Guild Wars 2

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VaaCrow.3076:

this will be interesting, i look forward to the change, its only within your territory so should be entertaining

My deadeye will be waiting for you when you flying over head and shoot you down like a duck :P this is going to be hilarious.

Yet another way for thieves to kill people that have no chance of fighting back. The elite that makes a class designed for cowards even more cowardly. /slowclap

The inflated numbers are due to PvErs.

Most seasoned vets who played this game mode for the PvP element & honest to god fights have left due to lack of developer focus. The numbers, to which devs allude to when they want to proclaim that the game mode is healthy, remain the same only thanks to the reward tracks bringing in PvE players.

I’ve played WvW for four years now, and one thing I have observed is that the militia is seemingly a lot less intelligent than they were before. I am constantly finding myself fighting alongside people who have not even the most basic grasp of fighting against actual human players. Is it because they are less intelligent? No, but fighting humans for the thrill of the fight and fighting cron scripts for rewards are two very different animals and those players are here only for the latter.

You can see it particularly well when there is no commander on the map. The map can have a queue but if there’s no commander, nothing at all is being accomplished.

Or if you are a commander yourself, do me a favour: the next time you have a squad on you, ask everyone who is carrying siege disablers to ping them. I can guarantee you it will be 2 out of every 10 people at maximum.

They’re not there for the fights, and we can thank Anet for that. The development they’ve done with the “WvW rework” and the work afterwards has been nothing but slapping bandaids over kittenous growth. Trying to play this game mode as a competitive one is like peeling back that bandaid.

Ironically, the biggest problem has always had little to do with map design, but class balance, which isn’t even the purview of the WvW team. They can make whatever maps they want, but if the fights themselves aren’t fun, it won’t make any difference.

J envy.5270:

. . . it is about time Rangers get there shine and use in WvW

Getting a lot of guild invites, are we?

I’m in the same predicament. I haven’t seen a single commander in our borderland since the Tuesday patch hit. I managed to upgrade a tower and then four guys slowly took it because there was no one on the map to come and help…during primetime. We don’t own anything, the other servers are tens of thousands of points ahead and keep PvDing our keeps taking turns since there’s no resistance. It’s a joke… I am embarrassed to be on this server if Season 2 starts and this carries on like this. Whoever that dev was that said there’s been no drop in WvW community numbers on each server is talking out of his kitten .

I mostly solo roam and scout, and rarely follow commanders, but there is one commander who I always follow when I see him tag up in the borderlands, and I even fire up TS for him. Why? Well, it isn’t his voice, to be sure – someone once said he sounds like an airline pilot, because of his speaking tone and rhythm. There’s nothing wrong with his voice, of course, we all sound different.

What makes me follow him is his manner when he leads. He never refers to people as “scrubs” (as one cmdr I know is prone to do). If things go kittens up, he doesn’t spend the next five minutes raging over what went wrong (“you need to stack on me when I say so, guys, come on!”) but instead he mentions something we, his followers, did right, and if he feels he led us into an objective beyond our numbers/capability then he may even say “that was my fault, sorry guys” but he doesn’t dwell on it.

Another thing he does that’s extremely important is that he always tells us where we are going and what we’re going to do. This way I am not just following a dorito on the map trying to figure out where we’re going. He is also not one of those commanders who feel the need to provide rapid-fire instructions in the style of “veilveilveilveilveilveilveilveildodgedodgedodgedodgedodgedodge”. He tells us when to charge, retreat, basic stuff, but he trusts us to know how to dodge without his express instruction. I know this works for some people but on a borderland channel it drowns out scout reports and other critical information.

Finally, never, ever, ever tag off in a rage. If you’re kittened off beyond belief, still tell people that was all the time you had, ask (rhetorically as case may be) if anyone could take over, thank people for participating, and then tag off. If you tag off in a rage after a failed objective, it will be remembered ten times longer than a hundred successful runs.

It’s very simple.

They are not discouraged from posting by the perceived forum toxicity. In fact, the toxicity would not even exist if they did post here more, as it grows out of the frustration with the lack of communication.

Whenever they do post, they always get smoke blown up their kitten. That security dude publicly banned one hacker out of hundreds ignored, and he got treated as the second coming. Admiration and applause.

The reason they don’t post here is that there is nothing to post. No current issues are being worked on, only EotM 2.0. Why would they come here and answer people’s threads with factual replies like “we’re not working on any fixes for that”, or “I can add that to the list, ETA for a solution is about 2 years”?

Leave the old waypoint system in place. Whoever owns the keep can have a waypoint there once it’s fortified.

Get rid of the automatic Marked on invaders after flipping a keep.