Guild Wars 2

shagwell.1349:

He is still right to a certain point. You shouldn’t be able to take a t3 structure with 5 people or less. And yes, I know that sucks when you are the only 5 people running on your borderland.
Still I think the spy balloon is too strong and I think it should be taken out.
What I would change is the auto upgrade of towers and keeps. Make it like it was before and give guilds or players the options to upgrade and opponents better options to stop upgrades (ie kill yaks and deny supply more easy)

You absolutely should be able to take a T3 structure with 5 or less if it’s undefended.
1 smart defender in a t3 structure can hold off 5 players for hours. Blobbing shouldn’t be the only way to play wvw, that is a big part of why wvw is in such a kittenty unbalanced place.

Malediktus.3740:

No changes needed. Small groups should not be able to take upgraded structures.

Remember you said that the next time you complain about blobs, lag, or how wvw is bleeding players.

Sarrs.4831:

Watchtower is an issue? Why not just use trebuchets and knock down walls from outside the balloon range? Can probably even use catapults if firing from max range or elevation which is more often than not the no.1 attack route anyway.

Hardened gates is completely irrelevant, PvD is a joke anyway.

Have you noticed how solo/small groups have all but disappeared?
If you have to treb or even just cata from max range you’ll end up with a zerg showing up to stop you because they have all the time in the world to respond.

Before all the passive kitten was added you’d end up with multiple small scale fights all over the place because small groups could quickly ninja objectives which forced the zerg to split.

Azzara Nectum.1734:

Jim Hunter.6821:

Azzara Nectum.1734:

Hi fellow Ranger/Druids…

A short introduction:

I’m a 33 year man (screw this multi-gender bullkitten)…

So you’re saying you are a cisgender

The deal with gear is ascended is the highest stats, legendary is equal to ascended but lets you swap the stats at will.

Metabattle isn’t a bad place to start. It gives you a good base build and then you can tweak it until you find something that works for you.

Other than that just keep your eye on the forum, you’ll see plenty of builds pop up. Use the build editor or PvP lobby to experiment. And there really isn’t a wrong build for 95% of PvE so don’t stress.

Is it easier to acquire legends or ascended? I do not have the time, unfortunately, to grind & grind & grind. So I need to make the most out of time played.

Bast Bow.2958:

Haha I love your introduction. 30 yo here and can relate v much. On phone and don’t have time now for in depth answer

Thanks :-)

They are both a grind. Ascended is easier to get because you can just level up crafting but it’s expensive. Honestly you can get by fine with exotics. You’ll be able to get ascended accessories easily enough from laurels (log in rewards), guild missions, or a few other ways. The newer stats can be acquired through raids or the new living story map by turning in blood rubies to a vendor.
If you do decide to craft ascended gear (or get some from drops) look up the mystic forge recipe for converting stats, that way you can craft cheap stuff and convert it to better gear.

Azzara Nectum.1734:

Hi fellow Ranger/Druids…

A short introduction:

I’m a 33 year man (screw this multi-gender bullkitten)…

So you’re saying you are a cisgender

The deal with gear is ascended is the highest stats, legendary is equal to ascended but lets you swap the stats at will.

Metabattle isn’t a bad place to start. It gives you a good base build and then you can tweak it until you find something that works for you.

Other than that just keep your eye on the forum, you’ll see plenty of builds pop up. Use the build editor or PvP lobby to experiment. And there really isn’t a wrong build for 95% of PvE so don’t stress.

Remove watchtower. We already have sentries and white swords.

joneirikb.7506:

X T D.6458:

joneirikb.7506:

X T D.6458:

Not sure if anyone has already suggested this, but for nameplates would it be possible to fit in an abbreviated server tag for linked servers, for example:

[ET] Crystal Desert Invader (ABC)

I didz! (somewhere near end page 3 if you feel like a wall of text).

Red Invader [SIN][Kain]

Ah sorry, was too many posts to go through lol.

Understandable, threads like this always ends up into a pile of replies to the OP, and no one can be bothered to read past halfway first page.

Or even that far since I made the suggestion about 7 posts into the thread lol.

But yeah, this is definitely the most logical choice and it has been brought up numerous times since the servers were first linked. Why anet would prefer to destroy server identity even further instead of going with this simple choice is baffling.

Justine.6351:

But why?
A magi/cleric,
Ele, guard and warrior setup with this gearing will feel far better.

Just an example I’m seeing is that you have almost none of your skills traited putting you behind these other classes right out the gate.

I’m all for making something from seemingly nothing but I’d hate to see someone run something they love that they would love and play even better on a different class. You deserve better for yourself.

If you are serious about healing I can post my warrior healing build I play on occasion.

I’d like to see that.

Guys guys, BG had less players than 3 servers combined, of course they needed to be opened…
I mean if they actually worked to make every tier competitive people might stop transferring and gem sales would go down.

Xenesis.6389:

Swagger.1459:

I bet next summer will we get a huge wvw update called “GW2 Factions”!

Offered via the next expansion.

And to join a faction you will be required to do PvE map completion and grind out about 10,000 of their newest currency that doesn’t go in your wallet.

Jerry CCH.9816:

GO PvP !

PvP went to kitten about 2 years ago and gets worse every time they re-balance.

I would love to see a reset if they rolled it back to pre HoT, pre stability change.

RodOfDeath.5247:

Jim Hunter.6821:

I respect the handful of solo roamers that are still trucking along in a dying game.
I fear the next idiotic move anet decides to implement.

That made me giggle

Then it was worth the upcoming infraction

Now let’s play a fun game and see how long it takes for these posts to disappear. It’s a great indicator of how often the WvW forums are read. Usually it takes about 2 days unless I’m reported because I kittened someone off directly.

I respect the handful of solo roamers that are still trucking along in a dying game.
I fear the next idiotic move anet decides to implement.

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

Blackgate and Jade Quarry both opened because they were below the population cap. Blackgate currently has a smaller population than Jade Quarry and some of the combined linked worlds populations (combined linked worlds population example being Crystal Desert + Darkhaven + Devona’s Rest combined has a higher population than Blackgate). With all that being said, we do keep track of the transfers that happen. Since we have been seeing an increase in transfer behavior with the past 2 world links, we are discussing whether we want to change how we calculate WvW world populations or if we want to lower the WvW population caps.

So because BG has less players than 3 servers combined it’s time to open them up again!?
You’re kittening joking right?

Heimlich.3065:

Xillllix.3485:

We are interested beyond belief, but your proposition is not even a half measure, it’s a cheap fix that would lead to terrible results. It’s only good on paper and not in practice, which is what about 66% of the people in this thread have been saying. Why do you need us to tell you that? It has nothing to do with our interest.

What’s most bizarre is that they asked us the same thing back in May and people didn’t like the idea then either.

I have to suspect somebody inside ANet really thinks this proposal is just the ultimate solution to every WvW problem and brings it up regularly.

And when people didn’t wildly support it anet opened up BG as a big kitten you to the player base.

Nuzt.7894:

Of course there’s a general lack of interest.
1- People want different things, you will never get everyone to agree.
2- You just opened up BG/JQ showing that Anet has a lack of interest.
3- There is plenty of feedback here, if you want people to take it more seriously maybe the timing on opening BG/JQ was a bit silly, you’ve only managed to discourage a large portion of the community and basically make this thread a bad joke in doing so.

+1000
Just kittening ridiculous.

Buran.3796:

zerorogue.9410:

Additionally the main issue is the problem of fleeing enemies. While fleeing is not peculiarly bad, being able to do this loop (fight>run away>heal>repeat) consistently with high dps and survival, is the big issue.

Warriors’s greatsword #5 (Rush) should be nerfed as happened with Elementalist’s dagger #4 (Ride the Lighning): when you use this skill without hitting a target the cooldown rises from 20 to 40 seconds. That alone would keep the disengaging ability but punish any attempt to use it to reset the fight.

That skill is notorious for missing targets. Hell they don’t even have to be moving and half the time you will run past them and swing at the air.

LughLongArm.5460:

Wait…….. Justine is a SHE?? mindblown (jk)

Don’t believe it, there are no girls on the Internet.

Reverence.6915:

Activity charts (kills/deaths/caps) suggest T3 and T4 are more active than T1 and T2. Just saying

I can solo cap and kill players without a small zerg chasing me off a lot more often on my alt account.

My T1 account offers more consistent action but a lot of the time I end up downing players and having to run because the power rez is to strong.

All Matters Fecal.9560:

Jim Hunter.6821:

You’re clearly a hacker for not face tanking the condi’s and coming to the forums to complain about how op they are and how they need to be nerfed.

You’re just plain ignorant if you think there are no hackers in online games. Burying your head in the sand doesn’t change the fact that players of ill repute are gaining advantages by methods that are not in the spirit of the game.

Ever wonder why orbs were removed from WvW?

I’m sorry could you point out where I said there are no hackers in this game? I see hackers on a fairly regular basis, flying around in the air, getting downed and making short leaps across the ground at ridiculous speeds, etc.

But even more often than that I see people that have zero clue about other classes complaining that they are hacking. I’ve seen players crying that a ranger using trapper runes was hacking because he kept disappearing, players that “hit to hard” are hacking, hell the last thread that popped up about people “hacking their way into a closed tower” came with a screen shot of the guys mesmer clones on the wall.

So why even bother with the bullkitten thread about adding more servers to better balance WvW if you’re going to open BG again?

DeceiverX.8361:

And then you have the ranger/druid community getting up in arms about how it’s not fair their favorite build isn’t viable and to then start blaming the commanders and serious WvW players for being mean when they get kicked…….

Just want to point out there have been a number of ranger mains in this thread pointing out that rapid firing into a zerg doesn’t make ranger good in ZvZ’s, myself included.

However rangers are fantastic for harassing the kitten out of their back line and cutting off the players trying to run back to the fight. It’s funny as kitten to tap the enemy keep and position yourself in the path back to the fight, if the zerglings try to fight you can easily keep 5+ busy without a problem, if they just try and run past without rescuing their buddies you will kill a good 50% of them or more.

JemL.3501:

I am amazed how some people want and prefer that a single miserable guy is able to even cap a castle (if he is strong enough to kill the lord) alone by himself in a place where solo things shouldnt exist, wvw isnt mean for you to solo around

There is no logic behind for have solo stuff in wvw at all, that some stuff let you be able doesnt mean that it was designed for go that way

What the actual kitten……

JemL.3501:

Justine.6351:

JemL.3501:

camps should be able to take down with atleast 3 people (like a guild mission) not only one

Ya like fracals…Oh wait people solo those and they are balanced for 5 people lols. Yeah if they made guards hard enough that it “required” 3 people I assure you that people would still solo them in under 30sec.

i didnt mean that

camps should be able to only be capped if there is 3 people in that circle, that is better explained, and the reason of 3 would mainly be because guild missions require 3 atleast for be completed

actually everything should require 3 people inside the circle for be able to cap it except sentrys

Yes let’s just continue to kill roaming and then we can make more threads about how wvw is nothing but zergs and it’s dead outside of prime time….
Smfh

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

The poll has ended! The final results are:
60.1% WvW Scoring Improvements Phase 2
39.9% WvW Matchmaking Improvements
This means that the WvW team’s next big priority will be adding rewards to Skirmishes and improving the Skirmish UI. Thanks to everyone who voted!

I hope you took the time to read through the discussion and aren’t looking solely at the poll

babazhook.6805:

The way to test is apply conditions at distance in a batch and see if the same occurs. Zerker stance/Cleansing Ire, weapon swap combos can remove a kitten load of conditions as can Signet of stamina.

if the person built for high adrenaline they can enter zerker mode quickly over and over again. This cleanses conditions. Added on top they can use IRE much more rapidly and cleanse those conditions. If you are close in and in melee range they can much more easily cleanse the same as not ony does IRe require that burst hit, but adrenaline for their zerker mode builds faster.

On my own warrior build I switch alternate those cleanses with high resistance uptime meaning the condition ticks rarely do any damage. The warrior can also have regen/adrenal/signet healing all running at the same time for some very high health regen that can make it look like your conditions do nothing. Against a class like a ranger/minion necro/mesmer it can be easier to ensure cleansing ire and adrenaline building works.

To a thief build I had. It used Shamans pain response, assassins reward Signet of malice and Guarded Initiation along with escapists. This build could stay at peak health against Condition builds for long periods of time due to fast cleansing and many sources of health. The build perfromed BETTER against rangers minion master and mesmers then against a condition warrior as example because there were more targets off which to proc evades (for regen heal condi cleanse) and garner the SOM heals.

You’re clearly a hacker for not face tanking the condi’s and coming to the forums to complain about how op they are and how they need to be nerfed.

You said you know they have stances but resistance is a boon. Yes one of the things that grants it is a stance, but there are other ways for them to get it, including their healing signet.

And when you say that ,“the condi didn’t even tick once properly”, and that you did 0 damage, it sure as hell sounds like they had resistance up.

To go along with resistance, warriors have excellent condi removal. With fast hands/brawlers recovery they can drop a condi every 5 seconds, and cleansing ire is gold vs any condi player with npc support (minions, pets, etc. ).

But I’m pretty kittening sure that they had resistance up. Try looking at the boons on their bar instead of watching for a green glow that probably just didn’t render.

Or just keep complaining that anyone that beat you is a hacker, your choice.

I honestly can’t tell if you two are trolling or not.

In case you’re not here’s a little reading for you.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Resistance

Jeknar.6184:

Jim Hunter.6821:

Camps should remain easy for solo players. People complain that all anyone does is zerg and yet you want to make it so you have to have a group to accomplish anything.
Pay attention to the map, it’s usually pretty easy to figure out where a roamer is going to hit, especially with all the passive radar crap all over the place.

And let’s be honest, most roamers actually want you to know where they are going because they want you to come fight them. I personally don’t skip sentries and I follow a clear pattern even when there is a RI camp in the way (Except in DBL, I take weird routes there but still follow the pattern with camps).

Yup same here. The only time I hop around trying to be sneaky is when they are constantly responding with 5+ players, and in that situation I’m only sneaking around to force them to spread out so I can get a good fight.

They have the choice to spread out and fight a little more fairly or lose their kitten.

Mesmers go down pretty kitten fast to the crit bleed build especially if you do hit and runs from max range, abusing stealth/ancestral grace so they can’t clear condi’s through shatters.

Having every pet available for WvW (like they are in PvP) would be nice. Sucks having to cap them repeatedly for each ranger when I have zero map completion on most of my characters.

Camps should remain easy for solo players. People complain that all anyone does is zerg and yet you want to make it so you have to have a group to accomplish anything.
Pay attention to the map, it’s usually pretty easy to figure out where a roamer is going to hit, especially with all the passive radar crap all over the place.

Recently next target has been failing for me a good chunk of the time. I’m pretty sure it’s related to the obstructed bug you get all over the place because I’ve noticed you can’t target players that are slightly behind walls even if half their body is sticking out.

trueanimus.4085:

Bigpapasmurf.5623:

Jim Hunter.6821:

Bigpapasmurf.5623:

To avoid going around in circles as it’s clear you are one that will disagree with me lots here, lets just agree to disagree.

It’s clear that either:

a.) You don’t main a druid who searches for zerg fights and can force a push by downing half their frontline (this alone carries my weight)

b.) You just don’t care and are set on your own concept of a druid (which is perfectly fine, to each their own)

c.) You are just unaware as you have yet to come across a good druid that is NOT running a meta build, therefore not knowing what they are capable of (as I am also aware that meta druid builds are not that great in ZvZ fights…but I also never run meta…custom builds ftw)

Either way, looks like we are going to have to agree to disagree. Either way, fight a good fight mate

There is no druid build capable of “downing half their frontline” unless their frontline has all decided to afk and lets you free fire on them.

Taking it as a literal sense, then yes you are correct, however if you take it for the slight exaggeration that it was meant (as in I can down many frontline, thus helping the push to a great degree) then this stands true.

Again, many people grab a meta build and I am not arguing that all druid builds are capable of this feat that I am claiming, however to say that all druids are not capable of this feat is expressing either how many people use meta builds, thus not built to help much in a ZvZ, therefore helping create this misconception (its like saying all guys/girls are the same…which is untrue), or it got to the point where people have a permanent bad taste that it doesn’t matter how well a ranger/druid does as they will be dismissed against regardless.

Either way, I’ve been thanked from many people for doing what I do and it brings me great joy to be able to down 5 ppl at once despite the lack of strong aoe. As stated, I will just keep doing what I am doing. If you are red, you are dead, plain and simple

Any who, round and round we go so TAG, you are it.

My statement stands.
Ranger/druid can self buff for a large burst on a long cooldown but for a zerg fight you’d need GS to ensure it connects and it leaves the ranger extremely vulnerable because of the traitlines and blown cooldowns it requires. Longbow doesn’t work against organized groups. Too many of our weapons lack cleave and have low dps.

Yes rangers can go glass and rapid fire into a pug zerg but the second a few players get organized and start rotating their blocks the ranger is kittened.

Must be the good thing about the tiers ive been in for the last few months…Maybe none have been that wise to do so. 11k – 12k (backline) and 8k (frontline average) rapid fire every 8 seconds to 5 ppl at a time up to 1500 units (after starting with a barrage to negate some front lines aegis). I suppose 8 seconds is a fairly long cooldown for that much damage, standing front to mid.

Seems like another agree to disagree case here.

Hey smurf… i love where he says longbow doesnt work against organized groups lol.. that made me giggle.. I mean come on..

Their zerg standing there enpowering, stacked ready to charge, two druids jump up (from our lines) and barrage them, rapid fire into them and they turn and run because they see 2-3 of their backline drop instantly (i know you have seen me and catt and others do this so many times on TC) and the enemy zerg freaks out, scatter and try to regroup… its comedy gold. Meanwhile, our main tanks see the downs, yell CHARGE!!! and we mow them over like bowling pins..

Am i bout right smurf ? heh

Barrage and then rapid fire……. because nothing says surprise burst like 2 channeled skills that take roughly 5 seconds to deal their damage.

And let’s just say you do manage to land every hit, you better hope the group your firing into doesn’t have retal up (which is 100% uptime as soon as a zerg starts fighting) because you just took 110 hits from retal over that 5 seconds which is death to a glass ranger.

But that’s okay, if your tactic of depending on the enemy zerg to be sleeping doesn’t work you can go back to “running to the side of the zerg to sacrifice yourself”, because using your ranger to repeatedly die in a zerg fight will really show everyone that rangers aren’t free bags in a zerg fight…… smh

Fifth.8169:

This all just stupid. Just have people Queue for Red Blue Green. When they join the selected pvp map, have the system can drop them in the Color (red blue green) with the least people.

The same way the spvp works to put people into 2 teams. Just edit that system to make it 3 teams and as people join drop them in the color that needs more. ???? Is what I am saying impossible?

You are overcomplicating what does not need to be.

So….. just completely destroy all remaining communities and make the game as casual as possible.
Yeah, that won’t drive players away….

You can rebind them to anything you want.
If you want to make it real easy pick up a red dragon perdition mouse, it’s like a naga or logitech g600 but it’s cheaper, a lot less buggy, and (for me at least) lasts longer.

heydurian.6459:

Vova.2640:

heydurian.6459:

A_ T killing jq and bg guilds
no new player
no new member
more and more can’t join back their guild wvw team
A _T think that these players will join to other server guilds?
Do you think that this game players number will
Increased substantially?
of couse no. this game already have 4 years
Don’t make more people afk pls
WvW already lose a lot of people
why still make some clever setting destroy the game

You want to play with your friends? Trasnsfer to a lower population server then.
No need to stack those server even more.
Anet is doing the right thing by not opening those servers.

the problem is why we need to spend our gems to make wvw balance?
each guild want to change their server, they need to spend a lot of gem to do it..
Anet want people to do it. but they don’t have any support for these guilds.
are you sure each member have enough gem to do it?

Because most people spent their gems to throw wvw further out of balance….

And free transfers is what really kittened things up in the first place.

Nuzt.7894:

I don’t understand why this needs to be such a process, lets use Anvil Rock as an example.
What is so extremely Difficult about putting (AR) at the end or around their name somewhere?

You have all those stupid symbols all over our names for one thing or another and you can’t just add an Abbreviation for a server?

Sometimes the best answer is the simplest answer, stop over thinking every little detail Anet.

I honestly think the reason they are opposed to that is because they are still trying to push WvW to be as casual as eotm. Every one of their suggestions is to further strip server identity instead of restoring it to the linked servers.

EremiteAngel.9765:

Vavume.8065:

Jeknar.6184:

Vavume.8065:

Offair.2563:

Camp timer/swords are triggered as soon you aggro any guard these days.

Nope, it’s still based off the supervisor, goto a camp and kill a guard without aggroing the supervisor, then wait 1 min and watch how no swords appear. This is still true of alpine borders, not tested it on desert cos I’m retired from camp flipping ;P

P.S that was the technique I used to use to flip your upgraded camps without creating swords :P I would pick off all the loose guards first, without aggroing the supervisor then go aoe mode with a number I could handle.

No, it’s no longer like this since they changed the costest method to be when you aggro anything that belong to the objective (including towers and keeps).

Alright, R.I.P that tactic then.

I used that tactic too previously especially against T3 camps when you don’t want to pop the swords too early.

No longer works though.

But fact remains that ring goes up before swords pop if the player knows what to do. Doesn’t give defenders much reaction time unless they were already near the camp.

That’s pretty much been the case for years though.
The only real difference is camps are rarely upgraded any more. In the past when players controlled the upgrade process you could get the extra guards a lot earlier giving you more time to respond.

Justine.6351:

Jim Hunter.6821:

Bigpapasmurf.5623:

Kovu.7560:

Lol. Throw this on the marksmanship longbow trait. *that*’ll get people out of nature magic.

~ Kovu

Lol true story, although some druids, such as myself, don’t run NM and do run Marksmanship. Having this in MM will def help move people some over.

Doesn’t help those of us that prefer the skirmishing line though….

what would that matter, we wouldn’t take it over quick draw anyhow.

I should have worded my response better, I just meant not all of us run nm/bm/druid.
My argument was the stealth should activate whether it hits or not since the buggy game obstructs the shot so often.
Making it unblockable doesn’t help that no matter what trait line it’s in.

Bigpapasmurf.5623:

To avoid going around in circles as it’s clear you are one that will disagree with me lots here, lets just agree to disagree.

It’s clear that either:

a.) You don’t main a druid who searches for zerg fights and can force a push by downing half their frontline (this alone carries my weight)

b.) You just don’t care and are set on your own concept of a druid (which is perfectly fine, to each their own)

c.) You are just unaware as you have yet to come across a good druid that is NOT running a meta build, therefore not knowing what they are capable of (as I am also aware that meta druid builds are not that great in ZvZ fights…but I also never run meta…custom builds ftw)

Either way, looks like we are going to have to agree to disagree. Either way, fight a good fight mate

There is no druid build capable of “downing half their frontline” unless their frontline has all decided to afk and lets you free fire on them.

Taking it as a literal sense, then yes you are correct, however if you take it for the slight exaggeration that it was meant (as in I can down many frontline, thus helping the push to a great degree) then this stands true.

Again, many people grab a meta build and I am not arguing that all druid builds are capable of this feat that I am claiming, however to say that all druids are not capable of this feat is expressing either how many people use meta builds, thus not built to help much in a ZvZ, therefore helping create this misconception (its like saying all guys/girls are the same…which is untrue), or it got to the point where people have a permanent bad taste that it doesn’t matter how well a ranger/druid does as they will be dismissed against regardless.

Either way, I’ve been thanked from many people for doing what I do and it brings me great joy to be able to down 5 ppl at once despite the lack of strong aoe. As stated, I will just keep doing what I am doing. If you are red, you are dead, plain and simple

Any who, round and round we go so TAG, you are it.

My statement stands.
Ranger/druid can self buff for a large burst on a long cooldown but for a zerg fight you’d need GS to ensure it connects and it leaves the ranger extremely vulnerable because of the traitlines and blown cooldowns it requires. Longbow doesn’t work against organized groups. Too many of our weapons lack cleave and have low dps.

Yes rangers can go glass and rapid fire into a pug zerg but the second a few players get organized and start rotating their blocks the ranger is kittened.

heydurian.6459:

Jim Hunter.6821:

heydurian.6459:

Jim Hunter.6821:

heydurian.6459:

A_ _T let people give up gw2 to make wvw balance..
and they can not sure this way100% work…
they don’t know every player is buyer?
people afk = lose income

Allowing a couple servers to stack so much that no one can compete with their numbers means that the servers going against them don’t want to play.
And as you stated “people afk = lose income”

if jq and bg all the people play wvw i will say yes.
they count the afk people too.
a lot of afk people already give up this game
count these people for what? wait these people come back?
anet don’t know the real situation
no jq people play wvw in EU time and give tc karma train
it so that anet take the clever data to count all the server
they should not count people offline over 3month
moveover they should count some people who play wvw over 5hrs ever week.(count people stay in wvw 5mins is useless)

They changed the way they calculate population a good while ago. They no longer count PvE players or “people offline over 3month”.

JQ is probably the most fairweather server I spent time on. Your server has a bad habit of just logging off when the numbers aren’t heavily in your favor and very little gets done without a tag up.

don’t count pve and afk is not enough
they should count people who play wvw over 5hrs every week.
count people only stay in wvw 5mins for what?
gw2 not a web game… gw2 can count many things

Show me some evidence that they are counting players that only play for 5 minutes at a time. You have no idea how long a player has to be in to be counted.
Your coverage gaps are due to stacking certain time zones and players that only choose to join in when you are steam rolling the opposition or they are doing a guild run.

heydurian.6459:

Jim Hunter.6821:

heydurian.6459:

A_ _T let people give up gw2 to make wvw balance..
and they can not sure this way100% work…
they don’t know every player is buyer?
people afk = lose income

Allowing a couple servers to stack so much that no one can compete with their numbers means that the servers going against them don’t want to play.
And as you stated “people afk = lose income”

if jq and bg all the people play wvw i will say yes.
they count the afk people too.
a lot of afk people already give up this game
count these people for what? wait these people come back?
anet don’t know the real situation
no jq people play wvw in EU time and give tc karma train
it so that anet take the clever data to count all the server
they should not count people offline over 3month
moveover they should count some people who play wvw over 5hrs ever week.(count people stay in wvw 5mins is useless)

They changed the way they calculate population a good while ago. They no longer count PvE players or “people offline over 3month”.

JQ is probably the most fairweather server I spent time on. Your server has a bad habit of just logging off when the numbers aren’t heavily in your favor and very little gets done without a tag up.

Bigpapasmurf.5623:

Kovu.7560:

Lol. Throw this on the marksmanship longbow trait. *that*’ll get people out of nature magic.

~ Kovu

Lol true story, although some druids, such as myself, don’t run NM and do run Marksmanship. Having this in MM will def help move people some over.

Doesn’t help those of us that prefer the skirmishing line though….

heydurian.6459:

A_ _T let people give up gw2 to make wvw balance..
and they can not sure this way100% work…
they don’t know every player is buyer?
people afk = lose income

Allowing a couple servers to stack so much that no one can compete with their numbers means that the servers going against them don’t want to play.
And as you stated “people afk = lose income”

Bigpapasmurf.5623:

DeeSystm.1256:

Bigpapasmurf.5623:

DeeSystm.1256:

Bigpapasmurf.5623:

trueanimus.4085:

Mokk.2397:

I would really like to know what people mean by team play.Is it when the guardians/dragon hunters are so bunker-ed up with little to no damage tagging as many foes as they can while the back line does the real killing?Is that team play?Calling rangers out and calling us useless when we can plainly see the opponents going down one after another at the points of our arrows or under a barrage.That’s team play?
This is what I have to say about the so called “META” .It’s designed around selfish front liners that just want to tap while the rest of us do the real work.
ALL classes have a place in the battle field.Whether we’re running long bow or trapping we rangers are the ones at the far back watching over the back line ,bursting and disrupting the opponents front line and mid line.We flank to disrupt the opponents mid line and back line. So all you knuckle heads out there that think rangers don’t have a place in WvW need a reality check.It is ranger haters that need to stop being selfish and allow people to play the game .

^ Perfectly said…. the REAL team players are the ones kicking kitten .. everyone else is just on a loot stick guardian because they want to brag about how many bags their toon gets… i love this guy!! Honesty at its finest!

Whilst I may not feel the same way (Yeah right, I totally do), I agree with what is being said.

If you’re gunna call the group comp running 500+ units ahead of you taking everything on “greedy” while you pew pew at pirate ship range “collecting bags” from tags, then y’all lost in here, druid sickness is real atm.

500+ units? Def no 500+ units where I am/fight mate. You don’t know about me and how I play. There is many times where I am up front with the tag (when I am not tagging up myself, where I typically stay in front as well). This is a perfect example of some people not realizing/knowing that some druids actually know how to play their part. I don’t usually stay at “pirate ship range” mate. More often than not I’m close to, if not up front, which if not, then I’m around mid. I can’t pick off backline peeps if I am playing in my backline.

I also tend to kite their frontline to a choke point so my guys and start rolstomping their frontline while I go ahead and chase/down their backline/aoe peeps.

I understand that there are a lot of baddies out there, however there are some actual druids that have a clue and do know how to work their build where it’s not all about selfishness. It’s also the druid hate that drives me to keep playing it and getting better to the point that I’ve saved so many people from being stomped/DPS’d down that I saved those haters.

Cheers Mate.

This is actually the exact mentality that I fear. Sure you get a few druids who can group combat on a server sure they do their part but even doing well they just barely carry their weight. And then just like you say, all the baddies this encourages to stay on classes and builds not worth it.

To avoid going around in circles as it’s clear you are one that will disagree with me lots here, lets just agree to disagree.

It’s clear that either:

a.) You don’t main a druid who searches for zerg fights and can force a push by downing half their frontline (this alone carries my weight)

b.) You just don’t care and are set on your own concept of a druid (which is perfectly fine, to each their own)

c.) You are just unaware as you have yet to come across a good druid that is NOT running a meta build, therefore not knowing what they are capable of (as I am also aware that meta druid builds are not that great in ZvZ fights…but I also never run meta…custom builds ftw)

Either way, looks like we are going to have to agree to disagree. Either way, fight a good fight mate.

There is no druid build capable of “downing half their frontline” unless their frontline has all decided to afk and lets you free fire on them.

Miko.4158:

All of Anets options remove server identity.

^This.
Absolutely terrible options, just give us our server abbreviations in the name plate.

Dawdler.8521:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

I just achieved one of the grindiest achievements in WvW. After roughly 100 hours of pure Dolyak escorting from the camp to the Keep, I’ve hit the magical 2,500 tonite. There were times when I would pass out at my keyboard from boredom, but I soldiered on to get to my goal. It kinda feels like I beat the game! Now I can rejoin the TC zerg and do some fighting.

Gratz on accomplishing absolutely nothing and getting zero reward unlike every achievement in PvE.

I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul

Xen.2604:

my wvw char is a mesma with toughness vitality always getting 1 hit killed so frushtrating so many complaining in chat also today I got 2 kit killed buy a ranger in a warrior with knight armor on. I run a full accended berserker ranger and I cant kill no 1 in 2 hits not even when letting off all skills with successful hits drops people so how does 1 ranger drop a knight warrior on 2nd arrow

By running a gimmick build.
Run full zerk, scholar runes, steady focus, and remorseless. Pop SoW, SotH, GoE, and hope they don’t have passive defenses to save their kitten because you’re glassy as kitten and just blew all of your utilities.

Malediktus.3740:

Jeknar.6184:

Jim Hunter.6821:

So solo capping towers or keeps should guarantee exotic with a high chance for ascended drops. Each additional player that helps should lower that chance by about 10% until you hit the current drop rate (should never be 0% chance).

Some people would go “kitten OFF, I want my rewards”.

Yes, it would against Anet’s philosphy that you should never be unhappy to see other players around.

Not to mention people who play at off hours where there are no defenders and you can easily solo towers get rewarded more.

Catering to care bears is a big part of what has ruined WvW. They seem to think dumbing down the combat and making things passive/easier will draw in the casual players, but the casuals only show up when there are commanders or dedicated players to lead the way. They need to encourage players to not rely on having the biggest blob to get things done.

As far as off hours capping is concerned, those players are already more rewarded. This idea at least encourages them to split up instead of running in 1 k-train blob, which gives the defenders a fighting chance since they are running up against 2 or 3 people instead of 20-30.