Guild Wars 2

I wouldn’t be more happy if they could remove condis from wvw. Battles should be power vs power

jason.9548:

Legit both servers suck in terms of skill level. Bg- only rely on off hours to keep winning and the 24/ 7 ppt squads+bunkering. Like come on people think bg are great but face facts bg has the worst commanders of the top servers. Jq- what can I say gold wins but if they line my pockets with enough gold ima go also.

It must be a bad joke, actually the ones who keep camping inside smc and towers with full sieges in tier 2 is TC. I saw a ton of mithril ranked guys running for activating chilling fog first instead of fighting fearly. For those who don’t know, these guys are pro to put 20 cannons and guild arrowcarts inside smc t3 – cloaking waters. They invade Eu timezone, and they litterally camp smc with sieges everywhere, just to make sure it’s a bunker in NA timezone (can be considered at avoiding fair fights). They mostly don’t know open fields fights if they’re not in a 60+ zerg (they need the +100 buff otherwise it’s too much risks to engage a fight).
You talk about skill level as well, just look at the KDR. JQ always won the kdr (I even remember JQ 1.6 / 0.8 TC on reset NA prime). So I think you trully have no clue of what you’re talking about. And the bag farm of tc was huge.

So yeah, your story is cool but it’s definitely not the reality, and you can ask anybody on JQ, they will have the same answer or pretty much.

I took this photo yesterday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNQUeeF6hso

Guys come on :
1) take a good and comfortable seat in a strategic spot
2) put a deployable cannon (The most important, don’t forget it!)
3) wait for the fish … I mean the players, to come
4) take your bags and without using any effort

PS: don’t even think about opening a gate now, rams get killed in 4 shots

Back from a break, looking at wvw’s state and still the same problems :

- condis are way too overpowered because of hots’s gears ;
- population’s balance is still a mess ;
- desert bl still too large unless you like to run ;
- Boonsharing still not fixed after 1 year.

I gave some credits to the wvw’s team at the beginning, but forced to see they do nothing that could bring wvw back to the downstate.

Nope, I wasn’t one of them to be honest ; but I’m from JQ and I felt like this post was a scam about the truth concerning JQ players. Anybody who get bomb by condi roamers would be down within 3 or 4 seconds. Just because conditions durations needs to be nerfed, as much as boons durations. It’s also what brought massive lags spikes in large scales fights, especially in ebg. The servers can’t handle too much calculations.

So where are the real skills ? This kind of VOD doesn’t show anything valuable or noticeable for me, and the previous posts totally explained why. You might be skilled, but this kind of build doesn’t prove anything. Anybody can spam condis and sustain with 3.4k armor/30k hp.

more like [XT] vs "few people from “Jade Quarry” not coordinated on TS and trying to defend a camp in home bordeland, 1 by 1"

Also, If the purpose is to show how condis builds are powerful, yes they are, especially when you run with a condi-berserker @30k hp (wtf), a duo team of condi revs spamming resistance and others boons, 2 condi necros …

The builds are working, but spamming condis to prove how good the condi builds are effective on small scales, it’s not a viewing pleasure …

Well, looks like it’s time to do the christmas wish list :

- an option to hide wvw ranking
- remove skill lags
- fix boonshare to make it fair

Some of you seriously need to calm down. Throwing around insults at anet, ignoring their reasons for this change, and not bothering to be constructive or objective will not help anything.

This was asked for many times, and there are more technical reasons already put out by Anet for why this change was made. They also said that a bank vendor would be placed in every maps spawn area so that’s a great thing. Plan ahead and place whatever siege and consumables you use on your toons, in your bank, or shared inventory slots.

I made a suggestion earlier that Craft tables be placed in HoTM since it would be pretty much the same as going to WvW but would not conflict. Or Adjust the areas in Obsidian Sanctum to create a kind of WvW lobby with a condensed crafting station and craft merchant.

Do you seriously think that 3-5 people at a crafting table have a decent impact on wvw queue ?
Like for real ? Not defending the people insulting ; but come on, there’s no queue on home bl 96% off the time. So, for the extra 4% of the time where there’s queue, the 3-5 ppl at a time are a problem ?? Come on …

It just make the things more boring to do and for no valuable reason

Should be better to implement new stuff in wvw, instead of removing tbh. But it’s ok.

@MaLeVoLenT.8129

I’m blaming onS and TW because they are responsible for a part of this kitten mess. You moved to YB at the same time as TW, bunkering the server, siege humping just to demoralize the opponents. This is pretty much what made JQ drop to T2 : fighting a bunker server who plays with full sieges’s weapons for 3+ months, who wants to deal with that ? There was not so much dramas on JQ until some bandwagonners decided to raid YB. Now YB is what ? Dead (considering the actual ppt / what it was 6months ago). I can also post the inspirational talk of the leader of TW about SoR. Now SoR is what ? Dead. Wherever bandwagonners go, the server always finish in a bad state, as it kills a community which took time to be built. We will never see both of you on an outmanned server and you’re looking for real fights ? Must be something to ask yourself.

So yeah, you will tell me I’m angry or mad about some guilds : I’ve just seen the entire snowball coming from the inside. I’ve been on JQ for about 2 years, back in the days, the matchup was SoR vs bg vs JQ. Fights everywhere. Now, I’ve moved to EU, there is no point to be on T1 NA against/or with Blackgate overstacked. And T2 is actually a collateral damage of all those bandwagons sessions.

So yeah, nobody is responsible, it’s all about the system ? So why are EU matchups balanced and healthy ? If the system is/was broken, it would be broken also for EU side. There’s no future on T1 NA until it get balanced, but you guys are probably already preparing gems for transfering after the 24th june’s patch. I used to like playing on NA during holidays as well, but there’s no point fighting on NA atm. I just wanted to say the truth to Anet devs and people, trying to figure it out what happenned. Some people abused the system, a lot of them are atm in T1 and now they are stuck with a +150k ppt in the middle of the week and less open fields fights. Guess what they are thinking ? Time to transfer to a healthier tier ! And the bandwagon will keep moving on.

Once again, will the system be the only responsible ?
Like someone said, if you’re reading this North American’s WvWers :

D E S T A C K and SPREAD OUT!!! otherwise kitten and quit complaining…

Try to see outside your clouded views and realize the true issues with the game

It’s not Anet’s fault, neither the linking system, that failed.
I think we just try to explain what happenned to T1-NA servers (T2 also,but during a shorter period) , and what was the conditions that made it so much unbalanced and broken. Basically, for anyone who want to understand why :

They transfered a lot, they opened a guild for alts on others servers and they started recruiting for another stacked server.
Which worked pretty good on YB, because YB wanted to go into tier 1.
After realising that YB is not more of a karma train population then any other server around they needed to start over and a server that declined their idea before (TC) was the new target for the transfer and recruiting.

So, basically the statement was correct. The whole mess started because a few guilds started recruiting for “a better tier one” without even knowing how that could look like.

The problem was not only about 2 guilds, it was more about the tons of ppl that transfered during a short term period to a same server. But the precursors were those 2 guilds.

Everyone one who isn’t on BG claims BG is too stacked. I play on BG and have to say more often than not the odds are very close. Stop the excuses and play better. Nobody was complaining when YB pvd’d their way into 1st place month after month. It isn’t BG / ET fault they have the best commanders and the best soldiers.

It must be a joke/troll, otherwise it’s completely out of the reality. Just look at the statistics in terms of ppt and you will understand. If you think the actual metagame of NA’s wvw is more about skills than numbers, you’re totally wrong. More ppt=more time coverage, more time coverage=more ppl stacking. And when you said nobody was complaining about YB stacking, you should not have red the forum very often, pretty much every 3 days there was a post about this problem of bandwagon/siege humping. It seems you try to defend BG position, it’s fair but it’s completely misunderstanding the actual problem NA guys are facing to.

Example : since the end of April, BG wins all their matchups by 2x more than the opponents. You’re saying it’s about skill ? it come totally from the massive transfers that came to BG. Take excel, look the statistics, do an average of ppt correlated with the transfer period (JQ moved to T2, DB moved to T1) and you will understand you’re wrong

Blame Onslaught [onS] and Tempest Wolves [TW] from Blackgate, those guilds are actually responsible of the bad state of NA’s wvw. Transferring from BG to JQ, then TC, then YB, and going back to BG, with god knows how many accounts : that’s the only result we could have expected for NA.

If you’re a real wvw’er and looking for challenge, come to EU, the matchups are fair and people don’t follow the others like sheeps does

Thanks for investigating

We’re in this situation just because few guilds bandwagonned T1 & T2 (For NA, everyone knows the names of thoses toxic guilds). They destroyed litterally T1, by transferring tons of people (to Yak’s Bend, Blackgate). Those same guilds that were allowed to talk in an interview “How to make wvw more healthy” by Reyanna. They praised good talks but in the acts, they are totally responsible of this situation.

If you guys think people will stay in low pop servers, it’s the wrong path. They will still try to transfer /or simply stop the game. For one reason : even T1 lack of people during a large part of the time. We still search for fights in kitten and sometimes there’s nothing so, why would people stay on low pop servers ? There’s no server pride anymore, it’s a dead horse to be honest.

Locking servers without announcement is totally wrong, as a lot of guilds tried to transfers guildies and now they’re stuck. What do you think most of them stuck will do ? They will just leave the game if they can’t play with their friends.

I know a situation of a guild which has 15 people stuck on a server and 15 others stuck on another server. There’s no reason to stay on a low pop server, no reason at all. We’re going in a wrong way thinking people will stay on low pop. We all want fights and there’s none, it’s totally deserted, even roamers don’t go in low pop bordelands.

PS : And to be honest, a medium server going full now, it’s just … Ridiculous. It’s not the reality.

Yeahhhh join Tarnish Coast, no skills required, just join TW or onS and let the bullkitten start again! Fun fact : those guys was able to talk about “how good wvw should be” in Reyanna’s interview // those guys are actually the ones dropping North American’s wvw to a level of trash can.

t1 is actually dead/broken : YB has bring siege wars 2 into this tier, and since this day, it’s cancer playstyle (mostly because they put arrowcarts&co everywhere, even in open field). They fortify smc before NA primetime, and then, when a zerg attack : chill/airship and they push at 80). It locks totally the fun in NA primetime, and it’s kitten gameplay. During sea time, they sit inside their keep, playing with siege and recap for ppt, no fights for them during this timezone, they sleep and watch the ppt.
BG is in a bad state, but they still provide good and fair fights. They have lost many guilds because of transfers or ppl leaving
JQ is waiting for the “overhaul”, at least for something that will bring the fun again, because ppt wars 2 / siege wars 2 it’s not for us.

I think it’s a good resume of t1 atm

Thanks Reyana for your awesome investigation’s work

I would be ready to pay again 50$ for an expansion that could bring back the old wvw

Same on JQ, it’s unplayable for me who’s a range, so I can’t imagine the pain of a frontliner. You get stuck in a pit, with lag skills, 10+ condis with 30s duration each and you can’t do anything about it. And the others maps are empty.

Sooo, I went to watch a movie instead

I transferred to T1 in October 2014. Off season, it’s possible to transfer to T1. Right now, as the expansion has been announced severals months ago and until they apply the new politic about server population, I think it’s not possible to move to T1. There will be changes about the server population, probably when HoT will be released or few times before.
So as soon as it’s up to date, you should try again.

Lag on skills so we can’t play properly. Can someone please do something about this huge problem ? It’s been 4 months we have to deal with it and it’s still here. It appears that the skill lag came from the patch about the stability. It’s a calculation problem. Please do something …

The game is actually broken. Getting hit by a 20k – 30k crit from people using the glitch with golem and static charge of engineers, is it how we have to appreciate WvW ? Who has this idea to do this crazy event ? It’s a huge non-sense from someone who probably never spend any time in actual WvW. It would be funny for 1 hours (with a fix of the glitches), but actually it’s pretty much broken and I don’t see any pleasure to play the game, as much people also feels that. Have fun with your 5 K-trains map, but me I’m done.

To be honest, Anet should just rollback to the previous update. Whatever the reason of this 200+ ping, the simple way to nerf stability is to decrease boon duration.

I saw the same problem, an invisible warrior at our home in pvp.