Here’s what REALLY happened. FA and DB melted down before season 1 and that brought SoS and Maguuma up into T2. Both were mere fractions of the size that FA and DB were before that and the matches reflected the disparity.
Since then, SoS has grown into a full fledged T2 server on par with the servers that were in that tier 1+ year ago. Maguuma has remained the same; only picking up two SEA guilds (one of which were bored SoS players wanting someone to face).
FA rebuilt, but only rebuilt their EST NA and not much else.
So you have one legit T2 or T1.5 server with modest to good coverage 21 hours a day (that gap soon to be covered) and two servers with good coverage for about 6 hours a day.
Queue… that is adorable.
This is what OCX looks like in T2.
That’s with SoS only running two WvW OCX guilds that raid 1-2 times a week. That’s all casuals since FA’s OCX lost their….determination… somewhere and Maguuma’s OCX commander has retreated to Borlis Pass with some of Maguuma’s scrubbier guilds.
Well we lost at least half of our server/guilds to HOD last tournament, so…
And they all transferred off to Tier 2 servers after HoD decided they didn’t want to fight Tier 2.
Now they are known as Henge of Irony.
The results can still be manipulated. They didn’t really fix anything unless I’m missing something.
You have three servers. If two of them team up and make the other get third for that week, that server will never place higher than the other two. This going under the assumption that they won’t face each other again and they all get first the next three weeks.
We could see the same as last season but the results of the tournament determined at the end of the first week.
There could be a little volatility if the three servers face each other separately with another server each of the other weeks. However, so long as that server that got teamed up on loses to one of those servers, the best they could hope for is to tie with second.
Third scenario is if the server that scored 1st the first week let’s the team they teamed up with take 1st when they play them. This forces the server that got teamed up on to still get third.
Assuming that the top tier servers go all out during the season and don’t phone it in every other week (screwing everyone else over) there will be a 6 place tie for 3rd and two-way ties for 2nd and 4th.
I hope that happens because I really want to see the tournament idea flop.
Golden crystals and Zephyrite worship of Glint points directly at Glint’s offspring.
I think it’s equally possible that the Sanctum was transporting an Egg.
Better question, what was the Zephyr Sanctum doing in in the skies over Maguuma? There is adequate reason if their “home skies” was the Isles of Janthir (makes a lot of sense, human settlements not beholden to a major kingdom that they can trade for food, fresh water, and relatively isolated from Elder Dragons.) However even that opens a can of questions not answered.
The reason I bring up the question, is if they were hoping to hatch one of Glint’s eggs they had on board, they might have been hoping to leech some of that ley-line energy and get out before Mordremoth could respond. I guess they didn’t count on the Dragon corrupting other Sylvari so quickly.
Actually, as a Commander of the Pact I think it is way more in-character that the player character defers to the Council Asura, instead of giving in to Taimi who – despite being a traveling companion and genius – is still a child and has acted irresponsibly several times throughout the story. That’s of course very much in-character for her, but from the viewpoint of a Commander it is clearly the better choice to defer to the experienced Asura of the Council. Phlunt might be a snarky kitten like most of them, but he probably didn’t obtain his position (in a culture that seems to be based on meritocracy) by being incompetent.
Forgive me if this point was addressed above, but isn’t a major plot point in the DE book and in Asura lore that the Council are not the cream of the crop?
The Council is formed from Asuran with modest academic achievements who failed to find adequate reasons to not be on the Council.
In this context, doesn’t seem like Phlunt wants to use the waygate tuning research as his ticket off of the council? Which is about as self-motivated a member of the three colleges can get; any other forms of self-motivation would drive that Asuran out of the colleges and into other entities (Orders, pirates, Inquest, etc)
The most important factor is how long you are willing to stay tagged up. It takes a good 15-30 minutes sometimes before people trust you are going to stay tagged and not rage quit if things don’t go your way. The more successful PuGmanders only tag when they have time and don’t tag when they only have a few minutes.
If you don’t have a tested and trusted group on you, start out with easier stuff if possible. Take some camps or paper towers; give them a taste of success before asking the difficult and higher risk tasks.
Be vocal on what you need, what your plans are, and how you plan to move in engagements.
Be encouraging, take blame for your mistakes (even if you think the PuGs could have done better), and persevere. Bring feasts/pots as well as providing your own siege are also good starts.
Let’s face it, without viable competition in the bizarrely small-field of massive-multiplayer online PvP; ANet doesn’t need to do a single thing.
There is no need for them to innovate, no need for them to divert resources from the much more value-added time they put into LS and PvE content.
Even if they are inclined to devote more resources into WvW, they have to carry the rest of NCSoft’s NA sales since the company only hits in NA have been the GW series. The company would have gone bankrupt a decade ago if it hadn’t been for the large Korean subscriber bases of the Lineage series.
I just hope they don’t expect us to be pleased or to be exceedingly loyal if viable competition is released.
I don’t know what it is about the PvE in this game; but it’s not as engaging as the original GW was for me. I played that game for years and only dabbled in PvP.
PvE seems…unrewarding compared to even this game’s predecessor and WvW is the only game-mode where achievements seem solid and earned.
Any WvW update will be heralded by much fanfare. Judging by the complete silence on these forums; they are either on the verge of a major rollout or they have abandoned it completely.
Killshot is a gimmick build designed for one shot kills during non-organized brawls.
I get around 7k-9k with a PVT/Zerker mix of ascended and perception sigil. If I went all zerk with bloodlust sigil I would expect even better so I don’t see the problem here. The ability to single-shot down guardians in the middle of a fight is nothing to sneeze at.
The problem with this idea is already rearing it’s ugly head in the top tiers (at least in NA); and this idea will make it worse.
There are not enough OCX and SEA players, nor enough NA on EU servers and vice-versa; to create a balanced situation.
Any system that punishes off-hours players is going make those players transfer to servers higher up; with more coverage so their contributions count. This would lead to greater disparities, more sandbagging, and the #4 and #5 servers having a disenfranchised off hours population because #6 wouldn’t have the numbers; but they could not transfer due to FULL conditions at the top.
There is no way this can be implemented that doesn’t disenfranchise people who play in non-primetime hours. Sorry, this game isn’t just for people in the central timezone (NA example) who work 9-5 and play for 3 hours in the evening.
Every tier lower than tier 1 has roaming opportunities. Outside of Friday night resets, Tier 2 has good roaming, despite what you might think. If you are looking to solo roam, just pick one. If you are looking for a roaming/havoc group; find one in guild recruitment then join them on whatever server they are on.
These guys play their hearts out and they will push any hour of the day and in any situation. I love playing beside them!
If they are worried about a negative response, I would reply that when levels of confidence are approaching the same numbers the US Congress is seeing; then you might want to consider reaching out.
There are ways to communicate without spilling all the beans. You can say “permanent changes to WvW maps” without having to go into details.
You can say “exploring ways to enhance the commander interface” without giving away the farm.
What we’ve seen are long, drawn out silences; little to no idea if there even is a dedicated WvW Dev team (ie, people who work on WvW 40 hours a week).
ANet has done some meaningful updates. Whether you like or hate the changes, the WXP masteries, EotM, and PvE added in did take some work and the effort is appreciated.
However, there hasn’t been a peep since January? Surely 7 months is long enough to pick a strategy, to begin to explore and research, and make decisions on what to pursue based upon those findings. Even a brief “WvW Mission Statement” would be nice.
What they are trying to say is “READ BETWEEN THE LINES”. They don’t really have a problem with necroed threads
They can’t come out and say “We’re ceasing all but basic support for WvW and there are no major WvW updates planned”.
So, they crackdown on the bringing up of old promises in a high-handed and over-the-top fashion that gets more attention than the necroed threads. Notice they just lock and not delete as well, nor do they just delete the offending posts.
This is their way of signalling us, that they will not change WvW so we are wasting time and energy by asking them to do so.
I think they missed many fine chances to monetize it in the shop (Starter Siegemaster Kits, Party Traps (confetti and dancers spawn when triggered), WXP boosters came and went) and they could have highlighted it more.
At the end of the day, ANet is ran by artists and artists are (by necessity of course) control freaks. They have a vision and a story; and they aren’t crowdsourcing it so they don’t need WvW as a distraction.
Why is PvP that is not a FPS or a MOBO so freaking hard to implement and keep up?
Just give us /commandercolor{color} and half the trolls here would quiet down.
We are also funding a select number of OCX and SEA transfers. Contact Chris.3290 for details.
Does that include funding individual players legendaries? :^)
5 Grape Pies, but since you asked so nicely I’ll donate 6 to you.
FA doesn’t queue OCX.
Neither does SoS, but don’t tell Kalkz that. He has to believe that is why he keeps getting killshot every 5 seconds.
We are also funding a select number of OCX and SEA transfers. Contact Chris.3290 for details.
Will donate 5 Grape Pies towards every OCX/SEA transfer
Want to run with experienced WvWr’s and SPvP players, but don’t want to reorganize your life around a restrictive raid schedule?
Whether you are a casual weekend-warrior or a addicted hard-core player, we have a spot for you.
If you are running a small guild you would probably have the best luck growing on a mid-sized tier.
If you don’t plan on growing, go for a low bronze tier.
The folks who play on FA at these times got a lot of spirit, they just need more people to really have a go at it.
If you play OCX and/or SEA please talk to these folks today!
Best bet to find fights is to join a guild that focuses WvW, and then tap on some keeps. That always brings the boys to the yard (unless you are fighting YB, and then you learn about what a siege cap is.)
Sometimes the more PuG heavy servers are better at comms.
On SoS, it’s hard to reach our fight focused guilds like HOPE and NS; but we have an extensive network of scouts who have many commanders on their friends list. Apparently they have even shared cell #’s in some cases when they needed to go afk unexpectedly.
Condi meta already forces warriors to run tankier than many of them would like.
The lack of focus on conditions at launch was one of the brighter spots. No one used – condition food at the beginning, now it’s a must have.
T2 is turning into T1. So any server – Jedi Quarry, Beastgate, For the toast coast, Maggummie Bears , Sea of Tomato Sauce or Fort Annihilation.
Sorry to hear about DB.
The season wasn’t that long ago, you know how big the gap between kitten was. T2 population is down overall as well so the gap is probably the same.
Even if T2 were to fundamentally change it’s culture to pursue mainly PPT (not gonna happen anytime soon) All three would not embarrass themselves from 5pm-9pm PST, and SoS OCX might do ok.
However, our EU would be roadbump (T2 folks work hard with what they have, but there isn’t that many) and the SEA of all three servers combined would probably come close to equalling TC but would still be flattened by JQ’s
Blackgate was T2 when it was pushed up less than 2 months after launch. They and SoR were both T1 quality at a time when there were 5 potential servers for T1.
The server cap has been raised no less than 3 times since then.
The gap between the upper tiers is greater than ever; no matter how much disinformation gets around TC is still a lot more ready for T1 than any of the T2 servers.
To the OP and anyone of a like mind,
If you want to build a WvW superpower why don’t you go to TC in their hour of need and take a server that is already in T1 and balance that tier? Trying to stack lower servers in order to push them up (against their will typically) has not worked well in the past.
First off, thank you for removing the cost of resetting traits and the need to go to a NPC to do this. This makes it a lot easier for people to have fun and play different ways and theorycraft for however they play the game.
I know functionality changes are time-consuming and don’t add up well on a time vs. return on investment chart; but you might consider bringing back the great feature from the original Guild Wars that allowed players to save their stat allocations.
Add some buttons to the side of the traits panel. #1-9 and make them saveable combinations. Even better would be gear and traits but I can see how that might be harder to implement (having to create conditions for when the gear no longer is in inventory).
Thank you
Bump….this sounds legit!
This is why I tell OCX and SEA to go to Maguuma and not FA; just saying.
You maybe here, but you aren’t in touch with anyone in the larger community which includes the bulk of our WvW’rs.
In short, you are either trolling or monumentally naive.
Yeah, almost every server has a community website. Drop in and say hello. You’ll find out real quick if those are people you want to roll with or not.
Nearlight, at least introduce yourselves to the community first. www.sosgw2.com
Things go better when we can say hello before the tags are on the map.
Noooooo. Don’t leave DB. DB needs more NA peeps not less.
You’ll just ruin T3 for the rest of us on other servers. We don’t want to PvD during NA and then have DB PvD during SEA.
lol bruv, if you want to wvw with guilds go to t2. you’re wasting your time in t3 and t1.
@ mag. mag could def use some eu people
Mag could use early EU/late SEA (Eastern EU if you will). Maguuma dominates late EU between Xushin and Nacho.
Maguuma needs OCX! FA needs late SEA.
Dragonbrand just had some guilds leave and probably left some people behind.
If you want to grow a WvW guild it’s a great time to go there and rebuild.
Maguuma probably needs the most people at the moment. They are good, but they have lost some people too so it would be nice to see them get some love.
Especially if you are OCX or SEA, then definitely go Mag.
SoS only looking for late EU or small groups who run early NA (EST, PST is just fine) at the moment, we are very content with what we have in all other timezones
I got more loot drops in playing the 1 hr LS and new area than I made all last week in WvW.
DB, please feel free to visit T2 once in a while; but please use your T3 time to improve. Thx
Dragonbrand is a virtual spring of untapped talent.
And no one is ever going to tap that talent, much like a keg of beer that sat outside all summer long; no one wants to tap that.
Fun to fight against, probably the deadliest ranged groups in NA today.
Siege Etiquette for Beginner’s
Open Field in Tier 1: Used all the time in T1; because winning is everything (much more important than quality of play and improving your own quality) and since you are just spamming ‘1’ all the time, you might as well use siege
Open Field in non-T1: Is the equivalent of flying the “we suck” flag. Special exceptions for camps and large-number discrepancies. (building siege to drain supply and troll incoming zerg is acceptable)
placement level of suck
between Briar and Bay: alt +f4 please
between Bay and Garri: /uninstall
Ruins: acceptable if using sieging towers, otherwise you should feel bad
bridge to South Hills: Anyone who walks into that choke probably deserves OFS on them, go ahead.
camps: poor etiquette when you are attacking (also self-defeating), but trolling points if outnumbered defense.
Here’s the deal, NCSoft has struck out with so many titles. They would have filed Chapter 11 a decade ago if it wasn’t for the strong Korean support for the Lineage series.
The only other series that have black in their book, Guild Wars. Lineage 1 and 2 are dead games, and Guild Wars is still active.
Now that they released Wildstar on the back of GW2 profits and released the Chinese version; isn’t it time to keep the lone money-making product in good favor?
Come out with a full expansion. Put in GvG, massive new maps, new weapons and races, and go ahead and charge me for it. The money I’ve spent on the Steam sale alone (all to keep from being bored while waiting for new content and in between raids) would equal the cost of a $40-$60 expansion.
Teaspoon bits of LS and no PvP/WvW support is not going to keep our interest much longer.
I know ANet keeps their card close the chest in terms of development; especially after the over-hyped launch and some of the more lackluster updates.
I hope that the devs for all three game modes are sitting on some good hands.
WvW: Stale combat, stale maps, shrinking population makes the already painful coverage balances more pronounced, while the players in those off-hours face increasing boredom
SPvP: Needs more build diversity 75% of every profession is going to run the same build or something close to it.
PvE: The world needs more dynamic changes that have lasting effects. Obviously Halloween, Christmas, and the Dragon Festival will all be different; but so far only Southsun is the only lasting changes (that affect gameplay, some interesting artwork changes.
Out of those, only PvE seems to being addressed.
A lot of guilds are leaving and changing. Emerald Fang has been solid since pre-launch and we still have members on from launch.
In addition to WvW we do SPvP Mondays and we give some time for those who want to check out new PvE content when it’s released. Either way, we almost always have a few people up for WvW if that is your main and/or only interest.
If you are looking for a strong, stable guild on a strong and stable server; check us out at www.emerald-fang.com today.
We all know the WvW team is understaffed and underfunded, I just wish the leadership (who made their feelings clear when they put Scarlett material in WvW during the first Season) could recognize that they are frittering away a truly unique game style.
Team based combat that accommodates group combat from numbers of 3 up to 80 per a side, I don’t know of anything on this scale. The game industry is all aflutter over Titanfall with it’s 6 on 6.
Where else can you get literally hundreds of people to work cooperatively (more or less, depending on the server LOL)?
I love the PvE in this game, but I have gotten bored of it long ago. The unwillingness and/or inability to add new, lasting content has let the game get stale in the last 2 years. Can you imagine GW1 without expansions. $5 Steam sale says hello, but good luck on finding a party.
There are competing MMO options, there are more immersive RPG options. The one competing WvW / RvR product suffers even more under aimless direction.
Own this gamemode before someone else (Camelot, unknown project, etc) comes and takes the crown and runs with it.
PvE can be found anywhere, often with better storytelling to be honest. WvW, on this level, is unique.
DB needs experienced commanders and people willing to take the time to work with their militia and forge them into a solid T2.
They have a lot of potential and it’s frustrating seeing it squandered because no one can take the time to work with them.
Season is over and we’re having fun doing a lot of havoc and mischief in the T2 matchups.
About 1 year for a new set of WvW maps… they really need to give you some more help and/or a bigger budget Mr. Carver.
Hope you can give us an update somewhat soon, this game has already lost a lot of active players and many others are losing interest in the current stagnation.