Guild Wars 2

Ezeriel.9574:

^look I know at times it may feel like spawn camping, but it’s not.

I’m not defending the matching system, or saying that it can’t be cruel, but there was a lot of effort and thought put into not griefing our opponents yesterday.

Frankly there wasn’t a whole lot for us to do except flip keeps, and if we wanted to spawn camp, we could have camped your entire server, while a ninja team flipped everything on the map.

If you have a any ideas on how to make it more fun for your server this week, I’m all ears. The last thing I, or my server, wants is to not have anyone to play against.

I cannot blame anyone for playing any way they can to get points and have any form of WvW in a system as messed up as this.

The issue is ANET is clueless on some simple mathematics. If server A > server B and server B > server C then Server A > Server C. In other words (for my mathematics challenged ANET friends) if you match server C against server X and server X gets stomped, You can infer that server A and B will also stomp server X and should not match X against A or B after the stomping by C.

Ezeriel.9574:

Hey! I can’t speak for the goonies, but FA is one of the nicest bunch of schlubs you could hope to fight when outnumbered.

I’ve been in EB a lot today. Did we take your keeps? Yes. Did we let you recap your keeps? Yes!

I know it sucks being outnumbered, and you have no chance to win, but you get lots of exp, and ranks, capping keeps, and after capping your keep, we leave you alone. We go cap goonies, giving you plenty of time to retake your keep.

There are a lot of servers that would spawn camp you till you all rage quit, and we have been more than fair, zerging back and forth, so not to grief anyone too much.

The irony!

Luthan.5236:

Solution for outmanned that don’t like it: Go offline and stop playing until a better matchup. Maybe some time we will see balanced population at the servers and balanced matchups only.

Great and when it continues week after week. Go find another game. You should consider applying at ANET. Your answer in every way is classic ANET dribble.

This is what fun looks like?

Anyone who has played on a server that is so badly outmatched that the winner of the week had 400% more points than the bottom server knows that it was better for the bottom server to just not play that week and avoid the aggravation. And when it happens for weeks in a row, then you start looking at other games, accepting that this will not be resolved anytime soon.

The issue is not that it is unsolvable. The issue that the designer’s egos will not let them accept that they are wrong. They will hide behind worn out clichés claiming you need to give it time, we are constantly evaluating results and you will learn new strategies. It is easier to deny an issue than to resolve it (less code!) especially if you pushed for a code change to implement this fiasco.

A simple solution is the golf paradigm. Give the seriously out manned servers a handicap to level the playing field. And not just the lame out manned buffer.

So my little snowflakes, you can complain (a futile gesture), leave WvW for awhile and wait for the promised miracle, find a new game or just make the best out of a rotten situation.

igor.6159:

gracemillian.1908:

It’s okay igor. I think you would understand when you get to lvl 80 and try to do dungeons and people say “lol Ranger” and don’t make parties with you in it.

yep. becouse only way ranger is playing now is PET playing, not ranger by self. shame on you, exploiters

If all you want to do is PvE and solo WvW and PvP then you will probably never have a problem. But even before the patch, most experienced groups would ask for someone other than a ranger. I don’t think the patch made it any better and may have made it worse.

Eldiora.5836:

My advice:

If you do not care that you cannot compete with all the other classes in the slightest in any field be it WvW, Pve or PvP. Then go ahead and level your ranger. He is good enough to play in the open world albeit a bit hard.

If you want to be needed in groups in any kind of gameplay then immediatly reroll to pretty much any other class (Guardian is currently the best group character).

This comes from a long time ranger player, but it seems Arenanets design philosophy for the ranger is nerfing any good build until we can use any build because our choices are bad, worse and useless…

I have to agree with this. I have all but retired my ranger. Sad too, since I loved roaming the wilds and defending on the ramparts, but now I just don’t have any desire to do this with the anchor chains the class now has to bear.

I have a great workable ranged build. It is called a warrior. But I did manage to save some food from the ranger, so that is a huge plus for the time I spent playing it.