Oh, they could solve it, but the player base despises the solutions so Anet will keep going with half-measures like linking servers.
No… The only solution Arena Net can have to population imbalance would be closing transfers. And that would please the players but not Arena Net pockets, thus why it won’t happen.
As long your can change teams, nothing Anet do will be able to keep balance.
If you are bothered about guards rallying people don’t let your enemies get to the guards in the first place or let them clear out the guards before you enter the fray. You choose to fight alongside the guards so you will have to deal with the possible rally, just as your enemies have to deal with all the npc skills.
They polled on server links way too early, before the first rotation.
Results would probably be the same now (in favor of linking) but it would probably be a closer vote since people have more of an idea of the negatives of linking.
so much this – way too early to make an educated evaluation. so many hoped on improved linking logic at the time….
Technically they did improved… This 3rd link is much better than the 2nd which was worse than the 1st. There are only two kind of people who I see not liking the links:
- People that play on servers that already had a high population (current host servers)
- People that liked empty maps so they could PvD freely as they did in the dead tiers.
The problem is servers like your they die when link is over and they say ohh server link is fine No server link is not fine anet just need server lock and open those server they need more players. Server link is not the solve.
My current server is one of the Guest servers and likely will always be due it’s low population. My old server was one of the guests who took the short end of the stick for 4 months thanks to it’s fairweather heavy population (RIP Darkhaven). Links didn’t killed neither of them.
Sorry to say but server links are cancerous and they kill now the game , look now alot players moving to EU servers to play because NA servers are boring atm.
Regards.
Funny tho because the majority of the complaints about the links usually come from EU since it was already in a somewhat good state before the links (They had varierity of matches, which we didn’t on NA).
I’m a good scout and give good call outs but I’ve probably been blocked by half the people on my server for spamming the chat once. I don’t appreciate being called a troll when I’m not.
It’s funny how people seen to be able to read the chat to tell we are doing idle chatter but think it’s too hard to see the calls made on it. Honestly, I can see it all on chat with only gold sellers blocked.
I never see inappropriate comments in team chat. Maybe you should report those guys on your server or just block them.
While there are people who post some disgusting things sometimes, I don’t think it’s the case here. I would bet that the OP is one of these guys who says “DON’T USE THE TEAM CHAT FOR IDLE CHATTER” on Team Chat when there are people talking about somenthing else on it. The same kind of people who screams “CLEAR THE COMMS” on TS just because people are chatting. I think these people are more toxic than the said “trolls” in the chat.
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).
I think Anet need to add the suppression to Team Chat. Why is it on Map but not Team? There’s no need for anyone to be talking a lot in there anyway. Too much talk also devalues its purpose which is to be able to make calls to other maps.
Sure, supression would be nice. I wouldn’t have to see a waypoint spammed by some idiot that think we didn’t see it the first time he linked. Nothing annoys me more than see:
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Anyway, I’m so hungry for fight somenthing while running alone that I’m jumping even on full condi broken builds nowadays… If even these are gone, I’ll starve to death.
Condi builds can sacrifice tank for damage. It’s called Viper stats. Condi damage by itself isn’t that strong—as long proper cleanses are taken of course.
God, who runs condi cleanses? 4 years in the game and people still complain about condis.
" Depending on your chosen profession and your role in combat, these changes may require some stat-swapping on your gear."
In other words “please go wild with speculation while we refrain from giving specifics that might lead to any real analysis for decision making.”
You will have your specifics when the patch hits… People that go wild with speculation are just dumb imo. “Wait the patch hits before you go nuts about it” is what i say.
Why don’t you simply block the people spamming things you don’t like?
Block list has a limited size, you know. It is useful, but mostly as a short-term solution only.
Oh I didn’t know that. I don’t go left and right blocking everyone because of some joke like some people do. The only ones in my block list are gold sellers…
I don’t think it’s the removal of stats they meant… I think it was more because of the scalling of some skills changing (specifically heals on druids) that would force druids that intent to be healers to move toward healing gear instead of other setups… This is basically what they did to Tempests some patches ago.
People voted to server links stay… Why is this even being brought up?
What we gonna see next? Another thread asking for Desert BL to be gone?
Yes. You would probably see another thread asking for desert to be removed. You see these polls are cancerous. In mass the community doesnt know what they want and the way ArenaNet delivers polls is simply broken. The global polls in this manner is bad in general and will and does lead to us accepting mechanics that are damaging.
I know Mal. I too wish Arena Net would make it’s own (right) decisions. But they decided to take the poll approach because people felt they were never heard. You cannot blame them for that.
Back on the subject of the thread. I don’t think server links must go. Several servers were extremely unhealthy for WvW experience, giving new players a horrid vision of the game mode.
I know how it is the botton of the barrel and it’s not pretty. I’ve been on Eredon Terrace for 2 years and sometimes we would have roughly 20 people for a reset night. You think new players would stick around when you NEVER find other ally in a suposed “team” game mode? When the outnumbered buff is a permanent feature in your buff bar and the PPT of your server is only from that camp you captured and still on RI thus why it isn’t flipped back yet? No. New players aren’t going to stick around for this. Server links are providing a way for these close-to-death servers to have an “healthy” WvW experience.
People are crying for their communities being killed because of links. I’m not bound to server pride like some people are. If that’s the price to “save” the game mode, I’ll gladly pay it. I like the varierity of being shuffled around and fighting different enemies instead of fighting the same 2 enemies over and over again because my server cannot move a tier due coverage issues. Removing the links would just return us to the stale state of WvW where you would face the same oponents for months unless a major population shift through transfer happened.
I am one of those people who joke in a team chat. I don’t care if someone get kitten with my jokes and block me, I’m not interested in some easily offended carebear either.
However I am also a roamer and I do report stuff that might interest other people.
If you really want to get information out of “trolls” you need to pay the price. The question is: Is it worth it?
If Anet does some profession balancing for WvW I’ll happily put my skills (or lack of them) to test. Until then, I’ll disengange without remorse when encountering one of these “skillful” roaming builds. You want to feed your ego in duels? Go play sPVP.
If people are going to disengage, why engage a fight in the first place?
The only time I get to solo towers is if it’s retaking one of our own.
I still take southern towers in the enemy borderlands by myself quite frequently. Not on NA primetime sure. But T1 is known for having people on every timezone.
The only time I get to solo towers is if it’s Finding fights isn’t an issue because I know where to look for them. And that’s not stalking zergs expecting people to fight me who are probably running builds that aren’t optimized for 1v1’s. If you want cheap wins, go to EOTM and knock people off cliffs.
If by fights you mean thieves (or any other high mobility profession build) that will run the the nearest tower/camp as soon their HP start to drop. Yeah sure, I find plenty of that already… The only “soloers” you’ll find are people that are ready to disengage as soon they start losing. Hell, I even encountered a Norn Reaper other day that was running Snow Leopard Elite… But people actually trying to put their skills to test? Nope. That’s quite a rare sight.
It’s mostly group roaming nowadays anyway… Solo roaming is dead. All that there is are ‘fighters wannabe’ scouts.
Meh, idk about you but I still get to solo towers even at T1. However what I want I hardly find which are people with balls to fight out of their zerg.
You made a horrible, horrible mistake transferring up. As you well know, T4 has got all sorts of people who are afraid of large crowds….
Bruh, I transfered to FC. I didn’t expected Yak’s Bend to skyrocket their way to the top of T1 after ending at bottom of T3.
I mean, we already have the structure of three borderland maps and one free for all map. If we are to expect another map, it is likely to come to replace one of the two remeaining alpines so I expect it is meant to be a borderland map, just like the desert is.
While I would rather just dump the “home borderland” concept and take several different EBG-style maps instead, I know it’s asking for a big change that won’t come.
Meh, idk about you but I still get to solo towers even at T1. However what I want I hardly find which are people with balls to fight out of their zerg.
With the current anomaly events going on in PvE-land, I feel like it is a tease and am getting optimistic that open-world PvP is going to be a thing in this game.
You mean because sometimes you use the item and become hostile? I used that thing several times and never got it off… I haz sads.
WvW-rankup-chests look a bit slim atm compared to the reward tracks though. I would like to see a weaponset/armorskinset that is exclusive for wvw and can drop off the wvw-rankup-chests (higher chance with higher ranks) and small adaptations to the rankup-chests to make them worthwhile (guaranteed rare for example, more sinks for the exclusive rankup materials). If reward tracks have to be toned down for this to be implemented, then I would be fine with that.
WvW already have exclusive Armor and Weapons: The Triumphant Armor and the Hero Weapons (And the Triumphant Hero and Mistforged Weapons who are currently unavaible but already planned to go live someday/somehow).
Rewards shouldn’t be given away for winning matchups because people will just stack in a single server to win… It already happen for a chest with 2 blues and 1 green. What you think will happen if you give 100g away like that?
Rewards for defending walled objectives can be tricky… One can just dump a bit of supply in a damaged wall/gate and get participation for the defense event. This will incentive kittens to waste supplies to get their shineis. Also, they removed reward from yak escorts because of botting remember?
WvW can’t have nice things because people don’t know how to play nice. I’m actually impressed we got reward tracks which already allow afk farming behavior.
The only actual good idea in there is the asking for a vendor to sell ascended stuff in WvW. We already been asking this for ages. Altho crafting ascended currently is cheaper than buying the chests on the fractals even if you buy all the mats (considering the price of the stabilizing matrixes) which lead me to expect that if they ever add the ascended chests it will be super overpriced and likely not worth it.
Isn’t the thread a complaint about GH being always red? I’m just pointing that the weakest server being red is a bad thing, and already said it several times in the past. And now it can be even worse with DBL being red.
Well, I used to say that red shouldn’t be the weaker server exactly because their keep would be constantly trebbed by SMC by the stronger server, but everyone insisted that the fact that the keep can treb smc was a good advantage to the weaker team, so there is no problem in them having 2 of the worst Towers (Anzalias and Mendons) and the worst Supply Camp (Speldan).
I assume you are in Gunnar’s Hold? Unfortunely, your server is 180 rating below the 14th server, which means there is little to no chance of rolling blue (full 0 for green).
