Waiting two weeks to play with your guild the rest of the year (years) isn’t a bad deal. The real issue is not being able to follow your guild cause their server is full.
How in Grenth’s hall did Maguuma get a link?! Bloody tankers get rewarded.
They don’t want to be linked with anybody and the verbal abuse DR is taking is just wonderful and so fun to play around, (insert sarcasm). This is our second time being paired with Mag and some of DR faithful players transferred just because of this linking.
I am starting to think ArenaNet does not like DR what-so-ever because this has to be some sort of sick joke on their part.
Queue time is epic and it is going to be a long 2 months.Sorry to hear about that. But from what I heard, they were intentionally tanking (or at least part of the server was) so they could get a link. Possible slander I know but it does explain how they fell from t1 and stayed in t3 for quite a few weeks.
Pretty kittenty thing to do, especially when they easily have the best KDR of any server. Now we get to look forward to kittenty match ups every other week as the drop up and down.
I respect Mag for getting a lot of good players on one server but it’s really made fighting them lame.
I’m boggled at how Maguuma got paired with another server and I feel awful for DR for getting dragged into it.
Seriously.
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Pros and cons to each system. Discord is basically a chat room with voice comms and it’s growing but do I really want to log on everyday and read through everything thats posted and try and manage posts from a juvenile WvW community?
I mean, I might…
Based on what I’ve seen Firebrand being able to do, along with scourge I’m not really sure peope will be taking Spellbreaker into WvW.
It’s damage is sub par for what it offers and the boon strip mechanic is limited by boons being so frequently applied.
The boon strips really need a type of a “opposite resistance” effect that prevent boons from having any effect for a short period of time.
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They’ve unfortunately used a lot of animations over again for a lot if the elite specs.
I dont think a profession should have to rely on a single weapon to be effective. All of a profs weapons should be effective in some manner in most modes depending on the role they should have a few (especially warrior with its weapon laundry list)
I think Spellbreaker’s dagger skills are 3 target max.
In regards to mounts I was talking open world since they don’t like to separate skills from PvE and WvW.
I seem to remember a developer stating they were working on a way to let servers make a comeback in score by making all objectives on Friday before reset worth double points, or something similar along those lines.
Does anyone ells remember this? Would a system like this still work?
Plenty of good guilds not on that list.
A really simple way to address warriors being outclassed by Revenants and Guradians is to revert the nerfs to warhorn. The skills used to affect 10 targets but they reduced it to 5 for PvE purposes.
This change really impacted our viability in WvW, and I don’t see anyone using warhorn for swiftness now that mounts are in the game.
One of the main reasons condiotions are so effective is because classes are limited in resistance and cleanse mechanics.
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I think one big problem we currently have is the high dependence on Pain Absorption, it’s literally required to compete with an organized group and most frontline groups depend on this skill to survive a push.
give more classes group resistance and stab and we could see some new possibilities.
It’s a pretty easy fix and I really don’t understand why they haven’t added more abilities.
They should also revert the changes to warhorn on warriors, it used to convert conditions to boons and effect 10 targets.
Build diversity.
I think one big problem we currently have is the high dependence on Pain Absorption, it’s literally required to compete with an organized group and most frontline groups depend on this skill to survive a push.
I’ve been WvWing since day one, when SBI was a rank 1 server with allies like War Machine and mechanics like The Orb of Power were awesome.
Gliding has potential to be great, just like the Orb of Power but so many people cried about that on the forums they were removed (mostly because of hackers).
Gliding needs some tweaks, but it has the potential to be great.
This game mode needs more content and anytime they add something instead of the community adapting we lement the old days and cry about how things aren’t fun.
We will probably never get a new WvW map based of the backlash received from the previous two, so remember that our complaining does have an impact on new content.
I personally hope gliding stays but we see some tweaks.
Needs to be fixed otherwise the trait is pointless
pirate shipping is still here. =)
Kind of. Most organized groups decimate pugs the these days so you only see the pirate ship when it’s an even fight.
As long as I can play my warrior again.
Try tagging up on a warrior, I dare you. You’ll go back to guardian in a second.
I know people are reporting ways to glide into towers and it’s a lame tactic but please don’t rush the terrain fixes. The bluff at ogrewatch looks like it was done haphazardly, and it’s in the completely wrong area.
I’m okay if these are bandaid fixes, but just let us know!
God I hope this isn’t real.
We all were told this was a test and a beta, there are going to be unbalanced things.
Please, PLEASE for the love of god make a proper fix. This looks like kitten
Now that we have gliding I’m convinced the desert borderlands map was designed with this feature in mind. I really think it’s a shame they didn’t add it on release because it would have really helped stem some of the criticism it received about traversing the map.
I think gliding adds a small layer of tactics to WvW, and any variety is good for WvW!!
I disagree, if you don’t put a cap on tickets people will literally farm everything in a week and have no reason to return to WvW and complain about how there’s nothing to do.
I get that people are passionate about WvW, I am too, but the attitude to attack everything the developers do in WvW has resulted in them being very cautious about what they add to WvW.
We will likely never get another WvW map after the massive amount of hate the the new BL map received.
Gliding to WvW was a safe change and a safe thing to test. It’s very limited in tactics currently and it helps traverse the maps, win win in my opinion.
Instead of adapting we seem to constantly complain and I think it’s resulted in a slower content release for WvW.
Great for commanding in WvW with. It offers a little bit of everything.
My speculation is that it’s not really him. Maybe it’s his brother. Think Loki.
Blobs nowadays are like two guilds + pugs. God i miss EotM. Totally randoms zergs. No TS or other cheats, no lame meta builds and fun map mechanics. EotM were place where individual player skill did shine.
Yea I can agree with this. The biggest balance issue I see in WvW is the servers that run guild groups vs. the servers that don’t. 90% of the time you won’t stand a chance anymore because the meta is way too effective in an organized group for most random groups to counter.
Must be nice to get your tickets. I work 48 hours and struggle to finish each week, but consider myself a die hard WvW player.
I think most of the boon stripping on attacks for Spellbreaker is limited to two or three targets, right?
So in Warhammer Online each class had an ability that would help in Realm vs. Realm, such as a Black Orc having the ability to raise their shields up and block hot oil and arrows.
I would love to see more kits/banner like things in WvW that add variety to the game. Perhaps there could be some type of kit that equips shields that give different skills.
The sentry kits were a cool addition but no one seems to use them, I’ve always encouraged people to carry them around and drop med kits right before a fight but no one ells seems to use that tactic.
I think WvW really needs some stuff to make it less brainless and zergy and more tactical!
Also the current meta is horrid.
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I’m sure they are just overwhelmed with all the reports about Maguuma players. That server as some seriously toxic players among the high skilled ones.
Yea BG has a massive guild called ASIA. They PPT hard.
I don’t think it’s a pip thing. I think they need to get back to basics of allowing smaller groups to make big plays and big plays in general. The meta is boring in it’s current state and they could easily adjust skills to fix it in WvW. They could even use the lore that power surges through you in the mist, thus adjusting how some of our skills work.
To be clear there are still examples of smaller guilds/groups making big plays, but it’s usually against unorganized groups in my experience.
I agree that the condi/red circle meta is brainless. It’s not hard to land a red circle on groups and it’s just way too efficient.
On the other hand, it’s way too easy to have constant boon uptime to counter power damage, so it just reinforces red ring simulator.
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I play on a mid ranked server and we get two map queues Monday and Tuesday nights. We even had 3 map queues last Tuesday randomly.
I need to see them fly. Please. It would be great.
The real question is if golema and the charr car can glide.
This is great news, it adds variety to WvW which is something the game mode needs. Balance updates will come closer to launch, and any drastic changes would be impacted by the new elite specs anyway so I don’t see why people are crying so hard. There’s also no point in addressing populations at this time because players are bound to come back with legendary armor being obtainable in WvW.
So they added something that’s going to add enjoyment to the game mode, bring more players in, and not have massive impacts on the meta which will change soon anyway.
Haters gonna hate I guess.
So the new rewards coming our way are great, we’ve all been asking for a way to acquire ascended armor, and for some unique rewards. These new rewards are sure to bring a lot of people back to WvW, but how long will they stay? What happens when everyone obtains what they need?
If we examine PvP we can see a similar thing were the last season(s) had a huge influx of players joining PvP matches because it was an efficient way to obtain acceded gear. If I recall correctly I think they changed how easy it was to acquire ascended items, and a lot of players had the items they needed already so PvP ended up being a grave yard.
I would love to see new items added to WvW over time, to keep players invested in showing up. Perhaps every 3 months add a unique weapon skin, armor, or other cosmetic to keep the less hardcore people interested.
An aoe size nerf would help to a point but its still going to apply a lot of condi that are kitten ear unavoidable. I still think caping one epi per person (my own ideal of having it like a bomb that apears over some one head with a timer) so you can give a person time to react and still keep epi a size counter tool that it is. Now only if we had a size counter for power dmg…
That would be a really interesting mechanic and would allow more skill based play in zerg fights, which the game really needs outside of really well organized zerg groups.
After playing TC this week, I can’t express how much I hate epidemic.
Just tried to log on and I noticed I can’t double click my character to log on like I’ve been doing for years. I now have to click the play button to log on….
Also, sometimes my A and D keys don’t work to turn/rotate my character. It’s like the game is no longer picking up certain mouse/keyboard functions but my keyboard and mouse are working fine.
Any ideas?
BTW dragonbrand’s activity has dropped 40% since linking.
At least 3 guilds have left DB apparently. Or at least that’s what the “reports” we’re getting from friends on other servers are saying.
I have has seen a few DB guild tags on SoS now, including DAWN. Not sure if SoS is actively recruiting or what but that seems to be the place people are migrating to.
WvW will continue to be a mess as long as skilled groups keep migrating to servers with more skilled groups.
sbi has the worst pugmanders ive ever seen. Imagine commanding 40 pugs, 20 of which are druids and then solo bombing with self stab and raging for ppl not pushing.
A lot of SBI people have stopped playing lately. Myself included. We’ve consistently been matched up with Mag who have better and more players than us most of the time and SoS who don’t like to fight and prefer to run and play the PPT. It’s never an even fight on these match ups.
This is a huge issue now. Basically all the skilled, hardcore organized groups have migrated to other servers in search of better WvW experience, leaving a lot of casual types behind which results in terrible match ups for both sides.
Meanwhile T3 is absolute garbage. I logged on after not playing for over a month to see if anything had changed, turns out one server got more WvW players and the others shrunk.
No thanks.
I always laugh when I look at the skills available to a DH:
A heavy armor class with great sustain, powerful ranged abilities, tremendous CC, a target pull…
Then I look at my warrior and log off.
Do you have the SMS or other warning system that someone is trying to access your account? Is it this account? You have to use your password to log on to the forum so it can’t have changed.
At any rate, since you’re on the forum here you can go to the password change site and change your password if you wish.
I do have the SMS active and did not receive a message so I’m not too worried about it. I just found it odd to actually come from the official e-mail!
A few of my guild members and me have received official e-mails stating that our PW’s have been changed, the e-mail states:
“You’ve successfully changed your Guild Wars password.
If you didn’t request this change, please contact the Guild Wars Support Team immediately.
Need help or have questions about your account? Visit our support site: (removed)
Sincerely,
The Guild Wars Support Team"
The web link takes me directly to the official website, so I’m not really sure how this is a phishing scheme or key logger….
Thought?