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Over 900… I mean I’ve died 7,621 times over 5,449 hours, so after I used your math is about a death every 43 mins.
Seriously people laugh at the fact I die so often when I don’t. :P
Best Scout EU
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Well roaming for me is for fun I don’t expect much reward from it since usually you don’t make much contribution unless you scout/snipe.
The other thing is you can’t expect a fair fight in WvW anyway, even if I find some guys up for some duels I cringe at the condi duration food they run, it isn’t balanced for 1v1s anyway and then you all have the stat buffs.
I don’t see many peeps run from 1v1 either, I see a lot of ganking though.
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Why do SFR and Deso attract so many people?
From an opposing sides point of view, Gandara is quite a nice server to play against (not that SFR and Deso are particulary bad – there are just so many players on those). In my experience there is a lot of action besides PPT, they are also found in non-blob- numbers and are generally eager for a fight…
It isn’t that bad yes, even though we’re kinda sick of each other there’s alot of action during most hours (not like during the tournament of course though!), apart from the fact we both lack the numbers at certain hours, so we usually dominate at night and SFR dominates during the morning and early afternoon, still there is both small and large scale stuff.
Sometimes it’s blobby for no good reason, but there’s plenty of Guild Groups to finds fights against if you are a group of 20+.
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Obviously Condi Duration food against the Condis and IMO Sharpening Stones depending on if you need more Power or Precision of course.
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Loggers >>Abusers/QQers
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Variety is the Spice of WvW and so on.. I’d rather fight new Servers even if it meant us steamrolling them in terms of Coverage and even if they dislike us for that.
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For me even as stale as WvW can get, if you are chasing some esports then it’s your own fault instead of focusing on finding good fights, progressing and having fun among your community/guild.
If we got to fight Servers other than SFR as much as we all expected it to happen, and I don’t mean in the sense that we like the chance to steamroll lower coverage servers in terms of PPT.
My Guild which is far from being hardcore wants to find fights against even-ish numbers to progress ourselves along with the more hardcore ones, but all we face most of the time is blobs.
I know that sounds ‘Pot kettle black’ because we Deso blob ourselves, you have to understand that the only reason I and many others play is among our Community and with our Guildies.
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Oh yes more pve champions and mobs for uplevels to farm for us pvwers.
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It depends who your server is matched-up against and the times you can play really, on one hand people might not like Desolation when it comes to roaming apart from a handful of us, on the other hand they’ll like fighting Gandara even though they still run about Gankdaring like old times.
The Lower tiers might be the best to find other roaming groups, but those Servers are also full of large sized guild groups themselves.
GL on Gunnar’s though, they have some good guys on there!
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Community initiatives that reward Players are the best way to do things to avoid abuse.
I don’t mind scouting the way I do as I don’t feel entitled to any rewards as often as it ends up like this screenie, other peeps deserve the reward more such as guys who are pretty stationary for hours everyday refreshing siege, so they miss out on the fun and loot.
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I really like how they gave us those Siege masteries in little doses to show how much they care about the WvW community.
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WvW is what you make out of it, its not just a place for hardcore guilds; remember the need for more casual players, pugs who we once were and the roamers.
The problem is WvW itself lacks the changes weve been asking for especially in the CDIs, as well as the problems with population imbalance and PPT – you need players to properly invest into wvw not just for the Seasons, there is just not enough reasons for stable populations overall.
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Good news, I found friends!
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If you think the guilds there have high standards you won’t get in many other wvw guilds unless they are guilds looking to grow rather than most established ones – I know Deso has [AH], [GH] and [TF] who might be recruiting.
But well, you have to start at the bottom and make your way to the top which isn’t easy, then you have to think is it worth it with current state of WvW.
I applied to one of the top guilds and was told that I needed to have 150k WvW kills, GvG experience and be one of the top D/D ellies EU. This doesn’t seem like low standards to me. Maybe for others they are. But yes I am pretty kitten new to the WvW scene. Thank you for your input :p
LOL, which guild was this?
Semper Dius
Okay.. heard this is true in some sense, I’m not sure what to say!
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I’ve never heard of many guilds like that unless they’re one of the best… or otherwise.
Most Hardcore WvW Guilds will have high standards you may not fulfill though, unless they have the patience to train you and, or you show decent knowledge and talent with whatever class they are looking for. Certain classes have roles that have steeper learning curves than others.
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Personally I use 1/2 PVT trinkets and I swap between PVT chest armor and Valkyrie depending on the situation cause I usually don’t put many points in SAs.
My runes are also Full Pack Runes for a good amount of power, otherwise I think even while zerging it’s pointless if you hit like a wet noodle!
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If you think the guilds there have high standards you won’t get in many other wvw guilds unless they are guilds looking to grow rather than the established ones – I know Deso has [AH], [GH], [ XXIV], [TF] who might be recruiting and we have a friendly community.
But well, you have to start at the bottom and make your way to the top which isn’t easy, then you have to think is it worth it with current state of WvW.
Oh I’m best answer.. heh.
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Yeah I imagine Gandara is a good place to go to post tournament among the Gold League Servers, there was a pretty nice community already before the free transfers, I would like to think the true band-wagoners moved on to other servers or PVE now.
Gold League Tiers aren’t that bad really besides the blobs/large scale groups where you find almost everywhere else anyway, you can always find pockets of roamers to chase or chase you about , and there are even guys looking for duels in the OS or around EB.
No monologue there, just passing my experience and no hippie quaggan promotion video
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Tell that to these guys.. http://youtu.be/kylf6ZHWDYY
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Sometimes you can’t join a squad because some people have to keep an eye on each tag though, otherwise how will you know where each group is?
There was a Commander Tag CDI with good feedback from both Commanders and Players which should of been put to good use by now.
Perhaps that’s me being passive aggressive, but there you go.
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Over +1000. As mentioned we’ve asked for commander tag improvements for a while now especially after the CDI which clearly hasn’t been taken seriously despite the feedback they ‘collected’. This is the thing though, never-mind GvGers calling for support, what about the guys who contributed to these CDIs for no good reason?
Earlier tonight I ended up follow the wrong tag as we tried to run multiple Guild Raids, so I ended up getting splattered. Blame Ljoey
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This unsupported game mode pulled comparable viewers to Anets official esportz tournament that they had to bribe people to watch with precursors.
Anet priorities.
Guess that makes gvg esportz amirite? SRS business this stuff. Agg deserves gratz, also that is a good ol’ reality check for TA.
As Bansie mentions viewership dropped, maybe there are ppl like me who prefer playing than watching, but sure its a good amount of watching yet it doesn’t equate to actual population that would be interested in taking part in GvGs and all the effort that is needed for little reward.
You have to say wvw has been neglected overall, not just the side chasing after some e-fame in wvw of all places rather than looking for some good organized fights.
If they make a PVP instance for GvG would people be happy?
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I imagine most servers no matter the Tier apart from those currently in Tier 1 is either taking a vacation from the game for RL, sunshine and WC stuff, waiting for the new LW content or they’re waiting for Anet to show that they are listening to the WvW community. (ha)
Vizunah is simply just falling down the Tiers and BB’s population doesn’t really play much during the Summer especially after the Tournament. Personally I think you can find Small scale in most tiers, but not always a fair fight!
the main mindset of many WWW guilds is GVG only, they run around the map doing nothing, except boasting in map chat, passing keeps and towers for chasing enemy zerg and then crash on it, regroup after wipe and then talk about it in the teamspeak for 30 minutes standing in the fort, blaming “rallybots” on their failure… while the enemy take bay and garrison.
I’ve heard about Piken’s past so you have to be aware of the current Philosophy of their community and whether you fit in or not.
I doubt much has changed in regards to Guilds keeping among themselves – although I expect they PPT when they can win a MU like the last week of the Tourny.
Golden Horde and others moved on afaik, perhaps due to their requirements from a WvW Community changing like recruitment drive.
@chrono Two sides to every story, one side you choose to hear or you could listen to both stories. I’m sure many servers have more tales of their own than that..
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Do something.. for the love of kittens.
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You can’t stop people playing during hours they can play or prefer to, the only thing is that PPT gained outside of Prime Time is so skewed that as a Competition WvW is a joke with a Score Metric that needs tweaking at the very least.
Also it’s rarely 5-10 people at night, once upon a time Desolation had a small group of guys against 40-50 at night capping stuff back each time the Karma Trains flipped stuff constantly, now we have have the strongest night crew in the EU Gold Tiers.
But its not like people find it fun fighting NPC’s and doors, WvW is not designed to be balanced or fair most of the time though, and it’s not all about PvP – even the combat is basically balanced around the smaller scale of PvP in mind.
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I cannot agree with Forced GvGing. Even with all the rivalries between servers, the bandwagoning, “buying guilds”, spying in TS, etc. There are big server communities behind each server. Players work together and form real friendships in WvWvW.
I believe this is something GvGers forget about server based WvWvW. GW1 had GvG but I don’t think Arenanet will ever support it completely in GW2. The simplest is that unorganised zerging with “PUGs” is easily done with a commander tag.
This is just my opinion of course but I think that GvGers are too elitist and even mean sometimes to the players on a server. The militia fight for their server too. They may not all be on TS, some may even be on uplevels but without them at all WvWvW would be much more emptier place.
Please love the random players aka the PUGs of your server and teach them how to WvWvW even encourage them to join a guild or give advice on builds and gear. But don’t just hate on them for the sake of it. Thanks for reading. <3
This really.
WvW is supposed to be accessible to all players, no matter if you are new, casual or hardcore – without any stigma or being left out from communities and rewards because you aren’t to their high standards
Being community based has many flaws especially when I’ve seen my own Server go through some Alliance problems which would be a major issue in this system really, otherwise there are the usual population imbalance issues due to transfers (which you have to realize also makes it hard to maintain a Community) and cross-server rivalry toxic stuff.
There are enough positives such as the unique social experience you get from being among your own communities, even if you are socially indifferent for some reason – there is space for everyone in their communities whatever play-style you prefer.
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This would really be what the GvG scene needs to bring it back to life. Lots of excellent ideas here, hopefully Anet will listen.
I’m wondering if Anet has even read this considering it’s got “GvG” in the title. A response on what they think would be great.
Considering all the wvw feedback we’ve given them.. this is a small minority compared, wvw needs a much bigger tonic atm.
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People remember you as a commander for your commanding style and personality, but the average wvwer will follow you for the amount of loot and how many objectives you cap – the dedicated wvwers follow and support you because they understand. The problem is 100g for many is easy to gain, so you can get some bad commanders that makes the Pugs lose respect for the tag..
Not everyone is going to be a popular or successful commander to be fair because it’s hard work, but you shouldn’t give up, comparing yourself to other commanders who draw more numbers isn’t going to help.
I wouldn’t give up, running a havoc or sniper team that plays more strategically feels more satisfying even though you may get blobbed alot.
Otherwise take a break and come back when people are more inclined to follow you for the good reasons you tag up for. There are times that I’ve felt a bit ‘sensitive’ about my voice, but people learned to appreciate my effort.
Just don’t rage and embrace your army of pugs as a pugmander.
Also don’t listen to the negative people who think they could do better when they probably wouldn’t be able to handle the pressure!
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I can’t be bothered to get angry about this kind of stuff anymore, personally I’ve burned out so many times or got bored.
I’ve tried to stay positive about the future of this game, WvW and my Server but PVE get’s more love it seems.
We’ve all tried our best to give constructive feedback, but to no avail.
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Honestly, SFR will be the strongest Server in the higher Tiers throughout the summer because they have a strong WvW community, once the Living World stuff starts Desolation might well be a ‘ghost town’ during those weeks the content is released.
I can’t say for most other servers, but apart from Prime Time I doubt there will be much activity as like during the Tournaments obviously.
Personally I would also consider Gandara (which isn’t so bad anymore I feel) and some of the Silver League Servers; if you want a friendly open community idk though.
No Server has complete 24 hour coverage in terms of high numbers of players ATM.
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Sword is fine in WvW once you’ve ‘mastered’ it.
Understand it doesn’t have quite the burst that Dagger mainhand has from backstab or heartseeker, unless you run that as your secondary set.
S/P has all the blinds and interrupts in addition to pistol whip that D/P has besides the access to stealth.
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GvG and WvW are not the same, they have different kinds of players with their own play-styles which they find enjoyable in WvW, but both have their own kind of Dedicated players.
I think everyone wants to find a good fight even the Casuals among the Zergs and those in Guilds want to progress with their Guild whether it be out on the open field or in a GvG setting, but you also have those who want to avoid the Hardcore Stigma.
Anyway, I would love them to make the OS like a megaserver for both the dueling and GvG scene, for those who want nice even fights without interruption.
Would this prevent Guilds from Stacking on Servers in certain Tiers? I know that many Guilds migrated due to the ‘blobby’ style of the EU Gold League Tiers, do you really think Guilds would start spreading out before they quit the game?
You will still get trolls unless you make a seperate GvG Arena instance in PvP with larger player caps, I don’t know whether they have the Server capacity to support that though.
I also enjoy Theory Crafting as a ‘casual’ hobby of mine so many will feel it’s a limitation if you make a GvG map in sPvP, but going off topic again I agree with Liza about Balancing in WvW in general – so making it in sPvP might no be so bad.
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Someone here mentioned WvW not having an update since February…
Something tells me Anet considers seasons to be a WvW update that people actually enjoy/consider to be new content.
More like Seasons is considered to be new WvW content, but we’ll have to wait and see much like those WXP masteries, whether they’ve taken into account our constructive feedback that would revatilise wvw for the community.
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There’s been some decent variation on the EU side, although Deso, SFR and RS got matched up for two weeks in a row now – Deso is losing a fair amount of Rating points now and will drop once Living World S2 begins.
Population imbalance will continue to lead to imbalanced match ups so no matter the changes they make to the Match up system you’ll get bad match ups, otherwise best thing to do is ignore the score and focus on fighting when you can unless it’s really that one sided.
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A good amount of toughness and Vitality can mitigate a decent amount of damage, I’d say at least 2.6 Armor and a good amount of Vitality from Acrobatics and Valkyrie gear should be enough, but against Condis that’s another thing all together.
I play 2/6/0/6/0 most of the time though or sometimes 3/6/0/5/0, and I also mix Cavalier/Knights/Valk Armor and weapons which gives a good amount of Crit/Precision/Toughness and mixed trinkets to balance out the cstats where I think it could make difference.
Personally I do not use up a Utility slot with Signet of Agility which would give me access to 6 dodges like some builds – especially the ones built around Might stacking, so the way I survive is through dodges and shadow steps.
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I wouldn’t call EB a PPT zone really I was born and bred on EB (also commanded), it’s lootbaglandia for pugs which is why they/we attack most if not all Red tags they see , even the Champion Grub and Harpy.
Of course if I see a duel I’ll leave them alone and I’ll join a random skirmish out of boredom. Little fights like this you can’t help to jump into though when two guys try to gang up on a ranger: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT4N52c98M
@Pinkmena I love running about in tonic form, too, most understand it’s harmless fun apart from these Spanish Necros this one night I was a snowman, haven’t had PC access all week, but here it is.
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When we were blue for most of the tournament at times we had random skirmishes right outside the gate of SM, that isn’t the most appropriate spot, nor is the east wall facing Durios which can be trebbed, sometimes I would qq at people desperate for kills, but tbh i’m the guy in the wrong.
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SUPR transferred to Seafarers Rest in the EU.
Did Zeke go with them? He was funny.
Most if not all must of transferred cause they completely dominate that time of the day now, so I would guess so?
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People usually zerg down solo roamers as harmless as they may be, outside SM is not really a duelling zone, near the outer east or south walls is usually a safer spot though.
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SUPR transferred to Seafarers Rest in the EU.
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Account bound WXP in April or the EoTM release in February.
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The WuvWuv ‘team’ of unknown quantity is separate as we saw with the EoTM stuff, so it’s possible even if many of them are slacking watching all these summer sports events and sunshine unless they’re vampires.
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The thing about Thieves is that we have no easy access to boons so all we have to sustain is through mobility and stealth, not in anyway do we have Perma vigor, but some run Signet of Agility and Sigils of Energy that refills endurance along with traits that refill endurance and stuff like vigorous recovery which got nerfed to 5s.
On the contrary our skills are not spammable because of Init especially the teleports you may be talking about which has a cast time, good thieves make sure they use their skills wisely and disengage to allow their init to regen and for heal + utility CDs.
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Omg the quadruple teaming. The moustache is my own guilds logo aswell, has been for ages. #fearthexgbearbow
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All I know is that you can get names when you join/invite others to your party, otherwise idk how some random guys can whisper you, which is cool but something to be weary of as not everyone is nice and friendly and more than meets the eyes, I don’t trust everyone outside my community, but its also been mostly positive for me.
Last time somebody whispered me from nowhere was some Gandaran gal who knew me off the gw2wvw forums.. Maybe they tracked me down here like some others , but still weird when it happens.
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The problem is content for the sake of new content, sure follow in the ways of the EoTM beta tests, but releasing untested content to the public would be a PR disaster waiting to happen.
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No, fix all the other issues that need addressing rather than get us to test buggy content or what Eotm ended up being.
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I thought they fixed that thing where you could perma stealth using cloak and dagger off walls, seems not.
Anyway I agree that stealth is forgiving and offers low risk/high reward most of the time paired with Shadow Arts traitline. It’s more of an issue with D/p thieves in wvw who are actually quite easy to counter, yet it’s the one set where all skills are useful along with the blinds and access to stealth where you don’t need to land a cloak and dagger.
I know ppl will argue the init cost is a risk if you get blocked/evaded/interrupted, but there are plenty of ways to upkeep init for another leap finisher through black powder, or other utilities to stealth, evade or shadowstep away.
I am talking about wvw where a lot of builds are out of whack though, S/D that is not meta, is hard to master and not much of a problem with those less experienced with that set.
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Let the ratings normalize for another 2 weeks, otherwise I agree.
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