The problem: If you place an AC (arrow cart) in the right spot and set your field of view (FOV) to max, you can hit all players and siege inside a tower or keep.
I’d never seen this until last night. We were trying to defend Durios but an AC outside the wall (Umber-side) was hitting the top of the supply and the stairs to the lord’s room. Couldn’t get anything built in time. It seems like in the lower tiers, we don’t see as many exploits.
The step it up argument is completely invalid. It has been pointed out in numerous posts that ET (not sure about DR & UW) has a couple of commanders who are more than willing to lead the server for WvW. What do you do when you tag up and have no one to command ?
It’s kinda circular. People log into wvw and see no commander, so they log off. Commanders log into wvw and see no people, so they log off. Still, it’s up to a wvw guild to represent. They have to be in TS so people can hear them and find them. Even if it’s bouncing around the maps. And then it takes luck, like a wvw guild transferring to your server looking for a challenge, or target rich environment. It doesn’t happen overnight, if at all.
You seem to act like I’m hating on all of SF. Let’s face the facts they may not be well known or ‘with it’ people on SF. But stray people do get the idea to try to be important and go spy. Its not a conspiracy theory but I’m not blaming you or all of SF. It’s just a fact.
I’m not trying to be a jerk to you. SF spent more time on the bottom than ET, I can sympathize with your frustration. But, seriously, there are no spies. ET, has not even been relevant, they have one guild that anyone even pays attention to in WvW. No person is spying. I am in the server TS, and not once in the years I’ve played has anyone reported anything from their spying mission. What, is someone going to say, “Three ET making a break for pang, call in the zerg.” The map shows swords when an objective is being attacked. Commanders talk with each other if they need help. Sometimes people stay in towers to report movement. We build waypoints when we can to move quickly. We have multiple commanders moving between EB and the BLs. It’s not just one big zerg following around a few ET.
Tell that to the inactive guys in EB that never move.
I would tell them, but they were AFK. We have AFK people too, even during peak times. Maybe you’re big into conspiracy theories, but there weren’t any spies. That’s just nuts. You might want to check out how we’re doing in T7. Do we have spies in BP and FC, too?
The sad truth is SF who pounded us last week were spying on us. They don’t even need to spy all the fights they won’t were 15v2 its a mess.
Spying how? I’m on SF and an active WvW’er. WTH are you talking about spying? SF is having some success, finally, because we have a few active WvW guilds for the first time in over a year, including one that plays alot over night. If you’re in ET, try following SQD around. They have their act together, you might learn something. If you’re in DR, you have the numbers, there’s no excuse.
Anet is under no obligation to fix a server’s population issues…
If people stop playing, they’ll end up shrinking the number of servers anyway. So yeah, I guess Anet is leaving it to the wvw players to abandon the low tier servers. Maybe that snowballs into the server population as a whole. Anet won’t fix and the players aren’t enjoying the experience. That’s not the best business model.
T8 is generally empty and boring especially in off hours (EU, SEA, OC) when I play. It wasn’t this empty in the same tier more than a year ago. ET was pretty active in NA last week but only lasted for a few hours. DR and SF might have less than 15 total players running around loosely in all maps at one time in off hours but I rarely see groups of ET.
I think the SF wvw guilds (not that many of them) took the week off to avoid any chance of moving up to T7 and getting our butts stomped. DR typically has twice as many people in wvw as the other two servers combined in all maps, but they seem to quit after the weekend. So, this week hasn’t been alot of fun.
Dancingmonkey, the skill you’re talking about makes them tiny. That wasn’t the case.
I have leveled all the classes to max, which certainly doesn’t make me an expert, but I have some knowledge of the capabilities of the classes. I primarily play my ranger or necro in wvw.
How do you prove hacking? Sounds like an impossible goal? Short of someone just standing there and laughing at you while you can’t do anything, you’re asking for the impossible.
Yeah, maybe pulses from smoke bomb if he was right on top of him. If your not sure, you may want to adjust the thread title, because it kind of suggest otherwise.
I’m giving a sincere reply from XTD the benefit of the doubt. I’m sure that blind or any other skill isn’t going to affect me for that long. I’m sure when an engineer has his back to me and there’s nothing on the ground, and his health isn’t going up until he’s fully disengaged, that he should have been dead. I’m sure every time the engineer got close to death, I suddenly couldn’t hit him. So, yeah, the title would appear appropriate.
Well…it looked like a hack, but I guess I don’t know for sure. It looked like he was able to avoid being killed but maybe he was having the same problem and wasn’t hitting me that much and decided to give up.
I was right on him running behind him when he took off, so it wasn’t a range issue. If, it were block or reflect, I would have seen Block come up. Reflect I would have got feedback damage. I actually couldn’t get off a shot when he decided to run. I just chased him for a bit and nothing would come out…like I ran out of arrows, lol.
I was facing an engineer in Borlis Pass borderland just now. Every once in a while my ranger’s pushback and invis skill wouldn’t work. I thought maybe I just lost line of sight or something, but when I was just about to kill him, he ran and I was unable for 15-20 seconds chasing him and unable to shoot…it wasn’t invulnerability or anything, I wasn’t able to shoot him, there was no target. The wolves were attacking me and doing damage, so it wasn’t lag, either.
Is say SF isn’t ‘dead’ as much as it lacks dedicated WvW guilds leading the charge day in and day out, spamming for people to get into voice comms, training players up to become good PvPers, helping people get appropriate gear etc.
During my visits to T8, I found a LOT of players during NA prime, but all very scattered and directionless. Not my kind of play style I’m afraid.
SF’s dedicated WvW guilds transferred a long time ago. There’s a couple guilds that I see regularly, but they have like 3 or 4 people in WvW. For SF, a dozen people is a huge zerg…and rare. I’d love if some major WvW guilds from top servers wanted the challenge of bringing SF up in tiers, but I don’t see that happening. For all the people calling SF’ers liars about WvW population, please transfer here. We’ve been the dead last NA WvW server for…well, I don’t know how many months. We’re getting spawn camped to tonite by Borliss Pass…yay us!
Server population has almost no correlation with WvW.
And gaining a bunch of new players won’t help lower tier servers. They’ll just go up the rankings until they get stomped by the highest tier servers.
Only if a server is ranked dead last week after week should they get any players funnelled to them. And then it would only be a temporary solution, because another server would probably take their place.
Speaking from the consistently dead last server…funneling new players to our server doesn’t guarantee new WvW participants, especially if we’re getting run over every week. I almost wish there were some radical solution, like megaservers with your WvW rank determining what tier you belong too (and keeping WvW rank separate from EotM).
I know that SoR put some decent numbers in WvW during Christmas break, but running from Kaineng and rolling SF, who has a small fraction of your numbers, it’s fun, but doesn’t yet put you in the primetime. Now SoR is hiding from BP while spawn camping SF, classy.
I just wish they’d do some sort of megaserver thing so that low WvW pop servers don’t get kicked around every week for someone else’s jollies.
For the 3rd week in a row, we are facing Kaineng and Sanctum of Rall, and yeah, we’re usually outnumbered on any map by between 4 and 8 to 1 by either of them, but how is it possible that they’re mostly new WvW players? So many bronze players, lots of griefers, in their ranks. You know, WvW is easy when you outnumber your opponent by such a big margin. When we have even numbers they aren’t much of a challenge, but numbers are rare for us since all of our WvW guilds have left awhile back. Have the veteran SoR and Kain players moved to T1 and left all the newbies?
Sorrow’s Furnace invites Sanctum of Rall and Kaineng to lay down your arms, in the Christmas spirit, and surrender your lands to us. The able-bodied among you will be put to work in the copper, silver, and gold mines. The infirmed and weak will be used to make bolts of fabric out of scraps. Should you ignore this peaceful and magnanimous offer, we will continue to abscond your camps, harass your sentries, and…uh…“molest” your supply dolyaks.
I used to be against server transfers, but I’m about to do it. Since anet won’t fix wvw, and one servers outnumbers the other two combined every week. I want to see servers lose population and start the death spiral that anet has ignored. My server has already lost all of it’s wvw guilds. It gets old trying to steal a few camps and sentries every night. Really old.
The map looks difficult to navigate. It seems to be made to discourage zergs and spread players out. So, I guess small roaming groups will be king, which, of course, means all thieves, all the time, in full gank mode. Unless this map dies off quickly with players, I could see wvw dying. It’ll be more pvp-like than wvw.
