Would be a interesting test but I doubt they will bother to remove one of the core mechanics of the game for a game mode that barely receive attention.
I play a little on every time zones to check how the population is doing.
I’m glad i’m not playing until JQ opens again because of the canons beta.
TC is empty also you should see the other non BG servers from tier 1… and they only on very high because manual server close/open by anet…
Don’t forget the other servers have a link and problably a good deal of the people on WvW are on the guest servers.
So you don’t come complain later when they add somenthing that was result of a poll you didn’t voted.
But yeah, I agree that even with the polling, whatever that get’s poll take months to come. This isn’t the first time. DBL reintroduction for exemple was also super delayed.
No… I voted Yes to actually test them. The actual Trolls here are Arena Net for delivering a bugged piece of siege that ignore decay timers and siege cap while still acting like old objects as not being affected by critical hits and conditions. I really doubt the situation would be this bad if the cannons followed the same rule as regular siege.
The ideal wvw is super ranged siege that can deploy anywhere so that we can all camp in our own spawns shooting siege at eachother across the entire map
There is a cannon that do that at the Statuary in EotM.
I know that people being pulled toward a higher ground sometimes make you go flying and take fall damage if not dying completely in the process. Wasn’t very common before since the only “reliable” pull was Engineer’s Magnet, but now with the Dragonhunter Spears it’s a more common ocurrance these days.
However, the one the OP describe doesn’t seen to be a combat issue, so it’s likely a different problem.
As far as I’m concerned, you are not roaming if you’re not putting yourself at a high level of risk. Which means you’re either solo or with 1 – 2 friends tops, looking for fights against 1 – 6 players/picking at the slow ones in a zerg, and actually taking the risk of being picked apart instead of having enough people that you can just hard res anyone who goes down.
Wasn’t you the guy that said to me that picking off people trying to catch with zergs wasn’t getting fights?
Look Buddy, why dont you add your positive comments about this feature then. If a player finds this to be a negative change, why shouldnt they post about it, how else would the devs know there are problems with it. Ever read reviews for a product you wanted to purchase? You look for patterns, common complaints that people have, not random rants, but patterns. If many people are complaining about the same issues that obviously means there is a problem that needs to be addressed.
My problem with this beta test is how broken this item is that we were given, not that we were given something to test out. My problem is that it is clear no attention whatsoever was paid to how this would effect gameplay. No timer, cannot be effected by conditions, damage too high, not effected by siege cap, supply cost to low imo.
Not to mention the constant threads asking them to overhaul siege not add more broken siege to a broken siege system. And stuff like this just leaves a negative impression for many people regarding the devs priorities.
The problem here is that most people just come and demand everything to be removed without actually pointing the problems. Most, if not all of them are just “Wah Wah Wah, we don’t like cannons! Why you put this? Remove them immediately!” when it should be “Cannons have this, this and that issue that should be adressed”. Post negative idiotic feedback is worse than posting no feedback at all.
So, the cannons have issues that need to be adressed ASAP:
- No Decay timer like other deployable siege.
- Not counting toward local siege cap (5 sieges in 2000 radius) and problably not to the map cap either.
- Not being affected by critical hit or conditions.
And also there is another issue that people are complaining that cannons behind gates completely turned rams useless. While Trebuchets already fill that role, I would suggest an adjustment to make it a bit more fair: Reduce the AoE radius of the Deployable Cannons attacks to the same of the siege disabler. This would allow people to still place rams far in the back to avoid cannons behind gates (Trebuchets still hit anyway) while allowing cannons to punish poorly placed rams.
Look buddy, I’m just tired of people saying “we don’t like this, why you put this?” when there was a poll where the majority voted for the cannons to be tested…
If people feel the cannons are gamebreaking it obviously won’t pass the poll asking if they must remain in game just like the Repair Hammer ones didn’t pass.
2- Is just a bug (i hope is this one). So it needs to be fixed by manual opening server until you find out the cause of bug.
Lol well that’s a new excuse to open BG up.
Yeah I agree let’s open them up and let everyone flood onto BG, I would like to hear complaints about queue times again, while the 23 other servers ignore them.
Pretty sure this thread was made as a mock of the JQQ thread…
This heavily trolled poll, is not an excuse to implement a poorly thought out product. I mean did you guys even use this thing and anticipate what could go wrong? Was there any serious attention paid to the siege cap, the damage, range, supply costs, etc?
Yawn… Because every pool that you don’t like the result was trolled amirite? Just like Repair hammer pool and DBL pool…
Xivor plz, it’s Word in the Borderlands… Keep up with PvF terms.
But yeah, that’s what everyone was saying. It seens the transfer was only about 25 people but still JQ went to full. Either more people heard TW was transfering and jumped on that wagon or JQ off-hour population is bigger than JQ thinks.
Anyway, I hear there are a lot of people who don’t like the idea of staying in JQ along with TW so your server may be open soon once these people jump off the ship.
Actually believe that one was the pve players, ticked off about GoB changes.
Nah… The ticked off PvE players preffer that WvW receive nothing, thus they vote against anything be added to WvW. That’s what one ticket off PvE’er posted anyway…
In your friend list, or guild member, or whatever user list. When you mouse hover on name. You normally get display name and online status
but on some name, It also show Server Name. but some are not
Why?
Can I have it to show server name on everyone? (or just in guild member)
And would be great if it shown which guild they representing (for whom not representing guild)
You can only see the server the person is when it is on WvW or instance (in this case it will be the homeworld of the instance host) and the person have you added back in their friend list. People that you can only see the display name are people that don’t have you added and people on PvE aren’t shown in a server because of Megaservers. Also, for whatever reason, sPvP is always shown as (Anvil Rock) regardless of the server the person belong.
No Condition Damage just needs a condi version of protection, and retaliation. Then condis will not be nearly as easy of a play styles as it is currently.
Your version of Protection is called Resistance (Which is much more powerful mind you as it reduce 100% and not only 33%).
Your version of Retaliation is not needed as people playing condi take retaliation damage when they attack to apply condis.
As long they keep the grub, they can do whatever they want with the mobs… Oh and the veteran for dailies. I need a easy daily for when there is keep capturer…
Well if you want burns then presumable you run a pistol build which reach 100% duration without any condi duration armor/weapons… And if you dont run that, I very much doubt givers weapons have any noticable damage impact over the course of an average fight.
I belive the 50% trait only work for blowtorch… All other burns (Incendiary Ammo/Powder, Flame Thrower skills and maybe Flame Turret & Throw Napalm) are not affected by this trait.
Anyway, I run P/P with Giver’s weapons so I can run Runes of Aristocracy for might stacking with HGH and Golden Dumplings. I could problably drop the weapons if I ran Rare Veggie Pizza, but I would lose 20% boon duration and Mights on crit. Also the weapons give me some HP I don’t have in the rest of the gear.
Only burns tick that high without many stacks… And the builds that apply this much burn are normally the easiest ones to deal with (Burn Guardian and Burn Engineer).
Now if you are letting people put 20+ stacks of a condition on you and don’t clear it right away, that’s entirely on you.
There is no weapon that give enough expertise to be par with Giver Weapons in duration… Even Two-Handed Ascended weapons only have 118 Expertise which is roughly somenthing around 8% condi duration against 20% of a Giver’s weapon. Sure, you lose the condition damage, but you gain a quantity of duration far superior than any weapon.
and lose out on ascended weapon and more raw stats. but yay more condition duration when people are already capping it out without givers !
You can use another rune that give utility over duration. Yay for being able to choose what to use.
There is no weapon that give enough expertise to be par with Giver Weapons in duration… Even Two-Handed Ascended weapons only have 118 Expertise which is roughly somenthing around 8% condi duration against 20% of a Giver’s weapon. Sure, you lose the condition damage, but you gain a quantity of duration far superior than any weapon.
Just because you think it’s advantageous fight them while they are in combat doesn’t change the fact that you KNEW they could rally off NPCs and still CHOSE to engage them anyway. The camp don’t insta flip once all NPCs are dead, you could have waited last NPC die and jump in to fight while they problably still had some skills on CD and fought without any issue.
If you are going to fight along with NPCs then you carry the burden of it.
Good case today was me fighting 1v2 against a guard and reaper in desert borderlands’ NEC. I down the guard and fighting the reaper when an NPC dies and the guard rallies. Now I am low health, fighting off this guard who has full health and his reaper. That should never be the case. I should not have to be worried about dealing with a guardian back at full health who was just in downed state.
You did a “1v2” with NPCs helping you… If there was no guards he wouldn’t rally. You could have waited they had killed all guards prior engaging if you didn’t wanted to deal with that. Again, you chose to fight under NPCs so you carry the burden of it.
Good case today was me fighting 1v2 against a guard and reaper in desert borderlands’ NEC. I down the guard and fighting the reaper when an NPC dies and the guard rallies. Now I am low health, fighting off this guard who has full health and his reaper. That should never be the case. I should not have to be worried about dealing with a guardian back at full health who was just in downed state.
You did a 1v2 with NPCs helping you… If there was no guards he wouldn’t rally. You could have waited they had killed all guards prior engaging if you didn’t wanted to deal with that. Again, you chose to fight under NPCs so you carry the burden of it.
Just because it’s bad doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, which was my point.
Also, while the giver’s armor is weak to boon duration, giver’s weapons are super strong in relation to condi duration (20% lul wut?).
They did remove magic find gear and took it off of censtals at one point i am not sure if there any combos that is like that where they are going to fold it over to something else.
But that happened because they decided that Magic Find wasn’t going to be part of Equipment stats anymore (and indeed they no longer are).
Blunt boon duration and condition duration not part of equipment sets anymore too.
Ever heard of Giver’s gear and Doubloons? Honestly I’m impressed these weren’t converted to their specific stat when Expertise and Concentration were introduced since all Critical Damage sources (from gear) were converted to Ferocity when they made the change.
We actually have ascended backpack… the thing is the npc to get it, its on PVE… get the ember camp and rewards track and grind that path, i got mine in a few ours.
<3 the latest rewards tracks.
Legendary=/=Ascended
They may have the same quantity of stats, but Legendary allow you to change stats at will. Also, it is somenthing you can work towards just like Ad Infinitum and The Ascension.
Trimming it as what? Not rally off anything? Not let people ress you? Any other change to the current downed state pretty much break the whole reason it is there.
Just a random thought but maybe they are looking at adjusting concentration and expertise conversion values. Maybe 15-1% to 20-1%? Possibly a pve/spvp&wvw split?
I doubt there will be a change in that (and shouldn’t). They are just going to change the numbers on traits/skills most likely.
Is rediculous how hard downed state carries too many players.
Couldn’t agree more.
Can’t tell you how many kitten times I’ve been winning an outnumbered fight and lost because I couldn’t get a stomp off in time. Drives me insane when I’m doing well in a 1vX but I end up losing because I can’t safe stomp or because one of them rallies.
I enjoy outnumbered fights but the downed state thing can be a huge hindrance at times.
I don’t think you can really count it doing a 1vX when you were surrounded by allied blind/stun spamming NPCs or in the case of the OP also a Champion tower lord.
People won’t rally off guards if you are not fighting by the guards… Simple as that. If you people are seeking the NPCs help, you’ll have to deal with the mechanics.
OS still get used sometimes when people prepare somenthing beforehand (like the old thursday fight nights some NA tiers used to do). But that’s it.
The problem is: nobody gonna wait in there doing nothing waiting for someone to show up. Thus why the duels end up happening in the WvW maps… Duelers are nothing more than roamers that crossed paths and decided to duel. And others that saw them dueling and decided to have their shots.
If they decided to duel, it mean they have more fun doing it than doing whatever they were doing prior. Why would someone be against others have their fun when they are not hurting the game in any way?
Unfortunely the only place where you are likely to meet up other people with you may duel is WvW. Obsidian sanctum have the arena, but what are the chances that you gonna run into someone there?
“Taking up space”. Hah! That’s the typical argument of people who think “They not running with the blob, they must be kicked”.
As long someone is not griefing with siege/tactivators and other stuff, they are free to do whatever they want… Honestly, you problably have more “afk farmers” than duelers in your map anyway.
They need to find a way to make DBL smaller and less complex.
It is very clear people do not like complicated mechanics and terrain.
The problem is: They already did that, and people still think it’s not enough… Honestly I think people want a plain flat map with nothing but a tower for each team.
