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The Boon hate is fine…. I can live w/ the extra damage: We have dodge for a reason.
But warriors now shutting us down completely in any situation, is utter nonsense.
Guardians will be the first to go down and we have nothing to counter the focus fire…. oh wait, we now have to run Focus, cast Shield of Wraith to protect us from an interrupt on our Shelter / Renewed Focus…
All we can hope for is their “unblockable” ability does not effect “Invulnerable”.. if it does, our Elite just went to kitten.
Save yourselves = you get instantly oneshot from a burst thief or warrior.
Hmmmm, might be time to reroll. Unless they are adding something else to Guardians, this is seriously a huge nerf in terms of pvp. The ONLY good points about a guardian are the boons and aegis it gives; we have super low health pool, crap mobility and no viable range in pvp. If we get punished for doing what we’re supposed to do, then there is really no benefit in the class.
I mean of all classes, why warrior? If you take away boons and aegis, warrior is superior to the guardian in pretty much every way possible. I hope Anet knows what they’re doing… :S
Really impressed with how much more roam-friendly this is over upper tiers! Great small scale fights so far! Really loving it!
My only complaint is [PRXM].. For the amount of small scale/roaming people they have, they’ll just never fight you with less than 3v1.. And when you actually DO get one alone, halfway through the fight 4 more will pop out of nowhere. *sighs
Other than that though, the most fun I’ve had in months! Looking forward to some more fun throughout the week!
Regards.
Yea loads of small roaming partys……
Victrixx [xVx]
Queue this up as another fairly non-issue that will be complained about endlessly.
And I hope everyone with their personal solutions realize if they were implemented, there would be a new group of you on this site to complain about that.
The solution to the downed state problem that doesn’t exist is to make it so banner doesn’t rez the lord.
..no. This is another tactic somewhat intelligent players use to their advantage, but people want taken out because they don’t know how to counter it.
Have a somewhat organized, intelligent group with you and this is never a problem.
Get rid of downed state in WvW, period.
This will allow smaller mans to fight large groups.
If everything is equal, a larger group should take down a smaller group. Everyone complaining wants everything to be equal and balanced so that no advantage can be acquired whatsoever, but small groups should be able to defeat large groups given the same skill?
That makes no sense.
[VK] Arwen Evenstar
Fort Aspenwood
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Devon you are the best!!!
Asuran Engineer (Lost)
Account bound, eh? I don’t want to spoil the next patch, but I’ll just say you’ll be happy with at least 1 thing in there.The reason they are not tradeable at the moment is due to code, something we are in the process of addressing.
And this is why you win the internets so often. Communicating with the playerbase for the win, thank you.
I understand the blobbing and support it. You need to understand that we don’t have the ability to compete with you on a consistent basis. Sure we have PRXM most nights, but the other large guilds are limited to their guild nights which means that for the most part our coordinated groups are much much smaller than yours.
Like most guilds on GH SOE run with 10 members and there’s not much we can do in this match up, sure we can try ninja something but inevitably we’ll have a 25 man VcY or RiOT guild dropping on top of us. Who’s zerging who in that situation? At this point we (SOE) have basically given up any hope of a fair fight and are just messing around. See you on the battlefield.
[Re] Rerolled
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SOE guild rule no. 459: All members are required to have at least 50 ruminant tonics and 50 fireworks at all times.
[Re] Rerolled
They’ve stated before that they want to encourage people to play together, not discourage them.
So they won’t make it less rewarding to play in a larger team.
Fear The Crazy [Huns]
If you want to destroy blobs:
- Remove teleports on WvW Maps.
- Death => 20sec timer => spawn at basecamp
- 1 min delay between 2 WvW maps (= on EB, if you want to go on your home map, there is a one minute timer)
The logical response to this brilliant suggestion is to group up as many people as possible in one place to avoid death.
The biggest problem with WvW is the mentality of the people who play it. Faaar too many people have a destructive attitude towards failure.
Since September, 99% of our matchups has followed the same pattern – a bunch of guilds move to a green server who is winning comfortably already, ride the bandwagon up the tiers until it stalls, then hop onto another wagon. Now guilds will openly pay you to jump wagons.
And the forums are clogged with talk about skill and organisation in a game that is played like this? The are many things that Arena.net can look at on the design level (such as downed state health) but ultimately, they cannot and never have been able to save their game from the people who play it.
They’re up because people have more money. People have more money because they have easy ways to farm (CoF 1, etc). People will compete with each other to farm the most.
Agreed with others – no idea how this is still talked about. As if someone could manipulate the market and sell weapons that people couldn’t afford it. People sell precursors for 600g because they can.
tl;dr – Thieves go to hell, someone tell me how to win as Necro.
I’m a tPvP player. I just spent FIVE minutes in WvW, and I now hate EVERY thief on the planet that even so much as THINKS of heartseeker or stealth. What the hell is this? Stealth every half second? Healing in stealth every half second? This is absolute nonsense.
Is there even a way for me as a Necro to beat these bad players without needing 4 people backing me up? Is it even possible? I would really like to know.
I wasn’t up leveled, and I had full exotic gear. My build is incredibly strong against thieves and generally all players in tPvP. But this… this was just stupid.
Then a Thief had the NERVE to say he was UP.
And, be sure to kill the veteran wolf whenever it’s up. It does give WXP.
Close, but you risk missing out on wXP with the zerg while you kill the wolf – what you really do is TAG the wolf instead of killing it and then stay with the zerg. Later, when someone else has killled the wolf you’ll get credit for the kill.
This applies to every gate you run past on your way to the zerg. Tag the gate, wXP delivered later.
I like Devon because Devon gets results! 
WvW Coordinator
Greetings WvW players!
We’ve been working hard at finding a solution to the problem of setting up separate reset times for the European and North American regions and I’m happy to say we’ve accomplished it! Starting next matchup and going forward the North American WvW matchup will reset Friday at 9:00 PM EST, which is 01:00 UTC Saturday, and the European matchup will reset at 18:00 UTC. It’s our hope that this will make for a better experience for everyone.
Cheers!
Devon Carver
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I must say I’m quite proud of the quality of our posts. Keep up the RP lads!
Confusion is the Ultimate FEAR!!!!
1. When you get hit with Confusion, you can’t do anything.
2. When you get hit by Confusion, you have to run away.
Ultimate because:
1. It is AOE.
2. Last more than 1 sec.
3. Can re-apply stacks faster than 30 to 90 seconds.
Want to melt a Zerg?
1. A few mesmers running Glamour which should be called a ZAU.
ZAU= Zerg Annihilation Unit
Just wondering…. why we are not able to push illusions from the edges? I do understand why we can’t do this with npcs but I don’t think this should apply to illusions… at least in WvW lol
I don’t know if it happens the same with any kind of summon or pets but everything that is controlled or summoned by players should be “pushable” don’t you think?
I have to say, seeing Riot calling out GH for blobbing (after half a day) is pretty weird considering Riot puts as many numbers out allone (30-35) then I have seen in the average GH zerg.
Had a really fun reset, we spent most of the time fighting on our borderland and had some really nice fights.
I can only second that. Best MMO ever overall (considering all the breath of aspects MMOs have). It has its issues but the foundation and the will to listen to the community and make changes are just awesome.
Drinking and forum use is dangerous, but what the hell…
Fantastic game Anet. WvW is by FAAAAAAR my favorite part of the game, but its always a treat to leave that zone and explore the rest of your amazing world. You should be proud of what you are creating and i can only speak for myself, but i think your team is doing wonderful things.
You will never know how much i appreciate your dedication to this game.
All the best!
Roamer: 99.99% BLs / 0.01% EB
Thanks to DZ and RoF for the last weeks. You have been great opponents, and proud fighters.
As for next week after reset, I can’t say much more than, I am excited on the upcomming fights, based on what I have seen so far :-)
Praxium [PRXM] | WvW guild on Gunnar’s Hold
http://www.praxium.co.uk – Video collection under “Forum”
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Thx Dzagonur for these last weeks. I really enjoyed them.
When doing the balance segment, instead of going through every class without specific questions, perhaps it’s better to ask specific class balance questions.
Because I noticed last SotG went like this:
Q: Rangers?
Devs: Oh, blah blah…blah.
Q: Necros?
Devs: Yup, blah blah..
Q: Eles?
Devs: Mmmhm, blah.
This went on for what, 30 minutes? The devs’ responses were not very informative because there were no specific class balance questions. And also, you can make this segment much shorter by going to the core of things and asking specific questions for specific classes.
Also, try to phrase your questions so that it’s not susceptible to “Yes/No” easy-out answers. For example, instead of asking, “Are we going to see changes to Warriors next patch?” (Devs will respond with “Yup” or “Nah”), you could rephrase it like “What do you think needs to be changed for Warriors? What problems does the class have?”
A good indication of whether or not the devs know what they’re doing is to make them state the problem in their own words. Have them tell us what the problem is, and what their solutions are. Also remember to challenge the devs with thought-provoking questions. Don’t let them off the hook easily. They are being paid by the hour, so really exercise their brains with challenging questions.
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