Guild Wars 2

JonPeters.5630:

Here is a bad example of something I would be ok with as only being tied to primary guild:

• When a guild completes a Guild mission it gains some rewards and when it has enough of these special rewards they are shared among all of the members of that guild who flagged it as their primary guild.

This example obviously has problems but that is sortof what I am talking about. Anyway I think I’ve talked enough about that issue. I’ll look for some other hot QOL issues to respond to now.

Hmm, would it be possible to have the system flag your primary guild for you, rather than the player choosing it? That way, it can be based on which guild you primarily rep, rather than which one you think has the best rewards. I’d love to see something like that combined with the allied guild missions that were also brought up in this thread (in order to allow small to mid-sized guilds to collaborate on guild missions without one of them losing their “rep reward”).

As part of the leadership of a 100% rep guild, I really love the idea of rewarding loyalty to a primary guild.

Khorax.6032:

The ‘new player experience’ has driven him off, telling me that the game is even more tedious and boring than before. As a result, I am also less likely to play the game. This isn’t new. A lot of members of my guild have considered leaving as playing alts is tedious. I know. I was playing an alt.

None of the logic behind the changes make sense to me. Level-gating abilities at later levels is a poor choice, and does nothing to ‘teach players’ how to play the game, just forces them into more tedium. To teach players how to play the game, provide tutorials and information as to how each class works, perhaps via a class-based tutorial mission. More content, not less.

This. ^^^^ This right here. This is exactly what I was thinking as I read the patch notes. This doesn’t make the new player experience anything but more painful. I’ve been casually playing around with some other mmos recently, and all I could think the whole time was how great gw2 is and how they did it right. Heck, I used to love leveling alts in this game so much that I have about 17 characters right now! Most are 80 at this point, but I do have about 6 that I’m leveling right now, and I was really excited about that. That is, until the trait patch started to dampen my enthusiasm, and this patch just killed it outright. This sounds incredibly frustrating, and it overshadows anything in the patch I might have been excited about. Quite frankly, I’m having a hard time convincing myself to even log in today.

Lord Kuru.3685:

madchatter.7964:

The best way, honestly, would be to have two subforums – one modded, and one unmodded. Let each poster pick their flavor. (This has the bonus of providing a haven for all random threads, giving the mods less to deal with.) Voting on posts just devolves everything into a juvenile popularity contest.

But the suspicion is that Anet’s going to downsize the mod team and your solution doesn’t allow for that.

To clarify, I meant that to only apply to a user-created forum. Sorry for any confusion! (I don’t think any unmodded area is a good idea for a company, as I’d imagine the legal team would have a giant conniption fit over it. )

The best way, honestly, would be to have two subforums – one modded, and one unmodded. Let each poster pick their flavor. (This has the bonus of providing a haven for all random threads, giving the mods less to deal with.) Voting on posts just devolves everything into a juvenile popularity contest.

The problem anyone who tries this is going to run into is that there is no good way to deal with registration without being able to tie it to the gw2 account, which will allow for troll registrations, even impostors. (Multiple accounts would be an issue with an upvoting system.)

Anet is, unfortunately, the only one with the right tools for the job. Not saying it can’t be done, but it’ll be messy.

Yeah, for roamers, RH is where you want to go. Try whispering RootOfLyfe.9748.

K U T M.4539:

Avatar of Belle.9623:

@styx, some of the Basic guys are just as “classy”

Can confirm, we are some classy gentlemen.

I feel like we might need to hold a competition to see who can “out-class” the other. Loser buys winner drinks or something.

As for whether it’s an honor or insult… I guess the meaning depends on who’s doing it. I sometimes throw a ballista or two on a body that isn’t releasing, but then I sit by them in tonic form with a kite. You know, so they don’t get lonely. And then a random person from my server comes and builds it, leading to hilariously placed seige.

Skosh.1483:

ASH i wish you would really put your money where your month is talk alot but wont accept a gvg against anyone on et. Why is that? Owait in gvgs you cant throw open field siege thats right

I’m seriously confused by this… we said you’d beat us… we know that… we don’t tell anyone in the guild what build to run, and we’re not remotely a “hardcore” guild. We like the gameplay and strategy of wvw, and that includes seige. But we’re not saying we’d beat you, not at all. And we’re cool with that, btw. We’re having fun.

Easterbunny.6170:

Solovic, although GOM is just a few guilds short of competing with the top tier of Bronze and would certainly welcome you, The guys from ET and DR who are posting badly NEED more NA guys.

If you truly want to completely change a server one of those, and of the 2 probably DR would be a great choice for you. ET has a “Primary WvW Guild”, or half of one, in DI.

If you want somewhere where theres a group already raking up the ashes and rebuilding ET and DI would be good for you.

If you want somewhere where you could plug yourselves into and be part of a small but active and fun group of WvW people, GOM would probably be a good fit, but it reads to me that you want to be “it” and ET having fought them many times, could use an “It”.

(GOMmies don’t kill me for this post, Steamrolling isn’t fun.)

Well, I can’t speak for the other servers, but I completely agree with what you said about GoM.

That’s because the more “forceful” nights are largely made up of people who should be sleeping… next night or two are more quiet because everyone’s passed out finally. :P

Shiver.5903:

1. Thou Shall Not Take This Tower
2. Plan a Vacation Now to GoM’s Resort! All-inclusive packages available! Don’t miss out on this opportunity. Disclaimer: Locals might seem hostile at first glance, but in fact they are peaceful and friendly.
No Insurance, Limited-Time Offer.

I shall call it… Sax-Land! Where all your dreams don’t come true! Fwiw, the guild claiming guy makes a great omelette in the morning, but his coffee is just terrible.

Nah, been working on it for over a month, but didn’t set a hard deadline for input before… very probably our server needs to be more proactive vs. “procrastinative*.”

This is not your ordinary recruitment thread. This isn’t actually a recruitment thread. This is more of an informative pamphlet on the GoM GoMmunity for any interested parties.

What the WvW GoMmunity is NOT:

• We are not dominated by one large guild. We strive for all guilds to have a voice (no, really, we literally want you to have a voice on teamspeak!).
• We are not perfectly organized, although improving our coordination is one of our major long-term goals.
• We are not super hardcore. Although we have some hardcore players, we also have many casual/new players, and everything in between. We strive to do our best, but we also place a heavy emphasis on having fun and encouraging our fellow “Gommies.”
• We are not perfect. The things listed here are all things we work toward, but we have not achieved some great wvw utopia.
• We are not quiet. If you like a tightly-run teamspeak channel with no random outbursts of song or off-topic joking around, then this is probably not going to be your cup of tea.

What the WvW GoMmunity IS:

• We are stubborn. We do not care if we are outmanned 10 to 1 – we will take as many of the enemy down with us as we can. We may even be laughing hysterically while yelling “YOLO” or “Leeeeeeeroy!!!”
• We are mad. As in, crazy mad. We attempt to live up to our server’s great name. This may involve occassionally streaming live footage of a golem rush, doing a golem rush with one golem and multiple golem tonics, and seeing how many uplevels it takes to kill a coordinated group of well-geared 80s.
• We are fun, yet focused, and we are willing to get serious if the situation demands it (in other words, we try to have a balanced approach).
• We are NOT “work-a-holics” about WvW. We encourage breaks to avoid burn-out. We may lose a keep because of this, but we will retain more players in the long-run. To clarify, we don’t give up during tough match-ups, but we’d rather you step away for a few hours than wind up quitting the game for good.

Our long-term goals:

• We want to improve coordination between guilds. We want to boost the awareness of the server-wide teamspeak and website.
• We want to encourage more PvE-er participation, especially in conjunction with the teamspeak (WvW is statistically proven to be more fun with friends! ).
• We want to continue to expand the teamspeak and website to include more of the server’s community. (All joking aside, few players actually exclusively play ONLY WvW or PvE, so we think our community should reflect that.)
• We want to provide more opportunities for the community to learn, grow, and get to know one another.

Activites and opportunities:

• We have two weekly meetings before WvW reset – one for community leaders to discuss issues and coordinate, and one that is open to everyone in the community to nail down that week’s WvW strategy.
• We offer a weekly “Green Arrow” event where we all get on uplevels (“green arrows”) and run in a kitten -tastic zerg for xp.
• We have recently begun offering more organized opportunities for PvE during the week.

Other info:

• We have a Code of Conduct.
• We have a website: thegateofmadness.com
• We offer a community-funded teamspeak for the use of anyone on the GoM server. The only other requirement is agreeing to the code of conduct. (This is NOT just for WvW use!)

If you have questions, please contact me or one of our current Community Managers:

Pierre – RootOfLyfe.9748
Profile on GoM forum
PM on the GW2 forum

Moonsong – elundis.4216
Profile on GoM forum
PM on the GW2 forum

Optypical – Optypical.4867
Profile on GoM forum
PM on the GW2 forum

Dovgan.8605:

AR, keep in mind that there are still a few days in this match up, so nothing is final. Yes, it is fun to be in first(but it has been a long time since we have been in this position, and there are no guarantees it will become a habit), and on reset we were getting hammered, we have to do better.
It isn’t as if we are suddenly first in Gold League. Win, if we do, with grace and humility. Both DR and GoM have given us a superb match up this week, and I applaud both servers.

Thank you, and thank you for setting a stellar example for the rest of your server. I can’t speak about your transfers, but I will say that I have had a great deal of respect for AR in our previous match-ups. Let’s keep it classy this week, have some good fights, and enjoy the last bit of leagues. I’ve had a great time the last few weeks, and I’d hate to see it all end on a sour note. So, good luck out there, and let’s have some fun!

Vote: Leagues = Success

I was very concerned going into leagues, but I was very quickly proven wrong – they turned out very well for our server community, and I am actually quite sad to see this all over. I also have to thank Anet for being willing to split it into three leagues. Bronze league was awesomely fun because of it!

If there was one thing I’d change going into the next season, it’d be to make sure all the match-ups within a season are unique. There are enough options that I don’t see a reason to have the same three servers in a match-up more than once per season.

I look forward to the next season!

Righteous.4307:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

Jereme.1840:

Look the infamous HoD zerg.. err wait that’s GoM…

<3 the emotes too, the best part was when they all ported and went back to Bay, we clearly outnumbered them.

You’re looking at pretty much the entirety of GoM’s WvW population compacted onto one map, and yet you STILL don’t have the outmanned buff.

Consider the following…
If you gather your servers entire WvW population into a single force, you may want to do something more useful than flip control points that do not directly earn points for the server and are capped as quickly with 1 person as they are with 5000 people.

Rofl, that’s probably why they were laughing (wasn’t there, though, so don’t know for sure what was going on). We do crazy things sometimes… it’s madness, I tell you! Madness!!!

Mugo.5723:

I remember one night we had 90% of your BL green and you still wanted Aldon’s not to mention ET was doing work in your eternal sector. After about 1hr you got it but in the process had everything in your bl wooden. The trade-off was not worth it imo.

What happens in EB, stays in EB.

/wave

It’s quite all right! We were having trouble convincing a few on our side, as well… it’s EB; what can you do?

It was very nice to chill out for a moment and enjoy some music! Perhaps we will meet again in this match-up!

(I was the ele/princess doll. )

JKFlipFlop.7123:

You should know by now I’m a huge WvW troll, learned from the best on NSP. Emote spamming, siege griefing, fake guild tags, twink perplexity cheese, all in good fun.

Now you need to come back to GoM to learn how to Fireworks Thief™.

As for ASH gvg… like people have said, we’re pvx, and not everyone plays hardcore wvw… we just like to run together and have a good time, get a little goofy now and then. I don’t even know how we’d choose who would be in a gvg…

Shout out to the HOTS mesmer in EB – lovely flute playing and was fun hanging out with you in tonic form!

Advent.6193:

Avatar of Belle.9623:

And if all the bronze league servers merged, we would be T1!

Ahem! What’s that about …
Sorrow’s Terrace of Denravi’s Crossing?" I mean, seriously. That force alone could potentially wreck most of Silver.

No, because no one in bronze is used to having to play only pushing “1.” The force of the lag would potentially wreck everyone, though.

There’s already a thread.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/matchups/Gate-of-Muffins-MANvil-Rock-Eredon-Terrorace

Baron.8407:

I’ve made this into a wordle.

I decided I had to reply to this because it’s been an entire day since I saw it, and I’m still laughing.

Arius.7031:

On top of that, Dh has finally realized the value of defending stuff after our match with GoM/FC, our defensive game has improved by a large margin.

I think you mean our stuff. Defending our stuff. From us.

RedStar.4218:

titanlectro.5029:

GoM = Skritt

Today is new shiny day.

SF is safe in second place.

SHINYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

But truth be told, if this was a close match up, I’d be annoyed. But it’s not. Our skirtt allies most likely left WvW for this week and all that remains are players that somewhat care about the league and those seeking to complete their daily.

Of course, some of us will play that new event for a few hours but then we’ll be back to WvW.

Yes… you won’t find a pile of wvw regulars in the new shiny… nope… nothing to see here, folks…

WhiteRose.6934:

Please take all this talk of courage and valor and just shut up for goodness sake. It’s a video game, I’m finding this quite pathetic that people are crying about bull like this.

You want courage and valor? Let’s think about what day it is eh? Those Veterans have courage and valor, not anyone here sitting on their butt playing a video game. Take your drive for courage and valor and make a difference in the world, the actual world.

Shut up, and move on.

I think this game fits into a weird sort of place due to how it encourages communities to grow and come together on each server. Yes, it’s “just a game,” but the people playing the game, the communities of people that have been built up and nurtured, are something more than “just a game.” Each of our words and actions affects all the other people in these communities, and it’s good to be mindful of that.

I see a lot of people complaining about how modern technology makes us too insulated from one another and destroys communities… I’d argue that it’s giving us more tools to build some very unique communities that were never possible before (I mean, I hang out with people in other countries on a fairly regular basis – when in the past were you able to do that??). The "actual world "you’re talking about – you’re talking about a collection of people, the same people who are sitting on their butts and playing this game with you.

Mercabre.7123:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

Mercabre.7123:

styx.7294:

Look, I understand, Henge of Denravi wants to feel kitten but I am going to give you tough love. It’s ’cause I care.

Henge of Denravi wins no fights. They haven’t won a fight in 5 weeks. To win fights, you have to be at fights. A week before leagues, Henge of Denravi heard there might be fights and ran away and hid so that there would be no chance of fights for 7 weeks.

So there can’t be posts about Henge of Denravi bravado, ’cause WvW is about fights you guys made sure to avoid fights for all of the league.

Maybe after this league you will come out stronger and that would be nice to see but for now when tested did you show unyielding courage? No. Unrelenting bloodlust? No. Willingness to stack the odds so high as to show your quality? No. =(

And don’t forget that all three servers that were on the brink of moving up to silver league “slowed down” the week or two prior to leagues. This is not an isolated case of “HoD is tanking they are kitten” because everyone did it that had a chance of moving up but in the end it was NSP that moved up (and probably rightly so). It’s not a question of the server but of human nature.

“Slowed down?” More like tucked tail and hid under the rug. NSP tried to do the same but got called out on it, and their roaming guilds that don’t normally care about PPT actually rose up to carry their server to silver. I still like my pals on HoD and SF, but as whole servers, you’re still a bunch of cowards for tanking to dodge silver league.

Call it whatever you want. Slowed down, tanked, whatever, but every server that was about to move up did it. It’s not our servers, it’s human nature. Don’t act like your server would do anything different in the same situation because they wouldn’t. Even if your personal position would be to move up (I was of the same opinion in terms of HoD) would the rest of your server feel the same way?

Going into this week, we warned our newer wvwers that we were going up against two larger servers, and we should not expect to get first, or even second. But, we also pointed out that more people = more loot/badges, and made the goal of this week to learn more, grow stronger, and mostly have a lot of fun with all the awesome fight opportunities. I think it’s all a matter of perspective – if you go in thinking, “Oh, we’re going to get crushed, why even bother?” you’ve pretty much decided it’ll suck right from the beginning, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I also think people forget that everyone on the bottom of bronze didn’t have a choice to tank into a more comfortable position, and that does force you to grow and work at becoming a stronger community, or your only other real option is to transfer or find a new game, because this one won’t be fun anymore. I wouldn’t be surprised to find that NSP is a stronger server at the end of leagues. I know GoM is, and speaking for myself, I’m having WAY more fun in wvw than I’ve had in a long time!

clint.5681:

I don’t think the moderator has noticed this thread yet, they got our third thread (RIP awesome third thread)

cries

The best jokes were in that one… and I didn’t even save them for posterity.

titanlectro.5029:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

madchatter.7964:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

clint.5681:

Only reason threads get closed is because they are full of tears from the losing sides. Since this should be a competitive match up and HoD and GoM seems to have some cool cats on their forum crew i doubt that will happen.

I also wish i could set up a betting system but idk if thats against Anets rules or not.

Would you settle for a polling system? :P
http://strawpoll.me/673580

I want to lodge a complaint. This seems to only let you vote once per IP. Since there are two of us one the same IP, I do not get a vote.

I DEMAND A RECOUNT!!!

:P

Halp! HoD is zerging our strawpoll!

Everyone WP, we can still save it! [Strawpoll Waypoint]

What’s the timer???

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

clint.5681:

Only reason threads get closed is because they are full of tears from the losing sides. Since this should be a competitive match up and HoD and GoM seems to have some cool cats on their forum crew i doubt that will happen.

I also wish i could set up a betting system but idk if thats against Anets rules or not.

Would you settle for a polling system? :P
http://strawpoll.me/673580

I want to lodge a complaint. This seems to only let you vote once per IP. Since there are two of us one the same IP, I do not get a vote.

I DEMAND A RECOUNT!!!

:P

bigsal.7061:

AND that we were all having some serious fun.
^^ this was echoed many times in our TS ^^

Same in the GoM TS… been a complete blast so far! Looking forward to the rest of the week!

losieight.4807:

Lol @ the RH hammer war who couldn’t 1v1 so he ran inside tower and tried to jump me on low health and still failed :P. Very good roamers GoM ^^

Hmm… sounds like the classic “YOLO” maneuver… we like the advanced tactics here at GoM.

Avatar of Belle.9623:

Where are my uplevel tears? I have been chasing down every green arrow and jumping on corpses all weekend. I have never been so disrespectful in this game and there isn’t a single delicious tear on this thread.

<cries>

PS Void is a slave in training. He hasn’t learned proper manners yet.

I don’t think you found my uplevels yet…

styx.7294:

@ Belle

I can’t speak for other servers but leagues was a breadth of fresh air for my server. We had some people who quit the game come back and PvE folk come in. Morale went up and stayed up since leagues started.

Though so far we’ve had 1 win, 1 super close match, and are winnin the 3rd match.. so could just be the fair weather talking.

Yeah, it’s been a blast so far… teamspeak is usually full of people having a good time and getting to know each other, and I’ve been loving it. I’m sure we do have some fairweathers out right now, but I also highly doubt we’ll drop back down to our old coverage when the going gets a bit rougher. We’ve also been talking about the harder matches we have coming and warning people not to expect it to be quite like this.

I like this, but I highly, highly doubt it’d happen. Ideally, I’d want:

*flat 10 sec recharge rate
*elemental attunement
*evasive arcana (without the internal cooldown change someone else suggested… the way the cooldown works now seems fine to me and encourages attunement swapping)
*endurance regen in the arcane trait line?

I would not want the boon duration reduced by half, though… I already have to use boon duration runes, as I rely so heavily on them. Granted, the above changes would reduce the reliance on them for damage output, but reducing the duration on everything would potentially ruin the positive effects of the changes.

What if the attunement recharge was a flat 10 sec across the board, and traiting into the arcane line gave a bonus to endurance regen? It would synergize very well with the trait line, and taking evasive arcana would boost survivability WITHOUT going into either water OR earth. Condi removal would still be an issue, but it would throw more survivability into another trait line, which is the only real way I see to open up more build options. Right now, ele is the only class where I feel compelled to take both traits and utilities solely for survival.

Evasive Aracana

I love the recharge rate, too (and in fact cycle so quickly I run into cooldowns on all attunemets a LOT), but evasive arcana is just amazingly useful and fits very well into the d/d play style.

JonPeters.5630:

Right now I am thinking 85% on diamond skin as high health eles could break this at 80% imo.

I like this a lot, actually. Moves me more into the “love this” territory and off the fence. It will be interesting to see how this works with a new spec I’m building.

I think one other thing I would love to see is a way to play more glyphs without losing all the survivability cantrips afford – one of my favorite things about ele is the versatility of things like evasive arcana (which is MY reason for going 30 into arcane!). I love that I can choose which effect will help more in each situation (ie. I only have enough endurance for one dodge, so I can stun the enemy player hitting my teammate, or I can hold off and do an aoe heal for said teammate.) Alternatively, having more traits that cause such effects (outside the arcane line, even!), either on an action (like attunement swapping and dodging do now) or with certain skills (utilities or even auto-attacks), would introduce even more options for differing play styles.

I’m taking a cue from the wvw discussion threads here -

Please post ONE thing – the ONE thing you think is the most “at fault” for the lack of ele build diversity. Don’t give me an essay on it; just post it. If it’s something no one’s thought of, you might need to explain it, but no one needs an explanation of “arcane trait line – attunement recharge.” This is intended to give devs a concise, non-confrontational summary of what the ele community thinks.

I’ll start:
—Reliance on water traits for condi-removal, especially with the melee range of d/d—

Yeah, I’ve been experiementing with builds that significantly reduce the number of points in water (currently running a classic 0/10/0/30/30 “Ihateconditionsandlovecantrips” build), and this kills that, as most of my new build ideas were 10 in water for the condi removal. I’d be more excited over the earth traits if it wasn’t for that.

Sigh… back to the drawing board, I guess…

Hmm… this not sure about this “sparta” thing…

We did actually go on the attack (yesterday, took dh’s bay and worked our way up to garrison with several omegas), but the problem was that we kept getting pulled off every time dh had golems… which happened more than you would think. o.O

Also, it seemed to us that dh didn’t really seem bothered by enemy zergs on their bl…

I think the frustration started happening yesterday, when we were already discussing if we should try for second place, seeing as how we didn’t really want to burn everyone out right before reset, at which point we suddenly had to deal with two huge zergs on our bl, both of which posed a challenge individually. At the same time, neither dh nor fc’s map looked touched, other than a few camps and maybe one south tower. And, to top it off, our eb was being pushed from both sides at the same time all of this was already happening, AND fc was ganking people all over our bl wherever we were running to back up a defense against dh. Since we were already solidly behind both, it felt a bit excessive and heavy handed.

The worst part of it was that this match-up had been so much fun up to that point, even when we were trying to take back our hills for hours.

Devon.9061:

Viking Jorun.5413:

Aint nobody kitten with GoM!

Okkkkk Server Police

1. This is not EB.
2. Come on, who DOESN’T love a robot army???

Solstice.1097:

Victoitor.2917:

HoD player here. Looked at mos.millenium score and envied your fight. Came to post about it.

meh its just gom and DH focusing us. something I wish servers would do more often but it sucks to be on the receiving end.

o.O Last night, we kept hopping back and forth between bay and hills because we had a zerg from each server on our map… in this close of a matchup, I’d say all three servers will feel focused.

Been super fun so far, though… most fun matchup in a long, long time! Why can’t we have this every week???

Frye.4608:

1) RTL is STILL BUGGY. Now players get punished double when the bug occurs.

This is my biggest issue with it. I gave up managing the cooldown a long time ago, because it gets randomly stuck on invisible things half the time I use it. (For example, if I RTL to a gate in wvw, sometimes it’ll hit and do dmg, and sometimes it’ll just stop about a foot out from the gate, for no apparent reason, and I just sit there as a ball of energy until it times out.) I’ve also noticed that if my target moves, and I actually “end” RTL right on top of another player, it won’t do the damage or have a short cooldown. It appears to ONLY work if you hit your original target. I don’t want it to get stuck on every single player, as it wouldn’t work to escape anymore, but I do think there’s room for some tweaking on the mechanic.

My preference would be a flat 20 sec cooldown (well… 15, but that’s a pipe dream ). It removes all the irritation from trying to manage something where the biggest variables aren’t under your control.

This is what I run in wvw. It doesn’t do much damage, and most of my damage relies heavily on might stacking (blast finishers plus fire aura), but it’s super tanky and heals pretty well (aoe, to boot). I usually try to stay on the move and run around inside enemy zergs. I’ve found I can be a pretty decent distraction from my teammates who are actually doing the damage, and I’ve got decent group support (aura sharing is better, but has less condi removal). I can almost always survive the initial burst from glassy players and heal/condi cleanse for quite awhile. It’s not great for solo roaming, but you can solo camps, and it’s great for both small groups and running with the zerg. (Most 1v1s end in a stalemate or the other person’s buddies showing up, at which point I just bail.)

(Note: I do swap to staff sometimes for mass cc, and I swap out the second arcane trait to get the larger aoe radius. You’re not able to stack much might, though, and you only have one aura instead of three, so that’s definitely just for support and cc.)

I’d be more concerned with this being a hidden nerf rather than too OP. Everyone who has pointed out the skill cooldowns is right, at least for d/d and staff. Thinking of my build (d/d ele, wvw bunker, staff as needed), evasive arcana would be FAR less effective with an internal cooldown (I’m just going with the standard 9 sec for the purposes of this post). As it stands right now, I can pop a fire field, swap to earth to blast it, then swap immediately to water and essentially get a heal with bonus evade. My biggest limitation is actually my endurance regen (although I do run into all attunements on cooldown pretty often on daggers). I also rely on attunement swapping + auras for perma fury in combat. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg… what about the regen in water? Would that have an internal cooldown, as well? With the attunement bonus lingers trait, you’d have it up all the time.

They’d have to rework so much to do this, and, after seeing what’s already been done to d/d, I’m not sure I want my favorite class tinkered with that much. It seems like a fun idea at first (push moar buttons!), but I think the side effects might wind up killing the class for those who love it now. Honestly, the best way to open up build options might be to simply raise the natural health pool/armor and include more condi removal in something other than water (although once again, I’d hate to see them break what is probably the most synergistic traits in the game!).

1. rewards for playing defensively instead of constant flipping
2. alt friendliness (badges, laurels, wxp, etc.)
3. wvw vs pve rewards (including achievement point opportunities)
(also the currently unnecessary gold sink included in upgrading things with no incentive to defend)

We keep telling people we’re a pve/special event server… now that the event is in wvw, we get to have all kinds of fun.

Bllade.1029:

My forecast: Bottom Gold, Silver and bronze league servers will have a massive exodus of most of their WvW population.

I agree except for one point – bottom of bronze won’t be super awesome, but it won’t be that much different from how things have been going. We’re already at the bottom of the heap – difference now will be that there’s an upper limit on who we can get matched with, which might actually improve our quality of match-ups.

All I have to say is that I have gone from shaking my head at NSP to respecting you guys a lot for getting out there and giving it your all, regardless of the end result. Good luck in the upcoming season.

/salute