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Will Stability be Getting a Buff?

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Def agree with everything said above ^

Would be SOOO awesome if ANET can acknowledge this and give it a try!

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Will Stability be Getting a Buff?

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Bump for the Devs to consider a stab change!

Internal cool down on stab strips please!

You should go in PvE maps do that dodge training. If i don’t remember wrong there is one in queensdale.

There is indeed a dodge training in Queensdale!

Not sure what that has to do with stability though!

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Will Stability be Getting a Buff?

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Bump for the Devs to consider a stab change!

Internal cool down on stab strips please!

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Will Stability be Getting a Buff?

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Lol @ being able to dodge CCs Cmon yo.

And kitten at that Rev stab.. I had high hopes…

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So let me ask ya’ll then,

Based off these responses, People explaining they can’t play their favorite class… Does this seem worth it? I’m glad your hundreds of CCs work in your blob of choice but a lot of people cannot play the game the want they want as a result.

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I feel like it the server lag thing really increased with the stab change, its probably more due to the play style the changes made. Everyone just sits back waiting to try to get a range bomb off and engagements last longer and often don’t have a conclusion. Plus, it really rewards blobbing.

Maybe change playstyle. Enemy just outplay you if you just follow commander and try to run through cc. I wanna see day when all this melee train follow commander nonsense lead wipe every time.

See thats my point though.. In order to change play-style, you end up just sitting back range bombing and CCing until one group shows they are a lot larger than yours. I Think thats a poor system, especially considering how imbalanced server population is.

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What do you guys think about that then?

When a stack of stab gets stripped, you gain a boon that lasts 1 second which prevents another stack from getting stripped (WvW only, IDC)

That would perhaps then generate some skilled play in that you won’t want to use your cc’s all at once and it would seem a fair balance between stab being OP (as duration) but you could also then run into blobs and maybe make some things happen still.

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Adding a Fights "Instance" in New Map

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This sounds promising. Now, when you say out in the open, it kinda sounds like just another opportunity to zerg. Why exactly would it encourage reasonable size groups to fight without siege?

From what I can tell, it’s a fairly large zone and the ‘objectives’ are scattered around the area. You can still bring a zerg but might have to split up to be efficient. I suppose siege can get used anywhere but when there isn’t a wall protecting it you can either push it and destroy it or run away and out range it.

True true.

If I had to guess, I bet you will end up being right at first with groups splitting off to play the game as efficiently as possible. But I definitely can see (just like it is in off hours for at least bronze) that it will eventually be k-trainy as participation becomes the battle.

Just think it would be neat to sorta have a GvG arena that had consequences for your team as well. Seems like a good way to include more play-styles to the game.

I have hope though for this event thing!

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That’s strange. If stab is nerfed to the point where it doesn’t matter, then why are you devoting 40% of your comp to it?
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Okay, so I was being a bit dramatic. Stab is still necessary cause at least it allows you to approach a group in order to drop wells. Forget pushing through though or exchanging sides or IMO having fun :P.

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Will Stability be Getting a Buff?

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So it seems to me the entire complaint is that some cannot succeed after they took the ability away to completely ignore 1/4 of the skills of your enemies in the game.

Stability was OP. Those who cannot function without it, as 6 out of 8 professions have since release, are a shining example of how they did not develop the skill to play without it.

Haha like it!

Here’s what I’d say though. I think Stability is still OP when in small groups (maybe a max of 10 people). Pop stab in a group of 10 or so and you can ignore tons of CC. However, translate that to large groups and its just silly. You can’t move!

My suggestion would be to have a cooldown for stab strips (say 1 second). So, if you were to run into a large group and 15 statics drop on you in 1 second, you only get 1 stack of stab removed. If you are in a small group though and get 1 static on you, that removes 1 as well.

Its just not well proportioned atm IMO. I feel the game (and stab) is really quite balanced (although tbh I still enjoyed the game the way it was) with groups of 15 or under. Start blobbin though and the game just is meh.

EDIT: the post above me, I agree with totally. (didn’t see it till I already posted lol)

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Will Stability be Getting a Buff?

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As a guard, I will pop all of my stab (8 stacks) just to see if I can move almost in a group and I can’t…

This is a numbers issue. 8 stacks dont do much when there are 50 CCs thrown out in a second, but 8 stacks is also ridiculously OP 1v1.

Stability doesnt need a “buff”, it need a rebalance. Skill that give a high number of stacks need to low pulsing number instead. Some skills have this, like elite skills. Some are stupid weak like giving 1 stack for half a second. Anet did it halfarsed.

So why would having a pulsing stab that pulses say 3 stacks per second help at all versus 50 CCs? Actually sounds worse?

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Adding a Fights "Instance" in New Map

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The do have an event that is out in the middle that has a major effect on PPT. It’s has some PvE mobs to it but it sounds like what you are looking for. Something that will convince players to come away from the objectives and fight in the open.

This sounds promising. Now, when you say out in the open, it kinda sounds like just another opportunity to zerg. Why exactly would it encourage reasonable size groups to fight without siege?

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Will Stability be Getting a Buff?

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Well, currently the problem is that it doesn’t stack in duration. Skilled groups can cycle their stability well enough but anyone else tends to burn them off sync and suffer a lot more than they used to.

I don’t think any big adjustments are needed but I wouldn’t object to them. Personally, I think soft CC is the worst. Well, one, I think warrior stability is somewhat lacking.

This is bologna about the skills groups. We run 2 double stab guards per party, call stabs pretty well and do our best to cycle effectively. Stab is just entirely too nerfed to where that doesn’t even matter.

Soft CC is easy to deal with if you have skilled players on the other hand, and builds that counter soft ccs. Currently, there is no counter or “skilled” way to work with 16 stab stacks per party. Not against the WvW blob community.

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I agree with you Dano, I enjoy playing both front and backline, but the way stability works now, frontline can’t do much without burning through cooldowns the way we used to be able to play. People have been running their backlines more than their frontline just cuz it’s a lot easier to stand back n drop your aoe’s:/

But on the other hand, you learn to cope, change your builds, change your tactics. I’ve found it to still be fun with my frontline, but it’s a lot riskier.

Yeah exactly, you have to play much less aggressive, which I maintain is a bad thing for the game because it encourages a game style of blobbing and fights tend to not reach a conclusion unless one group is less patient than another. Rezzing is also incredibly OP atm and that doesn’t help.

When it comes to adjusting, I find that the only real adjustment you can make is to try to bait out wells/ccs but again when there are so many people in one group, it doesn’t matter if you bait out 20 ppls cooldowns when there are 30 more ready to use. I find the role of a frontliner atm is to be a straight up meat shield for your lights to bomb. Thats just a lame play style for a lot of people to accept.

So, yes you can adjust ofc. Its just that the adjustment isn’t nearly as rewarding or as fun. Looking at Revanants skills also doesn’t seem like that will change.. and in fact, it will probably be worse.

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Just wondering if people think w/ Revenants if stab will work again or not.

Have to say, I tried to put up with the change (I’m a returning player) and the game is about 100x less fun the way it is now.

It is hard to say less or more fun. Every class has received nerfs and buffs the last few months. Some have created game breaking mechanics.

Stab changed the dynamics of zerg warfare at the most fundamental value. Condi bombs have gathered traction.

So I leave it to you if you are good or bad.

So it’s just 100% my opinion on the fun part, obviously. I can’t imagine people enjoying playing frontline anymore in an outnumbered fight, considering the skills you have to make you effective are ineffective now.

But, I understand others may like the change, and that’s great. But I have seen many people quit over the change and I’m considering that myself. So, just a preference thing..

Point of the thread though was I was looking at revanents skills and as far as I could see, stab really won’t be any better. You can throw a road down quite often and get two stacks of stab pulsing… As a guard, I will pop all of my stab (8 stacks) just to see if I can move almost in a group and I can’t… Am I missing something with reveant being better at giving stab?

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Think it would be neat to have certain zones within the new map that would cap the numbers in that particular piece of the map. Make it a siege free zone (almost identical to OS) and that if your team would win, there would be consequences for your team’s ppt or perhaps gain a free upgrade or whatever. It could also just be a little zone (or heck and event that pops up here and there) that is king of the hill and if say a guild can hold it against enemies, everyone on the winning team’s borderland gets some kind of buff or something.

Right now, the game and its population is at a loss with itself… You have some groups looking for fun, competitive pvp matches but instead they have to deal with “ppters” which kinda ruin things. But then, the ppters can get frustrated because a large, organized group isn’t really doing alot for ppt. I think it would be great to have something that would bridge that gap a bit.

Guild halls is probably where all that will be I realize, but I’m not the only one who wants to have raids still be a thing and sorta ppt in my own way, that being to try to fend off large enemy groups with my smaller group, without having to use siege or blob. That is almost completely dead though with the stability changes and how there is no disencentive to blobbing.

Just a thought.

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Just wondering if people think w/ Revenants if stab will work again or not.

Have to say, I tried to put up with the change (I’m a returning player) and the game is about 100x less fun the way it is now.

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(Almost) Impossible to fight Outnumbered?

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It used to be that if you had a coordinated group in good builds that complimented each other, you could wipe wayyyy over your numbers.

Now, It almost doesn’t matter what you hop in, CCs (esp w/ stab changes) rip your stab immediately rendering ded gaem. Everything does immense damage and the strat is to face roll on your keyboard in the bigger group for best results.

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Can we re-evaluate the stability change?

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Just want to give my two cents, that being that I 100% agree with the OP.

I used to love driving but since the changes, its so much less enjoyable. For my money, the stab changes made WvW significantly less fun. Range was incredibly important before the change, and now its just silly to run melee. Part of being a driver is having the ability to run around and do things (and IMO commanders/drivers are kinda an important aspect to the game) and the stab changes make it nearly impossible to fight a larger group (which BTW happens all the time since ANET and the WvW community can’t do fair fights/matchups)

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World Population Changes Are Coming

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So far so good on the population balancing front… oh wait :/

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My early two cents as a driver of a coordinated group of 15:

Would really like to be able to run the dragon hunter line, partly for the change up but mostly for the F2 leap. That leap is super cool.

The three specialization lines now though are entirely needed and the traits in dragon hunter can’t work for a meta AH guard. Some are fine but the grandmaster minor doesn’t do anything at all. Say make that minor something to do with condi clear or something for stability and I’ll be thrilled.

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WvW Invitational Statement from John Corpening, game director for World vs. World

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Aww there are no good, hardcore players or teams in lower tier.

lol jk

#sensitive

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this is done in preparation for HoT. new players will come , and they will be directed to the lower tier servers.

If thats whats gonna happen, reckon there needs to be more ppl (at least in t8) to help receive them. I can imagine for most people, they are going to go to a t8 server and just log out immediately when there doesn’t appear to be anything going on.

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First of all, I’m glad they are trying to even things up a bit.. It would be really good to get some more different matches and just overall more parity.

That said though, I don’t understand why servers get such a blanket statement about their populations. As the Dev even said, some servers are way full and some are just “full”. Some people just can’t be happy with anything ANET does but man if two servers have entirely different populations but are considered the same status does the status mean anything?

What’s the strategy here then? instead of giving incentive for people to move down (and no not just free xfers) they are instead just locking people out of some servers and essentially forcing people (if they want to stay together that is) to lower servers. Except that there are a lot of “medium” servers that aren’t even close in population.

Seems weird to me.

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and thats why its likely anything anet tries to do to balance the population will be difficult.. In the end, the community decides if they want any sort of sportsmanship and parity.

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Eredon Terrace will be t1 within the week!

Hype!

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Something needs done with ET and DR.

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I’ve got it! Lets make a golem event where everyone will be in a super fast and super strong golem! That way when ET tries to enjoy the event, it will be about 15-20 golems versus about 50-60 golems! Remember, coordination is key to winning outnumbered fights.

lol here we were trying to enjoy a absolutely silly idea by ANET and when a Bot battle goes down, we get steaaaaammmmrolled. sweet.

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Can we get free xfers?

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There was approx a 60-70 man blob in t8 last reset.

True, there is life on ET during EST Primetime, but other than that, it can be pretty dead. Soloing Camps, Towers and Keeps can get old, so now I pretty much only play ET in the few hour primetime window, which provides me more time to find other activities to get involved in outside of GW2 = the game is losing it’s hook.

I have always been against the idea of forcing people to switch servers, but the T8 servers, especially ET, can get so dead that offering free transfers not only seems like the right thing to do, but may also save ANET from losing players out of frustration.

I was more responding to the OP saying the higher tier servers should get free transfers from the bottom dead tier servers. Or do you mean that the bottom servers should be forced to transfer up?

No, nobody should be forced to adapt to the playing styles of others, options are good in gaming. On the flip side, nobody should be forced to play on a "dead’ server if they can’t afford, or unwilling, to pay for a transfer. So let the T8 servers remain, some like to play in a non zerging environment, but offer a transfer to those looking for mo people to play with. It only helps the game maintain players if they are happy with the experience.

Preaching to the choir there, I definitely think above all that ppl should be allowed to move or whatever else it takes for them to have more fun. That just helps the game.. which is something all sports leagues are constantly trying to do… Anet doesn’t seem to want to help the game or reward the player base which is just amazing!

But anyways, I think maybe my two cents are though that t8 population wise still has a good chunk of players that still play, just the coverage is totally minimal in many spots. I don’t personally care about ppt so I don’t really care about fair match ups (and actually the best reset I had in a while was at a time we were ticking about 60.. lol we were just barely holding on! bad guys everywhere!) but what I hate to see is cross tier population imbalance. So you are telling me you have to xfer every month or so to see more than 2-4 servers? jeez!

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Can we get free xfers?

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There was approx a 60-70 man blob in t8 last reset.

True, there is life on ET during EST Primetime, but other than that, it can be pretty dead. Soloing Camps, Towers and Keeps can get old, so now I pretty much only play ET in the few hour primetime window, which provides me more time to find other activities to get involved in outside of GW2 = the game is losing it’s hook.

I have always been against the idea of forcing people to switch servers, but the T8 servers, especially ET, can get so dead that offering free transfers not only seems like the right thing to do, but may also save ANET from losing players out of frustration.

I was more responding to the OP saying the higher tier servers should get free transfers from the bottom dead tier servers. Or do you mean that the bottom servers should be forced to transfer up?

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Can we get free xfers?

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There was approx a 60-70 man blob in t8 last reset.

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i see no reason to play wvw

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I think its interesting how dang interested people are in the “rewards” side of the game. I mean I get that too but to me, the real reward in the game is wiping some bad guys, helping your team out, etc.

I mean whats more rewarding saving a keep a few were trying desperately to defend or looping around in SW “finding” “hidden” chests?

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You know whats really awesome is when you get all organized and everyone is playing coordinated and you wipe numbers you shouldn’t be wiping, just to see another 15 people play as “medic” rezzing all the dead (not downed) players. You end up having to drive thru a large area just to try to keep that from happening or trying to make a point of getting kills in the same area.

That doesn’t help either lol

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I’m on Borliss Pass. We lost to Erradon Terrace several times only a few weeks ago.

T8 fighting is so intense. In T1, if you win a fight, you might get some bags or get a chance to take a keep. In T8, if you win a fight, players will quit.

So instead of getting a keep, you could be getting a keep for an hour based just on that fight.

The stakes of every battle are really that high. Every move you make, matters a ton. Your player base isn’t small for t8 or even for t7. I saw this with my own eyes. Your server has morale problems,. Your players need to win or they will quit. When you win, everybody comes out and stays out. When you lose, ghost town.

Mostly this means that you need commanders and better/smarter commanders. And you need your up levels to hit lvl 80 already. They are ruining things or your server.

Its been a long while since we faced BP, and I keep saying that I really enjoyed those match ups. We can say the same for your server though, remember there are more time zones than just the one you play on.

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No salt here, except for the overall fact that server pop is madly imbalanced!

Question for you, though: does the imbalance across all tiers (i.e. kitten T8) bother you, or are you more concerned about intra-tier matchups?

I feel like the biggest problem we have is that there are HUGE Glicko cliffs between servers in the rankings. Example chart attached showing some of the “problem areas.” (Non-zero axis intentional to emphasize differences between servers.)

The basic problem, as I tried to indicate with green boxes, is that there are servers that are roughly balanced, but they don’t fit within the current tiers all that well. There’s either 4 of them that are even, or 3 split across tiers, etc.

Like many have said, Anet can’t fix this, and it moves so quickly any attempt would fail horribly.

Anyway, I like seeing it in graphical form, I think it makes the problem pretty obvious.

Def I think across the tiers pop imbalance is the worst thing in my mind. Obv I’d like to see fair match ups as well but those matter little to me in comparison to across tier pop imbalance. I think its silly that a server can be completely outclassed even if they move up 1 tier! More important to my play style anyways, it means stale fights and a lot of enemies running from our group :/

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Have you guys asked the guilds that left why they left? There’s a lot of speculation here, but why not just reach out and ask?

Nope never thought of that one!

Lol cmon yo

You guys just keep saying stuff like “they got bought” but it’s not true, at least not for the 4 or 5 guilds that came to NSP. You all seem like you’re guessing.

So stop one second. You are talking to someone who’s played a ridiculous amount of gw2 with the leaders of those guilds. Countless hours, helping, trying to improve the team, organizing events, server trainings, heck I’ve even driven their guild from time to time.

I’m not some random player who knows nothing about the community I play on. And never did I suggest NSP bought guilds.

Yeah man, I can see you’re taking this personally. Don’t mean to call you out, it’s actually this Lunacy guy…

Sadly it’s how it is when guilds are paid to move, and servers want to be stacked and do everything they can to do so, even to move to another server and take it over and pay more guilds to move there.

If it wasn’t for some paying for multiple guilds to move so their server can have more people than the enemy, WvW may have balanced out better over time. With the way things have been, buying guilds, etc., that won’t happen now.

The consolidation of people through ‘buying guilds’ etc., has directly and indirectly led to the current situation.

I was trying to politely say, “Hey, the guilds didn’t get bought, they just didn’t like the situation there” but was obviously too vague.

I wasn’t taking it personally… my interest in this thread was first to try clarify some misconceptions and second give my two cents on what I believe would help improve this game and game mode. Thats all…. I wasn’t trying to get all up on NSP or get mad that ppl move guilds sometimes. No salt here, except for the overall fact that server pop is madly imbalanced!

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lol GG to you guys. Thanks for the fun and thanks for the fights. Hard to get nowadays!

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Have you guys asked the guilds that left why they left? There’s a lot of speculation here, but why not just reach out and ask?

Nope never thought of that one!

Lol cmon yo

You guys just keep saying stuff like “they got bought” but it’s not true, at least not for the 4 or 5 guilds that came to NSP. You all seem like you’re guessing.

So stop one second. You are talking to someone who’s played a ridiculous amount of gw2 with the leaders of those guilds. Countless hours, helping, trying to improve the team, organizing events, server trainings, heck I’ve even driven their guild from time to time.

I’m not some random player who knows nothing about the community I play on. And never did I suggest NSP bought guilds.

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Have you guys asked the guilds that left why they left? There’s a lot of speculation here, but why not just reach out and ask?

Nope never thought of that one!

Lol cmon yo

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Seems to me, everyone claims to want the same things:

1) fair match ups
2) fair fights (or at least a possibility of winning using superior coordination)
3) Fresh match ups

However, what do we see?

1) unfair matchups due to server stacking
2) unfair fights due to server stacking and siege overuse (not to mention things like stab changes hurting smaller, skilled groups. thx anet)
3) stale match ups again due to server stacking

Its clear from point 2 that anet has no desire to help WvW so the only way really we can see some of these issues resolved is by the player base itself making it happen.

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It’s been done, as has been said…..The idea that a project can be made internal or externally of ET will only frustrate everyone trying to help that server get it’s kitten together. I was from GoM of blackgate that was looking for a challenge JUST LIKE THIS. We made a difference initially. Then it happened…..The TS vs Mumble debate, pugs with no intention of ever using TS, mic’less commanders poping tags doing there own thing spreading out bodies in unorganized kittenty locations..and generally not giving a crap about the idea that ET could be much better then it was……if they would only get on the same page. Not to sound like an HC kitten about it, but a server with a HUGE wvw populate can carry on with these exact problems, low pop servers need to be VERY VERY organized……That’s not ET.

So, I have done this in the past. I saw the need for some organization, I whispered pugs about teamspeak, we got grouped up and organized…. it was a lot of work!

In the end, we ppt’d really hard for idk 3-4 hours the couple times I did it and in the end, I just felt stupid and kinda bad lol. It just seemed like I told everyone how to play their video game and it seemed to kill some of the joy of it for those roamers who like to play their own way.

As for people who don’t get on teamspeak, its my understanding every server has a couple of those and you never know the reason for why. Maybe their game doesn’t work very well with it, etc. I’m sure again, this seems like a bigger deal on ET since our population is small. It again doesn’t say anything is inherently wrong about ET.

As for toxicity on the server, I agree with the posts above me.. there isn’t any unless its private between guilds or something. I certainly didn’t see any! I think some were kind of hinting that there might have been a troll essentially trying to keep ET low so that ET can be their low tier server or something but if one person can make that happen…. lol people have some thin skin something fierce. I definitely wanted us to move up and I never heard anything for anyone trying to stop that.

As for being a project server, I would certainly welcome a big guild to come down but I’d hope that they’d appreciate what I started this post with.. everyone plays their game their own way.. whose to say whats wrong and right.

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One thing I’d like to see is perhaps another scoring method implemented into WvW. You can keep the one we have, but perhaps we can also have maybe a K/D ratio or some kind of nifty thing like that. I’m sure many people can get creative with that.

Perhaps that would make it so people can see, yeah maybe ET loses terribly when it comes to coverage wars, but you know what?! they do decent here or there, etc. It would make it a lot less “dire” which always cracks me up cause ppt is just such a waste of time to stress about in the long run.

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Don’t cha think it maybe has something to do with population imbalance? So even when transfers come in, we move from like 6 commanders to like 7, which percentage wise is a good boost but still puts too much pressure on everyone. Inevitably that frustrates ppl.

It is not. From what I observed when I was there (when ET was ranked 24, just like now), ET simply lacked organisation, not numbers. Whenever I persuaded 1 person to tag up on teamspeak, just a few minutes later, there would be a small 10-15 man zerg formed up, enough to counter any zerg from your opponents. When I was exploring around on the map (EBG mainly), I would see multiple 2-5 man groups wandering around with no focus. This isn’t population imbalance. It’s the lack of a charismatic commander or guild to bring everyone together onto voice comms and form a large zerg, which you have enough numbers to do.

See thats where I disagree. I totally appreciate your point, I mean I am a driver for a pretty dang solid guild that is very organized and I know what organization can do for a guild and for a server. The thing is, saying we don’t have enough organization or a charismatic enough leaders is still in and of itself a population issue. Its sort of like a “willing people” population issue. A lot of ppl who stayed on ET for ever now do so because they are roamers and enjoy being able to take stuff and get small scale fights. IMO you can’t just suddenly ask or expect those people to get in raid builds and zerg it up. See what I mean?

Its kinda like a time a commander told me that ET could win ppt if essentially everyone just played more. Sure, if everyone played an extra hour of WvW a day it would help, but thats still a population issue against ET. Also, where ET really struggles ppt wise is during the harsh off hours times where there can literally be 1-2 on across all maps. So sure, if we could get ppl to play during those hours, yep! we’d have better ppt! Those harsh off-hour times are sort of rare but there is just noone to take anything back. BTW, its not like other servers don’t have roamers just doing their thing. Its just that those servers also have more leaders and capping folks.

BTW, I’m not asking or expecting ANET to come swoop in and help ET.

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Would prefer those with the superb server building advice to actually play on ET for any significant period of time.

Server building isn’t something a single person can do. It’s like building a guild, but more difficult. Every guild on the server needs a singular goal that is unanimously agreed to, whether it be a raiding schedule, glicko gain (or stopping glicko bleed), or a certain rank you want to achieve.

When I was on ET last year, just before the small bandwagon that boosted ET up to high Bronze tier, I saw the problems in ET were extremely deep rooted, with little to no guilds actually working together, or even communicating, with a lot of people I spoke to complaining about other guilds on the server being toxic towards each other and such (guild X complaining about guild Y, who complained about guild Z, who complained about both guild X and Y, it was… sad.).

I don’t think anyone can come into ET to perform a miracle. It needs to be done internally. Drop back down to rank 24 and reconsolidate your WvW player base with clear goals in mind for the whole server. That would be my advice.

Don’t cha think it maybe has something to do with population imbalance? So even when transfers come in, we move from like 6 commanders to like 7, which percentage wise is a good boost but still puts too much pressure on everyone. Inevitably that frustrates ppl.

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Would prefer those with the superb server building advice to actually play on ET for any significant period of time.

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Honestly don’t think it would take much to balance the tiers. Just would like something to be done after a couple years seeing ppl try really hard lol to just get stomped every stinking week no matter what they do.

What kind of game allows for that kind of unfairness? There’s not even really any point to the outnumbered buff and the more steps anet takes, the harder it is to zerg bust.. blah it goes on and on.

If I worked for this good a game, I just wouldn’t let it go this way. So so dumb.

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Does anyone else in bronze get slightly annoyed at posts like these?

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Transfer to ET today!

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I agree they don’t make sense, but personally I don’t care about how active people think a tier is or isn’t. t7 NA ques confirmed here as well.

Reckon the biggest thing thats a bummer about the transfer costs is stale match ups. Tired of X server rallying at X time, etc. Maybe if xfer costs were scaled, there wouldn’t be such a difference in pop between tiers and one week you’ll fight a “t3” server and another a “t7” server.

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Would be nice to have more players in WvW interested in parity.

Want more battles and less stale and close match ups? Need to have WvW pop to spread out.

Btw, I play on a relatively low pop server and every time I log into wvw I know that we have this group doing this, or that group doing that.. activity is not hard to find. Or, I’ll tag up and start a pug group myself.

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Yo and also, I heard TC is like a RP server but I’d reckon ET is up there as well.. had a crazy mystery event thing that all the guilds participated in. Wiped 4 waypoints I think, prizes for people and a lot of nerdy goodness.

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