Guild Wars 2

It’s true that our condition damage isn’t limited by some stupid damage coefficient like power attacks. BUT the condition meta is pretty much leaving us behind. It used to be that having burning, poison and bleed in one build was pretty special. Not anymore. Lets compare:

A Necro is the rightful master of the condi build. They get their own unique condition; Torment. Plus they put out more bleeds then we can. Their fear also does damage. They also have 100% poison uptime, 50% burning uptime, along with every disabling condition…weakness, chill, cripple, ect. And of course….Epidemic.

Mesmer’s are the master of confusion (or should be, see warrior) and also have access to burning and bleeding. While their condi damage is roughly on par with ours, they bring a lot more group utility and lets face it; no one can beat a truly skilled mesmer. If you don’t understand what I mean, then sorry but I’m not elaborating.

Warriors are brokenly stupid right now. Not only do they have access to the ever annoying Mace/Shield + GS build but they also have the Longbow/Sword+Sword + Physical utility condi hybrid build. With skillfully timed interrupts, their confusion on interrupt skill plus runes of perplexity they can hit 25 stack of confusion on you quick. Plus 100% burning up time. Plus 25 max stack of bleeds. Not to mention a boatload of physical damage since this is a hybrid build. The only reason you don’t see this nightmare build more is because most warrs just don’t have any condi gear.

Now compare this to the Ranger, who has:

10-20 bleeds depending on setup and whether you are flanking or not.
100% burn up time
100% poison up time.
Pet Damage…
We also get cripple and chill and that’s it. No confusion. No torment. No Fear. Even our bleed count is on the low side for a class that relies on bleeds for damage.

So what does this mean? Just because our condi damage isn’t directly affected by our low power coefficients doesn’t mean it isn’t falling behind. Anet upped everybody’s condi game but ours and you can bet their reasoning is the same.

“But you have a pet, so you don’t need as many conditions.”

You could look at our low condi numbers almost like a low power coefficient. Upping our Condition Damage stat via ascended gear won’t net us as big of a dps gain as it will for every other condi class.

Sorry for the long winded post. I just wanted people to know that the future for all ranger builds is fairly bleak, not just the power ones.

GW2 in one word: DODGE!!!

Kasama.8941:

I don’t know why players here have begun to think you need around 1800 toughness to survive as a Ranger. Once you go over 1700, you’re heading into bunker territory. As a Ranger, having around 1500 toughness is plenty. I never had anyone one shot me with 1500 toughness. And the Ranger has a lot of mobility, and plenty of access to regeneration. Besides, we are in a condition damage meta right now, so health is actually more important.

Your right. It’s too bad there isn’t a power/prec/vit gear in wvw like there is in spvp. Its a lot easier to stack toughness with a crit build then it is vit. (another reason I went with celestial gear.)

I have to disagree regarding Healing Power and Conditions. Healing power is always useful, and cond damage comes into play if your team mate is a guardian or a ranger with fire spirit. Also remember ascended gear is a huge investment. It would suck to get a bunch of ascended trinkets then on down the road, the game meta changes and you want to change your build to conditions or hybrid or something but you can’t because you pigeonholed yourself into zerker.

This is prettty much what this weeks match up looks like from CD’s perspective.

Temple armor is one of the ‘cheapest’ sources of exotics in the game, especially exotic trinkets since Anet inflated the economy. However I’ve guested many servers at many different hours and never is a temple unlocked. When I go to lyssa for instance, it is abandoned.

Ironically this is a serious issue for a dedicated wvwer like myself. Like most people who sneer at pve, I’m kitten poor broke all the time and regearing to try out a new build can be a nightmare. Unfortunately Karma is the only currency a WvWer can reliably make these days unless you are on one of the few stacked servers. Once upon a time I could count on temple armor at least.

Oh well, anyone know a good server that still unlocks temples?

I think Anet sees Rangers similar to that Ranger you fight during your storyline, the one that got turned undead. Remember the whole time he was one shotting people and vanishing before you could respond.

General rule of thumb; don’t stack your crit damage higher then your crit chance. Because the more you sacrifice for crit dmg, the more your going to feel that sacrifice if you have a bad RNG string and don’t crit a few attacks.

I use a build VERY similar to this and have done so for awhile.

Here is a survivability tip: Make the LB zerker, but make the GS Knights. That is a big chunk of extra armor when you need it the most (in melee).

Another tip: If you want to spread your stats out, use ascended divinity trinkets. You get more stats in total that way then if you got a more focused piece. Even that bit of cond dmg is useful in real world situations where you are going to be comboing off fire and poison fields or using siege weapons that apply conditions (Bali, AC, Treb).

Also remember to use your head if you are going to take Moment of Clarity. It’s very tempting to follow a Point blank up with rapid fire, but don’t. Always let the autoattack plink 1 shot off, then rapid fire.

Grabbed the link to my version: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQJATRjEVB29VGWs2Bi1DCFoB1KoJ2D+zoFNgK-j0yAYLAMGEFBgIAl8I0YTgINiioxqqFk1LYqzk6PUWlBIfLA-w

This has been a pretty crappy week…and it’s only monday. Also thanks to whoever reminded me that we here in CD lost a good chunk of players to TC as well. This is like a CD nightmare match against the two servers who stole our thunder. At least we are keeping up the score in PvF. No amount of bandwagoners can change that!

You know what makes the warrior op isn’t that they have a insane stun/100b rotation. Or that they have the best mobility in the game. Or that they now have some of the strongest regen without healing power. No, none of those things are OP on their own…not even warrior having access to them all is OP…

BUT, the warrior has a single build which can do ALL of these things at once. Fight not going too good? Run away, regen back up, come back and repeat overpowered attack rotation. Where have I seen this..-OH! Right! Warrior is the new pre nerf D/D Ele!

This is solid proof if you whine enough, the devs really will make your class OP. Of course the opposite is also true. For all the crying warriors did in the past regarding other classes, now that the tables are turned…They’re all acting like thieves…

My build is 30/10/0/30/0 Life siphon build. One or two life siphons are meh, but grab every siphon in the game (save for runes of vampirism which are bugged) and it adds up.

Here they all are: Siphon on hit, Siphon on Crit, Food Siphon on Crit, Dagger 2 siphon, Sigil of Blood siphon. Signet of Locust is also technically a siphon.

Quick notes: healing power effects Sigil of Blood, Locust Signet and Dagger 2 heal strength. Thankfully just by going 30 into blood and 30 into power you will have 400ish Healing power without even gearing for it.

Other then the focus on siphons, it is a typical well bombing build. Dagger + Focus, Staff secondary. I usually do Focus 5, Dagger 3, get close, drop wells, Focus 4, autoattack for one or two sets and then pop into DS and do a fear, then DS 5 and pop a couple lifeblasts into them. As my LF runs low, I hit DS4 and if I got any juice left, I end with a DS 2 claw so they’re poisoned, chilled, and I’m on top of them wailing away. As soon as wells are off CD I repeat the process.

On the defensive side, I can use Dagger 2 siphon in conjunction with Focus 5 and 4 to kite my enemy and heal myself at the same time. If things are really going rough for me in a big fight I will use Locust Signet. Wells return decent hp if hitting 5 targets also. The LF generation from the D/F lets you soak more damage in DS.

As for AoE, Staff, wells + shroud 5+4 are enough to wipe out most things.

People will kitten all over life siphons, but believe me I have tested countless builds and in real world situations, this is the one that always amazes me.

Did you ever think that maybe the reason that according to your metrics a majority of WvW players also PvE isn’t because they like PvE, but because the game forces them to PvE? You know, to be able to afford to wvw? To afford a commanders tome, to afford a nice outfit, to afford anything really? Not to mention this ridiculous matchmaking system would drive anyone to drin-…pve, I mean.

Just keep telling yourselves its just a vocal minority who wants WvW to be able to stand on its own 2 legs. I’m sure you can dig up some metrics that prove your case. You know the last time a company tried to dictate how their customers should play their game (Sony Entertainment, Star Wars Online)…it didn’t work out so well…

The only thing the longbow needs is to have thatkitten dmg to range modifier removed fromourautoattack.

I got a nice video of FA dancing on my corpse while my combat log shows that it was Ebay that killed me. Kind of reminds of that BF3 friends video about “teambagging”…

“You don’t teabag people you didn’t kill and you especially don’t teabag people that are on your own team!”

Im at worknowbut…….myspacebarjuststoppedworkingnice…lovemjob…>.<

Lots of builds are ‘viable’ in that you can kill someone with them. Finding a ‘Optimal’ build though is a lot more elusive for me. I’ve tried traps, BM, Glass longbow, melee, ect…

One build I fought that was amazingly strong was a axe wielding condi ranger with insane regen and condi cleansing. He beat my trap build handily, and beat every body else that showed up for that impromptu fight club meeting. If I figure out the build I will let you know.

Truthfully, I never cared about PPT either. I do care about painting my borderland my color, and I care about not being spawn camped. I care about having WP’s in all keeps if possible. Map control makes life easier. If you don’t control the map, life just sucks. You spend 5 minutes running for 30 seconds of battle, only to die and repeat the process.

Night Hawk Ix.7360:

REALLY!?? 15 golems and 30+ FA to hit our keep in EB common FA we’re not Russia u know its just little old SoS. Are you that scared of a few ac’s? Also noticed FA using alot of Superior rams on undefended paper towers, I guess in a way it shows us sum respect seeing and you waste all that sup seige lol

Wuv 2 [Beer] btw miss u guys but i kills u if i see u in one of FA’s lems, Fight like MEN FA XD

They did the same to our Garri in CDBL, after we spent the whole day building up a WP too. I don’t even know why we bother spending money on upgrades this match up because FA is just going to spam Golems everywhere.

Sun spirit can’t manage 100% burning up time, the effect recharge is 10 seconds, the base burn is 4 seconds. Even with 100% duration that is only 8 seconds, and you sacrifice a lot to get 100% burn duration in rune slots or money (Cond duration food is getting pricey).

Fire trap or Torch will get you 100% burn up time with very little sacrifice. Personally I prefer Fire trap and Dagger vs Torch and Snake Pit.

I wouldn’t want traps to gain more utility at the cost of damage though. Fire trap and spike trap are fine. Frost trap needs its radius and duration increased. Snake trap needs to be a poison field and if it applied weakness too that would be awesome.

Yeah the celestial is great, trap ranger is one of the few builds in game that can put every single stat in the game to good use. That may be why Stardust is a shortbow and not a longbow…

TBH the old school rabid trapper isn’t that good. That doesn’t mean traps are bad, it just means you need to approach your build different.

I’m having huge success with 30/30/10 with a mix of zerker, rampager and celestial gear.

Here’s the reasoning; having a defensive stat as primary means you need to have it backed up with skills. Stun breaks and easy stability access. Well if you got traps and entangling vines, you don’t have either.

Second, shortbow and traps lend themselves to hybrid damage stats. Traps do physical damage and cond damage. So does the short bow. AND there just happens to be a celestial shortbow now, Stardust which I got. I still have about 2400 armor and 18k HP, but I also have 2900 atk, 750 cond dmg and 70% crit dmg.

I know this build works. I’ve won fights with this build I never could have won with other ‘glass’ builds.

The current tier system doesn’t take population of servers directly into account or WvW participation. The ranking system would make sure a ‘limbo’ server would only be matched up with the best in their weight OR the worst in the next highest weight.

Coverage isn’t too big a deal as long as your average spans a 24 hour period, or even longer. Obviously if two servers have good coverage at different times they will dominate each other at different hours, but overall in terms of PPT it would be a close match.

Now as for actual fun gameplay? Matching NA to NA and Oceanic to Oceanic would be nice but with the current number of servers probably not feasible?

The solution to server matchup system is actually fairly simple.

Server ‘tier’ placement should be based on average number of wvw players online per hour. In fact, servers should have a ‘weight’ rating based off of this number.

Now before you bring up issues of skill, blah blah…look…

Do we see featherweights fighting against heavyweights in boxing? No. In fact boxing has multiple tiers based on WEIGHT. Not skill. Not achievements, not wins or losses…..WEIGHT. Believe me there are some amazing featherweight fighters out their that could knock a dude twice their size out. But its understood in a competitive environment nobody’s skill is going to be that far out of line of the next to overcome a difference in weight.

A server’s weight wouldn’t be hard to figure out. The metrics already exist inside the game for measuring these numbers. Most of us experienced wvw players know intrinsically who the heavyweight severs are and who the welterweights are, ect.

We don’t need a lot of tiers. Just a few tiers with servers of relatively close weight in them. The weight of every server would be checked before the next week starts and assigned their weight class then. Once assigned a weight class, the next thing to check would be rank points to decide within the bounds of that weight class which servers matchup against who.

One last thing; to avoid a high rank server from one weight class moving up a tier and being immediately pitted against the high rank of that weight class (which would be a total blowout) when a server moves up a weight class, its ranking is setback to whatever the lowest score in that weight is.

Just like when a boxer moves from one weight to another, he has to start all over moving up the roster. A caveat here is if that server moves back down to their old weight, they reclaim their old rank as well.

So what do you all think. Possible solution? Terrible idea? TL:DR?

To whoever those people are on the first page…yes yes, tears are delicious, blah blah I get it you’re real demons. Regular misanthropic sadists who torture small animals and drive people to suicide. /sarcasm

To Mr.Kortam yes of course it’s my opinion that is biased. Certainly not yours. Not that any of it matters. After all it’s the victors who get to write the history books. So please continue pretending like the momentum of every server in this weeks match-up wasn’t radically changed by majors transfers.

It’s all Anets fault anyway. It seems to completely slipped their grasp that GW2 =/= Chess, and that uneven match-ups have distorted outcomes that don’t accurately reflect on that servers true ability.

I’m testing out a trap build in WvW. The build I’m trying is 30/30/10, Shortbow/Longbow. I’m still gearing but eventually I will have all Celestial trinkets and bow. Armor will be zerker with maybe 5 Adventure runes and a Rabid crest. I would go rampager armor but I like the look I got too much to change it.

So far I’ve won a 3v1 with the help of a sentry guard. It was against a thief, mesmer and someone else. I also won some 1v1s against various classes.

I’m used to playing all offense. A dead enemy = 100% reduction in damage taken =D

My main fluctuated a lot. I started with Ranger main, Moved to Necro, then Warrior, then back to Necro, then back to Ranger. I’m sticking with the Ranger and got 3 ascended items on her.

I don’t know about boss fights, but in wvw the ability to apply relatively high dps at very long range is great. I know staff eles can do the same but I don’t like slow arcing projectiles. Longbow with piercing arrows and 1500 range will absolutely destroy enemy zergs at chokepoints.

Ranger has issues, mostly with the pet, but the pet also has great strengths. We can use our pet in pve to get aggro off ourselves. A talented ranger can send her pet running away from herself, taking enemy mobs with it. In pvp, we have possibly the strongest downed state IF you remember to use your pet. Even while downed pet controls still work. So you can swap pets and use F2. That’s why many rangers run dual canines; if you get downed, you can pop pet 1’s howl, then immediately swap. First thing a canine does when swapped in is a knockback. Then have them howl. If one of those pets is a wolf, that’s 3 interrupts in a row at your disposal. Add on the ability for your pet to rez you and yeah, Ranger are the strongest in downed by far. The pet is unreliable in standing pvp though. Other then howls and projectiles, most pet attacks simply whiff. ESPECIALLY LUNGES. The enemy has to be standing still for a lunge to work. Doable if you catch them with point blank, then your pet happens to lunge right after.

Pet control is important. Put Attack and return and swap and howl keys on binds that are easy to reach and use them. During boss fights, use a ranged pet and a shortbow. If your pet is dead, dont swap, get out of combat. As soon as you are out of combat you can swap without getting a cooldown even if your pet is dead.

Anyway yeah I’m way off on a tangent. What I am saying is Ranger is a tricky class that forces you to juggle a lot of balls. It’s easy to just forget your pet, but you are shortchanging yourself. If you master its many nuances, a Ranger is a powerful enemy and useful ally in all facets of the game.

Seigfried.5938:

EFWinters.5421:

Seigfried.5938:

lordkrall.7241:

^ What about the new graphic options and champion loot? I suppose those won’t count because they were added to PvE as well?

If you want to pvdoor all day, no problem. But I prefer hours long seiges.

Hour long sieges hardly exist anymore. Now it’s just lol 20 Omega rush. Fail? Move maps and try again.

Of course we should have all seen it coming with the ADD of most WvW players.

Not in tier 1 mate

So what about all the people in all the other tiers? Are we balancing wvw around tier 1? (I know I know, anet isn’t balancing anything its completely ignoring wvw.)

zzzzzzzzz gg anet

ps. just thought I’d put this out here for those that don’t remember. Once upon a time FA was a crappy server. Then when they announced the closure of free transfers, they got a huge influx of fairweathers and bandwagoners. To this day, that’s all they are. They wouldn’t know what loyalty was if it kicked them in the kitten. SoS and CD are the losers of Transfer Wars, and FA was a big fat grubby winner. So remember that, boys and girls, while you are fighting out there.

sos vs cd fights are always fun. When you first came down to our tier you really put our face in the mud. We’ve grown from that point, and our fights are pretty even now. My personal experience makes me think that SoS has more warriors, and less conscripts.

Warriors being people who don’t need a zerg or a commander. They are great individual fighters who fight hard and are confident in any battle. They know all the little ins and outs of wvw. A conscript is just a lemming who has no confidence in his abilities and just mindlessly follows commander tags. They run as soon as things look bad. Fairweathers by nature. You can never count on a conscript to have your back in a small team fight at all. They’ll run with you, even approach the enemy with you, but if you charge toward the enemy, they’ll charge—in the opposite direction.

That’s my terminology anyway. What do you think?

Lightning Reflexes would be perfect if it broke immobilize and stun. No need to mess with CD.

Yeah pretty much, not my problem though

This is a kill compilation I made this week in WvW and set to some nifty music. Pretty standard fair I guess. Through the vid I try a lot of different builds but the one thing that remains constant is that I’m using a longbow and power stats. Anyway here it is and I hope you like it .

Hey I made this for the ranger forum but since its comprised entirely of our matchup this week I think I will drop it here too. Enjoy the kills

Well thats also a 1 shot against any zerker character save for wars and necros. Its just easier to do against a ranger because the other classes all have a defensive gimmick:

Guard – how much hp could a guardian guard if a guardian could guard hp??
Mesmer – pick a clone, any clone
Ele – LOOK AT ALL MY BUFFS, JUST LOOK AT THEM!
Thief – now u see me— o wait, no u dont. haha silly me!
Engineer – Do you know what this is? Neither do I! but I am 66.6667% sure it will confuse you more then it does me!

as for ranger? YOUR SUPPOSE TO ATTACK MY PET, NOT ME!! HAVE U EVER HEARD OF “AGGRO” YOU STUPID PVPER?

Thief dagger 5 has to hit something to proc stealth. Why should we be any different. Oh btw yes shooting bunny rabbits and stuff will stealth you.

What makes our stealth mechanic clunky is that unlike thieves C&D our skill must: Be targeted, and the target must be in front of you. C&D hits a big area around the thief and inside the theif too, which means all they have to do is walk over a rabbit and press 5. Poof. We have to stop, turn and or back up, target and fire.

I still use it with great success but really it like many things about the ranger is VEXING.

Halcyon.3140:

because they are cheaper than dirt.

PS: why is dirt so expensive?

Mineral Rights

I roll a zerker Ranger with success in WvW. I don’t know about you guys but landing 3k crits from 1500 range sounds good to me. Throw in piercing arrows and all I see are numbers on my screen.

Keep your distance and try to stay inconspicuous as you drop bombs on the enemy. If a thief singles you out; point blank, hunter shot, swap to greatsword and swoop away. Run away for a bit, then come back. Most thieves are bads who will just switch targets. I’ll post more later, my shift is starting xD.

The pet mechanic is the most miserable part of the Ranger. Good mostly for drawing aggro off of you.

I try to minimize my pets impact by going 100% offense. Compared to the usual healing or PVT ranger, my pet only amounts to like 15% of my dps. I actually just use my wolves for the knockdowns.

As for the stealth and ‘longbow’ nerf. You just don’t know how to tap your keyboard fast enough. I can stealth shot, weapon swap, and swoop in the opposite direction, popping out of stealth behind my enemies who are still chasing after me in the other direction.

Honestly most of the issues here really are L2P issues. Other then the current OP meta for Wars and Necros, I haven’t had any trouble winning fights in pvp. As for pve, idk, pve in this game is mindless and I hate it so no comment.

Yep thats sounds like Kiwi Alright. Course I’ve been saying that all along.

Maybe some of us, ilr, don’t want to have a pet to begin with. Maybe we just like being ARCHERS. Not hunter/ranger/druid/tree hugger/ect

Now there are only 2 classes that can use a Longbow. Ranger, and Warrior. I play both and BY FAR I prefer Rangers longbow. The warrior longbow works like a theifs shortbow, one big stupidly slow attack that misses more then it hits. At least I can reliably tag half of my rapid fire shots, and my auto attack hits like a truck. 2k ish a hit versus my war with same stats @ about 1.2k.

They would have to totally overhaul the warrior longbow to make it stack up to a Rangers longbow. So lets just forget about wars then.

You know the word Ranger evokes a wide range of mental images. Of course the hunter with his pet but also the sword slinging ranger ala Aragorn. A ranger in D&D was primarily a archer, he didn’t have a pet. In fact D&D rangers don’t get access to a pet till much later in the game. Druids are the traditional pet class.

So semantics aside, given the wide range of desired playstyles, it would make sense to make classes as versatile as possible, rather then making many many narrow defined classes.

But I know, min maxers, can’t stand being anything but the most optimal possible build. So we gotta make sure that having a pet isn’t any better or worse then not having a pet out. If that were the case the only people left complaining are role players who think their digital pet actually has feelings or needs to be ‘cared for’.

<3 the new hunter shot.

Sorry PvE’ers but honestly Ranger was never a great pve class. Our pets are insta gibbed and our max dps isn’t that great.

In WvW though it is amazing. I don’t care about vulnerability, it gets cleansed too quick to matter.

Instead of attacking you or telling you how wrong you are…let me say this

Your complaining makes me feel threatened my new skill might be changed. Stop it or I will be forced to argue with you.

I don’t know about condi necros but I know I am at the top of my game in the power necro department. I still lose straight up 1v1s so I know our power builds aren’t OP. What really surprises me is the new Guardian meta…wands…really?? They freakin hurt too LOL. Mesmers are tough too. Got beat by a sword thief too, but it was like a 20 minute fight, he could disengage when he wanted too and took his time till he figured me out.

What I’m saying is there are a lot of OP metas floating around right now.

I recently started playing again for CD. This is a nice match up. I don’t know about EB and BP as a group, but they have some outstanding individual fighters. I wish you could see enemy names, just so I could say GG.

I agree with Zen.

Though what can you expect. The GW2 Necro class is a emo who cuts himself to gain power, keeps a rat for a pet and doesn’t actually summon undead creatures because that is just soooo mainstream.

I play a vampire power build in WvW. Dagger/Focus, 30/10/0/30.

Just a slight variation of the Well-o-mancer really. While it’s not tremendous, I get a good bit of hp from all my different siphons;
Sigil of Vampirism
Mixed Berry Pie
Siphon on Hit
Siphon on Crit
Life Siphon skill

3 months ago I posted a build and video :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et8rXSGqAPQ

My life situation right now is very unstable so I haven’t been able to play. If I did though I would think the buff to well cool downs could only help.

One thing people overlook; the trait that makes siphons 50% more effective works on Life Siphon skill, turning a 200ish tick into a 350+ per tick heal.

I think that and all the little ticks you can get from aoes add up. Also yes you need to go 30 in tho blood. You need 50% effectiveness. You need bleed on crit. And you need wells recharge 20% faster. Thats the only way a true vampire build will work.

Annnd just tested it and yeah, with that build and RaO alone, your pet will spike 25 stacks of might right away.

You could go with a rampager spirit build…

0/20/20/30/0

stat for roughly 50-60% crit, 2.5-3k attack, 500-1k cond dmg.

Use axe/dagger/torch + Burning, Swiftness and Protection Spirit and RaO

Get might duration rune set and boom, 50% might duration.

Use your traits and spirits to buff your pet instead of BM points. Look at the synergy; 5% more dmg with boon and any boon you get is shared with your pet. So RaO will cause your pet to get a stack of might when you attack AND when it attacks…

You and your pet will have protection, swiftness and be doing constant burn damage, heavy bleeds and your pet will have tons of might. Very good aoe potential as well.

Only problem is its a spirit build. But my friend proved spirits are usable in wvw for roaming and for wall defense (not offense tho unless you’re on siege.).

It’s simple really.

The player base has no obligation to you devs. They are not locked in a 2 year agreement with you. Most people who play this game bought the game within 3 months of release, they’ve had it for awhile now. They’ve got their moneys worth.

Now one of the main things that keeps this player base playing GW2 is WvW.

In other posts you make it sound like ‘blowouts’ aren’t that big a deal, like a growing pain. This isn’t the US economy or the Iraq War. You can’t tell us to ‘stay the course’. We’re gamers, and you’ve got competition for our attention right left front and center!

Every single blowout week costs a server players. because when those devout wvw players stop logging in for a week, what do you think they’re doing? Finding a new game.

When servers become depopulated, moral drops, more people quit.

You are setting in to motion a domino effect that could very well kill this game. Servers say they are all full, yet where are all the people? Perhaps those servers are full of accounts, but I wonder how many are active..?

Once a games population dies, they rarely ever bounce back. The mmo graveyard is rife with these very examples. Word to the wise, learn from the mistakes of the past. Don’t wind up in the MMO Graveyard.

put a chain on the end of the sword and let the animation be you yanking it back.