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Why did you stop WvWing?

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I logged about 5,000 hours in the game, primarily WvWing for the first two years (I actively avoided S1 LS, etc).
I don’t WvW any more (except the occasional daily) because Arena Net has made it crystal clear their focus is casual PvE, and to a lesser extent, PvP (although they need to overhaul celestial/conditions… which they already know). WvW is a game mode that barely exists to them, which is such a waste of a financial opportunity. They lost their hardcore gamers long ago. And the fact that their business model is reliant on new, transient players is a shame to the community and to the loyal players of their games.
I played GW1 from 2005 up until the hour GW2 launched. Can’t and won’t say the same about GW2.

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Lunar New Year WvW Changes

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  • I note with a little disappointment that the other fireworks from this event can’t be used in WvW.

Yeah, I don’t know why they’d do such a thing!

Thanks, Obama.

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WvW Forum Specialist!

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I in no way mean this to be derogatory but your current WvW stats would not get you into even the semi serious WvW guilds. How can we trust in a “specialist” who was never actively involved with the forums and certainly is no serious WvW player.

A commander can make 2k+ kills easily in a week and sometimes even more in one single evening in primetime. So we do have to wonder what you’ve done with your time in WvW.

So please Anet if you are to employ a “WvW Forum Specialist” should they not be a specialist in at least one of the areas of subject (forums/WvW)?

Exactly, less than 6k kills, bronze soldier would barely be worth the effort of targeting you to kill on an enemy server. And now you plan to spend all your time on the forums documenting WvW issues, when you barely play WvW to begin with? I’m sure you’re a decent person with writing skills, but you are clearly not a WvW specialist in any way, let alone in the same capacity as the PvE or PvP specialists are which were assigned to those game modes.

Honestly we expect nothing from you, because we expect nothing from Anet, so the appointment is little more than an appropriate symbol of the mound of bitterness that is our relationship with Anet.

On another note, I see LordKrall is still stanning hardcore forever and ever for anet. Still a better love story than Twilight.

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Ideas to revamp/save WvW

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Hire some devs.

The end-all-be-all anet achievement. They’re tier 2 of 5 with no title in sight yet.

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What started the WvW decline

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INC had made it public that they intended to get many members and transfer off. There was a “see you soon” post by them left in the PUBLIC section of the Maguuma forums…dated at the START of the season.

Everyone told HoD they had collected fairweather server hoppers…why did they think these guys would buck tradition and stay for them?

Duh?
edit: for clarification: We know. Everyone knew. That’s why the lulz occurred when FA actually gave them gold.

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What started the WvW decline

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Oh look, Chaba is still QQing about HoDs transfers. It’s been how long now? I know I’m not the only one bored of your posts here and the unofficial forums too. FA is great, FA is gold, HoD sux, we get it.

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Which server should I transfer to?

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Hey!

No one on my server plays WvW anymore (Darkhaven). I’m looking to transfer to a server with people who are passionate about this part of the game.

What would you guys suggest? I don’t mind paying the 1800 gem fee as long as I get to enjoy the game again.

Wherever this guy plays at:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Tournament-pricing-ended-May-30th/first
So the QQ will stop about transfers.

Chaba is from FA. They could use more rallybots, I suggest you transfer there.

I’m inclined to say Arius is correct- from OP’s post history they’re either a troll or rather clueless so really, no one should be clamoring for your transfer. If you’re actually serious about WvW and want to do something other than complain (with hyperbole) about DH’s population, figure out what style of WvW you enjoy, find a guild that caters to it, and focus on the guild first rather than “the perfect server” because we all know that changes on a monthly basis. T1 = zerg blobs/PPT stans, T2 = guild fights, more coverage than silver but less blobs than kitten -T5 mixture, T6-T8 mostly roaming/ktrain as a ~general~ overview. And I suggest clicking down a thread and selecting the Recruitment forum instead of the Discussion one.

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Flashing Utility (Death Shroud)

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This is terribly distracting in WvW. For those of us who have our graphics turned down, a flash of white signifies a number of different things, like blasting waterfields or light fields, some guardian skills. There is simply too much to keep track of in a zerg fight to have yet another flash of white show up. And not knowing your utility cooldowns for a split second is very irritating. Anet PLEASE reverse this. All the necros in my guild agree after fighting last night that this is distracting and irritating.

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Tournament pricing ended May 30th

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A bit off topic (my apologies Chaba) but this is a suggestion for Anet to sort their kitten out…….

I have an idea on how to even out server population. It would take a few weeks but I believe the population would even out for all servers.

Servers are already ranked from 1-24, why not make the gem transfer cost reflect the servers ranking. For example JQ transfer cost would be 2400 gems, TC 2300 gems, BG 2200 and so on down to the, 23 ranked server would be 100 gems and the 24 ranked server would be 0 gem transfer cost.

The gem transfer cost would be updated each Friday after reset to reflect a server either moving up or down in ranking and the gem transfer cost would be be reflected accordingly.

I’d double the ammounts to discourage even more stacking on top servers… Who would pay over 4000 gems to stack on T1?

I think you guys are missing the point that Anet wants you to pay gems to transfer. They don’t want to remove the incentive to click on that gemstore purchase button. If they raise the price to the point where no one wants to transfer, they lose out on the profits. It’s the band-aid mentality they have with regards to keeping their players logging in and purchasing gemstore items/transferring for the short time vs keeping them around 6 months to a year from now. We (the choir) know that giving the hardcore playerbase a reason to stick around long term (like actually doctoring up WvW to the point of legitimacy) is more profitable to them as a company, as we would still be around to purchase stuff in the gemstore. At this rate though, they are basically banking on maintaining a brand new playerbase and keeping whatever hardcore PvE population there is in this game in order to fulfill that bankroll, because they are losing WvWers and PvPers left and right. To them as a company, the one person who pays 2000 gems to transfer to JQ for seasons is more valuable to them than the “hardcore” person who loyally stayed on Eredon Terrace. So they cater to the casual. We should expect nothing less after nearly two years of this.

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Tournament pricing ended May 30th

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Anet,
It is extremely unfair of you to not have adjusted transfer prices right as the season ended. This is the time when players are looking to transfer and my server cannot compete fairly for these transfers (in the free market of transfers) against servers with a transfer price more than double of what it costs to transfer to a server at a higher rank.

I demand free transfers to my server as compensation for this blunder on your part.

Yeah, keep demanding WvW-related changes from Anet. Let me know how that works out for you. I suggest you hold your breath!

Anet has no idea what it’s like to fight for a world in bronze league and thus have no comprehension about how unfair it really is down there. (lol @ FA being “lower tier” tho). With all the effort they’ve put into shuffling the WvWers into PvP, massive server imbalance moves (hello free transfers!) and the ridiculous parameters for transfer fees now, I foresee server merges in the future. For now they simply don’t want to deal with it, so they won’t adjust fees until everyone is either stacked into 6 servers or everyone quits the game.

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Stuns need diminishing returns.

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the lemongrass/melandru rune meta is exactly the sort of whack-a-mole balancing Anet was trying to avoid all those eons ago at launch. Debuffs are needed for the debuffs to bring condi application in line with condi cleanse. Also immob stacking was the worst idea since lobster-flavored ice cream and should be reversed or at the very least work the same way fear does.

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Community Engagement

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Boycotting the gemstore/the game is not a solution. If anything that just encourages them to cater to their casual population even more. We want actual solutions and communication from Arenanet. Hire more people/redirect employees to this. The pace of change and polish is beyond snail-paced. It’s glacial. And the interaction between Anet and the WvW community is glacial too, when it doesn’t have to be.

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Community Engagement

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Anyone remember Josh, last I recall he popped on to say hi as the new WvW community thingy?

Now as I watch this twitch video I see his title is “Champion Genius”…….. When did that happen, where was his farewell post to the WvW community that he has now moved on to the Genius part of the game? What is the Genius part of the game? What’s going on?!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/members/Josh-Davis-6015/showposts
Josh isn’t who Anet should be sending over, from his post history. And yeah, 2 months ago he posted that he wanted feedback on WvW, and there’s been pretty much nothing from him since on this subforum at least.

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Grats to the blobs

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Well, last night HoD had about 30 people in a fight with about 15 of SBI people at a camp. I rushed in to get supply before they took it as an ele. They killed me and almost half of them followed me to get the stomp while the other 14 of us came in behind them and took out some of them before the numbers won.

Zergs might be big, but that doesn’t mean they have intelligence. So, I understand exactly what the OP is talking about.

HoD is squirreling hardcore for particular members of your server with particular guild tags. Sorry/not sorry if you got caught in the crossfire.

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Community Engagement

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Works perfectly fine for me. How about everyone else? I haven’t purchased 1 Gem with real money. Get everyone on your server not just the WvW players. If servers are so “community” oriented, it shouldn’t be a problem.

If you have never purchased gems I bet Anet doesn’t give a flying squirrel about your opinion. Quite honestly, I don’t think Anet gives a flying squirrel no matter how many gems you’re buying, because even though they have clear data which they’ve eluded to before about exactly how large the WvW community is (whether they’re buying gems or not), they won’t put a real team or a company focus on it. Especially neglecting to communicate with WvW playerbase, which is a symptom of neglecting WvW in general.

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Community Engagement

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Solution: Don’t buy gems!!!

This is not any sort of solution in any universe. This is up to ArenaNet to solve.

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Community Engagement

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I would also like to throw in some cheerleading for Styx’s post here. We’re buying gemstore stuff. We’re playing the game on a near daily basis. We post guild wars stuff on our social media. And we are WvWers. The people I started playing this game with, the casual PvE population which migrated from GW1 is long gone. WvW is our endgame, and it desperately needs a legitimate, paid team of hired Anet employees who devote their attention to WvW and have at least one person in that team who consistently communicates with the playerbase. And not just the one person who drew the short stick over coffee and bagels who will go back to reading and responding to sPvP forums shortly thereafter.

In this post Josh Davis asked for lists, break downs, bullet points. We continue to provide these, but the lack of communication on this sub forum remains sparse.

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If conditions are "fine"....

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The solution I’d like to see is applying a short cooldown for condition application. If you cleanse 10 stacks of bleed, you shouldn’t have another 10 stacks be immediately applied to you. Then all 4 of the necros still running conditions in dungeons won’t have anything to complain about, as the NPCs typically don’t cleanse themselves.

As to the people boasting about their uber leet zerg not having trouble with conditions, it’s a chicken and egg problem. Run around WvW in a group of 15 with no condition removal, melandru runes, soup, or anything and see how fun that is for you. Everyone in WvW has to overcompensate for cleanse, because the ratio of condition application to condition cleanse is skewed too heavily towards rapid application.

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Dueling/Stacks

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Stacks in duels are a no no unless you’ve agreed to use them. Those guard stacks add thousands of HP onto your bar, equivalent to extra bits of armor. Yes, the player without them is at a disadvantage. +250 power is kind of a big deal if you’re on the bunkery side. The solution is to either duel in OS and remove your stacks or to allow the other player to down you and walk away to remove them.
Consumables (food/utility food) are fair game, especially because many classes are imbalanced when it comes to removing conditions, so most people who are running a build without good condi cleanse will run lemongrass food. But bring an armor booster to a duel and prepare for frowny faces.

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[NA] Silver League: Predicted Rankings.

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I don’t think anyone is “dismissing” HoD but I doubt you will find many who will give you much respect either. The fact is that you guys picked up a bunch of people for S1 when it was apparent you were going to be at the top of Bronze and you picked up a bunch of people for S2 as the highest ranked of the 3 servers qualifying for free transfers. It’s going to have a reputation of a bandwagon server just like Kaening had back in the day.

It’s not like we’re a bunch of guilds who are tryharding for T1, so the Kaineng comparison is pretty irrelevant. We transferred to bottom of silver because we liked bottom of silver and had friends there. It wasn’t until after the enormous snowball effect of the free transfers started to settle when it was clear exactly how many guilds ended up here. For instance initially 1 DH guild had announced coming to HoD, and it ended up being 5 (ish). So ~disrespect the server if you want, but I think I speak for most of us in that we transferred for good fights and friends here, not to be a gold league powerhouse, and are looking forward to deflating the populace when we do hit that wall eventually.

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Commanding as an Elementalist

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For defensive commanding, ele is awesome. Very fast, and you provide your own fields for your pugs to blast. When I commanded defense I would switch to d/d whenever we were outside our walls. As long as you have good toughness/vit you can dive in and hopefully people will see that and follow. You can kite back to your backline if you take a lot of heat. Ele is a pretty poor choice for offensive commanding though or any kind of organized guild skirmish commanding. I also don’t know what server you’re on. I think it would be a lot harder to survive as a d/d commander in the higher tiers than the lower ones.

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[NA] Silver League: Predicted Rankings.

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In case ppl were still thinking HoD queues blot out the sun, they have gone done a lot this week (fairly short queues last night during primetime for YB, FA, but they’ve gone away in all maps except EB for non primetime hours). The PvEers already got their achievements, and there are no karma trains to be found, just good open field fights and a lot of siege wars. Last night in YB BL was pretty freakin fun, first time I’ve done open field against a gold league server. FA came out to play and either they were making no progress in the north or they enjoyed the fights as much as we did, because they kept coming over to our side for more.

Makes me think there are several guilds in bronze that would be able to take you guys on though. FC guilds in particular. Dem glassy backlines which melt like a stick of butter on Togochubb’s momma’s backside on a hot Georgia day. I see why you have them though. Buttery backlines hurt. >__>

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[NA] Silver League: Predicted Rankings.

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Wow a whole bunch of super cool ppl not even in our matchup making assumptions a few hours in. Pls give me ur crystal balls! Such wisdom and keen observation!

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Stat Combos

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Since we are being limited with boon duration in rune combos in this upcoming patch (no more 2 monk/2 sup water/2 major water), buffing Giver’s to a total of ~25% boon duration would allow boon duration builds to live on in a support-healing niche without compromising the synergy of Dwayna runesets with support eles for a 6-rune Water set.

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Lets Be Honest - PPT/Fights

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eh, if I play for PPT it’s if we’re losing actually, mainly because I don’t like our stuff getting taken by grubby enemy paws and I like the defense game. But WvW isn’t catered for defensive play anymore so I grab fights when I can and spend a lot of time paying attention to where white swords are so I can find those fights. In the lower tiers you sometimes have to create incentives for people to come fight you later on in the week or off hours, so grabbing camps is just a means to an end a lot of the time.

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Best commander class

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Going to point out that a defensive commander requires different play, I honestly really liked being an ele comm on defense. Being fast is key, being able to stay alive, and throwing a staff on to take down siege on walls and being able to put down your own static and fire fields is nice. Guardian is too slow to be ideal for defensive commanding, though I think they’re head and shoulders above other classes for offensive commanding.

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Active WvW guilds? Help me with this list

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[YAKS], [RTH], [FOOD], and [One] are also Darkhaven and WvW orientated. [BRL] and [DHE] both rally up in WvW but are PvX guilds. And [JPGN] is a new offshoot of [ANBU], not sure of the details but I think they’re a roaming guild.

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Fun in Darkhaven Last Night

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You know, it’s really unseemly when you brag about outnumbering your opponent in a particular time zone… You guys should recruit more NA/EU/OCE and try compete with T2 servers and see how your SEA stacks up against them.

We already know how it stacks up.
http://mos.millenium.org/servers/view/46/97
Turns out we may or may not even need NA/EU, if our matchup with YB and SoS were anything to go by. Of course that was pre-leagues, so it’s all a wash now.

T1 bawses coming in here with all their assumptions. NSP and SF have both historically creamed the pants off us of late, both have larger zerg guilds than us. So if DH wants to throw a party when we put the extra effort into taking and holding everything, so be it.

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Fun in Darkhaven Last Night

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It isn’t really a huge accomplishment but gongrats I suppose.

SF and DH both smell and they have bad roamers.

This thread is silly and you are all dumb and smelly for getting upset over it.

Seriously, you are talking about being walking bags when we know the only walking bags are GoM!

You all smell.

/endthread

[Yarr] is bad. /endthread

You are worse!

/endthreadx2

At least I’m not vidded trying to 7v2 joe and mugi and losing. >__<
knock on wood.

I have killed both mugi and joe 1v1 on a power necro!
#2legit2quit

Wow trump card. :/ uncomfortable silence

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It isn’t really a huge accomplishment but gongrats I suppose.

SF and DH both smell and they have bad roamers.

This thread is silly and you are all dumb and smelly for getting upset over it.

Seriously, you are talking about being walking bags when we know the only walking bags are GoM!

You all smell.

/endthread

[Yarr] is bad. /endthread

You are worse!

/endthreadx2

At least I’m not vidded trying to 7v2 joe and mugi and losing. >__<
knock on wood.

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Fun in Darkhaven Last Night

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It isn’t really a huge accomplishment but gongrats I suppose.

SF and DH both smell and they have bad roamers.

This thread is silly and you are all dumb and smelly for getting upset over it.

Seriously, you are talking about being walking bags when we know the only walking bags are GoM!

You all smell.

/endthread

[Yarr] is bad. /endthread

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Fun in Darkhaven Last Night

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Don’t be discouraged DH, the Magummies are just upset to see anyone moving up while they are slowly drifting down (not PPT’ing has consequences).

GJ on rebuilding your server and moving on up.

Not PPTing has consequences: Like enjoying the game and not stressing about a garbage metric.

Hay I can enjoy a stress-free goodfightz lifestyle without spending 100+ gold on transfer fees and guild hopping when that didn’t work out… care to join me, the detoxifying sea mud facial Darkhaven Spa Special is next. Up next, bubble baths with [holy] and fish pedicure courtesy of [SPCA].

A. Still play on SF when I choose.
B. Didn’t guild hop, the guild reformed after the transfer.
C. Assuming you think you are even remotely talking to me Mels.
D. Its cute people on DH think they roam or enjoy fights, BAAAAAAAAAGHAAAAAAAAAVEN

A.Hay where’s my duel then if you can still wvw on SF.
B. Reformed is a cute way of putting it.
C. Dearest King, this post is a figment of your palatial imagination.
D. How many roamers did SF have, negative 2? Piggybacking to Maguuma two weeks ago doesn’t mean you get to chesthump about their server’s roamers.

Oh I see what game we are playing, you got some transfers that lost a GvG, ragequit, and now you think you know a story….

Let me enlighten you in part to my situation, whatever issues that guild experienced were there long before me. I assume you are taking info from people that spent 300g (xfer twice) to move around, and pointing it at me, as if I made a 150g mistake??? I like mags, the people I assume you are referencing transferred to your server to fight NSP…Not to PPT hug with your natives…LOL

I think when I used the word “reformed” I used it correctly, as the members in the guild that are on Maguuma “reformed” the guild to reflect the members that were still on the server rather than on 3 different servers.

You can stop with the subtle jabs at xferring, because IDGAF about anything remote to “server pride”. I play for enjoyment, not for allegiance to a server cluster. All of that mindset is just another subset of the PPT mentality, one that I have no subscribed to for a very long time fella….

SF actually has many good roamers, I am sorry you are having trouble finding them…Perhaps if you zerglings gave the PVdoor a break they might be more noticeable in the sea of bags you are following.

Actually I had next to no information. But thanks for your enlightening paragraph. <333 I do wish you all the best in gold league. Enjoy the mounds of bags from T1 baddies.

I wish I had a sea of bags with SF stamped on them. Then I could afford my precursor. Maybe I should roam less and zerg more…

nah.

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Don’t be discouraged DH, the Magummies are just upset to see anyone moving up while they are slowly drifting down (not PPT’ing has consequences).

GJ on rebuilding your server and moving on up.

Not PPTing has consequences: Like enjoying the game and not stressing about a garbage metric.

Hay I can enjoy a stress-free goodfightz lifestyle without spending 100+ gold on transfer fees and guild hopping when that didn’t work out… care to join me, the detoxifying sea mud facial Darkhaven Spa Special is next. Up next, bubble baths with [holy] and fish pedicure courtesy of [SPCA].

A. Still play on SF when I choose.
B. Didn’t guild hop, the guild reformed after the transfer.
C. Assuming you think you are even remotely talking to me Mels.
D. Its cute people on DH think they roam or enjoy fights, BAAAAAAAAAGHAAAAAAAAAVEN

A.Hay where’s my duel then if you can still wvw on SF.
B. Reformed is a cute way of putting it.
C. Dearest King, this post is a figment of your palatial imagination.
D. How many roamers did SF have, negative 2? Piggybacking to Maguuma two weeks ago doesn’t mean you get to chesthump about their server’s roamers.

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Don’t be discouraged DH, the Magummies are just upset to see anyone moving up while they are slowly drifting down (not PPT’ing has consequences).

GJ on rebuilding your server and moving on up.

Not PPTing has consequences: Like enjoying the game and not stressing about a garbage metric.

Hay I can enjoy a stress-free goodfightz lifestyle without spending 100+ gold on transfer fees and guild hopping when that didn’t work out… care to join me, the detoxifying sea mud facial Darkhaven Spa Special is next. Up next, bubble baths with [holy] and fish pedicure courtesy of [SPCA].

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You had the same match last week and it was closer. So did my matchup and it was closer too. The losing servers don’t try as hard when you keep getting rematches. It’s just a fact.

We’ve played against SF for the last 5 weeks, and they beat us the first two. By that logic DH should have just rolled over and be crying in our pillows by now.

nah when at least 1 server in the match changes its enough for people to regain interest for reset, and if reset goes well that interest carries through.

The week we won, that third week, we were actually losing the entire week until we kicked it into overdrive and started winning on Thursday. Your generalized assumptions might work for FC, but Darkhaven never has been a reset server. Losing makes us work harder. Losing our guilds made us work harder. When SF first entered T5 and kicked our teeth in for three days, we stepped it up and kicked back harder. I know PvEers who pulled all nighters to help us pull out some wins against you guys. We’re not perfect, we’re not as coordinated or as skilled as some servers, but we have made a habit of not backing down, and those that did have all left by now (and in some cases, transferred there and back again). We accomplish what we do with Pug commanders, PvX guilds, and only a handful of small WvW guilds. None of our guilds are as large as [LORD], [ZoS], [CoSa], or even [EDGE], but we have a lot of people who like the good fight and don’t give up in the face of a red sea. And we’ve been accumulating former DH again, now that the luster of season one (yay blues and greens) and transferring2win is over. We -are- getting better, despite it all.

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You had the same match last week and it was closer. So did my matchup and it was closer too. The losing servers don’t try as hard when you keep getting rematches. It’s just a fact.

We’ve played against SF for the last 5 weeks, and they beat us the first two. By that logic DH should have just rolled over and be crying in our pillows by now.

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This isn’t as much of an example of DH working together as it is an example of NSP and SF giving up.

y ppl commenting about the state of a matchup they’re not apart of? Tell that to the zergball, golem-loving [LORD] guild from SF yesterday. That red sea sure tried their darndest to have tea in our keeps. We put out "no trespassing’ signs though and they abided. And SF’s EB zerg is always awe-inspiring. But they run around in one giant ball like usual and don’t split their forces. shrug The most of [Os] I’ve seen is like ~15ish, so there’s no doubt they’re not really in the picture, but [ZoS] has been more than happy to take the reins for them it seems. We’re as shocked as anyone that we’re beating both NSP (not even the bottom of silver), and SF (which stomped our pants three + four weeks ago). So was SF’s win against us all along because Darkhaven had given up? Chicken and the egg I suppose.

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A large portion of taking these towers and keeps was PvDoor. There’s no denying that. But we held off numbers greater than ours in holding those keeps, wiping NSP’s zerg multiple times in their keeps last night, often in the lord’s room, defending their garrison with just 5 people against guild groups and omegas. So yeah, it was a lot of fun, and I know a lot of us weren’t playing for the tally, just to see how long we could hold out against you guys.

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One way to really cut back on abuse would be to only allow the chat to open up when you have outmanned buff in home BL or EB. It could even be an automated message: “You are greatly outnumbered in your home borderlands! Rally to defend!” Or something along those lines… Of course, it would only be available to natives of that server, not guesting friends.. and perhaps only in towns. I have the feeling people champ training in Queensdale don’t give two shakes of a lambs tail about the situation in home BL. We already get obnoxious yellow text- Scarlet’s Minons are attacking in Fireheart Rise! as if any of us WvWers care about that… so it’s not like they can’t live through some gray text in chat or something.

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Elementalist.

Don’t believe it? Believe it. That is all.

Against thieves and mesmers? Unless the OP wants to spend as much time running away as fighting, then sure.

Why don’t you enjoy your mesmer? There are many roaming builds available to mesmer, and blink and decoy allow for a lot of flexibility in 1vX. If you don’t enjoy phantasms, you could try a shatter build. Search youtube for some great solo 1vX mesmer roaming. Like other people have said, condi engi might be a good option for you. Warrior is pretty popular atm as a solo build, thanks in part to their ability to run away from virtually any sticky situation they find themselves in.

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I like downed state in WvW and PvP.

Then you have never fought an outnumbered fight where you downed a large number of enemies only to see their allies hard rezzing them in the middle of the fight. Numbers will always > skill with a downed state in a player vs player environment. It’s broken in many ways, not least of which each class is imbalanced when it comes to the downed state and stomping the downed state. You have three thieves in the group you’re fighting? Forget it, shadow refuges forever/stealth stomp. You have a bunch of eles that you’re trying to kill? No problemmo for them, mistform into that doorway. If you kill a bunch of engis, go ahead and celebrate, there’s diddly squat they can do except pray for a friend and that you aren’t paying attention.

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Bunker rangers are the best to duo roam with. As in 99% of the cases, people attack the rangers first due to prejudice, thus you can do whatever you want in relative safety. Trust me, it works litterally 99% of the time.

No. You are completely ignoring the fact that the other class you would be duoing with is a necro which is always prioritized over rangers against enemies who have any semblance of what they’re doing. Ranger does not have enough support to the necro to provide a good duo partner. Bunker engi, bunker guard, bunker ele all have more support than a bunker ranger does, and a roaming necros definitely need a support class to duo with for outnumbered and good fights.

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As someone who roams from time to time as a necro, the only class I want to duo with is a guardian. We do not have the on-demand condition removal on our own when things get sticky. I’ve tried many times duoing with warrior, it simply is not ideal. I would not duo roam with a ranger, I have no idea why there are so many stans in here for ranger bunker builds- guardian bunker, ele bunker, engi bunker give more support than a ranger would. You could always run your mesmer but you are giving 0 support to your necro pal with the exception of mass invis, which might make it hard for him/her to survive once you get into outnumbered fights, as the necro will be targeted first, and if the necro is too busy trying to stay alive, your damage output goes down. Honestly, duo roaming with a necro isn’t ideal to begin with, but if you have to choose I guess I would go with your ele, and go bunker d/d with plenty of condi removal.

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The cliffs of the eastern borderlands maps are pretty sheer, with little vegetation. This can be interpreted in the geologic sense as having a relatively high erosion rate, possibly due to an active fault zone. A wise asura once said, “Don’t build your fortress on the edge of an eroding cliff.”

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/shines a bright light on himself interrogation style

We’ll be talking about upcoming WvW stuff starting next week. Unfortunately, I can’t tell you what we’ll be talking about quite yet, but I figured at the very least I’d give you folks a timeline to go off of.

As an aside, we’re also expanding our bi-weeky livestream (Ready Up) to cover WvW in addition to PvP and balance. WvW will be the main topic on our next episode (1/31). I’ll officially announce the stream with a post next week sometime.

Anyways, I hope this helps!

-Josh

This doesn’t really address the OP’s initial point. They were talking about the lack of dev response in this subforum, presumably compared to dev response in other forums, such as the pvp subforum, which seems to get showered with responses. Little red anet tags next to a thread in this subforum more often than not just tells of a thread lock, or a soooooon™
We’re not asking for twitch livestreams talking about eotm (which is primarily aimed at alleviating issues in T1, and one of the last reasons people transfer from higher tiers to lower tiers), we’re asking for feedback in the WvW Discussion subforum. You can engage with the community and provide a structured sense of direction for your game without revealing specifics about updates, and I believe that’s what the OP was aiming for.

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IMO T5-T7 has almost always been a solid place to find good fights. T4 and up has far too many zergs and usually a big population and/or coverage imbalance. I would move back down but my friends simply don’t want to pony up $20.

With the decline in WvW population in the lower tiers you could go entire nights without finding any decent fights. Things would get particularly bad later in the matchup week.

Lower tier doesn’t mean last tier. Even though you all transferred, that DR QQ still pulses through your veins.

And Taquito, you still owe me some fireworks. Next time? :]

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Got to love it! Night capping blobs. so PRO!

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No one is allowed to play WvW unless I’m in already. That way when I “work hard” capping the map no one can undo it without me being there. I don’t care if you play at a different time to me, you’re not allowed to play WvW without me because that’s unfair.

I don’t play overnight, I play during standard daytime hours for my timezone, I often find out in the morning everything has been capped by 1 server – that’s just how it goes. Suck it up or go back to a single player game where you can control when things happen by switching the game off.

It’s the way it is, but it doesn’t have to be. This is a game programmed by actual people, it’s not predestined by some deity. No one is saying people in oceanic time zones shouldn’t play, but having some sort of adjustment to the amount of points garnered with zero or a few defenders is broken and could be fixed. But won’t be, let’s be honest.

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Fixing Pvdooring/nightcapping would require an overhaul of how points are tallied compared to how many defenders there are, or some semblance of changing how siege functions in the absence of enemies. Seeing as Arena Net has yet to even fix bugged gates, or party UI, or the commander system, there is absolutely no hope of them ever getting around to overhauling the way PPT is tallied. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Now lets all hold hands and come to terms with that fact and instead go play in the riveting gameplay of the living story while we watch our esport spvp tournies.

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The roaming meta is already tanky condi-builds. This just pushes it more towards that way. Hopefully, they will nerf some of the condi-spam output somehow too.

All signs point to “no.”

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