I sorta wish my server was in a position to tank for silver league. Unfortunately we will have to deal with no chance in the gold league with the losers (that cant tank enough) from the tank-a-thon.
Title is misleading. That said, anyone that spends a significant time in wvw knows the obvious answer to this. Unfortunately Anet doesn’t spend enough time playing there to see it.
I could have sworn we suggested before it was implemented that it would fade out after the hype without some incentive measures. Well now, I guess we don’t know anything…………..
I hate to say that they are not listening to us at all, but the evidence consistently says otherwise. Reading=/=listening/considering.
Remember back in school ( for some not so far back) reading textbooks, yet not learning/understanding/caring about it? The similarities are astonishing.
2/ I’m as casual as it gets, and still I can make 10~20 ectos in an evening. The 100 ectos was merely extrapolating. It’s possible but I don’t think getting your legendary would be fun in that case. Personally I’d rather take my time.
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I’m afraid your definition of casual is skewed. Most of us posters here are not even in the same realm as the real casuals.
I actually wish that items like weapons and armor, with the exception of boss chests, never dropped and need to be crafted/purchased instead.
I grew up hunting a lot and not once did I ever find a helmet on a dead deer.
Had to quote this b/c of my childhood. My friend’s dad used to take us “hunting” (we climb trees, pull them out of nests and, drop them to a bagger on the ground) raccoons. You would not believe some of the things we found in raccoon nests. Money, jewelry, underwear, wind chimes, more trash than you shake a stick at….etc……
If this matters at all I am on FA. I don’t know what servers the other posters are on. Still hoping such an issue gets resolved as I simply refuse to do an event that gives headaches via visual bug/glitch.
Hawaii Islands is being debuted today(high end versions). We will see what the new offerings do the the market. Heck sale 7970s are already sub $300 (currently there is an asus $268). Anywho don’t pick your gpu quite yet. Wait for a bit to see what amd’s release does to pricing.
That said, for $1500 you can get a beast of a system. Oh and make sure you get a case you like. You’ll be looking at it often and if you’re they type that gives two hoots. it’ll bother you to no end if not.
Thank you for the video Chiara. I would really hope that they look into this one as it’s not only annoying, but possibly dangerous to players susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
Dwayna event must have a visual bug as it flashes orange, purple and green that encompasses full screen. I feel bad for anyone sensitive to it. Several of my guildies turned off monitor to not have to see it.
From what I can tell and what you have said your server has coverage and you have been in relatively balanced matches. I’m not to knowledgeable on EU servers, but I know coverage can help extend a gap or cover a gap. One thing teq has done is create somewhat of coverage gaps.
Tbh I’m not sure what you are asking though…..kinda odd having someone ask me to reply to a previous post randomly.
I’m sorry, I thought since you actually took the time to post your analysis and sources that you actually looked at the data before posting the numbers, but it looks like that is not the case…
And, as I previously mentioned, NA doesn’t look like it’s following the proposed pattern either (from what little insight I had in the matches, tbh the only reason I took a look is because several people claimed that situation is drastically different in NA, a proposal I’ve found little to no evidence to support). Unless you as well think that for some reason a server beating other two servers by 200k+ points suddenly doesn’t care about the buffs but cares about everything else…
Doesn’t matter, looks like I’ll have to find my answers somewhere else.
I would hope that via comprehension, readers would be able to understand that my data was nothing more than counting tiers/servers and seeing which tiers had blowouts via NA and EU concurrence. The numbers are there, which is why I posted links and the “analysis” was nothing more that posting them. Anyone (I would hope) can simply count the servers/tiers themselves to ascertain the same thing. Coverage may account for blowouts being a bit different in the middle of the night NA or early morning EU, when you looked or maybe that server was attempting Teq at that time. It’s not really an analysis. It’s simply a posting of raw numbers with a hint of common sense.
PS…..please do find someone else to answer your question that I still don’t know what it is.
@Lord Kuru.3685: Please read what I’m replying to before replying to me.
EDIT: Or to be more clear, the person I was replying to assumed the buffs were there since the beginning of the matchup (and in fact claimed that the winning server somehow grabbed them even tho they didn’t even exist), while in fact they were implemented when most of the battles of the week were already decided.
@Essence Snow.3194: Full details of my matchup and some other relevant stuff (along with some rather unsatisfactory answers) are on page one, and I don’t want to clutter the forums with re-re-quoting myself.
From what I can tell and what you have said your server has coverage and you have been in relatively balanced matches. I’m not to knowledgeable on EU servers, but I know coverage can help extend a gap or cover a gap. One thing teq has done is create somewhat of coverage gaps.
Tbh I’m not sure what you are asking though…..kinda odd having someone ask me to reply to a previous post randomly.
Again ppl like you do not have the issues being in one of the balanced tiers. Thus for you it’s not in your back yard so it’s not your problem. Consider for a moment the other 42 servers.
The players and guilds on the other 42 servers are going have to make tough decisions from: Recruitment to moving to other servers were they share the same values.
There are going to be people that play to win and will bandwagon to servers to achieve that goal. Others will go to servers with better communities. WvW is meant to be fun not balanced and complaining about it wouldn’t change anything.
I know all about the server imbalances and it is not up to ANet at this moment but for the player base to decision what their next course of action should be. Once one/two seasons of the the league are completed than ANet can take some actions about balancing servers. Complaining about its is a poor waste of energy IMO.
Ayden you should really read the posts above yours.
This is hardly a “GvG-only issue” – in fact GvG is the easiest thing for ANet to solve if they expand Custom Arenas to support 15v15 or 20v20.
It is the effect (both psychological and actual) that the Bloodlust Buff has on imbalanced Matches (which is going to be even more common in 2 weeks when Leagues/Seasons start). People need some way to feel “competitive” and “successful” while playing and the Orb Buff really only enhances that in balanced matches.
+1 Point-per-Stomp was brilliant and would’ve had the same impact on the Meta in NA T1. If it is countered by Outnumbered negating it, it is still valuable in blowout matches. But +150 Per Stat is really soul-crushing in matches where people are already battling 2-4 times their number of opponents. At that point even 1v1s and the occasional “even-up” fight are stacked against them.
It was a horrible, horrible decision on ANet’s part to put it in.
I didn’t read any post until I wrote my own because I was responding to the OP.
On the subject of imbalances: stat bonuses can always be adjusted and the server league matches will be different once ANet starts to collect data from the league. We have to wait and see how this pans out. What are major WvW guild communities going to do prior and after the launch of the league?
I wouldn’t stay on a stack server if I am waiting over 2 hours in queue on a weekday to play WvW.
Bandwagoning to winning servers is part of the problem. It helps creates more inbalance, queues, and lag. Bloodlust encourages it moreso.
While the bottom line is ultimately up to us the players, Anet should not be encouraging things that helps create inbalances. Furthermore the longer things go while inbalanced, the harder it will be to correct it in the future. Instead of nipping in the bud, they will need to chop down a tree.
Giving feedback and debating not always = complaining or whining. Championing and supporting is not always white knighting or ill patronizing. While the latter may be a waste of time/energy, the former is not imo.
I think the boarderland change is a great succuss coming from a person how has play WvW on SoR when we were in tier 7. A lot of us in tier 1 or in any tier wanted the end of the super blobing and this recent change has done that. Most of the rage coming from these forums is mainly disgruntled GvGers that can’t continue their fights because of the Bloodlust buff. Honestly get over it! GvG was good for people how played the meta and unfun for players that didn’t. This started to spill into the WvW zerging meta as well making zerging less fun because once you’ve seen one noob train and know how to counter it, you’ve seen them all. WvW needed this and we all know it.
Again ppl like you do not have the issues being in one of the balanced tiers. Thus for you it’s not in your back yard so it’s not your problem. Consider for a moment the other 42 servers.
Most players like the map changes…however most dislike bloodlust. For even matched tiers (1 and 8 in NA and tier 2 in EU) bloodlust is fine. For uneven tiers all the rest) it is not fine. For 14 tiers it is only making the strong stronger.
TLDR:- is anet manipulating the trading post that’s supposed to be player driven?
No.
Awesome and your source?
No.
Your sauce?
My guess…red sauce, ofc that’s all we’ll get. What type of red sauce? Well that’ll remain a mystery, yet some will clamor that simply red sauce is a definitive answer.
As for the wvw stuff. There has been resounding feedback that likes the map changes, but hates to bloodlust. Unfortunately this has fallen upon deaf ears.
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TP-had no other choice…..well over 1k g..maybe over 2k g thrown in toilet
4.15k hours
I am convinced my account is marked as just about every member of my guild and fl (300+ ppl) have less than 1/2 my hours and have gotten much more and much better drops also better luck with forge than I have.
a worthy challenge for massive guilds who utilize voip, yes.
Public event? Not so much.
Why shouldn’t there be an awesome event that encourages players to band together?
Many guilds are opening up their VOIP channels to the public, and in this day and age it’s become pretty common place for people to use VOIP programs. I don’t see the big deal.
Mainly b/c it’s 3rd party. If they were to release a free gw2 voice com (as in one that comes with the game…provided by the game), then it would be fine.
The new Tequatl is akin to a raid boss in other MMOs. It requires a level of organization, communication, and cooperation that is extremely difficult to get from 80+ random people.
The new Tequatl is a fight designed for large guild groups being overseen by multiple commanders on voice chat.
There should NOT be any design that in a game that is based on having 3rd party elements to accomplish it imo.
Until a server beats teq w/o voice coms or anet adds coms into the game, I will continue to say it needs adjustment.
if people would put up the proof guesting is 100% their problem, they would have a leg to stand on, otherwise making a statement of fact with ZERO proof, only makes others laugh at them. Yes I believe guesting can/may contribute to the problems. But my belief is not proof.
Well, since I was able to get into the main map on Blackgate yesterday (before we took it down), of course, and ever since I have not been able to get in is enough proof for me.
Although I do believe there are players guesting to bg, basing a conclusion off of “I was able yesterday but not today” is nonsense.
What is the server population of bg? What is the concurrency of bg? What is the population limit on the sparkfly zone?
If the concurrency is larger than the limit of the zone (pretty sure it is), then that alone discredits “I was able to yesterday…….”.
scenario — player enters map where his server has outnumbered. server loses outnumbered. other players harass him to leave so server can be stronger.
Correct. The idea behind the buff is to incentivize you to show up even if you are outnumbered by pulling out some of the disincentive for losing a lot, but if we put anything too good on it, it will cause serious problems between players. We don’t want it to be something that people fight over, harass each other over, or generally cause a worse play experience because someone takes away the buff because it is our goal for the maps to be full and for no one to have the buff.
I cannot fathom this, as there is no way we can tell who is joining for the 1st time or who is simply releasing from a recent death on a bl wp. Although we get all types of players, most are at least intelligent to understand not to automatically jump to a conclusion based on something that they have to utilize themselves for release. I know there are some that do, but again they are the types that will harass other players regardless.
So yeah, I’m all for changes. The few servers who can do this now are pretty much all being swarmed and it’s causing huge issues for the native population. I talked to somebody earlier who had been waiting five hours just to get into his own server instance. This is not enjoyable gameplay.
This is one of my main issues with this content. The ramifications of the side effects of how it is currently implemented are not good at all. I hope they are taking that into careful consideration, but w/o any feedback on the matter we will never know.
Elite content? are you joking? Watch bogotters video, its 100 people ZERGballed up, NOT bothering to dodge the waves, because of instant res, not using any strategy except skillspam in a zergball. If this is your idea of elite content, you need to look up the definition of elite
Not to mention the use of certain exploits like fiery rush. Anet should ban everyone who abuse that skill.
Haven’t you been advocating (for some time) that exotic and ascended gears were only wants, that we didn’t need those?
If so can 100 players do this event in all masterwork gears (w/o voice coms ofc as it’s 3rd party)?
You don’t need to have them, just as you don’t need to fight Tequatl. This is for the Elites who want to actually beat him. We choose to have the gear.
So it’s perfectly acceptable to have gear gated content now?
I will guest to any server I think has the best shot at killing him. Why? to exacerbate the issue that this content is currently creating. I fully advocate others do so as well, so that “they” acknowledge the issues.
While I won’t be playing during that time, I think the bigger influence will simply be the data the scores provide. It’ll be so obvious via numbers alone, that if they don’t do something they will be effectively knowingly screwing up the soon to be implemented league system before it even starts. If that actually happens, I would surely hope the powers that be take a long hard look into who was responsible for such an obvious oversight.
I am 100% all for a learning curve extension on the timer. I worry that in the time it takes for players to learn to do the event in the current time limit, they will become discouraged and cease attending it. Once players have acclimated to it removing the time buff would be in order.
Your telling me you never had issues using you aoe keybind being the same key as your interact key? Several of my guildies and I had to keybind a separate key due to conflicts.
And to cut it off now, we are not making WvW rank account bound.
Is there an actual good reason for this ?
Here’s their reasoning:
We want each character to have a unique experience in WvW, so World Ranks and WXP are all character-based values rather than account-based. We believe that in the long run, this will actually help incentivize players to experiment with various different ability builds for each character. It also creates a long term goal for players of multiple characters, as they can strive to rank up multiple characters to help show off their dedication to WvW.
FYI – ESL tourney had 1.8-2k concurrent viewers during the stream (not to mention #s from non-English streams). Maybe Blu can share with us the total number of unique viewers during the stream – but if it’s anything like the other GW2 tournaments, it’s probably around 30-50k unique viewers. I’d say that’s pretty good considering the LoL championship and GvG streams were happening at the same time!
Season 1 is going forward as we described, however nothing about future seasons is set in stone. We’ll take a look at the data we get from the first season and will absolutely make adjustments so that future seasons are even better than the first one.
My concern with four leagues is simply that there isn’t enough variety at that point. I could very well be wrong, but we are going to try season 1 this way and then we’ll take a look at how it played out.
Why is the current mentality that you have to fail first before adjusting to something better. Why not proactively solve problems before they occur. We had to let the new matching algorithm fail for months before something was done.
My guess would be arrogance or lack of common sense…maybe a bit of both. Nothing against anyone or anything…just calling it as I see it.
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