Guild Wars 2

Why not just house GvG in T8 ? There’s no way you will move up if nobody goes for ppt.

mango.9267:

What I don’t understand is why the T3 servers are tanking. Are the dumb and meaningless rewards really worth this farcical tankfest?

I’d understand tanking for the previous two seasons. 7-9 weeks of getting farmed is usually bad for servers.

However, this tournament is only 4 weeks long. We’ve had stale matchups for far longer than 4 weeks. And this is 4 weeks where the current T3 servers would get a shot at fighting servers they haven’t seen in a loooong time (if ever), without the pressure of having to worry about the PPT game. If I were a diehard WvW’er on a T3 server, I’d absolutely make the push for Gold, considering how short this tournament is.

You will stay in T2 far longer than 4 weeks due to the ratings stabilizing and T3 dropping points due to being matched with T4 and T5 … Getting farmed for at least 1 month of tourney and another month of non-tourney is not something you wish to endure

force more chokes.

give DR on attack event completion which resets when successful defend event has been completed.

no

i did my meta in eotm

didnt even touch wvw except for jumping puzzles

90% of playerbase is like that

how can get shiny

You have no idea how much fun it is trolling a zerg with 5-6 organised Necromancers.

I’m actually amazed with the 2v1, it’s been awhile since a server other than BG had bought guilds to help them, albeit a whole server in this case.

I’m curious, do people still click F to eat food?

I usually drop 1-2 Cake feasts in the middle of enemy zerg, but never stick around long enough to see if I’ve cost someone their 20 silver.

baster.6354:

Lopez.7369:

Rune of the Necromancer is worse than Nightmare. And Sigil of Agony is worse than Generosity.

yeah i know, but 55 gold for a sigil is too expensive for me right now. And I cant find rune of the Nightmare at TP. ;\

Rune of Nightmare is frm Twilight Arbor

If there was no gem to gold exchange then we could look upon gold as a status symbol. Now it’s too easy to drop some pocket change on say 4000 gems and buy whatever you want. (yes it’s pocket change to me)

The basic Necro build is 30/x/0/0/x , most people will put either 25,20 or 10 points in Curses and dump the remainder in SR. The GM trait for Spite allows for either a condition build (dhuumfire) or power (close to death) build to be used.

Spiuk.8421:

Nah, I love killing oak while the train is doing troll/boar.

Dat juicy drama.

Kill Oak then 2-3 man Spider while telling zerg that Oak is at 50%.

mtpelion.4562:

I personally think that killing low level champions should reward low level loot (this would help with the Silver Doubloon problem, if done correctly). I am not opposed to trains, but I think they should be level appropriate. If you want level 80 loot, hit Frostgorge Sound or Orr.

If they were level appropriate then you would see nobody in low level areas. As it stands there are still players in both Harathi and Queensdale because of the current loot scaling to your level.

What ANet needs to do is to make the other zones equally profitable so players can split between multiple zones and Champ farm.

More like everyone is taking a break , and there are no more fairweathers in the maps

Only looks nice on Plant armor.

If they used Tribal there would be so many purchases the gem exchange would hit 7-8g

But you don’t discover said item. You buy a recipe for 21k karma(inscription) and 5 laurels and 3g.

UnrepentantProcrastinator.7420:

Fafnir.5124:

what makes you think BG is going to loose they haven’t lost yet?

JQ closed a 4k gap and built a 4k lead in one day, for one thing.

but BG is leading

EnemyCrusher.7324:

Raion.5280:

Why cant Anet just add these to the freaking wallet!? This would solve SOOO many problems.

Because they’re crafting components and not currency. You can’t craft with currencies, so that would actually break every use for them.

But you can craft trinkets with Dungeon tokens.

Guys I can’t solo this dungeon on my own ANet your game kitten kitten kitten

So with this idea you can now change the system to Point-Per-Cap , and then refreshing the RI will also trigger the cap. So you need to spread out your force to maximize point score.

I was thinking on how to split the zerg.

First you give all Supervisors/Lords a base Righteous Indignation(RI) of 5 minutes.

Once the RI fades, there will be an event circle (like Sentry cap) which slowly increases when more friendly players stand in the circle. It’s tuned so 1 player takes around 1 minute while 5+ players takes 30 seconds. This event when completed will rebuff the Supervisor/Lord with RI.

By doing this you can force players to split and reward them for defending. It becomes strategic to have 1-2 roaming groups constantly refreshing RI on camps and towers. This will penalize the zerg, you can guarantee that unless they split into a forward scout and main force, they will constantly encounter 5 minute RI on everything they try to take.

Right now there is no incentive to split because you guaranteed for RI to fade before your main zerg arrive.

You can do that by increasing Time-To-Cap.

First you give all Supervisors/Lords a base Righteous Indignation(RI) of 5 minutes.

Once the RI fades, there will be an event circle (like Sentry cap) which slowly increases when more friendly players stand in the circle. It’s tuned so 1 player takes around 1 minute while 5+ players takes 30 seconds. This event when completed will rebuff the Supervisor/Lord with RI.

By doing this you can force players to split and reward them for defending. It becomes strategic to have 1-2 roaming groups constantly refreshing RI on camps and towers. This will penalize the zerg, you can guarantee that unless they split into a forward scout and main force, they will constantly encounter 5 minute RI on everything they try to take.

Right now there is no incentive to split because you guaranteed for RI to fade before your main zerg arrive.

zhonnika.1784:

declan.3968:

who should we support next week, JQ or BG?

League goes truly to 7 weeks if BG doesn’t win. Not that this should influence you or anything

Well, of course it doesn’t bother us.

Hmmmm, but you guys were so nice with the karma train as well.

who should we support next week, JQ or BG?

SuKHoi.2063:

Wow SoS ruining another Karma train. Is killing up levels on a karma train the only way SoS can get kills against SOR and BG?

L2P dude.

the 50% crit chance from DS XII , is it a flat 50% or is it 50% of your current crit chance?

My guild has 500 members, close, we keep on deleting members that haven’t gained achievements after 3 months (which is long enough), except for those who were previously Officer rank.

People quit for many reasons. The first is the Legendary 1 month break, which most people do after they get their first Legendary. Some players leave due to work commitments, having to OT on project work for 3-6 months means they have no time to play. Some leave because they start a new phase of life, be it college, new job, getting married, having a baby …

Others leave due to GW2 merely being a game to tide over boredom until their anticipated game (FFXIV, BF4) comes out.

Some leave due to burn out, they want a fresh slate to start with.

Whatever it is, our guild is still 500 strong since release. Don’t worry so much about why people leave, just accept it is a fact of life that people will come and go, but cherish those times you spent with them.

There are only two reasons why EU guild would transfer to NA server

1) Stack the server
2) Fight other Eu guilds

IRON you ought to be ashamed of yourself for doing 1) when there wasn’t any reason for 2), and now you flame ZDs because they are transferring for reason 2) ? Talk about pot calling the kettle black.

Mirsa.1628:

When you guys say tears are delicious, does that mean you enjoy drinking salty water?

Just wondering.

You not know South Park and Scott Tenorman? What kind of shows do you watch in Europe?

How come JQ losing to Mag.

Tadz.2870:

When you kittengates grow a pair and stop using ‘tactics’ as your excuse for being kittengatians and buying out everything you can afford ( Was it mastercard or visa? ) so you can waste a ton of resources to win a digital item and bang your chests like the pack of well, I won’t say anything insulting intelligence but you get where it was going. It would be nice to play WvWvW instead of WvMastercasdVvisa. Now you can quote me and cry, bring up some BS about the past, tell me I’m trippin, but in the end you are the ones who just called in SoS to attempt ( lol ) to desiege us, how do I know you asked? the rest of the BL was empty, why the hell would they try take a tower with our zerg in it using trebs? they were simply trying to desiege for you. But in the meantime ill get your bags, ty actually had a nice amount of rares today, it was good.

CCTV doesn’t care about BG or SOR, but we find your tears funny.

Shifty.4985:

BG have bought SoS, I think that SoR can take this as a compliment that BG are still scared when they are stacked and outnumber us 3:1

Ooh, the tears of SOR when their SBI purchase didn’t make it to Gold league.

If this goes on Week 5 is gonna be hard to pick a side for SOS to double team, both JQ and BG have been so kind to us.

/sarcasm

Elementalists: Elites that recharge when you have 4 attunements on CD.

Necromancer: More minions

No, just no.

I have a full time day job and only play this game for around 10+ hours a week, and I’m thankful that I can use a small portion of my salary to substitute for wasting hours in a game.

RedOwl.7496:

But how do you get SOS to understand that whether they come in 5th or 6th, it doesn’t matter?

PPT doesn’t matter to SOS, what matters is WXP. Hence, pick the path of least resistance and stick to it. Does that explain things much?

RedOwl.7496:

SM achievement is easy to get compared to trying to get merc camp achievement with hordes of SOS and JQ flooding into them non stop.

It actually sounds like a good idea to siege up a merc camp and wait for bags to appear.

Actinotus.6410:

SMC has changed hands four five times in the last 35 minutes – JQ->Mags->JQ->SoS->Mags->JQ

At least people are getting their achievements.

has been happening non stop last night , think this is going to be the state of EB for the whole week until Deepavali.

Daendur.2357:

9 servers , 3 colors how can you possibly have always the same color ? There will be a match-up Red vs Red vs Red … lol

JQ is always green, explain that smarty.

getting flamed for ganking an opposing ruins capper is the most embarassing thing i have encountered

One of my favourite hot join modes for pvp was Alterac Valley, I feel that can be done for GW2 in a 20v20 or 30v30 scale with regicide.

I do feel that removing the AOE cap on skills or increasing it to 15 would be a good idea. This allows a small group to hold points against a larger invading force more efficiently without depending on siege too much in open world.

Also the ability for a commander to pack up built siege and redeploy it (give a time limit, say 5 minutes, and limit it to siege he throws down) would be useful in helping smaller pops fight against big zergs.

Samhayn.2385:

Points will only be accrued when you first capture an objective.

also you could have objectives be worth more.points the longer they are held.

Quite contradictory, and players won’t fight on newly captured points then. So your defenders are going to be lonely.

Ricky.4706:

One possible solution would be to color code the matches as opposed to direct server vs server. Then rotate the servers assigned to the colors – this way eu servers and na servers can join 1 common match to have that round the clock coverage without the need to transfer.

The individual servers would then be ranked based on their participation of the match along with servers on the most winning colors. This would eliminate 1 server winning because it has all the people. so if x server capped the most points in their color – they get ranked based on that number. Then the top score would simply represent the most active wvw server – as opposed to “the best pvp’rs”

there could be 3 matches going on with 17 servers per color – which brings it to an average of 4.25 servers per color per match.

I came here to post this, but you had already articulated it for me.

Using this system for a League sounds good, you would build a League based on the top 9 servers in NA. By alternating each triplet for a 3v3v3 fight, you would still end up with 7 matches, but every server has a chance to fight on equal footing because you could fill all maps 24/7.

kaisez.4968:

as you don’t have numbers ( really as you guys drop sup Ac in open field to fight )

can i ask what is wrong with using siege in open field fight when you dont have numbers? is it a must to stick to player vs player when it’s wvw and siege is clearly a good tactic?

Gratz JQ on a win.

Zojja Sword, probably 2, Zojja Pistol and Zojja Focus (which is crazy btw, you need all 3 weapon crafts at 500)

Then you can go Mathilde’s or Grizzlemouth Scepter , Torch and Staff for WvW condition builds.

What about

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Frozen_Soil

It prevents rezzes, so it should level the playing field by preventing players from rezzing.

This is a link to last year’s Halloween event.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Halloween_2012

bubumochi.8512:

actually it goes against the GW2 rules of conduct
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-rules-of-conduct/
point 22

“While participating in Plaver-vs-Player (PvP) gameplay, you will not participate in any form of match manipulation. Match manipulation is defined as any action taken to fix or manipulate the outcome of a match or alter or manipulate the rankings or ratings of the ladder. This also includes disrupting other people’s game experience by not actively participating in matches in good faith, a.k.a leeching.”

It is not match manipulation. 2v1 is a natural course of events and it will happen again and again. When two big T1 servers clash the 3rd server plays kingmaker, if they choose to focus on either server would you call it trolling or match manipulation?

Let’s say SOS focus on SOR and give either BG or JQ some help, that is not manipulation, that is called “good and fair game”.