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Differences: Guardian & Warrior - Roaming?

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^ ding.

Heal sig was always per second

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WvW disparity

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Transfer fees have nothing to do with WvW. They are there to balance total server populations including PvE. I am not sure there is a solution here. You don’t seem to be offering a solution as well.

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Use a swiss format instead?

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Edited the op provided more examples.

Using acceleration and then a swiss format should decrease the amount of blowout weeks significantly.

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9/27 - SBI/YB/Kaineng

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Kaineng lost 2 major wvw guilds, were rated much higher than we should be at this point. We should probably be 16th-18th. So the last thing we need to do is drive up our PPT especially since yaks isn’t getting much either.

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Some ANET interfered with our GvG

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bad example as it took them over 2 and a half years to put the format in the game. RIOT employees have been caught abusing their customers on multiple occasions as well (and the employee’s were reprimanded/fired over it). Anet is currently doing ‘better’ by your metric as were only 1 year in, and only 6 months after GvG has become ‘popular’.

2.5 years from game launch, not 2.5 years from when aram got popular. I dont know about employees abusing customers, thats an open statement, I am sure I could find many examples of Anet doing the same if we are talking on an individual basis.

We are 6 months in from GvG and Anet have been actively working to ruin it via orbs, and negative PR. Riot never did that.

There were several changes to SR that hurt ARAM before aram was introduced as a mode for pvp – major changes that affected ARAM was the minion changes that caused towers to fall much faster. Anet isn’t changing WvW with consideration for GvG’s they are changing WvW for the sake of WvW. Riot didn’t change SR for the sake of ARAM, they changed SR for the sake of SR.

Its easy to gloss over all the miss-steps a company makes when the end result is what the community wants. RIOT has had some quite awful employee blowups, anet isn’t immune to that.

Also Season 1 started on July 13th 2010. The game has been out for over 3 years. ARAM started getting real popular around 2.5 years ago, my post is correct. I do suggest you look up your facts before posting them here.

The keys are to publicly state that whatever blowingup employee did was wrong, appropriate action will be taken against said employee. This has been done.

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Some ANET interfered with our GvG

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Its funny because in LoL when players started playing All Random All Mid (A community made game format), the Riot developers didnt come and say “WOW I CANT BELIEVE YOU ARE NOT PLAYING THE GAME THE WAY WE WANT YOU TO!”

Instead they actually sat down looked at what the players were doing then actually MADE the game format called “ARAM” which is exactly what the players had wanted.

Not only did Riot not hate, they observed and provided. This is why Riot are simply a much better development company than you Anet, and this is why your game will never be E-sports and your wvw is destined to fail. You have a stupid vision, and you try to impose it on us when we simply know better than you.

bad example as it took them over 2 and a half years to put the format in the game. RIOT employees have been caught abusing their customers on multiple occasions as well (and the employee’s were reprimanded/fired over it). Anet is currently doing ‘better’ by your metric as were only 1 year in, and only 6 months after GvG has become ‘popular’.

Delarme
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Some ANET interfered with our GvG

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Honestly i never seen such situation in any MMO.

Such a disaster for Anet.

You must not play very many mmo’s….

This is really minor compared to what has happened in many other MMO’s. – not to excuse this one though.

I’d love to hear other accidents like this.

The biggest scandal I know of involves Eve Online where the developers pretty much handed an alliance currency printing presses (T2BPO’s), attempted to hide it and cover it up until it was blown wide open by a group of players.

This in comparison is extremely minor and will probably be forgotten IF ArenaNet makes good on their promise of developing a GvG scene.

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Some ANET interfered with our GvG

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They could be working on a map with no objectives on it that the players can use it for whatever they want. To me that would be ideal. but making a map takes time.

I am impressed that they put out a statement on a Saturday. Usually you don’t get statements like that till the start of the business week.

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Some ANET interfered with our GvG

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Honestly i never seen such situation in any MMO.

Such a disaster for Anet.

You must not play very many mmo’s….

This is really minor compared to what has happened in many other MMO’s. – not to excuse this one though.

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Use a swiss format instead?

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One of my primary concerns with the new league system is that it will force imbalanced matchups for multiple weeks. Instead the system should use an accelerated swiss format for the first 2 weeks and normal swiss matchmaking for the remainder of the league.

For 9 server brackets the matchup system I am proposing will work as follows:
Week 1:
Server 1 vs Server 4 vs Server 7
Server 2 vs Server 5 vs Server 8
Server 3 vs Server 6 vs Server 9

This will have a blowout but will put server 1, 2 and 3 ahead of the rest of the servers, this will minimize the blowouts down the road. The next weeks matchup can be as follows:

Server 1 vs Server 3 vs Server 8
Server 2 vs Server 6 vs Server 7
Server 4 vs Server 5 vs Server 9

At the end of this week the servers should be roughly ordered enough that the remaining matches using a swiss system (match servers of similar score) wont be blowouts. While server 9 may never face server 1, they don’t have to. I think this would be a better way to handle the the setup for silver and bronze leagues in NA and all the teirs in EU. It will effectively minimize the crappy weeks the league system seems to guarantee.

Then the rest plays out with a standard swiss format, winners play winners, losers play losers.

If by week 2 assuming no upsets
Server 1: 4 points
Server 2: 4 points
Server 3: 3 points
Server 4: 3 points
Server 5: 3 points
Server 6: 2 points
Server 7: 0 points
Server 8: 0 points
Server 9: 0 points

Next week would be
Server 1 vs Server 2 vs Server 3
Server 4 vs Server 5 vs Server 6
Server 7 vs Server 6 vs Server 9

Expected result:
Server 1: 6 points
Server 2: 5 points
Server 3: 3 points
Server 4: 5 points
Server 5: 4 points
Server 6: 2 points
Server 7: 2 points
Server 8: 1 points
Server 9: 0 points

next weeks matchup would be 1, 2, 4 then 5,3,6 then 7,8,9

Delarme
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Some ANET interfered with our GvG

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You cant stay out Tamaki :P. He can be let go for this, but I wouldn’t expect a response from anet as a company until they have time to talk about it on Monday with the appropriate people. They might just reprimand and move on, they might take more drastic action because they don’t trust the individual to cool it in the future. Ive seen this go both ways in development houses in the past.

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Some ANET interfered with our GvG

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His comments aren’t what is wrong. Its tagging up and speaking on behalf of a company that may not agree with what you are saying.

He could have done what he did and been fine had he not tagged up.

He shouldn’t be fired because he tagged up. That’s the…. maybe last thing I have to say. I hope the higher ups are just shaking their heads at this and not taking any of this seriously. Just make it so no employees can ever tag up, ever again so people can never mention how they wronged them in any aspect of the game.

He tagged up AND made comments that the company may disagree with. He used his tag to pull rank on the players around him, to disrespect the players around him. His opinion alone was fine, the fact that he was an anet employee and could tag up when he wants was fine. The fact that he used the fact that he was an anet employee to back up his personal opinion is not fine if the company disagrees with the opinion.

As I said, you simply don’t go through your customer list at work and call them telling them they cannot use your product and or service because you personally disagree with how they are using it. personally being the key word here, because yes some companies have guidelines to how their products are to be used, for safety/environmental/etc reasons.

Delarme
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Some ANET interfered with our GvG

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^check back on Monday.

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Some ANET interfered with our GvG

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His comments aren’t what is wrong. Its tagging up and speaking on behalf of a company that may not agree with what you are saying.

He could have done what he did and been fine had he not tagged up.

Delarme
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Some ANET interfered with our GvG

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Just saying your wrong in this case tamaki. Read my response above for a more real world scenario.

Customers are a companies golden goose, you don’t kitten with the customers.

Delarme
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Some ANET interfered with our GvG

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If people actually want someone fired in this economy because of a few comments in WvW, you guys need help. I’m out :P Be nuts on your own.

Its not nuts. I’m sure your boss for your current job wouldn’t want you calling his customers and telling them that they are wrong to order your product and use it in a way that disagrees with your personal vision.

If I did that I would be fired on the spot.

Delarme
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Some ANET interfered with our GvG

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Why should he be fired? He didn’t violate any game rules. He simply didn’t do as he was ordered, which isn’t against the rules.

He should be fired because he abused his official Arenanet Tag. If he doesn´t like GvG no problem, if he choses to act like a r e kitten as a simple player, ok, the guild here treated him like he deserved it. But by switching on his Arenanet Tag he made it official and he spoke in some way in Arenanets name which was extremely unclever. He wanted to show “Hey i´am an official and you can not tell me anything”. I he had chosen to let his Anet Tag off, he would have spared his employer a lot of drama. And only this is enough imo to correct him accordingly.

I like seeing an Anet rep stating his real opinion rather than the usual canned garbage. I would honest respect Anet less if the guy is punished.

When you represent a company you tow the company line. There have been bigger scandals than this, there have been lesser ones. The people involved are usually reprimanded/let go. The response to the incidents usually don’t happen right away but will happen within a week.

If you cant get your way in a videogame you are not to ‘pull rank’ on other players. If that employee didn’t pull rank and did not pop his tag – there would be no issue here. The other side would have killed him, and the gvg would have happened.

Delarme
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Some ANET interfered with our GvG

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So are they still not saying anything about this? I wonder who this person is and what he does for Anet.

Its the weekend.

The fact that the thread is still open probably means they plan to respond to this.

It means that Anet/Mods don’t work at weekends.

Disproven by the fact that the op got infracted on a weekend. I wouldn’t expect all anet employees are working weekends, especially the people that make the hiring and firing decisions for the company. Support/customer service/moderation will work the weekends in shifts. Developers will work weekends in crunch time but for the most part people like having 2 days off.

Delarme
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Some ANET interfered with our GvG

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This fellas wasn’t fired yet and no official apology was posted.

Bad PR from Anet seriously pathetic

Why should he be fired? He didn’t violate any game rules. He simply didn’t do as he was ordered, which isn’t against the rules.

Because he clearly used the fact that he was an anet employee to attempt to control player behavior.

However as I stated a few posts back, anet is keeping this thread open – they plan to respond to this. But we need to be fair and give them time to do that. A persons job and livelihood might be at stake here don’t expect anet to make an overnight decision on a weekend about that.

Delarme
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Some ANET interfered with our GvG

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So are they still not saying anything about this? I wonder who this person is and what he does for Anet.

Its the weekend.

The fact that the thread is still open probably means they plan to respond to this. To me, an anet dev clearly overstepped the bounds of what a dev should be doing. When you are just a player you can do what you want, but when you pop that tag and pretend you are speaking for the company then the company is going to come down on you like a bag of bricks. But that doesn’t happen overnight or on the weekend.

Delarme
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List of anet devs server for leagues?

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Leagues are not locked in yet. But I don’t think NSP will be #1 in bronze, maybe #3 or #4.

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Proper Positioning in GW2

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1 group of random pugs not stacked on commander will easily be wiped out by a group of coordinated people stacking on the commander.

This does not make stacking commander the most optimal strategy, it is just the simplest effective strategy. I find a shattered/scattered backline with characters specced more for DPS to be more effective than one sync’d PVT ball.

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Bloodlust [merged]

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People don’t like the notion that the fight they are in is inherently unfair, remove the stats. Its killing a lot of fun in wvw.

It promotes 2v1ing the top server. Which is how it should be.

Keep the stats, it gives an incentive for the 2 less powerful servers to attack the most powerful server together. The buff should have some power, if it has no power, then there will be no point in getting it, and there will be no point to go to the new content area.

Strategy and skill still overwhelms the stats. We have had even large scale fights, where we had no orbs, and the other server had 3, and we still wiped them consistently.

Oh? I haven’t seen any change in how servers choose their targets.

Bloodlust does not promote 2v1ing the top server, there is nothing in the mechanics that make that so.

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Why does ANet allow 5v4 matches to start?

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You mis-remember krak.

Matches started 4v3 in random arena quite commonly. (being the only mode like solo queue).

Difference was it was random arena and no one gave a kitten.

People give a kitten about solo-queue because it has a rating system tied to it.

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Bloodlust [merged]

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People don’t like the notion that the fight they are in is inherently unfair, remove the stats. Its killing a lot of fun in wvw.

Delarme
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Ascended valkyrie amulet

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Don’t count on it until we can craft ascended trinkets.

Delarme
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the karma train

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What else are you supposed to do when you are matched with servers 6+ ranks higher than you?

Delarme
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9/20 Maguuma vs Ehmry vs Kaineng

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It’s because there’s nobody left on Kaineng. Pls come to Maguuma

I guested to TC once and ended up in the middle of a pregnancy RP in LA. This is my only experience with any sort of transferring.

The obvious solution is to have Kaineng and Maguuma guest to TC, have some RP that results in the creation of a new server to which we both transfer to.

And we shall call it Charles, and love it forever and ever and ever and ever.

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Friend keeps getting hacked

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Nope, not really a bug, more glitch. When you login to the forum here, the forum checks your log-in details with the log-in server. Result is that it shows that you logged in from Texas (where the forum server is).

This is incorrect.

It checks the client IP not the server IP.

@OP most likely your friends email account is compromised, he should change his email account password ASAP then change his game account password.

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Access restored [Incident: 130921-001149]?

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Request for support analysis of ticket

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Do keep in mind that Anet cannot police the actions of people in teamspeak servers.

Did you report those individuals to the people responsible for maintaining that teamspeak server? Often public teamspeak servers do have their own set of rules and if you are being harassed the operators may take action and ban the accounts responsible (from teamspeak). You can file a complaint in teamspeak by right clicking the user and press make a complaint, then poke an admin at a convenient time.

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9/20 Maguuma vs Ehmry vs Kaineng

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Liked the video suggestions on the right of your video Guardian. I didn’t know that killing pve players was like the USMLE.

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9/20 Maguuma vs Ehmry vs Kaineng

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Saiyr, I came up with the best idea ever. You down for this idea? (just say yes, then ill tell you what it is).

Delarme
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Will we be able to gift server transfers?

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Ok.

2 things

1) If you are transferring gold→gems to give him gems, why not just give him the gold
2) If cash→gems. There are prepaid gift cards you can use, just send your friend the info with the exact amount needed to transfer.

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PLEASE make siege undeployable in new areas

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I don’t see anything wrong with siege placed in the new areas. Its still open field even if its higher up, you have to defend it and you can take it out with an arrow cart placed below or even a ballista depending on the spot of the treb. Plus the spots I think your talking about are no different than the spots used in the old ruins or on the cliffs in the old map.

Nothing in the new area takes over a minute to get to. you can easily traverse it in 30 seconds.

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The Haunted Windmill...

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the +3 points per stomp in imbalanced matches is a good thing as it will help separate the servers more in the ratings. Also it increases rating gain in primetimes (making NA prime more valuable) without negatively effecting other time periods in the day.

the stats is just bleh, and needs to be changed to something worth fighting over, and not a stat advantage for a winning server to keep on winning.

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I'm getting sick of this nonsense.

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I doubt you stomped all 30 though. Usually its pretty dangerous to try to stomp the first set of people that go down with a numerically inferior force. if you did it though kudos.

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I'm getting sick of this nonsense.

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Bloodlust only awards points for stomping, so killing people with AC does not reward any additional points.

Unless you stomped all 30 people, you didn’t get 60 points.

Delarme
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Make WXP boosters purchasable through badges!

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We will be adding more liquid WXP that will be purchasable, likely with badges and some other currency, soon. As in, less than a month. I’ve made it a personal goal to improve the experience for playing alts in WvW. And to cut it off now, we are not making WvW rank account bound.

-Liquid WXP
-Faster gain rate
-WXP booster

When acc bound WXP would make all this work unnecessary…

/idon’teven

What there’s SO wrong it making it acc bound and cut it off? You’re doing everything to work around it while simply changing the WXP to acc bound would resolve all of that…

Just give a reasonable response.

Even “We want you to buy booster to make money” is ok, but give us one.

The answer is this:

If anet allowed account bound WXP, but allowed you to also pick different masteries on each character you can change character based on the situation in order to use specific masteries. For example one of your characters you max out treb master, another cata mastery, another flame ram mastery etc. So for 75 points you have all the masteries for each of the siege weapons on a different character.

I think, that is the core reasoning.

I would prefer account bound wxp, and wxp bonuses are also account locked so you cant switch characters to get lets say treb mastery.

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Are you going to still play WvW?

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True but with less players trying to take the buff the home server should be able to hold it, especially if organized groups/guilds do not attempt to take it on other maps.

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Are you going to still play WvW?

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Alternate suggestion: Hold your own BL’s buff and refuse to take enemy BL’s buff

A bit harder to organize but at least I can enjoy my wvw.

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Alt F4ing to Deny Stomp Points

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^

but it is still funny.

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Post patch: Small groups and Soloing death

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Right now small groups can take undefended keeps on high pop servers because everyone is playing in the ruins.

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You like the new content for WvWvW? Yes-No

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Do you like the new areas to fight in?
Yes – 1
No – 0

Do you like the new bloodlust mechanic?
All of it -
Like the points on stomp but not stats – 1
Like the stats but not points on stomp – 0
None of it – 0

Do you like the Flame Mastery?
Yes – 1
No – 0

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Alt F4ing to Deny Stomp Points

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so you are going to make it take longer for you to get back into a fight by denying the enemy 1-3 points?

lolol.

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Post patch: Small groups and Soloing death

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Size of group is one main factor in who wins, it always has been. I don’t really get the complaint here.

There is certainly more to do for small groups and with how the ruins are setup much easier for a small group to evade a larger fight and pick off people who straggle/get lost.

Sure you can still run right into a wall of players if you arnt careful.

And yes most people seem to think the +stats are pretty dumb.

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You like the new content for WvWvW? Yes-No

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We need to split the poll because its just about worthless as feedback right now.

Do you like the new areas to fight in?
Yes –
No -

Do you like the new bloodlust mechanic?
All of it -
Like the points on stomp but not stats -
Like the stats but not points on stomp -
None of it -

Do you like the Flame Mastery?
Yes -
No -

Delarme
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Champion Killer Rabbit Trap

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Just think of the lootbags per hour!

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Champion Killer Rabbit Trap

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I like it that the first few replies were people that couldn’t take a joke :p

@sarrs then you can roll the karka for anti-zerg action!

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Server Population Loss

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Live by the transfer sword, die by the transfer sword.

Kaineng has had this coming for months.

We lost our bandwagon back in like, April-May. This is a second exodus completely unrelated to it. Not that it has anything to do with the leagues (it might, might not), just thought I’d point that out. But hey, I’ll continue to abide people telling us we deserve an emptying server for no reason other than some kind of weird, months-old revenge plot against people that haven’t been here for nearly half a year.

Third exodus for Kaineng actually. >_>

Remember that Kaineng used to be the bottom of tier 8. Now it has less population than that. Skills that the players obtained might help a bit, but all signs indicate tier 8 once again.

Get out guys. Get your friends and guild all out of there.

We have more people in wvw now than we did 2 months ago. Even with a few more leaving.

We have way more population now than we did when we were bottom t8. On top of this we have a PvE population that we didn’t have 6 months ago. Things are fine on kaineng, we arnt the best no, we arnt the worst, were just a server that continues to fight and simply doesn’t give up.

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