SOS is almost a dead server why its been link to a more dead server , this is a useless move done by ANET ,better make sos a host server since it cant compete to any servers.
If you think EBay is more dead than IoJ you need to rethink your concept of “Dead Server”. Besides, SoS is ahead of NSP in Tier 3. How a server that isn’t even losing their match (which isn’t the last tier) “cannot compete with anyone”?
Guilds are only temporary if the players let them be temporary… I have guildies who play with me since we started playing World of Warcraft back in 2005.
Conditions might not last as long if they cleanse you say? Power might not hurt as much if they dodged…
Conditions can also be dodged and never applied in the first place just like direct damage can be dodged. However you cannot cleanse direct damage because it’s instant and not over time like conditions are.
So I’m really not seeing the issue about this damage reduction food nonsense, seems balanced to me. Starting to think OP might sit on openfield cannon siege with Seaweed food.
Honestly, I think we should be given more options than just the Seaweed Salad but I agree there is nothing imbalanced since there is already another food to counter it.
lol there’s gonna be an awful lot of increased forum activity if they do the one up one down from NA players. Simply because of the cliff-like population disparities.
Don’t you guys remember the swiss tournament? So much complaining.
Indeed. But the majority is interested in the reward changes first so far, which is good as we can start focusing in winning the skirmishes we play on instead of worrying with the week as a whole. Also it might mean we’ll finally receive the new way to obtain the Mistforged Hero Weapons and the Triumphant Hero Armor they have talked about before.
I don’t get how Rare Veggie Pizzas are ok but not damage reduction food. Isn’t this game favoring condition builds enough already?
Condition duration end up being useless if the conditions get cleansed before their full duration is reached. Besides, there are already counter food for condition duration such as:
Bow of Lemongrass Poultry Soup
-20% Condition duration
+70 Vitality
or
Loaf of Saffron Bread
Incoming damage reduced by 20% while stunned, knocked down, or knocked back.
-20% Condition duration
If winning match ups and skirmishes all over a sudden matters in terms of rewards, linking needs to go since it’s gamebreaking.
Look at this week
No server without a link is able to win a match up against linked servers since coverage is still everything.
Blackgate have no link and is winning T1 against Maguuma+Eredon Terrace and Fort Aspenwood+Sanctum of Rall.
Tarnished Coast have no link and is winning T2 matchup against Jade Quarry and Yak’s Bend+Anvil Rock. Keep in mind that JQ have no link and is also ahead of YB+AR.
Your argument about “servers without links cannot win” is flawed.
Please remove Gift of Battle from the WVW reward track. The PVE folks are not liking it their as they just don’t want to do WVW events or PVP. Please find a way so that it can be universal across all the boards. In this manner PVP, WVW and PVE can all achieve this award to create legendaries, etc.
If they give WvW players a way to get Gift of Exploration through WvW-only sure, why not?
Sorry but all of you low tier people that are matched up with Higher Populations Servers need to learn to fight properly in WvW. It is not your fault to you a Zerg is 15-20. To us a Zerg is at least 50+. You (for the most part) are unwilling to learn proper techniques.
You do not get into TS even though invited to do so. You run kitten builds and can not fight . Therefore you bring down the server your paired with. If you were willing to learn proper fighting techniques, and learn to run proper builds everyone experience would be so much better! But until these lower tier servers learn this stuff, they need not be linked with higher population servers.
Sorry but my T4 guild been killing T1 players fine during our last pairing while we were at YB, thank you. Most of the times our group died was because the enemy heavily outnumbered us. There isn’t more skill in the higher tiers, there is only more people.
Every server have people who run bad builds and don’t want to be in TS. Saying it’s a lower-tier-only problem is ridiculous. If “fighting properly” is bringing more people, yeah we won’t “fight properly” because we don’t enjoy it. We never asked to be linked to T1/T2 anyway.
Also, if links hurt so much the high tier server, why they tank so hard to get a link when the relinking is close? (The only servers that didn’t try to tank for a link were BG and Mag) Either the higher tiers do not agree with you or they just want more people > skill, which is clearly what the higher tiers are about.
Not only that but I am getting pulled through gates now.
Is that from the mesmer focus pull? Or something else?
I’ve been pulled through the gate by Dragonhunter spears quite a few times if they hit me while I’m getting inside. That to not mention when you get pulled, tossed in the air and die from fall damage… Dragonhunter pull have so many bugs.
At least now, we are guaranteed activity and coverage. If you don’t want blobs, stay out of EBG. My server last link was hosted by NSP and we were in T2 for a week…didn’t see all that many blobs when I played. Was still able to solo cap camps like always.
Honestly, i feel the people crying about blobs are actually crying that they cannot solo cap an entire map without resistance anymore because it’s not dead T8. Sure, it’s easier to get yourself in a outnumbered situation because there are a lot more people running around, but it’s much better than running in a map for 1 hour and not find a single player.
Those who are dismissing server pride aren’t looking at longterm. You buy the game because it entertains. You stay because of the community.
If people really stayed in certain game because of the community, things like FPS or MOBA (who have extremely toxic communities) would have died long ago.
People stay in the game because they still have fun playing it. Not because of it’s community.
Anet. Sorry if this is not positive. But your linking systems stinks. Please remove it ASAP. Let servers stand alone.
Would you elaborate why or you are just hating for the sake of hate? I would like to hear why you think that a system that actually breathe some life in servers that had empty maps most of the time is so bad.
At 2:35:00 on that video we even cap a north yaks tower without siege hoping to get a fight. Wile yaksbend uses 30 catapults and if we go there to fight they runaway.
Overstacked? We were just 20 …
Your server have a link?
No. You must be overstacked.
/thread
You forgot to mention it’s the only server labelled as “Full” besides BG.
No JQ yesterday didn’t even capped YAKs garrison for 2 hours and half go watch last KEK stream on twitch. They could cap it right away but they stay there on inner for 2 hours and half just killing the Yaksbend who were trying to save it wile JQ and TC were there just for the kills, they didnt even care about killing the lord. You are delusional we just care about KDR
And what do this have to do with my post?
I was responding to the dude that said PPT is all that it takes to win the game and I’ve pointed that the “PPT focused server” isn’t even winning the matchup. The only way his argument would be true would be if JQ/TC, who currently are far ahead of YB, were PPT machines like everyone say YB is. I’m saying it’s not the case, but you’re on JQ, so you can tell me if you server is a PPT machine or not yourself.
Here is a simple/short version for you: Either you agree with me or JQ is a PPT machine worse than YB.
thats the problem with this game mode ppt wins the game not fighting.
You argument sound pretty silly when YB, the server everyone say to only PPT and never fight, is losing their current matchup and being projected to lose ~47 rating while dropping from 4th to 7th. Maybe PPT isn’t all that matter after all, or TC/JQ are much more PPT focused than YB.
Pretty sure the reason of my post is clear: To know why this thead even came up.
Now, if you could actually answer my question, please do so, as I have answered the one you said you could do to me.
I have absolutely 0 issues with changing allies/enemies about times to time. I like to have contact with different people. I like to have an populated WvW enviroment oposed to the deserted borderlands (Empty, not DBL) we had before.
You people just seen to hate to be in contact with players from other communities and use the excuse of server pride to hide behind it…
I mean the nerfs always feel hardest on the class that you main. I could put up a list of nerfs to the other classes after HoT that are about the same length
Guardian and Warrior please. I want to see if you really can.
“Let the players go back to determining what level of activity they want.”
Sure, so we go back to the kitten state we had before. Great Idea.
Putting decisions in the hand of the players already proved to be bad. That’s exactly why there is so much crying about the poll results everytime it turns out to be what they didn’t wanted.
The problem is: depending on what you want to have increased cd’s on the mesmer, you’ll basically killing other mesmer builds just because of a single build that all it can do is 1v1.
A single build that can kill anyone isnt a problem? So anyone roaming should just teleport to wp on sight or log off right away.
It can’t kill anyone… You are exagerating. The day I see a condi mesmer kill my warrior in a 1v1 I’ll just uninstall this game. Hell, condi mesmer can’t even beat my power mesmer in a 1v1 unless I decide to go all-in instead of playing carefully.
Also the game never was balanced for 1v1. It’s balanced around group play (or at least pretend to be). So it’s silly people crying about a build that only does that. And I don’t want to see Mesmer destroyed because of that.
I don’t know why you are bothered when they problably aren’t even reading the NA thread anyway… You would just see a lot of playing going “yadda, yadda” about links but the people you want to listen would be silent, as they always are.
The drop rates from the reward tracks seem decent to me. I haven’t done fractals for years so I wouldn’t know if it’s better there or not. I’ve gotten several ascended rings and ascended armor/weapon chests from random loot boxes in the dungeon tracks, the maguuma tracks and the triumphant armor track. The loot boxes from the new bloodstone fen and ember bay tracks haven’t given me anything decent, so maybe only a few tracks have boxes with good drop rates.
Just because they drop doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be a way to buy them. You can now buy Ascended Boxes with Stabilizing Matrixes + Gold in the fractals regardless of the fact that the boxes drop from daily fractal boxes.
It’s always better to have a sure way instead of expect RNGeesus to bless you.
Tbh just balance classes first then worry about the rest. If balance not fixed new content doesnt matter.
This. The game most of the time just doesn’t feel worth playing because its fundamentally broken because ANet refuses to nerf their precious HoT powercreep or do necessary reworks on flawed professions/skills/concepts which have needed them since launch.
Making the game fun to play for the most part would be a pretty big start to making WvW more successful overall.
Unless they separate the balance between PvE and WvW we’ll never see big nerfs to anything that could potentially hurt PvE. The change in the Signet of Inspiration and Facet of Nature already caused a lot of revolt on PvE. And keep in mind that PvE is the big chunk of the population in this game, so I don’t expect them to “hurt” the game mode played by most people in favor of balancing the game for a minority.
EU got their thread locked even before it started… Anet don’t want to hear people crying about stuff such as “Now Drakkar Lake is in a bad position like Gunnar’s Hold was.” or “Why Vizunah Square have 2 links?” or “Why Piken Square (2nd) have no link and Jade Sea (3rd) does if they are on the same tier?”
And honestly, while I’m loving dem tears, NA one should have received the same treatment. They won’t answer the question these people want answered anyway, so why bother?
As far as I know, Piken Square and Far Shiverpeaks are pretty kitten happy about being unlinked
It’s actually a good thing they seem to be ignoring EU. Maybe they’ll ignore it enough to let it float back to solo servers for all. You NA kids can have the shiny new stuff.
I am just generalizing complaints similar to the ones we had in the past links. Like the one about GH situation and FSP tri-link while it was T1.
Good thing they are happy. I seens to me that the unlinked servers are going to fall tho. The geman duo (Abaddon’s Mouth and Dzagonur) is winning by a landslide
EU got their thread locked even before it started… Anet don’t want to hear people crying about stuff such as “Now Drakkar Lake is in a bad position like Gunnar’s Hold was.” or “Why Vizunah Square have 2 links?” or “Why Piken Square (2nd) have no link and Jade Sea (3rd) does if they are on the same tier?”
And honestly, while I’m loving dem tears, NA one should have received the same treatment. They won’t answer the question these people want answered anyway, so why bother?
The problem is: depending on what you want to have increased cd’s on the mesmer, you’ll basically killing other mesmer builds just because of a single build that all it can do is 1v1.
JQ is similar to DB such that they have a specific off hours prime stronger than their NA prime. If JQ is full and thus without link, then why should DB be given the different treatment?
Because DB is not full? And please… JQ SEA is far larger than DB’s.
Swords will trigger if you kill the upgrade guy. It’s a great tool for scouts to divert attention.
Swords will appear if you just hit any of the guards then leave.
I belive he meant if you just leave the NPC dead it will keep recontesting. But honestly, why would anyone bother to just tap a camp when you can pretty much flip it before swords even come up?
TC was ready for the possibility of no link, we played hard last week. In the end YB failed to tank hard enough in kitten drop out of t1, but make no mistake YBs performance last two weeks was a pure show and for some reason anet rewarded it. The worst part about it is that YB is perhaps one of the least entertaining servers you could play against. No one wants YB in a T1/T2 rotation.
JQ certainly tanked last week, but even so does that mean they didn’t deserve a link? They are a trash server that needs all the help they can get.
How did anet decide that Maguuma, the #1 server, deserved a link? The only thing more obscene would be to give BG a link.
The only possible explanation is that anet wants kitten be locked into Mag/BG/YB to reduce the rotation. It’s a multi-pronged stroke of genius. On the one hand you keep BG in check with a pair that’s strong enough to dominate them in fights and ppt, on the other hand you force BG to destack by pairing them up against YB because let’s face it, no one wants to play against such a poor competitor.
The only fault in this genius strategy is that there isn’t a T1 glicko wall to support that set up, anet must soon be getting ready to announce glicko adjustments for BG/Mag/YB to force a wall.
