May be helpful if someone out of the map took a pic with the timestamp of the queue … while someone in the map took a pic of the outnumbered buff being applied and the timestamp
The lag is ridiculous… I run an i7 8gb dual nvidia cards and its almost like anytime a BG person comes by … the game starts lagging. I’ve been in zvzvz battles 3 way smc battles all fine, but whenever I run out by myself to cap a ruin or anything … my game seems to hit some ridiculous lag spike. I’m almost at the point of just giving up on this crap and just watching football ,and blowing my money on the atypical crap. Comepltely tired of this, I never lag in guild runs never lag in normal decent fights … but I go out to have some 1v1 fun and each engage with a BG person is like a ddos attack. I don’t get it … the FA guys hit a lot harder than BG, but at least my comp is running smoothly. This is just a little much ftw
Just be careful not to tweak too far or it’s back to boring pirate ship meta… at least front liners can engage in the current meta. But yes the duration some boons stack is pretty excessive … I saw a picture where a guy have over 1 min on fury, prot, regen, swift (this is understandable), alongside other boons that had something like 30 or seconds. It’s a really good visual to put things into perspective on how powerful it is.
So your feedback is your server is not playing? or being productive? and you think it’s a problem with the system? versus your player base?
I thought you could just jump on the wooden beam and go in without the event to get access into the area for the HP and PoI
I went 0 – 9 on 10 stack tries (90 coins down, no clovers) … it was heart breaking.
you only have to reach 36,000 to unlock both isn’kitten Cake walk
Because of this thread … I’m almost tempted to use that last slot and play this build. I won’t cause I’ve been with anet long enough to know every time I decide late in the game to play the ‘build’ hot on topic, they stir the pot in the wrong direction (ele’s swirling winds blocking treb shots comes to mind way back, so does the confusion nerf to mesmers when my mes just hit 80 to be legit in wvw)… best not repeat my prior mistakes or I may be labelled. I still say let the rangers have there moment in the sun, been many years they were just the best ‘underwater’ combatants
I still don’t get why corrupt boon doesn’t apply he condi equivalent equal to the duration left on the boon they have. Wouldn’t that solve the boon meta, unfortunately bringing back the more cancerous condi meta?
It won’t solve anything … yet. It will give a look at the week with another set of data and smaller numbers. Then Anet wil implement changes that affect these small numbers, and see if it makes matches closer or farther apart. They will look how it affect glicko along the way and see how the matchups can be changed so servers that generally do not seem fit to win matches … may. I am optimistic because it is something that has the potential to affect glicko deviation and match making. All while making it more enjoyable without affecting the actual playerbase one bit, meaning strong NA servers like mags could potentially be a powerhouse enough to combat BG off there throne. Will that happen, I doubt it … but the potential is there, and that’s morethan I’ve ever seen in 4 years.
There is no answer for a 24 hour game mode with varying populations across the 24 hours, there is very little they can also do to affect the skill lag, they put there best foot forward many years ago (and while improved) it didn’t resolve the issue, and its only getting exponentially worse with the ability to stack further boons and numbers on the server. This piece we can pretty much stop complaining about at this point because there is little that can be done with at this point in the games lifecycle without a major rework (and that won’t happen).
We should be happy about this, pot stirring on anets part. It may result in the exact same thing, that they can put minor changes into make drastic impacts (scarily both good and bad) but I’ll remain optimistic because they are ‘thinking’ about how to do things. And that’s the start people have wanted for many years.
Warriors would be Polearms or Great Axe before any other profession. I can’t think of any game that gave the paladin equivalent the GreatAxe before the games warrior class.
Always wanted those, but not holding breath. All ideas so far i’m very supportive of.
Each server has there own guidelines they ‘kinda’ follow. It’s not really a hard rule, but your best to find this on your server’s website.
My tip is to play ranger.
Yeah I know the basis for me to understand how to defeat a profession lies in my knowledge of its weaknesses, which i’d understand more by playing it and feeling the pain so i can exploit it in future. But I only have 1 slot left, and I was hoping to roll an ele again, cause you know ele is fun some days.
I guess I’ll just cringe at those smokescales, pet swaps, and 1500 range and stay away for now.
So ranger is the one class i have never played… and I find fighting them I get varying results. Most challenging thing I have is how to deal with smokescales easier, I know i’m doing something wrong on this, but they seem to be one of the more powerful pets when fighting 1v1 versus a ranger. I find it challenging having to deal with a pet, and the ranger at the same time with only 1 stab I get knocked back, more if he swap to the bull pig more frequently than not. This is from a melee perspective. I have 0 ranged skills, only a gap closer.
Forget OP, I’m asking for tips to improve my gameplay… if he cared, he would have too long ago.
Any tips?
i remember when mystic coins were less than 5 silver each … times change… inflation of almost 1800% over 3 or so years … seems pointless to bother with the legendaries now. They’ve even gone up higher than t6 bloods which used to always be the hottest commodity.
How do i get in on this to become said rich person?
… when you spend more time farming random enemies or pve critters with cannons and balli’s. cause scouts need t6 mats too
… when you purposely do not tick poorly placed siege or normal siege so it will despawn and replace it with superiors
Just curious, what servers have large OCX SEA guilds actively outside of t1, JQ, and SoS?
What was the driving factor for groups from DB to move away from battles? Are there some opponents your hunting for equal level fights?
Tried to find people in LA before … spent lots of wasted time running around aimlessly. Never found anyone, stopped doing it. The income jsut wasn’t feasible for me to sustain habits like that.
504 total points throughout the week
252 points for first place finishes awarded
168 points for second place finishes awarded
84 points for third place finishes awarded
252 is the maximum victory point score a server can accumulate across 1 week, provided they win every 2 hour skirmish
The impact of servers fighting for those points awarded in prime time will be more valuable then ever.
The impact a server has on winning off peak hour match ups is more valuable than ever.
The same issues we have will still exist (little can be done on floating populations across 24 hour periods by Anet, as you will always affect players playing during those time periods). You can think of 252 as a ‘perfect’ week. In reality though, we should see some varied results especially from servers who have populations spread out across the various timezones.
I see this favoring DB and JQ very much, or any in NA for example, who have strong presences outside of NA prime time. Same can be said about EU, with teams playing in their off hours. That’s not the point of putting this system in place though.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out when it starts. Maybe BG tries for server first and goes for 252 perfect week the first week.
Kind of and kind of not… in the new system your max potential is 50% of the total available. In the current system … you can literally paint the entire EBG and all 3 BL’s your colour if night capping, and you get 100% of total war score (points) … the new system caps your maximum potential income to 50% of total points handed out to all parties.
And two hours of work equates to 3 points. Or 2, or 1.
Not 190, 160, 75, 40 every five minutes. So the first place has a total potential of 252 points across the week.
yeah but someone nightcapping for example … takes home about 12 points while your server takes 4 … what if your NA server is strongest during EU coverage… and you win that 8 hour gap… it all levels out.
Instead of having a possible +190 of whatever every 5 minutes, across the 8 hours… it gives you 50% of the total points available(3 of 6). The rest is split between seocnd and third. The outcome will be the same, but slightly closer end result of victory point differential.
I do agree though , it will be interesting to see if teams give up sooner because they know they wont win this 2 hour gap.
I played DBL almost all afternoon yesterday, was fun in their fighting with JOY up at ncamp or coming across the BG [WvW] roaming party at the shrines. A lot of people were playing it t1 NA, props to all those who came out and the commanders who led (this extends to DB and BG).
True … I guess 8 hours equates to what 12 victory points for the winner of 4 × 2 hour time slot skirmishes.
I think assualting higher tier objectives should reward more war score.
Press your Y button… go to Looking for Group … → Open World or World Bosses … join squad … port to map …
say hello to friends. it’s rude not to.
Would love to see War Score erode the longer an objective is held. This would limit income from servers fighting empty BL’s in off hours. regardless of server or time. some have peaks in NA, EU, or OCX, but lack in other areas. Max warscore should be acquired on 3 servers fighting in queued maps.
Well Anet you said the DBL would be around the 29th, and scoring updates a little after that … you delivered … I think most people still picking up there jaws from the floor.
2-3 weeks ago TC hibernated, 4-6 weeks ago BG hibernated. Nothing new to see here, DB plays hard and deserves some downtime too.
I’d say over the past 4 months or so… about 140 ranks, I’ve received 1 ascended armor box, and 2 ascended rings (both garbage condi stats – I main power based), but rings were good for alts i’ll never use, and the chest was knights, which was alright for my roamer.
I doubt they would ever drop a precursor into the mix. I’m okay with treasure atm, too much trash but it fuels enough gold for my daily things I do, and consumables and such.
Severe lag occurs when the engine can’t calculate the amount of math it has to handle in a given radius (boons, condi’s, actions) … this can’t really beaddressed. Even with a top end PC , every now and then you may hit this … where it feels like the server is catching up to communicate with all clients. And you see it on your opponents too, they are not actually doing much outside of running around avoiding red circles, literally unable to do much outside of AA. A good PC helps as much as you can on your end, A good CPU especially with this game (not GPU).
This will not go well as every off week, you will literally be stomping other opponents or losing badly to other opponents depending on what server you are in.
Example.
T1
A vs B vs C
T2
D vs E vs F
T3
G vs H vs I
Week 2 …
Tier 1
A vs D vs G
Tier 2
B vs E vs H
Tier 3
C vs F vs I
In week 2, A, B, and C would literally crush there opponents so badly the opponents would likely fair weather out or ‘play less’ hibernate so to speak … because the match would be so one sided and not enjoyable.
This happened in the tournament where the brackets were broken into gold silver and bronze playing 6 or so opponents each. Some opponents didn’t win a game for the whole tournament.
People complained, stuff happened… bad ideas were left in the past.
Everything is broken, play the way you want… tell others to get bent. It’s a game.
I hate fighting DB sometimes … they just PPT the hell outta some nights and run when on sight of opponents. Then other nights (guessing other commanders) they fight like dogs and it’s fun as hell… but it is hit or miss some days. I guess this goes for all servers. Even mine. But the game is absolutely more engaging and fun when you fight each other, versus running back and forth back capping objectives. That’s just plain boring. Ah well off to PAX I go anyway, have fun this weekend all. MAy the fights be with you.
Core Tyria was far too easy … people wanted harder content …. HoT came out and gave people what they asked for … people changed there minds and wanted it easier. anet nerfs it… now people saying game is too easy again.
Do HoT, it’s much faster going 10 at a time. I generally run my fresh toons through VB and get about 5 of them without any help – and proceed down to Auric basin to get the few around the city. If there’s one that needs help (more players) … before i go to it, I’ll map chat and ask for help about 5 minutes before (and provide closest waypoint link)… then go stand there till one of two show up. You can probably unlock half your elite spec in a couple hours.
Then if I have any proofs of heroics, I go finish it off at the WvW notary.
“No one man should have all that power ….’
Rangers have always been the most OP profession in the game … underwater.
After years of being at the bottom or the last kid picked, let em have there fun in the sun for a bit.
Yeah, some of them are fairly current and updated (will say when last updated)… even have some videos to show gameplay footage to help you.
You can also go to the sub forum for each profession and check out if people are posting there, but as a rule of thumb I tend to start from metabattle (personally).
www.metabattle.com
good base for returning players. Adjust as needed.
I just like the part where the DB platinum guy pm’s him and says he’s hacking.
Could just put a small first letter in black of the colour of the tag, but I feel that makes it more difficult for color blind people. Having to look at the letter and figure what tag your following. Never thought how difficult that could be for someone.
I remember all my friends and I made charr characters once to start and check out that area. There was some NPC bad guy shaman that was literally killing everyone. I mean dead bodies all around the cave and for at least 15 feet, yet people kept going back to fight it … die and respawn.
I’m pretty mad they removed that event. I’m not one to play the “dumbing down the game” card, but it felt that way when that event was nixed.
/sniffleI remember the headstart. He turned it into a slaughter.
Used to be one of my favorite events. To actually have this powerful enemy in such a low level area.
That’s the best description, perfect. Yeah i think it was during that 3 day headstart. It was in fact just a slaughter, bodies strewn about… players going in to help res down players … only to die, and back on release we are talking about hundreds of new players. I’ve never seen anything like that in all my gaming career, it was hilarious, yet addictive. Like a challenge that could not be won, but like the lemmings we are, we were determined to beat it.
Oh my god this is the perfect panel for my family. We all play gw2 together, I got them into gaming early with console first (xbox 360, then wii u) now pc with minecraft until they got the general feel for pc movement/controls, and then into gw2.
Now i gotta try and score some tickets for monday eek gads (was originally planning on leaving sunday when we didn’t see Anet on the scedule)
Achievement hunting is another thing to do when your bored of farming gold for ascended stuff. just be sure you do your time gated stuff each day, and then go tackle some objective. You only have to do them once.
There are exploration achievements (not tied to world completion) that are for each area. Like Kryta explorer and such. These have the areas you need to unlock / discover in about 4 zones per region.
I just thought of something … if OS became a megaserver where you could scrim/gvg … how the hell does that work when everyone is on the same server?
I’m on my 3rd account, but I still play. Took a hiatus when alot of our guild [STUN] broke off to play ESO. I came back because I enjoy the action combat here more, and I like to learn what i can from the good players who still play and lead.
However I think i know what DeceiverX is getting at … and he’s right, many fight guilds left the game. Some stayed but many broke off. I don’t know if perhaps they reformed under new tags, but guilds like EXS, HB (are they still around), Choo, Hymm, VR, KH, Agg, NS, CB … I don’t think any are around. I believe some of the players who still play have reformed with other guilds.
I give major props to guilds like TW, GS, OnS, GoF, and others who are still around and still playing somewhat regularly. Shows there long standing persistence of the guilds.
But there are new guilds who have come up since those long days past.