Haha, great shot! That happens if you cap a camp right when it’s about to spawn a yak. I’ve never seen one trapped behind the fence, though. That’s awesome.
Disgraceful? Maybe, legal? yes. Flawed game design? You bet ya. Of course we’re going to milk the kitten out of this, especially since the loot rewards in WvW are terrible in comparison to PvE content. But OS farming won’t just benefit the ones doing it, material prices will drop eventually so every starry eyed legendary lover can get those t6 mats at low cost, or hell they may even find out about it and join in on the farming.
Now I’m not sure how long this will last, it’s been going on for quite some time, but considering Anet’s stance on World vs World in general it will probably take a year before they even review solutions to end the farm, ie. soon™
If it just affected WvW, I’m sure — as you say — they don’t care. But if it begins to significantly affect mat prices, I’m sure they’ll swoop in and do something over the top like remove OS from the game.
Sadly, this is what I’m afraid of the most. Anet doesn’t gently fix/adjust things when it comes to WvW; they throw a nuclear bomb at it. With the new borderlands map coming which will surely get 99.9~% of whatever time the WvW team has, exploiting an old, outdated map that only the players care about? Nuke it from orbit, just to be sure.
There is no official mention of it being applied in PvP or WvW. But here’s a reddit thread with some screenshots of it at work in PvE. An exclamation point is used if a condition has 100 stacks or more.
With Mag hitting T3, no, there are not “5” T2 servers. There will be three T2 servers and two T3 servers. Which leaves whatever 3rd unlucky server picked to join T3 for that week to be ground into dust. Another T3 server has to arise, and I don’t think SBI will be any match for a Mag/DB combo, speaking strictly from the results of DH/SBI/DB this week so far.
On the other hand, I’m more than looking forward to a DH/HoD/NSP Tier 4. That is, hoping NSP regains some of its ranks, because Os and ZoS have run pretty fat in the past.
I don’t think it necessarily destroys GvG as it does zerg busting and small groups vs. large groups encounters. The larger groups consistently CC down the stability before duration is up almost instantly, leaving the smaller groups essentially stunlocked and dead before CDs are off. It’s had a pretty big impact on some servers that generally run a lot of smaller (20-30) groups vs. servers that generally map queue blobs (50-80). The smaller guild groups are no longer able to counter the mass CC anymore, which has led to more guild groups joining up to create a similar-sized blob (40-60). Generally, this has worked out to a point, where you start to reach a limit on diminishing returns; a group of 40-60 of conjoined guild groups can easily rout a map queue pug blob. But, yes, gone are the days of 20-30 wiping 50-80. It’s too easy to remove stability when facing numbers 2x or more. I feel it’s a net loss to the game, honestly.
So the OP wants the dame redesigned around his personal skill limitations and inability display special awareness and avoid taking heavy damage?
The fact that they haven’t removed damage entirely yet, is ruining the game.
It is funny and frustrate how you continue target me and make it always “my personal skill limitations and inability”
yet there is always evidence to support me.
You always know what my limitation is, You always know what my inability is and i did not even tell you: Pyschic or a God?. I understand you want to make me understand you but behave like this: it will never happen.
for starters, the guy who made that montage is probably the best ele that I know.
A gentle breeze will kill him. I’ve tried to run his build – and it’s NOT easy. If he makes a SINGLE mistake, is not fast enough to use a stunbreak, or even if his BLINDS get cleared, he will get 1 shot.
He is set up that way in order to be able to counter the bunkers. It’s a HARD way to play the game. It’s not forgiving. You make mistakes and you die when you run that much damage.
Yeah, Mallex is scary as hell. I’ve dueled and lost to him many times. The only time I was able to “beat” him was an impromptu duel session outside of red keep when he wanted to 1v2 me and my buddy, and even then it was a struggle. The second time he 1v2’d us we lost easily. He kinda reminds me of Heidia, another s/f ele roamer that used to be on HoD and would insta-burst people to death just like that.
It’s very much risk/reward. For those watching the montage notice that he does get very close to dying at times. He’s not immortal, he’s just good. Good enough to the point that people have repeatedly called him a hacker/cheater because they just don’t understand how they can die so quickly to him.
In regards to the OP, you are getting ridiculous with these threads. Do you not even realize that there is one class in the game that has an entire trait line and mechanic that revolves around burst, and that without it power players would be completely screwed (Hint: it’s Warrior)?
Shrug, I play at about 400-500 ping almost constantly, mainly due to me being forced to use a mobile hotspot where I live (I’m in the same state as the datacenter my server is hosted in). It’s not a nightmare but it makes things difficult at times, particularly duels.
400-600 ping here in Texas. That’s 3-400 more than I’m used to. Duels are a crapshoot, almost meaningless. I have no idea what Anet did, but I guess it wouldn’t be an Anet patch without breaking half the game.
The official response is “it’s in beta, but it’s actually live, so we don’t care.”
Despite the fact that the camera settings were never claimed to be in any sort of beta, and the “beta” map they use to test this is supposed to be EotM. This is a joke. The patch was delayed a week for “additional testing” and then released to us on Monday.
So how bad did the Chinese get it? The western patch is a nightmare. Fix your crap and stop the furious backpedaling when things go wrong. Interact with us like we’re, you know, people that actually paid for and play your game. It’s ridiculous.
I just heard a player in Rata Sum with some horn that sounded like a lion’s roar. Honestly? His sounded more legendary than mine (Howler, if you hadn’t guessed).
Ikr and the super warhorn sounds super legendary and unique ;(
Even the Crimson Lion Warhorn sounds more legendary
By far the buggiest, ill-tested, and poorly-rolled out patch since the April feature pack. Two hotfixes, nothing to address the guild chat issues, nothing to address the sound issues (you can hear downed players and shouts across an entire map), nothing to address the universal framerate drop, the shader errors, the lighting and shadowing errors. What the hell?
Wasn’t this the patch that was delayed for “additional QA testing”?
Unfortunately, if you transmuted over anything you had before the April patch, those are now lost. I had many black lion skins that I transmuted over and now there is no way to get them back. It sucks, I know.
Veil fakes with a double dodge back? Yep. Nothing new there. Let them blow all their CDs, push in, gg. I honestly haven’t seen the meta change just yet, but, well, it’s been less than a day, so who knows?
Now if they just fixed the down-state and shouts from across the map bug, I’d be happy. It is super creepy when you’re roaming solo or in a group to hear “I need help!” or any other shout when there’s nobody else around you. Guess that wasn’t a priority in the two hotfixes they pushed out today. But it’s fine, guys! They delayed the patch for a week so it could undergo additional QA testing!
There are serious shadow and lighting issues on AMD cards as well (R9 270x here) after the patch. Zero problems before. Also, the shader options are not functioning correctly, as even in Medium my screen will go grayscale upon dying whereas that was previously only on High. HotM is also affected, and I assume many other maps — on Medium, HotM was colorful and high-contrast. On High, it was significantly desaturated. Now, it happens on all shader quality options.
Yeah, it was SweetFX. The workaround in that thread did the trick. Also, how badly-tested and programmed does a patch need to be that I managed to find my own thread buried 22 pages deep, only 4 hours after posting it? Wasn’t this patch held back because it needed “additional QA testing”? Seriously Anet, get it together.
Just got home and went to patch my client. The executable patched just fine, but when it restarted it is now perpetually stuck at “Initializing…” and won’t go beyond that to install the actual patch files. Never seen this problem before. I’ve tried rebooting, closing/restarting the client, nothing works. Deleted the bin folder, didn’t work. Anyone ever encounter this and if so, how did you fix it?
Do you think people would use it? I mean, I can see PvE players coming there for convenience (not having to WP), but when I want to craft and chat with random people, the megaserver LA is good enough for me. Even in the old LA, there weren’t many discussion about WvW. Only call to arms (which I kinda miss) to defend certain keeps.
I really do miss the all-call rallies of the old days. Honestly the only thing I have to say on the topic.
If you get verbally abused by an enemy player, block them, report them, and that’s it. It will happen again, sadly, but you get used to it. You need thick skin for WvW or PvP, because are always those people out there. They want you to lose your cool and make mistakes. They want you to get mad. Don’t give them the satisfaction.
I think people keep missing the fact that Alpine BL will be removed from the rotation, to be added into the rotation at A Later Date TBD™. We won’t have access to it again for quite some time.
SYG grants stability to 5 people. If you’re stacked tight, frontline guards can easily roll 25 stacks before pushing. I know I have a crapton of stability uptime already now as a frontliner.
Stability stacks duration right now and it won’t after the change. It will stack intensity (stacks). So yes, you can roll 25 stacks at the start of a push, but then you’ll have no stab after the first 6 seconds.
If it stacks both duration and intensity, that makes absolutely zero sense. I’m not going to bother doing the math for you on duration. Figure it out.
Got two coats in my first two runs. I haven’t done Vinewrath since. I’ve had other people with similar experiences who then go on to do dozens of Vinewraths and can’t, for the life of them, get the third coat. RNG, oh how you can be cruel sometimes.
SYG grants stability to 5 people. If you’re stacked tight, frontline guards can easily roll 25 stacks before pushing. I know I have a crapton of stability uptime already now as a frontliner.
Oh and I wasn’t meaning to imply that I only run Ranger. My mains are both heavies, War and Guard. My Ranger is relatively new, and I try not to participate in zerg fights much; he’s built for roaming. Although our tag on EBG had to leave so I decided to take tag and command; I found healing spring + WH 5 to be incredibly good for survivability. Lots of evades and condi clear from Survival of the Fittest were necessary. It’s far from an ideal commanding class, in fact I’d probably rank it near the bottom; above thief but below everything else, but it can be played effectively as long as your cautious. That’s really the biggest reason why I put it at the bottom for commanding; your level of caution has to be near-maximum to stay alive.
I can make that work. Although I am a bit worried about terrormancers who just throw fear after fear at you — stab could be gone almost instantly.
You won’t see a difference against most Terrormancers, because they’ve been trained to corrupt Stability anyway. This change won’t affect how that particular matchup goes for pretty much anyone.
With most Terrormancers I will pop all my boons with WH 5 first, and they will usually move to corrupt them immediately. I pretend I don’t have stab. Once they throw the corrupt and I know it’s on CD, I pop SotW and go to work. I know that their biggest issue is people with stability, since they can fear spam them, so in turn I have trained myself not to pop stab before a fight but instead wait until I need it.
There are some good commanders, but noone who isnt replaceable.
Disagree.
Xushin from Maguuma. Dragun Knight from YB. Bannok from SBI. Any of those servers lose those guys, there is literally nobody to replace them.
You seem obsessed with DK. He is an excellent commander and has been a pillar of strength for YB, but we did manage on our own when he took a break last year for longer periods (guy needs a break too). Generally speaking, I agree with the sentiment that no commander is irreplaceable i.e. if one steps down there are others who steps up most of the time.
Obsessed? I mentioned 3 separate people. I haven’t singled out DK or any others; those are just the ones I can think of. If you think I’m obsessed with any of them, that’s you projecting. You can’t say I’m obsessed with a single person when I brought up 3 and then went on to continue posting about all 3.
I think there’s a stark difference between irreplaceable commanders and commanders that can train a replacement. Isn’t that contradictory? These guys have no desire or time, I believe, to train anyone to replace them. If they were replaceable, it negates their importance. I doubt DK or Bannok or Xushin or any of the others have tried to “groom” a replacement, because how do you copy yourself on to another person? How do you guarantee that people will follow that person when you’re not there?
I understand that many commanders do training nights, to help other commanders learn. But they are not the same people. They will still do things in their own way, and that’s natural. Expecting another commander to be trained and ultimately be a near-copy of the person training them is not realistic. This isn’t a dojo. We’re not talking master and apprentice. It’s an online game with unique personalities that are simply not identical.
I play a might stacking melee ranger (somewhat, axes still have 900 range). I dropped bows entirely. Really fun to roam with, lots of tricky skill play. Non-LB condi and regen Rangers can also be pretty difficult to face (my Ranger in pvp is a trapper and absolutely melts people). I’ve never made a regen ranger, but I’ve gone up against them. Nasty stuff. Basically dual SotW (traited for Enlargement) and Troll Unguent on constant rotation with high healing power (generally a mixture of Cleric’s).
I kinda regret choosing the name “Ark Swiftshot” now. More like Ark Axepound.
What about SotW, as that’s my primary roaming source of stability on Ranger (I try to keep access to two survival skills for Survival of the Fittest and that means Lightning Reflexes and Entangle instead of RaO)?
Basically this will change nothing for frontliners in zerg v. zerg or zerg busting or raids, IMO. Guards will pop SYG, Warriors balanced stance (although this may now be changing with Dolyak Signet having only an extra 8s CD with traited stances and a bonus 5 stacks of stab), everyone rolls in with 25 stacks and that’s a lot of CC required to strip that many, especially over a period of ~10 seconds or so. Stun breakers will definitely be the new hotness, though, I think.
Any word on Ranger stability? Rampage as One, SotW?
Just saw the trailer for the new map (I had no idea what you guys were talking about).
I threw up in my mouth a little. For ages we have said how much we hate EotM, and they make a Borderlands map that is essentially… EotM. Bring your knockbacks, fears, and launches, folks. Looks like a lot of people will be going off the edges of cliffs. I can’t believe Anet thought that this is what we wanted. Unbelievable.
And did you see a bridge in the trailer were there were some sort of built-in air gust traps that were automatically knocking people off of them? WHAT. NO. Anyone ever play the Cliffside Fractal? Did ANYONE like that part? If we can’t use gliders, you’ll find me in EBG from now on.
A bit late to the party, but someone had commented that there are 4 T2 servers (which there are) so someone had to go to T3. Except YB didn’t go to T3. They went to T4. 3.17% chance of that matchup getting rolled, but hey, everyone gets an exotic drop or ascended armor chest once in a while, right?
There was just really no reason that the #5 server should ever have been matched against #10 and #11, who were 400+ glicko behind them. I think manual matchup intervention may be necessary at some times, like the one the OP mentioned from 2 weeks ago.
They finally dropped to t4 recently along with IOJ after months of miserable unbalanced matchups against a t2 server, so t3 is a total mess right now.
I believe NSP is still in T3, just that this week (luckily) got put into the T4 match.
We won’t know until next week.
NSP is still ranked 8th and has already gained 5 on their glicko. They, along with DH, have been gobbling up what remains of IoJ’s glicko. Both will be back in T3 on Friday unless the RNGods are jerks again.
