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Reset is the most fun night imo. Having a 2nd heavily populated day sounds amazing since we can’t always make reset. But I’d love to see what would happen if they stopped the score for 1 day. Would people quit blobbing around? Would there be more small teams floating around just looking for fights? I’d like to see this done as an experiment 1 day.
I voted yes cause t7 – 8 were in horrible shape & it should never go back to that. the system still needs fixed up. I’d like to see the server links changed more often to avoid stale match ups. I’d like 1 more tier added, blob wars is gonna get old fast. I’d like to see server specific armors that can be bought to sport the server I’m on. Over all this is much better than the way it was.
Thanks for nothing anet. I can kiss this years productivity goodbye. Now I will be completely addicted to wvw again & real life will once again become a fantasy. I will be blaming you for my future 20 pound weight gain, divorce & carpal tunnel. Thanx!
I would like to see a glow around the existing com tags to make easier to see. id like to see green orange and black added.
We use to want to win cause moving up in the tiers ment more fights not for bragging rights. Now there are fight at all hours of the day on every server. So imo I could care less about the score or winning. Scoring should be the lowest priority. Maybe if this was a tournament id care.
I like the changes to stability. I think the nerf to cc’s should be boosted up to 15 instead of 10 and go from there.
As much as I enjoy the linking system, I don’t think it will work. A lot of players from the low tiers enjoy the low tier environment and now everyone is forced to play a high tier style of game play. No one wanted to play in a dead tier but that didn’t mean they wanted nonstop action. Also players have developed a competitive hatred for other worlds. Now they get paired together & it’s causing a lot of discord between hosts & guests (not all). The guest world have lost their identity, switching team speak servers every couple months is hell for everyone & there are multiple other problems that I don’t see getting solved. World linking solves one problem but creates a whole host of other problems.
I believe the best solution to this is a clean wipe. Remove all worlds and create all new worlds. I would still remove at least 2 tiers. Even with the new update & with all the people who came back I do not believe gw2 has the players for 8 tiers but we have way to much for only 4 tiers (NA but same principle for EU). With 5 or 6 tiers it would make each tier a different style of play, & reduce queues. With a clean wipe and free transfers people could finally reunite with all their friend who moved out of the dead tiers & form a new identity. In a sense, everyone gets screwed equally instead of screwing all of the low tiers. What do you think?
I personally like the server linking but I am from a host server. The problems I see so far are
1. Guest servers lose their identity.
2. It’s a hassle switch teamspeaks
3. Queues are to big
The only 1 easy to fix is the queues – add one more tier.
I’d say the biggest solution to this is to have 5 tiers, make all new worlds and give everyone free transfers. That way we all start fresh, get to reunite with everyone who has transferred up since hot, & everyone gets screwed equally :-)
Screw balance , were in last place & I could care less. Epic fight at all hours of the day trumps winning. For once we aren’t losing or winning because of a massive population imbalance. Need better organization and trained pugs but that’s not anets fault. If u were in first place in your tier and now your last start workin harder to get your " new server" back in shape. No team is locked in place and everyone has a chance.
Does anyone not from maguuma agree with spawn camping?
I just wasted a bunch of noterized scrolls to upgrade my elite specialization & i guess u used more than the amount of hero pionts i hadd. Now all the scrollls are gone. I am also really drunk from pre update patch celebration…..anyone else have this problem? ummm the hero point pproblem…not the other one ;-)
There is spawn camping for fights and spawn camping just to be a kitten & demoralize. Mag are kittens & they back it up with posts on other forums saying they only do it to be kittens. Trebs from the keep, open field siege, constant taunting, no class, & very unsportsmanlike. Personally I enjoy it. It’s amazing how so many like minded people flock to this one server and paint the server as the ultimate bad guy. It’s easy to counter this, if u don’t have the numbers to beat them you just don’t fight them. If you want to be kittens back, wp any time you see them and don’t fight them all week or get in the habit of tossing a crap load of siege in everything you take. Then just sit back and laugh when they complain about the quality of fights just like they laugh at all these spawn camping posts.
The point is if u just fought a tough battle to take someone’s keep and you need to drop their numbers to hold the keep , it is beneficial to your server. If you are 100000 points ahead of every one then it is not. Karma ,No one wants to end up fighting 2 yaks bend servers. If you want good fights you let the enemy reclaim some territory and gain some momentum then fight them. Those fights are much more epic than spawn camping.
There is spawn camping for fights and spawn camping just to be a kitten & demoralize. Mag are kittens & they back it up with posts on other forums saying they only do it to be kittens. Trebs from the keep, open field siege, constant taunting, no class, & very unsportsmanlike. Personally I enjoy it. It’s amazing how so many like minded people flock to this one server and paint the server as the ultimate bad guy. It’s easy to counter this, if u don’t have the numbers to beat them you just don’t fight them. If you want to be kittens back, wp any time you see them and don’t fight them all week or get in the habit of tossing a crap load of siege in everything you take. Then just sit back and laugh when they complain about the quality of fights just like they laugh at all these spawn camping posts.
It seems like 90% of WvW players are now in the top 3 tiers. Population crisis averted… Thanx anet!
Unless there is a rotation between maps there is going to be a lot of angry players. The people who liked the alpine BLs will soon realize the game has changed and the HoT changes are coming with them. They will be back on these forums complaining. The people who actually took the time to learn the Desert BLs & grew to like them will be complaining. This is going to be a lose lose situation for anet. Hate to be in their shoes… Good luck
Can’t wait for all the old threads about how horrible the alpine BL’s are come back.
Well thank you everyone for your supportive & helpful posts. It’s the community holding WvW together despite what Anet throws at us. I’m sure we’ll find good people where ever we go. Here’s hoping the new game director changes the direction WvW has been heading. Thanx everyone for the server invites. We’ll probably make a decision by Friday on where to go. ~ love Knob
Yes the title was created to show urgency. But no one really believes it will make a difference. I’m pretty sure Anet doesn’t even read the WvW forum. Anet can only work so fast and it will never be fast enough for us but it doesn’t mean I’m not going to try. At least the topic on the forums have changed from night capping back to the root problem, population imbalance.
I do not blame anyone for leaving the lower tiers at this point Knob, although I think you will be wasting gems if Anet is going to do what I think they are to address population imbalance.
It would be nice if Anet gave us some clues as to what will be happening with this large update they’ve been working on for a year to allay some of this despair.
I am one of Misty’s soldiers so I’ll be staying put with my guild hoping Anet comes through with something meaningful to address WvW’s many ongoing issues.
We have waited almost 6 months for something to change. The developers said they would be holding beta tests for WvW in April. That means it will not be in the quarterly update. So we hold on hope for 3 more month till the next big update. What if it doesn’t happen then? Now 1 year later we are still in a dead tier with less players & the promise that a big overhaul will happen “soon”. Yeah it’s time to transfer :-/
It’s not fair that players have to fix anets mistakes by giving them our hard earned gold to transfer up just to have fun again. So basically if they do nothing they gain money at the players expense & the population balances into 6 tiers. Your not alone nephers and u won’t be the last. We feel your pain.
Friday , an hour later. But current reset time is ok too.
So t6-8 are dead……
That’s news to me that T6 is dead. FC are quite enjoying T6 so can we not go labeling tiers as ‘dead’ if they aren’t please. Just because there isn’t a 30 man zerg 24/7 doesn’t mean a server is dead. A good number of people in the lower tiers actually like the smaller fights for one reason or another so to label a server/ tier as dead is incredibly misleading, if not wrong.
As a side note, forcing players to move servers by ‘merging’ when there already is a system for them to move should they wish seems like a very bad idea. Many people in the tiers that have been labeled ‘dead’ would much rather stay on the server they are on and with the community they have become a part of, rather than being told they have to merge with another server just because the higher tier players don’t have enough people to zerg with. If we wanted to move, we would have already.
Thats actually a mistake….it should say t7 &8 ….T6 looks like its in a pretty heated battle between 4 pretty evenly matched servers. All though you all have giant holes in your coverage. But thats most servers. I actually enjoy being in the lower tiers with smaller fights and good lopsided battles & even capping empty Bls sometimes but i dont like it every day. At all times. Our server has passed its breaking point & i hope T6 continues to grow & we dont lose another 3 worlds.
Also as far as servers go….we are looking to determine a server by next week. We all want the ability to grow. We are use to being under dogs, going against the odds & we want to contribute. So t6-8 are dead…..T1 & 2 are well esablished + much more gold. We need a decent NA presence (not great) & a decent OCX presence. What would really be great was if we picked a T5 server & had all you former IOJers come join us & work our way to the top, but thats my opinion :-).
After talking to a lot of the guild leaders tonight. Its looking like a good bulk of our players are lookin to stick together. The big thing determining what to do is the lack of responce from anet for what this april quarterly update is going to entail. There is hope that maybe a population imbalance change might happen but really we alll highly doubt it. Noone wants to have to pay actual money to have fun because of Anets mistakes. We are giving money to the same people that have caused this.
I used to hate IOJ. I mean almost irrational hatred. Then they got stuck in the NSP-IOJ-whatever blob server we happened to roll. It was terrible. There was no way for NSP and IOJ to even compete with whoever was on the rotation down that week. But IOJ and NSP kept fighting. That’s when I finally felt some respect for my enemies on IOJ and I was saddened to hear when it started imploding about the time our match ups evened out a bit. My enemies on IOJ will always have a place in my cold dark heart.
haha thanks man that means a lot to us.
“i do how ever believe that not many servers would be interested in taking in a whole server” Leaa. I dont think you fully understand how little people are left. We can pull off a mini zerg of around 20 (30 friday & saterday i might even be exaggerating) rather skilled players during prime time & we have an OCX of around 7 (which are mainly drunken NA-ers). Other than that we have nothing. I logged on the other morning & didnt see a single player on our team for over 2 hours. I dont think we’d be a burden on any server but we would give a nice boost. On the other hand if we are on a server with a decent population more players would probably come to play.
The point is less worlds to bring higher population to the remaining & free transfers for a period of time to give the worlds a chance to reconfigure.. Yes it would be a little unbalanced for a couple weeks. But that’s already what we have. People should not have to pay gold/ cash to have fun again because of anets mistakes. Really anyone who has transferred since HoT came out should get a refund imo. On top of us transferring, when we transfer there will basically be no one left & I will be sticking around to help get more people out. But more to come on that later.
After trying to keep our server alive ever since HoT came out we have finally reached our limit. We are looking to transfer our whole server. We dont want to leave anyone behind. The community is still important to us & we dont want to leave any of our friends & nor should we have to. This games backbone should revolve around playing with your friends. One by one the people we have shared the glory of murdering hordes of enemys with have left us, spread out across the WvW worlds never to fight beside again. WvW is not fun anymore & i feel that by the time this population imbalance is fixed there will be noone left. I highly doubt its going to happen in the april update cause weve barely hered anything about it. No rewards or anything else is going to bring people back. We have never played this game mode for rewards, our reward was glory. So i propose to drop the last 2 tiers maybe even 3. There are not enough players to fill 8 tiers anymore & as the game gets older it will only get worse. Every tier should have a high population and lets be real….tier 7 & 8 arent medium population they are low population servers. K/D = action. T1 through 5 average over 30000/30000 , T6 15000, T7 & T8 combined 6000. That is beyond pitiful. Server pride is meaningless now. You need a server for that. We are willing to drop all the hard work we have done for this server just to have fun again, cause in the end its all meaningless if your not having fun. So drop at least two tiers and make it free transfers for everyone so we can have population balance, rejoin old friends & play with who we want to. Who else in the low servers is willing to agree with that & if not, then why not?
I can see overloading to be boring for a staff ely. But any other weapon set it is incredible. I use s/w & my 25 skill rotation with 3 overloads is extremely fun to play. The overloads are a great way for your cool downs to recharge & get you much needed stability if your in a pinch.
I Agree. I think all waypoints should be earned by upgrading them. This encourages people to protect their keeps and stick around the BLs. We use to make call outs to our people in EB to come help protect Hills and Bay because those waypoints were our easy access to protect our south BL. Now we have to run 50 miles just to get a tower back. I miss those epic battles at hills & bay. Bring back the old woman system.
I am soooo jealous. I’ve been working months on getting the hedge. It’s cost me my marriage & a second mortgage but I won’t give up till I have it at all costs. You be proud of that hedge. Might want to set it up on a pedastal so all can gaze in aww.
I also disagree with every one of your suggestions. There is only one problem with WvW & that’s population imbalance. All the other problems are superficial.
You may all be right that Anet doesn’t care about WvW. But I believe this single thread is going to change WvW forever & maybe even the world. There’s even rumors that this 1 week long boycott has shown Anet the error of their ways & forced them to create a WvW overhaul correcting these problems. I believe by this time next week we will all be celebrating & holding parades across EB in honor of anets hard work and dedication.
This has been a very productive week. New sexy runes, delicious foods, & my bank account is actually growing! I forgot there was a world outside WvW. Although it’s been hard adjusting. I keep yelling at all the pick ups in town to get on tag. I’ve even tried to build an AC to take out a flock of pocket raptors.
Next week IoJ will be back in full force so SOR & yaks bend better watch out!
Score:
Kaineng – 250,000
SOR. – 70,000
IoJ. – 60,000
Hello all, This is my first post because this is something that i feel so strongly about.
So a little background. IoJ has been steadily dropping for the last 6 months, hit rock bottom then raised up to tier 6. Then HoT came out and we lost a lot of guilds. We hit rock bottom again. Ive been working my kitten of posting events & trying to get guilds rallying, getting our facebook up our twitter, our webpages, everything, & its working. We have been growing numbers every week since HoT came out. Weve been holding steady in Tier 7 & we are happy with it. We understand these tiers lack coverage & lack population but we have a lot of people that really care about this server & we just want to have fun. To do that we need even matches or even “slightly” uneven matches. We call the outnumbered buff the IoJ buff cause weve had it for so long its normal, its part of the every day game experience. So T7 is SoR, IoJ & BP……that is a good match up…..we still get our kitten kicked but its good fights & we arent complaining. All of our servers have a good dedicated base & we understand that we need to go the extra mile in these hard times to rebound.Then we get paired with IoJ SOr & FC…Fc still way outnumbers both of us but still we can deal with it. good fights good fun. And now we are pair with Kaineng. Kaineng just won T6 & u you drop them to T7. Now neither of ur servers have a chance. You put a rank 16 against a rank 21 and 20. Add on top of the fact that they outnumber us 2 to 1 in every BL and EB but they use turtle and dragon banners too. In one failed swoop you have ruined both of our servers rebound. All the people we started getting back just quit WvW. We are trying to give everything we have to correct anets mistakes, building up the community getting more people involved & anet just continues to poop in our faces( yeah i said it). This isnt the only instance. This is a complete break down of the matches. At no point should someone 5 ranks above or below u be fighting you. We are trying our hardest to keep WvW relevant & you are throwing every thing u have against us. I havent been around for as long as most of u and im sure its been happening for awhile but i dont think u understandd what it does to a server. So IoJ is throwing this match. We are exausted we dont have the numbers and our will is dwindleing. So this Week IoJ will not be participating in WvW. Quit putting this off….this need corrected now….how many posts do we have to make for you to understand the urgency. The fact is that this has been my favorite game for 3 years & i hate seeing what has been happening to it. So Please Anet…..DO SOMETHING!
Super easy night capping fix… Combine NA & EU servers… T1 NA & T8 Eu.. T2 & T7 …. And so on….. Population problem fixed…. Coverage problem fixed… Now let’s all celebrate with a drink, cheers
Any volunteers for NA server to learn german?
They don’t listen to commanders in T7 anyway. Maybe being yelled at in German would help :-)
Super easy night capping fix… Combine NA & EU servers… T1 NA & T8 Eu.. T2 & T7 …. And so on….. Population problem fixed…. Coverage problem fixed… Now let’s all celebrate with a drink, cheers
I play a Tempest with 6 runes of radiance…When i put my armor on and off the duration of my auras do not change & the #6 attribute says increases aura duration by 33%. These are weapon auras like shocking aura and frost aura…and secondary auras like Aftershock with magnetic aura. I am also traited with powerful aura…turning that on and off does nothing and taking off tempest does nothing…so no auras have their duration increased. This is in PVE & WvW.
I play a Tempest with 6 runes of radiance…When i put my armor on and off the duration of my auras do not change & the #6 attribute says increases aura duration by 33%. These are weapon auras like shocking aura and frost aura…and secondary auras like Aftershock with magnetic aura. I am also traited with powerful aura…turning that on and off does nothing and taking off tempest does nothing…so no auras have their duration increased.
T6-T8 commander
Auto upgrades are killing the game. The first fix is a good step in the right direction. I would also like each tier of upgrade to be manually activated & the activator should get XP from it. Servers should not benefit by not taking care of their structures. This will stop everything from always being fortified. It will keep scouts & roamers on the BL’s to make call outs and bring more fights. If this is done the power core event needs to do a little less damage to T1 & T2 gates.
The second fix is also much needed. If you do this then you have to lower the supply of flame rams also. Most of us already use catas 90% of the time on the BLs cause taking down a cannon, 2 oils 5 guards & a fortified gate is ridiculous, especially with only 5 people. The only time I use rams in the BLs is after we do the power core event. In EB I use more rams but catas are still the seige of choice. So id suggest lowering rams by 5 supply. I still won’t use them but lowering them by 10 seems OP.
3rd fix: I think ppk is a good idea. By looking at the current ppk per team it looks like a single team could get around 5000 points by the end of the week. This is not a huge number but it could definitely make a difference between a win and lose. This would add another level to the game and make things more interesting.
I agree with the rally changes. Only one person should be able to rally off one person. This is a balanced change.
I don’t agree with not being able to res defeated players. This should be the commanders/leaders decision. Some times I’ll call out “no one res” so we don’t lose our momentum in the fight. Other times when we are outnumbered & can’t spare a single player I call out hard res. When this is done you are making your team vulnerable by stacking them in one spot during an active fight. The opposing team can bomb & kill A lot of players but some times this is a risk you have to take. This should be left up to the players to decide otherwise you are taking away an important element of the game.
Other mentionable fixes :
Fix random invulnerable walls
Fix glitched textures on walls
Add 20 min to seige decay
Fix bug that randomly kicks you off seige
Make waypoints only available at tier 3 upgrade to who ever owns the keep
One mans opinions thank you for taking feedback instead of just throwing random changes in. ~ Love, Knob
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