” mate. More often than not I’m close to, if not up front, which if not, then I’m around mid. I can’t pick off backline peeps if I am playing in my backline.
I also tend to kite their frontline to a choke point so my guys and start rolstomping their frontline while I go ahead and chase/down their backline/aoe peeps.
I understand that there are a lot of baddies out there, however there are some actual druids that have a clue and do know how to work their build where it’s not all about selfishness. It’s also the druid hate that drives me to keep playing it and getting better to the point that I’ve saved so many people from being stomped/DPS’d down that I saved those haters.
Cheers Mate.
This is actually the exact mentality that I fear. Sure you get a few druids who can group combat on a server sure they do their part but even doing well they just barely carry their weight. And then just like you say, all the baddies this encourages to stay on classes and builds not worth it.
Agree somewhat but there are a ton of baddies that get on guards and think they’re good at it because they one pushed a few groups they had numbers on. When they yolo into groups they obviously can’t handle, they blame the backline…that is usually flipping around like mad because some genius in full nomads dragged them into twice their number…swinging a loot stick like they’re mowing the lawn. Catch is they’re critting for 150.
Tldr point in most fights it just doesn’t matter. If you’re losing your either outnumbered, pugs vs guild group or you moved up from a lower tier.
Prize monies aside, they really should look into ways of incentivizing pvp/wvw game modes weekly. Doesn’t have to be with gems and hopefully not with some other worthless currency.
You have to find something people want badly that takes some maintenance and has plenty of room for sweet upgrades and then tie in a currency for it. My vote would be legit player owned housing.