Guild Wars 2

Eotm is a kittenfest waste of time due to no balancing. Having the top rated server in each tier the same colour is beyond kittened.

If Anet aren’t going to actually do something serious about the stacking at least randomise the colour each server is on every reset so that some matchups will result in slightly less one sided events.

Oh and get rid of the supply drop, all you are doing is helping along the strongest servers anyway

Its the same every year, Anet makes “hilarious” graphical change that manages to kitten lots of people off and doesn’t give a kittene. They did it badly all through Gw1 and the choo-choo is still going

Yes it was funny, for the first 10-15 mins, now its just irritating fighting other players with no animations and the annoying sound

ualgh.1832:

-Popular ideas-
A) Fix the lag.
B) Fix the lag.
C) Fix the lag.
D) Fix the lag.
E) Fix the lag.
F) Put all resources into making new shiny useless carp for the gem store and kitten wvw!

I added Anet’s official response for you

Should remove siege from EotM, people love PvD so much they should faceroll everything

I like some aspects of the change but I think it needs to change and not be an all or nothing situation.

Possibly having swords dependant on the tier of the tower so that there is incentive to upgrade or linked to the number of attackers etc. I do like the lack of swords but think we need to have a halfway implementation that promotes small group play over blobbing.

In the same vein I’d also bring back bannering the Lord and have that and the siege disablers on an increasingly longer and longer cool down so that you can’t chain them.

There’s merits to each of these mechanics but I think there needs to be balance between them all instead of e current on/off system

I usually run with 22604 or 21614. I do switch between Sw/F and Sc/F but a lot of the time i do prefer the scepter for a snare rather than a teleport but that’s purely personal preference, sw/f is prolly the stronger set for most situations.

The Zeal and Radiance minor trait get changed around a lot and if needs be i drop one and stick a point into Honor for Vigorous Precision.

25601 with is also used with sw/f if i don’t want as much condi cleanse but i run that less often

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVEQNAR7dlsApcoVDxbI8DRB+Ql5GGiWFBVFAXHDzwKA-TVSBABbcQACc/BzUCelyvIeAA3o+zCHBg80NAwFAIAACwNvZAwNv5Qv5QvZZAy3CA-w

You know, just for once, i’d kinda like you to just be honest and say

“We’ve designed this new system to squeeze and screw the most money out of you that we can but don’t worry we’ll send Gale Gray along to fluster and treat you like carp till the dust settles aaaaaaaaand we’ll put another costume and salvaging tool into the trading house. Go us!!!

ps we will also ignore 99% of the stuff that’s needed fixed for years because we cant find a way to monetise it"

And for Miss sarcastic CS person

Have an option for user defined number of gems/gold so that i can convert any number from 1 to a Anetillion, dependant on what amount i need to buy what item(s) i want. Yes have predefined quantities for speed but not having user input option is just an exceptionally bad design which shows how little thought your devs put into what the game needs and how much you put into what it needs to wring the most cash out of your players

I think at the very least she should get a free character name change to Destroyer of Worlds

Yep we have just tested with him going in/out of the maps and everything is bjorked with him there.

Fix this dude plz?

Each server in each tier should be randomised as to their EotM colour and this should be changed every 3 hours. Sure you weill still get 1 sided games but at least your more likely to get somewhat fairer matchups

This isn’t that common a problem.

Put the name of the builder on the siege, have a reporting option and then actually police the reporting system instead of just ignoring it

EotM has a few problems which make it fairly boring alot of the time. It is too top heavy for Green and it is too static for too long.

Instead of linking it to WvW and having all top servers green, 2nd blue and 3rd red why not make it so that each 3 server match up contributes 1 server to each colour randomly? For example

Current Rankings & Matchup
Tier 1 : 1st Seafarer’s Rest, 2nd Desolation, 3rd Kodash
Tier 2 : 4th Elona Reach, 5th Gandara, 6th Riverside
Tier 3 : 7th Baruch Bay, 8th Jade Sea, 9th Far Shiverpeaks

Green : Seafarers, Elona, Baruch
Blue : Deso, Gandara, Jade
Red : Kodash,RS , Far Shiver

^This, for an entire week, is boring as hell.

Randomise it every 3 hours so that each tier still has a red/blue/green team but each server is not locked into the same base/matchup continually.

Match 1
Green : Seafarers, Elona, Baruch
Blue : Deso, Gandara, Jade
Red : Kodash,RS , Far Shiver

Match 2
Green : Kodash, RS, Jade
Blue : Seafarers, Gandara, Far Shiver
Red : Deso,Elona , Baruch

Match 3
Green : Deso, RS, Baruch
Blue : Kodash,Elona , Jade
Red : Seafarers, Gandara, Far Shiver

and so on, lots of possibilities for more even matchups.

Each server within a tier is still facing the other 2 servers in their tier but the other teams they play with and against and the base they occupy changes 8 times a day.

You can still reward the winning servers of each match with a supply drop but at least you are increasing the chances of a more even match instead of stacking it badly the way it is just now and you are giving a variety to the bases each server controls.

(fwiw, this isnt a whine, my server is usually green or blue so i do pretty well out of EotM but even matchs would be nice and might promote a bit better gameplay)

White Raven.4368:

I just thought it strange Ins was throwing stones at Deso . It was a lot of fun when he was here,and will be a lot of fun facing who he leads now no doubt. No need for the mud slinging.

Have some respect,and show some class for one another. We are all here because we love WvW no matter what side we are on. Let the pain bleed out on the fields of battle.

^This. Fed up with the drama.

Surprised someone was abused on Deso night crew though, its fairly frequent to have uplevels encouraged

I use pretty similar to mPascoal, bit more health although once i get around to a zerk ascended set i’ll prolly run with 12.5k ish

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Happened to a group of 15 or so of us a few days ago on the way to blue keep, we just steamrolled over the top of them despite our server colleague shouting “NO KILL”, “NO KILL”.

They should go duel in OS or jumping puzzles or pvp not in the middle of a map when there’s constant traffic around, especially since they’re a free stacks / bloodlust points

I run triple med builds in wvw with Pow/Tough/Vit arm our and mix it with zerker/soldier/pvt trinkets and weapons to keep 15k health, ~3k armour and ~2100 power, 40% crit damage or thereabouts. PVT for wvw should be your base IMO

GS & Sw/focus or GS & Staff if you feel like Zerg running.

I use traveller runes for the extra speed boost, just can’t do with moving at normal speed

SleepingDragon.1596:

Preferred the idea of megaservers for WvW. I’ll use examples and say 20 servers on EU and 20 on NA. Paired the most populated server with the lowest populated server in their respective regions (NA/EU) as a team. Then paired teams of EU and NA teams into a pool consisting of 4 servers. 2 awards can be given out. First award is for regional such as NA & EU gets a rewards for winning. Then team awards for your cross Atlantic partners.

Rank #10 EU with #11 EU Rank (team 1)
Rank #1 NA with #20 NA Rank (team 1)
Rank #9 EU with #12 EU Rank (team 2)
Rank #2 NA with #19 NA Rank (team 2)
Rank #8 EU with #13 EU Rank (team 3)
Rank #3 NA with #18 NA Rank (team 3)
Rank #7 EU with #14 EU Rank (team 4)
Rank #4 NA with #17 NA Rank (team 4)
Rank #6 EU with #15 EU Rank (team 5)
Rank #5 NA with #16 NA Rank (team 5)
Rank #5 EU with #16 EU Rank (team 6)
Rank #6 NA with #15 NA Rank (team 6)
Rank #4 EU with #17 EU Rank (team 7)
Rank #7 NA with #14 NA Rank (team 7)
Rank #3 EU with #18 EU Rank (team
Rank #8 NA with #13 NA Rank (team
Rank #2 EU with #19 EU Rank (team 9)
Rank #9 NA with #12 NA Rank (team 9)
Rank #1 EU with #20 EU Rank (team 10)
Rank #10 NA with #11 NA Rank (team 10)

Yes, the pairing would not benefit overstacked servers and may alter the balance of power to middle tiers. It would also make servers cheer for their cross Atlantic pairings. Any swiss pairing is purely bad as it guarantees a few particular server(s) almost always getting a victory and not because of skill.

I must admit I like the idea of this a bit, the populations need evening out a bit in wvw and this would result in 10\12 EU servers which had more chance of being even and therefore fun matches.

Turn EB into a pentagon and make it WvWvWvWvW for carnage and much fun

or also

Mid season break , 4 rounds week or 2 off then another 4
Get rid of the swiss system, that sucked cheese
NA and EU servers against each
Better buffs and debuffs to reduce zerging a bit

You think you should have respect because of what skins you have? Excuse me while I go laugh into my soup

Amins.3710:

10/25/30/0/5 Burst ur face

All work. All have thier pro’s & cons’.

It’s more about the Synergy between ~ You As Players~ rather than build/diversity.

Any good, solid group of players that know how to play well together and understand what the builds people are running will out perform the fotm meta chumps.

I love this build, hits hard and has good movement and generally is very fun to play

As a deso player I wish they would tbh.

Every round has some element of 2v1, mainly situational although last week was a bit of a kittentake by anyone’s standards.

Was enjoying playing SFR though, hopefully play them again next week, challenge is good and if BB are there maybe they’ll grow a set and try some offy instead of running SFR blob protection

Really? wow that is a seriously stupid regression of the transmutation system.

And there was me liking the update as a whole and they go and be all Anet-y and kitten it up

Upgrade Extractor? At that cost? I don’t think so….

So am I right that you can’t combine 2 weapons now? I want the skin and sigil from 1 and the stats from another (or even stats and bnoth sigils for 2H weps now) and this used to be relatively simple with trans stones but can’t figure out any way to do that on the new system.

Effects:
Rubber Banding
Skill lag (anything up to 4-5 seconds, or just plain old unusable)

Server: Desolation

Has there ever been a time when you or a friend are experiencing lag, while others in your party are not? Not really no

Has there ever been a time where one party in a map is experiencing lag, while other parties in that same map are not? NOt really no

Do you experience the lag at very specific times? Whenever more than 10v10 it generally descends into a spam #1 only contest since nothing else works

Tormented weapons weren’t particularly exclusive in GW1, nor were they difficult to obtain and i have no issue with them being added to GW2.

Who ever realistically thought that any of the HoM skins were going to be freely available for GW1 players to use within GW2? not even a remote possibility i ever considered…

certainly not in any form of pvp or wvw but for pve i’d like one for purely vanity purposes

Destram.8651:

People keep pointing out “hurr just buy the levels it’s only laurels”.

Yeah, the laurels aren’t the problem, it’s the fact each level also costs 50 BoH. If you’ve already made a couple of legendaries then you’re going to be pretty strapped on BoH, even with the ones from achievement chests.

ohnoes making your 3rd legendary is hard……..

As has been mentioned

“30 WvW Ranks is peanuts”
“50 BoH + 2 Laurals = 1 WXP level”
“Small potatoes compared to World completion.”

All are pretty valid.

If you really despise wvw then just PvE more and buy the ranks you need, hell I’m mostly wvw and i’m tripping over laurels most of the time so it’s not even that difficult a task.

No-one is forced to wvw for a legendary but if you decide to go there to get what you need, you’ll do it very rapidly. Unlike that world completion, never doing that again….

My Guardian, not completely happy with the gauntlets but its pretty close to teh way i want

Really enjoyed last night, Deso were pretty outnumbered on EB when i was on and the continual tower attacks were fun to defend, especially that golem rush that got into our keep lord room…Durios, Bravost and then inner keep in about 5 fecking minutes…lol gj (and to the bl commander for the cavalry charge)

Been a pretty good matchup this i thought so thanks and have a good new year

Dreadforce.6980:

I have never used TS and some common sense and awareness will serve anyone better than people yelling in my opinion.

Not really, TS lets a good commander issue instructions on the fly, where to stack, where to fire fields, what type of field to fire, the melee path etc. all of which generally means you stay alive longer and collect more loot. If your not on TS you don’t know what to do and when to do it.

I’ve only been playing about 6 or 7 weeks and the first couple I just followed the tag using my common sense and awareness as you put it, i then dl’ed TS and just sat in the channel and my loot shot up and my deaths shrunk by a huge margin because i knew what the plan was, as it was happening.

Possibly Deso TS is just far too civilised compared to the TS you’ve tried but its generally only relevant information that’s coming over the comms.

Yes, they all came just from a few hours play most days over the course of the full season. I certainly did not expect much since they weren’t that difficult to finish.

I also did not play a shed load of wvw simply for the chest reward, if you did and expected huge rewards then you’re an idiot….

that was a thing of beauty

I ran Axe/Axe for many months and still do a fair amount, simply because i like the aesthetics of it, however when I’m wanting to max dps/control i use mace/axe.

Axe/Axe is quite noticibly weaker and certainly less useful than axe/mace.

As a pve player who’s only been wvw for a few weeks – and reasonably enjoying it – i think adding the pve content was stupid. It gets in the way and is distracting.

Keep it in pve land plz?

or they could just be honest and call it Mist Opportunity

Kuzzi.2198:

You don’t lose out on anything, you can still get your 10 laurels by completing the monthly.

If you managed to do a portion of the monthly in 3 days then you should have no trouble completing them in 27 days.

Do be presumptuous. I’ve been on holiday and managed to play a lot more than usual so was at 3/4 now I’m back to 0/4 and may not have the time to redo everything with going back on shift for the rest of the month.

Okay no-ones died (or gotten “stabbed in the face” – seriously posters calm down) but its still a tad annoying that the time was wasted and of course then you get Regina spouting the usual “we’ll fix it, oops no bugger you” rubbish which doesn’t help.

L2test properly please GW staff? I would say that this was a fairly obvious thing to miss during a patch test