Guild Wars 2

Btw, I am not on german servers, never been, I am on Vabbi. Tbf, german roamers are terrible. Thats why Id like germans to outnumber us because at least their blobs are nicer than french.

Anyways I got no connections with german servers, I just find the current system faulty, links are part of the game by now, and Germans dont get to enjoy it.

I know the population algorithms show that german servers are fairly populated but currently there is 3 German servers that have no link….

Next week, if the matchups end up like it seems so far. All 5 german servers will be at bottom 6, so they’re not even competitive at higher ranks.

I believe reason why German servers are dying is because they dont have much change in the people. They are full, they have no links people can transfer to. So basically all they can do, is look at people leaving the server instead of anyone arriving.

At least International servers have this hope every 2 months that “after relink it will be better”. And they can swap servers relatively freely.

At this point I dont even care if Germans will overpower us with numbers. Kodash deserves a link, Elona reach deserves a link! For the glory moments!

Kodash + Abaddon, blobs at morning and night, imagine that farm.
Elona reach + dzagonur, wow, that sounds like a great matchup for guilds.

Truth is that most of mediocre guilds, that still raid, are on German servers. So they boost german population up at primetime while their daycoverage is terrible.

For the Rise of the Fourth Reich! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Reich

When I am on rev and my asc axe is on necro, I have no way of doing 1v1s vs over silver rank Thief as hammer rev

Or I am on cele staff guard and I have to fight some kittened class like Daredevil or condi mesm, lul, Those classes are not even fun to fight against.
Not all of us are on roaming builds. And when you get salty whispers for trolling some ganker that jumps Altruistic Healing guardian by outsustaining all his damage. Roamers op, kappa.

Power reaper has higher dps than hybrid nec. And better sustain/boon corrupt. Its just l2p issue.
Sure you cant take on condi nec with rev or scrapper that lacks cleanse.

Guys guys, theres only 1 shout that removes boons and its unblockable and make his following attacks unblockable. The op is just bad and doesnt know how his skills/traits work

Fsp is more toxic. No patience when losing fights. Vabbi is fun and friendly, as long as you use good build and are mechanically better than standard playerbase, but is pretty bad for pugs at the moment. Not much action outside primetime and if the enemy sucks, theres really nothing to do because vabbi doesnt have “ultrabad” zergs.
Go for t1 server like sfr or gandara. At least they cap things 24/7 and try defend stuff without having 60 people/enemies.

Sure, vabbi has ash, LAYS and TT as tryhard guildplayers but we all know these guilds are not that numerous

kmfart.7480:

Vabbi is like an EU version of last years NA Maguuma. Full nomad blobs can get high KDR when they run, but often falls short of the highest kill count in matchups (as we see) & always lack PPT due to inefficient map control & will keep bouncing up & down tiers.

When they don’t have a map blob they logout (too low dps), which ironically also doubles as a way to maintain an artificially high KDR. (KDR is perhaps the easiest thing to manipulate on the score chart). But.. the PPT and total kill count gives that game away & did in this case too. Almost every regular server runs without commanders alot of the time, but they still do stuff.

Start thinking efficiency, instead of pure sustain.
You don’t win wars by doing great for 5 seconds and bad for 50 minutes.

I am sorry man but we run cele guards, not nomad. Then there full zerk/trailblazer dura rev and cele/zerk well reaper. Then theres lot of mara+zerk staff eles often 2 minstrel mesm/ele. I know its hard to fathom but guardian/rev has lot of sustain from traits and utilities that are not apparent to regular players like you

Vabbi is a new server thus doesnt have core players like Maguuma. Its just issue of us not being able to match piken/sfr queue blobs from 10 am GMT onwards. Around 3 pm we have enough players to win fights but were still fighting 40 v80.

Anyways its lack of commanders/queues in general. With your logic we would hit queues on all maps during prime, but no, we dont, we put 2 discord comms on diff maps on prime and we still get only 1 small queue.

Don’t rely on tactivators. 2 years into expansion and theres still new/old people coming back to game that dont know what they do. So they pull them. Ask any big WvW guild and theres bound to be people that dont even know what claiming does or how to put tactics in. People are so clueless about simple things

I have even seen my guild mates pull tactivator thinking its a supp depot in bay…. And its not even close to supp depot…

Anyways to err is human, so you shall forgive.

Theres no way telling trolls apart from clueless/new people.

At least they ban people for building troll siege if caught.

Stuns are well balanced for WvW currently. Theres stability that negates it, and theres resistance that negates fear that you get from getting your stability corrupted.
If your party has none of these boons, fix that.

Also ye stunbreaks are necessary in the current meta, thats why revenants run https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Harmonize_Continuity and necros play relatively safe due to lack of stunbreaks.

FA KDR is massively above the other servers in the matchup. Also youre winning the matchup. You need no link. Maybe you won’t get to t1 with your population but thats up to how much effort your server is ready to put in

Vabbi will come back up again. Way higher KDR against piken, gandara, Deso and SFR. Lot of AG people are loving the linking and will start playing more and getting better.

Its just lack of coverage but as long as we keep winning fights, the players will come especially since Vabbi is not full yet. Even GH was absolutely terrible at fighting when we started t5 linked with them but got somewhat semidecent during the 2 months.

Vabbi currently has 0 early morning commanders so theres 8 dead hours when no1 is playing (from 3am-11am GMT). After that everything enemy owns is t3 so theyll be solid for next 2 skirmishes while vabbi won’t be. Basically Vabbi autoloses half skirmishes just by lacking commander/numbers during those hours. Someone smart who plays during those hours just needs to start caring enough and we’re solid

Anyways bandvagon sfr link, piken link or something, will have plenty of acs to fight under. Also theres some pretty epic commanders there.

Theres just a few things id like to leave here and let you deduce why ranger and thief are bad:
Duration of fights
Fights are often over within first push, are ranger and thief reliable enough to deal lots of damage/support/boon corrupt in this short time interval?
Nature of fights
Fights are often done in chokes and inside towers. Are ranger and thief capable of pushing in and able to drop AoE fields/massive AoE bursts while dodging around erratically sustaining allies (cast times(?)) while enemy is dropping statics and lines of warding everywhere?
Skill lag
Skill lag is major part of harder fights in WvW, is ranger/thief capable of not dying in SM during those 30 minute fights that require you to stay on proximity of tag with enemy spreading everywhere with 20 thieves?
Class dominance
Is druid better healer than ele(most heal per sec, mostly regen) or tablet rev (10k+ burst heals)? Does druid have enough boon/buff/cleanseshare to warrant running it instead of melee ele or boonshare mesmer?
Is thief top DPS? you can install arcdps from googling “arcdps” to compare your dps to squad. You’re a selfish non-boonripping class, can you really outdps warriors and necros? Is it worth running thief instead of warrior for cleave when warrior can warbanner multiple allies during same fight? And shiro revenant(and even melee revenant) can do same burst from long range?
Build synergy
Lets say there was a meta where guardians where running swords, reapers spectral builds and revenants were playing sword/sword jumping around. Thief/ranger could join them in single-targeting enemies down and outplaying enemies by “roaming style plays”. But currently there is boonshare meta where cleanse, resistance and boonrip are so important that even warrior is considered bad. Do daredevil and druid have outstanding performance in the current meta ?
PoF expansion
Spellbreaker might break the meleeball, soulbeast stances might prove to be necessary in the next meta, Deadeye with basilisk venom (unblockable) might prove to be next gunflame berserker commanderfocus cancer.
There is hope but i would dare to claim that soulbeast wont have enough DPS/heals to warrant running it, because ranger has terrible weapons for zerging outside GS.
I tried holosmith myself, and its insane damage, I believe Yolosmith will make engineer at least borderline viable in WvW squads. Also that traited superspeed share without target cap. Mmmmmh… lets hope they dont nerf it to ground like scrapper (scrapper got like what… 7 good WvW skills/traits nerfed?)

Servers in t1 change every linking. Gandara will drop soon, vabbi and riverside are already down. Surprised? T1 will be ac ppt fiesta with sfr and piken now on anyways

I play unranked sometimes to get familiar with new build rotations. The current ranked system doesn’t allow you to kitten around in ranked like the old pip system where you wouldn’t lose pips when at certain point.

I mean, sure people in unranked suck but they’re better than target golems.

Reminded me how I should really go there and test some necro/rev/war again. Plat inc, hide.

Reasons why tactivators are being wasted:

• Person is new to WvW, or back from a break (and there’s lot of these) and they dont know what tactivators do
• They miss clicking F on the supply depot/merchant.
• They dont like current commander so they decide to troll.
• Spying on the same server, but this is not as frequent as you’d think because its pretty much waste of the spies time.

Now only one of these should be punishable, and how do you distinguish them? Add tactivator logs so the people who rage at mapchat EVERY SINGLE TIME can make the newbies unwelcome? I dont think so.

Also if its just a troll on your server, just ignore him, tactivators shouldn’t even exist, T3 gates were added for zergs to have enough time to run and defend. There was no reason to add Emergency WP/Presence of the keep/Invuln Fortifications to buff defending. Watchtower is okay.

Spurnshadow.3678:

Threather.9354:

Discord over TS advantages:

• Has chat channels included (possible builds, videos etc), no need for server forums thro web browser.

TS does this

By chat channels i mean real forumlike channels like http://imgur.com/a/Co4us, not the teamspeak like with no chat history, that dont show for people outside channel.

Threather.9354:

• Voice quality is higher and delay is less, haven’t had “server crashes” or “robotvoices” due to too many online even once like in TS.

Spurnshadow.3678:

Many say the same about Discord. Argumentative.

Discord app as it was released didnt have better quality, but currently it uses single-peer connection thus it lags less for users and has way higher quality.

Threather.9354:

• Accessible with web browser and joining server is easier for first timers

Spurnshadow.3678:

Again, not really. Sure, you can use your web browser, but there are a lot of features that you can’t access through the web (like push to talk. Pretty essential for WvW players), you have to download the Discord client. Is it really that hard to download TS? Both takes like 5 minutes.

Its more about the ts app requiring you to press on top to connect then enter server adress and theres ton of fields like server passwords and identities and stuff. I remember first time I used teamspeak and i just closed it because I didnt manage to put the server adress at right place. Also I am not native english speaker. Discord app is simple, click + button and put the adress there. Also you dont have to bookmark it because it saves it automatically.

Its not population that’s the issue if you’re having trouble matching numbers. Its the community.

Stop trying to win all maps against servers like BG and just make 1 guild strong/big enough able to carry one map where all you guys willing to join voice comms can go.
If your server is full, you have enough people to fill map and if it’s not happening, transfer or toss your current community leaders/commanders out of window and make a new independent guild that does things differently, might end up being scourned by existing community at start, but as long as you remain nice and fun, you will soon be center of the server and be able to fill map. Notice this is not possible without experienced players, decent commander, being loud on teamchat and being open to all pugs.

Eu has simple system: Vabbi has Ez, Riverside has SIDE, Piken has SALT, SFR has AmP, FSP has Kill, Desolation has LOOK. These are the guilds that run the “strong” openraids 60+ man blobs 12+ hours a week and everyone knows it.
Just look at http://mos.millenium.org/ and do any of these server get farmed in their matchups? No, because open raid guilds carry server, 1 strong map leads to another map doing better and domino effect begins. And strong open guilds and players stay interested because there’s competition on other servers.

IndigoSundown.5419:

The OP’s request is not an ask for a return to the early days, it’s an ask for players who have not spent the cash to unlock the elite specs to be able to avoid competing with players who have.

The original Guild Wars 2 is a dead game that doesn’t exist anymore. There wasn’t f2p accounts originally either. So just rake in the cash to play the Guild Wars 2.1, it is much better anyways.

Some EU servers use discord, not gun name them cuz you will just bandvagon, pleb.

Discord over TS advantages:

• Has chat channels included (possible builds, videos etc), no need for server forums thro web browser.
• Voice quality is higher and delay is less, haven’t had “server crashes” or “robotvoices” due to too many online even once like in TS.
• Supports YouTube videos and lot of other sites (can setup perma music bot where people request songs for free)
• Is Free
• Accessible with web browser and joining server is easier for first timers

TS over discord:

• Discord doesn’t allow you to join multiple channels at once on different servers
• The overlay is more plain thus easier to understand
• Can setup Whisper Chat for focus parties, stab 2 etc.
• More people know how to use it thus there will be less confusion.

Core Warrior, Guardian, Ele and even necro are pretty good even when compared to Elite specs. Mesmer also for roaming. Normal Thief, ranger, rev and engi are just boring anyways.

Elite specs added speed (lower cast times), more counterplay and higher skillroof to the fights. I dont see why diminish the quality of the fights by making Longbow ranger godlike (pewpew and run away) against anything except mediguard again.

NA WvW is just mess atm, ACs and dodging fights. even their voice comm setup is a terror where every guild uses their own channels so casual pugs have issues finding their way there. Just go t1 NA, otherwise you’re gonna be in for a bad time
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Eu is slighty better, theres bunch of fighting servers outside T1. Theres acs by some plebs but pugs are good enough in general to not die to them & join voice comms. NA blobs are normally carried by the guilds, so they might as well raid closed.

Anyways go t1 to enjoy the last flames of War on NA.

Simply go EU. Its kinda alive from 1 pm GMT onwards with queues in T1-t2. So thats like your primetime + EU prime (7-10 PM GMT) is not that late for weekend (around 2 AM Asia), better than playing at NA during morning

Theres 1 Thai guild (Ng) on Gandara and 1 ex-NA eu timezone server (Kazo) on vabbi already. Also if you had chance to follow Iron Triangle on NA, they’re also back on EU.

As I am aware, Asians like more agressive gaming (seen from games like LoL and Pubg), and NA likes siegecamping and upgrading SM t3, EU might even be better for you valuewise.

Anyways NA has more PvE guilds raiding on Borderlands and in EU you generally run only 1 tag on map thats open for pugs so its different community and you will have issue finding a decent commander unless youre willing to join voice comms (ts/discord)

Yeeeah, 3 ebs even, one of each colour. Everyone would be playing on their green eb

but I think what makes EB so popular and active is that it’s unique map and you can’t dodge enemy to “another eb”.

Scrapper needs a WvW buff, its not mobile enough for roaming, is hardcountered by trailblazer gear and completely outclassed by other classes in both DPS, Support and hybrid in Largescale fights.

I think a nice buff that would benefit scrappers large scale potential would be making Slick Shoes viable again. It would provide nice AoE CC combo with elixir S while maintaining the superspeed theme of a Scrapper.

nerfs that were made to scrapper so far: Hammer 2,3,4,5, bulwark gyro, medic gyro, healing turret, stealth gyro, slick shoes, 3 scrapper traits, 1 invention trait.
Indirect nerf: Necro boon corrupt buff (both axe 3 and greatsword 4), these changes hurt scrapper a lot as boon reliant class.

I find that Scrapper got nerfed so much that it needs a buff to be viable in WvW again (outside pulling commanders).

Current system where whoever goes down in rankings and rank 1 get to be green colour is proving to be little unbalanced just because green colour is obviously the best one to have on EB.

Of course Desert borderland on red side is bit of a bummer because no one plays there but it kinda balances itself out because no1 wants to upgrade it, attackers or defenders. I mean dead map is dead map and 3rd borderland on next expansion wont fix it ^^.

Anyways I think the colours should be randomized, because rank 1 server will always stay rank 1 because they’re more active due to having the “most fun” side on EB/alpine bl. Another solution is the golden middle road where you swap blue to be the one for rank 1 and people dropping down, as its kinda balanced with red with having alpine instead of desert map.

True that on resets having set colour helps you go on “offensive” alpine bl, but we are already at the point where all servers know enemy fight commanders on reset, so they can just arrange their “fighting” blobs to go on same alpine map, I mean PPT heroes wont be spamming FFFF on lions arch portal because they wont know whats home map.

Staff eles are op in WvW. Try squadwide DPS meter and you will see. Condi revs/dhs will be on top and eles next but arcdps counts condi wrong anyways.

The damage is insane if you just combo some things. Like fire 2 -> fire 4/5 combo (use meteor during burning retreat and it will cast from where burning retreat ends) -> fire 2 -> static -> air 2. Also Waters are really nice for condi cleanse/heals but dont bother them blasting yourself, because 5k AoE damage > 1.5k AoE heal.

Build you wanna run is something like
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQFAWhUMowhVOwzB8RMQAYUW4IEFiCQAYBUrh0wmE-TFCEQB+T9Hmo0LBXAAA8AAcnOAHqMYLKBTx+DbGGAGBAMzMz0IiICpAeYnF-w (yes no tempest)

Sure its hard to make sure enemies/allies stay on the field, but on what class it isn’t? Aim AoE on the side you don’t want enemy to go to and you will also be controlling them while damaging (force enemy to walk through your field).

I think 80% of EU servers have queue on at least 2 maps everyday during primetime. Try joining voice comms, join a semippt guild or ask teamchat to find activity.

Some servers are more hibernating because lack of good commanders for now. During day/nighttime its more of an RNG if there is a Karmander online on any map, typically t1 servers have commander like 90% of the day and t2 servers 75% etc.

Fremtid.3528:

Threather.9354:

Also my opinion is that presence of the keep, claim buff, emergency waypoint, stealth fountain and airship defence should be removed/nerfed considering defending team already has the respawn-/siegeadvantage because nothing is more boring than common occurance in t1 where everyone has t3 keeps except red map, cuz no1 cba to def red map and upgraded keeps with presence of the keep being impossible to win fights in..

This is ridiculous considering arrow carts are now useless for defense if the opposing zerg uses a shield generator.

Well tbf, the main issue for me is that no-one currently wants to go inside enemy keeps if its strong zerg vs strong zerg because the other server will have 800 extra stats, siege, tactics, siege, respawn, lord, portals, walls and other crap.

Defending was more balanced before when basically defending team had bunch of chances to wipe enemy but none of these over-the-top buffs:

• When enemy hits the outer walls (siege is up, can hold choke when wall/gate is down), normally about to get through when defenders arrive
• When enemy is taking down inner, normally closed space for attackers so defenders can use portals/siege to their advantage
• Enemy pushing through inner opening, siege up again, people on walls ready to freecast
• Enemy killing lord, normally time to run back once more

Keeps are ment to be flipped by considerably stronger enemy, but currently you just have to be god of war while enemy are some kind of ppt monsters to flip t3 keep while enemy has equal numbers inside.

Airship defence is just autowin against zerg, Stealth fountain makes it impossible for 5 man group to take down inner gate with 5 man group stealthing every 5 seconds.
Emergency waypoint is kinda okay to have, just not the kitten 400 or 800 extra stats that make even dueling near SM unfair. At least nerfing the claim buff to half would be welcome change.

henchmen.1856:

except this guild has about 200 fanboys who will bandwagon with them and recreate the exact same problem on the new server. no way amx/pt/lays and other guilds that came to vabbi just to be with ez will stay on vabbi…

AMX and Ng went Gandara link, LAYS is staying on vabbi for now, PT (except 2 Members) only plays once a month. They cant do much about the single people which are friends, but lot of them went gandara link, piken or fsp which kinda accomplishes the destacking effect.

Most of the people who use tactics wrongly are just people who dont know what they do, noobs in WvW or people coming back to game. I did it at least twice when HoT came out. Even people who miss clicking F on the supply depot.

Of course there are a few trolls and spies but they still cant remove Presence of the keep, iron guards, stealth fountain etc, which are already powerful enough to warrant putting in the tactics. At least theyre not siegecapping the keep with random ballistas anymore.

I think there shouldnt even be private option, it would be much easier to claim the keep during morning when we cap it with some PvE guild and then turn it on private and go afk, than use tactics every 30 minutes.

Also my opinion is that presence of the keep, claim buff, emergency waypoint, stealth fountain and airship defence should be removed/nerfed considering defending team already has the respawn-/siegeadvantage because nothing is more boring than common occurance in t1 where everyone has t3 keeps except red map, cuz no1 cba to def red map and upgraded keeps with presence of the keep being impossible to win fights in..

The guild in question moved because they didnt want to play with the people that transferred to their old server. They made that server main server from scratch and didn’t want to stay there because:
1) Anyone could transfer to the linked server for 500 gems because unlucky linking so it became overly stacked
2) It would become same as any other server which would beat the purpose of creating it
3) There was not enough good fights, constant queue on EB and 10 commander focusers
4) because above reasons, it was not fun to play in, and why do you play games, to not have fun?

Anyways, the guild can only muster about 25 people on 1 map during primetime anyways so you can just treat it as any active smaller guild.

Give Vabbi FSP in case fsp loses their matchup, please Don’t wanna dodge them on our way up because of this, its pretty big of a deal.

We dont need new blood in WvW, we need old blood back. New players take over half a year to get semi-decent even if they play every night like 4 hours. The meta is way more complex with introduction of extra boonrip, boonshare and condibombs compared to 3 years ago.

The issue is that these people need to start from basics like What is a dodge, what is boonrip, what is stability, why is ranger/thief bad, what is blast/whirl finisher and they take several weeks to learn just one of them. They are simply just too bad to play with for people who have played this game mode for multiple years and gone thro multiple meta shifts.

You wanna be PvE noob and play in WvW? Then adapt, get the build, ask around, I cant name a single person that wouldn’t help with their best judgement, some tips might be bad and some good. There isn’t a single person that didn’t go thro the rage of others when getting better. I remember clearly my favorite commander calling me names when i could carry only 10 supply, but who cares, I played because I liked the game, not because I wanted some virtual gold or skins.

There is no fight servers anymore. There is servers with good blobs and servers that don’t have those.
The skill of the blob is limited by skill of the commanders/people so some servers don’t even have these good blobs.
Even if you find yourself to a server that has good blobs every night, you won’t find them unless you join voice comms

Reason why every server has bad groups is because this game is so old, there are lot of bad players/commanders, new and unable to adapt, on every server and they need to play on some map.

Funny thing is that if matchup is too easy, lot of good players stop logging in and if its hard, bad players stop logging in, which means at the end of the week another server might be stronger than at the beginning.

Mat.3819:

Threather.9354:

2) superspeed boonshare frontline
Marauder with dura and knight trinkets (3000+ armor with 55% crit chance). You basically run superspeed on gyro pop,elixir s, elixir gun, sneak gyro, bulwark/purge gyro. You give superspeed to allies, reflect enemy, stealth commander etc. Your main job is to finish downs and give superspeed on melee push. Normal inventions+alchemy traits

Have u got a link for this build?

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFASnUUB1XhtbBepCEqilJjKc7Smwi+vr7+W8ZKgAA-T1BFQBsb/hroEEAPAACeBA0n6PqTHQTU+FAAB4m3MAM0hO0hO0h2Nv5Nv5NvZpAycrF-w

Have fun, you can also run medic gyro for more superspeed utility if you feel like you have enough cleanse/heals in the group you’re put in. Hell, sometimes I even run elixir X but its not definitely recommended build for new players. Also you cant duel anyone unless you swap to berserker trinkets.

Yesssh new tournament, make next linking permanent for it xoxoxoxo

Go to eu fighting server; gandara, fsp or gh (only this linking), see what its like to have 60+ people on ts on meta classes against another zerg just like that.

This is what you need teamspeak\squad for as its comparable 70 man guild running, not to follow all the ppt comms/guilds.

Btw people not in ts miss most of the good fights, because ts gives good fights and its not obvious which map the biggest ts zerg is on, if you dont happen to be in ts. So if you dont use ts, obviously you cant understand what its like to play with it (and with builds that fit ts usage, f/e dragonhunters surprisingly are bad)

The bigger the group, the bigger the enemy, the more skilllag there is, more relevant ts is about outcome of the fight. If you only play within 20 man groups as a thief/ranger, obviously you wont see ts as important as we blobbers do.

You can also skip hills inner gate with any other class than mesmer hint: supplydepot and leap

As I see there are 2 scrapper builds that somewhat work in groups:
1) the quickness dps:
Half marauder half zerk hammer with elixir u, s, elixir gun and sneak gyro. Normal inventions alchemy setup with dps traits on scrapper.
2) superspeed boonshare frontline
Marauder with dura and knight trinkets (3000+ armor with 55% crit chance). You basically run superspeed on gyro pop,elixir s, elixir gun, sneak gyro, bulwark/purge gyro. You give superspeed to allies, reflect enemy, stealth commander etc. Your main job is to finish downs and give superspeed on melee push. Normal inventions+alchemy traits

Both builds are suboptimal, high dps and decent support but kinda get redundant the more scrapper there is, as you only need one. Preferably one of each working together as scrappers burst people super easy 2v1

atheria.2837:

Novahh.7426:

To be fair, rangers and theirs are trash in WvW in squad lol I usually kick rangers and theirs too

You’d be alive far longer if you respected all good players on any toon they choose to play.

Don’t tell me you don’t wipe – all of us do, but when some are spec’d correctly and know their skills and abilities better than the other side, you get a huge bonus in all areas.

Not using all good players in a group because of ridiculous biases is why some very good players go into WvW, play for a while, do well but are never respected for the massive gains they are delivering to the team effort and almost never included when they absolutely should be in all things WvW, leave and never come back, being happier with groups that do foster cooperation and communication – which can be found in many groups in all other game modes BUT WvW. And this is especially pronounced in the last year.

We let good guilds decide what classes are good in WvW. Sure druid has spot in 15s but in 50s, no, there is not a single good strong guild that would say so. Obviously everyone thinks their own guild is strong but unfortunately its not that simple. Also good players play good classes, youre not a good player if you perform badly, and ranger/druid does. Sure good players try druid sometimes to see if they can make it work, but unfortunately after 2 years everyone can say, it doesnt.
Also if you claim youre only happy with ranger/druid regardless of how badly you perform, I am suggesting you only should follow commanders that dont mind losing. Some people want to win, even in games.

WvW is fun, enuf said. If you dont like it, then stick with t2 armor.

Havent met a single diamond rank that hasnt scouted/upgraded keeps during my playtime in real WvW and I have met a lot. You can also get high rank while doing these things…. It just means you win 80% of fights (which is relatively easy with claim buff on your side) and do scouting effectively instead of running 2000 supply from garri solo to build siege in hills…

Anyways 2k rank is easy, just dedicate yourself to wvw, pve dailies are not worth doing as you get them in WvW etc. If you do pve 60% of time, obviously you will get there 3 times slower. Most dedicated wvw players do at maximum pve raids once a week and some crafting. For example theres no reason to do verdant brink each event more than once, dropping eggs on patriarch or matriarch or whatever gets boring after first time. After doing each pve content once, you WvW, thats how you reach high ranks, if you spend way more time in PvE than WvW, obviously you’re a PvE player and dont deserve the armor unless you somehow managed to still contribute to the server 2k ranks worth….

Current teamchat is fun, its much better than before when it was always so quiet. You dont need to read it always tho, i just ignore it lot of times. Just block spammers. Join the fun.

Bearer of Burden.4621:

It happened to me once (and only once).

Around early. feb. I was kicked from the squad because I was playing ranger.
I complained in map/team chat but no one objected, and many agreed that rangers/(and thiefs) had no place in the squad or even in wvw at al.

I then decided to not join a squad nor join TS for 6months.

I still still play daily, i still follow commanders, And i still play necro/ranger/mesmer/warrior (depending on how i feel) I just refuse to join squads/ts

Lel, playing without ts or squad 6 months is basically not playing the gamemode at all in EU. 80% of servers runs squads full of normal guards, melee revs etc which means people not in squad can just run around trying to survive. Guess thats the extent of your love for WvW.

You maybe dont notice it but condi necros stack 25 stacks of bleed and 6 torment to your pets with few shouts and scepter 3, then epi them. Thats why rangers are kicked and hopefully the next ranger elite spec wont include a pet, otherwise rangers/druids will still just kill more allies than enemies. Thieves problem is more about being hardcountered by rampart lines of warding, skilllag and statics

1 full matchup. You will get pips next matchup. So next friday after reset

There are multiple reasons:
Main reason: Pet
- your pet will get multiple conditions on it and get epid. Major target for condi necros. Pet wont get cleansed because its lower on cleanseshare than people.
Minor reason 1: lack of cc, damage and stomp potential
Melee eles run 2 invulns to stomp/ress with, druid has none. Only proper cc druid has is with entangling roots that are useless in zerg fights. Melee eles have shocking auras, frost auras, immobs.
Minor reason 2: lack of boonshare and cleanse:
Druids only share 3 boons with allies, sure they can give 10% damage boost but thats not enough to make up for lack of cleanse/boons. Trooper runes are not enough cleanse.

There are just better options. Hammer rev is worth 5 longbow rangers. Ventari rev is worth 5 healing druids

Sfr haha. The PvErs came back to WvW. Will be interesting how fast they can run when they meet actual fightserver.

Piken is dead btw and not t1 anymore, 50% of their core community transferred to another server for better fights. AR is 1 rank above you.

You should be happy about easy rating points, pips and kdr.

Well you dont need to be in ts always, just sometimes.

Be in ts when:

• your server just lost a fight that could be won with teamspeak.
• the commander actually commands, doesnt make strange noises etc in ts.
• youre about to attack enemy upgraded keep and have to have fast reactions
• at reset, primetime and weekend

When you dont have to be in teamspeak:

• Youre roaming, means you only go to commander to defend important objectives like stonemist. (you dont leech commander siege). You still have to give scout reports on mapchat if you see enemy zerg.
• Its k-train or too easy. There is no proper fights, just freecap and 1-push enemy. However you have to join when enemy shows up.

• Rangers have no burst damage or reliable cc in zerg fights
• Ranger pets get epid and kill their allied
• support/healer? Theres no boonshare, why would you play it over other classes?

Zalavaaris.5329:

Erzian.5218:

It just depends on what you want to do. If you want to have the armor as a prestige item, then rank 2k is fine. If your goal is to encourage more players to play wvw, then 2k is pretty absurd as it is too far away to encourage people and will more likely deter them.

How come I didn’t get my legendary armor just for being a dedicated pve player for 4 years?

Legendary armor with stat/rune change that is the Ultimate grind reward for the grinders is different than slighty worse skinned normal ascended armor that is a reward for dedicated WvW players.

I like the current system more. Maybe outnumbered could be 3 pips instead.

What i dont like about your suggestion is the bigger pip gain difference between 2nd and 3rd place on a gamemode where doubleteaming is very frequent.

Also even if they got diamond in eotm, they still played wvw. Eotm is wvw just lower quality. EotM is comparable to playing in Drakkar Lake, weakest EU PPT server that dies instantly. I got my diamond in real WvW but even in EotM it would have taken ages.

Also commanders dont need extra rewards for commanding, we dont want people to tag up just for extra rewards. +1 pip was approriate.

Only thing I like about your suggestion is the idea of increasing base pips to +2 for 3rd place server so new players wouldnt suffer so much