We are not talking about your favorite five server, thats the matter of OPINION
We don’t care about SoR is impressive to you or not
We are talking about stability of a server, which is a matter of FACTS
We are talking about the SD of points, turnover of guilds etc
If none of those facts shows SoR is one of, if not the most stable server then your idea of ‘stable’ is wrong.
SoRs strong community is the only reason the server is in the position it is today and it shows no signs of letting up (infact strengthening with more guilds in discussions for transferring).
Terrible idea, this would heavily promote people transferring to enemy servers to build rams to waste keep supplies and siege lock maps (which happens already but has no “positive” for the person doing such action).
Over the past two days I’ve been randomly disconnecting from GW2 (the game goes unresponsive for about 10 seconds and then disconnects me).
However once this has happened i find myself unable to login again or access anything related to GW2 (such as the website homepage, forums and rankings) for about 5 minutes.
I’ve already tried clearing the IP’s on my allow list and resetting my router, verifying but the problem still persists.
Today, during NA prime, (SoR’s dominant sector) we managed to flip Hills, and then Bay, and then later full cap all of BGBL.
I think the only reason you managed that was because JQ was pushing extremely hard on all maps. TW had BG garrison & Hills pretty well locked down until we had to respond to JQ on SoR map and left BG map pretty much deserted.
Seen as the reset night fight in SoR-Hills is getting a lot of attention I’ve quickly uploaded what happened (this was literally about 3 mins into the matchup).
I would love to see ArenaNet actually get in contact with the developer(s) of mos.millenium.org/ and offer them some kind of work, temporary contract or even volunteer with reference to make this happen sooner then ‘very near future’ :P
It’s funny you should ask this today….With our new API development soft launching today (see the new forum topic at the bottom of the forums) you’ll be able to do just that! Keep your eye out, I imagine a website that works this way will be popping up in the very near future =)
It would be nice to see this done by ArenaNet officially (coming off your site www.guildwars2.com) as you would be able to add much more details and analysis (like queue population). If you launch it with a Rankings highscores (and possibly WvW kills too) you would make tons of people happy.
Millenium Old School have just had a major update to there score reporting site that now automatically tracks all scores across all tiers live and also has an interactive map that updates every 15 seconds showing who owns what.
The site offers live score tracking, in-game wvw mapping, score breakdowns and analysis and history match-ups.
Why cant this be done on an official scale? Put an advert or two on the page and it would be a brilliant revenue source as it would get thousands of hits.
Now, with this API, scores are tracked every minutes and the site displays live matches result. The number of Camps, Towers and Keeps owned by a server are also available.
In addition, a new live map for each matchup is available. This map is updated every 15 seconds and logs each events so you can now find out what happend on your WvW battlefield. Objective names can be displayed on your own language.
when it comes to Lingering Curse and 36% duration food this is a lie it turns a 6s bleed into a 10s bleed.
If i remember correctly straight up condition duration does not stack with specific durations. +33% scepter duration with +36% condition duration would be;
6 second bleed time * 1.33 = 7.98 seconds.
7.98 second bleed time * 1.36 = 10.85 seconds.
10.85 second bleed time rounds down to 10 second bleed.
Ignoring condition duration or heavy condition builds in general is only recommended if your running with your servers zerg.
If your solo roaming and havoc squads condition/ hybrid builds work out very well and in all the builds I’ve designed for solo roamers I’ve always capped 100% condition duration.
One thing to remember with condition duration on Bleeding & Fear is the final bleed time must be a full 1 second or it will round down to the nearest second.
10% from sigil + 40% from food + 50% from fear trait = 100% fear duration.
Earth sigil > Geomancy sigil for damage.
33% more Scepter damage > Enfeebling Blood for damage.
edited: I do this overtimes sometimes on weekends, but why should I stay for hours just to win by 60k points? You can win by 3k, you don’t get an extra big cake for higher points.
If you only won by 3k points you would actually lose ELO rating overall, winning by more points gives more from the ELO… cake.
Epidemic relies on conditions remaining on enemies for the full duration, it never happens. If you’ve had such an Epidemic then your enemy zerg was just bad, period.
In regards to what Ascii said:
Epidemic cooldown is 15 seconds, wells: 45 or 60. And the potential damage as a condition mancer is higher than 3 wells combined.
I would take a 36 second Well of Suffering, one of the hardest hitting utility in the game that’s also a dark field, then Epidemic which can be purified off in seconds.
You there, BG. What is your profession?
I’m a cursed shore farmer sir.
And you, JQer. What is your profession?
CoFer, sir,
CoFer… and you?
Roleplayer.
RALLIANS, WHAT IS YOUR PROFESSION?
AAAAAOOOOOO AAAAAOOOOOO AAAAAOOOOOO
You see old friends, we brought more soldiers then you did.
it’s not just you guys, trust me. random disconnects in random situations in wvw. already died twice to players because of lag, fights i would’ve won ._.
Hence why I said;
“there is severe lag going across every tier in WvW”
The servers needs to be turned off, given a dust off maybe open some of the ports and blow gently into them and plug the cables back in as there is severe lag going across every tier in WvW and it seems to be situated very specifically.
On SoR server the JQ (red) borderland has heavy lag with people skipping around, disconnecting from game and skill lag even whilst there is no combat happening. I’ve disconnected from JQ borderlands 4 times in the last 2 hours.
In all seriousness something needs to be done, the servers need to be taken completely offline for half an hour and given time to start afresh.
I hope any ANet acknowledges this and everyone else agrees.
Wells deal direct guaranteed damage, provide dark combo fields for allies to combo off and inflict some pretty mean conditions themselfs.
Epidemic relies heavily on one target keeping the conditions inflicted on them whilst you channel Epidemic, it also has LoS + range issues and any organized zerg spam water fields on regular basis.
I would only ever use Epidemic over a Well if i was using a chill heavy build.
Corrupt Boon: Yes, one of the best skills we have, period. Epidemic: No, but the condition has very minimal effect on us anyway. Blood is Power: Yes, if you combo it with Dagger-4, Staff-4 or just Consume Conditions. Corrosive Poison Cloud: No, considering its long cooldown, low condition time and fixed positioning but has very minimal effect on conditionmancers.
Reanimator has always been a cause for concern and bugs and its going to take along time to fully have it working and effective (by developers standards).
One issue that’s the bane of my existence is activating Spectral Walk and then going into water, if you dive you lose all stacked swiftness.
If played right you want people to focus you whilst in Plague. Necromancers (at least in high tier WvW) are not damage dealers nor full tanks. There role is disruption and diversion through blinds, chills and general boon disruption.
If people are focusing you whilst in Plague then your doing your job correctly, there focusing the 5k armour 50k health blinding Necro instead of the real damage dealers.
I’m know there are hundreds of small tweaks and changes that could be implemented to WvW to vastly improve the experience overall.
Instead i would just like to get input on one simple change I’m sure everyone would welcome, displaying (as a percentage) the health of walls, gates and siege.
It would really help calling out the healths of objective rather then just roughly guessing.
Type /age into the chat window, it will tell you how many hours you’ve played total since launch and how many were on the character you used the command on.
I was in the 3 day early access. I created my Necro immediately after the launch at 5am that day, I had planned out my character design in the final stress test, so I could get in as soon as possible.
a bold claim, but its plausible.
You should of done what all the cool kids such as myself did and completely skip designing your character. Just race > class > storyline & name.
Yea I used to love plague but now all it does it make me a target for boon stripping and every other condition in the game. ymmv… how good it is depends on your opponents.
Any hints as to how one can gain 2,000 hps and 20 seconds of retal using plague?
Warhorn-5 > Axe-3 > F1 Twice > Plague-2 with at least 0/30/0/15/0 layout and around 50% base critical chance.
You’ll end up crippling, chilling, blinding, poisoning, weakness with upwards of 20 seconds of retaliation & stability whilst life-stealing around 1,400 health, regening 130, 80 from soothing mist and the rest from melee training shout-healing.
And of course this is on-top of 5.5k armor, 51k health and -65% condition duration.
I’ve actually thought about this alot myself and would really love to see some kind of neutral dragon involvement in WvW, particularly in EB focused around Stonemist.
There should be some kind of shrine (much like the Quaggans in the center island on the borderlands) that has a long respawn time such as 2 hours (to promote keeping track of the timer and planning accordingly) and the dragon would react differently depending on who captured the shrine (non-SM holders vs. SM holders).
I’m surprised you haven’t been using Plague up until now, its the skill to have in WvW for Necromancers because of its great control and high tankability.
With the right combination of skills you can end up poisoning, blinding, chilling, crippling, healing 2k health / sec with 20 seconds worth of retaliation
Fun fact: JQ need to hold a +542 or more PPT lead over BG to overtake them in-time for reset (a little less if you flip every sentry and kill every yak).
Alot of people (in my guild on SoR) seem to be randomly crashing, its just happened to me which is a first as my client has never crashed in 8 months, heres the error log it asked me to send to Arena Net.
