Guild Wars 2

no sky in hell.9258:

Think he ment this build

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQJAURjMdQfH2FC2dAnIWKCMl8W0LLYMAeABg3jbyd6C-TVSBABbcIAu4BAQz+DUq+jZKBvS5He6C04IAAwFAIAACwNvZ28mBG6QH6QH6Qbn7co7co7sUABu1C-w

That is one YOLO build! I’ve been running full zerk for years, but I don’t think I’d be willing to take that beast out roaming. I might bring it out in a larger fight though, and certainly in a duel.

Of the two, I find DH to be more of a challenge than Scrapper (I assume that’s what you’re talking about, rather than base guard and engi).

I typically run melee, which would have me (ideally) running gs/a+sh along with Might Signet. The trick there is setting them up for a big bursts while Unblockable, and ideally with Resistance up so no blinds or snares to interfere with the bursts. Stability’s not a bad idea either. DH especially doesn’t have a large health pool, so you can sometimes down them with a big enough burst rotation.

That said, you’re pretty boned if you can’t surprise the DH enough to down him and he’s got a longbow and traps, because a lot of your stuff will be on cooldown. That’s where a ranged weapon comes in handy.

I find ranged weapons close to useless against a hammer scrapper, whereas I’ve had moderate success using a power bow or rifle against a DH, but it depends on the DH and build.

Jim Hunter.6821:

Those of you that think pet stats should be based off or ranger armor might want to rethink that position. Right now smokescale has roughly the same stats as our bears, which is basically as tanky as our pets get. If it scaled off our gear you wouldn’t see much difference against a bunker druid but you’d see a huge damage increase from glassier druids. A glass ranger using traits and utilities to buff a bird would be 1 shotting glassy builds.

Not sure I understand your reasoning here. Obviously base stats would be rolled way back and then keyed off of gear in a manner akin to player stats.

In your example, a smokescale would probably be a bad choice for a bunker druid because damage output would be super low, allowing an opponent to simply ignore the pet.

In your other example, yes the pet would be more dangerous and that’s not inherently a bad thing. If the scaling left that pet combined with the ranger way too overpowered, then it would have to be balanced like anything else in the game (e.g. by reducing base damage). Then again, such a pet may be balanced by how glassy it is, making it a more priority target.

If you thought the proposal was, “leave pets how they are, but then give them bonuses based on gear choices” then you’ve misunderstood the proposal.

Hyper Cutter.9376:

You’re not supposed to ignore the pet, you’re supposed to deal with them too. That’s the entire point of them as a mechanic.

Also your pet attacking something keeps you in combat, by the way.

It’s true, trying to maneuver the pet into your cleave is pretty important. But actually focusing the pet is a bit futile unless the druid’s asleep at the switch. If you kill him, fine, it’s out for 60s (iirc). But the druid can just swap it before it dies, which puts it on a mere 20s cd.

I’m inclined to think pegging a pet’s stats to the ranger’s gear choice is something worth exploring. I agree that the pet’s damage is factored into the ranger/druid’s own damage balance, but I don’t see the rationale in divorcing that damage from gear selection.

If a druid sacrifices damage for tank, then it’s reasonable to expect the same of the pet. Similarly, if the druid goes all in on damage, the pet should see a corresponding increase to its damage at the expense of its defense potential.

The tanked druid with full damage pets just seems too forgiving for bad play, imo. I don’t think the class is OP though… I think it’s generally in a good spot (great in some circumstances, useless in others).

I voted to keep DBL in play, and yet I never play it (even when it’s my home bl). Why? Because other people preferred it, I only play one map at a time, and I don’t need three virtually identical maps to play on when I already have two (plus EBG).

Honestly, with the amount people whine about wvw I’m surprised Anet hasn’t told us all to go kitten ourselves by now.

Oh man, let it go. There was a vote, people went for both maps (probably in recognition that it gave everybody the opportunity to play the maps they like).

If nothing else, at least Anet can collect data on map popularity to compare with how people voted. Think of it like an old school taste test for wvw.

I see. Tbh, I wouldn’t think rifle would be a very good weapon choice for the story line.

Greatsword is probably the best by a mile, and then your alt set would be to cover situations that your gs isn’t good for (e.g. bow for range and aoe, shield for block plus axe to keep your damage pressure up, etc)

Wow… it’s been a long time since I was level 60 or did that mission. Can you identify where in the mission you’re having trouble? (just give the time on this video)

I don’t remember having any trouble with the mission personally, but it looks to me like gs/a+sh or even gs/lb would work well on a power build.

Cluster the small groups up and unload with 100 Blades and Whirlwind Attack (using an obstacle to break line of sight and reduce ranged damage). GS would be your main damage dealer.

The shield would give you breathing room if things got heavy, but I think the bow might be better because with it you could just run around objects shooting your burst (F1) and Arcing Arrow (#3) behind you as the mobs chased you. Longbow #2 at point blank range also does a bunch of damage, and the blind on #4 is great too.

If you’re running condi, I’d expect longbow and sword would tear through that pretty quickly.

Be sure to have Adrenal Health going all the time (Defense Traitline).

I’ve heard that some people “leave wvw” through the wvw window. You still won the fight, they still wasted their time, and all they denied you was a broken lockpick or chipped claw.

XerMeLL.6042:

Hello, anyone else experiencing that when you are out of combat and no swiftness, when you whirlwind to an enemy i felt like my 25% movement passive is gone. i just tried it like whirlwind to a random mob and run. please confirm if anyone could test.

I’m not entirely sure what you mean. If you’re saying you think Warrior’s Sprint isn’t giving you a speed advantage when you use Whirlwind Attack, you’re right. They made it so speed bonuses (or penalties) don’t apply to movement skills over a year ago (some exceptions exist).

If you’re saying you used Whirlwind into a mob, hit them, then tried to run away and noticed your speed was down, it would be because you were in combat. Your trait was still working, but your base speed gets reduced in combat.

Great post. I also don’t want to derail the post into the issue of dueling, but I will say this:

1. If you interrupt a duel, some people might get upset with you but most will be patient and will try to let you know it’s a duel.
2. If you don’t notice their efforts, or choose to ignore them, the enemy duelers (and possibly the spectators) may kill you.
3. If it become clear that you interrupted a duel to troll, because you think they don’t belong in wvw, etc., there’s a reasonably good chance you’ll experience some blowback. Mocking in map chat by your server’s duelers, and being hunted with impunity by enemy duelers are all real possibilities. Your guild mates may also get some extra special love.

That said, it’s your call. You play the game how you want.

:D Best of luck with it… that’s been our reality for the last several weeks in T4, until this week for some reason.

A bit of advice from a seasoned veteran of the ol’ Beat Down Express, just don’t look at the score and see if you can do other stuff, like snipe the tail of a zerg, lead a large pursuing group off a cliff to their deaths, etc.

You’ll be happier for it… just don’t look at the score.

Too few Asuran beatsticks here. C’mon bookahs, get with it….

Tags: Male Asura Heavy Armor Warrior

I’d like to see Ehmry Bay linked with nobody and placed in T1. Let’s see how you kittens fare fighting enemies you can’t find! #EhmryGhostNinjaForce4Evah

Akkeros.1675:

Indeedio
Plus, our queue’s are much much much shorter

We have queues? I’m pretty sure we didn’t pay for that “upgrade”. I think you’re confusing it with the outnumbered buff, or rather the periods when we don’t have it.

Balthazzarr.1349:

Dawdler.8521:

Builds? Pfff I fight any builds.

What I dislike is fighting against that certain type of roamer that will happily and confidently go 1v1, yet at the first sign of loosing he is off like a rat on fire, presumably to save his 25 stacks or something. Or even worse, those that do the same in a small skirmish and abandons their mates.

Respect for those that stand and fight to the death even when their class/build could have let them escape.

Yes I don’t understand the point of “escaping”. Unless it’s a pve type person who isn’t ‘invested’ in wvw. When I back off, or run, it’s to get back some health and come and try again… but mostly it’s just do or die.. that’s the fun of it. I hate losing the stacks but meh… not hard to get them back

Running from a hopeless fight is the more strategic thing to do. It saves you time and (I guess) stacks, allowing you to move on to a fight you can win, respond to a contested point, flip something else, etc.

As I care less and less about things like score (I have almost no concern about it at this point), I find myself less inclined to run from fights though. I also regularly find myself diving into clumps of five or more (including 20+) to see how I’ll do now too.

morrolan.9608:

Its pretty ludicrous that Anet opted for linking rather than merges in part due to concerns over server identity and then did it in such a way that server identity has been completely lost anyway. What were they thinking?

Well, if I was right above, they were thinking that linking would probably diminish server identity, thereby making mergers less controversial.

I’m actually perfectly happy with the warrior shield.

Tbh, I have no major complaints about the class. Sure, I’d like to make a shave here, and a buff there, but nothing seems seriously wrong to me. At least nothing that should take dev time away from more pressing areas.

Jeknar.6184:

It’s dead… Let it rest in peace.

RIP Darkhaven 2012-2016

Now I have 2 dead servers on my summary (RIP Eredon Terrace 2012-2015)

I smell a protection racket in the making… Jeknar charging servers gold and, if they don’t pay up, he transfers there to trash the place. “Nice server you got here… I’d hate to see anything bad happen to it…. Pay up!”

An alt business would be taking bids, with the winner able to unleash Jeknar on an opposing server like an H-Bomb.

Honestly, I’ve thought since the beginning that the linking was a soft path to mergers or server deletion for these reasons.

The idea of mergers has been raised and resisted for years, in large part because of server identity and associated infrastructure (ts, websites, etc). The links were a way to see what mergers would look like (gameplay wise) while still being reversible. Meanwhile, server identity would be eroded as time went on, with people getting used to not seeing their servers names being mentioned or written anywhere, which would make server deletion/merger less controversial.

So, in effect, the links provide a way for Anet to (1) see/show how reducing the number of servers by half would look, and (2) to get the players used to not thinking about half the servers, thereby undermining resistance to deleting them, and it would be reversible if it looked like it wasn’t working.

To give you an idea of how effective the approach is, I’ve been on Ehmry Bay for years (only server I’ve been on), and there was a thriving community there with a lot of server loyalty and an active website, even when it tumbled to the absolute bottom of the rankings. The week before the linking, our score was supposed to put us above HoD in the rankings, but Anet didn’t account for that when they linked the bottom half of servers with the top half, so HoD became a host server and we became a linked server.

Like your experience, almost all of our core guilds (including those who’d helped us climb back up from the bottom to about midway) eventually transferred off, a lot of veteran players stopped playing (tired of the game, and no longer compelled to stick with it due to loyalty, relationships, etc), and I suspect most people wouldn’t kick up a fuss if Anet announced server mergers/deletion tomorrow. But I also suspect most people wouldn’t have left, nor would they accept server deletion, if we’d been and remained a host server.

So, yeah, I’m fairly certain what you’re experiencing is the prelude to your servers eventual deletion. If it’s intentional (as I suspect), then I don’t expect Anet will make the changes you want to restore your server identity.

(Note: HoD was a great server to be linked with, and there was no animosity from them not being linked to us as a host. They’re also a linked server now, so for all I know Ehmry would have been too even if we’d started out as a host server).

Totally agree with the others. Generally punish the squishier people who are doing higher damage (favoring those who do that damage from range), but:

• Switch targets if the loss of their contribution to the fight while they’re evading you is less than the loss of your contribution as you’re trying to chase them.

• If your opponents have one or more low damage/high group sustain or rez person, you’ll sometimes need to pressure the sustain person enough to keep them occupied while simultaneously focusing the primary damage dealer or your choice. Luring them both into cleave/aoe is a good way to do that. Once their damage dealers are dead, it’s just time and pressure to finish off the tanky sustainers.

Also, do what you can to interrupt rezzes, whether manual or skill based.

Cerby.1069:

Ghotistyx.6942:

Because the GS trait and food have no cooldown and 1s cooldown respectively, you should be critting often enough that you can fit 25 procs within 6+Might duration seconds.

how to hit something 25 times in 6 seconds….

with dumpling…how to hit 19 times and get full procs/second

srsly can u give realistic info……less ego and more fact plz.

with 100% quickness uptime yes this is all probably true per every 6 second interval. but some1 50% slower…no.

can prollly hit 20 might stacks eventually after way more than 6 seconds of whack-a-mole.

Well, if they’re fighting NPCs, a single hundred blades against three enemies will generate 24 might in just 3.5s using just the trait, provided all hits crit. 26-27 with golden dumplings.

Others have noted the oddity of requesting bigger maps with a declining player base. Beyond that:

• Your narrow passages request (2.1) sounds lot like the original version of the desert borderlands, which was largely rejected by people. It’s hard to say by how much, but the desert bl was certainly empty in my matchups and Anet’s changes to simplify it was positively received.

• Removing combat swords (3) was tried and it was an unmitigated failure. It led to more structure flipping without defense and fewer fights in every sense (from roamer to large scale). While it’s true that servers could post scouts/structure babysitters, that’s a boring job that most people don’t want to do, and it undermines the rationale for removing the swords indicator. Meaning, if people are alerted to a structure being sieged anyway (by the scouts), then all the change does is reduce the fun for the poor people who have to babysit.

• Increasing the importance of supply by making defense more costly (4). The game is already rigged in favour of the attacker rather than the defender (time already favours the attacker). Your changes would skew that much further, especially (but not only) in an outnumbered situation.

• I can’t imagine a siege situation when it would make sense to divert defenders to running 5 supply at a time (4.1), especially when doing so makes them easy to kill and has them moving slower (due to the loss of run skills, etc). Maybe after a combat is done, but how is that not just expanding the drudgery of wall repair? It just forces people to have to carry less supply more slowly and over longer distances to fill a larger pool.

• Your gliding idea (5) seems nuts to me. It reduces the likelihood of fights by facilitating stealth capping (especially when combined with no swords… people just silently glide over walls and kill lords) and reducing the likelihood of stumbling over people are heading them off in the field. It’s at odds with the justification you gave for complicating the terrain too (because now people can just bypass it). On the other hand, you’ve proposed lots of ways to completely negate gliding entirely (which compounds the other problems, rather than mitigating them). If every structure gets the upgrade you mentioned, then gliding can’t be used, and the potential for simple damage to be fatal makes it too risky in any sort of fight situation.

• Your prestige counter (a) seems totally at odds with your stated objectives, and greatly favours blobbing. As though it’s not bad enough to be the weaker server in a matchup, now your enemies will both get better loot AND reduce the quality of yours. Combined with your other changes to make defense way harder (no swords, reduced fortifications through supply changes, gliding) this seems like a recipe for making people not on the stronger side to leave wvw for pve or some other activity, which is definitely in the wrong direction.

• I like the desire to increase the rewards for scouts (who get left in the cold), but not that your changes (no swords, gliding) lead to more people having to be scouts (it’s boring) nor your mechanism. The mechanism is a little cumbersome even if used as intended (the scouts having to “loot” the commander within a range, the hassle of a commander having to keep track of all current scouts, actually adding them to this list, having more visual clutter (I assume). But it’s also a system in which the commanders likely often won’t use it for scouts, but for people running with them in their guild (just name your buddies for mad loots). In fact, when combined with the other changes, this becomes the more rational thing to do because taking objectives improves the quality of loot, the case for directing people to defense is less rational, using the system for scouts reduces the opportunity to claim this bonus loot (so directing it to people who can more reliably claim it makes more sense).

Anyway, sorry to be a downer about all of your changes. For what it’s worth, I like the imagery of it and the effort you put in. But they just seem counter to boosting fun within the context of this game.

Fivedawgs.4267:

Lol, thats nothing, any team which can focus will take you down in second. It’s easy to spot both EP and rock guard.

He has most of the defensive traits available to a warrior, two of the most defensive weapons (plus a high mobility weapon), and all three of his utilities are defensive in one way or another.

Is it just the lack of toughness or vitality in his amulet choice that makes you say he has “no defense”?

Fivedawgs.4267:

Kind of weak if you ask me… his build has no defense… You d literally die in a second.

But… it’s loaded with defense. It has the defense line, double EP, reflect on shield, mace, and shattering blow, Berserker Stance, CI and BR for condis, Dead or Alive and Eternal Champion, three stun breaks (one auto-procced).

Nuzt.7894:

bigTONY.8901:

You could just deal with it too. The server pairings are going to change eventually or just transfer if you hate it so much.

You’re missing the point, we shouldn’t have to “just deal with it” we should not have been placed in this position to begin with. We shouldn’t have to transfer, our server was doing just fine where it was but because Anet couldn’t see what every other NA player could see would happen in T4 they artificially boosted a T4 server and sent a server that wasn’t even close to falling into T4 down the drain.

Anet should have and could have stopped this before it even happened, but as usual, neglect is the easiest route.

Not exactly. I mean, glicko scores are based solely on the host server, so cd’s glicko didn’t accurately reflect its capabilities and it was stuck in a matchup that wouldn’t give it enough to move up a tier no matter how high its score (as you’re experiencing now).

Afaik, Anet gave cd a glicko buff for the purposes of matchmaking only (for two weeks). They’ll probably do it again this week too and, if they do, I imagine it’ll be closer to a +100 buff. That will put you, them, YB, and SoS in the running for the T3 matchup, but one of you will end up in T4.

All that means is they dealt with an unfair glicko wall that would have kept cd in hell for the entire duration of the current linking, and you ended up with 2 weeks of it (and maybe more, depending on your luck going forward).

Being on a server that will get crushed every week no matter which of you ends up drawing the short stick, I can’t say I have a lot of sympathy for you. I mean… you’ve had two weeks of crushing your matchups. Suck it up, buttercup.

I don’t think “let” is the right word there.

KaporHabakuk.6219:

My personal guess is,you cant put it on AA as it doesnt have 0CD like golem for example,but never tryed to leave AA on longer CD abils before,so aint confirmed

But you can put AA on any skill on your bar, whether it has a cd or not. Don’t think cd is a factor here… they probably just didn’t think to do it.

Dadnir.5038:

The ranger is the pet class of the game not the “archer” class… It’s not because you read “range” in ranger that the class is an archer archetype.

The selling point of GW2 at the begining was that in the game you wouldn’t need to change your profession to play any role in game. Which meant they intend to allow all profession to fullfill any role : healer, tank, support, melee dps and range dps. The design gave some profession a slight (dis)advantage in some of those role but that’s all.

What more do you want in an archer than what Supreme has in his linked video above?

I’ve gotta disagree with the OP here. I’m so bad with my thief, he won’t even let me play him anymore. When I select him on the login screen he says, “kitten off” and turns his back.

On a more constructive note, I’ve found Redeemer’s youtube guides helpful in understanding the concepts. Wish my thief would let me try out some of the lessons though.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdc9SmxWS0EMtljhqIER9gg

Hitting 12k aoe, I wouldn’t care if they made it sound like Gilbert Gottfried yelling, “warriors suck!”every time I used it.

alain.1659:

That is not a ranger. That is a longbow using druid. I feel you dear OP (as I myself love the concept of archers but there are no archers in this game, and I think there will never be. So either play longbow ranger or dragon hunter to satisfy your playstyle, or just try something entirely different.

What are you talking about? You’re lamenting the absence of archers in the game, but then turning your nose up at the best archer in the game, which also happens to be an excellent build relative to all classes.

The OP made a comment about not wanting to be a healer with the druid. Fine, don’t be one. The druid offers more than just healing.

Honestly… zerk and/or valk lb/staff (or gs/staff) druid running shouts can be an amazing roamer/havoc member, providing excellent dps, sustain, ally buff, etc.

Why don’t you play it as a dps oriented archer? It’s one of the strongest wvw roamers in the game.

Stay near water so you can break it at any time? You could reclaim the word “troll” to mean “a scary monster who lives under a bridge” again. Your water gates will be safe once more!

Hesacon.8735:

With YB and SoS bleeding glicko points to CD (despite CD coming in third), there is a glicko wall forming that will prevent movement between T2 and T3.

It’s unlikely to become a wall before the server links are shuffled. Then everything will be borked again.

Eh, they’re fixing a glicko cliff that wouldn’t have occurred before server links, but was a problem with the current pairings. They’re unlikely to intervene next Friday, which will have the matchmaking at T3 and T4 working better until the next time server links are shuffled.

Honestly, SBI got two weeks of boring matches and now we have two threads on this, with one of them demanding an apology? Lol, guys, you have too much time on your hands and a serious lack of perspective.

I made a set with Defender Runes (berserker stats) to experiment with as a roamer, but I went back to the strength runes after a couple of days.

I run shield (but not mace), and I didn’t find I was getting enough from them to make it worth the damage tradeoff. I run shield mastery, Defender doesn’t proc off reflect, and I couldn’t count on lots of melee hits to give me much in the way of regen. The big heal every 30s wasn’t enough of a draw.

I might experiment with Scrapper next as far as a defensive option goes, and Scholar may be better than Strength on a dps set (I think in most cases it is).

How is this a problem now that we have revealed for 5mins? Is it just after a successful defense (because there’s no reveal then)?

Huh, I’m gonna have to test this out. I was sure I’d interrupted the skill using Whirling Strike… on multiple occasions.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Whirling_Strike

Doesn’t a simple cc stop the rez and put the skill on CD?

DrDivine.5378:

Choppy.4183:

Yeah, warriors are better now than they were 4 months ago for sure. What’s the context where you’re trying to beat them? Duels, spvp, something else?

Also, do you know what they’re throwing at you? Is it heavy on traps, plus a longbow?

Yeah longbow and traps give me a hard time, but I also know that since Ive been gone I dont have a warrior/berserker build that is relevant xD got any builds?

Caedmon has it right for that, then. By using a rifle, you can avoid walking through their traps and then you can use Signet of Might and Signet Mastery to ruin their projectile hate.

If I was building for that purpose (i.e. specifically for duels), I might pair the rifle with a+sh to provide some nice reflect for their longbow and a hard hitting, up close weapon in case they teleport to you. I’d go full scale damage, which means I’d personally opt for scholar runes.

Caedmon.6798:

ERES.9135:

Hello,
my today’s rush journey: Some crazy warrior wants to rush me, but i saw that he don’t rush in my direction so… maybe he don’t target me. In that case i decided not to dodge, but…
https://youtu.be/lKRNFUPAj0Q

They added an aoe effect to rush to make it land better..The aoe just seems a bit too large indeed.

if only they just make rush like fiery from ele..all would be good.

On the other hand, he was clearly targeted and the warrior still went off in a weird direction.

So, while I agree the (single target) aoe shouldn’t be that big, it would have been worse for ERES if Rush had behaved properly because he would have been hit AND the warrior would have been next to him.

Jim Hunter.6821:

Yeah I didn’t see a lot of them in your tier, but the only ones I find in t1/t2 are running those kitten ed runes and boon duration food.

Salt rubbed… wounds burning. QQ

Hopefully those runes get clipped before the next balance patch though. I’d hate to see the warrior get nerfed instead, since it would miss the root of the problem.

Jim Hunter.6821:

The problem with that war boon duration build is there isn’t enough of a window to burn them down, even if the ranger is full zerk their damage is too low since durability runes bump most warriors up to 3k+ armor. Actually, especially if the ranger is full zerk because then they really have to keep as much distance as possible making it very easy for the war to reset any time he is in danger.

Oh, I agree that the build is broken. But yes, if the warrior just keeps resetting then he’s in the same spot as the tanky druid and you’ll get that stalemate you mentioned.

That said, most warriors still aren’t running the boon build and most warriors couldn’t get far enough from a druid to reset. You wouldn’t have to keep that much distance. Tbh, I’ve been looking at druids lately and I think I see quite a lot of build potential there, to the point I might start playing one to try some things out.

Jim Hunter.6821:

I’m really surprised by this thread. Since the adrenal health boost a good warrior is pretty much the biggest threat to rangers in wvw, especially with the ridiculous boon duration build.
The high stability and resistance uptime keeps you nearly immune to CC, which the ranger needs to keep you from closing the gap. And by rotating shield block/reflect, invulnerability and adrenal health a ranger shouldn’t have enough dps to kill you in the small windows where you are vulnerable.

When I’m on my ranger I kill plenty of bad warriors, but the good ones are a death sentence unless I’m in the open field where I can kite around them and stalemate the fight. When I’m on my war I decimate rangers.

Well that’s the thing, we’re talking about open field and 1v1. But you wouldn’t need to stalemate the fight if you were running zealots or berserker gear, because you’d be able to out position the warrior, deny both his damage and sustain, and then wear through his remaining defenses fairly quickly.

Sure, get stuck with a warrior in close combat with no way of escaping, then he’s probably going to get through your defenses before too long while his sustain and damage output are high. But even then, it’s not a guarantee for the warrior (the odds are in his favour though).

Yeah, warriors are better now than they were 4 months ago for sure. What’s the context where you’re trying to beat them? Duels, spvp, something else?

Also, do you know what they’re throwing at you? Is it heavy on traps, plus a longbow?

Yeah, it happens. It’s a bit like the Dolyak bug, and you have to use movement skills to reach the body. Had one that kept rolling to the water at one point.

There’s nothing stopping SF and DH from banding together to fight SBI. Might be more fun for everyone involved, SBI included.

Jeknar.6184:

Choppy.4183:

I mean, I’m with Jeknar in that I’m pretty much ok with whatever at this point.

Deleting the bottom servers is one way to go, but so is deleting the top and enforcing hard caps on server pop when it comes to transfers.

I’ve not once heard anyone from the top suggest deleting their servers…

People will always dodge when you mention deleting their precious T1 server. No point going over that…

It’s more of an observation than anything. As you mentioned, people were calling for deleting lower tier servers or merging them into higher tier as early as (I think) about two years ago, but it’s almost always been people in the higher tiers calling for it.

Seems to me if they’re really just interested in evening out the populations to improve the overall state of the game, rather than grinding up other peoples’ servers to serve their own interests, they’d volunteer to grind up their own bloated servers instead.

I’m personally not fussed either way though. Ehmry’s server identity has largely collapsed through the linkings and general fatigue, and I’ve not paid much attention to score for months. I do have fun solo roaming with impunity though.