Guild Wars 2

OrianZeta.1537:

At issue is the liberal access and excessive use of stealth by thieves. Rightfully criticized, I feel, when the “annoy” thieves (as I will go forward calling them) simply do appear as invincible because a good one is nearly impossible to catch and down.

“Catch and down” is the big issue for many people with respect to stealth. If the Thief wins, the other class is dead. If the other class wins, the Thief runs away and gets to try again, likely choosing the time and place of the rematch.

Others have cited TF2 Spies in this discussion. The Dead Ringer was similarly a problem: I get a one-shot kill or I get to try again.

Server: Isle of Janthir
League: Silver
Enjoyed Season 1: No
Should we have season 2: No

Leagues are too large to have competitive match-ups. There is too big a gulf between #1 and #6 in Gold for #6 to be much but a chew toy, and the gap between #1 and #9 in Silver and Bronze is much larger. With the victor of each week’s matchup predetermined by (active WvW) population in 80+% of the matchups, anything that would make WvW meaningful leaves those in favor of PvDoor and the sort of isolated skirmishes (while hiding from zergs) that would be better served by sPvP.

DootmasterX.3025:

Natar.3671:

This is it folks, the final match up of the season. Who shall come in last? Will it be NSP or IOJ? Find out at the end of the match up!

This question will be answered by whoever CD decides to blob harder this match! Exciting!

NSP gets 8th, then. As I post this, both servers have more people in our borderlands than we do. We’re so used to boycotting the Season that our folks forgot to came back when it isn’t a guaranteed Outnumbered on every map.

I feel kind of bad for SBI. How bored do you have to be with this matchup to bring 40 people and golems to take a BL keep in off-hours?

Hamish.1384:

SBI is a whole different story, I don’t really see much of any tactics being displayed, despite being outnumbered 2 and sometimes 3 to 1 odds we’ve won quite a few battles however the SBI zerg is just overwhelming. What I’m really confused about, is why if we are queued up, and then get into the zone, are we still outnumbered 3 to 1. I’m thinking if we have a queue it means we have max amount of people out there but once in, that is definitely not the case.

I don’t understand the point to all of this if we are going to lose by default due to sheer numbers. Again, hats off to Yak’s, we’ve fought very well considering the odds and it is funny to see an SBI zerg of 50 running from about 30 of us with their tails between their legs.

You can imagine how it feels from IoJ. YB has that population disparity compared to us, then we have SBI. And then we have YB people who don’t want to fight SBI, so they fight in IoJ corner/BL. And then SBI needs to come after us to find anyone to fight.

It’s not always quite that much of a pity party, but the screenshot is relevant. As Banzie says, IoJ had a WvW population before the pre-season transfers gutted it. Now we have a Bronze WvW population and 4/7 weeks are fighting servers that could compete to get into Gold.

sephiroth.4217:

Silver – 1

Every match is a complete blow out.
Lucky to have +100 PPT.
Living story is killing yaks with vet guards protecting it.
Guildies have started quitting the game.

Same, but I’d give that a 2. I still play, but I’m not sure that I will once I have the meta-achievement. No point in steamroll wins or losses.

Chris.3290:

The whole League concept needs to be scrapped. It rewarded T1 for being T1 (the outcome was never in doubt) and the resulting shenanigans, transfers, and sandbagging that proceeded in the weeks before the start of the league wrecked at least 6-9 server communities and has made WvW more unstable and unenjoyable than ever before.

And then went on to create completely uncompetitive matchups that are not much fun for anyone. This is like a 7-week demonstration project in favor of 3-server tiers.

Adahilia.3678:

Furiousbeard.7602:

And so it begins

Have fun this week guys! I know you can do it YB, give those SBI guys some grief

you must be lost

True. Lots of YB giving IOJ grief.

To note: CD is in the lead. If you attack the 2nd place team, you are just letting them get further in the lead. The idea is for 2nd and 3rd to attack 1st, not to fight each other so 1st can build up an unbeatable lead.

Sariel V.7024:

Just did it an hour ago following Dulfy’s guide. It works.

Just did it twice following Dulfy’s guide. It doesn’t work. Scattered reports of “it works” and “it doesn’t work” suggest something difficult to reproduce, although some poster have suggested that it is character-specific (did same thing on an alt and got the achievement).

Relatedly, my “Nearly Completed” achievements list includes “Champion Slayer: 44/45.” It would be bad if that were just there until Champion Slayer was a monthly again.

Maybe I am odd, but I have never reported anyone for anything other than selling gold, and those I report several times a day. Would it be possible to have the “report” button default to a value, rather than being blank? Ideally, this would be a user-definable option, but failing that it could default to whatever the most common reason for reporting is (in my experience, gold sellers, but I don’t have any data).