Guild Wars 2

Deceptive Evasion is a nerf for condi mesmer. As a condi mesmer i use DE for destroying clones which will give random condition to enemy.
http://dulfy.net/2014/01/17/gw2-ready-up-skill-and-balance-developer-livestream-notes/

The truth about Ring of Fire:
As the game launched, Ring of Fire was some kind of unofficial spvp server. At least what I have heard.
Later, when spvp was mostly abbandoned, players and guilds decided that they need to work together more.
So the first attempt to create community of guilds was made.
Then some guilds and plyers left and community was abbandoned too.
Next attempt was made by the rest of rof players. And that attempt failed too.

Now why those attempts failed? Mostly because of coverage. As you all know, gw2 is a game of coverage, and if server dont have enought players he cannot compete with “higher ranks”. But we, players from Ring of Fire, have a bit of server pride and we kept fighting and trying.

For now, the last and third attempt for community was made and seems like it is succesfull.

Community now is not only WvW oriented, but also pve oriented.
PvE guilds are trying every week to slay Tequatl, and mostly manage to kill him. Now we are looking forward new world boss as we will try to kill him as the first server. If we succed or not, that depends just on luck.

But WvW part is a little tricky. We have several wvw guilds that were outshined by guilds that already left our server. Guilds like FSS,CC,ita, ARMA,WAR … are really doing great job to keep our server with current rank.

So RoF have a population of great people that manage to hold server with current rank, but what now?
The answer is easy. We want simple thing, and that is to kill our enemies and gain more points than them.

So accomplished this plan we need to get more people to WvW. Everybody here is playing on some server, and knows that getting pve players to wvw and than to join a wvw guild or make some wvw guild, that is very difficult and a long-term goal.
Dont be fooled, we are working on it, but its going really slow.

In past weeks some guilds left our server. TaG and DBG for example.Strong guilds. But you can see the difference those guilds made on our server by browsing this page on Mos millenium that we suffered a loss in points between week 52 and 01, but not major loss.
So overall our Ring of Fire players are doing great job.

But we really need more people, mostly eu night time players, but even eu prime time will be great.

What can we offer?
-friendly guilds in community and out of community
- queue mostly only in prime time on home borderland when it is under massive attack
- community page and teamspeak
-opportunity for your guild to make a huge impact on server, even one guild with 30 wvw players will make a huge impact, more guilds will make our server to boost up with points
- no bandwagoners, mostly all players are originally from RoF, so we cannot do worse than now,just better

You can contact directly our community director Cap Plox, or any other guild leader from community if you are thinking about moving to RoF. And if you do, we will welcome you with cookies and milk.

Guys, did you missed Commander CDI?

I think Kovu you got the point.
Eu looks like this:
19. Fort Ranik 1 466.519
20. Dzagonur 1 320.749
21. Ring of Fire 1 288.119
22. Arborstone 1 236.124

While RoF was ranked 22 4 weeks ago, we were matched against rank 23 and 24. Then Underworld went down from rank 19 to 23.
Until week 52, there were matches DZvs FR vs UW and RoF vs AS vs rank24 server.
From week 52, RoF and UW switched the place but matches are otherwise the same.

I think Anet made a mistake at matchup variations, like instead of 100, they tuned it down to 10.
rof
UW

I dont say I am not happy with fighting FR and DZ. But at least once a time, Anet team should check matchup variations, and if there are steady matches, they should for one week made matchups themselves.

And please dont count T1 here. T1 and T9(T8 in US) are in special position as they have enemy on on one side of scale. Like there is no T0 or T10 so T1 and T9 have limited choices with enemy.

But if you look on those numbers, RoF got difference of 50 points to AS and 200 to FR, but we dont fight AS. It really looks like some flaw in matchup system now or they forget league locks in matchups.

Josh Davis.6015:

Drakh.3128:

aaaand he’s gone.

Not quite!

I’m still getting acclimated to the WvW team, and most recently I’ve been working with the balance team on the livestream we’ll be running tomorrow. (Which you’ll of course be watching, right?)

what livestream?

Hey Josh,
i really wanted to not post this, as you were enlisted to wvw recently.

But:
- game contains bugs and exploits, like problems with party UI, or missing gate at Woodhaven etc.
- in past year players were calling to somehow buff Commander system, it was even discussed in CDI
- new features – EOTM and Account bound WXP
-battle between siege vs blobs, and how havoc squads fit to this

These are just few points what the community would like to know answer.
If Anet, and oyu, want community from WvW to “be happy” again, or at least stop whinning and have hope and faith in gw2 again, please try to find out any single information about these points and share them with community, if possible.

Thank you

naive guy
/15 chars

Sin.4130:

Need for sleep is something different then for example need for job, school etc.

Servers population in one time zone or nearest should be equal enough for fair matches.

Really? Why is your sleep(relax time) more important than my job that allows me to buy gems by cash?

Who are you that you want to dictate conditions i can play with?

Even conditions are just now, every tower/keep/camp will bring you same ammount of points 24/7.
here is a hint for you:
Than whinning on forums about somebody took your tower at night, change job, start sleeping during day and play during night.
You will help your server more than whining on forums.

June/July hopefully

No crafting is the only way but before that you need to farm materials because those are account bound you cannot buy them.

Maybe a switch in minimap allowing you to choose between character centered and free look?
Otherwise minimap wont move when you move.

/age – 1868
/deaths – 662
/kills – 18 432
server – RoF

Yes if you delete all your characters you can transfer with no cost. All your bank items will not be deleted. But beware if you have anything in guild bank, that will be unaccesible on new server.

Keiel i dont know where did you heard it but that would just mean that characters with WXP lvl more than 100 will be downgraded to 100?
So if I have lvl 500 on my guard and the rest of my toons have lvl 50, i will have lvl 100 and my guard will loose 400levels?

That is just crazy and I dont think Anet will do this. otherwise they will make big number of wvw players really angry. It would be much worse than lowering fractals lvl to 30 as you lost only 20 games(20 levels) while they added new fractals.
But wvw ranks dont have any cap, i know guys with rank 700. If those would be lowered to 100,they will just quit this game.

Great fun today on DZ borderland. We were there for like and 1,5 hour but we managed to have nice fights.
Even if we roled over guys at Cliffside, or were rolled over by Hon at garison.
Really fun evening and I look forward to more.

And dont forget that mostly blob needs to build second trebs to take down inner too.
There are only rare places where treb can hit both outer and inner and is not in range of defenders treb.

edit: and i think taking pvd out of this game will in the end make smaller ninja groups more viable.
Now blob just need to steamroll and pvd everything. But if pvd wont be able, more tactics of smaller groups will be needed.
Some guys already doing this. Like 3 separate smaller groups hitting all 3 bay gates forcing enemy to a)spend supply, b)split defenders, c)place siege in a hurry
In the end if one group manage to get inside, it can just clear siege on wall and help other groups to get inside too.
Then again 3inner gates waiting for them.

Taking down fortified wall with 2 trebs takes more time than PvD reinforced gate with 30 man group.

Dayra.7405:

There are already more advanced methods out in the forum.

Namely to weight (multiply score by |players| / |capacity| ) or limit (required garrison, i.e. max score = |players| ) the score by the number of people in WvW. (|player| is the total sum of all players from all three sides)

Really? Anet dont adjust population counter and gem transfer cost on lower tier servers and you think they will implement this or any similiar solution?

Sin.4130:

Yes, ROF makes at last half of thier points at night, no wonder you see it as you wrote.

Against BT maybe, but that only means we have some coverage during night and day. And BT just during day. If you look on our last matchup every day from about 7pm GMT rof started to gain points and morning we lost some points, but not much and mostly we were still leading.
And we are in same situation now with RoS. And also you would probably want to check BT income this week. Very interesting too.

SO back to nightcapping. The only true solution is to get more players to your server. Only way how to do it is lower transfer cost to BT. But how is BT still Very High population even that BT is now T9 server? You should have enought people if you are very high and no nighcapping solution will solve it.

Nighcapping dont ruin balance.
But stacking on servers and “population” ruins it.

Step 1) make an alt and lvl normally throught first map
step 2) complete other races starting maps, you should be like lvl 40 now
step 3) complete all second maps for every race=lvl 60
step 4) go to wvw and join karma train

The first map is boring. It take a while, but you can do it in like 2-3 hours.
Then it gets easier and faster as you will ge always downscaled. Try it sometimes as lvl 40 to go to starter map, you will complete it in like 1 hour or so. Just run from heart to heart, do any event that is active.
First map will give you like 15lvl, other starter maps just like 10lvls. So you can actually go to 50lvl in 2 days.

Poor Australian players. They dont have any server.

I know I am late with this video but i have a RL too you know.

If i remember it right, they will summary all your world experience(not levels) and then give you wxp level based on your total world experience.
By you world xp level, each character will have exp points to spend. Each character will have full points based on accoutn level.
If you have now 2 toons with 20 wxp level each(first 5 levels are different wxp needed!!) your total level will be something like 36. So both toons will have 36 points to spend.
Each time you will gain wxp level,each toon will gain it.

As I have seen in my email. Final test of Edge of the Mists will be January 9th.
So 2014 we will have new map for WvW.

Craftable precursors?
More legendaries?
More masteries?

Last night of this matchup and DZ were still trying. Good to see that.
Thanks DS and SWAT for fun evening. Sorry that we outblobbed you.

Chris Whiteside.6102:

2014 is going to be an amazing year for GW2 and the community!

Chris

Bugs and exploits will be fixed? You will be able to kick offline party members in WvW?

Skullmount well some people are waiting to new matchups. Seems silly making new thread day before reset

I am sorry Breizhgirl you need to go to Dzag gari to have some snacks. Rof randoms are very poor and we can have food only to one group of friends in one moment.
Some french guys know it from the party yesterday on rof bay.

But maybe next week we will have more snacks and cookies as our main chef made new facility in Queensdale.

We will see how fast he can cook.

Dear SWAT,
thank you for visiting rof borderland yesterday evening.
Please accept our appologies that there were no drinks and food prepared for you.

Nextime please send us a note that you will arrive at least 2 hours before so we can prepare brätwurst und bier for each of your member.

Regards from RoF randoms

I dont want this as you cannot ever measure gain for scouts, siege refreshers and such.
EVen commander dont have the best k/d ratio. If you run pugs they will probably be some “fool” in front of you who will kill the last doly first.

Happy New Year guys.

I play WvW for PPT so I am upgrading placing siege and stuff.
Actual ballance is -213gold

And yet Hutch, FR did not have defenders on their own borderland. We almost got bay, but DZ commander thought it will be better to wipe us on south bay.
for the info: we broke north first and 4man party managed to get inside,but without mesmer. Only mesmer inside was one from DZ.
So we build another ram on south and got gate to 50%, with our guys covering inside.
So DZ wiped us, all our guys left the fight and wet to sleep.
Now there were DZ party(like 10) with mesmer inside but with 10 angry French inside on outer wall watching them.
GJ dz really GJ. If you just wait 5 minutes or go to north gate, you could get inside without problems.

Thank you DZ and FR for a really tought evening.
Fight at RoF bay was really exhausting for me, and I think for more players, but it the end it was fun.
Cya on the battlefield other day

World population based on PVE and WvW not pure wvw while it only matters to wvw as you can guest in pve.

How can Ring of Fire be very high? WTH Anet?

Iavra well that is mostly because people are used to group up to fight FR.
It is not about being coward.
But hey when I get to such fight I step away and watch.

Let the flame begin as this probably last matchup topic.
Thx FR and DZ for fun on dz borderland.

And thanks FR blobs on rof for making us laught on TS.

sorry to dissapoint you but As are already sieging camps. Like ballistas and ACs.
I know about upgraded camps on RoF, but sieged? Really? I dont know anybody sieging camps on RoF,just AS.

Devon Carver, June 5 2013
“we will continue to make tweaks to the scoring system to properly reward smart play and to make it possible for a server to prevail over superior numbers with superior tactics.” – no tweaks were done, at least i cannot find them

" introduce new siege weaponry " – does traps count, btw only 2 traps after so many months? You just cannot make another one? It should be easy as you have already 2 traps and can copy&paste it

see here

Colin Johanson, July 18 2013
“New Skill and Traits” – yes we have heals, ok there were some troubles and you will add new skills in 2014, i am ok with that if there wont be another problems which will make you not adding any new skills in 2014

“Players can earn each of these guaranteed reward crafting materials from a variety of content across both PvE and WvW to give players choice in what type of content they enjoy.” – and still those rewards are not even in PvE vs WvW, and mostly because in PvE you just need 5 man party to do even(dungeon/fractal) but in WvW capping T3 keep with 5man party is very difficult

" the replacement for the original WvW orb mechanic in our borderlands maps" – nice job, really, you introduced something that is pointless and forgoten for some time

see original post

1)I cannot find anything about WvW achivements, but I am certain sure they talked about it, and talked about change to WvW achivements in 2013.
2) for some time they stopped adding new masteries, I am still waiting for golem mastery as the only one left
3) FIXING bugs/exploits should be priority, I am always scared when running along Woodhaven and there is no gate!!
Or party kick offline members? Right click in guild windows while in WVW shows only report?

At least Chris is stil active in CDI, but we yet did not see any progress from CDIs like different colors on comamnder or anything. Not even post in forums that it will arrive.
But I am sure that they will introduce more Living story in 2014 and it will have HUGE advertisement and blog post.

So I dont expect Account bound in next 6 months.

stephenthorpe.8143
i was the mesmer,engi and ele. I am trying new builds so if i find oportunity like this, i will try to fight.

But sorry it was FoW mesmer, as he helped you to kill me.
And you beckoned me while you were inside camp right next to supervisor with RI.

Next time i tried to attack you and AS thief at sentry, but you run to camp again.
I understand that some players cannot play well with warrior as he is probably very squishy, but i dont understand why did you beckon. Players dont usualy do that against 1 enemy while hiding between 5 npcs and 1 immortal npc.

Just reminder for warrior from Myr guild. If someone bows to you, i does not mean go to camp and hide between guards or wait for backup.

If it means finishing contect (partyUI,commander system,traps…) and repairing bugs/exploits.
Than WVW will look amazing.

Ring of Fire.
Why? You and few friends really wan to join servers where usual number in zerg is 30-40?
Servers where you dont find fights unless you join your server zerg?

Check Ring of Fire and you would be surprised how fun fights can be on “lower tier” servers.

Ring of Fire,

I am on this server from day 0. First I have’nt play WvW much, but somewhere around January 2013 i started to play only WvW.
Since then I have been a witness of rise and fall of RoF Communities, Alliances. Whatever the name was.

And finally Ring of FIre Community was born in current state. We are not perfect, we dont have coverage to win alone. We still need help from other guilds on our server. But at least we try.
That is more than other guys can say. Because we are not transfering to server with community build by someone else, we are building one ourselves.

Every day, teamwork of Community guilds rise on the sky of WvW. Every you can see how players from different guilds work together as tight as they are with own guildies.
Every day smaller guilds that were always wiped before Community and this cooperation, those smaller guilds started to work together. Now we can hit 5 targets exactly at the same time with at least 10 people on each target.
I know that does not sounds interesting. But imagine what sort of cooperation and communication is needed for this to happen.

In every other topic Join GH,RoS or any other “silver league” server is posted.
I can see why. There are good fights and thanks to big coverage on those servers you will find battles everywhere.
Another reason may be they have great community.

Well that is true. I wont argue with that logic.

But what most of the posters are forgeting is that it will lead to few servers with heavy population with queues and blobs. Yes RoF fought those servers before leagues, and we did well against them. We did not won, we were far behind them, but we gave them hard time in fights. They just won because of coverage.

So you have a choice, join server that is beiing stacked every day as guilds keep transfering there.
Or You can join Ring of Fire.

Servers that has:
-great fights without blobing
- community that is still trying to get better
- players that play on this server from day 1, no bandwagones like other servers got before leagues
- guilds which work together, and alwys trying to get better

What will it bring to you?
- fresh enemies
- really big potential for RoF to go higher

Who are we looking for?
Any guild even with 10 active players that paly mainly during EU night time, morning time or afternoon time.

We are perfect for NA or Oceanic guilds that want great fights. as there are always fights in these times and we lack of people at night. Even 10 players will make a difference. Even one single pug commander will make a difference.

Dont be affraid to join Ring of Fire and dont be afraid that you need to fight to win, not just join stacked server.

Yup that was me, a little asura guardian, i switched to sword/GS but i forgot for one utility skill, otherwise you would have a harder time.
Reflection wall i useless agains d/d thieves. i know that but always forgot to change it.
And dont worry, there is not much people on RoF who will go defend a camp even if they knew they will die.

Arborstone PvP guild, thanks for nice battles yesterday on RoF. I never before had 3 chests while trebbing tower and a plenty of lootbags.

Who was the mesmer i kicked from wall? That is my favourite part:-D

And again: We blobbed this gari, we blobbed this gari on aarborstoooooonee (greeting from Mr. Johnny Cash)

I dont care about refund, yes i spend a lot of money for those 5 doritos i have, but i dont want to spend any more money for the rest on my toons.

Cap is right about ALE, we are running as guild group, sometimes when we find bigger, much bigger groups we ally with someone. Like in the video i posted earlier, the fun with Jd. (and it was really fun, but i still dont know why commander decided to go for rams 3 times)

Btw. As than was a nice attack today around 11am at our bay.
Only one guy form RoF was there, I am glad it was ALE guy, so he managed to call for help, and I called other guilds.
We managed to kill your golem at inner gate, and then we just hunt you dont second time at “repaired” outer gate.
Was a hell of a fight. Thanks for it.

And Jd, ahh i hate those 2 thieves that were roaming our borderland short after 11am today. I was that guardian that killed (with help) you at north camp, than at Bluavale but finally I died at Redwater camp. Thanks for salute, you guys knows that even in battle you should honour your enemy, not jump on them. I like fights against you guys.

“We blobbed this gari, we blobbed this gari on Aaarborstooooneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee”