Jade Quarry is such a resilient and strange server.
Strange in what sense?
Strange in that they can come from losing in third place by a large margin to stealing first place, which even SoR couldn’t seem to snag from BG. :P
Nothing strange about it in my eyes. JQ has always been strong server at the core, with solid tactics and commanders that really know map politics. Like with all servers, the core just needs every one else to show up. A couple weeks of karma farming and no/low pressure tends to bring these folks back. I’m not calling them fairweathers by the way, just more casual types.
In my eyes, the simple fact is they won for too long, which lengthened their slump. Winning in WvW for too long can have some very negative consequences. The key to a comeback is to keep the core together and connected and avoid frustrations and drama that can tear you apart from within.
Well, that and a clear 2v1 doesn’t hurt (wink wink wink).
Also, always fun running into you guys Jed. Saturday night on BGBL after you guys pulled off our NE tower and headed north, we called to cut you off at North camp, only to get there and find a good sized SoR force already there. So we said “okay let’s let them clash in the camp and strike from behind (huehue)”. So we moved right around a hut and the next thing on TS was “uhhh JQ is coming for us instead”. LOL! Always a good time.
Pot when BG runs from us, whats left to fight? If you guys would just man up and realise if you die in game you dont die in real life you could actually fight us.
hi Star, there is a difference between running, fighting smart and suicide, we calculate if our position is to our advantage as well as numbers, we dont just jump in whenever we see SOR and IRON. I am sure you know this IRON/SOR or any other server does this. it is not a question of you not die in game or not but the morale of BG people who runs with us, they should have the mind set that the commander is leading them to glory not slaughter.
guess thats the difference between us and you. if we have 20 and see 30-40. we will hit it
I’ve personally witnessed TW running from greater numbers plenty of times. There’s nothing wrong with it. It’s what good groups do when you know you’re not going to come out on the other side alive, and for most it’s for the same reason in most people’s heads, which tends to be “why give those clowns a free bag?”.
I’m all for no guts no glory, but let’s keep it real here.
Tonight reminded me of much I miss SF. Great fun tonight guys. Still one of the premier guilds in the game and always makes zoning into WvW fun. Thanks!
Guys, wait to see what the buffs do before freaking out. Anet understood that the previous orb buffs only made the strongest server stronger. My guess is it’ll be something along the lines of defense against guards/lords and maybe increased Wexp. Something like that and not direct stat buffs.
Devon has always been a good communicator with the WvW players. He also tends to post in flurries, probably due to being busy working on the game and not having a lot of time for the forums. Working as intended IMO.
They are removing the lake on each BL. No more krait, no more Quaggan nodes. In place of the lake will be some kind of control point or tower and whatever side owns it will receive a buff similar to the previous orb buffs.
Maybe I wasn’t imagining things after all. I’ve also noticed a distinct reduction in the amount of bags on the ground after a fight the past couple of nights.
I wish I could tolerate killing the same thing over and over, or farming in general in this game. I guess that’s probably why I always have less than 100g. Back in the day, I could farm for hours when a rare drop was involved, but the volume farm of GW2 just doesn’t hold my attention.
I just finished my 30 Tower achievement, and received loot from every chest, including chests that had been opened by players ahead of me. Certain tower chests may be bugged, but once the gate is open any player can run to the top and open the chest until the tower closes again and a new event is required to re-open it.
I don’t mind GvGs at all. Yes, it can be frustrating sometimes when you’re losing holdings on a queued map with one of your guilds doing a GvG, but you know what? They’re just holdings. Those holdings will be flipped back and forth all over the place over the course of a week long match. If a guild wants to GvG once in awhile, and it keeps them interested in the game and coming out and fighting for the server when they’re not GvGing, and are more efficient in the open field due to their GvG experience, then heck yeah I’ll take it and be happy they’re on my team. It’s better than those players getting bored with the game and quitting.
My 5 year old daughter is going to love this. I’ll have to have her listen to the announcer and see if she recognizes the voice. Yeah, so, my house is basically a My Little Pony shrine, and my 3 year old constantly sings the songs from the series. The price a guy pays for having all girls.
Is it the the new pve content? Where is everyone (SOR included)?
New event stuff I guess. I checked it out a bit earlier from work and we thought WvW blobs were bad? Holy smokes! Our zergs ain’t got nothing on the pve event zergs.
It’s always been this way and known for quite some time. The score keeps ticking, and Yaks keep running supply. Longer maintenance like this one can have a serious impact on the outcome of a match, especially when a server understands the mechanic and tries to capitalize on it.
Lots? I don’t know about that. But some trickle down can and will happen for various reasons. BG had a smallish (but very skilled) guild move to BP last month to get away from the blob meta of T1. They liked to run tagless as a smaller ops crew and it can be frustrating when you can get insta-gibbed by a map blob. Blobs come and go in T1 but they do form often enough to frustrate certain types of players and guilds.
As far as skill lag goes, it happens sometimes, but as others have stated here, it’s not as bad as some make it out to be. It really only comes up during large SMC fights and 3-way Garrison fights. Both queues and skill lag can be an issue on reset night but generally disappear by Sunday with random infrequent flare ups here and there throughout the week.
The fact remains that the upper tiers is where players will most reliably find action during the times that they play. Servers with a large base of off-hour players (Oceanic/SEA/EU) will naturally rise to the top tiers due to the ability to score points during those hours, and tend to stay there because that’s where the action is during their play times. I play late NA (9pm server time start) which sometimes bleeds into early Oceanic, and there is always constant action well into the early hours of the morning when I go to bed. I enjoy this personally.
There will always be movement, but a mass exodus is not, and probably won’t happen.
..and anecdotal evidence says the map you queue up from, the manner in which you queue (B screen vs. a portal in LA), and moving maps while queued can all have an impact on queue length.
Do we know which is a better route to take, or is it all up in the air?
Not really, no. It’s pretty much voodoo and witchcraft. However, I tend to get the best results (i.e. not notice any queue shenanigans) when queuing from either the mists or another WvW zone. Since I don’t like standing around doing nothing, if my guild is in a map with a queue, I’ll usually zone into a non-queued map and queue from there and play until it pops.
I’ve personally noticed longer than expected queues when queuing from the LA overflow or maps where I’m downleveled. Somehow being downleveled may effect things but there’s no fact behind that, or any of this really. Just anecdotal observation.
Actually there is. Mike Ferguson acknowledged it in an interview back in February after Anet had reduced map population caps briefly as a test and queues for many servers skyrocketed. Here’s the snippet …
Queues do indeed behave in a strange manner. Unfortunately, I don’t have any more news about that as it does boil down to resources. It’s a fixable problem, but we need some time from a very specialized type of programmer for that job and they’re all currently busy with other tasks.
I personally doubt they ever fixed it, as the issue was greatly reduced when they raised the map caps back to their previous sizes. It is definitely possible to be stuck in a queue far longer than one should, and anecdotal evidence says the map you queue up from, the manner in which you queue (B screen vs. a portal in LA), and moving maps while queued can all have an impact on queue length.
Fun times this week, although I only got 3 nights in including last night which was a bit ofa snorefest. Go to see you again TC! I’m sure we’ll be running into each other again soon enough. Here’s to a happy reset! Time to pop a beer.
Nvm Sykko told me what this is really about. I get it now.
It goes back a ways, but the grudge is still there it seems. Good grudges die hard. There was some dialog between KnT and TW that dates all the way back to November, that I believe still to this day causes us to gun for each other when the opportunity arises. I think it’s a good thing in the long run. Rivalries and scores to settle keep many of us motivated and interested.
I zoned into WvW at about 5:30 pm server time tonight to buy some gear and there was no queue on either enemy BL. By 6pm KnT was getting rolling on BG BL which was queued but it sounded short. I play late NA (9pm server start) and rarely have queue issues.
Also, maybe it’s when I play, but I don’t run into skill lag all that often. Yes it comes here and there, but from my experience it’s not nearly as bad as some of you seem to make it out to be. I mean, if things were terrible, I’d be bummed and maybe consider transferring from the server I’ve been on since day 1 and quite fond of, but it’s not terrible, and the regular action and great fights wins out over some skill lag here and there.
Anet could solve the point differential made by overwhelming SEA numbers is to just turn of the PPT during the overnight hours. Or at least the overnight hours native to that area. Basically when people should generally be sleeping, the points don’t tick..
Would that make people happy? How might the results look then?
The intent of you post seems honest so I think it deserves an honest response.
The fact is, this game is available to be purchased and played by just about anyone in the world, and because of this, Anet cannot lock out content to the prime play times of one specific region. When a player in North America is usually sleeping, a player in Australia just got home from work, ate dinner, and is ready for some WvW. Not to mention there are people who may work a grave shift, and play during work/school hours for many.
This forum started out nicely and then it is going down south now. T1 thread, you never disappoint with the drama! Thanks for the entertainment!
It’s usually triggered by a large shift in momentum and often times a leader change. As you probably know, BG and SoR have been at each other for about 7 months, literally. 29 weeks of the last 37 weeks BG and SoR have fought each other. That’s 2 months worth of matches out of 9 total months where we weren’t going at it. Needless to say, enough has happened and enough words have been exchanged over those 29 matches that niceties rarely last long in any match thread, especially since JQ’s numbers fell off a bit and BG and SoR started duking it out for 1st place. It’s basically back to how things were in T2, which I’m sure many of you Toasters remember.
Anyhoo, I’d imagine it’s somewhat similar to TC’s long standing rivalry with FA. I wish things were different sometimes, but it is what it is, and in the end it may be a good thing. The rivalry and competition is probably a strong motivator for many players on all sides.
I also have no issues what so ever with 5 points in Spite for the Health on Kill proc, infact i recently suggested such a build to a player for a mass snowball effect using this and sigils.
That was me!
Anyone else want to share their opinion of on-kill effects like Restoration in organized ZergvZerg encounters? I’m tempted to continue down the path I’ve already began using the sigil and 5 in the Spite tree but Ascii’s criticisms of on-kill sigils does make a lot of sense.
Melandru runes might be expensive to buy but remember they are runes on temple armour so 252k karma will get you the runes from salvaging.
I am pretty sure you cant salvage karma armor for runes (its what ive heard and makes sense), otherwise I imagine melandru runes would be worth about 20s :p
I believe you’re right. Probably why doing this hadn’t occurred to me initially. Down deep somewhere in my muddled brain I knew karma armor can’t be salvaged.
Melandru runes might be expensive to buy but remember they are runes on temple armour so 252k karma will get you the runes from salvaging.
I can’t believe this didn’t occur to me. I was looking at the price on the TP last night with a disappointed look on my face (I hate spending gold). Of course I have more karma than I will ever spend however.
However, I do have a minor question. Is the reason for not having a Sigil of Bloodlust on one of your weapons because of you being a frontline breaker?
I’m sure Ascii, like most, has a weapon with Bloodlust on it then swaps to his primary sigil at 25 stacks.
Didn’t think a good match-up would ever happen again. Makes me wish I could do it all night long
…unfortunately sleep is a biological necessity…
~From TC With Love~
Sleep is for weak. Yeah I’m drunk, and will pass out soon, but I’m still following a blue weird shaped thing and pressing every button on my keyboard at the same time (with my face usually). But sleep is for the weak. I’m weak. Nigh nigh!
