Guild Wars 2

Choirandvice.1479:

Same here. Suggested fix didn’t work. Can’t get into EOTM.

You stayed in the party when you switched toons? I actually joined a party then logged out and logged back in to switch toons. You stay in a party even when you log out.

I wonder about this myself sometimes. I think the tail may be part of the hitbox. I got hit with a static field once and it was only the tip of my toon’s tail that was anywhere near the red line.

For FA:
1. 20+, very strong atm, probably strongest OCX of the four T2 servers followed by SoS. They speak English. It’s a mix of playstyles.
2. At least once a week, especially for EBG.
3. No, nothing regular. Such meetings are done only when guilds feel it is necessary.
4. FA’s strongest point is that no single playstyle dominates the general server mentality. No one is told how to play and those players that do tell others how to play are usually ignored. SEA time and transitions between timezones tend to be our weak points.

From another thread, log in and select a different toon then get into a party with someone and switch to the bugged toon. Worked for me earlier tonight.

Terrible idea. A lot of servers are using commander tags for scouts, who have no followers by definition.

Same issue when I try to join EOTM. Gonna try another toon and party.

Yes. The new class and specializations should basically blow open the whole current meta. There will be balance issues again, sure, but it will be like returning to how things were almost two years ago as players and guilds were trying to figure everything out.

atheria.2837:

When you have this happen to you, not once, but every single time you play against Fort Aspenwood – guilds who know who I am and quite literally have been reported for saying the most vile of things and then they make sure they disgrace themselves without penalty, no honor whatsoever, please understand that I am not the only one this is happening to, and no I am not necro posting, my computer died for two plus months and I just found this two plus weeks back into the game.

Bullying is happening on all sides, enemies I can understand it, I get it, hate the Ranger, but when it’s your own side, speaking in vile terms in TeamSpeak so that you can never set “foot” in there and the gossip train runs over many, it’s a thing that is gaining attention on twitter about twitter allowing the nastiness to go on without infractions.

Well, how about infracting some of the most vile of persons out there in WvW…
They have no honor and don’t have any right to malign players whom they “dislike” because someone told them something about someone they have never met in real life.

Being kind to new players is just a gamer’s dream come true, someone chose YOUR game and YOUR server and even if they aren’t perfect, they are another great addition to the end game that matters more than spvp or anything pve can come up with.

LOL

Getting siege thrown on you is normal.

Compare with this “finisher” an FA player received: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXmNI-OpMvc

If there were no power creep from guard stacks, bloodlust, ascended gear, etc., I bet the recent nerfs would not have been necessary. sigh

The other night it took a full 2m for a stack of 37 superior catapults to transfer from my guild bank to my inventory. There seems to be an odd queue jamming that happens if you are moving things in and out of a bank too quickly. I had dragged a smaller stack of regular ACs immediately into the guild bank after taking the catas out right before it jammed.

Power.2957:

nekretaal.6485:

Inb4 this thread gets moved to the WvW forum and buried.

Exactly what happens to every thread posted about this subject. They take the map out of EB because of people complaining about it harming WvW and love to bury it in the WvW forum- oh the irony.

What’s funny… Did you know that the only way to get to the Obsidian Sanctum if you have never been there before is through the portal in an EB keep? The option to join that map doesn’t show up on the map selection tab in the WvW UI until you’ve been there.

Know what would be better than more siege?

Environmental weapons from PvE would be fun to have again in WvW, but I’m sure it won’t happen because they’re a headache to balance against. Devs are going to have a load of work balancing all the new skills that HoT is going to bring.

Zemarca.6218:

Chaba.5410:

I assume you are talking about WvW.

Not sure where you hear about zerker being the meta, unless you’re talking about PvE. Zerker on engi with Dolyak runes in WvW seems very odd. I recommend you check out some of the builds at this website: http://metabattle.com/wiki/MetaBattle_Wiki

I know that my build isnt amazing but my point is not that I am using an odd rune but that fact that I have 1200+ toughness and 20,500 health pool and still get burst very easily. I am just curious if anyone else thinks that Bursting in this game is too easy and too fast of bursts? thats all I am asking not i you think I am a bad player or what have you. Sure the build has something to do with it but again I am asking a general question.

My point is that zerker burst does have counters.

It doesn’t matter your toughness or health pool if the rest of your build is odd. I have a friend who likes to play some weird zerker warrior build and goes on to me about his toughness and hp yet he dies very fast because his build lacks any sort of real sustain. In other words, his build lacks counters. You didn’t give many other details about your build…

I assume you are talking about WvW.

Not sure where you hear about zerker being the meta, unless you’re talking about PvE. Zerker on engi with Dolyak runes in WvW seems very odd. I recommend you check out some of the builds at this website: http://metabattle.com/wiki/MetaBattle_Wiki

Dhemize.8649:

always turns into a 2v1 conversation.

It’s the new meta, didn’t you know?

Boreal.9826:

Keira Ferland.5619:

Chairface.9036:

Keira Ferland.5619:

Chairface.9036:

Keira Ferland.5619:

You have such a salty kitten for FA it’s actually quite sad. This is the server that has been T2 for almost 2 years now.

I have no problem with any particular server. Only problems I see if you actually do want balance is extreme recruitment and collusion with enemy commanders. But doing both at the same time jeez, now that is actually quite sad.

Collusion? We’re just focusing YB. If DB and SoS don’t want to hit us, that’s not our fault. Where is your solid, hard evidence that any collusion at all is happening? We’ve been trying to recruit OCX and SEA for the past year and the half, we weren’t actively looking for NA guilds, they just decided to come on their own.

The proof is commanders and guild leaders admitting it openly on the private forums.

I agree tho that DB and SoS don’t want to hit you. They do the same to YB.

At this point, it’s quite obvious you are talking out of your behind.

Do you consider FA and SoS working together inside YB’s keep to be collusion? I have video of SoS flanking YB forces to protect FA’s golems, as well as blocking for each other when the ring is up.

And… another thread soon to be locked.

But even such video doesn’t address what Reichii posted about opponent server preference. A commander who is telling his forces to not hit the golems of X server doesn’t require enemy commanders to be pm’ing each other. He doesn’t have golems and the third server does. He could easily wipe the golems AFTER they let his forces inside. “Reading” a battle like that is not much different from “reading” a map. If I see orange swords on an enemy server’s keep, as a commander I have a choice to either go to those orange swords and check out what is going on or go hit another server’s keep while the other two servers are busy. The choice usually comes down to which option will give my server the most PPT in order to stay high in rating. That’s what happens when the tier has been influenced in such a way where servers want to play for PPT instead of fights.

It’s well-known that YB plays a defensive style where if you let them upgrade their stuff, the other two servers don’t want to bother with the long-siege under masses of arrow carts. Essentially YB makes other servers ignore them and fight each other. So the key is to keep YB stuff paper as much as possible and then all three servers can end up actually fighting instead of just two of the servers.

Chairface.9036:

I have no problem with any particular server.

Yes you do. It is quite obvious with the way you carry on here in multiple posts across multiple threads.

Death Slayer.1468:

Fiennis.4387:

Asuran female warrior. Maybe it doesn’t happen on a male character?

Can confirm it is bugged on male Asura aswell, however the bleeding applied is correct but the number of attacks done is 4 when having one adrenaline bar and up to 6 when you have full adrenaline, please note that the normal behaviour is 8 attacks with one adrenaline bar and 10 with two bars and 11 with 3 bars, hopefully this will help anet more if they ever decide to look into the issue…

It does work as intended with my charr warrior

OK So it has to be bugged then and I don’t need to count how many hits because I just have to read the tooltip as adrenaline builds. At level 3 my tooltip says only damage 10x, not 12x like the wiki:

More hits at higher adrenaline levels. 32 damage and 1 stack of bleeding per hit.

Level 1: 8 hits
Level 2: 10 hits
Level 3: 12 hits

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Power_of_the_Mists

What the devs really need to do is make these Power of the Mists buffs a lot more obvious to PvE players. It is kind of hidden away in the WvW panel.

GW2 is an expansive game. Making a Legendary was never meant to be easy. Moreover, WvW is considered to be a part of PvE. That’s why your server’s warscore affects the increases to crafting, gathering, stats, magic find, etc., that players who never set foot in WvW enjoy. WvW helps make Legendaries faster.

X T D.6458:

As someone who has played on one server for all 3 seasons and watched that server get royally screwed each time by various things. Seasons, tournaments w/e the heck they want to call this stupid gimmick that should never have been put in, all this does is encourage bandwagoning, server stacking, server instability, match manipulation, and tons of other shady tactics used to win, spying, double teaming, intentional dropping etc. Not to mention Anets role in this, especially with that disaster in season 2 and the idiotic choice of tranfer fee changes, some servers got free transfer effectively encouraging bandwagoning and server stacking and the inevitable implosion and instability at the end. Some servers like the one I was on that desperately needed new people to stabilize and rebuild because of a mass exodus that happened right before season 2 got inflated transfer prices and we were locked in silver where we could not compete and could not bring anyone in because it was to expensive for them and not worth it, because we just placed last every week in unbalanced matchups for 9 long weeks, another exodus followed after that. Season 3 we basically fought the same servers 3 out of 4 weeks dealt with lots of blobbing and double teaming and people got burned out trying to win and eventually stopped caring, another exodus happened. Oh and lets not forget season 1 the worst of the worst, there was no low people did not sink to, and so many people including myself got burned out on wvw and just disgusted by how people acted, that started the first exodus on my last server, most of the wvw guilds went and stacked on other servers mainly back on t1, heck some left during the season, there was so much drama and server instability caused.

So yea seasons have a good history of screwing over a lot of servers and guilds, it was painful to watch. I think the only way for anet to make it less painful is to make it as meaningless as possible.

Man, you said it.

SoR got stuck at bottom of Silver and HoD at top of Silver. If SoR hadn’t rolled constant T3 matches and given most of it’s rating to DB instead of being able to spread the rating out to tiers 4-6, pre-season 2 would not have been characterized by four T2 servers vying for three T2 spots.

Funny how history repeats.

I don’t see how this is a bug with HoT. Definitely artwork issues with the current game, but since you’re not doing this test on HoT code, it isn’t a bug.

How are you testing? I have a female asura warrior that I can test with.

Anet can help the current Gold situation by not having divisions in the first place.

Dhemize.8649:

Chaba.5410:

Dhemize.8649:

Ew, another troll thread for server champion warriors to lobby for ganging up on a server.

Doesn’t this kind of garbage belong on the garbage forum? Can this joke of a thread be shut down and deleted now?

If you don’t like to read explanations of the thought processes behind certain PPT-oriented server-wide strategies, then no need to comment.

Please don’t prattle on about other servers in hopes of trying to convince others to gang fight for you. Your anger is spilling out all over the official forums now. Back off.

Oh yes, I’m so angry. /sarcasm

That’s why I’m taking my time to convince YB players to gang fight for me.

Dhemize.8649:

Ew, another troll thread for server champion warriors to lobby for ganging up on a server.

Doesn’t this kind of garbage belong on the garbage forum? Can this joke of a thread be shut down and deleted now?

If you don’t like to read explanations of the thought processes behind certain PPT-oriented server-wide strategies, then no need to comment.

NiloyBardhan.9170:

It sure does when that commander conveys the message throughout the whole server.

Things may be more organized on YB for such a thing to occur; not on FA. Lots of people have told that commander they’re going to play how they want. Staying focused on a single server is hard for us. It got easier once more people realized that the T1-style “pick a single server to focus for a whole week” tactic combined with the turtling was pushing us to T3.

Boreal.9826:

Chaba.5410:

FA wasn’t in that mystical “fights tier” for the most part. It was already in a state of collapse after Season 2.

The particular server isn’t important. Unless it involves YB, since the “fights tier” types view it as incompatible with the concept.

Yes, the server does matter. Understand your opponents.

FA has a large core of veterans that have been working to stay out of T3 because the RNG rolls and WvW Tournament divisions have twice kittened with this community, split it even, and no one here wants a repeat of that. YB’s opportunistic tactics and turtling are seen as the biggest threat to FA remaining in T2 because it makes other servers ignore YB.

It is good if YB is changing in that regard. Putting a focus on YB and flipping your upgraded stuff all the time encourages YB to play less defensively. I already read posts by YB players saying how PPT doesn’t matter. Wouldn’t have gotten there without that focus.

Boreal.9826:

Chaba.5410:

Boreal.9826:

You guys long for the good old days of T2

Which good ol’ days? You mean TC/FA/<bandwagon of the month>? Or are you referring to Season 2 and the GvG thing going on there because FA wasn’t in T2 in Season 2.

No, I’m referring to this mystical “fights tier” that folks seem to go on about. edit: see fishball’s reply. :P

BTW, you’re pretty good at taking quotes out of context.

FA wasn’t in that mystical “fights tier” for the most part. It was already in a state of collapse after Season 2.

And yes, we were pretty salty with each other. It says something that SoS and FA both turned some focus on YB. It was honestly the only way sometimes to get a fight out of YB.

Boreal.9826:

Subjective complaints aren’t really worth much.

Best ironic quote of the night!

Boreal.9826:

You guys long for the good old days of T2

Which good ol’ days? You mean TC/FA/<bandwagon of the month>? Or are you referring to Season 2 and the GvG thing going on there because FA wasn’t in T2 in Season 2.

Boreal.9826:

One thing is for sure, you can definitely say that FA and SoS have advanced this concept from what was previously isolated cases, into full mastery. Congo rats!

Do you need screenshots of SoS complaining about FA 2v1-ing them with YB’s help during this time when FA and SoS were also 2v1-ing YB?

One thing I can definitely say for sure is that YB was a good teacher.

JQ and TC’s 2v1 didn’t ultimately do anything to BG because they always had the population and coverage to recover from that with no threat of getting dumped into a dead tier. Now with four T2 servers and a dead tier below, the threat is real so the competition became high.

Chairface.9036:

Yes read that other stuff you’ll see just how dedicated they are to 2v1. Everything from going into detail about how they worked closely together to how famous commanders have spies on every server and even server forums. Its like night and day to this stuff.

I’m well acquainted with what has been written on that other forum. Thank you.

Nick.6972:

I do recall YB working with HoD (someone post those glorious pictures from FA Garrison with HOD and YB sitting together), nothing has changed over months.
As far as I’m concerned, you already showed FA back then that you’re not interested into fair matchups.

They were just being “opportunistic”.

I have a screenshot of that from the HoD side. LOL.

NiloyBardhan.9170:

Chaba.5410:

But how do you really tell between a 2v1 and “being opportunistic”?

Very simple. Provide evidence. If you want I can post the screenshot again where one of your server commander explicitly said he had deal with DB server leader to fully focus YB. Now go on with your usual rant of how we made a deal with DB too, bla bla bla without any actual evidence to prove it.

TBH, I won’t be surprised if we get 2v1’ed again next week. So yeah, bring it on!

A screenshot of one commander doesn’t show a server effort. At the same time other commanders were hitting DB, like we got waypoints up on DBBL hills and after it was lost we almost got a waypoint up again there. There’s also little point to dig up screenshots of stuff you can read on the other forum of Tyrion saying how he’s pushing on SoS.

Boreal.9826:

I dunno… if you look back farther than that matchup, you’ll see that DB tends to be an opportunist and does what is best for DB. Not unlike YB, and that’s as it should be and how I believe WvW was designed.

Nothing at all like the apparent lovefest between FA and SoS. Or is YB simply that scary to you two?

If the roll FA/YB/DB next week, we’ll just have to wait and see what DB decides to do.

One thing is for sure, the sustained 2v1 against YB has brought the server together and made us stronger. Not to mention, double the fights. I suppose we should be thanking you guys.

But how do you really tell between a 2v1 and “being opportunistic”?

We’ve already seen a FA/YB/DB match. Both YB and DB were “opportunistic” on FA. Then it was SOS/YB/DB match and both servers were “opportunistic” on SOS. Match after that was FA/YB/DB again but this time FA and DB were both “opportunistic” on YB because both servers were trying to secure their position in T2. Then last match was FA/YB/SOS and SOS was “opportunistic” on YB because YB continues to be seen as the bigger threat to FA. As you say this is how WvW should be.

Boreal.9826:

Chaba.5410:

Next match we are going to shoot for a 20% YBBL presence to beat your 19.7% focus on SOSBL and our previous 16%. Admittedly it’s only Sunday of this match, so our goal is 20% by Sunday.

Your dedication to your friends on SoS is kind of cute.

Don’t you mean DB?

T2 fa-yb-db match
DB focus: 13.9% ybbl, 4.5% fabl
FA focus: 16% ybbl, 7% dbbl

Andrew has a pretty good understanding of this. Players are looking for a quick solution but it just won’t happen since the server that ends up in T3 can usually gain rating and it especially won’t be quick with RNG rolls. And the longer this takes, the more time is given for whichever server gets pushed to T3 to get more organized and work to stay in T2.

Next match we are going to shoot for a 20% YBBL presence to beat your 19.7% focus on SOSBL and our previous 16%. Admittedly it’s only Sunday of this match, so our goal is 20% by Sunday.

Current T2 match
YB focus: 19.7% sosbl, 11.5% dbbl
DB focus: 12.4% sosbl, 11.6% ybbl

T2 fa-yb-db match
DB focus: 13.9% ybbl, 4.5% fabl
FA focus: 16% ybbl, 7% dbbl

Jski.6180:

Your never getting a get over the wall for free type siege .

Asura chucker. Pleaaaaaaaaaaaaase!

Sharpoon.8197:

You T2 servers need to get real. Stop being kitten (looking at you DB) and start thinking in the long term. In the end it’ll be the 3 servers with the best coverage that remain in T2 and the 4th will drop down the tiers. Think long term. SoS might look like it’s the weakest right now but they have a natural ocx population and come expansion it’s gonna balloon in size. Same thing with DB and their SEA. Those two servers are inevitably going to be in T2 in the future.

So now you look at FA and YB. Look at their histories. Which one, historically, has been stronger? Which ones numbers will rise more once expansion hits? Which one has better coverage right now? And of their coverage, which one is ACTUAL coverage and not artificial coverage caused by people playing 24 hours straight? Artificial coverage diminishes faster than real coverage because of burnout.

So you set it out plainly:
- Which server has the best coverage at the moment: FA or DB
- Which server has natural off peak population: DB, SoS and maybe FA (FA ocx was massive in the past and now that they’ve absorbed all of IoJ’s ocx on two separate occasions, they can easily market their server for other potential ocx players/guilds)
- Which of FA or YB has historically had higher coverage: FA

There’s your answer. And it’s already happening. SG (i.e. their pst coverage) is leaving. cA (i.e. 50% of their SEA) is bored and transferring back to T1. That means their remaining coverage lives and dies with NA overtime. That won’t last. No matter how many days they can pull 12 hour shifts, they will always reach a point where they have to stop. And you know that’s already happening because they got 3rd place two weeks in a row.

Stop dilly-dallying. Get kitten done. You want your fights? Purge the server that brought the siege humping, over timing and ppt kitten to the tier. It helps that more than half of their NA will transfer off immediately as well.

QFT. Best long-term projection I’ve seen.

Let us build those giant Charr tanks. Best anti-zerg weapon. Or a Pact airship.

It’s a bit of a foobar situation. They can’t merge servers to consolidate WvW populations because there’s no where to fit all the non-WvW populations.

Just a wild guess that DB’s full status is coming from inactive accounts that suddenly became active over the weekend as the HoT hype hit.

Dream In A Dream.7213:

What you need to do is destack every of those servers higher than t3.

You can’t destack off-hours players. Spreading them out into far more servers than they have total population for ruins the WvW experience for them. They really need their own set of servers. Literally, the only reason NA servers are in a higher tier has a lot to do with off-hours than with NA.

Lazaar.9123:

Chaba.5410:

With no enemy targeted, it goes in a straight line to wherever your camera is pointed. Contrast that with engineer’s similar flamethrower #2 skill which falls into the ground if you have no enemy targeted.

Are you sure you aren’t detonating the orb prematurely?

You’re thinking of Orb of Light. Orb of Wrath is scepter 1 skill.

Ahahaha you’re right. I see “orb” and immediately think the staff skill.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Two servers agreeing on which server to focus is probably enough.

But there’s four servers.

Crius.5487:

Why would you not detonate the orb? It’s a good clutch burst heal.

He may not be playing it that way.

Hi!

You might want to check out Echo or Unholy Mackerels. There’s also OBEY and PRO. Check out the FA guild recruitment posts at http://www.fort-aspenwood.com/index.php?/forum/16-recruitment/