Guild Wars 2

Yenn.9185:

Server pride/identity is overrated. In my very rough estimate, the majority of active WvW players in the top servers are tranfers. I agree, identity is important but it may not necessarily be a server.

T1 players often don’t care what server they’re on, and all the lower tiers do very much. We should try to get players out of T1.

Talyn.3295:

So it matters that I play on BG?

Yes, because BG is what literally every other server is complaining about, including other overstacked T1s. It’s like rich people saying tax reform isn’t needed.

Something should definitely be done to balance out server pops. What the exact specifics are, I don’t know. It may be that merging servers is the only thing the game has the population to support, I just wanted to call out things we would be losing by doing so.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2gol18/dps_ranking/

Talyn.3295:

No thank you. Not wanted, not needed.

Says the guy on BG…

ItIsFinished.9462:

In all honesty, we should do this in a strategic manner. I’m sure this would be an ‘on and off’ thing. So basically, purchasing a room for a day(which I think is 2 gold), then calling out a challenge in this thread to the current ‘King of the Hill’ opponent, setup a day to do it.

That actually sounds really cool. Would it be worth having the current king post their build so others can counter it, like you might do in a on-the-spot king of the hill?

Also since it would only be 1 duel at a time, we could do this indefinitely for free on any random duel server.

Sube Dai.8496:

Have DNT done any updated numbers yet? Would be good to see where rangers are in the overall rankings now.

Yup. According to them we’re number 4. Although spotter and FS make us more valuable than just #4.

Thief
Ele
Engineer
Ranger
Warrior
Guardian
Mesmer
Necro

In addition to server loyalty, there is some value in having drastically different levels of enemies. Small groups probably mean a lot more on T9 servers than they do on T1. I do enjoy heading out at a weird hour of the night by myself and trying to take camps while 2 or 3 enemies hunt me. Granted it’s a little selfish for only 4 people or so to be using an entire map, but you get the point.

Another thing that would be lost is server personalities. For example everyone in NA knows YB is obsessed with placing siege to protect the siege that protects their siege, and it makes them unique to fight against. It’s almost like choosing your Street Fighter character; all of them have different strengths.

It may be required to compact the player base, I just wanted to make sure we know what we’d lose first.

To be fair, spamming dodge on a ranger is a valid tactic since we have so many evades!

Just to clarify, I also don’t support reducing map population. Even though my server is getting wafflestomped right now, on reset we fill all the maps and have some really fun big scale fights.

My solution in the quoted thread was to somehow encourage or force people to move to non BG servers.

jcbroe.4329:

2.25 seconds is an eon to any not-stoned, not disabled player

I usually play WvW drunk and it’s still an eon.

I wonder if people are used to just spamming dodge for a flat percent time of invulnerability rather than using them on appropriate skills. Like how many people dodge on recharge against a hammer warrior instead of dodging earthshaker? Is the solution to the whining that simple? Stop dodge spamming?

He would have to ban himself.

nagymbear.5280:

Is there a lack of arena in EU for this to happen? How much gems does that take?

200 gold and then 2 gold per day (I think.)

ItIsFinished.9462:

So Fluffball, any plans on making this dream a reality?

I dunno, it seems like we have about 3 people able and interested in NA. I forgot half of everyone is unable to play with the other half.

S + GS moves crazy fast. I’ve been using S + LB lately in open world since you just arrive to dead bodies and never really have to stop running forward to attack things. Although Maul does pretty much the same thing if you start ‘casting’ it before you arrive at the soon to be dead bodies. LB + GS is probably the fastest open world combo now that I think about it.

Pets are not terribly important for open world if you’re a geared level 80, they rarely manage to get a single hit in before you’ve killed everything, until you get to Orr. A single maul will often 1-hit kill 5 enemies if they’re in range. With that in mind, birds give you swiftness.

The only other PvE thing you need to know about pets is cats do the most single target DPS so are used in dungeons.

I think we’re talking a realistic limit of like 8 people per map. Most servers have a single small zerg that bounces between maps based on threats.

It would have to be a limit per all 4 maps I guess to not break that playstyle.

Only T1 servers can get anywhere close to fielding 50 people per map, and we’ve already seen the queue times are not enough to get people to move to lower ranked servers rather than being carried to a win on a high ranked server.

Could a permanent stun be applied to all the players until the pause is unchecked? That effectively pauses everything without changing how the game works.

It’s pretty much impossible to go wrong for map completion. Traps and berserker armor don’t really go together since traps are condis, but if you want to play with them it won’t be a disaster.

You probably want signet of the hunt though so you can get to your objectives faster.

If you wanted to lose the other two traps I’d take signet of the wild and quickening zephyr and call it a day. Almost dungeon meta build.

If you didn’t make the list it’s because I literally just opened up a couple threads and copied the names that had posted in them. :P

You know what you did!

The intent was to insult you.

The state your pet is in is not very important, just be sure to tell her to attack or come back to you. Guard means attack everything, the peace thing (passive? or something?) means don’t attack ever. But both are overriden by your commands to attack or come back.

Rym.1469:

To begin with, you could list the rules, choose the map, set up a server and time everything could start. This doesn’t even have to be streamed. In fact, it would be better to record it as a video/s so others can watch it later even month after and without 99% muted sound.

I was thinking no rules at all, just 1v1 fights. Win 2/3 and you stay the guy to fight. Duels are on the beach at Forest. Take any build you want, to counter your opponent or just on the whim of your drunk revelry.

I don’t have a custom arena or a stream. It doesn’t have to be streamed, and if only 3 of us show up it would be pretty dumb to stream. So I was hoping we could have some “woo I’m going to kick FrouFrou’s kitten” posts.

Edit: Oh man, who would kick a kitten??

Eurantien.4632:

Good luck

Why good luck instead of actually showing up?

kitten JQ complaining about stacking now I’ve seen it all.

People I think we would love to beat up:

Solandri
Cufufalating
solrik
Prysin
Yelloweyedemon
jcbroe
Oak da Vite
Durzlla
HHR LostProphet
Eurantien
Fluffball
FrouFrou

2 hours and there is no response? This is a fun escapade! Don’t worry about winning or losing let’s just laugh at the guy who is trolling with a spirit dueling spec.

2 year long ranger player here: if you lose to a LB ranger you’re a kitten idiot or s/he is a better player than you.

Zenos Osgorma.2936:

Sun spirit ect yes they have internal cooldowns of 10secs between each buff.
Frost spirit is an Exception from this rule.

No no, not the effect, the proccing on the player. So if the proccing is super short it can affect a lot of players. Aso check my masterful use of affect vs effect.

I think they pump them out every 2 (6? I have both numbers in my head) seconds. I believe their cooldown is way lower than their effect in order to affect people that are out of range in a dungeon that come in to range. I.e. if you’re out of range of the frost spirit, you run to the boss and in to range of the frost spirit you almost instantly gain the FS effect. Don’t listen to me though I’m just posting to hear myself type, not 100% sure.

Thom rangers had a massive, massive damage boost last patch. That was our biggest weakness. Axe grants might, pets are way more useful, signets grant their actives to the player, LB is viable in PvE (!!!), it was a big deal. Like, a really big deal. We actually outdamage warriors now.

Well if you take the 1h sword I would recommend the dagger first or the axe second. WH just isn’t strong enough for 1v1s. WH 4 being relatively useless is pretty harsh, and WH five’s only real combat value is the blast finisher. Especially running SotF AND RaO you will never not have fury up. You can make up for the speed loss by using sword 2.

GS is also totally viable and easy to use for movement.

If you’re holding points solo I recommend the GS, if you’re mostly team fight I recommend s/d or s/a.

I was watching an old Sensotix video of a king of the hill duel day and I thought it might be a lot of fun to do for the ranger forum.Win best 2/3 duels and you stay king of the hill. Just for fun, not really for egos, like all kinds of weird builds with LBs or BMs or other garbage (I would definitely be running a BM as my first choice, which is just an awful idea against other rangers who know the pet can’t be ignored), rejoin the queue as much as you want. Do we have any streamers that might want to stream that for a saturday sometime between NA and EU waking hours?

Prysin I might be looking at you.

Why exactly would this rumor be going around? I’m sure Colin is dropping this info in the adopt a dev program, telling people about disbanding servers…

Bad players probably do transfer to BG to have fun by annihilating outnumbered opponents in the same way bad players stack hotjoin teams.

People only transferred to low tier servers to overstack and get the rewards, then immediately left. It was a good idea, Anet just didn’t think it through from a selfish player’s perspective.

If all the servers had relatively even, active WvW populations less people would get bored and leave (I’d hate to see the metrics on WvW participation this week!) and more interesting matchups could be had.

Deli.1302:

All you say is that anet has to make a strong action yet don’t say what that action actually is.

I said they need to encourage or force people to disperse. Encouragement; I could think of thousands of ways. Rate WvW population by each server and award a certain amount of gold/gems/minis whatever for transferring and staying on various servers. For example transferring to BG gets you nothing, transferring to ET gets you 150000 gold. The actual mechanics are not relevant for this discussion, if Anet wanted to implement it they would have a lot more metrics to come up with something rational. Also I’m sure you can think of 15 other ways off the top of your head to reward people for not overstacking. Taking away queue times and giving them unique rewards for overstacking probably isn’t the correct answer.

As far as forcing people to not overstack, it wouldn’t be popular but by god would it fix the problem.

Deli.1302:

ok pls tell me how

If you continue reading to two more sentences I tell you how. Good lord.

I Am Dansker.7105:

Right now overstacking isn’t even the issue. The issue is anets kittened up idea that the a server 2 tiers below another has the slightest chance to even compete

Ya that’s certainly not helping. But ideally all the tiers would be relatively equal. Numbers from stacking shouldn’t be the winning factor, organization should be the winning factor.

Deli.1302:

misterman.1530:

Anet knows this is broken and CAN’T do anything to fix it. They have no idea how to fix it.

That’s because it cannot be fixed.

No it definitely can, but Anet has to take a strong position. Every tourney there are threads “hey guise which server are we going to stack so we all win and ruin everything”. Anet has to take strong action either by encouraging, or even forcing people not to overstack. Taking no action will result in overstacking 100% of the time. And the playerbase has proven that at every possible opportunity.

misterman.1530:

I agree with all of that. It is broken, no doubt. Just someone coming on to scream “It’s broken” is hardly productive. Anet knows this is broken and CAN’T do anything to fix it. They have no idea how to fix it.

They could fix it, but I wonder if they have any motivation to between gems being bought for transfers and people’s server loyalty (i.e. they can’t disband low ranked servers without kittening off thousands of people.)

They need to find an incentive for players to not overstack. Currently they are just giving people more reasons to overstack, in addition to human nature being to go for a cheesey win instead of having a truly competitive 3 way fight. It’s like asking people to voluntarily accept communism and helping other people, when a free market and taking everything you can is what humans wind up doing once they see a single other person taking everything they can.

Hotjoin stacking is very much a metaphor for BG stacking.

Ha, unkillable nature spirit would be insane in a zerg.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Naga

“Quick, tell the commander there is a player trying to take a sentry!”

From Anymras.5729’s post it sounds like only some were removed. I had a new ranger ask in Caledon map chat where to find pets, so I went to a few spots I know juvenile animals were located and still saw them. Spiders at the top of Morgan’s Spiral for example.

solrik.6028:

Since the above person failed to answer properly, I will tell you that the juvenile animals were removed from the starting areas.

I heard that as well, yet I can still see them. Are they just invisible for non-level 80s or something?

lordkrall.7241:

I suppose having fun is a strange concept. But that is why I play at least.

Does anyone think this week is fun?

GW1 spirits would be very troll-y in GW2. Even in GW1 they could be very troll-y, but in GW2 a lot more players would be affected.

He’s in a sort okittenward place. I looked around for like 60 seconds over by the other NPCs and the siderooms before I found him. It’s pretty irrelevant, but I don’t know why the didn’t just put him with the other NPCs.

Let’s see if we can get the entire GW2 population on to BG and then WvW will be all the fun! There will be no other fun not to be had.

Yes, check your options and turn off the auto targeting. I can’t remember exactly what it’s called but it should be obvious.

If you have an enemy selected you will always swoop to attack them. If you unselect an enemy, you’ll swoop in whatever direction you’re currently facing.