I was just involved in a defense of SM against ye ole BG zerg. They got through the first wall so I ran to the gate and was excited to see we had around 8 AC there. I quickly go and pick a superior AC in a safe spot. Next thing I know 8,10,12,14k damage. It was melted in about 3 seconds. It appears to be an elementalist animation. Im not familiar with them, Ive played them but don’t really like them. Is it elementalists that are nearly instantly destroying siege from positions no other class can hit?
This came up last week as well. From what I’ve gathered, it’s a bug which I’d rather not be detailed about so it’s not abused until it’s fixed (I also have not seen conclusive proof). Also, because of the nature of it, it’s very possible that the person responsible didn’t even know they were doing it, as it doesn’t require doing anything outside of typical and normal game play.
Keep in mind that depending on where the encounter is taking place, it could be of strategic value to cut your losses and retreat to a nearby holding to potentially defend it. You guys know what happens when a zerg rolls another zerg near a keep or tower owned by the zerg that just got rolled. The winning zerg uses that momentum and often rushes for that keep/tower and throws down rams, often before the dead can reform and respond.
Just thought I’d throw it out there that there can be strategic value to running like a weeny. In the open field away from anything however, it’s game on and you shouldn’t be running anywhere besides head on into your enemies.
Hmm more damage control for BG? Vodka has successfully posted 13 of the 26 posts on this page, all within the last hour. I guess the fact there NA has become a non-factor has made them defensive.
Damage control? Vodka is one person, expressing his views, and in doing so he speaks for himself, not for any server. None of us are the all mighty speakers of our respective servers.
Yeah, I’ll be back in diapers before I see any of these titles in their current form. To say some of them need to be toned down a lot is an understatement. Glad to hear you guys will be looking at them.
For me personally, I enjoy getting on voice comms with a lot of people and my guild, killing enemy players, taking objectives, fighting for the glory of your server and having a few laughs. To put it simply, it’s the people. If you’re out there solo relying on map chat to know what’s going on and randomly following commanders around you’re probably going to get bored fast. Some may enjoy WvW in this playstyle, and all the power to them, but not me.
Anyone who watched the March “State of the Game” video shouldn’t be surprised by this. They made it fairly clear that the WvW Leaderboard would only consist of the server rankings that were already published weekly, which nobody really looks at because the information was available days earlier via a 3rd party website.
JQ zerg (predominantly EMP… not necessarily them) view-hacking through north inner gate on bay 10 mins ago. Real classy guys.
See that gear right over the opposite side of the door in your shot? That’s an arrow cart, and the operator can use normal line of sight through the gap over the door and hit the inside. No shenanigans required.
Thanks for the video link. I had never seen the presentation before, but it’s really opened my eyes as to the issue going on here. From what I can understand, there is a certain gameplay environment that at certain times goes over Anet’s allocated CPU budget. Like any business, Anet will allocate the smallest amount of resources to provide a fluid and enjoyable gameplay environment. The big question is, will they decide to address these spikes by increasing their CPU budget, or will they decide that it is not worth it from a cost/benefit standpoint.
The only time I’ve ever seen skill lag in T4/T5 is when all three teams have their biggest zergs fighting in the same space — generally this only happens at Stonemist.
Culling didn’t impact this one way or another as far as I can tell. It’s one reason I don’t like Eternal as much but you can also just avoid Stonemist. While the 3-way-zergfest is there, go cap some towers.
This is where it used to happen most often, because of the number of players you could often find in one small area (SM Lord’s room). Mike Ferguson even specifically mentioned “lag issues players experience during some of the larger fights around Stonemist” in a February interview.
“We generally try to avoid changing the limits as it greatly impacts the game, but it is one of the things we can manually adjust to help us evaluate our changes when they go live. After the last patch we tried reducing the limit quite a bit more than what has been typical for the last few months to see if we could ease some of the lag issues players experience during some of the larger fights around Stonemist, but changed it back after a few days because we didn’t see a major improvement and it was just too detrimental to the game.”
They tried reducing the map population limit (something I think many of us remember) and it didn’t provide meaningful improvements vs. the downsides (queues). I think the problem now is larger clashes are often taking place outside of SM, in Borderlands for example, where it didn’t happen as often before, if ever. The result is more players are experiencing skill lag where for a long time it was mainly limited to large 3-way fights for SM. I really do think this is because the number of players following a single commander has grown in recent months, and ballooned recently when WEXP was introduced because zerging is the most time efficient way to gain that WEXP.
I think the fairest way to look at this is all servers have groups that run, and all servers have groups that do not. Which server has the most of one or the other is not a very good platform to try to make a stance on who’s better than another, because the data is heavily skewed by personal perception and player bias. I’ve seen groups and guilds run when I didn’t think they should have, but that doesn’t mean I think everyone on that server runs from a fight, nor do I think that group runs all the time. Every encounter has it’s own set of many many different and constantly changing variables that there’s no way to draw any specific conclusions.
Sadly, the only solution available right now is to physically avoid zergs. Players are bunch up more than ever these days and when one ball clashes with another the servers can’t process all the incoming client information real time.
I’m about as far from a software or hardware engineer as it gets, so I’ll refrain from commenting on how to fix it, other than the obvious that something needs to change so all the information from these clustered groups can be processed real time.
Sending in support tickets isn’t going to help. The people at Anet who can actually do something about it already know about it. In fact, the ninja drop on the wvw map cap a few months back was done as a test to see if it would help with the skill lag.
All we can do is wait and hope they get it figured out.
FoO doesn’t finish a night without at least making a run at BG garrison, and they usually Golem rush it. They target BG garrison for the strategic advantage and to hurt BG morale. It’s kind of their thing these days.
You know boulderbolg that post really says a lot about you, and if your views are indeed shared by the rest of your server them too. I find it odd that you would even remotely think that moving down to t2 would be “fun”. And I say that because we have a very competitive tier now. And really if you were to go down to t2 the way your server is now it would be a blowout. There wouldn’t be much competition. Maybe you forgot http://mos.millenium.org/matchups/history/23#NA
So unless your idea of “fun” is being the biggest bully in the playground then you are exactly where you should be.
Besides the only way anyone is moving up or down is if a server implodes or a T2 server mass recruits and blows out the other servers in T2.
You have to understand Boulderbolg and his guild to understand why he might say that. His guild prefers small scale open field encounters, like 5v5 or 10v10, which has been very difficult for them to find in T1, while they found it quite often back when we were in T2. So it’s absolutely not about wanting to be the big bully in town, but rather finding fights more in line with their preferred playstyle.
As far as the generalization about SoR, I know where I stand and where my community stands. What I am saddened by is the toxicity that has spread on this forum as of late trying to break down communities. Without further hijacking this thread, I will just say that we as a GW2 community should look down on anyone trying to break down another server/guild/family.
As far as the generalization about SoR, I know where I stand and where my community stands. What I am saddened by is the toxicity that has spread on this forum as of late trying to break down communities. Without further hijacking this thread, I will just say that we as a GW2 community should look down on anyone trying to break down another server/guild/family.
Nice post. What I find hard to believe is that some members of your own community would believe this. I’m not a part of your server and never have been, but if somebody told me this I’d ask if they’d been eating paint chips.
Also, a Bengals fan living in the Bay Area? Ouch. The 80’s must have been rough for you. I can relate though. I grew up in San Jose during the same time (I was a teenager in the 80s) but was a Rams fan. No clue why. I think I liked their helmets or something.
I read earlier in this thread that defensive buffs apply to everyone in the area of the AoE – is this still accurate? What about AoE heals? I remember being told quite a while ago that they also only applied to 5 ppl which led to me re-spec’ing my ele for offense.
Heals were changed from unlimited to 5 max back in November. If I recall, buffs are limited to 5 players as well (such as quickness, swiftness, etc). The skills that do not have a player limit are the wall skills, such as the Mesmer skill Veil.
Sorry for this nooby question but what is this AoE cap you guys are talking about? Is it just there is a cap on the amount of people an AoE can damage?
Yes. If you launch an AoE, and there are 10 enemy players standing in your AoE circle, it will only hit 5 of them.
The same phenomenon was reported earlier in this thread against siege on a BG held Hills keep. The best theory that was briefly thrown out there was that it might be a bugged Mesmer skill.
1 hour queue on a Wednesday? Jebbus what server do you play on?
Europe
Consider that servers like SFR got even 5-6 hours queue , starting 5 pm to 12 pm
And all servers t1 -t3 got queue durring prime time
Why ? Is US wvwvw lower populated?
I think US servers simply have a lower PvP population. I guess we yanks are just a bunch of carebears. Granted, I play on the later edge of NA primetime (I usually log on around 9pm Pacific), but I haven’t waited in a queue for over 15 minutes in months, and I play on the current #2 NA server.
Anyways, yeah I support the idea that if you’re disconnected you should keep your spot in the queue for some period of time, assuming the mechanic is possible to implement.
Is this a bad moment to put in a childish fart joke?
You know as well as I that it’s never a bad moment for a childish fart joke. The day I stop laughing about farts is the day I sign off from the world for good.
No, keep this going, people love hearing themselves talk or read their own text. ::gets popcorn::
Speaking of which do you guys ever do voice overs for some of the posters here? It’s even more fun to have a voice go along with each of the posters and use that all through the writings.
I do sometimes. For example, I read Jed’s posts in the voice of Cookie Monster. It just works.
I only pop into this forum once in awhile to see if anyone has posted interesting WvW builds and videos that I hadn’t thought of before, to see if it might perk my interest in playing my Engi again. Otherwise I’ve played my Ele full time since November and haven’t really looked back.
Habib Loew specifically stated that players are experiencing skill lag “because the server [is] too busy to process everything that’s happening (e.g. it’s at 100% CPU).” I don’t see how using a proxy can solve this problem unless you had an entirely different issue causing skill lag on top of the server side computing skill lag.
I don’t know. Maybe they simply don’t want people to focus on how Dolyaks impact the scoreboard, and rather focus on their core function in the game. Still, it’s hard to ignore a mechanic that can represent a whopping 20ish% of a match’s total score.
I’m honestly surprised that we haven’t gotten definitive info from someone at Anet on this yet. I’d have to think that at minimum, Mike, Matt or Habib know the answer. From their silence on the topic, as well as not responding to the question in the “Willing to share WvW details?” thread, all I can assume is that they don’t want players to know the exact numbers because it somehow may negatively impact the way people play the game.
It was our last T3 keep. Little doubt we were going to give it everything we had. Later on it got really close to losing it. We were running super thin on numbers, many gates and walls were sub 50% with starved supply (hate you JQ supply havoc squads.. I’m looking at you SF) and we were saved at the last minute. Big props to JQ on your tenacity tonight.
My gut still tells me it has something to do with the guesting feature implementation, a suspicion I have based solely on when it went in and when skill lag started to be reported.
That’s also the exact time transfer guilds stacked t1 before free transfers ended.
True, but T1 had 4 hour queues for large amounts of the day during the first month following launch. Where was the skill lag then?
They reduced the caps in February which had a very negative impact on queue times while having no noticeable improvement on skill lag (according to Mike Ferguson). They know there’s a problem, but I’m not sure they know exactly what is causing it.
My gut still tells me it has something to do with the guesting feature implementation, a suspicion I have based solely on when it went in and when skill lag started to be reported.
They have engineers that know how to take out siege. If you play tpvp on battle of khylo you’ll witness people taking out treb in 2 to 3 hits.
But he said it was cumulative damage, which rules out everything an Engineer has besides Flamethrower #1, and there’s no way the Flamethrower is hitting siege at the back of a battlement, or doing that kind of damage even if it did.
