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Who needs 40 US Prime-time players for WvW?

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As mentioned just a bit earlier.
If you want competitive, no ques, then you should look into tier 1~2

Here in tier 2 the battles are competitive all the time.
I’d suggest picking either Blackgate or IoJ if you come to tier 2 as SoR isn’t lacking NA presence.

Blackgate will cover your butt when you sleep, but needs help during NA time.
IoJ just needs more presence overall.

As for W3 oriented guilds, all tier 1~2 servers have some very coordinated guilds that are W3 focused and you can’t go wrong with joining either of the servers and get to cooperate with them.

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The 2v1 effect.

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This is what happens in a game when it becomes more about ‘points’ and less about ‘fun’.

It’s a competition. That’s what happens. There is strategy involved. I play games for the thrill of competition, the sweet taste of victory and the sting of defeat. This goes hand in hand with my fun. I assume my opponent is playing to win, and if I find out that he wasn’t I feel cheated and the entire game becomes hollow. That doesn’t mean you don’t act with a sense of sportsmanship and being friendly, however playing to win and fun are synonymous to me. If I lose I say GG and congratulate my opponent while thinking on how I can improve my game, if I win I say GG and congratulate my opponent on how I can improve my game.

The point: I’m pretty sure that most gamers drawn to WvW, and the nature of PvP in general probably feel pretty much the same way. At least the more hardcore PvP inclined guys and not the casual dabblers (but we love you too!)

You do realize that if the point system wasn’t there and the mechanic for winning worked differently you still would have a competitive game?
It’s the fact that current system is broken and pushes people into playing W3 like it wasn’t supposed to be.

Examples of issues being caused by the way the current ranking system works.
PvDooring, where you run from tower to tower with a zerg and only stay to take the tower if it has less than 3 defenders in it.
Ganking up on an opponent that is already downed, because that can earn you easy points. (often the cause of an already outnumbered server being hit hard by 2v1 until they are wiped off the map)
People not coming into W3 anymore after they are too far behind in points leading into even less people coming next time.

You really have to realize that the fact the current system works the way it does doesn’t mean that it is the right way.
And the way you describe, game-play does not matter to you at all, only the outcome.

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3 color battleground instead of 3 servers

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I added this to suggestions, so for the full read of the suggestion head over to here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Revamp-WvWvW-to-3-way-color-battleground/first#post837572

If you read that what are your guys thoughts about it?

And for those that don’t want to read my wall of text.
tl/dr
Have players join a color each week or allow switching of color only once a month.
Que up as your color and server
Players from all servers get to play as their specific colors vs all other colors
Map list working like sPvP one, where the more people que the more maps open up down the list and close back down when less people are playing.

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Revamp WvWvW to 3 way color battleground

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Would it be possible to revamp WvWvW into a 3 way color based battlegrounds across all servers.

This is an idea to help counter the timezone imbalances on some servers.
To help people that enjoy WvWvW always find enemies instead of empty maps.
To help WvWvW stay active in general, by flooding the current players into the same maps.
And this would battle the que times during peak hours.

Here’s how this would work:

Instead of joining your specific servers battlegrounds you would join a specific color.
The way choosing a color could work for example:
You choose the color for the current week, every week the 1st time you decide to enter WvWvW
Or you could pick a color which will be your standard color unless you decide to switch it, which would penalize you for a week of no WvWvW (or allow to switch colors once a month)

The Battlegrounds would basically be the same maps as they are now, with the main difference being the way you que to them and the fact that colors in EB wouldn’t be set to same side of spawn but rotate on every map.

Queing up would work almost like sPvP
Lets say you want to enter Eternal Battleground.
You walk to the portal or press on it in the B menu.
You get a list of all Eternal Battlegrounds showing up. #1~3 (or whichever number, depending on the number of people that want to play in Eternal)
You pick #2 Eternal Battleground and join your color in there.

Lets say that right after the weekly reset you have a lot of people queing, in this case when the 1st 3 battlegrounds get filled #4 gets opened up and if this gets filled (equally enough by all 3 sides) #5 gets opened up.

Now as soon as one of the battlegrounds starts to become empty on either side, the battleground at the end of the list would get a warning that if the numbers don’t balance back out again in 15 minutes, it will be locked in its current state and turned off.

This leads to the amount of opened maps being dynamic to the amount of people currently playing WvWvW on all servers.
Closing down and opening up maps prevents one side from being heavily outmanned as it floods people into the same maps.
Not being dependent on your servers progression to whether you will enjoy or not enjoy the current match-up
And if you are on a very specific timezone server, you will get to fight people even in your specific timezone.

Remember Henge of Denravi? It had to make a nosedive and it still is not presenting enough of a fight for where they fell to.
A lot of the players that stayed on that server had to abandon WvWvW for weeks because of them being matched with opponents that were way over their head in their current state.
Such things wouldn’t happen anymore with this system.

This would save on server space too, as you wouldn’t have to keep all servers open 24/7 especially midweek offhours when the population in WvWvW drops to very low numbers.

And this system would go great hand in hand with progression based rewards once those get implemented, as people that want 24/7 intensive WvWvW would get it and those that want the more calm battles would pick the lower numbered servers that are up and not filled entirely.

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New exploits?

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1 – Is an issue with positioning caused by lag (your targets connection usually not yours)

2 -There are a few ways that could make this possible, here’s a few

The target hit something before going down (or while being downed) and his target died just when he went down = rally (think about poison/bleed/burn killing off a doe/moa/drake/other player)

Quickness on the one rezzing the downed player speeds stuff up a lot, and if more than one is rezzing him inside a mesmer quickness field it’s pretty much instant.

Certain class skills can rally players.

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IoJ vs SoR vs BG

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Hmm Thanksgiving and a certain mmofps which a lot of W3 players are interested in came out and that on top of FotM.

I wonder if W3 population will ever recover overall after this week.

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How much more damage is superior siege?

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Superior Omega Golem Plox!

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Point fighters "PvDoor"

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^ I’m not upset about my enemy
I’m upset about the way point gaining works which leads to enemies run from all fights even the ones they can win just because it is not point efficient.

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IoJ vs SoR vs BG

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^That’s the spirit Shira
Keep on fighting, don’t even look at those point totals, just enjoy the fights!

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Point fighters "PvDoor"

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Don’t you think the system is flawed when people rather PvDoor because that earns points faster than actually having a fight over some tower/keep in a pvp map?
They rather pve in a pvp map…

I’m not talking about what’s the right strategy with the current system.
Yes obviously taking undefended objectives over defended ones with the current system earns you points faster.
But literally all you do is hit door+guards (PvE) then run if there are defenders and try again with a new point.

The fact that avoiding combat at all cost is the strategy to take in a war map.
Especially with a 3rd opponent that’s out of the game half of the time leaving more room for PvDoor.

I don’t think that promoting no combat and doing PvE as the proper strategy in a war map was ever Arena-Nets idea of WvWvW

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Point fighters "PvDoor"

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^They don’t fight us.
We can PvDoor maps faster than them thus we will always stay in point lead if that’s their strategy.

Point is.
It’s WvWvW where you’r supposed to fight vs each other, but there’s no actual fighting outside of occasional 1 time clashes before they move on to the next map.

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Point fighters "PvDoor"

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^ Yes the reasons for doing it are obvious.

But what is W3 about?
Hitting doors/guards all day long with no enemies, to gain exp?
Nope that’s PvE, there’s a whole flippin PvE world out there for that purpose.

We can counter their strategy, that’s not the point here.
In fact our point lead is what leads them to desperately go for points rather than fights to begin with.

Don’t you think this is an issue though?
Or are you one of these people that sees W3 just as an easy way of leveling?

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Point fighters "PvDoor"

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This is something that in my opinion is becoming a rather sad issue.
My guild usually plays as an organized group and during our play-hours we like to fight against strong opponents.
Most of us want to have good fights and we usually get plenty of those during the weekend.

Then the work week starts and the point fights begin.
Let me give you an example of what I mean by this.
In our current match against SoR/IoJ/BG, SoR is so desperate for points that they rather PvDoor all day long than actually fight and usually only fight when they largely outnumber our server on that given map.

For example, our guild team joins a map which SoR is hitting hard with their organized zerg.
As soon as we successfully defend 1 tower/keep SoR instantly ports out to an empty borderland/EB where they will outnumber whatever is there unless we follow them (in which case they port back/forth to another borderland)

In the off-peek hours they gather up 1 zerg that goes around hitting all towers and if there is 2 manned arrow carts they run to the next tower asap.
To just flip towers removing upgrades while they’r undefended and to secure points for when they will be equally matched.

What I’m trying to point out here is an issue I’m having.
Some people at this point don’t care about the actual fights anymore, all they can see is the point/ranking system.
Which is equally the case in T1 too, but because of there being more W3 focused players in there, you still get quite a lot of fun fights.

As someone that enjoys good fights this is getting pretty lame.

TL/DR
People rather attack undefended keeps/towers and avoid any fights (unless it’s some easy kills like 10v1) by jumping to empty borderlands as soon as they get any resistance.

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One time downed max per 2min in WvWvW

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Like the title says.
1st time you go into the downed state in WvWvW should be as it is now.
But after that give you a debuff for 2 minutes that if you go downed again you die.

Its getting old watching people rez up 6 times in a row just because they came with a zerg and just keep on rezzing.

Don’t get me wrong they could still rez the dead guy, but afaik there are not many people that enjoy the downed state in this game.

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IoJ vs SoR vs BG

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BG hates IoJ???
I don’t think there’s any server specific hate on BG.
At least not from the players that are always there to fight whether we win or loose. (the real W3 force of BG)
Real W3 players on BG are in for good fights and don’t care which server it comes from or focus on any server specifically.

There’s definitely more story behind some servers that might spark up rivalry, but once new week starts it’s a new war with a new story.

BG is the server with the most real fighters that are just there to get awesome fights, the points come in 2nd place.
If you’d have to compare the real W3 force of BG with anything, it would be Barbarians.
Unlike the point fighters that sit in T1 SBI/JQ, BG doesn’t back off from strong targets, but wants to fight them and bring them down.

When I see a map turn completely 1 color and it’s ours, it makes me sad, as it will mean that I won’t be getting good fights untill the enemy regroups.

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Week of 11/16: SBI vs JQ vs SOS

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SBI slacking off in the weekend and relying on Koreans might very well be their downfall when the Koreans decide to slack during the week

Ignore him. He’s still bitter over talking all that trash early on and then getting bumped to T-2. Snow. Let it go. Focus on winning your league.

Bitter? Talking trash?
I’m not sure what exactly you’r talking about, as I had great fights for the 3 weeks I was in T1 with BG and enjoyed my time.
Outside of SBI/JQ being full of QQ and just doing anything they could to dirty BG’s name the 1st 2 weeks I actually enjoyed most of the last weeks forum talk too.

All my comment was pointing out is that if SBI is going to get used to slacking in the weekend they’r going to loose during the weeks too once that force leaves the game or gets bored of it.

As for pointing out behavior.
You got it stuck into your head that anyone from Blackgate is a baddie without second thought.
So don’t go pointing your finger at others while you’r the one with the problem.

As for me being in this thread
I’m pretty interested in how this match will turn out.
I hope Blackgate wins T2 and SoS manages to push either of the 2 servers out of T1 so we can get a really fresh match-up next week.
But we ll have to see how the weekday battle goes before we can anticipate anything at all.

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IoJ vs SoR vs BG

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If you are on a map where HB is on.
We will not siege anything unless we have superior siege.

Normal siege = crafting material for superiors in the eyes of our leaders XD

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Thief animation

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Explanation
Thief killed u
U mad nao
/Explanation

Known issue mate, they’r working on it.
In the meanwhile get better at the game.

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Bugged World Bonuses

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Why is this still not fixed?

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Healing over 5 gone

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^
That’s play on luck
They promoted this kitten as – skill based game

Even outside of WvWvW
If I’m running a dungeon, and I aoe heal and we have a ranger, 4+pet gets healed 1 guy dies…
Why the kitten should there be random elment to that guy dieing or not when I clearly was gonna heal all except the kitteny pet

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Healing over 5 gone

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Once again Anet comes with a crappy way to fix things.

I don’t wanna be healing kitteny kitten pets or almost full heal targets near me.
I want to heal the dude in front of me that’s almost dead…

I might not want to heal the 5 randoms retreating into safety, but the 4 party members charging in with me at the same time to pull off our thing.

At least without cap everyone got healed, now I don’t even know who I ll be healing outside myself unless there’s only 4 others without pets or npcs.

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Gamebreaking Bug since Gw2 Release.

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Ah this explains my max health randomly changing in W3 at random times

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Thief contesting points in stealth???

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To be honest, if your group is bad enough to not kill the thief stealthing on you then you deserve to not get the cap.

I suggest players that think point holding on thief forever is easy, to try and do just that on a thief.
Any half brain group will stomp you so hard.

So my compliments to any thief that can hold a point forever, you’r true master of your class.

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11/9 Sigh SBI vs. BG vs. JQ again....

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^
The question here is
Will it be same hit as the candy corn!?

Not sure if anything they come up with ll be better than candy corn :o

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11/9 Sigh SBI vs. BG vs. JQ again....

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@Chapel
WM has the timezone and member coverage to tip the game into SBIs favor point wise.
As could have been seen this week with JQ leading until WM came back.

WM is absolutely not the best guild on SBI skill wise.
They are by far the biggest organized offpeak zerg group that just tips the game point wise.

Some of the SBI guilds you mentioned outperform WM big time when we fight them, but without WM SBI simply doesn’t have the player coverage during those hours.

You can have one organized group of 10 wiping 30 people, but if 10 is all you have and they come with 40 vs your 10 while sending 20 into another direction even if you wipe the 40 you still loose the other place the 20 took.

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11/9 Fort Aspenwood / Henge of Denravi / Darkhaven

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We’r in T1
There’s no ques all the time

It’s not the old GW2 from launch where more people were playing and for longer periods of time.

The server with best coverage still wins by points even in T1.

Was just checking on this match, thought I’d throw that out here.

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11/9 Sigh SBI vs. BG vs. JQ again....

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^
HoD had way more players sure…
But so had the whole game.
A lot less people log on and for a lot less amounts of time.

So SBI (only when WM is present) can be compared to HoD in its current state.

That aside, it really doesn’t matter.
People should stop looking at points only and decide how the battles go.
Playing for points only, might be enjoyable for some, but what does that give you?
Do you enjoy looking at a big number and going… ooh look the server I am on has the bigger number, fap fap fap…?

What I care about are the good fights.
And I am getting plenty of them being on Blackgate.

I’d love to stay in this tier and fight ya guys more because honestly I’ve been having the best fights of my GW2 time in this tier.
For example…
There are so many newbs to slaughter and they come in huge waves too… You can’t get that many badges/loot in any other tier.
Then there are the organized groups too.
Going up against those with our organized groups, gives some awesome fights and often pushes both teams to their limits.

Most of these people that are on Blackgate crying about how bad it is to be in T1 are being silly and I bet they aren’t even playing WvWvW to begin with and just look at points.
Beastgate is absolutely not being stomped into the ground, we just don’t have the player coverage right now to score as many points as our competition as we can’t cover enough over all 4 maps.
But the maps we come on in force, the fights are good~awesome.
Loosing a bunch of bandwagoners, really didn’t make Blackgate weaker, (sure maybe in total player coverage, which shows in points, but) just freed up space for a stronger W3 community and better organization.

Seriously if you are a WvWvW focused player and I’m not talking about focused on the points total, but having a blast in WvWvW.
Blackgate is the place to be on now, because you can get any type of fight you can possibly think of as long as you join up with the team that suits your playstyle.

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11/9 Sigh SBI vs. BG vs. JQ again....

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@Yerffejy.6538
You only see what happens on your side.
We could care less about your 10 man group, we kill the enemy team, either one.

The fact that you think we were chasing your 10 man group just shows how ignorant you are.
We were fighting JQ most of the time.

And guess what when you sieged RB, we were defending Bay against like what 40~60JQ, with the 8~10 people that we had left online at that time.
HB’s main team is still mostly from EU timezone.
You do realize it was 2~4am EU time…

No one rand from your 10 man group, people just have to sleep.

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11/9 Sigh SBI vs. BG vs. JQ again....

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Lets all have lots of fun fights this week and not cry about stuff that doesn’t matter.
Good luck to all 3 the servers and lets make the best out of it for all sides.

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11/2 BG vs JQ vs SbI... the continuation

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The site projecting the score, bases it of the current score totals.
Not the point ticks.

With the current score BG will stay in T1
Now just look at the gap between BG and SoS score, calculate the remaining time, and calculate how much SoS needs to be scoring non stop above BG to overtake them.

Which is not likely to happen anymore.

Also SoS was ranked #1 of their matchup at the start of it.
So they gain less points total for winning again.

BG was ranked #3 so being ranked #3 again makes BG not loose too many points.

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11/2 BG vs JQ vs SbI... the continuation

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BG during NA is very high PvE presence, but not enough are into W3.
Most of BG Oceanic team left to join SBI last week.
EU presence on BG is pretty strong, but it can’t compete vs strong NA+Oceanic presence of for example SBI.

Oceanic vs NA being further apart with their prime times gives a bigger 24/7 coverage than NA+EU

But hey, you gotta play with what you have and try to make the best out of it.
There’s really no use complaining.

I’d love to see some more competitive NA spirit on BG.
I’d love to have a team of Oceanics that could stand up to SBI’s team.
Heck even our praised EU team ain’t no where near SBIs Oceanic team size.

All we can do is actively recruit that what we lack.
And educate/train that what we have.

Complaining on this forum where no one gives a kitten about what problems you have isn’t going to help much really.

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11/2 BG vs JQ vs SbI... the continuation

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Just want to tell that I’ve been having tons of fun last 2 weeks on Blackgate.
Sure the score might tell that we’r completely stomped and what not.

But there’s plenty of awesome fights to be found.
We can’t cover all maps, but the maps we’r on I’m having a blast.

The dead servers we fought before entering T1 now that was something that got me to not play W3.
Having activity in WvWvW at any given time now that’s just awesome!

Having lower score than SBI or JQ, I really don’t care and to be hones I’m happy that we get to fight in T1 some more because the actual fights are tons of fun.

I think SBI being way too stacked and zerging everything into the ground once the other 2 servers are not in prime time are the ones having least fun right now tbh.

P.S.
To all Blackgate people.
Get out there with ya server mates on the maps that we are on and have some fun with us.
The fights are great, don’t let the score scare you off, it really doesn’t say much about the actual fights.

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Dead WvW Boaderland maps

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I agree with the idea of OP.
It really would promote people that look at score too much to still join WvWvW as there wouldn’t be an insane score difference.
And servers wouldn’t give up too soon because the point gap became insane while they were sleeping.

All these people crying it’s punishing the winning server and what not.
That’s just not true.
You would still be able to play on those maps and control them completely like now, but you wouldn’t be gaining points because you had the 150 man extra on top of the other server to just take that map without resistance at all.

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11/2 BG vs JQ vs SbI... the continuation

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Don’t cheer too soon BG.
At this rate we might stay in T1 for another week ~

SoS still didn’t get enough points to overthrow us.

Even if we do though.
As you could witness today, if we team up and go for it, we can fight with the big boys.
So don’t let ya heads hang, and show that there’s plenty of fighting spirit on Beastgate!

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Arrow Cart Damage

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You’d need like 15 superior carts to instagib non squishies

But a few cripple+bleed shots stacked from like 3+ carts go a long way
Might not be instagib, but pretty much anything that stays in there for a bit goes down

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11/2 BG vs. SBI vs. JQ REMATCH

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:o didn’t know we left, afaik I’m still here with the rest of the guild/alliance

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Siege Weapon Idea - Barricade

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Issues are there to be solved

Lets for example say the actual barricade isn’t all that strong at all.
Lets say it has 20k health or even less.

But lets make the barricade only cost 1 or 2 supply to build.

Set the Barricade exception in code that allows Dolyaks go straight through them.

And what if someone barricades a whole supply camp completely?
You will be able to do the same on your side.
It would just add another dimension to the game.

Oh and ofcourse make it so you can not stand on the barricade.

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Side color should be random.

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I don’t think the layout is equally fair for every team in EB.
Thus having always the same color depending on your rank in the current match-up isn’t entirely balanced either.

Imo being red has the biggest disadvantage and being green the biggest advantage simply due to the lay-out.
The map promotes it to go North from Green or Blue spawn and actually promotes to split push the red team.

I do know there are some advantages on the red side too
(like being able to treb SM from Overlook, but this at the same time just turns even more attention towards you)

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11/2 BG vs. SBI vs. JQ REMATCH

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Snow Aeth.1937

Anyone else noticing the T1 and T2 scores totals being almost copies of each other?

Also right now there’s a shadow battle going on between T1 and T2.
Can SoS push hard enough and BG loose hard enough to switch places for next week, or can’t they?

Anyway, I think IoJ and BG, SoR and JQ, SoS and SBI are in exactly the same positions in their respective matches right now.

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Siege Weapon Idea - Barricade

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Posted by: Snow Aeth.1937

Snow Aeth.1937

I like the idea.
It would certainly add a lot of new strategic options to the game.

Would love to see this.

In fact multiple types of barricades would be awesome.
Making a mini fort in the middle of a soon to be battlefield would just add so much more interesting possibilities to the game.

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Remove Orange Swords and Other Propositions

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@Arani

I disagree.
If your 80 man zerg is gonna take the Bay vs an outmanned zerg, that Bay is already lost.

But the outmanned zerg could at the same time backstab 1~3 of your towers, making you rethink of stacking all your 80 people in 1 location or take the losses.

An outmanned server already has less territory so they can scout whatever little they have much faster.
But it gives them the chance to sneakily backstab the server with huge numbers unlike now where any chance of sneak attack gets insta zerged by 5x the numbers

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Remove Orange Swords and Other Propositions

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Snow Aeth.1937

Makes sense, I’d like to see them removed too.

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Invincible Dolyaks in WvWvW

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Posted by: Snow Aeth.1937

Snow Aeth.1937

Now and then I come across enemy dolyaks bringing supply to a camp which are invincible.

It is as if they are not there, I keep hitting them but no damage is done and if I target them it appears as MISS (same as when the target would be out of range)

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11/2 BG vs. SBI vs. JQ REMATCH

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Snow Aeth.1937

Hi Blackgate.
We’r loosing this match by points.
Stop loosing your minds too.

Instead of coming up with tactics to counter our current situation a lot of us are just acting as punching bags right now.

If they think we’r the weaker link to take the points from, then show them they are wrong.

Maybe we lack the people to cover all maps for now, but we can still get great fights in what we can cover.

So man up, team up, rethink what we’r doing and don’t follow the headless chickens that run into their death for no reason.

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11/2 BG vs. SBI vs. JQ REMATCH

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Snow Aeth.1937

Great job to all 3 servers.
You are all amazing allies/opponents.

I had tons of awesome fights this and last week and I’m sure there are more to come.

I’m on Blackgate so you guys might not like me. Well I don’t like you back either!
Don’t forget though that without enemies to dislike/fight W3 wouldn’t be there.
I’m happy disliking you guys right back and fighting any of you when I’m online.
Do forgive me for being whiny now and then, I’m just a human.

I’ve fought on BG since day 1, win or loose, I’m usually there to fight on.
BG had fought our way up to the sub-top, the way we were before the transfer bomb.
Our comfortable playing field was around T3~T2
After the tranfer bomb it meant few weeks of “fights vs doors mostly”.
No disrespect to the servers we completely overthrew by numbers.

Blackgate was stacked heavily just before our fight vs FA/TC 3 weeks ago.
Because we steamrolled that fight (due to our numbers) some core BG people that wanted more balanced fights actually left.
Even more people thirsty for good fights and a good part of the new transfers left when we got to completely PvDoor ET/HoD and scored a new score world record of about 700k something points.
We got plenty of server hopping people in return, that saw this “epic” score and came for points only. That “epic” score was just a sad score, not fun for either 3 of the sides.

Those 2 weeks of completely overpowering our enemies didn’t help BG with its name either only pissing off servers.
Sorry for the bad match-up guys. I think you all understand how it happened and hopefully having a blast in your new matches.

So there we were, after the HoD/ET match going up into T1, with our crew of loads of newcomers without a clue that came just for the points.

Don’t get me wrong on this one though.
We did get some great PvP guilds and players, that stayed.
SBI did get to see us way back when we met in Tier2 though and at that time, Blackgate did need a lot more to compete with SBI.
So having these guilds/players was necessary to even think about T1.

Moving on to our entrance into T1.
Halloween was right there to help us out, and as these newly transferred players, were here to stomp hard in W3 we got to cover all maps heavily whole weekend.
It was our entrance into T1 so we had much bigger numbers going in than people which sat in T1 for plenty of time and enjoyed their Halloween novelty over the usual T1 fights.

Then our newcomers started the gloating.
The weekend wasn’t even over and they were singing praises of how Beastgate conquered T1.
I couldn’t believe it either, how ignorant this was.

On the other side, the hacking and turtle exploiting accusations started.

Let us not focus on the hacking at this point anymore as probably neither side would agree on what exactly happened.
With orbs being out of the game this does not as heavily affect the outcome anymore.
Seriously though, ArenaNet, what the hell?
Do something about the actual hacks, don’t kill game features for it!

Anyway, turtling.
It’s being used by all 3 servers now and all 3 servers know the pro’s and con’s of it.
It’s not the amazing overpowered/un-kill-able tactic as people made it out to be.
SBI/JQ got really surprised by it during our entrance into T1, which did help BG to score a bigger lead that weekend.
Here’s the thing though. SBI/JQ went from crying over it to accepting and using it.

Lets look at our current situation.
We ain’t steamrolling as we were up until now.
Most of the chestpumpers moved on to the next epic server or quit.
(did I hear SoS?)

Just like JQ/SBI cried foul play vs us, lots of us are clinging to a reason why we are loosing now.

The reason whatever it might be is not important though.

If we want to be in tier 1 Blackgate.
If we want to fight at the top, then that means we have to adapt to whatever the situation is.
Be it 2v1 against us, be it us being outnumbered/outplayed or whatever.
If that’s how the things are, so be it.

If we want to win, which we do!
Then we will overcome this or go down trying and not crying on here about how bad it is.

If you are on Blackgate and aren’t ready to fight/improve and give more than your all.
Then don’t ya dare blaming the loss on the other 2 teams or the real fighters of Blackgate.

SBI/JQ
Thank you for bleeding our noses and bashing our heads in.
That is how the real Beastgate looks the prettiest though.
We might get beaten up, but we will never go down!
We are thirsty for blood, even if it comes out of our own scull.

This post is meant as a compliment to all 3 servers for their amazing fights.
As a little background story of where Blackgate came from.
As a call to arms to anyone on Beastgate.
And as an invite to Blackgate for those that are serious about W3 and like to take the role of the challenger rather than the champion.

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11/2 BG vs. SBI vs. JQ REMATCH

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Snow Aeth.1937

So after all those accusations of BG hacking orbs, in which case it was only an individual involved and most of the cases weren’t hacks.

JQ willingly sends 30 man to participate with an exploit?

Okay JQ, after blaming BG for not doing anything about our so called hackers.
Show us…

You know who the mesmer was, as your commander recived a PM afterall.
You even have 30 people that joined in there, which are all partially guilty too.

Show us how you properly handle hackers JQ, after blaming BG for not doing it properly you surely must know the right way to do so.

Let us learn from you to how we should properly handle such things.

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EU vs NA

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A monthly top 3 server week match would be awesome.
Basically the best EU vs the best NA server + the server that has the most points after those 2

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WvW Queues

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Snow Aeth.1937

T1 servers only have serious que’s during weekend (mainly after match reset)
Later on during the weekend the time isn’t too bad

And midweek there’s usually only a small que for EB

All these stories about 3h long ques are pretty exaggerated unless you only play after match reset.

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11/2 BG vs. SBI vs. JQ REMATCH

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Snow Aeth.1937

Here we are again for another week of awesome fights!

One great thing now is, that tier 2 has serious competition too, so if anyone drops out this time they won’t have to worry about lack of challenge!

SBI/JQ watch out as BG is coming to hack your orbs big time this week

Anyway good luck to all 3 teams and lets bash each others digital heads in as much as we can <3

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SBI-JQ-Blackgate-10/26 New and Improved.

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Some random stuff.

We at Blackgate are very disappointed with the orb removal from the game.
As you all know all of us hack those orbs on a hourly basis and now that they are gone one of our main server activities is being taken away.
Not sure if it’s worth playing W3 anymore when there are no orbs to hack =(

On another note, I’m pretty tired of this threads and all the previous closed ones about this match as imo it doesn’t represent what really happened this week.
A pretty awesome back and forth race and non stop action at any given time anywhere, there is not a moment that you can’t find a fight happening somewhere.

Although somehow I got the feeling the 3 servers main forces are spread over 3 different time-zones on each server, and JQ being hit the hardest by Sandy.

Anyway despite how much I got to hate some of you guys, I really loved the amount of different type of fights this week.
Thank you all 3 servers for an awesome action packed week.

Special thank you of today goes to SBI today as they managed to fill up my inventory from empty to full in just a 2 minute lasting tower attack, thank you guys very much for being good sport and paying for my repairs & siege

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