Its only spawn camping in EB, since the exits are so close together and its even worst if they have a waypoint in your keep. In the BL’s its a little harder.
This sucks, I know, I’m in T3.
But matchups are determined by how well servers preformed the week before. So if you’re not moving tiers, it just means your still scoring higher than the servers below you to drop down or for them to come up.
You can’t really do matchups by server population because of the inconsistency of PvE to WvW players.
What Anet can do is lower the player cap on specific matchups, but then you wouldn’t hear the end of it from a much larger population of players.
I find that its easier to abandon WvW on matchups like these and go play EotM for a week or two.
We we’re 3rd last week, so I dunno about doing well. Sure we’re beating mag this week, but I’m not sure thats much of an achievement.
Y’all miss very important point here – our server is extremely small in WvW comparing to EBay. Their ‘small’ spawn camping (and yes, they did put siege but we achieved destroying it, thankfully) is annoying as hell, since a) screenshots are after killing some of them; b) even going other way we were gettin wiped by few times more people; c) they’re just bunch of pugs that solo mean nothing but in zerg they still kill our skilled players and experienced commanders. That’s definitely not fair.
And, yeah, there was also some random uplvls that were getting farmed over and over because they didn’t get the stuation (wvw newbies?). We tried countersiege, we tried flanking, we did shout out to all other maps and guilds, we still couldn’t do a thing. We were just heavily outnumbered.
But hey, higher tiers of course have worse. Like always. Actually, we were on higher tier from our beginning with GW2, but transferred down to avoid BMing and mindless zergs following some childish commander that loves to troll. Sadly, EBay still is like this. And still gets matches with our small team.
Again, it was a small group of randoms. Your minimap shows that you have roughly equal numbers, and so if you couldn’t manage a push and didn’t feel like building an omega or two to scatter them, you could have gone out either of the other two exits or, better still, split in two and gone out both.
As pugs, assuming they even noticed, they’d have gone one way or the other. Then your main spawn is clear and everybody is free. Simple.
And your population isn’t really smaller than Ehmry – we’ve watched you blob all week (and brag about it), and you have way more daytime coverage than we do. What you do, that has turned out to be fatal, is all apparently go to bed early every night (like, halfway through prime time) so all of your stuff is rapidly papered as a result.
Again, count your green dots and look at the people blockading you in the screenshot. You’re roughly equal, and they’re far from home. It’s barely a spawn camp.
Trying to save face for your server, thats all I see. Have fun with it though, its quite amusing.
Try having 2 queued enemy servers standing outside your spawn waiting for you to come out. On all 4 maps. What you’re facing is nothing
When you can fill all four maps then sure, when you can barley muster 20 people on a good day, its far from nothing. We don’t all play on servers with hundreds of people that do wvw.
Marshal Trahearne: “Racial skill. You are permanently British. Any time one of your allies finishes an event, you get credit for completing it instead. Whenever a boon is applied to you, you steal all boons, food effects, and utility effects from all party members.”
This is the kind of stuff I was talking about, we need super imbalanced, super weird, super amusing skills like this, just for a day.
I forgot about these too, funny stuff:
The Black Beast of Arrgh now appears only on Friday when the next day is Saturday and Sunday comes afterwards.
Revive as One: "Elite Skill. You and your pet are resurrected with 75% Health and 75% Energy. Can only be cast if both you and your pet are dead.
“By Ural’s Hammer!”: this skill now resurrects all creatures in all missions and explorable areas across all servers.
All minipets are required to have licenses and be kept on leashes when within outpost limits. Players will be fined 500 gold for every pet in violation of the leash laws. Licenses are available from the Guild Wars In-Game Store.
and because even ANet liked to tease us about how annoying we were when it came to waiting on GW2
Added the Patience title track. A player’s progress toward this title is based entirely on the length of time since the player last sought information about the Guild Wars 2 release date. Elapsed time can be checked by typing “/gw2” which prints, “You have inquired about the release date <x> time(s) and have lasted <x> minutes since your last inquiry.”
Well 250 years ago, Tyria was visited by the Commandos… 250 years after that, its modern day… AND WE ARE THE ONES THAT GO BACK.
Modernized Commando skills with their unique Vehicle Utilities and Kill Streak Burst. No Attack Range, just use of line of sight and camera angle.
GW2 Remastered Ascalon starting sequence as everyone travels back in time to chase the devious time traveling Flame Legion construct set on a path to kill… Adelbern, in an attempt on assassinating him during the Searing, years before the Foefire and destroying the space time continuum. In the end of a long struggle that sends the players to a near death situation… Gwen saves the day by unleashing the Searing herself, and causing the destruction of Ascalon, but in turn destroying the Flame Legion construct and saving Adelbern so he can secure his fate in forever dooming Ascalon in the future.
GW1 always had really ludicrous patch notes put out on April Fools, if you ask me, GW2 should implement some of those really ludicrous things, a lot of what was posted in the patch notes was terribly unbalanced, obviously, but still sounded really fun to mess around with for a day, so it’d be cool to see.
Gifts exploding with nobody on them, pretty sure that isn’t intentional
The gifts are supposed to explode at the start to create a random path blocker, so that is not a bug.
Alright, well it would still be nice if they didn’t respawn and then immediately explode like they do now, I recall that happening once and it triggered the entire explosion sequence all over again when the rest respawned, making for an even longer wait.
I’m not saying theres anything game breaking, just a lot of small, annoying things for which fixes would be appreciated.
Gifts exploding with nobody on them, pretty sure that isn’t intentional
Yes, snowflakes do melt in front of you, I can’t tell you how to reproduce it, it just happens. You’ll either lose valuable time and possibly die, or end up with nowhere to go and have the snowflake under you melt
Many of you are missing the point, I’m not saying the JP is overly hard, I can do it easily
WHEN there are no annoying bugs
I’m honestly not sure why it was changed to begin with, the way it works now is nothing short of annoying, sure it was slower before, but at least I didn’t have to deal with annoying bugs keeping me from completing it. Such as:
Snowflakes in front of me melting, forcing me to wait 3-5 seconds until they reappear. Really? That’s not even logically explainable
Snowflakes behind me starting to melt as soon as I start, while not a serious problem to people who know the puzzle, it is to the people who have never done it before
Exploding presents exploding for no reason, pretty much speaks for itself
Falling through the presents in front of the box you’re supposed to jump into, if that’s intentional, at least mention it somewhere
Challenging is one thing, annoying because of bugs is a whole different snowball
If they do, I hope we get different endless tonic recipes/drops.
Endless Toymaker’s especially, a year later and that tonic still hasn’t gone over 50g, while the gift dolyak remains at much higher than what its worth, for reasons I’ll never understand. If they want something to use cogs on, they should just let people craft the unbreakable bell, I talked about that last year, hopefully this year it actually happens.
I think the only part I couldn’t reliably get 100% on was the high part last year, but hopefully that I’m comfortable with my Naga’s number pad I should be able to do that one too
I think something got botched. Did 26 last night, only one person got an infused ring, and the other four got uninfused rings.
Report #2, ran 28, one person got an infused ring, the other four did not just like last time. I’m not sure if thats an intentional trend, strange luck, or a bug, but I’ll have to see if that remains consistent.
Will there be one? I know a few other games are discounting in game items from the cash store for Black Friday, offering incentives to buy the currency during the Black Friday weekend, etc. Is there any plan for that here? I’m not getting my hopes up, but it’d be nice to see.
If Wintersday has bells and Toxxdos, I will be content.
I’d also like my endless toymaker’s tonic to sell for something more than 30g, Endless Gift Dolyak is at 100g, for what reason I will never understand, but that’s wishful thinking.
But yeah, bell mini game and Gladdos reincarnated in Toxx and I’ll be happy. A little bit of tweaking to the story to differ it from last year would be nice too, but I would hope thats a given.
Reading some of these posts, man, you guys are serious downers. Did ya’ll complain this much about GW1 too? Jeez
I dunno what to think, I saw something about racing though, and rollerbeetle racing was always fun, so hopefully this will be too. As for the rest, we’ll see in two weeks.
Compared to CoF, Fractals is hardly rewarding. Quite clearly much more challenging, for maybe a quarter of what you get from CoF though. That could be changed if all the exotics in Fractals chests weren’t frickin account bound.
Guard with a rapier? I fully support this idea, auto attack #3 for guards using sword never really looks right with a sword to be honest. For that matter though, #1 and #2 wouldn’t really look right with a rapier.
Guard with a rapier? I fully support this idea, auto attack #3 for guards using sword never really looks right with a sword to be honest. For that matter though, #1 and #2 wouldn’t really look right with a rapier.
You mean you aren’t able to master the lasers so its to hard.. hmmm took a few attempts to learn how the lasers run and tbh I don’t see any issues with it as long as players are willing to learn.
This dungeon is the first one in GW2 imo that requires a bit more than “link zerker gear or don’t apply”… it requires a bit of working out.. use a runner to lay down AOE or signets to grab aggro from the golems.. rest run the lasers and when the small laser catches up, simply jump up on the crates to avoid jump back down and keep targeting the golems.. not really that hard.
The worst part for me is 3 times now the group has got passed the Fizz room got chest, carried on into next Aetherblade mobs, then all of a sudden we all get booted out to LA.. maybe someone leaves or DC’s and the rest of us get thrown out as well… but this is another issue for them to sort!
To avoid lasers is easy but there is no way how to counter golems pull and if they will pull you you will die in 70% times.
And there is also problem, maybe bug, when lasers appearing they can appear right where you are and again this mean certain death.
Dungeon is not too hard but this part realy needs improvements.
the bars that the lasers shoot out of come out before they turn on, it is easy to avoid
But there is still golem pull which will get you right in laser. And if you stand on box you just have no chance to avoid it.
Stability for the win.
Dungeon shoud be doable for all classes not only for those with stability or aegis…
I should also be able to join any group I want and not be expected to be a war in full zerker armor, or a mindless haste spamming mes. Funny thing is, I can’t do that. GW2 created a system worse than the trinity, it created the “this class and this armor or lolkick” system.
Protip, find a guard, follow that guard. Guards have two AoE stability skills, and an AoE aegis skill. If said guard has half an ounce of intelligence, he’ll use at least one of them.
Oh, this thread again. Guess it has to pop up every time the servers in T1 change.
SoS hit T1, SoR proceeded to complain JQ and SoS were ganging them
BG hits T1, SoR proceeds to complain JQ and BG are ganging them
I’m noticing a trend here, maybe if you guys stop complaining about it, the other servers might stop doing it to you. Mull that idea over for a little bit.
Welcome to the life of anyone who’s ever seriously played an instrument. You always find one or two people who do nothing but play one note, if it can even be considered that, all the time. Learning to ignore it is the best thing you can do.
That sounds directly proportional, or at least very close, to a trumpet. Maybe I’ll dig out my old sheet music, I know I have the star wars theme and halo theme somewhere.
Programmers will tell you that code can sometimes interact very differently between test servers and live servers.
Mmm, no, they won’t, because it doesn’t. What players do “with” that code is how you get bugs and unforeseen occurrences. That’s why you test things, what server it’s on has nothing to do with that.
More so, code has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that this event seems pretty badly planned. Activities are lackluster and not really enjoyable, the 100k candy required for wings is just completely illogical, only thing I don’t really have any complaints about are the rewards, those are what they are. The events in GW1 were enjoyable for seven years, and those never changed besides a few tiny tweaks. Dragon Arena was fun and required more than just ganking and luck. Rollerbeetle races were enjoyable because you actually got to participate in the race, not just click one button and watch AI do the rest. It’s not “unfounded complaining” as you would call it, it’s disappointment that events have turned into lackluster releases such as this.
Oh and about the programming thing, when you don’t know what you’re talking about, don’t try to act like you do. Just some friendly advice.
Time and ArenaNet have never gotten along. Quite often they would end GW1’s dragon festival in the middle of the last finale, 15-20 minutes before they were supposed to. That said, at least with GW1 there was a definitive schedule that applied to every district, you didn’t have to guess.
Luck is luck is luck is luck is luck. I am disappointed that we went from being the racers to just mindlessly picking one we thought might win though.
Dragon Ball disappoints me also, the one shot kills of Dragon Arena provided challenge, but the slow projectile time meant you could also take on large groups if you were situationally aware and had good reaction time. Dragon Ball is just about ganking and numbers.
Were complaining about bad elites now? Two near useless tomes and renewed focus would like to introduce themselves to you. Any disadvantages you have compared to guardian are offset by the fact that your elites don’t suck.
NPC’s don’t do everything for you, the hero AI in GW1 wasn’t amazing and yet perfect at the same time. The heroes functioned well on their own, but if you knew how to micro them you could get through the toughest of missions, minus a few, solo.
To your suggestion, my guild doesn’t PvE, I enjoy PvE as a break from WvW and other such things on and off. What do I do, even if I ask my guild, they aren’t interested in coming to help.
I’ve wracked my brain trying to figure out why they added it for GW2. GW1 offered customization, where a weapon became bound to a certain character and gained a 20% damage increase and towards the end HoM points for Tormented weapons and the like, and all armor was bound to the character that bought it, but weapons could be cycled around as much as you wanted unless customized. Honestly I’d rather see an approach like that brought back, except maybe not the damage increase since that could prove a bit unbalanced, maybe 10-20% MF or something.
The minority over the majority. Don’t ever own a game company, please.
It appeals to both.
How does more mindless grinding appeal to anyone? Like the thousand hours you need for a legendary plus the awful RNG isn’t bad enough. Said it once, I’ll say it again; the last thing this game needs is more mindless grinding.
Farming is a must-have method in any MMO. It is a general playing style.
Lol. There’s a word that would be quite fitting for you, but I’ll go with ignorant instead. A real MMO should eliminate farming and create actual enjoyable content that accomplishes the same purpose. If you want thousands of mindless hours of grinding, there are plenty of games that offer that. The last thing this game needs is more mindless grinding, and more people supporting it.
Okay. Please turn in your legendary weapons and crafted exotics and then gather your materials very, VERY slowly like the rest of us have to do. Talking down to farming when you already own all your stuff and don’t need it is ignorance.
I do love people who make assumptions, I guess you don’t know what happens when you assume, do you?
I’ve wasted none of my time farming, I do not plan to waste time farming, and until legendary weapons are turned into more than a mindless worthless grind, I have no plan on wasting time on one of those either. All my time spent playing this game was spent playing it how I wanted to, what I felt was enjoyable. Farming is hardly a part of any good MMO, and should never be considered as such. Nice assumption though, pity you were wrong.
Oh yeah, look at the first three letters of assume, that’s what you look like.
Farming is a must-have method in any MMO. It is a general playing style.
Lol. There’s a word that would be quite fitting for you, but I’ll go with ignorant instead. A real MMO should eliminate farming and create actual enjoyable content that accomplishes the same purpose. If you want thousands of mindless hours of grinding, there are plenty of games that offer that. The last thing this game needs is more mindless grinding, and more people supporting it.
It is, if you’re paying attention you’ll notice the red ring, and it’s quite easy to dodge out of it once you see it. This is probably the least challenging mechanic of the shaman.
GW1 took 2 years give or take a little to reach the max hero title, this is going off the exact recorded date on the wiki that the first person obtained the title.
I’m unsure if anyone ever reached the max champion title, but if so it probably took longer than the hero title. From my personal view, and quite likely the view of many others, it would be disappointing to see the max rank obtained any faster than that. Max PvP ranks in GW1 were intended to be time consuming and something very few people obtained, and I do hope they remain that way for this game as well, unlike the gold capes towards the end of GW1 that became nothing more than a symbol for how much money you had.
