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Here here to that one but you’ve also forgot to add the main reason for the AoE limit and that is Anet’s inability to stop the bots and this is their lazy way of limiting the damage full AoE bot farming would do.
Please Anet make AoE skills in WvW fully unlimited and bring back the balanced gaming you so vehemently advertise, because at the moment the only balance we are seeing is in your bank balance

and @ Predator.7321
Bud 1 Ele or Necro doing AoE’s against a whole zerg won’t change a thing if they learn to dodge and use their brains than follow ma leader Turtles that are only their to farm the karma, as I’ve seen it meany times that there are loads just running with the crowd and not even doing any skills

Brettonian.8610:

Tortun.5946:

Oh and I dunno what one of the servers was on but there was the weirdest conga line last night. They moved like them migrating little birds you see….all over the place but sticking together, they even ignored some of us despite having the numbers to stomp us out in seconds

if they had a [UNTY] tag then that was us, been working alot on close group movement recently, anti zerg warfare is our specialty
but using a zerg to crush 1 or 2 players seems like overkill, generally we will only kill you if you are actually on the line we are running. of course we will always charge large numbers head on (and i mean always :p )

i am loving the fights this week, i love to be outnumbered like we are here, who wants an easy fight after all? and abbadons and gandarra are definitely giving us the hard fight we are looking for, thanks alot for that

shout out to all our fellow aurorans though, spectacular work this week against 2 very good servers, we have definitely proved what we are capable of

hope we get to fight you guys again after this matchup, definitely the best pairing we have had so far in my opinion

Is preying for the day ArenaNet see’s sense and uncaps the AoE that would soon put a stop to the Mindless and Blind Turtles.
I was there in the supply camp we had only just retaken when out of the blue came 30+ AM that ran right through me, not past but through me and also totally ignored my attacks on them as they headed to our Garrison at break neck speed, which they captured less than 5 mins later.
But all that being said there has been quite a few strange incidents this week with all three servers and maps that have been dare I say not of norm game play, that I will for now put down to small bugs due to the latest content update.
AG love the battles we’ve had with you guys this week, kicked some butt and had mine kicked back in return, really good evenly matched fights we had against you guys this week.
Can’t wait to face you guys again, nothing better than either winning or losing in a good even battle that hinges on a knife edge between two sides I salute you o7

Sadly I to have to concur with others on this posting even though the sentiment of the idea is very admirable I can see this being abused very rapidly by unscrupulous people.
But saying that I have played games that they themselves had a Voice system that was integrated within each of it’s servers.
Might be a very good idea for ArenaNet to also look into some how installing a server only voice system for WvWvW and sPvP only, that is as best as can be secured to only those who are on their own respective servers could use.

Contrary to my fellow Gandarian Lyan, I am on the strong belief that should the Mesmer keep this unlimited skill then all skills of this ilk need to be unlimited.
Lets face it the best way to counter the portal is to AoE it but with the AoE limit at 5 and more than 5 players use that portal the AoE is useless against it.
Sorry ArenaNet but you advertised a balanced game and at the moment we are not seeing this at all and in my own personal opinion there are only two options left to balance WvWvW and that is to either cap the portal to 5 or uncap the AoE skills which would also solve quite a few other issues that are making WvWvW unbalanced.

Beri.3156:

We gave hard time to gandaras today. Took about hour if not more to take bay, but we took it back about 30mins later ^^ Its have been fun fight against higher populated servers. Gandara and Abaddon is like twice as big as us, but we wont give up that easily.

TBH I’m quite surprised both our servers have managed to keep Abaddon from owning the map fully, boy they do love their siege weapons that seems to come out of every orifice and their numbers as well, quite a few times I’ve felt like road kill.
Shame server Alliances couldn’t be made
But all in all there have been some really cracking battles from all sides with a few shocks as well.

Wrwf.3470:

Castraticus.4079:

EnoLive.2367:

And they call this fun
http://i1240.photobucket.com/albums/gg487/enolive69/TheyCallThisFun.jpg
Well maybe it is for mindless 50+ zergs against 15 but I don’t as I didn’t even get the render till after I was dead.
Please ArenaNet fix the rendering fully, make transfers 14 days and cash related, plus get rid of the AoE kittening Cap to at least give out numbered a chance against a huge bunch like this.
I would also remove XP and Karma from WvWvW simply because everyone gets raised up to level 80 and Karma is predominately PvE based rewards at most, this could very easy be countered by trebling the cash reward as a recompense for getting rid of the XP and Karma from WvWvW

I’m pretty sure squirrels would want cars to be nerfed after they became roadkill.

I’m pretty sure mesmers would want cars to be nerfed after they became roadkill.

There, fixed it for you.

As stated in the above quote the problem isn’t the roadkill leading event, is the inability to react to it.

Trouble is I’m an Ele not Mesmer

What ever next Gear upgrades in the Gem store I bet.
Own up ArenaNet it’s all about the almighty $ and nothing to do with game play enjoyment, even at the event some players gained an amulet that took me ages and a lot of hard work to get and they get it just for turning up to an event.
Not Cool ArenaNet Not Cool at all

the sooner they bring in Cash for transfer the better IMO

You will find that most servers have a queue for EB that is at prime time, might be an idea to join a server that does not have a night capping crew and jump in after the young ones have headed of to bed.
But try to remember if you take a spot in WvWvW just to do the puzzle you are also take the spot of a WvWvW fighter whom is trying to secure the lands so that their server can do a JP when it is safe to do so.

And they call this fun
http://i1240.photobucket.com/albums/gg487/enolive69/TheyCallThisFun.jpg
Well maybe it is for mindless 50+ zergs against 15 but I don’t as I didn’t even get the render till after I was dead.
Please ArenaNet fix the rendering fully, make transfers 14 days and cash related, plus get rid of the AoE kittening Cap to at least give out numbered a chance against a huge bunch like this.
I would also remove XP and Karma from WvWvW simply because everyone gets raised up to level 80 and Karma is predominately PvE based rewards at most, this could very easy be countered by trebling the cash reward as a recompense for getting rid of the XP and Karma from WvWvW

Simple way round this is to use Squad Chat.
That’s the real reason for Commanders Icon and not as a lot of people seem to think that it is the lord and master of the map.
remember ArenaNet stated that WvWvW was capable of holding up to 2000 players thats 500 per map at 166 per side aprox.
If used correctly each squad could be placed in allotted areas rather than mindless zergs.
But I quite agree with you Muting on WvWvW is not needed as there have been times when I myself have needed to call for backup yet couldn’t do so because of the mute, result I get trolled for the loss of the area.

To me all this say’s is that they messed up big time and have been inundated with reports that they can not keep up.
But also there was a posting somewhere on this forum that screenshot the report someone had made that showed all the world whom this player was.
All this anonymity for Cheats, Botters ect’ really has to stop when will any game let alone a MMO take the lead to name and shame players, to prove that they are actually doing something about this and not just sitting at their desks on facebook all day.
Come on ArenaNet you have the clause in the CoC that allows you to do this, the simple wording of all content within the game remains the property of ArenaNet also covers user and account names.
We only pay for the right to use the game but the game itself namely the data and pixels remains the property of ArenaNet

Vayra.3290:

Limiting portal charges would completely destroy the viability of the skill in wvw unless it was 30+, which defeats the purpose of a cap. So no, unless ANet has lost all common sense they will never do this.

The added cooldown is fine, though.

How on earth would it destroy the viability when a team limit is 5, the AoE and heal are at 5 as well, the only benefit is for WvWvW rendering zerg exploit.
TBH I simply say be done with all the limits full stop this 5 limit business is for what nothing and does nothing to the game play other that make curtain classes useless against nearly all the other classes

Full agree there why should this class have unlimited target skills when everyone else is nerffed

Moonlite.7536:

ya but you got to look at this as a double edged sword… if you turned off the aoe cap and you were able to aoe everyone in the ball and they all had retaliation. You’d be in the downed state faster then you knew what happened.

Isn’t that the whole point about AoE’s hitting things in a ball as well as another point about AoE skills is the timer, player whom use AoE’s a lot are a lot slower in fact miles slower than some of the melee classes, by the time they’ve done just one skill melee’s have hit you more than 15 times, so equate that against the cap and you see a vast imbalance between the two, also lets not forget that some of the melee skills have a minor AoE range as well.
In my own personal view the AoE cap is ludicrous and should not even of been put into place.
On the basis of WvWvW and PvP if your unlucky enough to be hit by one then isn’t that the same as being hit close up with a wet flannel against being splashed by a bucket of water.
Why players Turtling quite simply the odds of being hit by AoE while bunched up at this present time is greatly reduced as the AoE targeting is random , which is also why they new ploy of surrounding siege with players to stop the siege being hit by AoE.
As for the retaliation part you mentioned that again is just tough luck on the player doing the AoE should so many player have that on.

KILL THE AoE LIMIT SIMPLES

I have to point out that there is a major flaw in the AoE capping in WvWvW in respect of siege, because the new ploy now is to surround the siege with players and because of the AoE limit the chance of you hitting the sige even once is minimal if at all.
Also on this matter in WvWvW or even sPvP there should not be any limit to AoE as this basically makes any class that realize heavily on AoE useless and they may as well be NPC’s.
I can understand the need for the cap in PvE to stop AoE bot farming but we have all seen and reported the bots that still to this day roam the game but come on in the other forms of the game it’s not needed at all.
On the basis of WvWvW this can be a quick fix of making the NPC mobs there not drop anything and are purely there as a distraction or aid, Badges could be auto awarded for specific kills or numbers of kills.
As we all know there is a major issue of lost loot in WvWvW as well so to have Badges as Auto Loot even after death this would clean up WvWvW to the extreme as if no loot other than badges and cash were available in WvWvW bot farming and hacking would be non profitable at all.

My personal feelings on this it’s up to the individual whether they come or go no matter what server it is.
The real point is night capping or day capping depending on your time zone call it what you will, it is non the less an issue for the majority of servers.
One thing I can say about the Gandara population on WvW is that they have something quite a few servers are lacking and that is heart.
So really what I am trying to say is don’t join or even stay with Gandara because we asked you to, do it because you want to.
I’d take 10 people who came through their own preference against 1000 who came through pity or enticement.
I myself am and always will be Gandarian till the day I stop playing

LathanHaiko.9182:

Ok, dumb question. What’s the problem with another team coming and capturing it while people are offline? This gives us something to do when we get back online and they’re not.

Simply put if peeps only wanted that they may as well stay PvE because that’s all their basically doing, no skill, not thought, no tactics and free lobotomies all round

Kagoshima Josh.5412:

Yup, to those who say “it’s not night capping,” yes, it is night capping – at least for people on US servers. The difference in time zones across the US just isn’t that large.

Why are EU folks even allowed to create characters on North American servers (or vice versa)?

Simply put there is nothing they can do about that anyone can join any server they wish the real problem is the crossover between the two and their respective time zones.
One way to alter this is place every server into one table do away with the points system other than to bring a 3 points for 1st place, 2 points for second and 1 point for 3rd.
The points go onto a yearly league table like other sports table eg: Football, Hockey ect.
The match ups are done that each server faces each other 4 times in that year and are presorted at the start of each year but not released for public viewing, so to players they will appear random.
So yes one week you may be against the 2 top servers or even the 2 bottom ones that’s just luck of the draw.
At the end of the year only the top server is awarded a prize say 10000 gems per server member that were members and are still members of that server at the start of the year, should they switch server in between they are not eligible for that prize also, this would create server loyalty as well as real rivalry between friendly servers that are switching players between one another just so that both their respective servers are near the top.

TBH at the moment being faced with 50 against 10 no matter what time it is is not fun to those on the receiving side and I’m sure others feel the same.
Night capping isn’t fun even for those who are doing the capping.
There is no challenge or risk, plus is anyone really learning anything by just running around in the follow the leader must get there or I’ll miss it.

ArenaNet bring us some fun into WvWvW, make gates and walls only damageable with siege, let AoE’s be exactly what they are and get rid of the 5 hit limit, Treble the Strength and power of the NPC’s where they can not be solo’d, like you need at least 1 team for a Road Guard, 2 for a Supply Camp, 3 for a Tower and 4 for a Keep.
In short do something to make it fun and not a mindless zerg

Isn’t this just another way of empowering the strong and weakening the the not so strong, the very same thing as the Orbs but under a different guise

Simply put bring out 2 Canadian servers that should solve a lot of EU woes

Why the rush just wait the time sooner or later your server will have those spots for you.
but on that point it’s a shame that there isn’t a white flag option where upon you could access anywhere but not see any allies or foe’s other than mobs, that could be activated and deactivated only from your relative spawn point.

That’s the thing there isn’t a relinquish claim option other than to lay claim to another place like a Supply Camp.
Lets be honest there are a lot of guilds whom just think it’s cool to have their logo flying above somewhere, with little regards to what is really required and quite frankly till ArenaNet get things sorted with the Karma Zerg Turtles where places change hands like confetti, quite a few larger guilds are not putting the time and effort into wasting their resources.
The main basis of Guild Claiming is that a guild lays claim to a spot and that announces to their allies that they are going to look after that area to the best of their ability, which should in theory release the manpower of any non guild member to aid the rest of the map, but sadly at this moment in time this is not the case for one simple fact.
The game is still in its infancy and a lot of players are far from being endgame, hence their needed for roaming in the hunt for any form of XP, Karma and Loot they can get.
As for the guild bonuses that are built over time from influence, these only last for 12 hours, plus take a hell of a lot of influence to speed ready them, should there be a need for constant bonus.
But here again there is a flaw in the system with the major night capping or day capping call it what you will, why waste influence, cash, as well the time, only to return after a sleep to see it all gone

Well it’s still going on only just come out of WvW after been Insta Stompped 8 times on the bounce, once twice I can handle but 8 times nah there is something def not right.

Just to prove a point:
http://i1240.photobucket.com/albums/gg487/enolive69/gw010-1.jpg

Well you made me have a look and for the life of me I can not find any armor with Power/Toughness/Vitality and a free slot other than Invader, the only way to get all three of those stats is to use up that free slot with a rune or other upgrade item or is the server I’m playing using a different set of armor to everyone else.
Yes you can get other armor with 2 of those stats in various combinations but one of the stats will either be, Crit, Precision, Condition Damage, or Healing Power.
Added to that if I’m not mistaken you can not mix PvE armor with that of PvP and as we all know WvWvW only uses PvE armor or there again am I missing something.
This game is unique in that the armor has been based around the differing play styles of players, where one set of armor may suite one player or even several players yet does not suite the playing stance of others.
What it all boils down to is personal choice not only in the armor one might pick but what effort you are willing to put into it to achieve that end.

In reply to Xenotor.1350 the link was only meant as a rough guide and could very easily be cut down to serve the games needs just of the top of my head just using one of each rank but at the highest points range of that rank

If something like this was to be implemented, i would hope that it is server based where upon should you change server you lose that title and have to start again.
Even a small reward could be implemented for achieving each rank, like one Lion key per rank the higher the rank the more keys you get or even Badges of honor like 2, 4, 6 Ect.
As for rolling it back to the very start of the game, I don’t think that would really matter nor is needed.
Points wise this could be done with a combination of Kills = 1 point, Capture = 2 points and Defense = 3 points.
Ranking could even use a similar structure to a game I used to play, I will place their Wiki page on this but is not an inducement for the game as I urge people not to play this cash hungry game but the ranking system would work very well with GW2.
http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Military_rank
But remove the 5% attack bonus they have and you have a very good base for ranking

Sorry to bring this old dinosaur back into the frame again but the loss of loot bags in WvWvW is becoming an issue with not only myself but several of my fellow guild members as well.
There is nothing more off putting to players than to see well earned loot lying around a dead body or even missed because of the heat of the action.
There is an option for Auto loot yet this is only to stop singular item clicking, yet when farming a node if this is selected it goes straight into your inventory.
I can fully understand that they have done this to stop bot farmers but even these have found a way around this so really has this option really worked for ArenaNet.
Please make Auto loot exactly what it says Auto loot and not just auto loot for node farming.

moirweyn.9872:

I’ve been insta-stomped a few times. There is a definite difference in a quick stomp and an insta-stomp.

Downed………stomp. Ahh crap!
DownSTOMP. WTF?

There is a difference.

Fully agree here.
A fellow guildie and I we’re both WTF stomped the other night by a solo thief not messmer, and before you ask yes we are both level 80 with full exotics as well.
One second we was standing ready to take on a camp the next we are both dead on the floor.
TBH I personal feel that someone has found a way of dare I say this hacking the system.
And before anyone says sore loser I don’t mind dying just means the other person was better than me at the time, but there is dying and WTF dying there is the difference.

The easiest and fairest way is to keep the 100g Commanders (blue icon) and add Guild Commanders (greed icon) and Guild General (red icon ).
Each guild can have 1 Commander per 50 members and is accessed by Politics Level 5 at the cost of 1,000 Influence (1 hour build time.)
Guild Commanders are Voted for via the guild and Guild members can not vote for themselves, the person elected holds this post for 7 days.
Voting auto starts 24 hours before WvWvW rollover, plus runs for 24 hours and does not need to be activated, this way leaders can not stop the voting a week later other than not build one because they didn’t get the vote themselves, should they not queue a Commander up because of this then the members will most likely act with their feet.
A Guild General only gets the post if he has been elected 4 times in a row and holds this post for 4 weeks, only one General per guild is permitted, should more than one player reach this status then the player with most WvWvW time will get the post, this includes Generals that are already in the post, should a player reach this status and a general already be in place yet they have more WvWvW time, then they supersede the player whom has the posting.

Morpeth.5318:

EnoLive.2367:

IMO Alt F4 is quite frankly an exploit and ArenaNet should treat it as such

Umm, you having an amazingly broad definition of exploit. This is in no way an exploit.

Think about and read my post fully but just in case I’ll explain in more depth.
Alt F4 can be used lets say by a whole team that is farming a boss or even an event, for argument sake 1 member could be tanking it to the point where they are just about to die, they hit Alt F4 and another team member takes over the tanking, the one whom did the Alt F4 re-logs back to the exact spot he exited the game back at full health and all skills renewed, hay presto they other one that tanking gets to the same point of health and does the same thing bingo exploit.
We have to remember that what can be done in WvWvW can also be done in other parts of the game.
There are three ways of fixing this:
1: 15 second countdown timer where even if the player have just crashed or even Alt F4 their toon remains in game. (Ideal for WvWvW)
2: Auto redirect to beginner’s first waypoint and making all beginner start zones non WvWvW accessable. (Hard on new players/toons but no offence to new players/toons they wouldn’t have the equipment till they got past this area to do WvWvW effectively)
3: 10 minute time out before re-log. (Hard on legit game crashers but as they say blame the bad apples)

Tell me about it I placed a Treb at garrison and was self building it but vanished at 60% of the build, there was no foe’s of any kind in the area as well.
Also was helping siege up a spot for defense and low and behold it was all gone in less than 15 mins.
But to cap it all I was placing a superior flame ram down with again no foes at all around and it never even appeared.
I would of personally thought a simple 12 hour timer on all siege would of been better

fixit.7189:

@Ryu: yes, I can rain hell down on people…it can be effective. But if enemy has any clue, they will simply stack and mitigate everything I do easily. And then you point out that you needed many eles on a task force; not one so that really isn’t much of an arguement vs one class who has such power as an individual class like the mesmer.

One mesmer with a clue allows entire zergs to move around at will and due to rendering…that zerg is also invisible. They can move infinite amounts too.

Yet an ele can hit 5 targets max.

Ok.

To right
Give back the Ele full AoE at least in WvWvW or Nerf the Mesmer and Thief to 5 as well

IMO Alt F4 is quite frankly an exploit and ArenaNet should treat it as such.
Lets face it if it’s being done in WvWvW, it is without a doubt being done in all aspects of the game.
Think about it Alt F4 while your in a team on a boss ect, to come back with full health and ready to rock.
ArenaNet really need to get on this issue asap and install an count down log out of 10 seconds system that even applies to forced exits

First of all well done ArenaNet for what they have achieved so far with the game but sadly I must point out a couple of failings, in the remote hope that they get fixed at some point.
1: We’ve all seen the new monthly Dungeon achievement requirement, I am sure that many others are aghast at this when so many of the dungeons have vast amount of bugs and in some cases are not even accessible because of a failed external event chain.
2: The imbalance of Stealth AoE v Attack AoE where upon a whole army can be hidden by one stealth yet only 5 targets are hit in attack AoE. (Agreed this is mainly to do with WvWvW and is understandable why there is a limited hit in PvE to eradicate AoE bot farming, but come on is this limit really necessary in PvP and & WvWvW when this hinders the classes that rely heavily on AoE.
Please Please find a way of keeping the 5 hit only in PvE yet unlimited in PvP & WvWvW)
3: Account bound Siege equips, this in itself is baffling surely they should be transferable via post system and not having to drop them one by one to pass on to other players.
4: WvWvW repair costs, not only do we have the expense of having to buy food potions, siege and even the upgrade of places but also have to stomach the cost of repairs as well in this part of the game, I can understand that in PvE there is the need for this but come on in WvWvW.
5: When in WvWvW if your wanting to make a party you either have to be right next to them to click and invite or type in their name, because if you either right click in guild panel or on the chat system all you get is the report option, and the way some players spell their toon names quite a lot get left out of teams because of this.

I could go on and on with other niggles but these are mainly the only real things that bug me the main one being the second one that really does nark me off being a AoE based player

use the Tab key to select next target

Quite frankly anyone who want’s an unbalanced game go pick another MMO, ArenaNet have finally seen sense and are living up to their hype of how balanced this MMO is.
If you need external boost for your game play learn you use food and potions not a server wide mega boost, or don’t you have the skill to do that.
ArenaNet superb job in acting on players input and i salute you o7

No I’d make it that Guild Commanders (rename to Generals as not to confuse the 2) are visible on the WvWvW map for these reasons:
1; It will give the guild they represent status
2; Will state that this player has the backing of his guild rather than be a brainless cash monkey as some of them are

Nope AoE’s only have a 5 target hit so if someone from outside the party happens to be in the AoE radius then yes they could take the heal ect. from one of the party members.
It’s time ArenaNet gave all the classes that rely so heavily on AoE’s to have them back fully as they should be.
I can understand why they have brought the 5 hit only to stop Botting AoE farmers but come on we’ve all seen the bot’s and reported them, why should a few bad apples spoil it for the rest of us.
AoE players like myself have a simple rule if your daft enough or unlucky to be in an AoE then you shouldn’t be bunched up and learn to dodge.

AWESOME NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who say’s ArenaNet are not listening to players.

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o7

To the above posters.
Try saying that XP & Karma doesn’t matter to the Karma zergs that take on only the easy targets then fly off to another map.
Plus one wonders if some of the higher servers would even be where they are if what I have outlined was in place right from the start.
As for the HP boost without even taking into account the 50+ points on all stats its an extra 15.76 hp per 100, then you have to take into account the extra toughness and damage.
How anyone can say that the way the orbs are right now makes no difference at all must be playing a different game than the rest of us.
Please ArenaNet honor your very own hype and bring some balance to WvWvW

dirtyklingon.2918:

this suggesion will not make you do better. if you think your failings are due to orbs then you deserve to lose battles.

From this one can only presume you have never faced being outnumbered by a server whom held 3 orbs.
I wonder if the players from servers at the bottom of the table would agree with you.
But I digress as this is about leveling the playing field to create a balanced game play experience because quite frankly WvWvW is failing on this extremely badly to the point where some players have come to the point of even uninstalling the game, of which I personally know of 4 that have done so.
ArenaNet’s own hype about the game was about how balanced they had created it where everyone could get a bite at the cherry and not feel overly outclassed.
In PvE and PvP (not including WvWvW) they have got this balance right yet have failed big time in WvWvW.
The Orb and Outmanned switch of buffs will go a long way towards re-balancing this part of the game, though I do agree that there are other factors that have created an imbalance this is but just one of them.

For those who don’t know what the Orbs do at the moment in WvWvW and I quote from the Wiki “Each Orb of Power grants the owning world a 5% boost to maximum HP and 50 bonus points to all stats”.
So it’s obvious that any server that holds more than one Orb is going to have the upper hand in obtaining the 3rd Orb.
As you can see from what I posted above, a simple switch in stats between the outmanned buff and orb buff.
It does not affect the scoring in anyway in doing so and puts everyone on an even playing field, which according to Arenanet’s very own hype is how they wish the game to be, everyone on an even playing field where it is down to player skill rather than external influences.

A quick and simple fix to WvWvW is to swap the buffs of the Orbs with that of the Outmanned and visa versa.
Lets face it the Outmanned buff is absolutely useless for those whom are outmanned, they serve no benefit what so ever because even with this buff there is nothing much they can do.
The same can be said for the Orbs all they are achieving is making strong servers even stronger.
Wouldn’t it be better to have the Orb bonus as this:
1 Orb = 33% Extra XP
2 Orbs = 33% Extra XP and Magic Find
3 Orbs = 33% Extra XP, Magic Find and Karma.

and the Outmanned Buff bonus as:
A simple 15% on all stats.

I know that it wouldn’t fully level the playing field but it would give servers whom are outmanned a fighting chance.

Even Better bring in a Guild Commander at the cost of 60k influence, if their any good they will have the support of their Guild,
This could easily be added to the level 5 AoW unlocks or even make it a Level 6 auto unlock with a 1 commander per 50 members

Azaruil.3406:

If the gate/walls are upgraded then it actually takes a while for them to go down. Defensive siege equipment doesn’t go down to fast either if you know where to place them. One aspect that would make a gate last longer is if you could actually use the supply in the supply depot to repair the gate. Most of the time when a large force is attacking the gate, their aoe’s prevent defenders from repairing the gate.

ps: weapons do not damage walls

LOL yes they do if there is a massive Zerg, I’ve even seen them take down a gate in less time it took them to build the ram that never got finished.
Player damage of Gates and Walls really needs to be eradicated plus the inability of defenders being able to hit attackers from the ramparts without standing right on top of the ramparts yet can be hit by attackers even when standing well back.
Hell even borderland garrisons have the gate that can be missed out so that the inner gate can be attacked with ease.
The whole part of WvWvW is so messed up with one thing or another that if they don’t act soon will be the death of GW2

Just face facts.
The Dev’s are not going to stop night capping or day capping for that matter because they want you to use your money up be that in game money or real money, their stance of “We want everyone to enjoy the experience of WvWvW” is just another way of saying meh we CBA to deal with it.
We can all rant and rave for and against here but honestly nothing is going to change other than you’ll end up with the server just chasing each other around the maps Zerging from one spot to another.
Players will stop upgrading places, or even bother to use tactics, hell they may as well leave all their gear in the bank and run around naked to save on repairs as well.
Its sad to say but ArenaNet have got this really really wrong and it will be the death of GW2 if they don’t act soon.

Simple solution:
Kill WvWvW and make it GvGvG.
Lets face it the game name is Guild Wars Not Server Wars.
Problem solved