What impresses me, more than anything is that some people are completely clueless. You stomp them again and again and again and they just keep coming back for more.
One time I was in OS and was hit by a guild group camping the JP. So i left…
I made a drink, checked my mails did a few non-eventful things and came back later. The guild was gone and I got to the top, no problems.
Nobody ever resolved an addictive behavior by indulging in it more.
Pretty much this, as a psych undergrad were taught that the way to stop an addiction is to break the cycle of it. Stopping cold turkey can work (just dont log on).
Otherwise, if you have a particular routine that you follow while your logged on that leads you into TP Flipping (before/after too, e.g. stop visiting the TP spidy?) you need to identify what they are. Then subsequently make in roads into stopping them.
Perhaps look towards the up coming WvW tournament? Give that a try and that may offer some in roads into resisting opening up the spreadsheets.
I’ve fought a number of people when roaming in WvW who had legendary weapons only to watch them faceplant as fighters. Same said for allies who will ping a bunch of legendary weapons in map chat only to watch them die if hard fights EVERY SINGLE TIME.
The sort of people that have multiple legendary weapons are people who are good with spreadsheets or just use rl money to buy them.
When it comes to actually playing the game, it’s a different story….
EDIT:
Precursor-wise, it’d be kinda neat if there was a challenging, actually challenging and hard to defeat without actual teamwork, boss or encounter where it had a higher rate of dropping from. Or able to be bought with tokens gathered from doing the encounter a set number of times, or a train of such encounters that could be titled “Precursor to the Legend” or something like that, and all lead up to getting a particular precursor.
What I observe as the ‘creep’ that’s coming into PvP. I didn’t pay it much mind when the new heal skills for 25 sp came in, tbh I kind laughed and thought it was a little silly but now I’m a little concerned.
My understanding of PvP is that their were never meant to be barriers.
One of the selling points at release was that you could get into PvP immediately and compete. You didn’t have to level up, get the right gear, unlock things etc.
I should have known something was up when the 25sp were needed to unlock skills but didn’t think more of it at the time, but now….
I guess I just don’t understand. Is it trying to get PvE into PvP or PvP into PvE why are you moving towards creating barriers into PvP. I don’t understand why there is now this need to make people unlock things when that was never the case.
so 3 months waiting for wxp acc bound is nothing. we should stop complaining guys
You say we should stop complaining about things in WvW and commander abilites? It’s been almost 2 years… we should be complaining more.
I read it as sarcasm?
In any event it was actually longer than 3 months for AB WXP saga. There were the months as well of just getting them to admit soulbound WXP was a silly idea.
We’re not saying we are going to do nothing because we said we would do nothing.
We’re saying we won’t change direction
Feel the wisdom in his words.
My friends father was in the Korean War.
He said to me “Listen, we never retreat in the army”.
So upon explaining what happened when US troops were overwhelmed and forced back down the peninsula he explained, “That wasn’t retreating, it was advancing in an entirely different direction”.
It was designed from day 1 to be soulbound and changing it to account bound would cause technical difficulties that are very, very hard to overcome.
STOP QUIBBLING!
We’ve received a plethora of new LS content that’s had all kinds of weird and wonderful mechanics that devs have mashed together and presented us with.
Fotm went from soul bound to account bound so it’s not a new concept.
Unfortunately, it can take an ANet employee to troll a GvG before the GvG community gets something decent they can work with (Obsidian Sanctum).
If they wanted to have AB WXP in place by now, they would. Were waiting on the power brokers to give the green light or a dev to troll us.
They aren’t not releasing account WXP or WvW bugs out of spite against us (or so I hope).
Not its not spite or incompetence. I see it as more of the ‘office politics’ being played out.
Sacrx’ NDA leak highlighted the kind of politics that play out at ANet and a lot of what he said resonated with me at the time and made sense.
For me, the fact that account bound WXP isn’t released is more of this office politics playing out. It kind of reminds me of the commander tag.
The commander tag is useless except for being a huge dorito you see on the map. Devon said (like omg a year ago or so) that he wants to change how it works but nothing has happened since (much like account bound WXP). Whether its a barrier they created or someone else did, who knows.
As the general community, we’re just not privy to it.
They made them too easy to get so its ok to take them away? The same logic could be applied to fotm reset for leaderboards (which never happened).
People don’t like to have things taken away. So in doing that they upset people, irrespective of if they mismanaged it from the beginning (which they’ll never admit too).
Just taking them away is a failure to imagine, plan and implement.
Id just like to put it out there that i actually like the Skyhammer map. I’ve only been able to play it a few times sofar since it rarely ever comes up in tournament rotation for me.
You like it but only played it a few times?
I didn’t mind it at release but it gets tiring pretty quickly where the ‘best’ players are those that effectively use CC’s with little warning.
Servers have been tanking in anticipation of the announcement of leagues.
That plan backfired on SoR.
Certain guilds weren’t competing so others decided that wasn’t good enough, and left. Interestingly those guilds that were tanking have also left so that they can remain competitive…
