Guild Wars 2

Anya he is right, RoF can populate multiple zergs. If TaG is counted as zerg, CC as zerg, FR pve event as zerg, 15 ALE as zerg, 10 kitten as terg, AZZL as zerg. ita as zerg….

It all 10-20 man groups, but sometimes they run together so it looks like we have zergs everywhere.

ALE started raid on FoW borderland first.
We had fun with Jd but then Arborstone joined so we moved to Arborstone, thanks for nice Saturday fun guild raid, but alone we were disadvantaged,
so ALE joined Drunken night raid to attack Hills.

After ALE went to bed, little guardian Enemy Zerg joined Saturday Drunken Night with RoF Community

@Frans ok, but for example. my original guild had 120 members at start.
In March only 15 guildies logged in. Its 105 players that did not logged in after 02/13
And they are already on other game.

If you take this to extreme:
10 000 players per server makes server Very high. But 9 000 players did not logged in more than 6 months.
Should they be counted to server population? You said yes they should, but then only 1000 players are really playing on that server. And that would normally make that server very low population.

Is it intended by Anet so players will not see real status of this game, or to get more gems from players thus more real money?
There is no other explanations. If they would care, they will not count accounts dead for more than 3 months.

What a night that was. First ALE went to FoW borderland, and we had really good fights agains Jd+pugs. Guys you were tought.
But then Arborstone blob joined the party and ALE decided to move. To Arborstone:-D

And then we collect lootbags at Greenlake. Big numbers of lootbags.
Thanks guys for fun night

One of the last topics on this forum.

Gl and fight fair guys.
Cya on the battlefield

New item in gem shop that will bring in game basic functionality?
Anet should add it by making new recipe not item in gem shop.

Its like you can create lvl 1 character and if you buy item in gem shop, you can advance to lvl 2.

If you are ingame for about a month, you probably have one toon. Now delete him, and change server to other where your friends are.
Create new character there and you will be happy.

Renny.6571:

Free transfers to low/medium population servers. Increase wxp for everything by x%, but divide by the number of participants capping an objective/killing a player. Boom solved.

Low/medium servers? There are very high population servers in T6 and T7 and T8 in EU.
Why? Because Anet seems like count dead accounts too.
Those servers that needs free transfers wont get them. I think Piken had free transfers before league and it is T1 server.

Luna.9640:

Dude i want MU to be same like The League Season and NOT Pre-Season.

In league season 1 Piken played against – Baruch bay,Riverside,Kodash,Augury Rock,Elona reach and Jase sea but past 5 WEEKS we play against Vizunah and SFR ONLY.

I want to be able to play again against all other servers who was in gold league not only Vizunah and SFR for 5 weeks.

Really please read before posting because in all of my post I’m giving example of league season.

Dude you must realize that League Season 1 ended 14 days ago. Not 5 weeks.
So you fought SFR and Vizu in Season 1.
Then 1 matchup after Season 1.
Then Anet tweaked MU and you are in current matchup.

So it is only 2 weeks after League Season 1, and only 1 matchup (current one) is decided by adjusted MU.

You need to stop QQ and wait at least couple of weeks.

DivineBeing.2086:

You are completely over exaggerating though.

Lets get the facts:
You want more variety like before league. Because what they did they used same system like before leagues and changed variety from 200 to 100. And this is only for last one matchup, so we have experience only for 1 reset.
But with previous system with variety 200 we have a lot of experience like:
week 39:
3. Piken Square 363 609
14. Gunnar’s Hold 127 566
11. Abaddon’s Mouth 161 280

week 38
6. Jade Sea 189 101
5. Elona Reach 185 804
3. Piken Square 319 469

and go on to the past of Piken

Now lets face FIRST week on adjusted glicko (or what is the name)
2. Vizunah Square 158 821
1. Seafarer’s Rest 174 416
3. Piken Square 145 171

Now pure numbers are explaining why OP wants to revert matchmaking system to pre-season.

DivineBeing.2086:

We aren’t proposing the #1 tier 1 server fights a tier 5 server.

I dont see any other explanation. OP liked to fight 13 ranks lower server . Even against 2 ranks lower server, Pikens got almost same numbers like both lower servers together. (piken vs JS and ER).

So please wait at least few weeks, until you want to change this system again. After only one matchup?

Yes i know it is not good idea, but on the other hand you want to destabilise other tiers than T1.
You want more variety for T1 and it does not matter if T2-T8 will have really bad matchups (look on FR).

You can find great battles in fighting lower tiers, I for example loved being stomped by FR because it was fun fighting them, but after 3 weeks it really got boring.

And dont forget many people transfered to T1 because of easy loot and that “lower tiers are dead”

And dont forget the problem with RNG.
There is RNG for + and – numbers.
While if all 3 T1 servers get +number, the will fight themselves.
It is because they are the top of servers, look for example on other fights this week:
ranks: 6vs12vs1, 8vs15vs9, 10vs16vs14, 13vs18vs19, 17vs20vs21

As it looks the solutions is simple: transfer outside T1
I know it is bad solution as “you dont want to leave your server” but hey you are limited from one side to get opponents. You dont have any opponents better than Vizu and SFR. Go to like Tier 4 or 5 and you will get plenty of random matchups.

I know bad advice but it is the only advice that is good for servers outside T1. Why?
-adjusting glicko to more variety will result in much more blowouts in outher tiers
-T1 servers will just have more opportunity to stomp lower tier servers like week 37= SFR stomping both Kodash and desolation=not fun for Kodash and Desolation

Solution is easy: stop fighting
then you wil ldrop tier and enjoy fighting other servers.
But glicko is in place for last 2 matchups. I would give it a chance for at least 5 matchups.
Kodash now have almost the same points as you so at friday reset Piken may fight Elona and Jade sea

When outnumbered on our borderland, we know we will die. But that i just so positive. Because we dont need to pay repairs, we just engage all fights, even those where we are heavily outnumbered, just to bash at least one enemy head.
It is fun for us, trolling 50 enemies with 15 guildies, trying to survive as long as we can and maybe to kill some enemy and just to hold them for a second or two.
But we enjoy it every time.

Anet said that there will be no updates until LS season 1 is finished. At least there will be no update until 21th January. Maybe they talked about major updates, but this change may be in column “place it asap”
Time window in this case is somewhere between 1 month-6 months

So what you are saying, you want to fight servers from Silver league so you can just dominate battlegrounds?
Or do you have at least some even fights?
Because t1 seems balanced for me.

At least I fight in wvw to have great fights not for easy wins. For easy wins your whole guild can just transfer to T7 or T8.

What? Storm?
I am jealous, we get almost nothing from that fight. I got part of it recorded, but after 10 minutes on ground it was no more funny for me so I dint have final part of fight recorded.

Yeah TaG blobs, everybody knows it.

And thanks AS guys for yesterday fun on your borderland.

Phoenix.3416:

The problem is we are in sort of a unique situation because we are stuck as very high but we never had much of a wvw community in the first place, we are the only very high server to really be suffering

No you are not. RoF is in same situation from day1.
And we are suffering much more,because we have even less wvw population than you. At least we had before leagues. Now, we just need to meet in battle to know it.

Sin.4130:

Man, I had a tones of videos when you hiding and camping from keeps, running in 50+ blob, rush from keeps portals and when half of your blob is dead u run back to portal. RoF has one decent guild -[TaG], rest is just pug power, and only due high night activity you can barely beat AR.

On reset, when we have got strong crew, we crushed you, face it like a man. This vid is just a small part of our farm on you from that evening.

I demand appology, that is simply not true.

1) hit and run throught tower/keep portal is legitimate tactics which ALE is using all the time. Mostly because we are outnumbered and that is the only way how to defend.

2) from history: reset night RoF leads, sunday morning 01:30-11am AS night and morning crew takes lead. Yes today RoF night crew takes the most points, but weekend is strong in AS.
Whole Saturday until 01:30 am on SUnday, RoF was leading, so what crushing you are talking about? You mean those few fights where your guild group wiped rof pugs?

3) TaG is good, Tag is great, but RoF have more guilds than that. Bacuse they fight in group of 15-25 people, you dont see them. You probably fight only 40+ fights.
Guilds like BDG,CC,FR,DotD and others. They do the boring job of defending and upgrading because they dont have numbers to fight 40+
But still sometimes they give a hell of fight, like DBG on Friday and Saturday evenings. Or CC whole weekend.

I had some pretty good fights last week. i won’t complain.

Every system have flaws, and in every system if there is a big gap between third and fourth you can either match only 1 and 2 adn 3 server where they may be even, or place some weaker servers there. That will make bad week for weaker server.
Opposite is on the other side of rooster. You may place anyone against last 3 servers, but those will not be able to defend themselves as they dont have enought people.

But this adjustement Anet did is probably the best solution. Maybe more adjusting will there be in the future but i hope there wont be needed so big one.
Like it was 200points, now its half.
If I understand GLIKO system, it will means that you wont be matched agains +6 or -6 servers or maybe more in some matchups like before league, but rather +3 and -3 servers, maybe +6 and -6 if two servers will have bad luck with RNG.
(higher server got high random roll with – , and lower server high roll with + )

So lets wait few weeks and we will see how it works. But Anet should not wait another year to adjust it again if needed.

Deli depends on server. On lower population servers only weekly as nobody have 80 man zerg.
But I have seen many 10 vs 20 where 10 man group won.

Simply NO.
Some people have real life, you know.
Some people cannot play for 2-3 days in a week because of work/family.
I know several people that play only during week but do not play during weekend as they spend time with kids.

This change may solve bad matchups.
Before league ythere was variation about +6 and -6 in ratings.
Now it should be +3 and -3. So less variety of servers but not same servers all the time thanks to RNG.
Yes you may face one server two weeks, but mostly there should not be same 3 servers in matchup for 2 weeks. At least one server will be different. And it does not mean that server needs to be one rank up or one rank down. It may be server 4 ranks up or 3 ranks down.

please make one of those vendors in Garrison to sell Obsidian Shards for Badges of Honor.

So that WvW players dont need to delete Bloodstone dust and empyreals but can craft bricks.

I just mind that Obsidian shard merchant in Orr, as WvW player i got abount 2millions of karma and I would like to spend it to get rid of that bloodstone dust …
I think some mechant with Obsidian Shard in WvW maybe as upgrade in keeps(gari only maybe) selling them for BoH will be great.

MegaManExpert I send it on Sunday too, and today I got email with info that Submited aplication was taken to database, but thatdoes not mean access to beta.

Nope only stability and teleport can go throught warding.
At least what I have seen so far.

I dont like the change to Symbol of swiftness.
In stead of buffing mesmer, the last character without perma-swiftnes, they just took guardina dont do mesmers level.

Guardian and mesemer are now 2 guys without perma swiftness and just feel so slow.

I would just like to see speed boost to hammer #5
it is so slow

What Tuesday? You mean in May or October?

What about moving all dat files into test folder and make repair install in test installation?
Still waiting for my access co i cannot test it.

I only missed some WvW reward. Like Badges or siege.
i got 2 blues,1 green, mini dolyak,Wxp flask, ascended material(like I ever use it in wvw), 7 lvl scrolls and few skill point scrolls.

It really seems like PvE reward than WvW. No badges,no siege.

Dear ArenaNet,
Does this
“Due to the size and scope of the final four story releases in season one, the next round of major features will be bundled together into a large “feature only” release that will come after the first season of the Living World 2014 has finished. Once the story has completed, we’ll go into much greater detail on what’s to follow, but for now we want to focus on making sure our last four episodes shine.”

means that account bound ranks will not come earlier than in March 2014.
But probably later because you want to share details after Season 1 of LS ends (March 2014)?

Thank you for answer

I play this game for fun. I try to play this game every day, but got about 1-2hours a day only.
One of my alts is elementalist.

When Celestial Exotic ws introduced, i wanted to try it on my elementalist at it seems perfect for my playstyle with this toon.

But then I logged into game, guildies were trying to make a group for WvW and I joined them. I just forgot to go to bank to withdraw Quartz, then go to Place of power and change Quartz for Charged ones. But we had so much fun there in WvW.

Next day when I logged in, guildies want to go to dungeon. Again I forget to go to bank,then to Place of power, but in that dungeon it was fun.

Third day…..

Until now I was not able to made single Celestial Exotic for my Elementalist because going to bank, then to Place of power.

I have rings from Fractals, as they were quite fun in party, I have amulet bought by Commendations as Guild missions are fun with good guild, I even have earings bought by Badges as i do WvW on daily basics.

Ascended weapons were introduces.
Wow so much gold to craft to 500.
What? It is time gated? Ok, ill just wait adn buy some on TP.
What it is Account bound?

So no Ascended for me as I have several alts and i upgrade keeps/towers in WvW so I am low on money all the time. I have maybe 40gold, but with those prices? Or spend time relogging and farming mats instead of spending time with friends in dungeons/wvw/fractals ?

And now Ascended armor was introduced on same principles as Ascended weapons.

So I say: screw ascended, i want to play this game with friends, not without them. I want to go to dungeon with 4 guildies than to Orr to get some Orichalcum.

But I just hope, there wont be more time-gated weapons/armor in this game, as the difference between exotic and Ascended might be like 5-6% but what abount next tier of weapons/armor?
In 1 year Anet added one new tier of weapons/armor. We have another year in front, will we see new time-gated armor or weapons?

It is not that Elementalist will miss Cleansing wave but the rest of the group will miss it as they will dodge back to regroup and blast heals, but guy with elementalist taht is not on TS will not know to dodge back and his cleansing wave might be the difference the group needs. And often there are people so low on healt that 2k heal make them live long enought that their own heal is out of CD.

I did not say anything about openfield, but rarely i found in open field group with exact numbers as we are(yes we stack before, talk with enemy let them count their numbers, we count ours and if one group is missing some people that we dont fight)

And if you seen my video, 9 people were standing and trying to defend tower with help of TS, we hardly get inside, and we succeded defending it.
This is not rare inGW2, but possible only with TS as that group defending needs to work tight, not writing in chat.

Gwalchgwn.1659:

At least two European guilds from Ring of Fire was invited too.

Yep, i send it back at Sunday, hopefully we will get in soon.

I can imagine how ascended is important in small scale fights. There really every 1k HP matters.

Jeydra.4386:

What makes you think people are unable to double dodge or push without TS? Double dodging is a matter of common sense; pushing is a matter of following the blue tag. It’s not hard.

Oh double dodge is a matter of common sense, but the timing is not.
You have an ele in your party right? He has trait that dodge will cast Cleansing wave.
Ok, so ele will double dodge that your common sense will double dodge too but thanks to it he will miss cleansing wave. Or Guards healing.
Yes it is not so hard without TS when you outnumber enemy, but try it when you are outnumbered. That is just a different story and TS will sometimes help you win.

Sunday fun on RoF

Parktou.4263:

Go back to your horde Zergling, being in TS isn’t going to make you and your friends/guildies/randoms any smarter or better at the game. What you want, isn’t going to come to fruition, period. I for one have tried getting in TS with people and absolutely hated all the kitten talking, if I wanted to listen to nonsense I’d turn on some kitten Miley Cyrus……

Well you just get on TS with wrong people.
This is not possible without TS because commander cannot stop in middle of fight and write “double dodge” or “push”

On RoF we have really good community on TS. Yes you can find 2-3 people that are not so great to listen to, but you always may mute them.

Last day on Dzag

Sorry for being late, but had some work this week.
Thanks for all DZ that are in this video.

Zero – i play for fun so i dont bother with craft.
Ill rather buy it when i get enought money from loot in WvW=never

UnrepentantProcrastinator.7420:

kitten son, I’d be happy with a single piece of ascended anything.

Like a Ascended ring Seal of the Khan-Ur with +prec + tough + condi + healing on power mesmer?
I just call this ring Useless

TS takes away a bit of anonimity in game. People will hear your voice so most of the people will not be so qq like in map chat.

Swamurabi put here great example on TS coordination.

I have other one:
We were outnumbered and trying to defend a tower. We made it inside, 10 players, while tower was being attack by 30 enemies.
Another 5 players joined us in game but not on TS. But we advertise TS in map chat that those players should joined us.

We stacked behind portal, buffed up, and on my mark we moved through and start killing enemy. On my next word we moved back to tower while 3 our eles were finishing those downed enemies at gate by meteor shower.
Water field, blasts, buffing #2 and run out again.
We made 3 these raids through portal and then all enemies were killed.

result:
1 raid – all our player that were not on TS with died because they stayed out too long as they did not hear order to retreat into tower
2raid – 2 guys dies as they were heading to kill rams, they managed to get those rams to 10% and our eles finally killed rams
3 raid – we managed to finally kill all enemies

Another example?
Yesterday afternoon RoF border, we heard that SM is under attack and outer is down. Few people that were on TS(like 10-15 if i remember) moved to EB, Sheepie from TaG put his commander on and started to lead us to defend SM.
There were Arborstone players trying to get in, and also Blacktide players trying to get in.
North and south gates were down, they even broke north inner. We managed to get in SM in time and we managed to defend SM sucesfully.
Without TS, we would not be able to do that as they were 2 big groups trying to kil us, and there was really a huge mess in SM. But with help of TS, our commander did not need to stop and start writing orders. He just say those orders while he was killing enemies or trying to repair gates.

And this is how TS is helpfull. Without TS we would not be able to do this. And this is why I am still using teamspeak everyday talking with those great people there.

I miss Dzago and DL because they we posting on these forums.:-)
But AS and BT has some good roamers. Hard to predict your movement guys, so please change your plans and then continue directly on the line camp-sentry-camp
Thank you

Lately I see many upscaled rangers.

Piui i must say it is nice to work with you. I posted that screen and you took more people to coffee shop.
Thanks DZ and DL for a wonderfull evening on DZ borderland.

Piui.4081:

hmmm… we took a coffee-break for the rest of the week as it is sure now that we cant lose anymore ^^

Wierd coffee-break.
Really DL? Last night in matchup? You should just pull out similiar numbers as DZ and RoF, you dont need to bring whole wehrmacht.