Guild Wars 2

Took me awhile to find him and the ramp up, but yea no jumping required for the final battle….

Welcome TC guild…

Shadows Creed.3902:

I’m going to just ask the obvious here…. How has this not been closed yet lol

Weekend

Basch.1347:

Liston.9708:

Top spot of t3 is like t2 1/2 so you will outnumber whoever the other 2 are….. At least you are closer in pop than the new hod – FA.

I lol’d at this. FA is back to the same population levels as it was pre-S2, nothing new about it. New HoD? Really? 2 HoD guilds transfer to FA and all of a sudden we’re the new HoD? Yes, we’re getting guild transfers by the load because FA is a strong, organized community with a fun playing environment. Part of that is the ability to raise gold donations to help guilds that want to come here to complete the transfer. Meanwhile, HoD got transfers because it was free. An apt comparison, for sure.

Never said guilds were bought or any of your other ramblings. What was meant was the sudden increase in pop compared to other servers. FA certainly is the post season hod in that respect. Correct me if I am wrong, but I don’t think you were beating mag/SOS pre season which you are now…… Is that because everyone else is bad or you have more peeps?

I don’t really care either way tbh, but to an outsider the pop increase was indeed hod ish.

Or go and play how you want…. Defenders don’t tell ktrainers how to play and ktrainers don’t tell defenders how to play.

I expect a nerf tbh. Chat there Is often as bad at the old queens dale. It doesn’t bother me personally – block works great….

Top spot of t3 is like t2 1/2 so you will outnumber whoever the other 2 are….. At least you are closer in pop than the new hod – FA.

This thread will be locked – no matchup threads anymore…..

Think it is dead now, wait until next week. Pvx (like me) will be in the new zones….

atheria.2837:

They got free transfers (a TON of them from my server). They also won season 1 with no losses. Idk if they bought guilds or not though, just saying.

No, as far as I know Henge of Denravi did not sink to buying guild – that was other server’s problem but not ours.

Our PvE community stood tall and were the very reason, just like Ft. Aspenwood in the first season, that we had a shadow of a chance of winning.

It wasn’t the guilds who came and went, it was those who love the server as much as they love the game.

I am sorry I had to leave.

Everyone knows Unlimited free transfers were the reason for the S2 win – simple as that.

This would be great if we could also have party size of say 10. A public / private commander tag could be interesting too. Private – only guild sees it. Public -all see it on server.

Of course a 3rd option where all sides see it could be really fun every now and then. Especially for maps that are not overcrowded.

The funny thing – at the time of this post the closest match is 21-22-24. I doubt they are complaining too much about the status quo…..

warriorjrd.8695:

10 vs 40 may be too low, but I could show you plenty of videos of 25 vs 70+

Hardcore =/= skill, I’m sorry to say this, but if you have trouble wiping blobs with a 40+ man blob of your own, you may want to work on the quality before blaming quantity.

OP said they had group of 10 constantly running into 40. And if OP is who I think it is, the other 40 are 2 guild groups running together on the side that doesn’t belong in t3. They have every right to do that of course – just don’t be surprised to find less and less people to fight as a week wears on.

Edit: well maybe I don’t understand what you are saying as you mention 10v40 and then end with OP having 40. No worries if I misunderstood you.

Straegen.2938:

3 strikes and you are out! Works in baseball and should work in WvW. If a server lands in 3rd place three times in a row, the engine should send them down a tier. They might bounce back up but at least it would change things up a bit.

At the very least, someone should manually promote FA and demote DB next week regardless of what the randomizer pops up.

This idea seems very reasonable. Win 3x in a row and move up (if possible). Lose 3 x in a row move down. It might even help the case of SOR preseason where they could not drop fast enough. 6 losses and they drop 2 tiers….

There could be something I am missing, but this does seem feasible….

atheria.2837:

Chaba.5410:

This is the effect of…
1) free transfers
2) gold league being only 6 servers
3) ratings isolation cause of leagues (servers at the league borders being prevented from fighting each other)
4) slow glicko adjustments for population changes
5) WvWvW’s lack of teams of roughly equal size

Going to PvE might be a good idea. Wait until the ratings adjustments finally blow over.

Why is Gold League only 6 servers?

That seems a bit crazy – no… beyond crazy to me.

Has to be divisible by 3 or gold is playing silver…. Whoever is 8 and 9 would be creamed as presently constituted. Maybe LIMITED free xfers would fill them enough to be competitive.

Bunter.3795:

With those that picked a mistforged weapon, did you get wardrobe unlock for the hero version as well?

Since there is a way to use the MF to upgrade a hero weapon to a mistforged, I was wondering if a mistforged gives you both unlocks or whether the MF is the way to get both.

While I didn’t pick one yet, anet stated both are unlocked

I’d have to do the same amount of work as you finding it….. Pretty sure it was Jessica B – if you know how to find posts from a poster ( I don’t sorry – May not even be possible. )

Good luck and have a great day.

You asked what is the point – that was the reason for the explanation.

I also stated they officially responded in another thread – was going to be tix + badges, but removed badges from the equation in the end.

They responded in another thread…..

Point was some places (6-9) would not have had enough for mist forged. Hero weapon now to upgrade to mist forged after s3 was the original reason.

Of course with the reward screw up, everyone got the extra 100 tix so all can afford the mist forged….

And anet later decided to drop the badge requirement – just tix now

Map chat in eotm has become queens dale 2.0 expect a champ nerf….

I don’t mind the k trainers – just be civil to those who do want to defend and fight…

Leaning towards trident because I won’t make an underwater legendary… I really do like the mace and dagger though…. I might get hero version of mace….

Either way, I am sort of watching others to see how they look “in action”

Ahratan.1098:

If you take a mistforged weapon for 300 tickets, does it also unlock the hero skin for that type of weapon?

I notice you can unlock both for the same cost, hero (100) + gift of heroes (200) + few gold worth of mats. So it seems pointless to me if it didn’t unlock for free, but just wondered…

The reason it is not pointless (well before they sent the bonus 100 tix)
Originally, places 6-9 would not have had enough for the mist forged.
They could however buy the hero for now.
Since tickets carry over ( wallet please…. ), they could upgrade to mist forged after next season tourney while having something now.

Same here. The finishers were a welcome surprise as well (for 2nd place). Funny thing is, we thought that was how they worked season 1……

atheria.2837:

Liston.9708:

Ignavia.7420:

You can turn your online status to “invisible”. This way nobody can whisper you. Or you can create a new chat tab that does not display whispers. I agree, though, that there should be an option to restrict whispers to friends/guildies. And if people are really crossing the line, you should report them.

How do you make yourself offline?

Contacts (head/shoulder icon) top left – right click where your name is (slightly left) and choose “invisible”.

TYVM! Have looked for a way to do that (but not hard enough to google it)

Ignavia.7420:

You can turn your online status to “invisible”. This way nobody can whisper you. Or you can create a new chat tab that does not display whispers. I agree, though, that there should be an option to restrict whispers to friends/guildies. And if people are really crossing the line, you should report them.

How do you make yourself offline?

Rift does that and I log in every day to collect before it logging out…..

videoboy.4162:

Yeah, I know that I can apply the skin as many times as you want, just like the others. I just want to see where the Devs confirmed that base skin gets unlocked along with the Mistforged Skin. Basically, how the Blade Shard back pieces unlocked their previous forms too.

My Guildmate and I were discussing it, but we haven’t found an article confirming or denying it. =/

In one of the threads with an official anet response – pretty sure it was Jessica. It may also been in one of their twitch tv recordings…..

In its own sick way no reward at all would be sort of funny. The joke would be on the band wagoners that moved for free, but now paid to move back….

SpehssMehreen.5897:

When is it coming on? was it supposed to be this week? Need carrots

The CDI about season 3 before they can figure out. Season 2 rewards is pointless. Will be 20 pages of where is my reward….

Rimmy.9217:

Dosvidaniya.3260:

But go ahead and pretend you “earned” it when it is just some tie-break technicality.

Just like in the other thread, I think nothing of the sort. However, just for sheer number of medals awarded during this thing, we’d still be ahead of you. Not because we’re better, not because we can beat you, but because you came in third more times than we did in during the same period.

I’d be delighted if the ties worked out like this:

1st – Gates of Madness
2nd – Sorrows Furnace
2nd – Devona’s Rest
3rd – Ferguson’s Crossing
3rd – Darkhaven
3rd – Ehmry Bay
4th – Anvil Rock
4th – Kaineng
5th – Eredon Terrace

Because then everybody in our league would get the 300 tickets to get themselves a mistforged weapon skin, if they’d finished the meta and were so inclined.

I’m not smug that we placed ahead of you. We just did. Our ambition for the tournament, such as it was, was see if we could rise up from 24th place. Our WvW has sort of stabilized after the latest mass exodus, so the survivors and newbies and the achievement hunters and the people in-between managed to win a few fights. So we’re happy.

The placing is just icing, it isn’t the cake. We don’t take any particular satisfaction is placing over AR. We’re just glad we still have people left who log in to WvW.

Ties Never work like that…

In NA silver, it was obvious during week 1 when we saw screen shots of the ques….

Thank you for the official answer. This has been asked so many times in the last few weeks.

Crunk n monkey.3749:

Yes, but the reward system was much different than it was in Season 1. They said, your ranking would determine your rewards, but everyone got crappy rewards. This is more precise with ticket distribution.

But I agree, we will just have to wait and see how this turns out. it would suck if no one got 3rd place, 5th place, and 6th place rewards because of ties.

Why? If there are no tie breakers 3 servers in your example will get worse rewards than if there were no tie breakers. The 2 that don’t move down due to tie won’t get better rewards either way….

All that said, it was a silly tourney with poor matching and scoring system anyway. It should never be an advantage to lose as it was in NA silver….

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

How is the prizing determined in the case of ties?

I wouldn’t normally advocate throwing a match, but since this season’s individual rewards are based on an asinine metric like server population instead of active participation, I’d happily take a loss to get a better prize distribution for my fellow bronze leaguers.

Asked many times, no official answer on tie-breakers……

Crunk n monkey.3749:

You mean 3rd, 5th and 6th.

See that is a huge difference based on the potential rewards. Basically its either FC/EB/DH get 3rd place rewards because they all finished with the 3rd highest points in the Tournament, or FC gets 4th place rewards, DH gets 5th place rewards, and EB gets 6th place rewards.

When there is a tie for second, no one will get third in any system I have ever seen. There are three teams ahead of FC/eb/dh – they can’t be third. You have to look at how many teams are ahead of them not ‘slots’.

As for tie break. It has been asked in many threads and there was never an official reply, so no one knows…..

Just go to gw2 main page community leaderboards and you will see…..

I think eotm has also become THE method of leveling alts.

It is very silly and poorly designed….. Tomorrow’s return of 2 popular LS chapters may actually decide the fate for PVX servers…..

@duke they are talking season 1 here

Chest is per day per account I believe…… Our guild used to port ebg and run our alts / server through. Guess that was frowned upon as the nerf came after we did that for weeks…..

Or too busy with the new kid in the family – china. I think the staff is smaller than people think……

DeadlySynz.3471:

I like the idea, but I think it would be much better if it was based on Tiers per say:

Tier 1 NA vs Tier 1 EU vs Tier 1 China

Coverage certainly wouldn’t be the issue anymore, although ques certainly would (especially for China). I certainly wouldn’t wan’t to fathom the que on reset day.

I suppose if Anet were to try and pull this off, they’d have to completely make a separate server for players to join that doesn’t interfere with the current WvW; that way there is technically some alleviation maps of WvW going on.

Perhaps call it Region vs Region vs Region.

As said before, china cannot happen due to things outside of anet’s control. Eu /NA – I don’t see why not if they really wanted it to happen.

VaticanIscariot.1732:

Liston.9708:

Thought Chinese regulations prevented them from playing with NA eu ……

That is most unfortunate.. lol. Ah well.

edit

wait a second, how come there were people typing in chinese in WvW from time to time?

Based on where you live. All people who speak Chinese don’t live in china.

Thought Chinese regulations prevented them from playing with NA eu ……

KeresLee.5192:

grifflyman.8102:

Nick.6972:

Yeah. Like HOD and Yaks teamed against second server last week and now have teamed against third server SBI?
Hopefully Yaks end up where EBay did last year.

I don’t think HoD and YAK are teaming up on SBI, I just think HoD refuses to attacking anything that’s upgraded, thus ignoring YAKS.

They have the numbers to flip all of Yaks BL or FA BL but they never do. They focus the weaker server every match up, faster points and quicker.

I’m not so sure…
Last week a med sized FA group was attacking YB Garri at inner (with YB already inside defending), when HOD blob arrived to wipe FA, and then retreated when it could have been an easy cap (most of the work was already done…)
YBs cheered/bow/waved their thanks.

Pretty sure last week was all about breaking the even weeK / odd week cycle of all 3 matches in silver. The same 2 matches for 8 weeks was getting old (assuming previous patterns held). The result actually was potentially more harmful for YB than sticking to the pattern.

I certainly recall fighting a red force at bay outer while green tried to take down inner behind us last night. But meh, people will believe what they want and it doesn’t really matter tbh the way the tournament is scored…..

Edit: read the thread on ‘that other site’ and then decide for yourselves……
Not that any of this has to do with population > skill (really coverage) anyway….

Draygo.9473:

FA dropped down this week, so silver NA is not the same this week as last. (FA got double teamed for a few days and couldn’t recover in score). But this means we finally have a SBI vs Yaks matchup. If the double team didn’t happen we wouldn’t have this showdown.

Basically its up to you, the matchups can continue to be the same until a server is willing to double team for an edge.

As it turns out cd/ioj -bp/nsp also flip flopped from previous results. All 3 matches are different.

Chaba.5410:

He’s on EU. EU reset happened already I think so if he transferred on April 27th he should be able to enter now. I’d contact support by this time.

Good point. I wonder if they didn’t fubar this and it is NA server reset based like the other poster surmised…… If it doesn’t reset in a few hours – yah ticket time.

Reset today – locks you out for the current match and next match (which ends today). There have been many posts why.

mango.9267:

Reverence.6915:

mango.9267:

Reverence.6915:

blur.7905:

Well it seem like server unofficial alliances and match manipulation is the way forward. Well done anet now not only you can buy guild you can buy server as well. As if the unbalance is not bad enough. I will wait and see how people will react when unofficial alliances and match manipulation happen on their server. Only by then people will see the problem it create.

It won’t happen outside of T1 in NA. It has to have the agreement and cooperation of all major and minor guilds on 2 servers. I think in any other instance, such a meta may have never been created at all.

Actually, alliances and match manipulation happen all the time. Not all of them are as consistent or long-lasting as the JQ/TC alliance. But servers in the past have definitely made alliances and manipulated points. The most notable example in recent memory was the YB/EBay alliance last season.

To address blur’s point, it won’t be a problem. Anet has already given the passive okay on this. And it’s unlikely to be maintained offseason, when there’s no motivation to manipulate matches.

The YB and EBay alliance I would say, is similar to the BG/SoR alliance in S1, where we focused down JQ. I’m pretty sure YB and EBay weren’t protecting each other’s structures if they were in danger of being flipped by SBI and karma training SBI’d structures by having 2 map zergs inside a keep and waiting for RI cool down to swap caps

To my understanding, that’s exactly what happened. YB and EBay protected each other and only hit SBI. When YB had enough of a lead, they purposely gave up their structures to EBay and let EBay gain enough points to overtake SBI, putting SBI into third.

You are correct – it seemed quite lame when it went THAT far late in the week (wasn’t that way earlier, but oh the forum thread). That was the point when I said see you all next week….

Agree with OP. While they still CAN be done, the choice is more limited than before. I am not the only one in guild that has noticed this.

If anet wanted to slow down the APs earned, why not offer the same amount of choices as before, and simply cap the AP max per day from dailies..

On the other hand, popping your flag can really help your server. I have seen many peeps bunny chase the flag instead of staying on task for the greater objective….