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Nuzt.7894:

I’m with Carpboy on this one, who cares about the entangle, how do you have 54k health and half of its gone putting you somewhere in the 110k health range ?

OP had just taken ‘lethal’ damage and was in the process of downing. The health orb briefly flashes the amount of HP you’ll have in downed state.

Red Faction on EotM? Better watch your step. Necro fear walls wouldn’t kill half as many players as GeoMod 2.0

Pinkamena Diane Pie.8054:

LMAO! Didnt even realise, get so little loot and gold in WvW that only a few people have noticed this reduction of gold! Amazing!

BRING BACK REPAIR COSTS! I WANT MY GOLD!!

Oh wow, I wonder, has anyone checked if PvE rewards have been halved as well? If not this could cause a big puppy-storm, WvW players having yet more proof that we are being treated as second class players…..

The changes covered all events PvE/WvW.

What this thread needs is a series of lengthy, thorough posts from the infinitely patient Habib that explain to us how culling works.

TBT has been a more than welcome addition to the DR family. Organized, effective, and willing to cooperate. If you are passionate about WvW and willing to commit to a single tag, you’ll find a good home there.

Bit of a culture shock seeing their names as green rather than red though. I secretly miss the days of ineffectually plinking at them in an attempt to get someone to break ranks and give chase. Too disciplined to take the bait >: [

Dusty Moon.4382:

Zanshin.5379:

And by “good” server, you mean stacked night capping server, right?

No – this is WvW not PvE or EotM- if you stacked, with the AoE in WvW your server would be dead. I play in a guild that does coordinated roaming groups and is coordinated with other guilds on the server. Smart play wins ever time.

Obviously, someone needs WvW lessons.

Some misunderstanding here. Poster wasn’t talking about player positioning in fights but rather the distribution of the player base. If you take 40% of the player base and stuff them into a few servers, they’ll be the dominant forces in their brackets through sheer weight of numbers and coverage.

A map queue of pugs will lose to a map queue of dedicated wvw guilds of course, but even big wvw guilds wander around for seasonal rewards.

Chuck Nizzle.6283:

The search bar for the forums needs to be improved.

Whenever you type in something, you only get results from the first thread.

It needs to be where you can type in any word that appears in any of the threads, and results will come up.

Search feature for the forums ranges from temperamental to unusable.

The unofficial work around is to use a web browser and append your query with ‘site:forum-en.guildwars2.com’ to get decent results.

Distributes health and wellness pamphlets to anyone negatively affected by his wall of text (v1.13 Final) or any others in the thread.

Well, I will say this. In the event that servers are merged there will still always be a server in last place. If that server remains in last place for any meaningful length of time the same consequences of morale will take effect.

It is greatly demoralizing to enter a match with the belief that attempting to play for PPT will be a taxing, uphill battle for meager rewards, and that what measure of success you find may only place you against stronger opponents. Even if the server in question has twice the players to draw on as ET currently does, there will always be a server that ends up in the situation that ET is in now.

I’ve been that guy, I’ve been the only one sitting in the last upgraded structure on a map fruitlessly firing into a zerg just to show them that they can still bleed, taking a knee in the cap circle as a last act of defiance. It hurts when it feels like you are the last one that cares.

That said, I enjoy bronze tier. I enjoy having room to breathe when I roam with my guild, there may be a zerg in the area, but there’s usually time to find a few enjoyable skirmishes before being displaced or run over. I enjoy that a single guild group can make a large contribution and that a small number of timely reinforcements can really matter. I enjoy our communities, our rivalries, our trolls and our history. I don’t want those things erased or subsumed.

I think what the fellows in the higher tiers want to share with us is the more consistent large scale action. More importantly the ebb and flow of that action being determined by commander decisions/positioning/group comp/discipline rather than having it occasionally default to a check of which server decided it could commit more to the map in question at that particular juncture. There are talented large-scale guild groups and zerg busters down here, but sometimes the opposition can simply map hop to avoid resistance (for a time at least.)

The longer I play this game the more I realize that simple solutions will always be complicated by the players. I’m not really sure there are solutions to be had. At the end of the day players owe it to themselves to enjoy their time with the game, they are free to transfer if they are unhappy. Mergers may assuage coverage gaps or they may exacerbate them but people will still react in the same ways. Bandwagons, ghost ships and blowouts. Somewhere in the middle will be the servers getting to enjoy tense matches with lead changes and upset victories.

There are on some interesting points of view on display in this thread. As entertaining as I may find the tier rivalry to be, it would be a shame if a moderation pass put an end to this discussion.

Swamurabi.7890:

arKRazor.8654:

bob.8632:

Swamurabi.7890:

arKRazor.8654:

Pavel.8531

I think this was one of the things Anet decided to do on their own (well I know there was 1 suggestion for it, but it wasn’t very popular). However, unlike all the other previous “we decided, we know best” changes, this one is actually pretty nice. I like.

It was suggested multiple times, but it was usually mentioned in tandem with other changes or simply fell off the front page without sufficient fanfare.

EDIT: A brief list of threads that asked for a similar change. Courtesy of google.

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https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Dead-player-name-tag-color

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/dead-player-name-tag-color-need-change

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Change-name-downed-player-to-grey-color

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/WvW-Change-the-color-of-dead-enemies-nametag

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Its-time-color-dead-player-names-gray

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Display-Options-to-Hide-titles-Dead-Names

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Names-of-players-that-are-dead

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Dead-bodies-suggestion-gray-out-names

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Gray-Out-Dead-Players-in-WvW

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Corpses-different-nameplate-color-pls

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Suggestion-nametags-off-for-dead-players

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Dead-players-nameplate-color

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Enemy-name-plates-red-when-dead

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/WvW-Removing-dead-enemies-names

As you can see, a good number of the threads just died in obscurity in the now archived suggestion subforum.

Really makes you wonder if Anet reads forum posts like they say they do…….

My guess is that they do…At this point I envision them having a “whiteboard” (or some electronic equivalent) with ideas they have approved of from the forums/feedback, etc. And they implement those that make the most sense in terms of time, effectiveness, and overall risk/reward. I am sure a lot of the factors are manpower and time constraints, we all have heard the stories about how little WvW help they have.

Inclined to agree with your assessment. The team, such as it is, must pick and choose their battles.

Hopefully the upcoming CDI will do a decent job of laying out what changes might be feasible in the short term.

Necros can use new healing skill to tag gates. Fortified gates melt in seconds. Bug fixed quickly.

Mesmers with damage from fall traited cause instadeath when jumping off walls. Bug fixed quickly.

Mesmers can blink through gates…………..takes months to fix.
Gari watergate inner didn’t upgrade like outer gate, also didn’t register swords when attacked……..takes months to fix

New map (EoTM), with new achievements associated with the map. Months to develop but how close are you to getting any “WvW” achievements?

How many Yakslapper titles are out there?

Fuzzion.2504:

And that took how many years to discover ?

Season 3 should be well thought out if there is indeed one.

Solution: Crowdsource Season 3 to the Mayans and Aztecs.

I ate the seeds of a cacao tree in their raw form, didn’t much enjoy it.

Fermentation yielded slightly better results, investigating further steps.

Not going to get to chocolate without iterative refinement.

bob.8632:

Swamurabi.7890:

arKRazor.8654:

Pavel.8531

I think this was one of the things Anet decided to do on their own (well I know there was 1 suggestion for it, but it wasn’t very popular). However, unlike all the other previous “we decided, we know best” changes, this one is actually pretty nice. I like.

It was suggested multiple times, but it was usually mentioned in tandem with other changes or simply fell off the front page without sufficient fanfare.

EDIT: A brief list of threads that asked for a similar change. Courtesy of google.

Show Spoiler

hide spoiler

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Dead-player-name-tag-color

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/dead-player-name-tag-color-need-change

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Change-name-downed-player-to-grey-color

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/WvW-Change-the-color-of-dead-enemies-nametag

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Its-time-color-dead-player-names-gray

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Display-Options-to-Hide-titles-Dead-Names

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Names-of-players-that-are-dead

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Dead-bodies-suggestion-gray-out-names

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Gray-Out-Dead-Players-in-WvW

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Corpses-different-nameplate-color-pls

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Suggestion-nametags-off-for-dead-players

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Dead-players-nameplate-color

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Enemy-name-plates-red-when-dead

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/WvW-Removing-dead-enemies-names

As you can see, a good number of the threads just died in obscurity in the now archived suggestion subforum.

Really makes you wonder if Anet reads forum posts like they say they do…….

My guess is that they do…At this point I envision them having a “whiteboard” (or some electronic equivalent) with ideas they have approved of from the forums/feedback, etc. And they implement those that make the most sense in terms of time, effectiveness, and overall risk/reward. I am sure a lot of the factors are manpower and time constraints, we all have heard the stories about how little WvW help they have.

Inclined to agree with your assessment. The team, such as it is, must pick and choose their battles.

Hopefully the upcoming CDI will do a decent job of laying out what changes might be feasible in the short term.

Other pulls require your opponent to stand on top of the outermost crenelation in order to be effective, the mesmer pull doesn’t seem to care most times.

That said, different doesn’t necessarily mean OP.

Darkhaven is far from deserted. Perhaps you mapped into an enemy border that was empty of your side at that given time.

I think one of the primary issues with the lower tiers is a lack of overlap coverage in the form of trusted commanders. A guild group or a militia commander decides to not eat/sleep/breathe the game for an afternoon and the general pop loses a visible rally point and a direction for their efforts. They start filtering out of the map and sooner or later structures are flying the wrong colors.

Morale snowballs and lot of people are content to coast if their server falls woefully behind in a given week. Most players don’t like to upgrade or siege structures defensively if they expect it will fall once their shift is over. The demoralized see victory as out of reach and cease to take the steps that would make such a victory possible.

Pavel.8531

I think this was one of the things Anet decided to do on their own (well I know there was 1 suggestion for it, but it wasn’t very popular). However, unlike all the other previous “we decided, we know best” changes, this one is actually pretty nice. I like.

It was suggested multiple times, but it was usually mentioned in tandem with other changes or simply fell off the front page without sufficient fanfare.

EDIT: A brief list of threads that asked for a similar change. Courtesy of google.

As you can see, a good number of the threads just died in obscurity in the now archived suggestion subforum.

Glad to see the change, thank you.

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

In before this gets locked…

I’m sorry you guys have to deal with the population disadvantage. We’ve been on that end many times, and it sucks.

But the real kicker is that we’re actually LOSING rating points this week for not crushing the matchup enough! Thanks to the wonderful WvW matchup formula and the disparity between server ratings this week, we’d have to run up the scoreboard all week just break even in the ratings, let alone try to jump a tier. It’s a crappy situation, and sadly, the only solution is to zerg it up even more.

Thanks to RNG match making SF was selected to fight in the lower silver bracket rather than GoM. NSP taking a break to recover from the season has resulted in a generous donation of glicko rating to SF. GoM might have a lot more time in bronze depending on the next round of matches.

I’m awaiting a grand Locke and Demosthenes style debate between Arius and Jeknar that ultimately results in the two agreeing on a compromise that saves WvW.

Also, Ender goes and kills the bugs keeping us from our season rewards.

Ranks have only a loose correlation to skill/aptitude/effectiveness as WXP is unevenly distributed for player activity.

If you think you have a better grasp of tactics and have a group willing to follow you then encourage them to call target on you/join voice and see how the run goes. If you routinely do well then go ahead and pick up a tag and see if you can be an asset to your server.

Alternatively you might be dying because you aren’t listening to your commander, in which case you should jump into voice and try to move with him/her while utilizing combo fields to help your group. Discipline wins large scale fights.

Either way, it’s a good idea to play with a group of people that have similar experience and play style, but keep in mind ranks provide a poor metric for measuring such things.

A hard call to make. Any choice short of a timely fix would have upset the player base. The choice to delay upsets the portion that received their ticket without a hitch but it keeps those affected by the bug(s) from feeling disenfranchised.

I don’t envy your position. Hopefully a fix is well underway, ideally with a solution for those still missing season rewards as well.

gosferano.8614:

I see lots of people from Desolation didn’t get their chest. And I am from Desolation too. Can it be that less populated servers received chests without any/with little problems, but in bigger servers some data overflowed and was lost?

Well, servers with lower population will have fewer people to post about their problem even if a similar percentage of them are affected.

No harm in trying if the achievements are still obtainable, as I believe they will continue to be until the patch on the 3rd. No guarantees you’ll get a season reward chest for completing the meta late, though.

Then again, it appears that completing the meta on time didn’t guarantee a season reward chest either. Fingers crossed for those affected.

Details and concerns aside, you are always free to propose more rewards for my daily routine.

Risukasa.7648:

Araldo Degli Inferi.6421:

Test.8734:

INCOMING update:

1. ALL bugged chests will be awarded on July the 1st.

2. The tickets TRADER will be removed from the game on JUNE the 30th.

So i receive the tickets from the bugged chest AFTER the npc to turn them has been removed? Hope this is a joke…
BTW Gandara server, winner of silver league EU. All achi done, mist runner…no reward. My guildies that played less got it…

I hope that it’s only a typo and they meant 1st of June.

It was a joke.

Also, while I’m here I might as well mention that myself and a goodly portion of my guildmates are also affected by this. Meta completed, no chest.

In my case the placement achievement popped up around the end of week seven or partly into week eight. My meta was completed in the first week or so. Placement achievement correctly predicted a second place finish but I’ve not received the reward. Not when the achievement showed up and not when the last match of the season concluded.

EDIT: If it’s of any import, my account was one of the ones cut off from Power of the Mists rewards following release.

Hopefully this will be sorted out by the 3rd of June, there’s not much use for the season reward until then anyway.

mistress.8034:

I’m confused on how the ranking worked. We were undefeated in GoM and we thought we would move to silver. a ton of people have their predictions on why this could be, but if anyone can shed some light on this that would be great.

GoM’s glicko rating has it placed at 15/24. You are already in post-season silver but are still against bronze servers this week due to matchup variance.

Waffler.1257:

CaboSoul.1204:

Coldin.2840:

CaboSoul.1204:

Woohooo just 18 more seasons (19 for me if I don’t get my chest) untill I have all 19 weapons. >_>

That’s assuming your server always gets 300 or more tickets. Some servers aren’t even getting 1 mistforged this season.

I completely forgot about that……. 0_0

Yep, if you bandwagon like the pros to get 500 tickets each season it will only be 12 seasons for a full set. If you stay on a server with a small population relative to the rest of their league and end up in last place though that becomes 29 seasons for a full set. At the current rate of 2 seasons per year that’s 14.5 years, wow!

Ah, right in time for achieving Yak Slapper.

This appears to have wandered off the first page.

Looking forward to our next encounter with [MEAN]

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I would be greatly pleased if you could turn in badges for account bound runes of your choosing. Economic ramifications be kittened.

I can confirm upticks get a substantial benefit from applied fortitude. It’s okay though, the patch nerfed all their other stats into the ground thanks to trait changes.

I rolled a lvl 2 guardian immediately after the patch to test. The first guard stack added around 10k hp if I recall correctly. Additional stacks yielded no extra benefit though.

As part of the as changes implemented to disallow the workaround for keeping stacks you will now lose your stacks when transitioning between land and water if you don’t have a sigil for both sets.

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

Rize Jodo.1276:

Edit: Purely speculation but I see an EotM like format for all of WvW with 3 server “teams” that are rotated and then fixed during tournaments based on how the regular season went.

You mean like this? http://youtu.be/qHcO6Xo8eJ8
The video is 7 months old and the standings are horribly outdated, but the concepts would still work.

I find the idea rather appealing. Points awarded for putting it all together for the visual learners in the crowd.

Keep in mind you are now downscaled in Zephyr Sanctum.

I see five ballistae at the end of a long, narrow alley.

This most recent patch tweaked culling priority for certain skills and reduced the scale of certain effects. A gradual process towards being able to see the fight unfold is underway.

Hope not, I had a golden scrap and several stacks of the normal ones waiting for me to decide which skins I wanted.

Most veterans on a given server come to recognize one other as the months melt by. Still a neat idea to show a bit of server pride and it’s not like wvw players are drowning in titles that reflect dedication to the game type. Though one has to consider the vagaries of implementation and the risk of alienating others.

A quick glance at the ranking for bronze and silver leagues will show that fears about the swiss format have been largely realized. First and last places are well established while the seven other servers have been in a glorified tie for second that will be settled in these last two weeks of tournament play.

Three things.

First, we have a thread you can join in on ^__^
http://www.gw2wvw.net/topic/fcgomdr-season-2-week-8

Second, examining the borderland focus section at http://gw2score.com/server/Gate-of-Madness and loading the page from the other servers perspectives will give you the full story of which servers are focusing whom.

Third, mathup threads are no longer allowed on the official forums and I encourage you to register on the player moderated one if you wish to be a part of the community there. You can register here http://www.gw2wvw.net/user/register

You can discuss the concept of 2v1 in this subforum but if a specific matchup is addressed too heavily it will be locked during a moderation pass.

EDIT: Removed match specific info and left links for readers to draw own conclusions.

There’s an active thread at http://www.gw2wvw.net/topic/hordes-denravi-fort-abandoned-yak-bunker

Not sure how edifying you’ll find the content but you can join/contribute if you wish there.

rainbowstylin.1358:

I think what OP is asking is – does joining a party in a zerg increase loot/xp gains as opposed to running with a zerg and not joining a party.

Inclined to agree. As for an answer, joining a party makes it easier to tag champion npcs and enemies players by allowing you to pool your damage together towards the loot/xp tagging requirements.

If you are alone and finding you aren’t getting credit for kills you should attempt to join or form a party.

Any time I have a guild member transfer off temporarily they spend the majority of their time trolling us, interfering with caps and remorselessly sniping our militia zerglings.

Pretty decent thread here. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Where-should-I-spend-my-wvw-ability-points/first#post3985313

The general consensus being that you start with supply master 4 and put a rank or two in both build and repair masteries to make the mot out of your early points. In terms of guard stacks defense against guards is almost always recommended first.

Argilla.8340:

Mahtayoo.3748:

Mark Katzbach.9084:

Your world association is not determined based on the sheer amount of time you’ve spent fighting for a world, but rather the things you’ve achieved during your time fighting with that world.

This statement is rather ambiguous. Do you mean actual achievements under the wvw panel/tournament panel? Or do you mean tower, keep, camp caps, kills etc?

I think the thing is bugged as hell, I can gurantee everyone I’ve played way more on my new server, and I am still associated with my old server, even after lots of tickets to have a look into this I still just get ignored and left in the cold, I might try to get a refund on my server transfer cost if I don’t get switched over anytime soon

Unless we receive specifics about how world association is determined the best thing you can do is live in wvw and try to contribute as much as possible. Who knows, you might warm to your new server ^__^

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Server-Association-1/first#post4023817

“Your world association is not determined based on the sheer amount of time you’ve spent fighting for a world, but rather the things you’ve achieved during your time fighting with that world.”

The phrasing is sadly a bit nebulous. It could mean actual achievements, tournament meta or standard (good luck with standard ones if you’ve played the gametype for any real length of time.) It could also mean wvw activity in general such as captures, kills and the like.