Guild Wars 2

magicweaver.2695:

GrandmaFunk.3052:

the value of a match is the same whether it’s week 1 or week 7

and since it’s 7 matches, doesn’t that allow for every possible matchup to be played once?

Actually for everyone to be played once would have been a 4 week matchup. Instead servers like Picken Square get pitted against Seafarer’s and Visunah 3 times in 7 weeks. Not an even match up by any stretch.

I didn’t say fight every opponent once, I said every possible matchup once

ie: a specific 3 server combination.

the value of a match is the same whether it’s week 1 or week 7

and since it’s 7 matches, doesn’t that allow for every possible matchup to be played once?

Holy Whirlwind.2067:

Thanks Mathias, will try that. But can you set a keybind to deselect to quickly reset my tab targetting?

Esc is already bound for that =)

Fractals and WvW have almost diametrically opposed needs when it comes to builds.

you cannot use the same build in both and expect to be efficient.

Ahlen.7591:

D&D invented the metagaming term…

metagaming has been an element of games like chess and go for centuries.

Trinkets have always had much higher crit dmg values to begin with.(relative to each pieces total stat value)

If you compare the difference in crit dmg between rare and exotic armor pieces, you’ll notice it’s also very little.

Kaiyanwan.8521:

So GW 1 was stagnant over all those years?

for the last 5 years or so, yes.

Blackjack.2083:

GrandmaFunk….appreciate your condescending remarks that offered absolutely nothing to the question that was asked.

The condescending tone of my answer was in proportion to the impatiently demanding tone of your question…

Blackjack.2083:

So yes, if NSP is indeed going to Silver I’ll be heading to HoD most likely.

..and in correctly guessing your motives for such impatience.

Blackjack.2083:

So……since the reset is tonight can we get a kitten official answer?! I mean c’mon guys the Leagues start today…..is it too much to ask?

The leagues start today, so wait all of 8 hours and you’ll get your kitten official answer.

What’s the hurry in knowing the rankings before it starts? planning on transferring?

based on weapons: two-handed weapons have a 1% increase from exotics to ascended(9% —> 10%), but the one-handed ones have the same value(ie: 5%)

so don’t expect much difference for armours… maybe an extra point from the chest and leggings.

you can use the other targeting options to cycle through to the one you want.

it’s only “grindy” if you want one of those specific rewards.

casual players looking for fun can have just as much fun as they did before…. and most casual players are smart enough to know they can’t chase every reward/title/achievement/item… that some things will simply be out of reach given their casual nature.

It has not, at least not noticeably.

source: played 2 hours of sPvP with my necro yesterday and never noticed any difference with usual flow/timing of my DeathShroud usage.

vrannar.5618:

I recently transferred to Blackgate in hopes of having a more rewarding experience

What led you to believe your experience on BG would be better?
What steps did you take to investigate whether the server would be a good fit before transferring over?

sPvP/tPvP suffers from having a really small population pool… and you want to make it harder for new players to enter the fold?

it was 2 leagues of 12 when they first announced it, then they changed their mind and split it 6/9/9 instead (leagues have to be divisible by 3.. an 8 server league would mean 2 servers have to sit out every week)

what “remaining” crafting disciplines? no new crafting has been announced.

Sharpoon.8197:

You won’t be fighting the stronger servers every week. You guys are probably on par with IoJ now and during NA prime you’ll probably be on par with CD.

That’s the thing, every server we’ll be facing is a stronger server.

We’ve also faced CD and IoJ enough recently to know that we are nowhere near parity with them.

Here’s the best advice for a new player, especially when you feel a bit overwhelmed: look up!

It’s really easy to get bogged down into what’s happening right at your feet, but every once in a while, pull your camera down to a shallower angle so you can look at the horizon all around you: you’ll rarely be disappointed by the view, and it makes exploration a lot more intuitive and fun than just chasing icons on your minimap =)

the problem with stomping, in the context of unbalanced matches, was that it gave the bigger team a really strong incentive to spawn camp.

that and the general feedback cycle of: team A outnumbers it’s opponents, dominates territory and get the bloodlust; bloodlust rewards them for being “more” by making them “better” with stats; better stats lead to them having an advantage in winning fights, those easier to win fights then gave them even more points.

it too easily snowballed into total domination, as opposed to being a mechanic that allowed weaker servers a chance to fight back.

Omne.4603:

Spvp exists, fights are even there.

I always assumed that, but it’s rarely ever the case. You are much more likely to get rushed by 3+ opponents… in WvW you’d have time to see them coming and break off from engaging them, in sPvP you have nowhere to run.

GSSBlunaspike.4153:

If you were a new player I would say go there.

Do you not realize that making that statement makes you part of the problem?

I don’t see how, every other class can use it’s class mechanic off a cold start except for warriors(which are already extremely OP without ever using adrenaline)… not being able to build up some LF puts us at an early disadvantage.

Galtrix.7369:

if you have evidence that proves me wrong

Do you have any evidence that proves you right?

Skan.5301:

Due to TL (Team Legacy) and Ruinous Gaming Community alliance. That’s pretty much 90% of the server since those are some huge communities that have been around for quite some time

that is MASSIVE bullkitten, TL ditched the server over 13 months ago and most of their cronies followed, never even heard of this “Ruinous Gaming Community”.

no matter, the point was that my server is not empty, and neither are the vast majority of servers, be they above T2 or below.

Skan.5301:

Are you being serious right now? I can’t tell if you’re serious.

Have you been below a T2 server?

Are you being serious? my sig clearly indicates which server I’m from.

I play on off-hours on a rank16 server and every day : I see ppl in LA, I see ppl in the daily activity, I see ppl in WvW, I see ppl in sPvP, I see ppl in every PvE zone I go into.

tangent based on your opening remarks:

Necros need a way to fill that Lifeforce bar in sPvP on match start, maybe a few ambient creatures hanging out in each spawn.

the worlds are all full, just scattered across dozens of activities.

ignore the haters and their lies.

The use of “meta” to describe the current climate of builds and how they relate to each other(and more importantly, which ones are in favour) mostly comes from the MTG scene, from which GW1 drew it’s philosophy and lingo heavily.

server population != WvW activity.

here’s another problem with open world dueling: how does it affect combat with mobs and can that be exploited?

ie: could two players start a ‘duel’ to escape combat? can they use it to avoid combat in the first place, bypassing large groups of mobs?

if it’s restricted to a designated area like the one in the Citadel then that would be fine: the only ppl who have to interact with the system are the ones that choose to do so and it doesn’t impact anything else.

but at that point, how is it that different than just doing it in an sPvP Custom Arena or the new WvW area they’ve announced?

Thedenofsin.7340:

All,

I think we all agree underwater combat is not going to happen for pvp in the near or distant future. I think it’s time ANet put the bullet in its brain and removed all underwater combat from pvp, including Capricorn.

No, we do not all agree.

If you don’t like the ONE map where it happens, just don’t play games on that map.. there’s no reason to remove it completely so that the players who do enjoy it can no longer play it.

Don’t be selfish.

Rangers are currently in the top3 of the sPvP meta.

As for WvW, they are well suited for some roles like pursuing.

Daywolf.2630:

Like how many ways do I need to write “keep off the stairs!” at grenth?

You only need to say it once, whoever ignored your first warning won’t pay attention to any other ones anyway.

Some of us like the underwater combat, so please don’t remove the ONLY remaining area for underwater pvp in the entire game.

Tellah.8073:

by all human references jumping someone 3v1 or sneaking up and smashing someone while they are distracted is dirty.

It’s tactics, which is one of the main points to team games/sports.

also, if you’re currently facing a 1vs3, that means that 2 of your teammates are currently acting unopposed, which is arguably much better for your team then you winning that fight would be.

tichorum.2415:

A raid is like a dungeon except harder and amped up.

Is the new TA path a step in the direction you’re thinking of?

if not, what’s lacking from it, specifically?

Xcom.1926:

Saying things like 26 PvE zones, sPvP and 6 cities is deceptive. Most of the PvE zones are ghost towns. sPvP at the moment is pretty much dead. And save for Lion’s Arch the rest of the cities are empty.

I didn’t say they were equally spread out.. but even if there’s only 5-10 players in each of those zones at a given time, it ends up accounting for quite a few ppl not obviously seen from a quick walk through LA or one of the starter zone.

the point is that as time goes on, there’s more and more different things to do in the game which spreads the crowd even thinner, making it appear a lot less populated than it actually is.

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

If the player population is rising, where are they?

they’re spread across:

-26 PvE zones
-6 cities
-dungeons/fractals
-WvW
-sPvP
-daily activity

your point is based in false info/ideas.

ex: “In all of WvW history, the farthest a matchup has ever gotten without a clear winner was Wednesday.”

There have been dozens of matches that still didn’t have a clear winner by Friday morning.

Were you around for the 24h matches? they were not well liked and had the same blowout problems.

Solstice.1097:

Why don’t college football teams QQ more when they get blown out 90-3?? Because the game is only a few hours long not 24/7 for a week.

your example is completely irrelevant since both teams have the same number of players.

also, since when do college football teams(or any other sports team ever) not QQ about blowout games? There’s constant arguments about coaches “running up the score” and whether they should/could have prevented it.

Just look at all the hubbub surrounding the sharks/rangers massacre from this week.

my points was that everyone has at least one option to get their movement speed to 25%+ if they want to prioritize for that. Some of those options are better/easier than others… and that’s kind of the whole point to having classes and builds.

“i don’t like this, so no one else should get to play it”

Sages.3496:

just imagine how the new players might not be able to hit level 80 before the living story ends for the ta assault part.

So they miss it.

They already missed a year’s worth of special events and living story, a few more missed achievements won’t change much.

every class that doesn’t have the passive 25% signet can build for swiftness with 80%+ uptime.

Nretep.2564:

Zerker gets bonus weapon attack AND bonus power (and precision and crit damage).

What do you mean by “bonus weapon attack”?

these builds.. why are they different?

SHAKA ZULU.3128:

I’m saying as you beat GoM 6 weeks ago and assuming neither NSP nor GoM’s numbers haven’t fluctuated since then, you should be above us or win against us, as we are only catching up to them now.

I really don’t understand why you’d be using GoM as the yardstick to compare our servers… we both outrank them by a lot and we both trounced them thoroughly the last time either of us fought them.

crucial caveat: the one second interval is not counted from when the condition is applied, it’s a clock-based interval, meaning that a condition with only 3/4 sec duration will still tick once if it was applied past 1/4 of the second’s start.

ie: every time the server clock ticks a second, any active conditions will trigger their damage, regardless of the condition’s remaining duration.

Radiology.3597:

They could have made it an even playing field if off the bat, they didn’t label the servers NA and EU.

They’re labeled that way to indicate to players where the data center is located, so players can make informed decisions based on probable latency issues.