I Agree too.
I have several alts because in our small guild we dont have one stable WvW party. In stead we always have about 3-4 people groups because of RL.
And one party need ele, one necro, one guard, one thief etc
So I have about 100 ranks combined on my alts and each of them need to have AC mastery (as defending scout mostly i need this to slow attackers on our towers)
So yes, account abilities will be great to even try other abilities.
And reset every new ability is needed. Each month Anet introduce new ability and you need to grind for it.
@Krato you cannot improve gameplay of Pug agains bigger group.
So it is better for pug to go hide to tower/keep. This way, organized group can improve their siege skills:-D
There is no fun agains enemy with double numbers. Or more.
However, if someone said “I used _ skill and at ____ location facing ____, I somehow ended up inside the enemy tower”
Too vague saying somehow. You need to report how you did it. Exactly where is the problem. Like bad line of code or other.
So many guilds quit and more will.
But where you want to go? I like the concept of 3-way fights.
ESO is in very very closed beta. DaoC? No sorry not again. And thats it. No other games I know and i cant find any.
Oh forgot TSW with Fusang. Even worse than GW2
Dear Hugh,
can You please go to server borderland. Does not really matter which one. You there? Ok, go to the center of the map. You will se a little island there.
Ok you there? Please notice this biiiiig place of nothing. Yes in the terms of players killing players, having biiig place full of NPC and only 4 small placed with PvE content is not good.
If You can make this also priority. Better than new siege mastery or so.
And I mean replace NPC in water for something PvP. Like 2 towers in water. Or keep in water. Or 3 supply camps in water.
I don’t see why. It takes time. If the defenders can’t be bothered to intervene, that’s their problem.
It’s no different from leaving a tower undefended. (That can be solo’d too)
I really dont know why but I have a feeling that one guy cannot just run in the bunch on 5 guards and kill them all.
Why there even are sentries? If it is possible to solo camp, all it wants is a little time, it is useless to have those NPCs there. Just take them away.
But what about some difficulty scale?
Sentry – 1 man needed
Camp – at least 3 man team or very very very good 2 man team
tower – at least 5 man team or very very very good 4 man team(not counting siege)
keep – at least 10 man team or very very very good 8 man team (not counting siege)
SM – at least 25 people
And why? My answer is: why not. Those sctructures are meant to be a challenge for groups not individuals.
If not defended 2 guys can easily solo Hills or Bay or even Gari, while it takes some time (one ram throught door). Also defending structures will be easier and attackers will need to have some coordination. And every tower will count. It wont be constant flipping of camps or towers. It will slow WvW a bit and every structure you will get, you will take care of it because it will be meaningfull.
There are sentries for solo, camps should need more people to flip than one.
Any low tier servers is better for solo roam.
Everything in GW2 is random.
SOME lopsided victories and defeats? Look at MOS at matchup history in EU. There are too little balanced matchups. I counted 2 balanced matchup a week. Does it sound balanced?
This week, hopefully there will be at least one balanced matchup. Piken Square vs Desolation vs Kodash. Guys in that matchup, correct me if I am wrong.
If I am, there will be zero balanced matchups.
Not again Anet. Why do you punish us? What we did to you?
Nooo Drakkars again?
Well RoFers, kill them all on sight.
I think it is new department created 5 seconds after Thorn spend all his money for golems:-)
Dear Velocity Corporation,
PWNY is using their loot from your farmers to encourage smaller groups of Independent Pirates. With their donations, we from smaller IPs can have fun with farmer wives while they are on fields protecting them from PWNY.
In about 9 months, you will see grouwn of farmer population, so your economic should rise again and your future is very bright. Looks like there is some ring of fire shining on your future.
Regards
Hule – Population Control Bureau
No system dont work because of RNG. It is so easy.
You have almost all servers stacked between 1000-2000 points of rating.
And RNG will do 200 points or more (Kodash+FSR, YB+DB is actually 400 points difference)
Canno keep anything upgraded = easiser to take woth less people. On low tiers we lack people so this is actually good.
And because on low tiers aren’t as much people as on high ones. We dont get so many loot bags=not so many BoH=buy siege with gold.
Now it is just cheaper.
So I invite this change.
That’s not even close to the truth Hule. The Warp guild is always there, maybe not following you or any other commander, but we’re always contributing. Does anyone else actually walk with yaks on our server?
yes, actually they do. As what i seen for last 4 days on RoF, there are few people walking with dolys. Mostly the same people over and over again.
And just please end this debate here.
It is not for public forum, but rather to internal one. We dont need our enemies to see our weaknesses.
[using hypnosis] dzag and ros guys, there is no text in this post [/using hypnosis]
What? Another reset? Anet please we are happy in current matchup even if we are not winning.
Please please please dont screw next week matchups
With a change of siege bound, this should be reverted.
Because golems are so cheap now in 30 seconds party of 10 can melt throught all doors of fortified keep.
Dear RoFers,
today I was commanding on our bl. Not for the first time,not for the last time. I get some people to TS to designated channel. And guess what? It was perfect.
Guys on TS spoked only when they had something to say. No background noise.
I hope guys on TS were satisfied with my lead. Yeah we wipe Dzag a few times. Even bigger groups. RoFers actually listened to me, stacked when I said, run when I said, used skills when I said. And we were just one perfect group(ok who put those fire fields when I said static?).
So Herr der Friedhoefe, not going to TS you actually harm RoF.
And to those players today on TS. Almost every week day at 7pm Uk time you can find me there again. We can repeat what we did today. Thanks guys you were great.
ps: to that Dzagonur ice elemental with kite. I wanted to give you time to port. You were so cute. But hey, you attacked our tower.
New matchup system is the same as old, just they added RNG number to rating to start matchup.
Breakout is nice, but it took how much?6 months to add 2 npcs (siegerazor and dolyak), which require 10 people, they run to tower and disappear?
Balance on skills is not for WvW. Its for sPvP and PvE. Or they just reduce retaliation by now. Siege balance? Really? Adding bonus dmg to AC is siege balancing?
I dont say they are doing nothing. But pelase read this blog post from January .
PvE:
living story- check
guild missions – check -( tools to allow guilds of all sizes to play- muhahahahaha)
new rewards for PvE – check
WvW:
paid server transfers – check
end of culling – check
new WvW-only abilities and bonuses – check
we’ll add a new motivation to the WvW domain – NOPE
PvP:
matchmaking – check
custom arenas – check
spectators – check
new rewards, or changed – dunno
So PvP got new maps, not mentioned. PvE has living story which is new contect twice a month.
Outside of bug fixing and balancing, WvW got:
- fix for culling, but lag was introduces
- new npcs on each map which start breakout event, those are copy pasted, siegerazor everywhere
- new WvW info window
- new WvW skills, which are not gamechanging, or even they dont bring new people to wvw because they are not new contect. Will you play this game again because elementalist have new trait? or because there is new story? of course because the new story
And what we have not get to this day:
we’ll add a new motivation to the WvW domain that goes beyond the overall weekly score to give more short term reasons to be winning in WvW as well.
No more info, no post about it.
Well not bad, bad for WvW also not good.
And what community wanted from the start of the game:
reason to play WvW, not only points
better grouping
commander improvement
new maps,not clones of one
fix culling – check
At least culling is gone.
You forgot Flame Ram mastery – Increased damage to guards
Lvl 7 is for weapon swapping. Sometimes staff aoe is not the option and is better to have second melee weapon like daggers.
They are small. Zerg from bay can run to hills faster than 2 rams can destroy wooden gate.
Actually, with necro, you just need to be lvl 7 to go into WvW. But on this low lvl stick to groups and you will be fine. Get daggers and staff as second. Use daggers for solo, staff for aoe ranger.
Necro for sure.
Ele and engi got some great AoE, but with current state of retaliation, you will die throwing 2 grenade sets to enemy zerg because of retaliation.
And conditions dont trigger retaliation.
Guardian is not the optimal choice.
If you are in the front, you get killed very fast. In the middle of your zerg,you wont tag many people so you will have little xp nad loot. Guardian does not have ranged aoe (staff aa has little dng and only 600 range). And I know that because I tried to lvl one throught WvW.
But staff ele, mesmer with greatsword, engi with nades, necro with staff, ranger with longbow(skill 5), warrior with bow for aoe. Those are very easy to lvl in wvw.
Because they have powerfull ranged aoe which will tag most of enemy zerg.
For example, with ele casting meteor shower on bridge, i was able to gain 2 lvls in 15 minutes just because Dzags keeps comming on the bridge under hills. It was 2 days ago.
With guard I was killed almost instantly, while having +vit+tough gear on lvl 30 with guard lvl 32.(then i logged to ele)
But grouping with others is a great idea. Make a party of 5, choose weaker server, go taking camps. You get one lvl while capping 2-3 camps, and you can run to skill points and vistas too.
Dear Sceinna,
you know that you get points from keeps/towers/camp not from openfield battles?
That You need to capture some keeps/towers/camp so you wont loose rating and you have smaller chance to have FoW and Vabbi?
You know that golems are now very cheap? And golems are much effective than rams?
So that is an explanation why we are using golems. I know you would rather us to come under cannon fire and just stood there, but hey, we are not your loot bags.
Regards
Player of enemy server
Sadly not for long because this is incredibly even matchup like last one we had against RoS.
So we will know who wins exactly at reset not sooner. Lead server will change every day.
RoF had in last 7 weeks only 2 weeks of fair matchup.. Second week is right now against DZ and RoS.
With fear we are looking to friday reset. We hope to have good matchup again, but less and less people believes in it, looking on other matchups.
Well I dont think RoF is dead. At least what I see this week. Actually I see more cooperation than ever.
Those weeks agains Gandara and MS/Drakk were actually good for us. Many PvE people left WvW. WvWers learned some new tricks from higher tiers.
Yes another week against Gandara or FoW would probably kill us. But unexpected, we got Dzag and Ros. Halelujá
Sorry cant help you. I’ve seen guildtag Soul about a week ago for the first time.
What did he do?
Dear lavra,
WvW is constant battle. it is PvP zone where you cannot be sure that enemy will not kill you on sight. That is why RoF players are not idiots. They just seen red names=enemies, and killed them. If they were afk, dueling, gathering or anything else just doesn’t matter.
And because of that, don’t please call enemies idiots because they killed you.
Regards
Hule, the iamkillingeverythingredisee
Tell me about it. If you see RoF mesmer jumping into fight with 4-10 people. Thats me.
Today I surprised at least 3 groups. It was nice fight on Redvale when RoS tried to cap it, and I was trying to hold as long as I can.
But we were at Surmia this afternoon, many guilds including TaG.
And it was fun. Like those RoS suicide bombers waypointing to bay while there were aoe on bay WP:-D
Also I want cheer that upscaled RoS trying to kill sentry on our BL. Me and few Dzags we watching you and hoping you wont loose. Sadly I had to go, who won?
To Dzag guard on our Bl. Sorry for chasing you for whole map. But we cannot let you flip our norther camps.
Hi Swisstony, I got only one question. Did you and your guild leader realized that what happened to RoF last weeks, can happen to everybod?
I dont know which server you come to, but I hope it was not GH,Gandara,AG,MS,FSR,Arb,FR,BT,Un,DL,Ko,WSR,FoW and Vabbi.
Because each of those servers had bad luck this week. Either they stomp or beiing stomped.
This week we have Dzag and RoS and I can say, reset night was the funniest thing happened in last 4 weeks.
Interesting idea, but how will U force players to leave their servers towards new ones? And how will you make players stay on their old server while many guilds abandoing it?
Only thing bothers me on this matchup. Does any Dzagonur have Precursor in his back? So far none in bags.
Otherwise. Great game guys. Really loved how you wiped us at bay several times.
Now I undestand how SFR can win against Elona.
Well I am glad that somebody elso noticed changes with gem shop too.
RoF in Eu has similar experience.
In last 6 weeks we only fight one week even matchup.
We have enemies with +9 ranks or -7 ranks. Like rank 21 fighting rank 12.
So man i feel with you, we know the trouble you are facing. And I think, Anet just dont care.
Well mainly its problem with matchups not really with pugs.
Be have either very stronger enemy or very weaker. So its not fun and wvwers just dont play as they were used to.
and please L Step, dont talk about main wvweres frustrated. Even those dont come to TS. I know because I am in the small group of wvwers that are on TS. And most of the time, I am there alone.
All we need is some even matchup.
Why? You dont like RoF and Vabbi? Why? :-D
I am looking at new matchup with fear. Will we have +9 ranks of -7 ranks servers against us?
Funny matchup would be Gandara-RoF-Vabbi.
I think the plan will be finishing WvW skills with Flame Ram mastery.
And thats it? Dont like it? Then go to PvE.
Yes, last 6 weeks with crazy matchups either 9 ranks up or 6 7 ranks down can really disapoint people.
But I dont think that they are doing good.
Look, matters where you go. To top tiers? Queue. To rank 10? Blobs. To rank 27? no point.
So RoF on rank 20 is actually not so bad idea and I am glad that whiners go away.
Sure, you are so bored you spend 2 hours running on RoF borderland to ruins our attempts to get at least one tower (sunny or crag, does not matter, you just came for crag 15 minutes later).
But one little question. How big is your guild group?