Guild Wars 2

Similar to the post two above me , how about a system where 100g just buys you the basic blue pin, but doing achievements lets you level that up so you can obtain new pins and titles.
Commanders can gain achievements through
1) capturing points
2) amount of supplies used
3) how many siege laid down
4) having people + rep them
5) starting upgrades on camps/towers/keeps

This would ensure that leveled up commanders are well-rounded in respect to their knowledge of wvw

Congratulations!

GekoHayate.2451:

Just after the latest build reset, SBI managed to obtain all 3 orbs in a rather quick fashion. I wonder how that happened /eyeroll.

But having all 3 orbs isn’t a game breaker, heres to a bloody wrap up to this weeks match.

They already owned 2 before reset and owned the keep that the bugged orb was in. What are you trying to imply with your post; I really don’t understand.

Question about the lower tiers: can you log in at anytime and have a decent battle or is there more of a tendancy to see zerg vs door outside of prime time?

Something should be said about blackgate being allowed to keep a bugged orb for more than 24 hours now. In a tier where every stat matters, this is making a huge impact on the current and future score.

I wouldn’t put the top three servers so down, there is always a fun fight to be had, but sometimes the pressure to do well is a bit overwhelming.

This is an epicly great suggestion.

I totally agreed with opening once I saw the scores for the screenshot. As I said before, I blame Anet for this
1) for not closing transfers
2) they have data on what’s happening on their servers; any wvw player knows what are unfair matchups without even looking at “glicko ratings” so why anet still allowed HoD and ET to be top 6 is a huge mystery to me.

I was on a server that was going nowhere but downhill in WvW. Most days I logged in and we were too outnumbered to do anything, or if it was a match against weaker opponents it was just zerg vs door. Unfortunately, I had to be one of the people who transfered, and I transfered to a tier 1 server and I’m having tons more fun now because anytime I choose to log in to wvw, there is an awesome battle going on. Tier 2 should have been the same if they could have just manually adjusted rankings and put IoJ, SoS, and SoR together, but no, they have to stick with their unreliable ranking system.

You would think with all these negative posts that WvW would be pretty dead right now and Blackgate is running away with it. As of right now:

BG – 95,914 +220
JQ – 73,698 +265
SBI – 69,403 +210

In my opinion, the whole point of Tier 1 is that you can log in at anytime and get a decent battle, so I thank everyone who is still participating in this match up because aside from a few hours during the day when Blackgate dominates, this is still an all around even matchup.

BG 24954 +170
SBI 22007 +295
JQ 18799 +230

BG borderlands west keep, first keep JQ lost tonight – time for bed

I blame the random reset too that allowed SBI to easily take one orb from JQ. The effects snowballed after that. Give SBI credit though, they were very strong without any orbs and just became unbeatable with one, then two, and finally three orbs. The WvW population on JQ just never recovered after that.

Interesting chat going on in the screenshot, I can answer some of those question.

Most likely you guys will get rocked by Isle of Janthir, considering HoD will be a non-factor and IoJ is amazing in a server vs server 1 on 1 setting. Things you guys might want to watch out for: IoJ has people dedicated to taking supply camps and they aren’t afraid to drop down a load of alpha siege golems.

Concerning CD, yes each week CD lost commanders and guilds because people got tired of the WvW scene on this server, since the first week it has gone no where but downhill. No guilds ever wanted to transfer to us to make us more competitive, so the only choice was for guilds and commanders to leave.

If I was ArenaNet, I would ignore their points system and manually determine the match up for ET and HoD – they have data, use it. At least make sure the tier 1 match is Jade Quarry, Stormbluff Isle, and Blackgate, and tier 2 is Isle of Janthir, Sea of Sorrows, and Sanctum of Rall because those are the current top 6 servers without a doubt.

Ironically, this thread is probably encouraging ET and HoD players to not bother with WvW for the rest of this week.

It’s funny how you can be moved down a bracket and actually face stronger opponents. Oh GW2 rankings, you crack me up

That would pretty hilarious- drop a couple of landmines right behind a gate to punish everyones nature to zerg after a gate breaks. BOOM whole zerg dead

Thumbs up for this idea

Crystal Desert is going to lose (as far as I know, we are the only server that hasn’t received a mass immigration since weeklong matches started)

But still, we fight harder than anyone out there in the first 24 hours, but then sleep and real lives becomes priority.

@SmokeyNYY

In some other thread a lot of people casted their vote for Mara (if I remember the name correctly)

Btw, to the best of my knowledge, the only homegrown servers in the top 10 are Crystal Desert and maybe Stormbluff Isle as well? Homegrown in the sense that no one has ever transfered to us to help us win.

Hopefully this post is enough to motivate our guys to do well this week!!

This is a dream match up for Crystal Desert. Since week long matches started, Crystal Desert has been the king of third tier (among the other servers that bounce up between tier 2 and tier 3 with us). This week we are facing the new look Sea of Sorrows as well as the “best commander in WvW” who plays on Sanctum of Rall, so the question of the week is : Will Crystal Desert keep it’s stronghold on the 7th spot or will they finally be dethroned?

Let’s go Crystal Desert!

So I decided to transfer to a server in the tier with the closest match up, and to my dismay it was still zerg vs door. Worst part was, everyone in that zerg was having a blast taking empty keep after empty keep. Maybe those of us who want WvW to be competitive are just in the minority and it will never actually happen =/

Downed state isn’t bad, but the imbalance between the different downed-state skills is bad.
I’m a guardian, I knock someone back, OKAY, that buys me 3 more seconds of life.
I down a thief, he disappears, five seconds later I’m still looking for this guy.
I get downed as an elementalist, forget it, I’m dead in the next 2 seconds. Comparing all the downed skills side by side, the spectrum goes from overpowered to down-right-useless, and I wonder why downed state among different professions was designed like this.

edit: marianojc beat me by a minute lol

I used to play WvW about 4 hours a day everyday because I could log in at any moment and have great fun. Now? Transferring issues and zerging has gotten so out of hand that WvW is basically unplayable. I log in and see we’re outnumbered and own 2 supply camps, so I log out. Coming from a standpoint where WvW used to be fun no matter what time you logged in, now it’s become a situation where you have to be at the right place at the right time, otherwise WvW is a ghost town; yet they insist on WvW being persistent 24/7. Next week is looking to be the same because we’re playing a server that also had a lot of new transfers last week. zzz

Weeks of WvW scores should have adjusted rankings in a way that pitted similarly-matched servers, and that would have happened – if it wasn’t for free transfers. It’s bad enough that people can’t WvW for one week because a bunch of people transfered on to the winning team and started a snowball effect (JQ, IOJ, BG, SOS, SOR this week), but the sudden transfers make the rankings pointless. So now, servers don’t get one week of horridly one sided matches, but it then becomes two or even three weeks of pointless matches while the rankings adjust. And what is to say that people won’t transfer servers again? This just makes rankings a load of bull every single week and every match sucks. Look at the projected matches for next week, BG vs HoD/ET, SoS vs CD/TC? As far as I’m concerned, WvW isn’t 24/7, it’s basically the first 15-24 hours after reset, after that the winner is whoever has more people on.

Now, if a bunch of us complaining are actually idiots and the real reason to WvW is to max out the World vs World bonuses for your server, then golly Arenanet is doing an awesome job, keep it up. Yay 20% chance to gather better ingredients; prefer that over a good fight when I choose to log in to WvW. /sarcasm off

Make siege weapon damage inversely proportional to how many orbs you control! Since servers who own all the orbs are usually the servers that have more people on anyway, I think this is balanced.

From the perspective of a server that often finds itself outnumbered everytime people enter wvw, siege weapons definitely need to be re-evaluated. Time and time again, we capture a tower, only to have it taken away because one of the only tools used to even-up a playing field doesn’t even do it effectively. People have the capability to tank arrow carts now, ballistas don’t do much because you need to place them right against the edge of a wall (to avoid obstruction), which makes it an easy target for AoE.

Guys, tier 2 is actually not that close. ET is practically a no show this week and IOJ is fielding huge numbers in all maps while Crystal Desert is barely managing two and a half (as such the score is constantly around +350 vs +250 and over a week that will add up to a huge difference). If you want some competitive play, please come over to Crystal Desert (guaranteed it will be 5 days of constant battle, not 5 days of taking empty keeps)

CD member here

Hats off to IoJ, been wondering how we would fair in a rematch, and clearly 1v1 you are kicking our * (this is a 1v1 since ET is basically a no show in this match up)

I read left and right about this server getting a new guild transfer in, or this other guild getting another boost for wvw.

Maybe I’m out of the loop, but has Crystal Desert had any major guild transfer in to help it? As far as I see, the guilds from day 1 of week long matches are the same guilds that are still fighting today, but please correct me if I’m wrong and there are guilds/players from other servers that boosted us.

I was looking forward to a Yak’s Bend/Sanctum of Rall/Northern Shiverpeaks like score for this matchup, but now with Eradon Terrace lagging behind by 10k points, this looks like a runaway victory for Isle of Janthir who has more 24 hour coverage then Crystal Desert does.

CD 25671 +290
IoJ 24799 +235
ET 24321 +170

CD-17141 +190
IoJ 16080 +240
ET 15471 +265