Guild Wars 2

I don’t even think SFR/Deso is anywhere near Full right now to be honest.
WvW at least on the EU side, isn’t as active as it used to be. Prime time queues aren’t that long, even with every Guild during prime time, it isn’t enough, but it helps that not all Guilds are stacked on so few servers now.

Not all Guilds are stacked on T1 either,. it’s just hard to measure the difference in Coverage. Sadly some people don’t want to understand about having balanced servers, even NA guilds on the EU side have made things imbalanced and all they have to fight is doors or blobs.

PPT has been and has always been a bad scoring mechanic.

The lag on EB atm is horrible. I don’t know what you did, but if it’s due to the player cap, it might be a good idea to lower the cap slightly. This was just 2 way fights aswell, at least open field between Guilds, is playable enough, but that’s usually 20v20 or so.

Deso/SFR/Piken on Deso BL and EB seems as ‘bad’ as usual, at least it feels like it.

Menaka.5092:

How to read ANet server ranking (from an EU perspective):

• Very high: queues at reset and maybe short queues during the week. The best night capping team wins the match.

That actually would describe most servers in T1-2 atm , prime time isn’t that busy apart from a couple of guilds and blobs. Night capping doesn’t beat SFR though, it’s a shame PPT is pretty meaningless and not a real measurement of most organized/skilled server.

ImperialWL.7138:

Like I said I converted gems immediately to be ready for the worst case scenario but my guildmate thought only SFR and Deso were going to be classed as “full”, nobody foresaw 8/9 EU servers being made “full”.

I thought that would be the case in terms of Servers in EU T1-3, I mean in terms of deso and SFR “full”,
I don’t know if in the long run this change, will be for the better though.

They should perhaps revert the change to FS/LS back to what it used to, instead of having it as an evade skill, that you have to hope hits.

So will they measure population by player data, 24 hours of the day and take into account highest ‘tick’ aswell? Let’s say BB, Deso and Viz, tick highest during the night, but would usually against higher ranked servers. (or SFR..) I guess BB would be medium, Deso Very high and Viz High.

It wasn’t as bad as (S-2 or S-3) at least. The problem is, it gave less incentive for more regular wvwers to log in, rather than Achievement hunters/PVEers.

RL, sleeping, Witcher 3, Raiding and PvP.
WvW pretty much deaded, for most of the week.

On Desolation we have a culture of staying up late and lately this one Guild whom seems like something off of EoTM, are from different timezones.

SFR have zombies, americans, bandwagoners and Kimberlite. (Terra’s not been spotted on either Deso or SFR lately at night)

In the past trait-wise, SA had traits that was better placed and more viable, such as Shadow’s Embrace which cleansed all conditions, Infusion of Shadow gave you 2 Init upon entering stealth (before they fixed/nerfed it, you could leap through Smoke fields multiple times, while regening 2 init each time) and Cloaked in Shadows was not a GM trait.

You also gained 300 toughness and might upon entering stealth, but now you have to take the entire SA line now to even take Shadow’s Embrace; which only cleanses damaging conditions.

But yes, SA did carry players, at least in WvW, where it isn’t useless staying in stealth.

Who the heck plays D/p with SA still, apart from having a reliable condi cleanse (at least for damaging conditions)?
You do not even gain initiative entering stealth like the old Infusion of Shadows, you get it staying in stealth for a duration. Otherwise people can’t complain that it’s OP, by any standards.

Most WvWers I know, WvW first and PvP second, PVE is optional.

WvW is as casual and hardcore as you want to make it, there is so much more of a diverse range of players that make up a part of a WvW community. You have the more hardcore side of WvW Raiding or GvG; fighting other guilds and coordinating with your own Guild to win fights., then there are the roamers, pugs and Commanders, that keep everyday WvW from getting stale – compared to every other content in the game.

I have to say though, the Competitive side of WvW that is PPT and Rankings, has failed to be improved upon, so many Guilds and Players now focus on something like GvG, for good reason.

I’ve been on my Server for the past 2 years and seen it change, I even commanded this one time. In my opinion though, too many Communities go through ups and downs or just fall out of existence, it’s because of Anet’s failure to capatalize on something that is so poular and address the issues with the game mode – which is unique and evolving through player driven initiatives.

It’s bad enough my Server is tryharding this week.
But for those Guilds stopping raids this week, we had no problems fighting other guilds to fight. As long as you can find something that wants to fight without the OP golems and exploits among the clusterf, you can ignore this event.

I know people will argue WvW needs a shake up, but those people don’t understand how badly though out this event is. There’s no logic in quote like this “The golem event is just a silly vacation from the monotony. It’s a week where players can just sit back and relax and not have to pretend that their efforts on the map actually matter. Golems or no golems, everything just flips contantly nowadays anyways. I welcome anything different, even if it’s silly.”

This event changes nothing, it just makes it far too easy to PvDoor now – EoTM like. The OP golems do not make things fresh at all, especially if you seen Golem Rushes happen in the past 2 years, because that is what most people do.

I don’t know, why not remove the scoreboard for a week aswell?

Note: It’s not like I haven’t had a bit of fun myself with a Golem, only this once though and outside this event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt-zDTdgDu4

Watched most zergs dodge each other last night, well at least not the GvGers or Hardcore players, which is pretty sad. This week would be better with some scoring system experiement, rather than the usual PPT/Coverage wars on steroids.

It’s probably because of that TT + mixed HC Guild blob, if you even by open tags to follow. Or do you mean by other servers having more roamers like Gankdara, Kodash, SFR or even Piken, who seem to have quite a few.. gankers.

There’s over 6000 stacks of Omegas on the TP for 3g each, people won’t run out of golems anytime soon, especially those who kept them in their banks/guild banks or have stacks of unused badges.
:d
http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/21259.

@hvaran they’ve somehow made a week of SFR/Kodash/Deso, even more boring than you’d usually expect, it’s a bit of an achievement.

Back then people just totally didn’t care about playing properly anymore at that point, but that was the state of my Server back then too, so it was frustrating, at the same time I can understand if people just threw every reason they played wvw out of the window. A week is too long for an event that promotes k-trains.

Sorry, but by reading your other posts about D/P “perma stealthing”, the fact you say D/P is ‘faceroll’ in your opinion, is not valid. You base that on the fact has rotations that make the set easy to learn, but you still have to use those skill rotations well in different situations, be positionally aware and keep your init in check, you simply do not understand it is not quite that simple, or forgiving to play D/P.

Well now in T1 EU, you have people constantly flipping each other’s keeps, kodash doesn’t have much night presence though.

One thing’s for sure if you still care about PPT competitively for some reason, you have to avoid fighting each other, which isn’t anything different I know, but now golems melt gates of course; basically it’s a Karma train -_-.

Note: Glicko should be frozen for a week or something.
Note 2: People on Desolation still think WvW/PPT is SRS BSN.

Eh, you just need to HS once or twice after they’re under 50%, the rest of the time you can just auto attack..

This won’t keep people playing WvW TJgalon, when they find out it’s not all about Ktrains though. If they see big epic, non-laggy fights, that will bring and keep people playing WvW. For about an hour, it’s okay, after that it get’s old like any gimmick.

This should be an event that lasts the weekend, like that temporary April Fools event.
They should be trying harder to find better ideas, like a change to the same scoring system for once.

They started this before reset? Wondered why people were still running through things like EoTM.

If you think D/P is just pressing #5 #2 to win, then you’re wrong.
It’s got simple rotations perhaps, but every single skill is useful at least.

Haralin.1473:

SFR = Blob
FSP=Blob
Piken=Blob
Deso=Blob
Kodash=Blob
and so on…

Not much diffrence between these Servers, the players on these Servers think there Server is better but at the end of the day they are all the same nothing special on the servers just blob vs blob and the blob with the better class set or more people will win the fight.

That’s how it should be, Coverage is less about quality though ofc. So pug quality drops if you just PvDoor, you might of noticed that.

D/P has a high skill cap once you take off SA, play DA/CS/Tr and run full zerker or close to it, at least S/D has plenty of evades compared.

Evades are better at damage mitigation than stealth from my own experience.
I do not run SA though and even with the Feline Grace change, S/d still has plenty of evades – including Signet of Agility, Withdraw, #3 and HoC. I don’t believe Evades are exactly a skilled means to avoid damage though, if there’s so many accessible ways to do regen endurance.

Personally I didn’t suffer from a loss from vitality, but I guess it depends if you go up into groups or players who stack alot of condis.

Raiding is more interesting than roaming atm^^

We’ve made suggestions for the past 2 years, I can’t see them changing things radically apart from that experimental week with PPK and no white swords.

kittens how is PvD and Karma training even fun, no way was this intended as a part of WvW, surely?

It dropped down to very high one time in the past couple of weeks, prolly cause some players left for FSP/SFR/Piken recently.

I’m not sure how they measure player population in WvW anyway, at least during the day WvW doesn’t feel that active; unless you roam, which is usually against groups of roamers, or whatever you want to call them.

Bloodwort MacFangho.4638:

CrimsonNeonite.1048:

screenshot and quote snipped coz you’ve already seen..

LOL, Rubio .. that screenshot was taken before midnight last night, I presume.. have you seen the picture this morning?

Read my post. Prime time is supposed to be the busiest time of the day, this is supposedly T1, even though it’s summer. Nothing’s really changed in terms of coverage winning PPT though,

Desolation has short queues during prime time, depending on the situation atm, but open tags atm don’t manage to gather much numbers until late at night. I don’t know how it is elsewhere, but T1 isn’t set in stone.

Honestly though, if Deso had organization the rest of the day, we’d be stuck with boring SFR MUs every week anyway. It’s not really worth the energy, worrying about that kind of thing anymore.

Looks like Vizunah is back for now though..

I don’t agree when people say D/P is anywhere near “cheese” or boring.

Being able to use Stolen skills twice is pretty awesome though.

Killed the grub in under 3 mins with a couple of us, it shows power creep in the game since the patch.

I think it’s because of what DeceiverX mentions, chain stealthing using D/D inside WvW structures was doable and troll worthy.

Still the SA line promotes rather passive play, I’m still not a fan of it, I wish we could just take Shadow’s Embrace an that’s it.

Bountiful Theft is a no brainer IMO. Taking trickster depends on the situation, but most of the time you’ll want to take the former; to rip boons and for that 10s of vigor.

Potential damage from Critcal Strikes is good enough, to at least take alone or with DA, it’s far from a useless traitline that some people thought it would turn into.

Might aswell postpone PPT for that week, especially if you get lopsided RNG MUs.

Well well..

<em>Hop into World vs. World between July 17 and July 24 to experience our newest special event, Golem Rush, where siege golems are better, faster, and stronger!

During the special event, all golems will be supercharged and have the following effects:
All siege golems in WvW no longer require supply to construct.
All siege golems in WvW will deal 100% additional damage to other golems and players.
All siege golems in WvW will move at 100% additional movement speed.
</em>

It’s gonna be a bad week for servers with weaker coverage, gg Anet, well thought out.

SA is still too passive for my taste, but it has the most reliable Condi cleanse.

snarfrificus.4230:

pick piken if you want to go full hardcore.

Eh, not really true there. I’ve heard they sometimes have the same problem as Gandara (too many roamers..), but otherwise I think they have a casual/hc Community.

Deso is also a bunch of PPT tryhards, who qq when things don’t get their way, they blame everyone else that does not believe in PPT anymore.

It used to be a place where you could find good pugmanders who didn’t run from fights, or even when I commanded, when people didn’t have a clue what do without a Tag and have a bit of fun, now most of them rage quit.

I wouldn’t recommend Deso right now, if you’re looking for good public tags, that supplies good fights and loot, FSP is prolly your best bet, but I bet they have queues whenever a decent pugmander is leading.

In many ways, yes, but at the same time, it’s opened up some combinations of traitlines, for me at least. No more Shadow Art/hidden Killer Thieves, because you don’t get passive Health/Init regen as easily.

You could survive without Full SA before the patch, the only issue with 26006 builds was the lack of condi cleanse.

You can’t take 06620 or 26600 anymore, but you either have to trait into trickery or trait into other lines with Init regen and learn to manage your Init properly now.

Just let ppl play how they want, unless they’re in your way of an objective. Otherwise it’s just rude, especially to add in to an open field GvG even.

Damage got increased across the board, power stats got an increase too, while defensive traitline stats got removed; like every other stat. It feels like everybody is playing cheese one shot ’Super Saiyan" builds or near that now.

They just need to increase the vigor duration or something along those lines really, otherwise, even acro thanks to Hard to Catch w/o the random ports and DPS wise. Thieves got more buffs than nerfs, we hit kitten hard now.

From what I’ve seen of the upcoming changes, I think it shows that Anet isn’t going to fix that side of WvW – to make it more competitively balanced.

They have never bothered with things such as night capping or population imbalance.
It seems like they think adding more gimmicks is the answer, they do not take WvW seriously, so we shouldn’t.

I’m not sure if it’s as big as the south ruins either.