Guild Wars 2

2014
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Well at least 35 people on Dzag borderland this evening and we still were outmanned.
At least we did not have to pay for repirs when DL wiped us few times at bay, at briar, two times at gari and i dont even remember all those wipes.
Sorry to that solo roaming Dl, but after all those wipes, we wanted blood.

I know it is Tuesday, but congratulations to Drakkars Lake for winning the Bronze League in EU.
Ruins of Surmia, those transfers helped you a lot.
Dzagonur, always a fun to fight you, you are RoF closest enemy.
Blacktide, you gave us hard time with your score. FOr a while it looked like you will be fourth. You still got a chance in those 3 days left.
Arborstome, FoW, WSR and Vabbi, guys you dont have the numbers but still there were nice fights in our matchups.

Thank you all for playing in Season 1, winner is already set but there is no looser as there are onlyservers without number. And that is no lost, just bad luck.

Season 2 has not yet being announced. They even did not say there will be some Season 2.

But because of past info from Anet, they said something when it was almost ready and possible to deploy, i hope we will get this change in new update.

Comamnder system really needs improvement. But there should be more “levels” of commander badge.
1)I would leave commander system as it is now, only make it account bound. Why? Imagine you have 6 alts, all on lvl 80 with full exotic, and you use them for different occasions. Like if I log in and groupd needs mesmer, i just relog, but then commander will logg off and I dont have commander on my lvl 80 full exotic zerg ready mesmer and i need to relog again. While it takes time, this can ruin upcomming attack or defense as people dont see a dorito for a while.

2) Commander suppression – this is really awfull as I was suppressed many times just because i was just writing in chat where to go. This may be a part of a reason why commanders dont want to use ingame chat but rather 3rd party voice communication.

3) Squad UI is really needed with options for commander to invite or kick party members. Also squad members should be vissible on map with same color as commander badge has.

4) that leads to different colours of badges and maybe different icons? I dont want o have 80 colours and 80 symbols, but at least 5 colours and 5 symbols?

5) badge visibility – comamnder can choose if he is visible for everyone on map or only for those in squad- this will make guilds happy

6) squad limit – max 25 people in squad, more people in squad is not good as you would have your screen full of names if there will be some UI

7) commander badge not visible to enemy even in buff/condition bar if commander targeted

8) squad officer is a must

edit: not really to commander system but laso important: fix party ui as you can kick offline players in wvw

Sorry those screenshots are not from yesterday.
Those are just for showing that red names make stain of your screen and you are mostly unable to say numbers. That only watching moving groups is reliable to count them.
I wroted it just for those people posting numbers like we had 25 and you 50+.

And with the buff, i have seen several times that we had queue on our Bl, and still we had outmanned buff. I dont know if that is a bug or what, but truth is that we had 2 major groups on our BL. One from DZ and one from DL.
Really i think outmanned is somehow bugged, but have no proof.

And this is how that group looks stacked.

Piui and yet RoF had most of the day outmanned buff. Even during primetime.

But another thing is how groups look.
And I mean colors. While your allies have different colours. Enemy is just a red splash on screen.
Mostly it just dont corespond about how many enemy is there and how many you see. And also your allies may be behind you so you dont see everyone there, but to enemy it still looks like red splash.
If enemy stack, you have no chance to say if there are 20 or 50 players. Only on screens where enemy is moving oyu can see that.

(DL sorry for that screen,dont want to whine but there is red train of names as a perfect example of the only way how you can see enemy numbers vs stacked group)

Edge of the Mists:
- no PPT, so nothing you will do here will have immediate impact on matchup
- no queues as EOTM will have overflows
- more PvE
-new map design with various parts like deset, floating islands etc.
- only 3 waypoits in each corner(i know there is “emergency” waypoint, but those are near each other)

Well I started this topic because I see only excitement about EOTM, but I dont think it will be that great. At least for lower populated servers where every person is a loss in fight on borderlands.

Yes those servers who can fill all 4 maps will not be touched by this new map. But I can see some troubles for smaller servers. For those servers that have a lot of 15 man guilds fighting in imbalanced matches against 50 man groups.
Those servers are already annoyed by this and EOTM may be escape from this stereotype.
But when more and more groups will go to EOTM, less people will be at borderland and thus they will go to EOTM too.

And dont forget about “fresh” feeling when everybody will want to try this new map. And with overflows that will be possible for everybody.

I am just concerned what this new map WITH OVERFLOW can bring to smaller servers. And what just crossed my mind, is this a test before merging servers? With WvW overflow, that may be possible even with current map cap.

Lately I was thinking about EOTM.
This map is “the solution” for queue and well everything. It is big so people are forced to make smaller groups rather than blobs.

And then I realized that because of this and the fact there will be no queue on EOTM, and that it will have “fresh look”, this map will be more played than regular battlegrounds.
We may see on smaller servers(not T1 and T2) that regular battlegrounds will not have enought people because everybody will go to EOTM for “better fights”

And for the worst, what is the income from EOTM? We know it wont affect PPT. But what will it affect? Because of that fresh look it will be very popular. If EOTM was released year ago, it will not be a problem as people was exploring this game, but now after a year, people have regular maps explored and will move to other map.

And this is what concerns me. I play on smaller server. And I can mostly see guild groups of 15-20 players fighting against blobs. And I was asking myself. Will these guild groups continue fighting and loosing against blobs(with no chance to win) or will they move to other map for “funny” fights?

HoodyMoody I am sorry but really, guildies took me to PvE. Just one day in a week I promise.

And special thanks to DZ guys camping in Obsidian Sanctum @WP and then rushing to arena thinking you kill everyone, you have won Darwin Price.

It is not an issue. I am just flattered by it.

But DL scouts deserve a gold medal from DL players. They are everywhere and they respond quickly.

Transfers before League and during League → Leagues decided by rating before start → servers got lot of transfers last day before league → leagues not balanced

Like look on DL and RoS in bronze league. Look on Underworld in silver league.
If the leagues should be decided by rating today, some of those servers would more higher/down

sword+focus/GS meditation guardian is deadly in 1vs1

Dear Drakkar Lake,

i would like to inform you that we from ALE are flattered that you need so many people to kill our 10 man blob.

Really good scouting Drakkars, your scouts made our attempts on bay,hills and gari to fail. Well at least we tried.

Cya in few hours at reset

Vabbi in EU is probably the last server with small scale. And it is because they dont fight servers with high wvw population like RoS,DZ and DL, even RoF is blobby now, but mainly because we mostly fight blobs from DL and DZ.

I will be glad for reset of wxp points. You should be able to very quickly set your abilities again.

Iason you at least get achivement, I get nothing after killing boss.

It is just bad idea. Even for 5 days. What about those players that dont have tme over weekend? Or just stuck in queue?
If 1st has the most points and is far in front, no way 2nd and 3rd can beat 1st.
You are just mad about your matchup, but you really think that it will help for RoF and wsr, FR and UW, PS and AR, Dzag and Arb, FoW and Vabbi to beat 1st?

I think that focusing on the right target and night capping determine 1st.

No way man. I like this game because of fantastic 3-way fights.
And if 1st attack your keep, 2nd will come and take it back, you are unable to get some points because you cannot attack 2nd?
This way 3rd will never take enought points.

But changing reset from friday to sunday seems good for me.

Defeated player can be rezzed only out of combat. That sounds good.

HoodyMoody : Of course I will duel with you this week. Just not on weekend, i got some RL things to do. But during week I will write you. And I have some new tricks too:-D (new war and guard:-D )

Yes that count Irina, now I need to ge tto their WP and not being stomped by blob.
We tried yesterday to hit WSR bay,gari and hills with smalelr groups hoping that dl blob will be only at one keep at the time. But seems like all pubs in Germany has bancpupted yesterday as every german was playing GW2.

Blooooooooooooooooooob, here comes the blob.

DL got a question. Do you have something called roamers? And I dont mind that 25+ group lurking on camps, but maybe solo players and such? I just ask to know if there is a chance for us roamers to have a fight.

I hope those “serious” wvw guilds will move to high tiers. So that there will be only small scale on low tier servers. We just need every “serious” wvwer and guild to move from rank 10 and below to upper ranks.

That is just not true Tiggy.
We play defense, but against full zerg of dzag and BT on the other keep you cannot play much. I have seen this week so many PvD with 50+ that it hurt me as much as it probably hurt that gate. And yes, the know our week spot and with those numbers they can easily “exploit” it.

To bad we have Blobbar Lake next week. I would rather fight DZ as they dont have numbers of Blobbar, but have higher skill. Much higher skill. Even Ale with 15 people can wipe 30 Blobbars. But against 15 DZ we have a hard time, not to mention that you wont see any 15 dz groups anywhere.

Again, good fights this week guys, thanks for them

Ostra.3927:

Nah it will be Epic loot!

3 spikes!

Glob of Globby Goop

Good job Dzags taking over this fight. At Tuesday we thought we would win this. But then you bring a lot more people for a whole day. It just confuse me, where were your people at Monday and Tuesday?

Yes it really would be nice. But i dont think this is possible.

Celestial is the only way to go for ele right now.
Ele is the only class that benefits from every stat he has because of those 4 attunements.

Reward for season will be big.
Like
- 100 badges of honor
– 5 big jugs of WXP
- full set of soulbound green light armor for guards/warriors, medium for ele/mes/necro and heavy for thief/ranger/engi
– 1ac,1balista,1 ram, 50 trebs and 1 catapult
- 500 bloodstone dust
- SM mini model in your home city

Thats why when Anya used balista at Sunnyhill, all the zerg covered him so balista is not seen in screenshots.

Dzags thanks small scale on your borderland today morning. When we took your gari, when we defended against trebs on Faith, really fun fight near briar before we took it.
For me, these moments are much more fun than 50 vs 50. Defending and attacking max 10 vs10, i love it.

I dont think it will solve PPT. even in Bronze League in EU -Dzag,RoS and DL have enought people to have queue on all maps. So they will have people to manage towers/keeps.

I had another idea: what if tower/keep/camp will give points when captured, then for next hour every 15 minutes (like now) and than every hour for 24 hours and then every 2 hours if one team owns it constantly.

Like that server with the most people will have not so many points from their fully upgraded garison for whole week. Like smaller server will get more points from constant fights over cragtop/longview than the big server from their untouched gari.

Or idea 2:
higher tier or walls=lower points from objective, like you need to choose, want to fully upgrade to have advantage or more points? if you have people to maintain upgrades and defend it,you dont need so many points because you are probably stronger. And if you dont upgrade, you wont hold it for long.

grabemx.9836:

GrandmaFunk.3052:

these complaints are especially funny given how you have to go out of your way to even get to the toxic elements in WvW.

in fact, the ONLY way you’d encounter this content is if you were going to the “PVE” corners in the first place.

This proves that you haven’t done any WvW. Do you even know what it stands for or where it is actually located. I’m sorry Toxic crap around sentry cap points, killing yaks and attacking merc camps is “PVE corners”?

You both are right.
There are those big toxic plants in corners (visible on map) but there are also toxic creatures everywhere.

I like it. That is some good suggestion to outnumbered. I will give outnumbered defenders a smaller chance and wont affect game without outnumbered.
And I think no qq in chat will be because lost outnumbered.

Well that is the problem with PvE players and easy week. They see it like a invitation to complete their achivements.
Its the same on every server. When loosing, nobody will go to wvw. When winning queue on every map.

jeeezus stop whining about blobs. Focus on fights because those promises that RoS will win Bronze League were fake right now.
Even mass transfers did not help RoS as it seems.

Not even Mumble. Also dxtory is not working correct for me without those arguments.
And until last update it was working fine with cmd arguments.

But thank you for idea to delete cache.

I am using mumble and dxtory. These command line arguments allowed me to use those programs while playing game.

But from last update, these arguments block my Trading post completely. I cannot see My Transactions, I cannot bid on any item.

Cache and .dat file recovered.

Running game without cmd arguments works fine ingame but block dxtory and mumble overlay. Running with arguments works fine with dxtory and mumble, but blocks Trading post ingame.

Actually I just found my problem.
I tried deleting cache, but that did not work.

Because I am using mumble overlay with that walkaround i tried to run game without it. And TP worked.

GW2.exe with -username -password -nopatchui is blocking TP

Thanks for help, now i know i need to not use Tp together while playing with friends:-(
At least some solution.

I dont see anything in My Transactions. And I even can buy anything on TP.
I tried several goods to place bid on them. But it did nothing.
Guildie tried to buy something from Tp and for him Tp is Ok, but i cannot use it anymore.

Umpire, actualy most of the time it was 20 people, sometimes small group went to camp for resupply.
There were probably few pugs, but not more than 5 (at least when we called to stack on TS we have seen only 5 people that waited for few seconds and they were not on TS)

There were 4 ACs in one moment, but you killed them with that treb and sup catas. I hope somebody took screenshots, i need to repair my recording for next event so you will see it from our side too.

And yes You wiped us easily while we pushed few times to your catas, then we wiped oyu few times.

And dont forget your group was not the only RoS group at that tower, there were second group of RoS players too. We had outmanned in one moment, that was really strange.

And dont forget that was not a guild group. That was guys from several guilds just called by pm to come 10 minutes before vs guild group.

Did anybody made a screenshot from the tower defence yesterday? I know i did not.

Thanks for the lootbags RoS. That was some epic defense in Redbriar from RoF Community.

Mesmer is used for portals and veils.
Ele is used for fields.
War is the core of group.
Guard is in the core too.
Necro for conditions and boon striping.
Thief for scouting and blast finishers.

Ranger and engi are both the most useless classes in wvw.

Agrios.9071:

?
I mean if was quite obvious that RoF would never win the bronce league.

Oh man, what should i do now? I really believed RoF can win if we will defeat DL and DZ. Now you ruined my life man.
Nooooooooooo

ps. Noooooooooooo

They said something like 1st in each league will have Dolyak finisher or something like that.

Mercenaries were common in human history. And they are in this game too.
But beware of them, they will flipp sides whenever will somebody throw them more money.
In this game it means if somebody is willing to pay them transfer, because i dont suppose there are guilds taking money every week so they stay at one server.

And what is the downside of this? look at RoS. That server is going up again, but when they will be high enought to fight Gandara or AG, they wont have enought people so those guilds transfered there last week before league will go away again. Adn the server will go down again (7 weeks from now. 5 to end league and 2 for matches against Gandara or AG).
And the best thing is, it only needs one bigger guild to transfer, all others will follow them abandoning sinkin ship.

Forum drama. Finally.

ps: I love RoS and FoW roamers, specially that Dex thief today who kitten ed me in redwater camp. Well he kitten ed 3 rof guys actually.