Guild Wars 2

And spotter will give your pet more crit chance as well, where Eagle Eye will not.

I know most people hate pets but they are our damage too!

obastable.5231:

fa lost guilds, but they also gained some as well … and i do believe even in time slots where their coverage was previously less.

You don’t see those guilds because they’re clumped around the BL TP, trying to make enough gold to transfer to HoD :P

A sub fee to fix things? Most games that have sub fees still don’t get things fixed quickly, right, or sometimes both(or never). It never works out how you’d truly like it to, so no throwing money at something…not my favorite idea.

Can’t believe it was OVER a year ago GOAT transferred off of Borlis, Plok lurked around the borlis forums for a little bit but I think he didn’t have much playing time.

To get a good theory on Scarlet you gotta look a lot of different things going as far back as the beginning of the Sylvari.
1.The human Ronan steals a mysterious seed from a cave guarded with dangerous creatures and plants it along with a Centaur named Ventari, both were peace lovers and left a tablet by the seed when they died which influence the Sylvari on their birth and made them the way they are now. Possible evidence the pale tree was supposed to grow into Mordremoth’s lieutenant, but moved away from the dragon and its influence, something changed.
2. The “Where Life Goes” story arc in the sylvari personal story discovers a Sylvari NOT born of the Pale Tree who has no influence of the dream or nightmare, meaning there are other Sylvari out there somewhere, but why? More possible evidence that Mordremoth has minions out there but apparently they dropped the ball and have no influence over these other Sylvari.
3. Scarlet went beyond the Eternal Alchemy breaking the barrier the pale tree likely put up to possibly keep out Mordremoth’s influence, this done the dragon linked with her mind and while it couldn’t outright control her, it drove her mad. Wouldn’t having another voice in your head drive YOU mad? After coping with the dragon’s presence, the only way for her to be rid of it was if one of them were to die, but she is too proud to kill herself.
4. She begins all the preparations necessary to waken, attack, and destroy the dragon, creating her own army made up of strong land, sea, and air factions(her army really is better than the Pact, you gotta admit), even going so far as to create something large enough to take on a Dragon itself, the Marionette, which she tested on us all. Don’t forget the Miasma itself, which would wreak havoc on any army of dragon minions, or the poison sample she swiped from the nightmare tower the second it fell apart, which was likely to be used on the dragon itself as it was highly potent after evolving from our previous attempts to neutralize it.
5. Everything in place, she made her move on Lion’s Arch and was ready to awaken the dragon, but then we come in, right as she’s almost done at Lion’s Arch, does she stop? No she figures she can still win because she’s beaten us all over the world time and time again, but she’s out of luck. We critically injure her and she knows she’ll die, but she likely keeps the drill running just to unleash Mordremoth to get revenge on us, since she’ll be free from the Dragon’s influence anyway the moment she dies.

Blarg, want to do more but getting late and tired, won’t be able to think straight! I think it will have to wait until tomorrow!

Proposal Overview
Objective Upgrades enhancement for current objectives

Goal of Proposal
Personnel upgrades become more useful, making defending npcs tougher and more versatile like in EotM. Defending itself will become more lucrative while attacking and upgrading “enemy” structures in multiple maps will provide your entire server(those who fought in the last 15 minutes) with bonus Wxp. Players will be encouraged to claim all the objectives they can, upgrade them for more Wxp, and defend them while upgrading for slightly better rewards. Servers who can maintain a solid balance of defense and offense will be rewarded the most.
Structural upgrades stay relatively the same except for Waypoints, making it more difficult to hold far away structures but more profitable at the same time.
Proposal Functionality
Supply Camps-
1. Double Delivery-stays the same
2. Caravan Guards-Dolyak takes 50% damage while guards remain alive
3. Additional Guards-no change
4. Strengthen Guards-also makes Dolyak immune to damage while guards are alive.

Towers
Personnel Upgrades-
1. Combine Merchants/Services into a single upgrade
2. Hire Patrol-Same as before but hires a patrol on the inside of a tower as well, and on the inside of an inner keep
3. Guard Training-Access to 1-2 more regular skills for their class, and an elite(archers can use traps, etc)
Structural Upgrades
1. No Burning Oil upgrade-All structures will start with Oil
2. Cannons/Mortar will remain the same
3. Orb Altar- Gives the tower a bloodlust buff in the same radius as guild buffs, this buff applies to guards as well and rewards each successful defense with an event chest of blue quality.
Keeps
1. Waypoints-Only available for one keep closest to your spawn in each map. In far keeps, becomes Altar of Power, providing the same buffs as the lesser altar mentioned for towers, but also will provide a server wide +100 Wxp tick to every player for that server who has successfully completed a WvW event during the current 15 minute score timer.
Associated Risks
Turtling could become a problem, which is why both attack and defense would be rewarded in this idea. People could also complain about guards becoming too strong at towers/keeps for very small groups.

Proposal Overview
Borderlands Map 1.1
Add 2 towers at the road intersections east/west of the northern supply camp.
Add WvW component of the Skritt and Centaur camps, making pacifying them ally them to your side like EBG mercenaries yet upgradable like a supply camp.
Add more functionality to the northern supply camp, giving it an ability similar to the Shrine in EotM.

Goal of Proposal
Too much open space currently in the borderlands that is only rarely strategic. Would give the home team a more defensible base zone while still giving more attack options for enemies to fight the uphill battle.

Proposal Functionality
Upgrades for mercenaries could include:
1. Raiding/Patrol Parties-The mercenaries send a party east/west to attack and one south to patrol neighboring lumber mill/quarry.
2. Upgrade Defenses- They bolster the amount and quality of guards at the entryways to their camps.
3. Guard Training-Increases the stats and abilities the npcs possess.
4. War March/Skritt Sabotage-Activatable “breakout” type events to help push the high ground objectives. War March would be very much like the current breakout with siege yet not as tough a boss, but with extra centaurs instead of one tough champion. Skritt Sabotage would be more of an escort mission, if you escort the skritt to their tower objective, they burrow inside and attempt to destroy siege or the door if no siege is present.
These abilities would be used in the two directions of the new northern towers/northern supply camp, and south from each camp down to the Bay and Hills Keeps, enabling whichever side who maintains control of these a strategic advantage.
Northern Camp while fully upgraded and controlled by the home team could spawn a champion/legendary patrol for the east and west side of the high ground area.

Hopefully the new objectives would give the home team better defense(and more to lose at the same time) while giving attacking teams more to attack with if the home teams turtle on the high ground.
Associated Risks
Possible that it helps the home team too much. Home teams able to attack the Hills or Bay with the mercenaries would only receive mercenary help on the outer gates, none on the inner.
Currently home teams if pushed to natural border lines only have to worry about Garrison and two towers which they can quickly reach, giving them 2 more towers to actively defend while being an advantage makes them work harder, yet gives enemies another chance of a solid foothold in the north.

I think the OP is a troll…and that’s the generous answer :P

Ether Disruptor-creates a field that disrupts enemy portal attempts anywhere inside the inner keep doors(no bypassing inner walls).
or
creates an Ether Disruptor in both the inner and outer keep grounds(likely close to a depot) that shield those areas respectively(i.e. no portals past inner walls, or outer walls), these objects CAN be destroyed via conventional or siege means much like cannons/mortars/oil and provide no protection while destroyed.

Anyhow, figured if defenders can’t waypoint in, maybe preventing attackers from porting inside would be worth researching? At least from porting through inners, even though it’s an awesome thing to do right now :P

Had a great time at Cd’s Hills for that hour long playground sortie :P

Still can’t believe 90% of the map’s population was inside Hills for the 45 mins or so.

Snow Ghost.6817:

[VP] Have had a fun night in Kain BL. Thanks to [CNB] for the fights. Best we have had in this match up. Cheers to [BMS] too.

Hope we can do it again soon.

/salute

This, Kaineng was putting up a fun fight in their own BL for the last 4 hours, though you guys literally steamrolled our paltry defense of Hills, I was on that bridge when the steamroller came through :P

ThunderPanda.1872:

Mhh, from AR, just wanna say.. BP after 1 week, you guys have improved a lot…

We’ve had some small guilds transfer over in the past three weeks, and I am sure there are more but that’s all I can verify. Some had come from NSP and I believe we even had a few defect during our last matchup from Henge of Denravi and possibly even Devona’s Rest. Still we roll a mighty zerg right out of the gates on reset :P

Oozo.7856:

That is why it rubs some people the wrong way when some BP talk about skill since they are working from a different definition of the word.

This.

Also to my fellow BP players, if something you’re going to post sounds familiar to something Ebay said to us, reflect on what your reaction was back then before you click that button!

DtC.4806:

Yes BP has…

Dtc, you’re supposed to impress them in the field first and THEN answer questions they have, not give answers to unasked questions!
And we went from a real puggy server to a Power Pug server(yes there is such a thing as a power pug)!

irishhaf.1692:

Has BP gone dense with all the meta zerging… you have not seen a single blessed thing we havent experienced… nothing not a thing..

This is somewhat true, our server has a MASSIVE pug following who a large percentage of are fairweathers, and the skies are looking rather clear right now so you can guess what’s going on.

I’ve seen more commanders and players in WvW that I’ve never encountered ever in all my time on this server(since my guild left Sanctum of Rall on Halloween). And yes, Henge has seen more than any of these servers since they have been in every tier, whereas Borlis and Devona have not gone any higher than T5.

Still, do what ya can, without driving yourself crazy over it cause it ain’t worth that!

Agriope.4523:

Commander Buffalo and his [WAR] (War Lords) “highly-skilled, absolutely coordinated” minions informed us that we “aren’t really a guild” and “don’t do anything to help anyone”.

So, we decided to help.

PS. Enjoyed the fights tonight.

So you basically forked their yard….awesome

Mist Y.5214:

Most of this would just promote zerging, which is really not a great idea.

On a server like mine there’s usually one commander on any map at one time…which if all players on the map only see that one guy where do you think they’ll all be likely to go…
yeah, you got it.

Having squadmembers receive benefits promotes them to be in the squad, having a max amount of players in the squad means you can’t have just one big zergball rolling around the map like what can happen in my tier. Of course you can have multiple commanders rolling around in a pack providing buffs, yet at the same time I don’t see how this would promote zerging any more than the game currently does. We’ll see what happens with the changes Anet will eventually reveal and possibly by then we’ll have better idea of what to do with commanders, but for the time being all we can do is what commanders should and should not be able to do and reasons why some things will work for some servers and not others and where to draw the line for balance. That’s why we’re here!

OreoWolf.9564:

You could implement it in a way such as the seigebreaker dude in the borderlands? 10-20 plus people must be in the proximity of the commander for said buffs. This would prevent roamers and most pugs from buying it for the buffs, and promotes organized guilds.

Could also go further than “an option to not show tags”. Why not make it so only guildmates or squad members can see the tag? It could appear as an orange commander tag instead of blue.

Just some constructive feedback, take it as you will.

Most Commanders exist for group benefits anyways, though some are only out for themselves. I’d have no problem if the commander themselves received no buff whatsoever. Most people would then think this is pointless…except for those that are part of a real group or guild.

As to your 2nd paragraph, I’ve been a fan of having guild only squads and commanders for months, so I like your idea

OreoWolf.9564:

While the ability to only see commanders when in range is a neat idea, I would have to disregard “commander mastery”. With the current ability to buy a tag for a small fee of 100g, nearly anyone can get it. With the buffs you suggested, we would see 10+ tags on one map just because random pugs/roamers want the buff(s). Until commander titles are EARNED, I do not think this would be a good idea to implement. Already enough pugs commanders as it is.

Good point, maybe you could add an option in the game to never show commander tags(came up once long ago when people tried ignoring certain commanders but you’d still see their dot), but that’s another story. I could see some solo roamers possibly spending points into this line for the buffs specifically as you said, although this one would be one of the more expensive, similar to carrying supply and likely even more pricey.

And I do have to ask as I saw nothing in your signature, what server are you from where you have so many pug commanders? Borlis Pass, my server, tends to have one commander running Eternal, one-two in the homelands, and possibly another in one of the two enemy borderlands. Is the server you’re on Commander Crazy? If so I could see why you would not like this line :P

snowaugar.1823:

Lack of commanders being able to see the other commanders cross nap make it rediculously hard to coordinate especially if a wild tag appears

Thank you, I did forget to mention that would stay the same, as in commanders will always be able to see other commanders.

Squads before anything else. Currently squads offer very little, as anyone will likely just follow a commander dot without ever joining the squad, as hardly anyone will use the squad chat. Current best feature is /squadinfo for a quick supply count. That being said, let’s give people some more incentive to JOIN squads, and just more than one

Commanders should not all be viewable from anywhere on the map(except for other allied commanders). Allied command dots could be viewable from the same range as allied dots on the mini map, if you are close enough to see that, you can see an allied commander, however joining said squad will enable you to see the dot from any range(as it is now). Squads should have the ability to be open, or closed(invite only and invisible to all but other commanders and its own squadmembers). If you come within range of an open squad, an event notifier can let you know you are close to an open squad(just like any pve event or even the current escort siegerazer), there could even be a join button in the event box in the top right for ease of use.
Now with that out of the way, here’s the mastery!
1. Commander’s Orders-ability to remove a claim on an objective that’s running no buffs.
2. Loot & Pillage- 10% magic find to squadmates within 1200 radius, 10% increased exp/karma/coin on objective captures.
3. Siege Engineering- 15% increased build/repair time to squadmates within 1200, +5 max squad member capacity(35)
4. Tactical Command- Gives commander ability to see squadmates on map just the same as you can currently see party members(any range, name if moused over). +5 squad member capacity(40)
5. Inspirational Leadership- +10 all Primary and Secondary stats, 1% magic find/critical damage(weak celestial stats) to all squadmates within 1200 range, squad loses buff on down/death of commander. +10 max squad capacity. (50)

These are definitely NOT the best ideas, but they are a start(and I came up with ’em on a whim), please hammer this idea into the ground with reasons why some of these could work, or how they could be the worst ideas ever, for servers of EVERY size.

Sigmar.2185:

In resume, this week reset, can you ArenaNet give us hope and refresh tier 5? THAT WOULD BE AWESOME THANK YOU

It refreshes every week, just hope each server rolls something very different, THAT is your hope!
Still that’s the randomness that is WvW, there are far worse servers for us to face than Ehmry, while we’ve fought them long enough it’s not very exciting as we know the outcome when the week begins :P

Ashadow.6874:

This is what happens when you are stuck in the same match up for too long, constantly winning. Walls no are no longer necessary, not even for Tower Lords:

And the commanders take the army into the jump puzzle, too! :P

The Hour Of The Mice.2910:

that being said, this thread is a lot more entertaining after the forum warriors got to it. i was a bit worried for a second. 2 pages without trolling and all the kitten ba-ya stuff was getting boring.

I think that’s because the vast majority of the general forum population(average joes) was already run off by the forum trolls, so if they aren’t here to post…who will?

Thorson.9218:

No.

And don’t expect much AR presence in WvW this week. Enjoy the ghost town…..

This makes me sad

Derelyk.2719:

By guaranteed to drop a rare or above, do you mean be empty or have a pelt in it? Because that has been my experience.

If that was from a dolyak it was the +5 supply which counts as a rare item. If you do NOT have autoloot on you’ll actually see the supply item in there. If you’re gettin chests from something other than a dolyak and no rare, well that’s another matter and would be buggy if it ain’t rare :P

wooden chest I believe, if you get it from a dolyak it signifies the +5 supply

Luzano.6983:

Ok guys, Storytime brought to you by Paint and Print Screen and BP Bl.

hehe, witness protection program

And for weeks I thought the solution was to forcibly kick us out of the tier.

ChapDev.7650:

Made you think twice about leaving it without a guard after that first Thieves guild rush burst your Cata though hm? :P And yeah you don’t know how tired I am of no one else leaving towers in this tier.

A lot of that fight was a matter of trying to balance stopping ebay from entering the tower, keeping at least 1 siege running at all times, getting people to bring more supply in without leaving too few behind to guard the siege, anticipating the range of current and future ebay arrow carts, and making sure the ebays who didn’t get in didn’t take the lowlands behind us. We had supply problems as you could guess as we had two catas up simultaneously for only a very short time :P

Still thanks for comin out to bust ‘em up if not for you and the troll prince(and that other guy) it just would’ve been a dull siege! Though we never took the tower at least there was a fight for it!

You’re right there! You had as many as we did already in that tower within the first five minutes(obviously not including the ones we killed trying to get in), although you and two others were the only ones actually coming OUT to kill our siege, thankfully as more showed up more came out of the tower to fight. Thank god you and those other two were there though cause otherwise it would’ve been us on the cata and your allies on their arrow carts waiting for us to get inside :P

Although if you were there for that final attempt with the portal…THAT was something I’m sure you could’ve laughed about (your normal trolling aside).

I think the start of the reset kinda fired ebay up as the attention of both BP and AR were focused on them, likely resulting in a lot of excitement and staying up to repel the assaults and just transferred to conquering all the maps :P

If you suddenly had a large change in competition with it still being in your ability to handle, wouldn’t you be excited?

Still we’re tryin to fight the good fight and have fun fightin ‘em, hopefully they’re having a bit of fun as well :P

It felt longer than 30 minutes! :P
I wanted to take it before I had to log for bed but…no dice! BLOODY ARROW CARTS!

Really had to quote Dr. Claw after the portal failed… “We’ll get you next time Ehmry….NEXT TIME!”

Rob.7624:

Does AR and BP miss our old matchups in Tier6?
Oh how even they were.

Wait a minute.
How was it that we were pushed into the tier below then?

Oh no wait I remember.
Guess you guys got what you deserved for that poor idea.

Go Ebay!

Actually you guys were pretty fun to fight for the month and a half we fought, and were entertaining on the forums as well. Now the only reason I remember you guys going down a tier was the final week we fought there was hardly any NSP presence at all, and my server pounced on your borderlands before AR did and profited from it. You guys were obviously fed up with the match because even though there were not many NSP in the field there were more posts than ever on the forums, so I feel your pain but still you didn’t have to go out by throwin in the towel!

Course that’s what Ehmry wants US to do but we’re a bit stubborn :P

Melee has basically always done more damage than ranged in this game, as the whole risk vs. reward type argument. If you’re in the mix of things you’re putting yourself in danger but are dealing more damage rather than pew pew’ing from a safe distance.

Also it has already been stated that the term Ranger comes from the wide area the person would “range”, not long distance attacks. Those other games really did embed it in people’s heads!

All our weapons are pretty beastly for a lot of different reasons, most people have put up the best reasons why already with greatsword and 1h sword, though if you want top efficiency of your 1h sword you will HAVE to turn off autocast on the pouncing and do it manually!

Personally I love having both a melee set and a range set at all times so I’m ready for anything

The Hour Of The Mice.2910:

On that, we can both agree.

Then why the heck is there such a focus on Borlis if we’re the worst ones here? Still the attention is nice, if a bit overbearing at times.

Rashagal.5867:

A Novel

only good posts in the entire thread, the rest of it is all full of rage and defensive attitudes(though some of ’em are funny).

The talks on BOTH sides about exploiting have overstayed their welcome. Some are having fun with it, others are completely frustrated. Still to have almost two pages of this thread be about a suspected exploit with more on the way is an embarrassment to our matchup.
Do the right thing whether it’s not exploiting period, refraining from taunting those accusing you, or reporting those and not insinuating on the forums.

Thank you, and I hope this post doesn’t get lost in the poo slinging of this thread

Evilzara.6378:

COUGH everyone in WaR COUGH

A zing if I’ve ever read one! Still, glad you guys like your new server at the least…still that’s freaking hilarious!

Kodiack.2783:

Anvil Rock while playing Super Fun Box gained 7 points on EBay last week. We’ll be busy playing SFB s’more

-K

I wonder if that would work for us? Hmm….

I do want some of those skins though :P

Faux Sheaux.6179:

Come on, WAR. You can do better than that. I see you guys as one of the better on your server. It’s kind of disappointing to see those petty pleas for assistance.

I’m surprised you wouldn’t welcome actual competition in your own borderlands. I spend about 85% of my time there always trying to put a dent in your upgraded objectives, I mean somebody’s gotta do it right? Your homelands are nearly solid green almost all day long, and you know we show up to try and change that, but never have enough to leave a lasting bruise. We’re lucky if AR shows up in the zone and try not to provoke them but it happens, but even so it makes the zone a lot more fun at least for us! I figure it would give you guys something more fun and meaningful to do than leave one person in each objective to call us out and then show up and push us off or stomp our faces in the ground.

What’s the worst that could happen, you actually have real competition in your homelands? :P

ExVoodoo.7586:

What part of any of my posts was I chest thumping? The only thing I said was that he lost more to then just a Mesmer. It is the truth, is it not? He openly admitted to losing to Archer as well.
I gave him credit to the wins he had, saying that there was some wins within his duels. I’m giving the truthful statement from someone who was there and watched all of the duels from start to finish, even some of the random ones that he wasn’t involved in.
Not once have I come in here bragging about something, saying he is bad, or that he sucks and he should quit playing. Not once have I come in here saying that I’m almighty and would crush him or anyone under my foot. He would probably beat me in a 1v1. (Though I’m a more team oriented player, I’m not fond of 1v1’s)
I have not challenged anyone to anything.

Aaaaand the reason for that is because I apparently mixed you up with Amins’ post. Whoops, my mistake, sorry!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJxCdh1Ps48

Oozo.7856:

AFAIK, culling doesn’t effect the minimap. Not many friendly dots on the minimap there.

It actually does, but thankfully it’s a bit more rare than the normal, but we won’t have to worry about that soon enough!

ExVoodoo.7586:

I have not bragged once, so if that last part is referred to me, then you’re a fair bit out of line. If it was general context, then continue on.

I myself have never claimed to be a 1v1 master, nor have I come onto these forums thumping my chest. In fact I don’t really post here all that often anyways. I prefer to keep the fighting on the field.
I was simply stating that he lost more to then just a mesmer, as I was there watching all of the fights. He did lose the majority of the ECHO fights, but he did win a couple.
In the end it’s his choice to play a warrior, so he should know what to be careful of.

@Walabone: I said nothing about the fights, I was simply confirming that a statement is correct and not mislead. I have beaten every class myself as I’m sure everyone has, so you have no need to get so defensive at me.

The only thing you’ve seemingly bragged about is Archer’s achievement over Walabone, I won’t ask why. You definitely seemed to be thumping your chest over Walabone’s loss as well, cause I doubt that would be considered sportsmanlike conversation over duels, but maybe that’s just me? Seriously though if you want people to duel you or your guild being a jerk about it is NOT good advertising.

And the death ratio joke has run its course to the point where it’s now 3:150.

jkctmc.8754:

I’m not in WAR, so take this with a grain of salt. I know grade school was a long time ago, but that isn’t 30 people from WAR, and the current culling mess doesn’t show you over half of the allies around you, most of the time. However, I think everyone knows culling doesn’t show most of their allies, it’s why there is an increase of bragging, because they’re using that to their advantage when they over claim their lack of numbers.

Sorry those raptors were forgetting to rep AGAIN!

That was one of our two bad fights that night, I’d seen you guys coming but you all were formed up and moving in stealthed as we were still trying to form up, one of those situations where the few seconds lost can be deadly(obviously). Still it was fun fighting you later that night, gave us more reason to stay on our toes!

Oh and what’s with all your pics having chat blacked out…cept for DAT kitten :P

Gab Superstar.4059:

Even AD beat WAR.

The only times I have run into you guys it was only like 3-4 of you when we had somewhere important to be so from my point of view it was dishonorable to stomp but…I had to do it cause I’m so excited to see Oozo in a game for the first time in nearly four years! Always saluted after doing so at least, but yeah I hardly ever ran into you guys, and now I won’t get that chance

The best part about last week’s thread was the name of Brolis Rock Alliance…great stuff. While DR was fun to fight against they just were too much of a wildcard, where I know AR is much more consistent and will be a good addition to this matchup.

While I don’t think a teamup would actually happen, I bet Ehmry would actually LOVE the idea because it’d give them the best competition they’d have experienced in….how long?

Gorefiend.9675:

We also do not have any organized roaming groups. Just our raids.

Except for that asuran thief…he’s ALWAYS around, and no matter what character I’m playing seems to target me first, though I did get a kick when he called in that “air strike” on us after tailing us to the centaurs :P

Magic find does increase the drop rate of stuff in WvW, increasing your chances of every type of thing dropping, you may not notice just because you aren’t getting rare drops like candy, but killed mobs or players will drop loot much more often(instead of many kills dropping nothing at all).

On the other hand, Chests are for better stuff UNLESS it was from killing a Dolyak, which the chest means you’ll receive 5 supply in addition to whatever coins/spikes/barbs actual gear it dropped.