I really enjoyed myself on EB last night. I don’t play EB all that often these days so it was a nice change. It was also nice to be able to have a couple of really fun large SM fights without skill lag since a third server didn’t join the party during those engagements. Thanks for the fun JQ and FA!
uh u guys know about valk/zerker wells builds right? 2700 power, 100% crit damage, tons of vit and survivability, and an extremely deadly Deathshroud. imo, no reason to run wells any other way. starts at 13:50
Skilll lag will improve greatly by tomorrow. It usually only an issue on reset night and sometimes Saturday. I rarely run into these days playing late PST. In others words, it’s not nearly as bad as it seems or people yammer on about.
The queue has acted weird since release. Mike Ferguson even acknowledged that there was a problem back in February. I’m fairly confident that nothing was ever done about it though.
What happened to SoR? Did they all just give up after they lost the lead? :/
Nothing changed with the participation level on SoR. We aren’t going to pull an “all-call” just to combat your “all call”.
There was no server wide “all call” this week. As far as individual guilds I can’t say though, our NA turn out has been fairly nice this week.
GoF done an all-call but that influenced other people to play longer therefore causing an unexpected server wide all-call
I don’t think it was that simple, although I would agree that GoF lit a fire early this week. It just happened and picked up some steam. There are many variables that will determine the winner now, but in the end it really boils down to the server that is the most interested in a win any given week. Participation is down across the board in T1 by my estimation, but it feels like T1 is more balanced in terms of average numbers than it’s ever been, which is a good thing. Who will win next week? Whoever collectively cares the most throughout the week. That’s where things are it seems, and I’m cool with that. My 2 cents on the topic.
I’d expect the price of wood to drop to something more reasonable before too long. Probably half of where it is now or maybe more. As such I sold all my ancient wood and will craft after all the craziness settles down. Thankfully I’m not the type that needs everything right this minute. I’m not knocking those that do, just that it can be frustrating sometimes.
I would add one more point on that list.
Make boons and abilities prioritize your party members while in range, then everyone else. That change alone could add so much depth to fights…
P.S No, it doesn’t work that way now, its random.
Really? Then why do people want to party up so much? What are the benefits? (an honest question)
More loot, target icon when running without commander tag, party chat for coordination (banners, statics…), and ability to see HP and conditions of allies in party.
All valid reasons but I group because I get lonely and have detachment issues. HOLD ME!
Not in my opinion. At least Liadri could be worked on any time a player was online. In this event, when you’re down to the last couple of maps for the achievement, you’re at the mercy of the random chance of those maps running an invasion while you’re able to be online, assuming you actually know which maps you’re missing.
For me, I feel pretty strongly that the ONLY reason I completed 13/13 is because I was able to log into the game from a machine at work and check the invasion every hour. I don’t mind achievements like Liadri that can be completed any time and only requires some practice and skill. However, achievements based on randomness and as result a required amount of time online are not good and will inevitably lead to player frustration.
I finished 13/13 yesterday. I had a good idea of the last map I needed (Blazeridge) so I just camped out there. Turned out I was right. Also, my experience matches the dev quote above. In a couple circumstances, I did one or two portal events (making sure I received the event completion pop-up on the top right) then went afk. When I came back I had the reward box up and my Invasion Canceler achievement had ticked up by one.
I was lucky because I was able to think about each map I had done an invasion on and had a good feeling on which one I was missing, in addition to not being hit with the credit bug. Unfortunately, I bet there’s a ton of players that have no clue (due mainly to the achievement credit bug) and are just throwing darts at this point. For such a large number of maps, they really should have had listing of maps that a player completed in the achievement panel.
Yep it’s been reported by Necros for awhile now, with no acknowledgement from Anet that I’m aware of. That one second without being able to trigger a heal can sometimes mean the difference between living and dying. It’s pretty annoying.
The mats will absolutely drop in WvW. In addition, generally speaking, we are putting a heavier emphasis on finding long-term solutions to redressing the reward imbalance between PvE and WvW. I can’t claim they will ever be 100% equal all the time, but we would like it to never be the case that you are choosing between playing WvW and getting good rewards. The two should be one in the same.
The weird thing Devon is that there appears to be a disconnect at Anet between the people in direct contact with the player community and the people who make reward balance decisions. I hate to keep bringing this up, but I was pretty vocal about a statement Colin made about WEXP reward chests and “a lot more ectos”. As we’ve seen, his statement was a marathon length away from reality. I’ve literally created 10 times more ectos from a bit of PVE since Champ chests were introduced than the same or larger time investment in WvW. It’s as if Colin expected it to be like that, but someone else didn’t.
Hopefully this does get corrected sooner rather than later. I’ve personally seen WvW participation take a hit recently (myself included for a variety of reasons) due largely to the August PVE content and players not wanting miss the gold rush.
What happened to BG’s SEA this week so far? taking the week off? I can tell by the lack of chest thumping by BG trolls.
The entire server is taking the week off. Plenty of people zerging in PvE though. People keep telling me, “next week it’ll go back to normal.” I’ve heard that three weeks running now. But Anet isn’t going to stop releasing new PvE crap to grind so Blackgate is going to have to decide what they like more: massive amounts of gold or WvW. I prefer WvW so I’m not sure how long I’m going to stay on BG because I want to play with like minded players who are passionate about WvW and absolutely bored by PvE. That used to be Blackgate, but I’m not so sure anymore…
BG has taken 1st place in T1 7 times in the past 10 weeks, including a streak of 5 in a row. I think it’s natural for a group of players to scale back from the effort required to achieve that and take part in other elements of the game, or possibly even play other games. We saw it with JQ, and we might be seeing it with BG now. Also, I personally think the culture of BG enjoys the road to winning more than winning itself. That’s just a theory of mine though and I could be wrong.
The bottom line is, winning for too long will take its toll on participation, and will often be followed by a lull period in interest and activity. The best course of action (in my opinion) is to stick it out and ride the wave from peak to trough then back to the peak again. If more players did this and had some patience I think we’d have a lot more happy gamers.
For those crashing at Scarlet, a reasonable work around is simply let the map kill her and wait. You’ll still get the full event reward (once per day per map) and achievement credit. All you lose out on is the once per day boss chest. Yeah it’s 2 rares but might be worth giving up to avoid a crash.
I was just stating a positive quality about sor not badmouthing any other server. you shouldn’t take it so negatively.
Haha please. Given the number of times you’ve personally bad mouthed BG’s community (I believe “toxic” is your word of choice) while always placing a halo on the head of your own server, are you really surprised by some of the reactions to your post? A little bit of impartiality once in awhile could go a long way towards people buying some of what you spew on these forums.
For many of the guilds, WvW is what they do between the GvGs. You take away the GvGs and you will likely lose them for the WvW as well. It’s a package, you get it all (good and the bad) or you get none of it (just the bad).
Wow I’m agreeing with Burl. Some unprecedented agreements have taken place in this thread. But yeah, I agree.
Tonight has been quite possibly the most epic night ever in SoR history.
Good watch. Those crazy Garri defenses can be fun sometimes. Who was the commander on TS? James? I thought I saw a Choo tag on the commander but I’m not really familiar with SoR commanders outside of a few notables. Good energy though I liked it.
Also, you missed your 3rd floor jump. You’re fired.
This question is asked quite often, with varying opinions on the subject. If you dig back through this forum a bit you’ll probably find some detailed discussions.
My views on the matter and general rule of thumb …
Solo/Small group = Condition Damage
Large group/Zerg = Power
To be perfectly honest, it’s very hard to beat MOS. However, I do really like your “King of the Castle” page. One thing you may want to consider adding is the total number of points earned from holding SM. In fact, I’ve always been interested in the points earned and time occupied for every objective on every map, or at least summarized down to SM, Keeps, Towers and Camps.
Summary: It’s a nice simple design and looks great. Bonus points for a cool SM page. That said, I don’t see this drawing me away from MOS.
Nope. I did like the coin though, along with the occasional exotic or lodestone that would pop up on the loot scroll as I’m clicking boxes. 30ish boxes per successful run was a bit dumb though. I hadn’t farmed in months so I had some tolerance for the boredom, and I probably will continue for a short while after the next most efficient Champ farm rotation gets running just to pad the coffers a bit more.
i went to orr to farm it a little, except we weren’t doing the lame event fail farm, we were just running a path that hits 4 champions over and over, that being said i didn’t make much, just got some mats (a couple t6) and a crap load of greens. If they nerf it more than that….jesus
Those are the Champs they won’t touch, and are likely considered working as intended. What will likely be nerfed are scaled up dynamic events that spawn a ton of Champs (due to the scale up effect). My guess is they will greatly reduce the number Champs that spawn on each wave, and possibly increase the reward for event completion.
I wasn’t really paying attention when they added Champs to scaled up DEs, but I always guessed it was to slow down DE farming in places like Orr and make it a bit harder when there are many players involved, so this issue is a side effect of that change.
Edit – I should clarify that it will likely be timed events, such as the Ember event in Orr that sees a large reduction in the number of Champs that spawn. DEs that are based on a fixed travel path and/or a set number of waves likely will not. I predict that this will not stop Champ farming, but move it back to the previous method which is a zerg bouncing around between a few events rather than sitting at Meddler’s Waypoint all day.
Setting transfer prices based on total server population has always been the incorrect way to approach the situation, particularly when the primary reason people transfer is WvW. They must have stats on average population in WvW per server. The transfer cost should be based on those numbers, not total server population which is largely irrelevant.
I’ll start. The other day I was roaming and two Riot folks jumped me. It was totally unfair! They should have duelled me 1v1.
Riot is more fun when Boulderbolg gets drunk, flips on a commander tag and leads a zerg. The last time he did it I was shocked to find out he actually knows what a flame rams is and where to drop it. Then again we also zerged the bajeezus out of an Iron Ore node so there’s still room for improvement.
LOL that’s meaaaan!!! He didn’t do THAAAAT bad hahahah :P
He did awesome! That night was epic fun, for the bit I was there until my queue for EBG popped. My comment about the flame ram was more about a skirmisher commanding a zerg and poking a bit of fun at an old server friend.
I’ll start. The other day I was roaming and two Riot folks jumped me. It was totally unfair! They should have duelled me 1v1.
Riot is more fun when Boulderbolg gets drunk, flips on a commander tag and leads a zerg. The last time he did it I was shocked to find out he actually knows what a flame rams is and where to drop it. Then again we also zerged the bajeezus out of an Iron Ore node so there’s still room for improvement.
All shifts of our server have worked hard this week. We have worked hard as well at organizing the server the past two weeks. We are giving it 100%. JQ is 2 vs 1 just like everyone else during NA. It is the nature of the beast. I give our server the credit if we win because we have worked hard for it. Crediting hatred between SoR and BG is just false.
Props to JQ on the win this week, well deserved.
SoR just focused BG because they wanted them to sit down and stop chest thumping, but also its like the only way bg will come out and play
Nothing is decided yet, too much time left for anything to be final. SoR can come first and JQ can drop to 2nd/3rd.
Or JQ can come first and BG can come 2nd. Anything is possible.
BG is ~50K out from 2nd with ~26 hours to go.
This week is decided, go out there and have fun.
Congrats JQ!
Concur. Get some good fights and maybe some GvGs in tonight. Grats on pushing for the win this week JQ! Overall it was an amazing effort given how things have gone for you the past few months.
MERC is a decent enough guild tbh that does work, it’s just bad luck for their part that they are always on a server that doesn’t match their efforts and doesn’t respect them.
This is one of the silliest things I’ve read around here in awhile. Although considering the source, I shouldn’t be surprised. One of these days you might post something on these forums that you actually know something about.
Well WvWvW in theory sounds good but if this goes on ppl will get bored and turned off with this 2v1 crap. Anet should give the server getting 2v1 a big buff to prevent such things from happening this is an immediate patch needed. Otherwise, the game before crap for 1 server.
Nope, not in my book. Working as intended. BGvSoRvJQ is really the only match that is balanced enough to actually play the 2v1 card effectively. BG won 5 straight. It’s natural for the other two servers to change that if they have the ability to do so. Both servers want to knock BG down a notch.
Don’t fret over it. It’s the cycle of the game, and it will pass like it did last time. Be happy that there isn’t one server dominating every single match. That’s the recipe for boredom, not 2v1s.
In a February interview with Mike Ferguson, he actually eluded to changes to the lake that I think we may now be seeing in the map update to the Borderlands. Here is the snip …
It’s very difficult to increase the size of the maps due to technical limitations, however we are working on some changes that will address many of the concerns about the borderlands, particularly the lake in the middle. We have quite a few big plans in store for the borderlands that we’ve started working on so we can hopefully start revealing more about that in the near future!
My bet is they’re going to totally remove, or at least greatly shrink the lake down to a moat like body of water surrounding some kind of objective and the side that controls this objective will receive some kind of buff (orb buff replacement).
You’re supposed to pick up the meat? I didn’t bother. I merely condi-DPSed the guy down too quickly for the dog to get many stacks, then brought down the dog; as the dog’s attacks have huge telegraphs.
The meat increases your damage significantly. Also, denying the dog meat gets you the achievement. I did it with my Condi gear/build with 30/30/10. In fact I did the whole gauntlet with this build.
Grab the meat and kill the dog first is the best way to go IMO.
So it looks like BG’s SEA population gives up once they face a little bit of adversity. They can’t pick on SoR’s smaller SEA population anymore and they have to actually try and fight now that JQ is back in the picture.
Some people show up and fight it out no matter the odds (SoR), and some people crumble under the pressure (BG). Shame.
Shots fired! Also, you have a short memory dude.
MAN DOWN!
But seriously, at least our SEA was able to tick higher than 100 PPT.
Take a look at the week 28 match, which is the last time SoR SEA was being focused by two servers.
So it looks like BG’s SEA population gives up once they face a little bit of adversity. They can’t pick on SoR’s smaller SEA population anymore and they have to actually try and fight now that JQ is back in the picture.
Some people show up and fight it out no matter the odds (SoR), and some people crumble under the pressure (BG). Shame.
Out of pure curiosity since I like to keep up with these things, what guilds joined JQ while you were out of “tier 1” and from what servers? Definitely want to know!
Since our last confrontation we lost [ACO] and [WARD] to SoR,
and we gained Zombieland[WvW]
That’s about it, the rest are still the same old guilds you’re facing.
Suuuure [WvW] is a new guild. :P
Anyway, a couple JQ mentioned new guilds (particularly NA timezone) joined. Just wanted a name or two, but I guess trolling is a good enough answer.
He wasn’t trolling, we gained Zombieland from GoM (you can look them up, they actually exist xD) but we did lose two decent sized, fairly “hardcore” guilds in WARD and ACO. so in the end, our overall WvW population is virtually unchanged.
I’m really not sure what’s up with BG this week. I’m sure that the being focused fairly heavily by both servers in several time zones is not helping, but the BG i know would never drop down to 50 PPT during NA prime regardless. I’ve heard rumours of some internal drama, I don’t really want to know what’s going on, that’s for you guys to sort out, but I certainly hope things go back to normal soon.
Sunday to Tuesday has been pretty weak for us lately. No internal issues that I’m aware of. Just people not showing up. Worn out, farming champs, new content… Who knows. No biggy though. The cycle is always turning.
