My opinion would be this build is horrible for roaming and subpar for team fights.
You slot traps but forgo traiting for traps?
You build for survivability with 1 big hit but give yourself no reliable way to deliver that hit.
You give yourself no way to avoid fights you cannot win.
Best of all, you choose save yourselves but have zero condi remove outside smiters boon??
You’ll be ignored until more effective players are dead then be mopped up yourself.
A lot of the GoM commanders seemed to pull back a bit after the link at first. Maybe deferring a bit to SoS commanders and maybe getting used to new tactics and the idea of leading blobvblob.
It’s nice to see more of them tagging up lately. Probably starting to feel more comfortable or noticing the lack of tags. GoM has a lot of good/fun pugmanders/havoc tags…really useful for low and disorganized numbers. Also a few good guild commanders from TM/Bliss/ART/etc/etc.
Maybe we’ll get a more favorable matchup next week and get things rolling again. Between the two servers we should have enough commanders to have tags just about everywhere.
I think GoM commanders have done a great job adapting. GoM also has a different coverage than SoS had/has. SoS is light on NA vs. other servers and GoM makes up for that to some degree.
There’s always roaming opportunities. There’s never 100% map coverage. I don’t understand how it’s worse for roaming now
Falling damage everywhere. I know people hated on Desert for lack of mobility, but that was corrected and it was easier to traverse than Alpine. Alpine’s citadel has to be the worst feature of the map, once you get south of the garrison it’s fine, but north of it? Pain in the kitten .
I agree and was hoping to see the safe area greatly shrunk so we could fight in the city rather than it being empty fluff.
I think this idea has merit, but for different reasons. Or, more specifically target populations. If ocx and sea populations were offered their own servers permanently matched against one another a ton of birds might be killed with one stone. They could become a permanent fixture of one tier, paired with whichever NA population best suits it for balanced score
All I can think of after reading this post is to just throw a server up in China (or any eastern Asian country really) for the OCX and Sea to play instead of having them connect to NA or EU servers or buy the Chinese edition. Nightcapping fixed! haha
I love having people from all around the world on NA servers, bit of a xenophile.
But their smaller population is greatly Affecting scores, and not being matched against one another is a frustration for them as well. Look at poor JQsea stuck away from BGsea, their primary competition. Or the perpetually scattered Aussies.
These communities suffer by being split by NA power migrations.
I think this idea has merit, but for different reasons. Or, more specifically target populations. If ocx and sea populations were offered their own servers permanently matched against one another a ton of birds might be killed with one stone. They could become a permanent fixture of one tier, paired with whichever NA population best suits it for balanced score
One of these days I’d like to see a “behind the music” about gw2
I mean, Tyler’s been here all along. Why is it just now all these great things are happening?
75% of people that vote in no way shape or form represents the number of players that do or do not like this change. most of the people that are against this change have already left, and check back once in a while hoping its been changed,
So you’re claiming proxy for anyone who’s doing anything else?
Convenient
Maybe petition for an empty, unpaired tier at the bottom instead?
My only complaint with the linking system is it isn’t proactively re-ranking and re-pairing often enough to compensate for player migration. Heard a good idea today, maybe even consider asymmetrical pairings to help the weakest servers, Going so far as to NOT pair some servers at all and some get multiple allies.
I remember the old days when SoR/BG/JQ would spend our last day just karma training one of the maps in a perfect circle. It was always a nice way to end the week.
Yeah that was great and it happened when TC replaced SOR as well. Of course YB, as they are wont to do, spoiled that party. YC couldn’t have a mutual K train oh no, it was only OK for them to k train on their terms.
It’s a dangerous habit to get your player community into. Quitting playing in earnest because there’s no chance of winning leads to things like push weeks and kill trading. EoTM exists, keep WvW pure.
While I’m sitting here waiting for a meeting to start, I have to ask why they don’t do Q/A session about what we’d like to see regarding DH/Guardian changes.
At the very least they can see where they can focus their efforts of thought and where the most impactful changes can be made.
Guardian/DH has some pretty clear and definitive holes and when we wait for changes and are met with graphical fixes, it’s very frustrating as a customer.
User input is how a melee paladin got morphed into a DPS ranger <,<
I think it would be for the best if reset happened right after I’m home from work and had a bite to eat, but way before those creepers on the west coast have a chance to compete with me for slots.
So I’m encouraging East Coasters to vote early, vote often in this poll. Down with Pacific Time.
TC farms BG for hours upon hours on end not bothering to take stuff.
Oh, and in what game are they doing that, “Farmville”? Sure as heck aren’t farming players in GW2…. Or, maybe BG is a new type of ore node in PvE? That would make sense then….
It’s called EU timezone.
you might be more comfortable commenting on t2 matters…
You can thank the Anet leak of server matches for this cluster kitten. BG, used the info to get stacked for free. Now Anet has moved on and considers the issue fixed.
I didn’t mind seeing but never using the spirit weapons untill scrapper. Now I know they don’t have to be useless, but are protoskills that never got attention.
As long as advantages are given to the weaker servers in match, maps don’t really need to be balanced. I’d go so far as to say the winning server should have no home BL and the loser 2
This is an important item to address. Because we can’t kill spies or take them out of play, some sort of counter play needs to be in place. Apparently this is happening a lot in tier 2 =\
Yes, that’s what I thought.
HUNT captured, sieged up, sentried and walked dolyaks for first QL and then Durios last weekend. Once we’d held the tower all the way to t3 some people felt we should relinquish our claim as we don’t have +5 supply yet.
The tower of those 2 we didn’t claim of course regularly flipping all weekend and available for non “trolls” to claim.
Highest contribution to the take gets first right of claim.
Wanting to use a particular guild’s claim as a mobile benefit dispenser has both upsides and downsides.
I noticed in the latest Guild Chat that Tyler seemed really glum, almost as if he expected all his recent work to get torn to shreds by us.. Afraid of the torches and pitchforks we’ve brandished so commonly since launch.
Well, that’s not the case from me at least. I can say I honestly feel like a new era has dawned, and I very much look forward to seeing what they do next. My personal boycot of the gem store is over, my faith is restored, I’m willing to invest in the game’s future and have an outlook on the future that faded way back in 2013.
Happy workers are good workers, let’s give the guys something nice to read for a change.
Personally I’m a fan of EvE or Max Payne style time dilation.
When a fight gets too big, or the server gets overloaded for whatever reason, slow game time down a bit. Everyone goes into a slow motion version of gw2 with skills, effects, movement all taking twice their normal value to complete.
Skill lag is the great diety Internet Reality smiting you for blobbing too much. What you’re asking for is a per-map population reduction.
Wasn’t that long ago 20v20 was a huge deal.
You are aware that if I am roaming around and there is a huge blob fight in garrison or something that I will still get skill lag? Are you new to WvW?
Me new?
Didn’t you make the thread about this thoroughly beaten horse?
Skill lag is the great diety Internet Reality smiting you for blobbing too much. What you’re asking for is a per-map population reduction.
Wasn’t that long ago 20v20 was a huge deal.
In all seriousness though, thanks for bringing this up. I’d been meaning to fix this for a while, but it fell off my radar in light of higher priority issues.
Good news: This is now fixed. Bad news?: This is fixed in the build where we disable Desert BL and bring back Alpine BL
DBL Camps: Reduced the number of base guards from 4 to 3.
DBL Camps: Base guards are now a combination of both Scout and Guard NPCs.
DBL Camps: Guards have been moved inside the capture circle.
Rotate plz
All 4 maps in use. Last week’s loser gets home advantage.
Loot based on tick is pretty interesting if we could solve some of the population and coverage issues. The only ktraining I see on my server is when the other server night caps everything every night and gradually pulls 50k to 100k ahead by end of week.
I try to tell myself I don’t care about ppt but I hate losing.
No it would exacerbate the issue currently. The reason I say this is, PPT is everything in glicko (if done right) and it would make doing PPT against servers with no population during certain times (like night capping) even more extreme.
Until glicko is fixed, nothing should be done like this.
Agreed
Certain times of the day are already stacked up on just one of three servers in a match for champ bags gained from flipping towers and keeps. Additional rewards for such behavior would only exacerbate imbalances.
