We should utilize both 1U1D and glikco at the same time. The glikco system offered a vareity which brought up intersting match-ups. It was unpredictable. It was fun. The problem was it was making the match ups in every tier highly unbalanced, giving frustration to both winning and losing side. By partially applying 1U1D system, we can manage this.
Treat Tier 1 bracket as a special bracket. We will use 1U1D system for the tier 1 bracket. This bracket is where a server cannot compete unless they have the number and good coverage. It would not be motivating to play against servers where one server has zero chance of winning. As an example, Crystal Desert has zero chance of winning when paired up agsint BG and JQ. BG and JQ won’t be enjoying the match up as well. CD is essentially an outlier. It is JQ vs BG, 1 vs 1. We don’t want this. I believe Anet don’t want this. No offense to CD, I just took it as an example.
Tier 2, Tier 3, and Tier 4 can follow the glikco system. Yes, there is a gap between each tier, but it is relatively manageable.
So, if you’re placed in Tier 2 for this week, you will move up to Tier 1 by placing the 1st. If you’re in Tier 1, and placed the 3rd, you will move down and the glicko system will decide your next match up.
Make the decay slower farther away from the base. This will encourage roamers and people in general to be more aggressive and invade into enemy territory.
8vs8 was just too much fun. We don’t really care about the balance. It was easy to hop in and it was enjoyable.
I undertsand that people want competitive. solid environment of 5vs5, but it has been there already for a long time. Could you consider brining back 8vs8, or implement a new 10vs10 system? Some people do like zerging and chaos where we don’t know what the heck is going on. But we like it, because it’s fun.
pretty sure you just copy and paste the long link into the post (the one in the browser address bar, not the share box), and the forum picks it up automatically, but I could be wrong
Could one of you fine people kittenponded to this post help me? I would like to learn thief but am overwhelmed with all the videos and combos for bursting. It all seems way out of my league right now. This video however looked like a lot of fun plus he had 22 hp…I generally like my hp to be that high due to my slow reaction time and also fps. Basically, some of you said you have done something similar to this. Can you plz link me the build and gear so I may learn to love me thief? Would be so grateful
I’m aware of Tyler’s posts, which if you read them don’t ever promise a 3rd borderlands map. I just wanted to clarify that nowhere in the polls did we say anything about creating a 3rd borderlands map, even though that is stated as a ‘fact’ over and over again on the forums.
How about getting an immediate +1 pip bonus for flipping a keep? We can consider making SMC and Garrison even more special by rewarding another extra 1 or 2 pips when flipped at high tiers. This will encourage players, regardless of their ranks, to engage in with their servers more often.
Man, Crystal Desert is persistent. JQ failed many attempts to take their Garrison and Keep at EBG. CD definitely has the legit numbers to play WvW. Appreciate for putting up a lot of efforts to fight JQ back!
Currently sitting at ~300. With the Celebration Booster, playing 2~3 hours a day, I am gaining 80~90 ranks per week. I mostly follow zergs and enjoy ppting and fighting. So, it shall take 6-8 months to reach 2k. Not bad at all.
I may play extra 2-3 hours during the weekends. How many ranks are ya all gaining?
Who cares? If they’re just here for outnumbered pip farming they probably wouldn’t be in WvW in the first place, so just let them do it? Not like they are taking up precious space in an outnumbered map…
Say there are 5 to 10 dedicated defenders working hard to turtle in a keep against the enemy zerg. They were getting outmanned buff which they deserve. All the sudden, the pip hunters hop in the map and goes afk. This is actually happening in many servers. I want to see the outmanned buff rewarding those who have been actively participating.
Players hopping from a map to map looking for outnumbered buffs are creating unhealthy environments for general WvW game-play. Once we join a borderland, we shouldn’t be able to hop into other BLs for at least 5 minutes. This seems reasonable.
Pips are fairly hard to get at the moment. I like this. This is meant to be difficult. The Legendary and Ascended items are not and should not be easy to obtain. All we, pvp junkies in WvW, wanted was having intense battles where there are constantly things to take and kill and dominate. We could care less about the rewards than anyone elses. We just want balance. The rewards are bonus boxes that naturally stack up while we were busy murdering each other.
But, we do need to talk about the current match-makers. Bring back the older match making system where we vsed the same server over and over. Use the current glicko system once a month to add variety and possibilities.
Sticked with our zerg groups most of the time. My WvW rank is ~200. By the end of this week, I got Mithril Reward 5 of 6. I spent 5~6 hours a day in WvW.
If you unlocked all the way up to Diamond, you are insane.
Man, the majoirty of commanders just kick medium armors. That’s it. I believe Anet did not want to implement hidden tags, for they want everyone to be a part of the game. The medium armors are now getting excluded from WvW.
It’s a huge change. I love you. I am very happy that I can finally give up raiding and come back to WvW.
Now, if I may ask, for how long have you guys been working out on this new update? What was the hardest part as devs? Can we (WvWers) expect to see more, constant updates in our world from the near future?
This mode is designed to grant players direct access to raiding from anywhere like that of sPvP.
- Players can queue for each wing by desire.
- A commander will be chosen amongst those who already has a tag.
- If no commanders are present in a sqaud, a random player will be given a commander tag that can be passed around.
- Every squad will be given 5 tries for each boss.
- Players are safe to leave the squad when they sucessfully kill the boss, or after making 5 attempts to kill the boss.
- When players remain offline for more than 5 minutes after joining a squad, they will be prohibited from the queue for the next 24 hours.
- To prevent trolling, it is needed to implment report system where players getting excessive reports will result in a temporary/permanent ban from joining the raid arena.
These are the general ideas. I supppose I can go further, but what you guys think?
I’ve been wanting an invisible/bare chest on my characters for a long time.
I just don’t want an invisible chest skin to be added as one of those 1 in a 1,000,000 chance drop rates from the treasure mushroom. I mean, seriously, who has time for that!? And the chances are pathetic.
I wish my engineer, specifically, had a bare chest. I HATE trench coats with a passion. I would rather have nothing, but then I obviously lose my armor stats and benefits from wearing something.
Anet please make an invisible armor set for all classes – but not make it so unbearably difficult to obtain – like the invisible boots from the treasure mushrooms. Perhaps reward tracks that give you a currency for buying account bound invisible armor skins that can’t be sold on the trading post, would be awesome.
I’ve been experimenting for weeks. I’d advertise a raid squad as “EXP Wing x Boss x”, and accepted everyone without checking gears/LI/KP. 90% of the time the group failed to kill the boss even after multiple attempts. So, being picky is needed. People say having 200 LI means nothing, but I disagree. It actually matters.
I imagine things will be much better if there was an in-game voice chat for squads.
Wasted resources really. If you want to see others play, just check youtube or twitch, which is about as educational.
It feels totally different when you can spectate in-game. It will bring positive effects to the community granting the new players learn the raid without too much hustle.
There are a lot of good raiding guilds and good players outside of the well known hardcore guilds. Most do not stream or upload their runs to Youtube.
Being able to watch people play and see them do their own thing, with their own varations on the meta would be interesting.
Of course, that wouldn’t really be about helping new players for me. Rathering something for the veterans.
Back to the beginners, all of the content people keep uploading does indeed help new players to understand the bosses. Anyone willing to discover anything about the raid can do so by simply typing “gw2 raid guides” into google. You’ll get everything from Dulfy and Reddit to qT on the front page.
Still, there is something pleasing about an actual ingame feature rather than having to check guides and videos outside of the game. Besides, there are some who outright refuse to inform themselves outside of the game. Whether that type of player should be raiding at all is a different story.
All though, I can certainly see the merit of a mentor system. Many might see themselves sitting down to watch and give advice much more frequently than actively taking part in a training run. Something that is much more time and energy consuming.
When recruiting guild train run, almost always there are more than 10 volunteers. Even for pugs, there are actually so many players that want to join the pratice run, but the squad fills up very fast. Can you create a raid spectator mode? More people will be able to learn by spectating. It would also be cool to watch the pro raider doing speed run.
