In the borderlands puzzles it’s even easier..put balistas/arrowcarts at the waterfall…everyone that falls and has 10% life dies, and they can’t be shot without actually being on that platform.
Can be countered with stealth.
How ever. Arrow carts in the beast arena has no counter. No matter what other people say. They either got lucky with some incompetent wannabes or are the campers themselves.
Either way. If there is siege camping in the beast arena. Come back in 6 to 12 hours.
Not an exploit. It’s intended. Literally written into its description. Keep in mind they cannot move whilst doing it and drains 5 initiative each time they do it.
This is pretty much a learn how to counter it issue.
Which reporting option should be used? Inappropriate Name? Botting? Selling Gold? Spamming? Scamming? Oh, how about Verbal Abuse? Is there one for hacking? These are the only options I remember.
I don’t have a list in front of me of who or when, but we have banned many people that have been reported for flyhack/maphack. For security reasons, i’m not able to say how the process works.
If you see players using any sort of hack please report them. You can do this in WvW by targeting the player in question, right clicking and select report.
Hey why not also adding a fishing contest to a pvp area? How about a cooking contest too or a watch paint dry contest?
PVE in wvw maps (grub or complex jumping puzzles) should NOT be in wvw zones. I understand you can have gathering nodes but as far as pve content goes that should be it.
It really annoys me that while we are fighting zergs there are people who are wasting a slot jumping around while others are stuck in a queue for several hours waiting to fight. If there were no queues I would not mind. If there is a queue there should be no instance jumping puzzles.
And yes I too am a fan of Lara croft serie and the jumping and discovery of assassin’s creed but I leave this to pve and not pvp
Spot on
Spot off.
WvW is not PVP. It is PVP and PVE. You need to know the difference.
Although I don’t usually kill people in the jumping puzzles myself. I thoroughly enjoy running the gauntlet on my thief against the odds.
Also quite amusing when you have some one firing arrows at you as you stealth. Then because you’re so practiced at the jumping puzzle, you jump pass them, loot the chest and stand behind them. All while the person is still firing arrows of where they last thought you were.
I simply ended up standing really close to behind the guy and waved at him. He responded by forward rolling off the cliff to his death. Good times.
I like mid-tier myself. Enjoyed fighting against TC and GoM. It’s not one sided and each has their turns of winning with out resorting to awful tactics.
There is a reason there are one or two unofficial oceanic servers. They want to play together, not be some one’s lackie to guard the keeps for you.
Nothing worse logging on a server and no one is online in your guild, hardly any one out in the open world and barely any thing is happening in WvWvW unless you’re up against an oceanic server. There’s pretty much little perks to be gained by going to a non-oceanic server if you’re oceanic.
- Why is there a non-pvp event or puzzle in an area that should require all players to participate?
- Why is a jumping puzzle awarding blueprints?
- Why is there a giant grub in EB?
As long as you are doing these why not also introduce fishing in wvw while you are at it or suntanning on top of areas or how about whoever can stay under water the longest?
This is a pvp area and should not distract players from the objectives…especially when there are tons of players like myself who are in queue for hours while some d.er.ps are killing a grub, doing jumping games or harvesting onions.
Simple answer is simple.
It’s world PVP. You cannot have world PVP with out PVE. The place is not named Player vs Player vs Player. It’s named World vs World vs World.
Want pure PVP? There is already structured PVP available for you.
But I do agree with the bad placement of the grub. Anet should create a dungeon that can only access inside of Stone Mist where the grub would be hiding.
Valid tactic. Ask Anet yourself. How ever they also said that when they stop free transfers, the transfers cooldown will be also longer to reduce such instances. But it is still allowed.
IoJ is the server that likes to make alliances and then stab their ‘allies’ in the back when they can get the upper hand. Then complain when they lose and claim they got back stabbed instead. Smug when they win against weaker opponents, thinking they’re unstoppable.
ET is the type of server that will do any thing to win at any cost. Even if it means doing underhanded tactics outside of the given game mechanics to decimate their opponents.
CD I don’t really have an opinion on. Been a while since I fought against them.
How I predict the match will proceed:
IoJ will get pushed back to spawn and humbled by the end of the week.
ET rising a tier to face HoD and SBI to again repeat last weeks match. Like all other matches against HoD and SBI.
Ironically Sea of Sorrows is looking for a day crew. Our server has done a fantastic job of taking on other servers during the ‘night’. We push the enemy constantly and we are doing a fantastic job of taking control of the map. We do lack a few for our day crew and are looking for some who would like to join us to help push us up the server ladder to compete against the big dogs.
If you are an individual or a guild looking to move to a server, Sea of Sorrows is a fantastic option.
If you are looking to make the move to a easy going server and want to have fun. Just do it. No strings attached.
The rest of the entirely of any other WvW puzzle. I have no problem with.
I can slog it through 20 enemies solo or with a small group in all of the puzzles. But when it comes to the beast arena… It’s come back in 12 hours later and hope those camping fell asleep when you try again.
I never thought it was outside of WvW. No surprise seeing Sos losing tho lmao!
When we have people from our server asking why orbs don’t work for PVE. You can tell the server doesn’t seem to be focused on PVP any more. Killing grub is our best strategy now.
Even best case scenario with jumps tho, 45 badges a day. And statistically thats not going to happen, you are much more likely to get around 30 per day from doing all 3. And really that to is not likely, given que times and the fights constantly going on there.
So even in a perfect world, the supplement from doing jump puzzle is very low. And in a real world you may as well farm them off players because that drop rate is near the same.
I am not horribly concerned tho, the itemization on those is pretty bland with no real options for most builds.
First off. There are 4 jump puzzles.
Second. You can do it once a day. Per character. That’s 60 x how many characters you feel like going with a day. Because badges are account bound.
If your server is dominating a map. That racks up badges pretty quickly.
Last week sucked. I don’t think we stood up to ET in numbers at any point besides prime time, where we would eek out what points we could from taking what few fully fortified defenses possible. Our oceanic hours are good, but not capacity and it felt like ET was always at 100%. Also does not help most of the Aussie guilds REFUSE to leave spawn until they have everyone in. So as they are taking the shift we are usually down 20-30 players and at a disadvantage.
It really did not help us last week that SoS decided to all but ignore ET due to cowardice and constantly attack us whenever we were on the offensive in an attempt to get second. Rumor was it was a bunch of ET xfering to really give us the screws but I don’t know about that. All the more pleasure gained from rocking their kitten this week.
I don’t really think SoS was trying this week. After the ET griefing our server’s WvW and siphoning players off to their server. SoS doesn’t really want to face them again. They’re not fun to play against. So we made sure we lost so your server gets the honors. Enjoy!
You can destroy beast pit siege weapons with a treb placed at the first stealth well in Obsidian Sanctum.
No you can’t. Can’t reach.
Been there, destroyed that. You need a spotter, but it’s not impossible.
No you haven’t. A well placed arrow cart cannot be reached by a treb at the lower platforms near the puzzle entrance. Not to mention your treb can be easily zerged by enemies from the two other servers waypointing to their keep and running back into the puzzle.
It’s a wasted effort to begin with and a poor tactic.
During the day events I considered IoJ the worst server we faced in terms of strategy and tactics.
There aren’t any tactics in WvW. Wait until you (if ever) get matched up with SoS. We played around the world with them for 3 hours as they took supply camps and had nothing else to do. IoJ was pretty garbage in the 24h matches but we’re probably the only server who has never had complaints about hackers. ET is chock full of hackers and exploiters (as is CD), so it’s really no surprise you guys thought you could beat HoD; still got pounded.
Every server has their hackers. It’s not a localized thing. I’ve seen IoJ speed hackers myself.
Not with cripple arrows from the arrow carts and it’s pretty obvious where to fire them.
All it takes is 2-3 arrow carts like in my picture and you’re perma-crippled. Game over.
Meanwhile the camping side is sending free mesmer portals to those on their server to bypass 85% of the puzzle with no PVP confrontation. ie. a free pass if you server transfer to them.
“I think people are coming to the conclusion of beating to the beast arena camping in the EB puzzle is to just server transfer to the winning server and let them give you a free pass now.”
That is only effective because yuo enemy has 1 less Gerber Baby Scrub and you have 1 more, so it could net you up too 2 Gerber caliber scrubs for 24 hours. Transfers should disable WvW for you through entirety of round.
When there is no counter for an arrow cart that cannot be reached and has full coverage of the beast arena. Skill has nothing to do with it. Point and click is not skill.
I think people are coming to the conclusion of beating the beast arena camping in the EB puzzle is to just server transfer to the winning server and let them give you a free pass now.
