Guild Wars 2

The primary reason to transfer these days is due to WvWvW. Tier-based transfer pricing would be best.

This is the effect of…
1) free transfers
2) gold league being only 6 servers
3) ratings isolation cause of leagues (servers at the league borders being prevented from fighting each other)
4) slow glicko adjustments for population changes
5) WvWvW’s lack of teams of roughly equal size

Going to PvE might be a good idea. Wait until the ratings adjustments finally blow over.

Snowreap, please consider adding the predicted ratings used in your analysis. I’m kind of wondering what “reasonably close” means and how much of a difference is needed to throw the numbers significantly off.

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Regardless of warning, it is aggravating when the golems despawn due to a patch. It doesn’t happen to other siege and the omegas are the most expensive of them all.

You notice it more if you have an alt account because it seems like one account is more lucky than another even though the other has a higher magic find %.

Ah. To be fair, they didn’t say that it was tied to the achievements, but that could have caused some gaming of the system to occur, where ppl would hold off playing until later in the tourney to see which server to go to. In your case, did you complete any achievements on SoR? The game thinks you did most achievements there it seems.

I’m convinced that the rng is salted by something unique to each account.

WTB T2 match plox.

You can’t transfer mid-season and expect TC rewards. Anet did that to discourage mid-season transfers to winning servers. Re-read the blog post about the tourney and world association.

One of the ways to develop your scouts is to be responsive to their call-outs.

One of the reasons I liked pugmanding was that you gotta make a mental picture with the information scouts are sending you and think ahead and constantly evolve your choices like a chess game. But that is only possible when there is a challenge due to teams being of roughly equal size or you are somewhat outnumbered. If your server is outnumbering another by a wide margin, all that goes out the window and it becomes just mindless running from one objective to another. That’s why I only really pugmanded when the going got tough.

Oh, and we are West Coast so we don’t start our raid until like 9pm Pacific.

Hamster,

Probably. LOL. We just started raiding last match and are still working on building our team. It’ll be a story of how to take noobs and scrubs and turn them into a skill group. LOL.

It’s usually a dearth of players wanting to tag up for whatever reason. Buy a tag and become a commander yourself. Make sure you have a thick skin and don’t care about what other people think.

Kind of wish FA could fight DB but that would require another T3 server to roll a T2 match, which is next to impossible.

Chris Barrett.3280:

have one particular time-related variable set to many years in the future

Funny you mention that…

Zaxares.5419:

I got the Torch. The white flame goes REALLY nicely with Radiant armor.

I’ll have to check that out. I use Radiant on my warrior though.

Svarty.8019:

Chaba.5410:

This is a result of the Glicko rating and matchmaking system.

It adjusts almost too slowly to population changes like the SoR implosion and HoD bandwagon.

Finally, someone agrees.

Where have you been all my life?

Sword because my asura warrior is radiant and needed a weapon skin to go with it.

Golem in a Box!

To be fair, no one expects to not get the season rewards due to transfers post-season. There is no way to expect it since the underlying game architecture is only understood by Anet.

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Looking especially for guardians, necros, eles, an awesome thief and mesmer, maybe an engineer or two.

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Vyrance.1723:

Even though we lost the match, we were still pretty happy with how well we did and the fact that you had to pull the extra hours yourselves.

And SBI deserves mad props for that match (see unofficial match-up thread). You helped unleash the FA kraken that didn’t seem to slow down post-season either.

inb4 match-up thread lock.

TLC on Fort Aspenwood is recruiting for Pacific as we build a team for GvG. We run Mon-Fri starting 9pm Pacific, which is midnight EST, and run until around midnight Pacific. Must use Teamspeak. PM me for more info.

A few of us last night were talking in TS about how we’d prefer expansion packs we could buy as well compared to the current model. If a GvG mode were in it, we’d definitely buy it.

The answer about resources is really really really really simple. Sell game expansion packs like what was done in GW1. Include a new GvG mode maybe via guild halls, some new playable race and/or class, etc. People would buy it just like they bought Factions.

The skill isn’t overpowered just because of the design of the map. Put the skill in a different map context and it is pretty normal. This reminds me so much of the calls to nerf engineer knockbacks in PvP just because the capture nodes are too small of a radius.

Hamster.4861:

Chaba.5410:

Really we gotta make an excuse for why FA didn’t pull all-nighters regularly during the tournament like other servers? We hate the tournaments. Why would we want to sacrifice our sanity by staying up all day er’day?

well that is clearly a silly, healthy idea.

chaba why would you want to do the healthy thing for your mind and body. There’s a tournament to win.

Guess I’m selfish that way. XD

Really we gotta make an excuse for why FA didn’t pull all-nighters regularly during the tournament like other servers? We hate the tournaments. Why would we want to sacrifice our sanity by staying up all day er’day?

Look at it this way. All the other servers we fought artificially inflated their numbers and coverage by staying up late and doing other weird things like NA militia commanders taking power naps then waking up to organize SEA. And you did that to your detriment because it doesn’t reflect your “normal operating speed”. So you end up with little idea of how your server’s performance normally would be. That’s a loss in a race cuz you got nothing left when your opponent pulls a power 10 in the last 500 feet (yes, I used to coxswain).

Baron Oakley.1539:

The real problem is that the Glicko rating is too sticky.

If there’s any doubt of this, look at SoR getting stuck in matches with DB so so many times in the month before Season 2, which caused them to then get stuck at the bottom of Silver for the season (9 kitten weeks!) when they should rightly have been in Bronze.

AFAIK the NA and EU instances are two different databases. When you transfer to EU from NA, your account data exists on both databases but only one copy is the “live” version (you can tell from seeing your account now on both the NA and EU achievements leaderboards). Probably because the EU servers are different, they cannot copy the NA rewards data for your account to the EU instance. The game has little idea which server you are associated with for rewards purposes then unless you transfer back to NA sooo…. they should make transfers free for you who are affected. Good luck.

Bearbow even? XD

atheria.2837:

but FA learned their lesson and started buying guilds by the dozen.

Dozens? Thousands!!!!

This is a result of the Glicko rating and matchmaking system.

It adjusts almost too slowly to population changes like the SoR implosion and HoD bandwagon.

Just want to add in general, posts like this don’t really help Anet determine that something is bugged. Need video and date/time otherwise this is a needle in a haystack.

atheria.2837:

I “see/process” very fast (I am speed reader )

I usually hit my heal, melee weapon and my pet f2 very close to one another

Slow down then. It is possible that you are confusing the game. Lag, server load, and network latency are real.

Are you dodging or doing some other weird thing like trying to activate another skill or weapon swap before Entangle is fully cast? I know nothing about ranger skills, but I do know that some stuff is bugged and will go on a full cooldown without taking effect.

For example, look here. At 0:45 in this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUWzyFTm0qw&feature=player_detailpage#t=49) I activate Renewed Focus then do a weapon swap before it is fully cast. The skill ends up on full cooldown and doesn’t reset the virtues.

P.S. Screenshots suck. Record video. And yea, the guy targeted in the screenshot has stability up. Being aware of skills and rotations other players are using is the “skill” part of this game. It is what makes PvP much more interesting than PvE.

SleepingDragon.1596:

yanniell.1236:

Right now, SoR has the same transfer price as BG, TC, JQ, etc. Just lol.

Make it easy. Merge them smaller servers and be done with it. Pointless to have servers that barely have 1/5 population of the top 5 servers.

Server population is greater that WvW population, which presents a slight problem when suggesting server merges based solely on wvw rank. But yea, tier based pricing makes a lot more sense since megaserver implementation. It is the wvw population that cares about transfers.

Straegen.2938:

They sieged N camp in HoD BL with 4 ballistas and 3 ACs along with about 10 players. Then they proceeded to farm pugs that came to flip the camp. This went on for hours and is probably going on now.

Have you never done this to an enemy’s north camp? That’s nothing unique to YB. Setting up a farm like that is very old. Usually we’d add in rams and trebs too for the lulz.

atheria.2837:

Johje Holan.4607:

As for HoD, it couldn’t have been all transfers that made you all the powerhouse of Season 2. Must’ve been PvE’ers coming out too. Yall need them to get back in the game.

I’ve been trying to tell Anet that no server can do what you are suggesting… Why? The megaserver.

Not true. Many servers can get PvE’ers back. The core of a server community typically have good relationships with each other. It is as simple as sending in-game mail to the leaders of a server’s PvE guilds and asking them to rally in WvW for a coordinated one-night push. Bandwagon servers don’t have that. Their core community is much smaller and overwhelmed by the mass of new players who don’t have relationships with each other. The only problem with megaserver in the situation of bandwagon is that it makes it harder to increase community, but please don’t make generalizations about other servers based on that.

atheria.2837:

When is Anet going to address the literal buying of guilds?

Probably about the same time they address free transfers.

Jhawk.1360:

I just wanted to thank Devon Carter for responding to the comments made
(Whether they were nice or not…. <.<)

This isn’t the Devon Carter you’re looking for.

Yea, the year count of each map is funny, but absurd. No business operates that way. The design phase of a product is given more resources for design than when the product enters the production phase.

They’re only human, much like the players who just bash the devs.

Really would like some redesigning of Bay, Hills, Garrison, other towers, etc. It would probably take less resources than whole new maps.

No really. Change the objectives on the current maps. Look at the words written in the past: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/big-changes-coming-to-wvw-matchups/

“when you fight the same worlds with the same tactics you never really get to learn anything new and adapt your strategy. "

The same principle applies to the current maps.

Do you get loot for logging out too? Maybe they should give higher quality loot for logging in and lower quality loot for logging out.

(I apologize to the OP for taking your idea to the absurd. Your intentions were pure.)

Short answer: matchmaking is based on the server glicko2 rating.

Long answer: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/big-changes-coming-to-wvw-matchups/ and https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/wvw-matchup-variance-reduction/