Anet, reboot the server already. Can’t you see that the lag and dc’s in green bl is affecting the matchups with players preferring to play on the maps that are not having this issue?
Seriously though, is this really a thing? FA holds off both YB and SoS from our EB keep and garrison almost every night into late NA for roughly the same time with less defenders and less siege until our players go to bed for the night. No one here comes bragging about it. That’s just the way things are.
inb4 match up thread.
Last match it was the Blue BL (YBBL) with lag and dc’s. This week it’s Green BL with the lag. Please fix!
The best way is to join a WvW guild.
I thought the revivable yaks disappear after a certain amount of time.
Our friend Chaba has the correct answer to this text wall with soundtrack add’s lol
Very often BG forces hit something from JQ and dont get proper opposition and we just go away. So many times I saw a guild dropping outer and inner, waiting for the defenders and when no1 came, just left to pugs cap it. We dont want your Garri, we want you inside fighting for it. The reallity is way less dramatic then you’re saying my friend.
The next step in that thought process though is to ask why the defenders do not come out to fight. Do the attackers outnumber the defenders? Are the attackers a guild group while the defenders are a pug group?
While your point might be true, I’ve already seen many big groups just change their mind on trying to take somenthing simply because they face oposition… Depending of where you are attacking and how many defenders are in the place, it will be very time consuming and people that just want to K-train don’t find it worth it.
I’ve seen this too. I want to add though another reason why big groups change their minds. These big attacking groups are looking for fights. They may be trying to coax the defenders into one by attacking a structure (PPT for fights) but the defenders scurry away instead of fighting. Even more depressing, a group takes the time and effort to get into an upgraded structure only to have the defenders run away when all their defensive siege is down. In those instances, why even bother with the siege?
Fort Aspenwood remains a stable server with a target-rich play environment. The GvG scene is growing again with FA guilds leading the way. We’ve received a few more transfers who want in on the action and former FA-ers who are returning, questioning why they ever left.
I think conditions are meant to be sustained damage, contrasting with spiked damage; high damage over time rather than high damage per second. Compare with sustained heals versus burst heals.
The YB omega golem obituary count is up to 51 so far.
Calling all early OCX/OCX prime/SEA players, don’t miss your opportunity to get in on all the bags!
Mark Katzbach on another thread wrote:
“If you want to see more developers participating in the lower tiers, then encourage more of the lower-tiered guilds to apply.”
I only just saw this on the other thread that got locked and want to respond about it here. Correct me if I’m wrong, but lower tier servers don’t have as many active WvW guilds for the simple fact that the population is smaller. It sounds like a bit of a catch 22 to me.
They need to implement some of the things from EOTM into WvW, as they originally planned, such as the sentries, especially if white swords are going to go away.
Basically what Nox said. Unless you’re willing to lend your experience to helping to build up one of the new GvG guilds on YB (there are some starting up), you need to look at SOS or FA.
That’s not true. Been scrimming all week in T2.
Yes, still a problem. Need this QoL fix. This happens in FULLSCREEN mode.
I shouldn’t need to purchase a third-party application to prevent the mouse from escaping GW2’s Fullscreen mode.
Anet,
Please fix! I thought it was the Nvidia driver doing this and suspected some keystroke combination is doing it but I read from other websites that this problem is dependent upon the game. So I came here and found this thread and sure enough I’m not the only one this happens to.
I have two monitors and run GW2 in Fullscreen mode on the primary monitor.
There’s third-party utilities that lock the mouse into the Fullscreen and I may have to do this because it is no fun at all to be in the middle of a big zerg battle and have GW2 suddenly minimize.
I play pretty low key usually, and don’t use the team chat unless there is something to report. I’m in a tiny guild, however I’m on everyday helping the server wherever I can.
I started out in both GW1 and this game (at launch) in a family and friends guild. It was tiny. Still in it, of course. I ended up playing more and doing more in GW2 than in GW1 because I stepped outside of that small circle, part of the reason why I’ve been on other servers too. It’s been great because I’ve learned a lot more than I would have otherwise. Try out Tier 1 to see it for yourself, but also know that you always have a home where you came from.
It would be sad to see you go, but a little confusing at the same time since I never saw you much get involved in the server community, only post sometimes on the FA and gw2wvw forum. The GvG scene right now is so miniscule and the majority of guilds on FA do not participate in it: TK, Dcon, coVn, Echo, PRO, WP, FTF, to name a few.
That said, I have an account on TC and you might enjoy it because they try more to take care of their militia than FA has, especially now that they are in T1. They have more pugmanders; TBH T1 has more people in general. But militia tends to be militia as everywhere (I’ve been on 5 different servers so far now.) and do not get into community VOIP and do a lot of running and respawning. Other servers deal with the same issues.
Good luck with what you are looking for.
Yak’s Bend is balancing out T2 nicely. Fort Aspenwood is still looking for late PST and OCX who want epic fights against [SG] Shadow Gypsies and YB/SOS militia.
rule #1 of playing WvW as an uplevel — DO NOT GET DOWNED OR KILLED. stay back if you have to. run away frequently if needed; do everything in your power to avoid getting killed.
This is really the only rule needed. I bring uplevels into WvW for leveling a lot. I play extremely defensively, using ranged attacks mostly, and keeping the commander and other players as my meatshields, trying to stay ahead of the flow of battle. I also build for high mobility with swiftness, stability, leaps and teleports and try to get as many tags on downed as possible for the XP. It is possible but you have to know how to play first, know your class, skills and traits and the combat mechanics.
Signed,
- FA’s best uplevel
I was curious why the leagues are broken down the way they are for NA? Gold – 6 servers, Silver & Bronze 9 servers each.
…..If it’s because of the 3 servers per map, why does gold get the smallest server sample?
I have always assumed it is because the top tier servers have greater percentage of total WvW playing population. If 80% of the active WvW population is concentrated into the top 6 servers… Gold should only be 6 servers.
Remove the white swords from sPvP and see how well it goes over there. SMH.
Not to be a Debbie downer but didn’t the same thing happen when FA came up to T2 after S2? There was that one close week and then everything went back to SoS running away with the score? Hopefully, things will be different this time though. YB looks like a stable server for T2 since they seem to have a healthy appreciation for ppt and fights.
Yes, basically. Couple that with some SoS commanders saying they are going to focus on FA during this match, essentially leaving YB unharrassed by SoS for the most part, so that YB can leech rating off SoS. I just hope YB will continue to put up the fight they are putting up when SoS starts playing normally.
Hi,
If you are looking for a challenge during 8am-12pm EST, consider Fort Aspenwood.
- Community TS3 server
- Guilds during that time: GWAM, WB, DPS, MKN, etc.
- Middle-of-tier server: no easy fights during that time
- Strong core server community who are used to being “underdogs”.
- Community forum: http://www.fort-aspenwood.com
(edited by Chaba.5410)
FA has always recognized the value of and welcomed all the playstyles. We are not Maguuma, sorry. We’re “old school T2”.
Check out TIN
http://www.fort-aspenwood.com/index.php?/topic/4856-triumphat%C3%B3res-%C3%ADn-neb%C3%BAlas-t%C3%ADn-pvp-roaming/
Fort Aspenwood: the reason why there is now free armor repairs.
Gold league and this week’s match hopefully showed Anet that bc the glicko rating does not account for wvw player transfer, it leads to uncompetative matches. Fix the ratings! S3 would have been more competative in both gold and silver if Maguuma didnt get kittened by that random roll to stay in T2 right before the season. It was like SoR getting stuck in silver all over again.
Now’s the time to get into T2! The competitive matches are back and we’re primed to reboot the GvG scene! FA could use some more OCX and SEA to farm SoS bads in a target-rich environment.
Welcome back to FA! LOL!
I don’t know what gvg players expected trying to stack into T1. There’s a reason T2 was gvg tier…
Come to FA. Lol.
Knowing that another server has an overnight presence that yours does not is one of the greatest demoralizing factors in wvw. It won’t change until Anet addresses the coverage imbalance.
Fort Aspenwood is
the SoS bag-farming
server you will love
It’s not related to the season. It’s related to the fact that their populations are Full and Very High.
60-man? Pets and minions don’t count.
A healthy server plays for a mix of fights and PPT.
I’m not surprised this comment comes from an FA player. This is one of the “secrets” behind FA’s stability. Call it “old school T2”.
- Please no swearing (if there’s TeamSpeak or map chat), no music and clean game footage
i hypothesize that the subset of people who record gameplay has almost nobody who doesnt record music… =/
They’re also asking for no swearing in mapchat. I highly suspect they’re asking for a rendered video file. Which leads to another question: which render settings do they want the files in? I can strip the audio out and cover up the chat box. The render settings I use for YouTube though produce a lower quality product than if I just re-render at a higher quality and upload that to Google Drive.
- HD quality; we need the actual video file, no link to YouTube please; the ideal way for you to share this with us is probably a hosting service such as Google Docs for example;
- Please no swearing (if there’s TeamSpeak or map chat), no music and clean game footage
OK, so I have some footage of Hugh running around with CERN last reset (not much). Here’s the catch. You seem to be asking for the actual video file and no music. It is a confusing request. Are you asking for the raw video file or the edited and rendered video file that I upload to YouTube? The raw files are unedited and include an audio track. That means it would be up to you guys to strip that out when you edit the footage. A rendered video file means some quality is lost but I can strip out the music/audio for you.
Which file do you really want?
From my experience, it isn’t that higher tiers have higher skill level, it’s that each tier has it’s own meta. When two different metas meet, the results can be hilarious for one side and depressing for the other.
The guardian build looks like an evolved version of the old healway build, which I ran a few times with SIC.
RIP HOPE
/15char
Check your mail.
oT on FA is recruiting.
Apparently, there aren’t any ecologists that play/program in this game.
This is awesome. I too suspect it has something to do with rewards, but I was looking at it wrong; blaming the higher EOTM rewards with taking players away from WvW.
I made this for you, BooDuh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFx3LDgv3m8
Yak Parade history -
Still a Yak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgxHAo1zmIw
We Are Yaks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3edgFJZcNo
Breaking up the Yak Parade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvcgrys9lr4
What’s combat mod?
It is not important. Usually when someone moves the base attack onto a remote key it implies the use of that mod (not that I think there is anything wrong with that).
I would still like to see your build though. I have been playing with medi builds but my current one is not as efficient as yours.
Oh. No I don’t use any mods. Keybindings are indeed custom though based on ideas from Taugrim’s old post.
The build is from my FLOT friends. They have it posted on the TC forum in the builds section so you can easily find it. I’m still working on fully gearing and learning it. I’m using mostly exotics with ascended trinkets.
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