Why some of you are you keep claiming bosses 1 hit you with tanky gear? List all those nasty bosses for me please.
This…. I would like to see this list as well. I run full zerker on my warrior, and I dont event get one shot alot. The thing is, some bosses have attacks that MUST be dodged, their other attacks can be mitigated through tanking gear. Best example is kohler… you must dodge his scorpion wire, but a tankier build can easily mitigate his regular attacks. This thread is just one huge L2P issue, or lack of understanding of game mechanics.
1) Look like they are covered in some sort of goo…
2) Always have that kitten light source on the right side of their body NO MATTER WHICH WAY THEY TURN.
Im forced to lose out on the benefits of ultra shaders because the character models are so poorly done. Can this be fixed (Perhaps with someone that has more knowledge of graphic design)?
Funny thing about SOR. Two weeks ago it had an easy match-up and you had to wait like an hour to get into WVW. Last week it was back to fighting Blackgate and JQ and SOR losing and you could get into WVW no wait anytime. This week another easy match….and the hourly queue is back.
SOR sure does like to beat up on the little guy and when a fair fight shows up, they run home…..
I just looked at your posting history… Jeezus Christ Batman, your obsession with SOR is a bit out of whack there son, in fact you are giving the other SOR troll, Stealth a run for her money. Good job, it’s nice to have fan girls on our server!
They probably took one too many mace to da face combos……
I love reading the SBI/IoJ matchups. Far more entertaining than any other thread out there. CD is full of polite people who don’t forum war.
we’re not trying to “forum warrior”, think we’re just kind of sick of each other at this point.
You want forum wars of A+ quality. Go find the guuma thread. Mag is the #1 ranked troll/forum warrior server. No one can keep up with them on the forums, always makes monday mornings at work enjoyable when we fight Mag.
Sorry just had to chime in here about the forum warriororrirring….. very entertaining thread by the way……..
Whats going to happen is after it becomes apparent in the first few hours just how hopelessly outmatched you are, you will come on to the forums and state that:
1) SOR only blobs
2) Maguuma is far more skilled on an individual level
3) SOR only wins because of coverage
4) SOR players always run away if not in a zerg
A little late but Hello Fort Aspenwood!! This is the first time SOR and FA have been matched up.
SOR fought FA during the 2 day matchups…….
Yea, I remember that. Thats when FA night capped us by like 600+ ppts and totally destroyed us during oceanic/sea time. This was back when SoR was ranked 17 or so.
SoR meets FA for the 2nd time after a year, and it’s interesting to see how much the tables have turned.
Yea, its probably all skill. SoR wins this week because you have the most hardcore skilled players.
Honestly, I’m shocked we made it all the way to page 3 until the outnumbered QQ hit……. We all know SOR has better coverage. Here to save you time just, choose a QQ/excuse/chest thump and copy paste from below:
- SOR only wins because of coverage
- In even number fights SOR sucks
- We destroyed SOR when they outnumbered us
- SOR hides in towers
-SOR cant field fight only Blob
the facts are, the lower tier servers have many times been outnumbered and still hung in there while most of your bandwaggon population ran to be in t1 servers.
T1 servers would get served – they never had to face impossible odds, they are weak, they are full of guilds that run to safety.
Ideas about limiting the map cap wont change anything….. the matches will not be competitive regardless. Most points are gained during COVERAGE GAPS. So yea you face a tier 1 server, that will still have 60 people during oceanic or SEA, and you will have no one and still get trashed in ppt.
These ideas will spread the NA populations out, but not Oceanic and SEA…
None of this crap about recruiting matters….. once leagues start in the beginning of October we WILL all be facing at the minimum 5 weeks of complete boredom and PVD. If there is a JQ vs BG vs SOR matchup, then make it 6 weeks of PVD.
Then we can hope and pray that Anet doesn’t go ahead with a season 2……… assuming everyone hasn’t quite wvw by then that is.
Here’s how I see it anyhow, time zones or not, I think BG and SoR will agree with me on this. However, if a guild really wants to join your community and you really want them to be apart of that community are you going to say no? I think every server can agree they want a good stable community and if another guild wants to be apart of that who are we to judge that they cannot? Its easy for other servers to judge other servers on there recruitment, but when its the other way around. Things tend to change.
We are all here for a reason to play a game and enjoy it while we do, I am very happy Agg, NS, TKG, and GD have found a home here. So lets go back to playing the game.
I don’t know how Anet make money out of this game. But I do know there is no monthly subscription fee of this game. If Anet makes money out of gem store, good for them and us. They will use some of the money they make to make the game better. Just my wishful opinion XD. We should show some support guys ^^
No one knows what this league is till we try. What’s there to lose?
No we know exactly how these leagues will play out….. the vast majority of matches will be complete boredom and blowouts. I mean the devs are so out of touch its almost laughable that human beings with any sort of reasoning ability come to these design decisions. It makes me think that they cannot possibly be this ignorant of their game and have some ulterior motive ( Sacrx’s video about trying to funnel us into spvp is a plausible theory).
See the problem with the op is you talk in absolutes like everyone agrees with you. I for one do both wvw and spvp, I prefer smaller open field battles in wvw and well I would like to see anet stop encouraging the zerg I understand that its not everyone’s opinion and some people like giant fights. I also think the new orb buff is a good idea wvw is going to be imbalanced and if the new points did not give a buff no one would fight for them, or worse it would give karma and wxp and just become another stop on the karma train.
as for spvp, the only thing holding back is the lack of diversity in the objectives. This is something people talked about in beta and I think its something that is going to change.
as for gvg, not really my thing but if people really want it the tech is there for custom arenas so I don’t know why they can’t just make a custom tdm arena where the amount of people can be set from 10v10 to 50v50 and guilds could go have at it when they want.
Plenty of people suggested tons of great ideas instead of pure stat buffs, that WILL entice people to fight for the new capture points. Example, Increase the amount of damage that rams, catapults and trebs do…. or Increase dolyak movement speed, or increase supply camp capacity etc…. Anet essentially killed gvg. A completely boneheaded move. ( Though I do like the new maps since it will discourage zerging a bit)
There on those on TC who act as you have suggested but there are many more who do not. The WvW regulars have a much worse time fighting outmatched opponents than we do someone like SoR, but we expect SoR to perform and a lot of us were expecting so much more than SoR has delivered. You can kitten up your ego as much as you want, if you are a rallian as Aurust is, but the glimmer of hope some of our guilds have taken from SoR is in gvgs, everything else is lacking in notability.
Lacking in notability sez the TC poster…. Ha! I suppose deluding yourself is one way to make the butt pain go away.
Unlike some of the other posters that try to sugarcoat things, I won’t. TC barring a very very few minor exceptions, has weak builds, tactics, and organization. I did not find fighting TC a challenge, and overall I would say that because of TC, this week of wvw was dull…..
It is funny, swap out the names and you’d think you were in an older tier 2 matchup thread complaining about TC’s blobbing. At least I haven’t seen anyone complain about SoR hiding in towers behind hundreds of arrow carts and refusing to fight which is an improvement I suppose.
Yes, TC acts holier than thou white knights when they are zerging over other servers, but you can see their true nature when they are on the receiving end of a brutal beat down.
TC is just so precious when it is getting its rear end handed to them. On another note I have not seen so much exploiting/hacking used for months as months as I’ve seen this week. Keep the tears flowing TC…..I need to have a batch stored up until the next time.
Don’t fall for anets bloodstone dust gold sink gimmick. The reason I believe they are sooooooo abundant is that players will get angry at the space they take up and start to convert it to bricks ( players tend to not want to just delete stuff). Of course this requires buying thermolytic reagents. Just delete the dust you wont need in the near future and call it a day.
We should massacre the dolyak parade….. It may be worth it to see what may possibly be the largest flood of tears ever witnessed on these boards.
Yeah, nobody has ever had that idea before… :P
Yea, but this is combined with such an overwhelming slaughter…….. Not to mention the general toxic nature of this thread. Im tellin’ ya…. this could be precious.
Congrats,
you played 162.75 days….
game has been released for 379 days.
That’s 42.94% of 379 days, meaning you played roughly ~10.3 a day since release….
Now… either:
You shared the account.
You left it running non-stop sometimes.
or other options that would probably be too insulting.
Its really not as bad as you think… I spend around 4-6 hours doing work, 10 hours playing, sleep for 6 and got 2 more hours for random stuff…. Not having to commute to work adds up….
3906 hours played on warrior, can anyone beat that? Just curious…….
I certainly hope not, since that is approximately 10,7 hours a day. I don’t want to preach or judge you, but man, that is too much! Think about what you could have done with that time. Will you think on your death bed: “Man I wish I could have played more Guild Wars 2”? I think not :P
This seems more like a scheme by Anet to get more gems via server transfers. Those in charge of decision making can’t possibly be this ignorant of how their game works, or be so completely out of touch with their player base.
I was lucky that I chose SOR when the game launched. But for me, this league will be a few weeks of competitive play, but mostly just a roflstomp against weaker servers. The supposed closest competition to NA superpowers, TC, is in the process of getting utterly destroyed. Those ranked below TC will have a terrible matchup pretty much every single week for 7 weeks.
Unfortunately, even transferring to a lower tier server will just ensure that I will just have a higher chance of being in a boring match.
The only solution to this is to force MASS transfers to lower tiers. Anet needs to completely remove a full borderland, and change wvw to 1v1, to create unbearable queues. Otherwise, the wvw community is doomed to boredom.
I wanted to say great fights on EB Sunday night to SoS and TC.
Thank you all for the fun and look forward to more this week.
I’ll second this. Was great fun last night in EB. Both SoS and SoR had good numbers, and good battles. It was basically an ongoing cycle, I give props of our TC commander during that time. He’s always moving that train, always having fun.
SOR, please be civil with TC. You should expect that when a server with so much pride in their wvw skills is getting utterly obliterated, a few of their members are probably frazzled and just came here to vent their frustrations. They have no choice but to resort to the tried and true " your roamers sux" line to make themselves feel better.
TC is only “classy” on the forums when they fight weaker servers……
very passive aggressive.. missed that note while responding about the actual match up
o.O
More like sarcastic aggressive….nothing passive about it. Enjoy your next four days of wvw being holed up in your garrison since its usually the only major objective you have left to defend.
It’s usually either a)people who are loyal to their server or b) people who can’t let go of GW1.
I really don’t understand the first type since a huge part of the server doesn’t care about WvW. You don’t gain anything from winning and the scores aren’t affected as much as skill as WvW population and coverage. But hey, I guess it’s those people’s “thing”.
The second type really need to realise that this is a different game. For starters the professions have nothing to do with GW1, the PvP system is different, there’s only ONE sPvP game mode and there’s WvW. By now it should be obvious that GW2 isn’t a copy of GW1 and Anet don’t want it to be one.
" You dont gain anything from winning" ? Do you have ANY clue whatsoever just how super sweet a 20% gathering bonus is? It is sooooo sweet, like raspberry chocolate ice cream being served by mila kunis while she is nekked bruh.
The SoR winners again. How did we pull these guys? The only sever that complains they don’t win hard enough. Think ill stay out WvW for the rest of the week.
Whats going to happen is after it becomes apparent in the first few hours just how hopelessly outmatched you are, you will come on to the forums and state that:
1) SOR only blobs
2) Maguuma is far more skilled on an individual level
3) SOR only wins because of coverage
4) SOR players always run away if not in a zerg
While I do agree SoR blobs much harder due to their coverage and numbers, don’t kid yourselves and think you can beat SoR with equal numbers.
r.o.f.l.
delusions are unhealthy.
The only delusion here is people who think they are more skilled because of being in a lower tier.
The only delusion here is people who think they are more skilled because of being in a higher tier.
Pretty much. It is amusing though when you catch them away from their zerg. Really hard to see their “skill” when they run away screaming like a 5 year old.
1) They are probably rallying to their commander or to a more important position at that time. No need to waste it fighting a lone straggle enemy running around.
2) They are probably in a more group oriented build, vs your roaming/dueling build. You will probably win the fight. If you are looking for duels go set them up by the windmill.
Generally this is typical banter by smaller population server fighting a larger one trying to justifying their rear ends getting handed to them. The smaller population server is always “more skilled” on an individual level…….. if only they had more numbers… etc. etc. Just take the beating like a man and maybe next week you will get a weaker opponent to fight so you can feel good about yourself.
Why is there a statue of Kormir in AC? After the initial shock wore off, that is when the disgust began to set in. Its ok though, a bunch of drinks made the pain go away
I think the league system is a great idea but I am concerned about transfers. I suspect that there will be a cluster of go-to servers which end up around the top/bottom of the various leagues. Actually… that seems like a good way to distribute players. I think the guys at the bottom of the bottom need to be thrown a bone tho.
This is why the suggestion for “Most Improved” receiving substantial rewards based on net rank shifts, would go a long way to encourage even CD to hold a single tower when faced with SoR as that single tower will probably bleed rating from SoR. :p
We, the people of lower tiers, don’t mind testing our metal against tough odds. We do however mind it when the servers with the most players and best coverage gets the best rewards purely for the numbers reason only.
But as you said in another topic, wvw isn’t fair. All rank 12 has to do is throw enough matches to drop to rank 13 and get the best rewards.
So, as I’ve said before, we are still looking into ways to try and alleviate those problems, but that is also what WvW is like right now, so while this season will create new rewards and new incentives to play, it isn’t as though this is a brand new problem. We want to make it so that skill is more important than sheer numbers and we have some ideas. None of them are so easy/safe to implement that they are going to happen in the near-term.
There is are several ways to “safely” break up the zerg and increase the importance of skill. The zerg works because it can move just as fast and efficiently as smaller groups.
1) Remove all waypoints from keeps.
2) Completely redesign the maps. We need a map ( as a pure example) such as Fireheart Rise, or Lornar’s Pass to fight in. Lots of chokes, difficult to respond across the map to defend multiple objectives because of long winding paths ( especially with no waypoints). Multiple vertical levels of terrain so that a smaller force can get behind the lines, and it would be inefficient to respond to them as a blob as it will be very time consuming.
ONS, RISE, MEOW, WM, ND are leaving BG. So stop shouting at us Tarkus on the Blackgate forums shoutbox. Your MERC don’t carry BG.
Ouch that would be a very very hard deep blow to BG……
your sor buddy making bs up
Probably the same guy who said we are going to TC – FYI thats wrong. I know a couple of guilds are considering leaving, and who is us – Zagan your account is on SoR.
To be fair, Zagan did not include MERC in his list of guilds leaving.
- WvW is a laggy, blobby mess enabled by anets refusal to address mega zerging as the most effective tactic. I am disappoint……..
Then transfer off SoR? You’re on the 2nd most stacked server out of how many servers NA? Stop the QQ about things you can control.
Why should the players be responsible for fixing anets screwups? Ive been on SOR since 3 day headstart, not going to transfer off, will just wvw less as im sure a ton of people are as well.
The thing is, I enjoy large scale fights, IF THEY WORKED. I dont mind the actual blob in of itself, but the fact that it causes skill lag.
“ยท Legendary Weapon Updates: Legendary weapons will receive a stat boost, an Offensive Infusion slot to align with new Ascended weapons and additional functionality, among other things.” preview from Kotaku.
Personally I think it is a good idea, it forces players to choose between sigil and extra damage. It is sort of like the green weapons in guild wars 1, technically better but kittenter because you could not modify.
First, it’s not a good idea at all. Builds are already enough unimaginative for most profs and people, and sigils are a nice fine-tuning that helps to add a layer of choices.
Second, in the case of Legendaries, it’s forced, not a choice, to go with Ascended power level.
Third, i see the screenshot of ascended rifle. Aside any observation on the skin itself (not too bad but not my cup of tea)…. I makes me think the recipes will probably create complete weapons. So…what about keeping the skins of my current equipment? I’ll be forced to get a crapload of T-stones from Cash Shop? Or there will be the option to craft a “upgrade to ascended stat” item to apply at my exotics? Anet clarify please.
Agreed, sigils add another layer of player choice that should not be removed….. this game does no need more homogenization.
Ascended gear is better than exotic gear with the same stat combination, even when the exotic has a jewel of the same stat combo. In addition to better stats than exotic, ascended gear has an upgrade slot.
This is what I think as it would resemble current Ascended trinkets compared to exotics..
EDIT: The upgrade slot can probably only be slotted with infusions http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Infusion
EDIT2: On top of this I would assume that you’d also have an upgrade slot for sigils.
Yea my main question is whether we will have a slot for sigil. Anet please clarify
So ascended weapons will have an offensive infusion slot. Are we being forced to make a choice between more stats or utility etc? If so, this is a massive blunder.
Basically, will ascended weapons have a sigil slot?
…I think we still have much to find out rather than “we know all we will ever find out”.
There is a lot more to come. The Living World story is paced very differently than other content in the game, partially due to the nature of how we build and release it. I won’t spoil anything other than say that we’ll reveal more in time.
Please hurry up and reveal it already, so i can put this game that had so much potential behind me….. Another poster mentioned in another thread…. unless there is a mursaat in disguise somewhere behind all of this…… this entire plot line has been a complete disaster. Your living story concept has turned me from a hardcore, avid player, into “tune in for a couple of days” every two weeks type player to finish off whatever silly achievement grind you have for us this time ( that a hardcore player like myself will just plow through).
Either way, the core gw2 product had the potential to be the greatest MMO ever made, but has become a sad joke. I feel no connection towards the NPCs, I do not care what Scarlet does to tyria, I dont even care if Scarlet lives or dies. With zhaitan, atleast i sensed the danger as i traveled further south… seeing the corruption of undeath growing more gruesome and appalling, until finally I hit Orr. With Scarlet, all i think is…. meh.
Get a better, more compelling narrative, with NPC’s that grip me…. and maybe ill be back for more than one day every two weeks. Until then, cya later.
