Guild Wars 2

This reminds me of all the “elo hell” threads in the league of legends forum. Essentially what happens when you put a high rated player in low rating is they stomp, and stomp pretty hard. Which actually helps perpetuate “elo hell” for those stuck in it. By dropping your rating or using an alt account to smash up through the ratings, you are damaging 5 peoples chances of rising up and helping 4.

In a nut shell, play more games. Secondly, you probably are where you belong after a sufficient number of games.

condition duration is capped at +100%, I hope you know that.

This is an unsolvable problem.

League of legends has the same issues. – however this problem is mitigated by the following:

different ratings will tend to throw you into separate queues
the larger the playerbase the less of a chance you are going to be matched with your friend.

I can do this in lol providing the following:
me and my friends are roughly the same elo
we sync queue at almost the same time
then there is a good chance we end up in the same game.

The only problem is that you have a nearly equal chance of ending up on the opposite team. Which can happen here in gw2 if you attempt to sync.

Roughly speaking

votes = time played during living world event.

Obscure One.4357:

but now we’ve learned it’s because they want to rub it in our faces that

Source?

The overlays do not give you any in game advantage or automate multiple tasks with a single click.

Considering the gold → gem price changes pretty much minute by minute… having someone manually controlling the fluctuations would be insane, even then there would be mistakes where it would stay flat for some period of time.

Which means the system uses an automated system and its likely as the devs described. I am not prepared to call the devs liars without some evidence beyond ‘I think this so it must be true’.

GW2 features a trait system that has to be checked per character every damage tick which is partially why CPU expense to damage dealt is high. The reason the AoE caps are higher on siege is because 1) siege doesn’t account for offensive stats or traits, 2) siege is locally limited (5 in a 1,000 range area or so).

I want you to write out, in pseudo code, jscull a single damage tick. Compare it to, in pseudo code to DaOC’s damage calculations.

This is not the answer:
damage = attack *rnd / mitigation factor

The answer will use up more than 5,000 words. You have to consider every trait, every condition, everything that affects damage (weakness, traits), offensive traits that may increase damage or apply additional effects, boons on the target such as protection, defensive traits that can do a wide variety of things. Rune sets with on-hit and when-hit effects. Also consider that every time damage is dealt the server has to update all clients in an area with the new health level. It is by no means simple.

AC’s don’t have to consider over half that list. And are location limited, which is why the cap is higher.

But you can continue to demonstrate your lack of understanding about anything to do with programming and computer systems, that will do just fine.

Oh and WAR had no aoe cap, and servers lagged to hell and back, where brightwizards killed everything in large fights and everyone else was just fodder. Even 30 on 30 would lag pretty badly in a chokepoint getting blasted by aoe.

Hrm this is oddly like real life in a way.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

danbuter.2314:

I support Kiel because she’s human. Charr are scum and should be exterminated. After all, they are the reason humanity is almost extinct.

No. The Foefire that wiped out all the humans in Ascalon was caused by the human King Adelbern.

Wouldn’t it be amazing if you are both right?

1) Orr and Ascalon would exist if the charr didn’t attack them
2) Humans are really good at committing mass suicide to take their attackers with them. See: The sinking of Orr, and the foefire.
3) Ascalon would have been wiped out foefire or not.

But anyway, cant vote for Keil. Only makes sense to put a business person in charge of negotiating a trade contract. And considering its a videogame, the more questionable the more fun.

This thread is currently NOT a bug report.

Please post exactly what is wrong, the any steps that might help the developers reproduce the bug, and all other information related to the bug, such as guild name and server (don’t rely on your signature)

Something like:
We upgraded and got the guild bank 2 days ago (put date here) and put some items in the bank, as of date (put date here) we can no longer access our guild bank. We checked guild permissions and confirmed that we should have permission to view the bank but cannot. On talking to the bank NPC it says we do not have a bank.

Post screenshot of your guilds upgrade window showing the bank contract, and the NPC dialog.
State the server you are on
State the guild you have the issue with.
State anything that may potentially cause the issue: like you transferred 4 weeks ago.

Also bug reports will not help you reinstate your access, but to fix bugs. If you need assistance you need to open a support ticket at support.guildwars2.com

Just cap the rally to 5 people. Like every other ability in the game.

AOE loot was brought in because of WvW, but they could apply it to the whole game they did. Looting in PvE isn’t hard, and you almost always have time to go back and pick up your loot.

I too hope it is reasonable. It seems like it will be a time-gate which is ok.

If it didn’t happen multiple times this week then I wouldn’t be worried about it.

Mayhem.1935:

This match up has been super annoying for me. Nobody (that ive run into)on SBI/Kain wants to fight unless its 1x 5+. I’ve never seen people turn around and run so quickly. Cmon! It’s not like you get some serious penalty if you die kitten . If anyone wants a duel or something 2v2 idc msg me, im tired of chasing these “roamers” all over the map.

Maybe you should join a guild that doesn’t run around in 30-50 man groups. If you are a part of a large guild we always assume the large guild is somewhere nearby, engaging in a duel with that person doesn’t make sense.

Killing other players or NPC guards in the objectives influence area count for capture contribution.

There are plenty of notable exceptions to that norm though.

silver if your server has the population to take a keep in EB to get access to the puzzle, then your server has the pop to clear it out.

DoggyPaddler.3586:

Nyx Xox.3540:

LOOOOOOOOL I love how people from SBI tried to make a treaty with kaineng!! ROFL. We will not resort to those tactics just so you know. We’d rather lose by using everything we got then teaming up with another server kthnx.

Lol, is this guy serious? Not that I know anything about a treaty, but the thought of someone proposing a treaty is not that funny.. Maybe it was just one to many ’O’s in his laugh.

One person or a group of people do not speak on behalf of the whole server. Your dumb comment and pompous attitude for example; I will not think your whole server is dumb and pompous.. just you.

What IS funny is youre a commander. LOOOOOOOOL, do I have enough ’O’s?

I hate to be the one that breaks it to you but…

well should I? I this post quite amusing as it is.

Also "4v5"s don’t happen in most sports. The game is usually forfeited.

Counterpoint: unprofessional leagues usually have some kind of mercy rule. And the vast majority of games played are not professional games, so /resign is appropriate.

You should not be allowed to resign in a major tournament on a professional level. But for day to day, /resign is a good idea.

usually build an ac just outside the gate.

In very short:
Contests are typically limited to 18 and older because of various legal laws that require companies with contestants under that age have to jump through additional hoops. Its easier to waive liability by prohibiting under age contestants.

If you create a new email message make sure you put the incident number in the subject and body of the message as well as make sure you use the email account tied to your support account.

I remember reading it was on some list of things to implement on some point.

I support moving it from that list to the to-do list.

The only real option anet has is shutting down the bottom 3 servers and merge them all forcefully into 3 other same language servers.

spvp players do not have to spend any real money to finance a custom server.

The dye and laural conversions provide more than enough gold per month for ONE individual to pay for a server. If you have 5 people financing the server you can do it on the backs of dye only.

Yes, forge dyes and sell the results. Also convert laurels to t6 mats and sell the result.

^ except that required 50 skill points at a time. Which is a significant barrier. Superior Siege requires ONE skill point per siege weapon.

1) have him create the ticket
2) Answer “don’t know” for things you don’t know, this is OK
3) If you purchased GW2 from the guild wars 2 website, make sure to mention that, support will then probably ask for the billing CC and billing address for that card, provide that information when asked.

Good luck sir!

Chaba.5410:

Draygo.9473:

The only reason FA BL had few defenders is the majority of FA was camping Cliffside in KBL with superior arrow carts.

Riiiiiiiiiight…. Because you were there on FABL, fighting for Fort Aspenwood. So you know exactly what happened and are qualified to explain it to us. NOT. Also, l2read. Garrison is not FABL.

I am still trying to make sense of this comment. Still doesn’t compute.

Let me look at it upside down, nope.

Also there were no zoomhacked arrow carts attacking your choke at Cliffside.

Chaba.5410:

saiyr.3071:

I guess FA quit playing because they weren’t having fun. That’s why we have their garrison and west keep, right?

Such a masterful maneuver to take garrison with very few defenders while we were busy fending you off at bay. What happened to you at hills? Did you quit?

The only reason FA BL had few defenders is the majority of FA was camping Cliffside in KBL with superior arrow carts.

But yes if a 10 point tower is worth more than two fully upgraded keeps to you guys, vOv. I should say 3 keeps because the magswag took bay on kbl from FA while you were busy in Cliffside too.

What do you think the market is going to put the value of superior siege compared to regular siege.

Right now upgrading regular siege to superior nets you 10 silver a skill point (buy ac/cat etc off the trading post for much cheaper than the vendor), think this is about right or are skill points not being valued enough?

Its something I have proposed a while ago, however:

You cannot add one server to NA because then you would have 25 servers, which is not divisible by 4. The best solution is to eliminate the bottom 3 EU servers and merge them into low rank but same language EU servers, giving the NA and EU datacenter parity.

4 servers in the mix will make more balanced fights, as you can actually focus on an enemy. And if you have noticed when FC and ET are not together in the same tier they seem to perform well because they can nip at the other two opponents instead of getting run over 2v1, 4 servers means 1 server being more powerful than all 3 of its opponents combined is more unlikely.

Keira Ferland.5619:

I suppose this is karma for Kaineng stomping all those servers on their way up from t8

The Kaineng that stomped up from t8 is no longer on the server. So if you think your getting revenge against those people you are mistaken.

Thread is now invalid. Good day.

arKRazor.8654:

Probably more around 1k to tag and I’m reasonably sure you still have to be within the ‘in combat’ radius of the opponent when it dies.

Wrong and wrong.

‘Tag’ is less than 500, hard to stick an exact number to it without solid testing.

Credit is time based. You have to do damage to them within X time of dying. You can be anywhere in the current map when the target dies to get credit. lets say you die and respawn, you still get credit for the kill if the enemy dies soon after.

Volcanus.2756:

You put a limit on the aoe damage. The spell only does a certain amount of damage and gets divided by the number of players that get hit. Just one option that can be implemented for some spells.

Just so you know, this idea is mathematically the same as the aoe target cap of 5.

Cares Less.9631:

You miss the point, I don’t want to leave, I in the OP stated I was sorry to see [WvW] leave, the reasons they are leaving is because of some of the community, if the community was serious about ressurecting our WvW community we should not be making people leave, especially a guild that was a day one Kaineng guild. Anyway this seems to be going nowhere, you are entitled to your opinion good luck have fun, I hope Kaineng comes back.

A few trolls in EB is not the kaineng community. Especially considering they don’t participate on our server website, or log into the server teamspeak.

Also this isn’t the first exodus, but the third. First one was LaZy, then WAR + friends.

We rebuilt each time.

bewhatever.2390:

Vayne.8563:

goldenwing.8473:

Simply put:

There are 3 ways companies approach Facebook.

1) Have a “presence” and the “likes” are initiated by customers.

2) Troll for “likes” by rewarding them or otherwise artificially increasing them.

3) Falsify what a customer is “liking” so they can sell the site, along with the site’s “likes”.

I would have hoped ANet stayed with number one.

I’m disappointed they are with number two.

That was what I was expressing. Any assumptions otherwise are mistaken.

I’d be disappointed if any company that I supported didn’t take the opportunity to advertise where they could. This is a form of advertising, nothing more.

Why be disappointed with a company for advertising their product? They’re using limited resources to get the word out. Surely that’s what most companies do.

There’s a big difference between legitimate advertising (which companies in the first bucket do) where the response is following a link to facebook, and “we’ll give you a discount or freebie if you facebook like us”.

It’s an exploit, to increase facebook “likes” beyond what’s earned.

An exploit. Enough said.

You don’t like coupons?

Or hope anet deals with it, seems to take too long though to wait on them.

Anet said it would take 3-4 months to develop and polish a WvW map. So much shorter than a year.

What I want to see Anet do is merge the bottom 3 EU servers into other same language servers (not the same one, don’t make one super server).

Then change the maps and matchups to be 1v1v1v1. That way you can slightly tap down the pop limit on each map (because there will be 5 maps to fight over) which should help with lag. And because 4 servers are participating a dead server in your matchup shouldn’t result in a 1 on 1 where a slightly stronger server just dominates the PPT because momentum is preserved.

Atherakhia.4086:

The lowest ranked server to my understanding. ET has the same problem FC has where they simply don’t have the coverage to compete while also already being outnumbered the majority of the time.

I would suggest, if you’re planning to play on a moderate server with more balanced teams, avoid Fergusson’s Crossing and Eredon Terrace. These 2 servers have been left to wallow in their own filth by ANet for the past 6 months.

It isn’t anets fault really, but the players.

Also FC and ET are not dead servers. Vabbi is a dead server.

My problems stem from the kitten thing lasting 20 seconds. I think they should lower the duration a bit and chop the cooldown a bit. Kiting for 20 seconds because I’m using 2 melee sets isn’t fun.

Well why are you beating your goat? I think that is a bit more problematic.

See jinks, we can be friends

magrumby bears make the longest threads.

Hi from kaineng!.

I also am not sure I want your goat. Sounds abused.

Jinks.2057:

Gellor.6497:

Jinks.2057:

Draygo.9473:

Jinks don’t bring the thread down. You guys teamed our BL all weekend (letting Ebay get far ahead in score), do you expect kaineng not to attempt to get score back?

Ok I’m bringing thread down because I point out the truth.

You then accuse us for the double team.

Honestly the rest of the band wagon needs to goto BG and let you fall to your true rating IMHO.

Most of the Kain guilds went to BG not DB, so I’m going to fix the statement

Aww shucks I said the wrong wagon.

And I didn’t say double team. Our BL was crowded with enemies all weekend, you attacked each other often enough. But with our BL and EB being the main focal points of conflict it hurts us more, and for yaks being behind EB you wernt stopping EB from solidifying its lead.

Which is fine. It ended up being yaks turn to have their BL the focal point of conflict in NA prime today. Ebay kept trying to break into our BL, first it was Rekz with a scary double omega rush on bay. Then FTF tried for several hours to make headway. I admit you guys in FTF are tenacious.

Also how many FTF guilds are there?
I think I saw 3 or 4.. FTF FTF FTFs :o

" I had not bought any armor and was using only what I picked up in battle."

:/

You should at minimum update your equipment with the karma vendors. I think anet needs to make this more clear that karma should be used every time you can use it to make you more powerful. As you finish a heart check the vendor if he sells something that would make you stronger. If you are running around with a level 1-3 gear on a level 8 its going to severely make you weaker. level 6-8 gear is pretty much twice as strong, and even stronger if its blue.

Anet doesn’t stress karma vendors that much. I think they should.