I play condi mesmer primarily and I do not see a problem with boss stealing. You take the risk by engaging the boss, no one is forcing you to engage it and with all risks you aren’t always rewarded. Paying attention to map politics is important, did your team just wipe the enemy team at mid and you have 1 guy keeping them busy at far? That’s usually a good time to engage boss as there is very little risk. However if you decide to engage boss with 2 or 3 players on your team dead or in downed state that is bad tactics and if you get it ninja’d that’s your fault. I’ve had games similar to OP where its near the end of a very close match and a boss kill decides it, I’ve lost and won games both ways, it happens. One reason you don’t see ESL teams going for bosses in tournaments is this exact reason, good players know it’s not worth the risk of getting it ninja’d unless you had just wiped the enemy team and there isn’t much to do. Map control > 25pt bosses.
I have a question for Anet and I’m hoping you respond. What was your goal when you made CD/DH/SF host servers? You started them 400+ glicko behind the T3 servers and you also made CD a 4server merge and SF a 3server merge while every other server with merges only had 2. What were you trying to accomplish by merging 7 servers into 2 groups and then starting them out in t4, 400 glicko behind t3 making it impossible to move up? Please respond I truly am wondering.
CD should be manually moved up, not have a chance. Based on our numbers we have more players than any other server in T3 and will likely smash that tier as well, but the glicko hole you put us in has made that impossibile. Also by manually adjusting everyone by 200 glicko in our tier, we are unlikely to get anymore glicko from SF/DH in the event we do not move up because we have drained them dry, while YB’s feeds SoS/SBI there glicko because they died.
Previously one of the only ways I could take down the infamous thief evade builds was to wait for my nightmare rune to proc to fear them and then chain CC the thief to kill him. With the nerf to nightmare runes though now, I feel it is now basically impossible to kill staff thief now as it is impossible to lock them down. Please look into reverting this nerf or do something about Vault.
Glad stuff like this is a priority for Anet “North Keep: One of the village residents will now flee if their home is destroyed.” Now I think I know why the glicko system is so bad and they couldn’t predict this problem in week 1, they have morons running WvW development.
Too little too late by Anet, so many people I know have gotten bored and quit playing again including myself, it’s probably worst on DH/SF servers. Even with these proposed changes by Anet there is no guarantee we move up unless they do it manually. If CD were to get into T3 I see us stomping it with superior numbers as well. SBI and SoS actually have fewer players than DH and SF, it’s a complete joke this glicko garbage.
Well, that means we’ll still have at least 2 more weeks of CD/SF/DH…
Oh well, at least there still hope.
That’s that big question should you hope for SI+ or SoS+ instead of CD+ or fear it …
This is true and also points out how populations are still not balanced. The other 2 server pairs in T4 probably can’t compete with any server pair moving into T4. Ideally all server pairings should have close enough populations that it takes skill and coordination to be at the top, not just having the most blobs.
CD faced SoS almost every week last merge and I can say that SF could compete evenly with them. SoS also recently lost one of there NA fight guilds when they were already suffering numbers wise in the NA timeslot. As for SBI its tough to say, we were merged with SBI last merge and they have a few pugmanders that can coordinate a map well but they didn’t have overwhelming numbers like the CD 4 merge currently. CD moving up would be best for SF/DH.
They should let us “salvage” eternity back into a account bound twilight/sunrise so we get to keep the eternity skin while at the same time having 2 legendary greatswords. Currently most players craft eternity then sell it which results in them getting 2 keep both twilight and sunrise skins without actually having the greatswords + a ton of gold and that’s stupid. Make eternty worth having Anet.
I think SoS would fit perfectly in this tier and CD should move up, but anet needs to make all that xfer money so they wont fix the problem they created with the glicko. CD in no way should have started with 1300, we should have had the 1700 we had when we paired with SBI, broken system.
We are getting 0.4 glicko this week atm and I talked to a Anet player during week 1 when we were getting 110glicko. He said the system would work itself out and there was not a problem. I believe he xfered to dragonbrand shortly after because he didnt even know he was on the CD merge tier and wanted to move up he said in EBG chat.
Come to T4, data showed last week it was the most active tier and there are fights everywhere. And you can xfer for half the gold than it costs for t2, only 150g.
It’s only 150 gold in gems to come to Crystal Desert since it is set to medium for population Best time to come over since it’s cheaper and there is room. So if you have a guild and want to come by all means.
It seems that no one at Anet even understands there own glicko system, maybe thats why it hasn’t been reset. It’s ridiculous that they can’t see the glaring problem with setting a 4server merge with only 1300 glicko to start and 400 glicko behind t3. A high school dropout could of seen this coming, were currently sitting at +34 glicko for the week, my predition was 40 tops so I was right there, next week we will get an even smaller amount of glicko making it impossible to move to t3, effectively killing 5 servers because they won’t wanna get blobbed down for 6 more weeks. Or maybe this was Anets plan all along, make money from people xfering OUT of t4, thats why it has more servers merged than any other tier, I certainly wouldn’t put it past them.
Looks like things have changed and now both JQ and DB are losing glicko for there wins this week. Hope SF and DH packed the lube, because it’s gonna be a long 7 more weeks of this matchup if anet doesn’t intervene.
I hope so too, but looking at the T2 and T3 matchups, where the winners are getting -2 and +4 glicko each, it doesnt look probable. Also pls dont delete or merge this thread anet, this is serious.
Currently CD is getting 110 glicko for this weeks win but that’s mostly because DH has died. Next week CD will not be getting anywhere near 100 glicko from the other 2 servers. Because of the volatility changes, they are losing the majority of there glicko this week and will only lose 10-20 each next week making it impossible at the current rate for CD to move up to T3. We are currently 300+ glicko behind SBI/HoD, so even if we continue getting 50 glicko a week from these 2 servers which is unlikely, it will probably be around 40 tops, it will still take 6+ weeks for us to get in range of T3 glicko and that is broken. To compare it to T3, JQ is beating there opponents quite convincingly PPT wise, similar to CD but are only getting 4 whole glicko for it. And Dragonbrand who is winning there Matchup in T2 by a decent amount is LOSING glicko. CD will soon be the same in a couple weeks, barely getting any glicko if this doesn’t change.
A simple solution would be to reset glicko for a week, that way the servers that own will move up to T1, and the servers that struggle will go down to t3/t4. In a couple more weeks it will work itself out and put servers where they belong glicko wise. Please Anet.
Something must be done, according to the glicko sites were only at 1300ish right now and if that is true we are to remain in this tier for another 3 or so weeks before moving up to tier 3. That needs to change desperately because the other 2 teams have no chance of taking us on as we should be in t3 or possibly t2 but because of the broken glicko system that is being used WHICH SHOULDNT. We won’t be moving up anytime soon as the current T3 servers are in the 1700 glicko range while we are at 1300…
It’s not losing revenue if people aren’t buying them, I don’t know a single person who had bought this item. And now that almost all the best runes/sigils are account bound because of HoT, I hate to use the word unfair but that’s exactly what this is, it’s unfair that we can’t buy or sell the new runes/sigils on the TP like we could before. Letting us extract them is the only way to save them without having to spend tons of hours farming for them over and over.
It would also fix your current predicament with legendary armor with people saying how they will be wasting expensive runes by putting it in legendary armor that you can change stats on. You’d be killing 2 birds with 1 stone.
I don’t normally ask for things to be added to the gemstore, but I think one thing this game desperately needs atm is a permanent version of the upgraded extractor since all the HOT sigils/runes are account bound and can’t be bought or sold at the trading post. The normal version of this upgrade extactor is so expensive and is clearly a ripoff that I’d be surprised if it makes you guys any money. If you were to make a permanent version of this tool though, I’m certain players would love it and it would sell better than a copper-fed Salvagematic.
ArenaNet is seriously having bad ideas most of the time. The announcement of this huge change was not enough and majority of us missed it, now we are stuck with everything. Bring back Gift of Battle as purchaseable item or we are gonna literally buy random crap and waste all resources to grief keeps.
You get more than enough badges from achievement chests to not even have to do WvW to purchase the Gift, and they even removed WvW map completion a while back which was needed for Gift of Exploration. Just a bunch of whining entitled kittens in this thread, WvW/PvP players don’t like the fact we have to spend tons of hours in PVE doing map completion.
WvW map completion never should have been removed as a requirement for Gift of Exploration, WvW maps were some of the easiest to complete regardless of what some people say. Make WvW Great Again!
This is a good change, Anet has always intended for people to have to do WvW for there Legendary grind, and when they put badges in achievement chests they removed the need for WvW, as well as removing WvW map completion entirely. Now that it’s a reward track people once again have to WvW. You don’t see WvW or PvP players crying about having to do PvE map completion when map completion was removed from WvW maps.
This is a good change, Anet has always intended for people to have to do WvW for there Legendary grind, and when they put badges in achievement chests they removed the need for WvW, as well as removing WvW map completion entirely. Now that it’s a reward track people once again have to WvW.
I like this change, I was thinking that anet should have made a repeatable reward track for WvW players that rewarded a gift of exploration after you complete it multiple times, similar to SPvP’s Perfect Mist Core, but this is better instead. Forces PvE players to do WvW similar to how we are forced to do PvE.
another 40+ min que that i got tired of waiting for and ended up leaving. Anet do something about this, were halfway through the season and it’s never been quite this bad. There is NOTHING to do in HOTM.
Idk whats up with this season but que times are ridiculous outside of daily reset, maybe its because people have completed there legendary or are just tired of pvp in general but I sat in 2hour+ ques today. I dropped que and reque’d a few times to make sure I wasnt bugged but eventually just logged because no one was playing ranked. Please let us be able to do other things rather than sit in HOTM doing nothing because theres no one que’ing anet. In my SS you can see my 1hr15min in que, I eventually gave up and just logged. I would like to be able to do WvW or some map completion while waiting if they are gonna end up being this long.
Please don’t talk about things when you clearly have no idea what your talking about. The fact that the exp boost obtained from these chests work toward sPvP reward tracks but not the WvW reward track is enough evidence in itself to show that this is bugged. The reward tracks between sPvP and WvW are basically identical as they have the exact same tiers and rewards minus Triumphant armor(wvw) and Glorious armor(PvP). Also it says nothing about WxP gain in the description and I’m 90% sure it doesn’t give a WxP bonus as I am primarily a WvW player and would have noticed by now.
The exp buff you get from wvw dailies aren’t giving the 50% reward track bonus for the wvw reward track but they work for the spvp reward tracks. SPvP already gets potions as a bonus for there reward tracks. Currently it takes 9hours to finish a WvW reward track when with the booster it should only take half that time. Please fix this.
Is this a bug? The exp booster you get from wvw dailies aren’t giving the 50% reward track bonus for the wvw reward track but they work for the spvp reward tracks. SPvP already gets potions as a bonus, while it takes 9hours to finish a reward track in its current state for wvw players. Please fix this.
I only do 3 far 2 home when my team has no healing ele and the other team does and there comp looks superior, Foefire is the best map for this strat. Should send bursty classes far and hope to get the first guy down before they rotate, if you have a scrapper they have great support with function gyro so that should go far as well. The 2 home should then push mid which will either be a 2v1 or 2v2 depending on how many they rotate to there own home. I only do this strat when our comp looks bad compared to the other teams comp.
Considering how often ascended mats/crates drop from fractal dailies as well as the raw gold you get is considerably more gold than obtained in WvW, even with WvW reward tracks the gold differential has never been bigger than it is now between WvW and PvE.
Why is there such a huge difference in price between these two. Now that you can get 12 pristine fractal relics A DAY, those can be turned into 180 regular relics alone for just an hours work doing 3 fractals. WvW tokens are just as easy to aquire as fractal relics now with the changes but WvW players have to pay 7g in addition to 350 badges to buy a 20 slot bag that fractal players only have to pay 10s + 150relics. This is not remotely fair and the WvW 20slot bag price needs to be severely lowered in price. Atm you can get full 20slots(4 bags)from doing 3 days worth of fractal dailies (3.5~4hours) and 40silver, while WvW’rs pay 28g in addition to 1400 badges of honor. Please balance this anet.
Glad to see you guys can keep pumping out new outfits and black lion ticket weapons each month though, instead of giving us what was promised for the expansion. Really shows how much of a money grab this game/expansion has turned into.
You need to attune your rings first before you infuse them to get the double agony infusion slot. So you would have to buy new rings, attune them, then infuse them. Most likely a bug and will be fixed but who knows how long that will take. So use the extractor on your current infused rings so you don’t lose out on the infusions at least.
I’ve sent recorded video and screenshots of players exploiting/hacking in WvW to that email in the past and nothing had ever happened to them and they continued to exploit. Either email’s sent to that specific address forward straight to trash or you guys don’t care about exploiting.
For better or worst, CD has always focused the stronger of the 2 servers, even if that pushes us into 3rd some matchups. Just ask HoD when we faced them for a few weeks, we would be on there BL all the time when they had much more numbers than DH. Also we have only faced you once in the last 2 months or so(this week being the second time) and last week and you guys came second, not sure how you are saying we are pushing you third?
