Every other week will have the same unbalanced match-up: FA-IoJ-SoR, SBI-Bp-NSP, YB-HD-CD. I expect the final for the other 9 server leagues if their are no upsets 1-4-2-7-5-3-8-6-9. Assuming their are no upsets the 7 week NA Silver league final will be.
1. FA =35
2. IoJ =29
3. SBI = 27
4. SoR = 23
5. Bp = 21
6. YB = 19
7. NSP = 17
8. HD =13
9. CD = 7
The swiss-style match-ups make the winning servers fight winning servers and losing server fight losing servers. Example this will force FA to go up against t3 servers half of the time and the winner of t4 and t5 the other half. No server will be matched up against one that is higher than 6 ranks from it. Which is unlike season 1 were you only have 1 maybe 2 competitive match-ups during the entire 7 weeks. This season you will get a same tier match-up half of the time.
I have a feeling FA and HOD will score on a different plane than ioj/sbi/yb. But I don’t know who else would face FA hod other than those 3…. I admit I don’t understand the matching though.
Hod got the huge influx to the server not YB. YB simply got their pve / militia back…. While I would love 2nd, 4th or 5th is more realistic (me being a Swiss style tourney noob)
And then, you have the bandwagon people, that take a free transfer to get a silly reward. Let me tell you, HoD, the reward will not be worth the drama that is about to ensue. We experienced it on SBI last season, and you will experience it this season.
At least this time we had a stable community going into it, built up from our days in T8. Whether we can still hold it together after the season ends and the inevitable exodus hits remains to be seen, but the odds are going to be better this time around.
Other thing to watch for (- if transfers move back), your rating will be inflated post season. Weeks of losing ensue.
This happened to YB, our ‘transfers in’ season 1 were militia. They pretty much left post season for LS and various farms. We got pounded forever because we couldn’t drop fast enough in the rankings….
I wonder how many from 6 and below transfer for the weapon skin week 3 ish and then return at the end of season. Don’t know if I would, but I’d consider it….
IoJ will beat YB. They did handily for a couple weeks already and not much has changed on those servers. SBI is either IoJ sized or YB sized and we won’t know until FA isn’t in the mix. My guess is SBI is closer to IoJ or larger.
My picks and these are seriously up in the air:
FA
IoJ
SBI
HoD
YB
NS
CD
BP
SoR
Ioj very well might beat YB, but much HAS changed. Militia was way more important in season 1 than [one] or [SE] which left. militia left wvw between seasons for champ farms, daily world boss train, and LS farms.
Will they return as they did in season 1? Only time will tell, but they have to some extent with LS farms gone, fgs / queens dale champ trains petering out, and less doing the daily world boss train.
I have a feeling the same might be true of sbi – heavy dependence on militia……
I am just wondering where people will be going to transfer to? With the latest patch there is a limited time free transfer.
Finally, a chance to get off my dead server to a more lively one. Sadly, BG, TC, and JQ are all full. So I am wondering which server in NA will be the next big server. So where is everyone going?
I do most end-game stuff (word boss farming, LS events, Guild missions,) also a big fan of WvW and would like to join a server that have good commanders on most of the time.
So please tell me where you would transfer to (if you transferring) and why.
Pretty sure 1-12wvw rankings in NA are not free…..13-15 and 20-24? See pricing on the tournament link from the front page.
Pretty sure green knight goes nw platform, blue knight ne, and red south. If a platform fills, they are sent to another. At issue seems to be when one knight is killed well before the others, people swarm to other knights entering that portal. Original knight killed first is left short handed.
If you have 150 players, it will work out ok. If yo have say 30-30-30 and 15 left to kill another knight, good luck…..
You are aware that the team that worked on the Marionette event didn’t work on this release, right?
It is very likely that this release were more or less already completed (or close to at least) when Marionette was released.
There is also this thing about achievements actually requiring people to achieve something, which is after all the whole point. Be it on your own or together in groups.
You don’t NEED to complete all achievements after all. You can complete the meta-event without doing all of the specific achievements by doing dailies, which are usually very easy to complete.
Many would say it is still not complete with all the bugs.
No way is it 500…. Tts hard caps an overflow of wurm in like 2 minutes. No way 500 peeps are ported in that fast. I believe it is 150 range, based on how many get in and how many do not that are in the same team speak channel….
Just tried it and beat it easily first try. We split up and don’t even have the max amount of players on each knight. Around 30 on blue knight and they beat it faster than everyone else. It scales to the amount of players by the knight so don’t have anyone there that doesn’t have the buff because they will just make it harder for you. The event is a lot better this way. A lot more organized and you’re guaranteed loot if you complete the event rather than before.
You don’t get loot for just completing the event, you have to be one of the 50 who kills one of the knights. If the event fails the ones who downed their knight get loot, the others get nothing.
And even if you do down all 3, seems the platform splits are not even either…… Though you don’t port to instant death anymore -they did fix one thing after all.
Our attempt on YB went sort of ok. We killed all the knights and did not see complaints of no loot. And then the platforms went bad. My knight happened to be the first one down, got all 3 attunes and went to portal. I was one of the first in. Well our platform was severely undermanned. If the design is green to nw blue to ne red to south, the issue was some red ran off to help blue kill the knight since we didn’t have 50 at any knight.
And of course no core, so meh. It is still a flawed battle after how many patches to fix?
I prefer 1 central hub. I thought from the beginning the starter cities were sort of a waste of resources. They are well designed and look nice (sans the charr), but knew they would be a ghost town quickly….
I understand both sides of this debate; however, from my experience, I’m on the side where it can’t be an intentional cash-grab.
Why?
Because in one week of playing, I have accumulated over 20 of the two-week passes from opening the alliance supply bags. Since I have no way to get rid of these two week passes except to use them, it is actually pointless to buy either the individual or life-time pass at this point.
The people that should be complaining are the ones that bought the pass and, now, are awash in free two-week passes that they have no use for.
Once again derailed by port to another city posts. WE KNOW WE CAN PORT. Many prefer 1 central hub where we have all the services and oh all the people in an mmo to socialize with while we are doing those task.
If people find other places more convenient than la, fine good for them.
Fact is, la was the most convenient one stop shop for many.
Fact is, we had that pre-patch.
Fact is, we don’t now.
Fact is, quite a few don’t like this turn of event.
Guess is, we will have all amenities in 1 hub eventually, but conveniently spread out to foster pass sales.
I don’t mind buying gems and supporting the game, just not for what was a free convenient 1 stop shop.
I got to event a few mins early and created lfg group with flag moa. 4 of us got credit, 1 did not, but they got downed so maybe did not have enough contribution. My previous 3 attempts all failed even with gold participation and I am loot stick spammer with multiple kill credit……
It is clearly an issue with many of us…… Btw, I buy all kinds of stuff with gems with real $$, so I don’t mind supporting the game, but this was a slime move so less gem sales to 1 person anyway….
I like that you assume it was intentional. Even the dev came in and was under the impression all of the services were moved. What if the crafting stations were in the Vigil but had an issue and were the thing that caused the patch launch delay so they were temporarily removed?
What if services are being moved slowly over to reinforce the theme of the town being evacuated and outposts having to be established?
What if they just ran out of time and resources and the crafters were lower on the priority list than some of the other more frequently used vendors and services?
What is someone just plain forgot, has been feeling horrible about themselves and worried about being called into O’Brian’s office at any point this week?
Since you don’t know for a fact that crafters were strategically left out in order to sell ship passes, you can’t outright dismiss other possibilities. Just like I cant say for 100% certain that they weren’t left out for that reason. So flinging accusations is really inappropriate. You should at the very least qualify it with an “if they did this deliberately…”.
I know if I were posting like a lot of you and then tomorrow we got an update that said technical issue has been fixed and crafters were added to Vigil, I’d feel pretty bad about it.
Assuming makes an kitten of u and me.
Technical/time issue I would but that. That wasn’t anet’s response was it?
We all know we can go elsewhere to craft, the point is – why should we have to now when we didn’t before? Some say la was the worst place to craft -well what if you socialized with everyone else whilst crafting? I can go to the racial cities, but a pile of npcs are not very entertaining…..
It is clearly an issue with many of us…… Btw, I buy all kinds of stuff with gems with real $$, so I don’t mind supporting the game, but this was a slime move so less gem sales to 1 person anyway….
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Example:
Friend is number 1 in queue for 25 minutes and nothing happens. He rejoins and he is 56. At that time i am number 46.
When i get the pop-up to enter EB he is number 19. What kind of queue is that, how is it possible for other people to get IN FRONT of him?
People in front of you did not enter, but remained in que is one explanation (if they were not put to the back of the line), but yea not convinced it is FIFO either
We will be removing all rank requirements for the Gift of Battle in the February 18th build and further evaluate what those requirements will be. We do not currently have an ETA for when rank requirements will be reinstated.
Why? There is so much PvE that is required out of a legendary. Now you don’t have to step foot in WvW longer than to buy your gift of battle since you put badges in achievement chests. I thought this was a great move to make a legendary actually have you try more game modes before getting a legendary. Now you just have to PvE for the whole thing :-( Ever since adding the badges into AP chests the gift of battle no longer is a sign of trying out WvW, which is what it was intended to be when you could only get badges from being in WvW.
False – ever see the map completion complaints? While I do enough wvw the badge requirement and completion were no big deal, don’t claim they can step in and buy gift and be done either……
One must differentiate the physical map and the concept of red-green-blue. I don’t see a future in server v server v server. It’s just too hard to balance. If that many people were really interested in server pride, all the transfers would not occur….
I wish the juggernaught I have had some of the detail this hammer has (minus the heart). Now to equip the 2 female lowbies or give the 80s a sex change….
Other than the bows, these are the best skins since the zodiacs.
Will be worse / better next week with the new map. Current BLs will be a ton of pv door, but servers stuck in a bad spot will now have even numbers once again.
Spy kit works very very well solo for commune skill points guarded by champs. Click the kit, run past the mobs, press 1, and commune. Environmental effects from contested temples are way more problematic…..
I love the event, great gameplay etc, but i’m worried people stop doing the event after a few days…
Or show up for daily and just farm the keys fragments. YB went from 5/5 nearly every time in prime time to now 2/5 3/5 whatever -there has to some reason…….
Why the arguing based on a livestream that highlighted wip changes that are a ways off? They admitted they were still tweaking how all of this will work…..
They didn’t give a clear explanation what would be in this patch, however dulfy presented some leaked patchnotes. I understand that gw2 doesn’t need to bring out all those updates because dulfy announced it, however it would be very welcome if they just falsified dulfy’s patchnotes.
Those were livestream notes that were wip as they mentioned, not patch notes….
The live stream last Friday was discussing these as still wip changes. There was no way in hell those we’re going to be part of today’s update just 4 days later. I don’t know why so many thought those changes were coming today.
