Finally got to experience the new system first hand today when I bought another character slot for my 8th and final profession.
Simply put, the new system of having to choose between paying exorbitant costs in either time or gold/skill points to get skills is a horrible player experience.
As a new player to a class I hate the feeling that I have to tons of research to make sure I pick the right traits because the cost of choosing wrong or switching later is so high.
I applaud Anet for coming up with something new instead of the standard paying a trainer some nominal fee but if I was a new player to the game this alone would probably make me feel like I should be playing something else.
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Unfortunate that people keep posting on this. Quite frankly it just embarrasses the majority of the players whose attitude is to just deal with it. It is what it is. The more you complain about it the more you are rewarding the same people you are raging against.
The counter-spin has gotten a little out of control however when people start characterizing certain servers as ‘little’ and underdogs who had no other option but to do what they did. If you look at Week 1, the score was close and the leader role swapped back and forth throughout the weekend. Not sure what happened come Monday but the whole season started off looking like the top 3 servers were pretty close to even.
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Is this really a problem for [Agg]? I mean, you guys haven’t been on the same server for more than 2 straight weeks since the game came out; with all those Transfers, sooner or later you should get the opportunity to kill pretty much anyone who’s ever stepped in WvW if you really want to.
brilliant
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The matchup threads were not about gameplay, balance or even ArenaNet themselves anymore than the replacement threads are about these things. This sub-forum only had one acceptable topic in the first place which was WvW matchups. Look through the match-up archives and point out some examples if you say otherwise.
ArenaNet was not stiffing open discussion about their product by closing the matchup sub-forum. Not saying that a heavy hand is used or not used in other forum sections but to use that argument in this case doesn’t make any sense.
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Too much overhead to moderate toxic and abusive posters. Looking at the new w2www forums that replaced it I kind of see ANET’s position. Many of those match-up threads are just 20 pages of nerd rage and hate.
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2.) Rangers are sub-optimal for large scale engagements, as hard as that was to admit.
3.) People actually believe that other servers are made up of like-minded people with an agenda and not the same sorta random collection of all types that their server is.
4.)People can take a game way to seriously
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The real answer: Our current goal is to make sure that JQ consistently comes in second, especially when S2 gets here. Turns out that doesn’t take as much effort to achieve as we thought ;-P
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It’s not actually a penalty-free death as your killer earns points for his or her realm by finishing you. Getting killed helps the other team win, so even if you don’t have to pay armour repair fees, it’s better to try and avoid dying, buff or no.
This is a really good point. If one aspect of the buff is to eliminate disincentives to playing when out manned, this seems like a good one to add.
I’d love to see ‘Player doesn’t drop loot bags when killed’ added as well’…
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Likes:
-The dynamic nature and having to adjust to new tactics that people dream up.
-Playing with people from all over the world
-Being able to log in and participate when I want to, not when I have to.
Dislikes
-How the rally mechanic makes fight a force that is ‘x’ times bigger than yours fruitless
-Being a defender on top of a wall puts you at a disadvantage versus the people below casting.
-Dealing with the hate when I feel like I want to bring my Ranger instead one of the WvW versions of the holy trinity.
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WRONG. Let’s not forget history. Your score tanked and your WvW population plummeted when IRON came to SoR. In one week, BG went from winning by 50k points to losing by 50k over SoR; was IRON worth 100k points? (remember, this was before stomping gave points, so final score was much lower). SoR then proceeded to go undefeated for few weeks.
Remember, IRON transferred over just a week or two after BG got RISE and WM from T2. Before IRON, when BG got those additional guilds, you guys were dominating. After IRON transferred? We had to beg you guys to come out and fight us. Many of the BG guys that were dominating and PvD’ing day after day were nowhere to be found with IRON in the battlefield.
I’m not saying this to say that you guys didn’t put up a fight. I do acknowledge that many of your guilds still came out to fight back when IRON came. But the truth is that large portion of your players (PvE / fairweather) simply didn’t show up. Every server has their own share of PvE and fairweather players.
Yes, SoR did lose a lot of fairweathers with ZDs transferring, but a lot of the hardcore WvW roamers and guilds are still coming out to fight. Having said that, BG, SoR and any other servers are no different than one another in the respect that we all have fairweathers who come and go and hardcores who stick through and fight. A server isn’t an autonomous being or a hive-mind, but rather a collection of many different minded players.
Now, one may say we have more fairweathers than BG does. Do we? Maybe, maybe not. who knows. How would one even prove that? So let’s not even go there :P Chances are, most people reading the forum are already hardcore, dedicated WvW players. So you won’t get more people to come out by taunting us because people reading the forum are already out there fighting you.
BG also never gave up when our SEA/OCX was having issues when MERC left.
BG also worked overtime to bring down JQ the first time it happened because if you recall we came from behind back then as well while being weaker than JQ back in those days.
This, I can’t say, since SoR wasn’t fighting BG when that happened. So I’ll take your word for it.
This is a pretty fair assessment in my opinion of the way things work. The OP that this was in response to should have said “BG’s WvW guilds worked their kitten off when you got IRON”
BG absolutely had a huge drop in fair weather players and casuals logging into WvW for a period of time after this. I remember one reset night all we could muster was about 20 people on a commander in a BL during the first hour. During this BG had to endure the same forum posts that are going the other way now; look back and you can see “R.I.P. Blackgate” and ‘Why won’t you fight" posts repeated over and over.
Things will normalize for SoR eventually and they will be as strong as ever. At some point BG will probably go through the same cycle again as well. The only people who will be surprised by this are the ones who haven’t been paying attention.
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This would be great for the people who play in your server’s prime time but it comes at the expense at everyone else.
For the opposing server players who are on in your non-prime time, their work and achievements suddenly mean less and do not get equal weight. That fundamentally does not seem right.
For players on your own server who can’t play in prime time, suddenly they become the bad guys if they log on and try to play in off hours since they are doing nothing put raising the opposing servers PPT ‘contribution coefficient’ by being in WvW.
I am not saying that population imbalances do not need to be addressed, I just do not think that ideas in the vein of freezing maps during certain times or penalizing servers with more players is going to be the answer.
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In the week prior to this so-called Season 1, JQ beat BG by a definite margin, to the point of embarrassment.
I am sure that the Detroit Tigers made themselves feel better too by telling themselves their record against Boston was 4-3 prior to the AL Championship and that is what really matters.
Please keep posts like this coming. No matter what else happens during the rest of the season it will not be able to top the entertainment value of this thread.
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Scroll down to the bottom and read the official response. They called this guy at home to log on and clarify a post on the forums that was causing some controversy. That is a level of dedication to customer experience that many companies cannot even come close to. ANET may not always execute flawlessly (who does?) but they continue to demonstrate that they respect their players.
I know some people don’t care about things like this but it is a welcome change from most games where developer interaction is either non-existent or outright condescending.
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Of course they do. Given their overall high level of interaction on these forums I am confident that even if they are not responding in the individual class forums on a day to day basis that they are monitoring and aware of what is being said.
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The buff does not automatically favor the strongest server or the server with the most coverage. Look at millennium at any given moment and you will see servers getting thrashed in PPT still holding 1-2 blood buffs across the map.
If played correctly the ruins/buffs work as an anti-zerg tactic and actually reward servers that don’t run around with a 80 man full map blob with a way to accumulate points.
I get that on servers where you are outmanned 80 ppl to 10 on a map that you have zero chance of taking and holding the points. The additional 150 stat points your opponents getting then sux and is just a pile on but it honestly is it really your top concern?
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We’ve been playing a lot more EB lately. Guilds/players seem to run from the fights a lot less. Not sure what the difference is in dynamics between EB and the BLs.
Think they’re not as well trained in EB. It’s been severely impacting our stockpiles of droppable merchants, and what to do with all these darn badges?? One only needs so many golems.
Been great to see Agg in there too! Quickly becoming a fan <3
Yeah, I am not sure TW should be bragging about farming pugs in lag central EB but SW, Agg & WARD have been working hard to toughen up our Eternally casual forces out there so they can give ya some better competition. It has been nice seeing TW forces out looking for some open field fun lately without the rest of their server close behind.
I honestly thought last nite someone had called out BG border as the official small man border for the evening as I kept seeing all these smaller guild forces running around from all 3 sides and there was a queue on a monday nite! ~gasp~ We use to do that in DAoC back when Emain was zerg central, we’d call out a rarely used zone for the 8mans to hit, so nothing like organized GvG but just a place you could expect to find some smaller non-laggy affairs. Anyone with forum weight wanna give it a shot?
I’ve read this a few times and it still doesn’t make sense..
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That attachment is pretty poor taste even for a TW forum troll
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LOL at TW jumping onto jq, if they were serous about wanting action they should of helped out DB.
Shows everyone in every tier that SOR and JQ have to double team every server that can put a decent fight up ,like BG, to win. Really childish servers they have become that they cannot ,,or will not, fight each other since they are so buddy buddy that if they get split up and ones in trouble ohh we will come help you guys for the brotherhood of SOQ .
It really is becoming a sad state for every other tier to challenge either of these 2 servers on a fair battle ground if they are in the same match up.
My penthouse in Rata Sum is carpeted in Quarrian skin rugs, so soft and easily walked upon. Why does BG the moment it takes the lead start posting complaints about 2v1? It’s quite possibly the oddest trend I’ve ever seen in a server. o.0
Sigh, even in the weeks we don’t have to face SoR I guess we are going to be stuck with the TW troll zerg.
Obviously the posters are referring to odd it is that TW transferred to JQ to fight BG, not a 2v1 in the JQ/DB sense. Nice try on trying to make it something else but you failed. You did succeed however in giving everyone the creepy goose flesh chills that I am sure your ex-girlfriends experience when you keep ‘coincidentally’ showing up at parties they are at but you aren’t even invited to.
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We now have similar if not equal coverage in SEA timezone, the reason we won this week was because we held onto our objectives… I know hard thing to believe that you can cap something in OC/SEA hold it through EU and then give it to NA at T3…
This is why we won, we held 300+ ppt for 3 days straight after that massive 450 ppt NA / Oceanic / SEA by JQ on Monday night (NA) Tuesday for every1 else.
JQ flipped all the maps but didnt hold onto them into NA, I went to sleep that night 260vs260 ppt woke up to 350 ppt, our EU had done a great job in holding and upgrading keeps/tower.
Reason BG has been so successful and survived is our coordination between guilds who are used to working together and the new turnover, we used to have a big gap between NA and Oceanic where JQ would capitalise and take all our stuff, now with MERC starting on the dot Oceanic timezone, eliminate your inefficiencies and win.
I for one am sick of the toxicity coming out of our opponents whenever we win / do well, maybe reflect on this as a server and think about it, maybe this was the reason WM, Meow, RiSE, KO, KOR chose BG over SoR and JQ.
Found this nifty post from our 4/26 thread, interesting comments from this fellow in regards to the organization BG has(wish this was still true). Also interesting how hes sick of the toxicity from his competitors when they won, sounds very similar to what BG is doing to SoR. Its quite an interesting read tbh, read through it if you have the time, BG was practically begging for SoR to get guilds for empty time slots back then! I’m sure you could also answer that BG denying OT question from earlier in that thread as well!
lol. You just earned your Girl Scout Troll Badge with that one. congrats.
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I think MERC is one of the only guilds left who do /laugh after taking a keep. Every single time they’ve managed to take a keep or tower, my chat is polluted with “Blackgate Soldier laughs with you” blah blah blah. It could be the pugs following you guys, I’m not sure, but honest to god, it’s such a bad look when it happens. Now, I’m not sure if you’ve had it done to you by other guilds or zergs or what not, but yeah, if I may take an exert from your own recruitment form:
+ …how we conduct ourselves off the battlefield is very important.
+ Respectful to our guild members, server allies and even rival opponents.
Now, I’m not sure if this is something encouraged by your commanders, or something the odd member does. You could blame it on the pugs but I haven’t experienced this with any other BG guild or pug zerg. But yeah, I know you guys have that reputation of being trolly from your original GM, Jedas. But just letting you know how freaking petty this /laugh stuff is. lol.
Yeah everyone, this guy is right. You should take SoR’s conduct here as an example of how to treat rival opponents with respect and win graciously!!!
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Seriously BG is it possible to have a fight without putting 100’ of ac’s up? We are’nt trying to take your keep we are just trying to have some fights.
No excuses your blob is as big as ours, you will never learn to fight if u always run and alwauys rely on ac’s.
SoR BL just a few minutes ago; SoR zerg dropped AC’s against equal numbers first in NE camp and then 2 min later in North camp…
Everyone uses AC’s but only one group of people is deluding themselves that they don’t and come here to constantly complain about it.
yea i was in that fight, it wasn’t equal, u were more and yeah i agree its sad to see dropping AC’s at the drop of a hat, i simply stopped running with that group and moved to a different channel after i saw that.
Anet please nerf AC’s its not fun for anybody!
It’s glad to see you talking so poorly about your fellow server mates.
am talking to AC use specifically, doesnt matter what server it is.. and i am not the only one who hates them more than anything in gw2.
i am talking in general and not specifically about that one fight
It’s not a bad idea to drop Ac’s if you are massively outnumbered. Dropping them when even fights or you outnumber them then I can see that being annoying. Though it’s all part of the game now. Everyone needs to adjust to that.
For people who need a visual on what TW means when they use terms like massively outnumbered.
From your map I see 3 commander tags, a slew of green dot allies to the left of you and behind. If you want to fictionalize the numbers advantage, remember to remove the dots on your map before attachment……
Scroll above and read the post from the TW guy who was actually there about how the numbers were even and then ponder how you foolish you look….
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We only use carts when we’re outnumbered 2:1 or if we’re not on the map. Everyone uses carts, get over it – its just a disappointing change in the meta.
Eh yesterday morning you outnumbered a small zerg which you considered an Iron zerg because the commander was an Iron commander (despite the zerg being mostly us PuGs) and used ACs to defend multiple choke points while outnumbering that zerg 2:1.
But you do have a point. Everyone does use ACs. It’s just a dang shame that ArenaNet thinks they’re helping WvW. All they do is give baddies a chance. It doesn’t seem all that bad, but it doesn’t encourage people to defend objectives with tactics besides the placement of a siege weapon. The game should encourage you to get better, not reward you by sitting in a safe area on a wall shooting down on a big amount of players with an overpowered, easy to obtain piece of garbage.
To balance this new overpowered AC crap, ArenaNet should make those things have a limited amount of ammunition, or require much more supply than 30/40.
Is this what you mean by AC’s give baddies a chance????
How rude of us to drop ac’s like that, please forgive us we did not realize you guys were still upset over losing your T3 fully supplied garrison to 10 people today while you were playing in bay.
Nope, I don’t think it is rude at all. Some of the AC placement you used tonight was actually pretty ingenious. I personally think that anything the ANET intends you to do is fair game. This is war after all, not the Olympics.
Just making the point, again, that people come here thinking their server is the special snow flake that is different from everyone else (e.g. my server doesn’t PvDoor, Zerg, drop AC’s. 2v1. blah blah blah) and its amusing to bust their little bubble.
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Seriously BG is it possible to have a fight without putting 100’ of ac’s up? We are’nt trying to take your keep we are just trying to have some fights.
No excuses your blob is as big as ours, you will never learn to fight if u always run and alwauys rely on ac’s.
SoR BL just a few minutes ago; SoR zerg dropped AC’s against equal numbers first in NE camp and then 2 min later in North camp…
Everyone uses AC’s but only one group of people is deluding themselves that they don’t and come here to constantly complain about it.
yea i was in that fight, it wasn’t equal, u were more and yeah i agree its sad to see dropping AC’s at the drop of a hat, i simply stopped running with that group and moved to a different channel after i saw that.
Anet please nerf AC’s its not fun for anybody!
It’s glad to see you talking so poorly about your fellow server mates.
am talking to AC use specifically, doesnt matter what server it is.. and i am not the only one who hates them more than anything in gw2.
i am talking in general and not specifically about that one fight
It’s not a bad idea to drop Ac’s if you are massively outnumbered. Dropping them when even fights or you outnumber them then I can see that being annoying. Though it’s all part of the game now. Everyone needs to adjust to that.
For people who need a visual on what TW means when they use terms like massively outnumbered.
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Seriously BG is it possible to have a fight without putting 100’ of ac’s up? We are’nt trying to take your keep we are just trying to have some fights.
No excuses your blob is as big as ours, you will never learn to fight if u always run and alwauys rely on ac’s.
SoR BL just a few minutes ago; SoR zerg dropped AC’s against equal numbers first in NE camp and then 2 min later in North camp…
Everyone uses AC’s but only one group of people is deluding themselves that they don’t and come here to constantly complain about it.
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I have gotten use to the Poor NA attitude in fighting on BG, we have some good guilds but yet we go out manned everyday on maps and we are not getting people on to work together. I have also gotten use to the Double Team, and to the JQ person askign why are BG and JQ not Double teaming SoR welll good question. I am sure SoR would love to have the challenge
Sounds like a core problem within BG. I agree with the poster above that BG probably has absorbed a lot, if not the most, wvw orientated guilds of the 3 servers yet their performance does not show. It seems that the entire atmosphere of BG is toxic. You need a strong leader to step up to re-organize the server or the current active wvw guilds should start over somewhere else to be quite frank. It’s obvious the current “eat up as many servers/guilds as possible and we’ll be ok” strategy isn’t working for BG.
That being said, if it requires a 2v1 against SoR, then it requires a 2v1 against SoR. I think most Rallians are used to being the underdog by nature, so a 2v1 would bring that back for them since that’s where they thrive.
You have to realize that where BlackGate has a lot of WvW guilds we have a lot of PvE and PvX guilds. Which might I add also tends to out number the WvW guilds. Even though they should never really matter, some of the WvW guilds are fair weather and negative to a lot of things and eventually that ends up affecting other guilds. I would love to be rid of them but what can we do, hopefully we can eventually get rid of them only time will tell.
That’s a core issue then to be frank. Look at the list which I posted. You could probably even make the argument that BG has the most WvW guilds of any server in any tier and yet they still go out trying to buy guilds over to their server. You should do the right thing and send some of these guilds to other servers that need them more(ie JQ for T1 or FA for T2) and work out your issues within your server. It’s obviously not a population or coverage issue that BG has.
Yes we are the toxic ones. I mean you need to be here on this forum spreading lies about BG because your leadship is so great. I can see how SoR is a great server by your actions alone.
We should learn from you.
psht i heard that IRON was given gold to help move over to SoR so there for SoR BUGHT IRON and that is slavery. SoR is pro slavery.
Two different people who play on BG have come outright in the last 2 pages and said you have issues over there. I’m just analyzing it. If you have a problem, talk to your fellow BGers. You can blame me and paint me to be a bad guy all you want, but it’s not going to fix the problems your server has internally.
edit: Correction 3 different BGers have come out and posted that you guys have severe issues on BG. One of them even going as far as saying they hope some of their WvW guilds leave the server because they are so toxic.
Has anyone from BG actually used the term toxic or is that just you regurgitating the last few weeks of the SoR forum meta? These weighty questions of why everyone else isn’t as good as you finally died down with the match thread getting locked earlier this week. Congratulations on devolving the conversation once again.
When you guys were the under-dog, you guys stood out as having an indomitable spirit. Now that you guys have been crushing it for weeks, to come here and continually post over, and over, and over, and over about your BG giving up, not trying, must have a horrible ‘community’, eats guilds, haxs our TS etc, etc….its just become poor sportsmanship.
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There are plenty of other MMO’s out there that will give you what you want; 8 classes that have been homogenized to the point all the only real difference between them is the name and animation of the skills.
These games didn’t always start out that way but eventually developers cave into the endless ’Why does this class have this one ability that no one else does? Its not fair".
If you think being able to mist form into a portal is an OP ability then go roll an ele. What ever profession you are playing I am confident there are many things you can do that ele’s can’t…can we nerf all of those skills too?
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Please Devs, do not add another GT skill to this weapon set.
What’s wrong with ground-targeting? I mean, it works for engi grenades and necro staves, and it’d be a nice tool I could use to combat stealthed thieves.
As it works now you can use DT in WvW to hit siege and players behind gates and up on walls. Ground targeting would take this away. On the flip side however this is likely something that is going to get taken away anyways since Mesmer and Ranger abilities to do similar things have already been nerfed at some point.
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The patch has only been a minor inconvenience in regards to keeping up with a group. Ele’s still have plenty of options besides RTL:
1.) Turn around quickly before you updraft, it will flip you in the right direction
2.) Swap staff, hit lightening 4 +5 and then swap back to d/d.
3.) GoEH grants swiftness in lightening attunement
4.) Swap in Signet of Air while on the move, swap it out prior the engaging enemies.
There are a few times when you may get a surprise engagement and you don’t have time to swap SoA out but zerg engagements tend to run, run then get ready for action.
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Everyone should stop chest thumping and boasting around.
We should just update the Q/A at the beginning of these threads with the current trending for the forum meta. Instead of reading pages and pages of crap we could just get a summary like:
Trending Upward
Chest Thumping +25%
PvDoor +10%
BG all nighters, winning because of +8%
Trending Downward
FOO, only winning because of -15%
2v1, SoR/JQ v BG -5%
Think of the time we would all save.
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Really? If someone doesn’t make a player waste hours of their time camping a dead mesmer who is waiting for a rez through the gate or for a thief to glitch through that makes them deserving of what happened?
To the OP,
Having a thief hide in a keep and rez a dead mesmer is intended. Having the mesmer die at a gate and get rez’d from the outside or get rez’d by someone exploiting in, that is not intended.
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I have to laugh every time BG complains about SoR zergballing. The last 2-3 nights I have been in JQ BL, it was around 25-30 of my guildees and I trying to perform with our numbers. We’d fight the first BG Zerg we find, realize its our 25-30 against their 45-50, and get wiped. We’d then meet up with TSYM, even up the numbers, and farm BG for the night. It’s crazy what you can do with even numbers eh? Shame we can’t have even numbered fights with BG unless we create a zergball as well..
Hmm..let’s see, a 30 person guild group combined with the whole zerg of TSYM fighting against what you claim to be 45 BG (and we all know how we like to exaggerate our enemy numbers), and you are wondering why people are complaining the zergball of SoR?
I love how people think that when they follow 30-40 other people around, it isn’t a zerg. When someone else does it, holy zerg batman!
agreed. People should just embrace it for what it is. You think your 10 man group was pro because you wiped a 40 man zerg; the reality is that you failed to notice that your server’s 7 other 10 man groups were stacked on you the whole time.
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Anyone else remember the gleeful posts 2 weeks ago of “R.I.P. BG” and “BG Is dead and will be in tier 3 in a few weeks” over and over? The death of BG has been claimed so many times now that I’ve lost count. And BG has proven them wrong, every kitten time.
Yep definitely wrong about that. Good thing merc/ND held you guys afloat and i’m sure the new guilds will push you up another level. Transfers ftw!
Exactly!!! I was just telling someone that the SoR recruitment thread that is constantly bumped to page 1 in this forum must be planted by trolls since I’ve read here 100x from SoR players how evil transfers are… Oh dear, I just opened the door for the SoR forum zerg to pounce in and copy paste their prepared statements on the difference between buying transfers and earning them through an awesome community experience…proceed.
People did go overboard in predicting BG’s free-fall, fortunately for all of the people who have worked hard on BG this was just wishful thinking on their part.
The competition is what makes WvW fun and makes GW2 strong overall, always seemed strange to me that people get so happy when a server starts to decline.
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I never used to crash before the patch and now it is typical to get 1-2 during 4 hours of WvW, all with the error detailed in this thread.
The work around is to set the WvW culling settings to lowest. Sucks for the visuals but it is better than a crash on reset night and not being able to get back in with your guild for 2 hours
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IMHO, only a troll would have put in this much time and energy do this.
Given that they only reward for winning is bragging rights, why would anyone who cared about WvW victory spend this much time knowing it would be instantly pointed to as the reason.
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I personally love the new format and new categories for the Daily Achievements. There is enough choice and flexibility that I never feel that I am being forced to grind out something I had zero interest in doing. I also love that in many cases I can get 3-4 out of 5 done just through normal time spent playing the game. I don’t feel like I am logging on and have to get the daily chores out of the way before I can start having fun.
I’ve played plenty of other games where I dreaded having to log on and run daily quests every day. After a months of the same exact quests over and over I could describe the most efficient path to take to get done the quickest, how many mobs will be killed, how many casts it will take and precisely how many more times I had to repeat it before I could say “Thank God. I am never doing that again, screw my alts”.
Well done.
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It is because of threads like this that we can’t have nice things….. How about this for the complainers; Don’t pick them up. Pretend for yourself that the drop rate is what it used to be, pick up 3-4 and ignore the rest. Problem solved here, now go get a head start on your “They fixed culling and now its too hard to fight because I see too many enemies” threads
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Fixing culling will be great however the benefits of seeing those 50 enemy players diminishes when everyone can only auto-attack and it takes 30 seconds for other skills to go off.
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If you don’t want to step foot inside WvW, you don’t deserve map completion, it’s as simple as that. WvW maps are still maps in the game.
For anyone on servers which are doing bad and can’t get to certain waypoints, I hope there is a way that you can get it eventually, I know I’m still working on a couple that I just can’t snag yet, but I’m hopeful.
If you look at the threads were players who are mainly WvWvW players say it isn’t fair that they are forced to run dungeons for the monthly achievement they are usually greeted with hoards of responses from people saying they don’t deserve the achievement then. It is sooooo easy to get a group together on your own and spend the time to grind out those five dungeons. If you can’t get that done in a month then you are just lazy and want things given to you.
The cynical response would be to say then that there is nothing stopping you from getting a group together and flipping the towers and keeps that you need for your map completion. I’ve seen a keep flip over way faster than you could ever complete a single dungeon run in. If you can’t be bothered to put the time in to earn the achievement then you are just lazy.
In all honesty however, people keep getting stuck on that the game should be divided into the parts where you kill NPCs and the part where you kill other players. The truth that people don’t want to accept is that the game is currently divided into the part where you do structured PvP and the part where you don’t. People talk about the Monthly Achievement as the ‘PvE Monthly’ even though it bears no such title. It is really the PvE/WvWvW monthly. The same goes for map completion. Maybe Arenanet’s goal was to make you explore the entire World to get 100% map completion….
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Yes, Lick Wounds under water heals for a ton more than it ever does on land. This is old, old news. No one talks about it much since
1.) most rangers don’t even live when downed for #3 to be off cooldown
2.) its under-water combat…who cares
As noted, Lick Wounds is bugged on land where it doesn’t work at all 50% of the time and if you want to see a kitten off Ranger community then wait for the moment when Arenanet fixes the bug the underwater bug that no one cares about and continues to ignore the other bug that people have been screaming about for months
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I have been playing a Ranger since launch, focused almost solely on WvW with a modest amount of sPvP (rank 20). I recently leveled a warrior to 80 and spent the last week playing him every night in WvW as shout heals/hammer.
Oldgrimm hit one of the big issues right on the head. Even the tankier pets can be difficult to keep alive in a larger scale, prolonged WvW fight. On the flip side they can provide a great advantage in smaller engagements. A lot depends on whether you expect to be roaming around and ninja taking yaks and camps or fighting with an organized guild.
Another issue is that toughness is critical for survivability in WvW. Warriors get +healing and +toughness together, Rangers get +condition with their toughness. If you don’t want to play a condition based build then you are somewhat wasting trait benefits there.
It has only been a week for me but overall my assessment is that I am able to do about the same amount of damage as my bunker ranger with almost double the survivability.
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The weird things is that the very first pet I ever named has its name perma-bound. I can store off of my pet swaps for a month and when I add it back the name comes with it.
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No no and no ! We dont want em plain and simple im sick of other games and their healers with their god complex’s. It was said from the start there will be no dedicated healers. What i dont understand is why oh why people will want to come and have gw2 change when if they want to play a game with the trinity they have countless choices of MMOs to go to.
Exactly.
I don’t miss at all running dungeons as a healer and having DPS complain when they die because they don’t care about any of the fight mechanics, they just expect you to heal them through everything.
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