The majority don’t want server merges and there is no reason for it. If you are kitten about the wvw on your server, just transfer. If you don’t want to pay to transfer, that’s just too bad.
PU mesmers
-Crippling Dissipation and Debilitating Dissipation traits having their affects applied when a clone/phantasm is replaced instead of when they are killed
-PU increasing cloak duration….. wtf at least give stealth some counters if you are going to give these sorts of buffs
-Damage through conditions not applying the revealed effect
Stealth/blind spam thieves
-ridiculous initiative regen when traited (Kelptomaniac + Quick Recovery + Patience + Quick Pockets all combined)
-smoke field (from black powder) + leap finisher (from heartseeker) combined with the above issue = stealth on demand
BG’s strategy for Season 2:
1)Play dead. Make server look weaker compared to TC/JQ.
2)Anet increases server caps right before the tournament (we all know they are gonna do it)
3)Influx of guilds looking to join the “underdog server”
4)24/7, 4 map queues for the duration of the tournament
5)BG celebrates another win
6)Rinse and repeat for Season 3
BG is just intentionally doing badly to make themselves look weak so that they get all the transfers. Don’t fall for their trick. They are very much still the #1 server.
I didn’t say Rangers are in the right spot. I just meant that we have to be very careful of the power creep.
I agree. Please be very careful with any buffs. Those of you familiar with what happened in gw1 (NF + EotN onwards) will know how serious a problem power creep can be.
I disagree entirely that people join a zerg because they want to. people join zergs because its easy loot bags and keep farming. Why would you sit there with a small team of people hacking away at a door while there is a zerg knocking one down next to you every few minutes. People won’t spite themselves because they want to be in a small group, the loot of zergs is too tempting. However if zergs were not viable, I genuinely believe people would much rather play in groups of 15-20 rather than 50+
Have you every capped a way pointed keep with defenders and siege with just 15-20? No? Thought so. Parts of WvW require a zerg. There is also a very important difference between an unorganized zerg (which is how you have described them – loot/keep farmers) and an organized one. Anet has stated multiple times they have nothing against organized zergs. People are allowed to play how they want. If you don’t like zergs, just avoid them and don’t get yourself in a situation where you get killed by one. And you forget, you only get loot if you don’t die and an unorganized zerg dies in seconds against an organized one.
SoR’s rebuilding is gonna be extremely difficult. Most other servers that implode still have their militia, militia commanders and several smaller wvw guilds still around. For SoR, 90% of the militia were part of wvw guilds and all their militia commanders were in wvw guilds too. So SoR currently has no militia, militia commanders or smaller wvw guilds. Gonna be real tough.
What about when they held down SoRBL by themselves (with militia ofc) against queued zergs of BG and JQ…. at the same time?
It came to the point that SF and ICoa wouldn’t even step foot into SoRbl.
This is why SoR bl was the best for small fights. As long as you stepped slightly to the left when the SoR map blob ran by there were always tons of small groups running around looking for stuff. JQ was constantly outmanned there before leagues, despite having the overall numbers advantage server wise. Also you got to feel like a pro ganking all the SoR zerglings trying to catch up with their silly blob. Sometimes they would turn out to actually know how to fight which was usually fun. And then the BG that hung out there tended to be the better small scale peeps too. Ah, good times. Good times.
Yea. Only the smaller sized JQ guilds would ever come to SoR bl (SG, DA, Pro, vH before they died).
What about when they held down SoRBL by themselves (with militia ofc) against queued zergs of BG and JQ…. at the same time?
It came to the point that SF and ICoa wouldn’t even step foot into SoRbl.
I wanted to pivot to something that Luna mentioned early in the thread, the idea of a more complex fight for Stonemist.
Would it make Stonemist feel too difficult to capture if the assaulting team had to capture and hold 3 capture points? Here are some of the problems I see with it.
1) It would encourage everyone defending to just blob up on one point and hold out as a group.
2) It could be so difficult to actually accomplish that it becomes nearly impossible to flip Stonemist.
However, I think it would be an improvement to the current rush the middle of the room scenario.
Do any of you think this version of Stonemist would be an improvement or does it not really make any positive changes in your mind?
All this will achieve is making it even harder for the less populated server to cap and defend it. Right now a smaller group can still cap it with effective diversionary tactics and can also defend it with good siege placement. This all goes away with a change like this. Same goes for buffing keep/tower lords as well. WvW isn’t just big blobs, so we should stop catering only to that play style.
The desire for shorter matches, comes from the problem that once a dominant server has momentum out of the weekend; you rarely see a reversal.
So the answer isn’t necessarily to shorten the week, but to change the momentum.
Proposal: “Against All Odds!” a buff that increases in intensity as the score gap increases
Functionality: At 25,000, 50,000, 75,000, and 100,000 points behind the matchup leader; a server gets a progressive buff that will slow down the leading server.
+3%/6%/9%/12% to siege power and structure HP (for the server(s) behind in score).
Consequences: This gives the server(s) that are behind a lot of incentive to keep pushing, knowing that their structures will be more defensible while giving them greater ability to capture enemy structures. This will cause winning servers to see the consequences of running up the score; and will actually make the upcoming Tournament A LOT more interesting.
How lazy are you really? If you have gold it takes maximum 30 minutes for you to get your crafting discipline to 500.
lol far from lazy .you know how long it would take to get the gold to buy if from the trading post or buying it from a friend without buying the gold ? a lot longer then a few hours that it would take to get crafting to 500 i log it to have fun i love killing kittens weather its pve or dungeons and by the way i worked my kitten off to get all the cultural armor and volcanus for my alt. im saving up atm for twilight and that will take a year or so for my so no far from lazy
Well that’s your problem. Pick and choose what is most important and work for it. If Twilight is more important to you then stop complaining. You can always craft the backpiece at a later time. Just farm the Blade Shards and get the recipe now.
There will always be a risk when transferring that it may turn out to be not as great as you expected. That’s why you do research.
Go to your chosen server’s website and ask questions. Find out stuff about the server.
Go to Twitch and see if anyone from that server is streaming. You get to have a glimpse into the wvw that way.
Guest to the server and see what the people are like.
PM people on this forum that you know are from the server you are considering. Ask questions.
If you truly do want to transfer, then money shouldn’t be an object.
The server status tells us the server capacity, not its population.
Many of us won’t fight BG again. The suspicious behaviors got really old . things we never experienced vs other servers. It’s not the blob that annoys us. it’s apparent need to skirt the TOS that does.
The overwhelming majority of your server transferred to TC and JQ to fight BG all over again.
I’ve guested all servers and no disrespect to any other server, but [INSERT YOUR SERVER] is by far the friendliest server out of all EU servers when it comes to trying to have a friendly conversation in map chat.
I hear that is more popular opinion than anything. I think a better idea would be to do a SurveyMonkey of the Guild you hate to fight the most would show a better result.
Wish there was someway for something like the old GW1 Hall of Heros (I think it was called, been a long time) Guild battles that you could watch (think it was guild battles, might have been smaller). Having a tournament system that that would be awesome.
Only the people who have not fought those guilds would think that.
I recommend against JQ or BG. Yeah they have decent coverage. So does TC or any of the T2 servers. Personally, I’d prefer to see a few others go to TC so that T1 is a really good 3 way matchup.
I do have to apologize for the huge off hour blobs tho. Trust me, We (GC) are trying to run with small numbers but are having a lot of Rallians attach to us.
You won’t be apologizing for your blob once you see the Xushin mega map blob
I’m pretty sure this is that Oakvale [Vale] guild from JQ that spent a couple weeks/months trying to get bought by T2-3 servers. No one wanted them then.
So you are saying you are superior because you can look up builds and press 1. I do WvW and PvE (dungeons as well as open world) and find the skill level of WvW’ers is no different than PvE only players. Your generalized statements show your ignorance.
I think you are the one that is ignorant, just read the first sentence I quoted. Also, you are on a low tier server with very little hardcore wvw players… of course there won’t be a difference in skill level between wvw’ers and pve players.
BG and JQ do the exact same thing. Just ask many of the guilds from outside T1, they’ve been approached at some point by BG/JQ (especially JQ) about coming to their server. Both servers are into pooling gold for transfer assistance (part of their selling point when approaching guilds).
Also, no matter how much SoR wants to drop to Tier 2, they’ll be vaulted back up to T1 with the coverage they have. Want to drop to tier 2? Lose some of that ocx/sea. HIRE, GC, NYS, AT, Hi, Ph, BAD and all those other tiny korean/taiwanese guilds (BT, Saty, ZerO etc) that help you form a big 50 man float team. Way too big for T2.
