I will definitely check out EU! Where would EU players suggest that I visit first? Also, remember I am a little lowbie so that I can move this account around without killing myself in gems.
I would check T1 servers like SFR. Most other servers are “dead” outside of prime time.
Like I said, Champion Brawler should be you ego ppl’s goal.
It’s a perfect bragging rights that everyone can see it either.
The only reason you don’t consider it is because you’re thinking it’s too difficult lol..
What a bunch of double standard guys, when the requirement is easy, you complain, when the requirement is too hard, you ignore it lol…
Like I said, Champion Brawler proves that you’re at least rank 2000 already, and you’re very very experienced and more than likely skilled.
Too bad Champion Brawler sounds terrible compared to GWAMM, so I wouldnt use it if I earn it one day.
No. They are a pain to get in fractals. Reward tracks in PvP would devalue it. If it happens I want a way to earn Mini Llamas and Glourious Hero armor in pve.
I may have agreed with you before I got my FIFTH fractal mace. The current reward system is complete bullkitten. All I want is the sword, and with all the duplicates I’ve gotten I would’ve had all the skins a long time ago. I’ve run hundreds and hundreds of fractals, and the skins no longer hold any value to me. At this point I don’t care if you can buy them with gold because I earned the skins I want a long, long time ago.
The faulty fractal reward system is not a reason to hand out the rewards like candy in PvP.
Its rare to see it happening. 90%+ of the time the commander orders people to port back to waypoint as soon as possible here on SFR. And we are the #1 EU server.
It’s a legit tactic and people will come up with countertactics.
Will they? I have been waiting for a decent anti commander sniping tactic for months now. The only thing I see happening is that people contact the enemy commander and make a “contract” to not snipe each others commander.
The moment groups start running a backup driver tag is the moment your months-long problem becomes solved. Welcome to metagaming.
Its often hard enough to find one commander (eg no commander at all on the map). Expecting to have a backup one is unrealistic.
Participating in ToL means nothing. Even winning it means little considering how few competive teams there are. The existing teams would probably be only ranked mediocre if GW2 pvp had the same fanbase as LoL, Dota or starcraft.
I am definitely more impressed by people with thousands of tpvp wins (because it takes lots of patience and determination) over someone who won a ToL or other wannabe GW2 esport events.
If commander gets buffs can the squishies get a defiance bar too as we will then get more focus? Then the rest of the melee train starts getting focused so they will need +100 toughness for each alive party member.
Being commander sniped sucks, try to get a second in command to take over or use it to your advantage by getting people to follow someone else and you lead a feint.
TLDR: Man up and deal with it.
What will servers with only like 1-2 good commanders per time zone do? There are very few good pug commanders nowadays who can take over on the fly.
Average and bad commanders would make no difference if the good commander died already.
I would question why you’re calling a commander good if he got himself killed and didn’t organise delegating commanding if/when he died.
Because if the enemies really want you dead there is not much you can do to prevent it, other than making the fights more boring and tedious.
Focusing squishy targets is broken and cheesy, it allows people to kill the most damaging classes without having to deal with the nomad pug warriors, I think eles/necros/rangers should be invulnerable to damage until every warrior/guardian in the zerg is dead and waypointed.
if a squishy dies its not the end of the zerg (unless it was a very close fight already), if the commander dies the fight is lost in almost every case (everyone goes cloud formation or runs ooc to waypoint)
Stop comparing apples and oranges all the time.
A living commander is essential to pug fighting, everyone else is replaceable if they die.
If commander gets buffs can the squishies get a defiance bar too as we will then get more focus? Then the rest of the melee train starts getting focused so they will need +100 toughness for each alive party member.
Being commander sniped sucks, try to get a second in command to take over or use it to your advantage by getting people to follow someone else and you lead a feint.
TLDR: Man up and deal with it.
What will servers with only like 1-2 good commanders per time zone do? There are very few good pug commanders nowadays who can take over on the fly.
Average and bad commanders would make no difference if the good commander died already.
Oh wow, who cares. You can’t see people’s rank anyway. No one has ever asked what rank I was, nobody looks at finishers. I’m really confused as to what the problem actually is here since ranks are ultimately meaningless. You can be a terrible player and still be r80 simply from playing long enough, so what does it even matter.
Back when ranks were meaningful people asked you about it. Now that everyone is r80, its pointless to ask obviously.
No. They are a pain to get in fractals. Reward tracks in PvP would devalue it. If it happens I want a way to earn Mini Llamas and Glourious Hero armor in pve.
I hope spending no resources on the existing game until HoT releases will backfire, so they learn a lesson for a hypohetic 2nd expansion one day after HoT.
If they would at least bring back stuff like SAB, crown pavillon or wvw tournaments to fill the gap
And thus push the release of the expansion back?
I doubt reintroducing old events (without changing anything) will cost much manpower. And if it does, I would gladly wait 1-3 weeks longer for the addon than getting nothing at all until the addon.
to make it fair for roamers: IF YOU HAVE LESS THAN 3 PEOPLE ON YOU THEN YOU ARE INVULNERABLE – this is to prevent commanders using 50 man zergs to chase roamers.
nah its your fault if you run around alone in a game mode about large fights and battles.
A dev did say in the wvw section of the forums that they would be looking into changing the current wvw achievements to something more realistic. That was over eighteen months ago (approximately) so dont go holding your breath
They changed Master of Disaster (25k supply used or something) to “use 10 supply to build siege”
It used to be 1m used for building siege and 10m supplies used in total (building+repairing)
Because the only way getting a llama is hardcore effort? You only need luck in a twitch draw or other fansite raffles to get one. Plus the casual tournament events give them out, too. If there are so many absurd ways to get them already, it will not hurt to add another one.
Good luck getting 27 mini llamas without winning tournaments.
Winning tournaments is about luck, too.
Please elaborate.
Winning a tournament depends on your opponents, on your team mates, on damage rolls, on sigill RNG rolls, time of the tournament and possibly your latency (lag problems). The PvP in this game is hardly a purely skill based game. You would have to play a game like chess to achieve that.
Because the only way getting a llama is hardcore effort? You only need luck in a twitch draw or other fansite raffles to get one. Plus the casual tournament events give them out, too. If there are so many absurd ways to get them already, it will not hurt to add another one.
Good luck getting 27 mini llamas without winning tournaments.
Getting the 2nd sort of set is very hard. And considering there were people r70+ before they made r80 easy, there would probably be legit r80 now. It has been over a year since the patch.
The only thing wrong with the event is the terrible loot. Tequatl requires much less effort and organisation but gives way better rewards. TT does not even give 2g like Tequatl and the chance to get the unique skins is abysmal.
+1 to eveyone who said no to farming and shame on you PvE grinders. The lama is the only exclusive PvP reward right now, We need more of them, not less. Now should more things allow access? Sure but that’s a entirely different story.
Llama is not an exclusive PvP reward. You can win it on GW2 fanpage raffles quite often.
The Glorious armor, Glorious Hero armor and the Balthasar backpiece are exclusive pvp rewards.
So ehm lets all tag up and be immune for projectiles with tons of defiance on top? Even without all these terrible suggestions i can tell whos the commander or not.
Did you even read? The buff would depend on how many people are in your squad and alive + in vicinity (lets say 2500 range). So if everyone tags up nothing would be achieved.
The majority of the players there wanted to play it a different way. Surely the majority shouldn’t have to do it one way because a small group want to do it a different way. Is it unfair? Yes.. But that is life.
Because the majority wants something everyone else should be denied the content? I say the people who deny others the content deserve a 72h ban.
Maybe Anet should make content more logical. Where completing an event is more profitable than failing it. For the players, choosing the most profitable path is logical course of action.
For the general whine over this or any player interaction, go find another layer then. You can log in and out of the character or use guesting to find another layer. If you don’t like what the majority of players are doing, find somewhere else where you like what the players are doing.
Exactly! And maybe They should give us traits for completing a defense event as well.
I tried for 6 hours…6 hours..to get the trait for killing the Risen Wizard…i changed maps..did everything i could. Every…single…time…nobody would let it fail..so much fun, i just want that trait…
Maybe you should buy the trait from the NPC (even the worst money making methods make more than 10g in 6 hours) or wait for the trait update coming before HoT.
I get all my skins free of charge through key-farming. I have to say the drop-rate does seem much better now; often 2 scraps or 1 scrap and a ticket fall from chests.
Also, no one must use cash; exchanging Gold buys keys just as well. Now, some might not like the exchange rate, but it is absolutely free no matter how high or low. /shrug
Opportunity costs?
If you value your time (and have a decently paid job in RL) trading gems for gold and then buying the skins straight from the trading post is the way to go.
Lets do some math based on samples from gw2wiki (which are not very good samples i realize, but other websites have given similar percentages). The drop rate for ticket scraps is 30%, the drop rate for tickets is 2%. At 10 scraps per ticket this is either a 50% cumulative drop rate on scraps, or a 5% drop rate on tickets. So now lets assume someone wants to acquire a 5 ticket item. 5 tickets at a 5% drop rate is 20×5 = 100 keys. 100 keys at 25keys/2100 gems is 8400 gems. 8400 gems at 80 gems per dollar is $105. This is of course on average.
You are disregarding all the other drops you get from the chest.
Which is fair. If you want black lion weapons the other contents in it feel like worthless junk save a few even more rare items you are unlikely to get even with 1k keys.
Well sometimes u have to make a tiny effort to get sth
casuals r not predestined to get everythin for thm offerd on a silver plate (:
Because the only way getting a llama is hardcore effort? You only need luck in a twitch draw or other fansite raffles to get one. Plus the casual tournament events give them out, too. If there are so many absurd ways to get them already, it will not hurt to add another one.
The Age of Chivalry existed in fiction, not in reality.
Smart commanders give a grand speech BEFORE the battle from outside of bowshot. Medevil kings died in battle quite frequently.. Usually in a far more gruesome fashion than their troops. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zVfxxsr3PM
That video is nonsense. Bloody eagle cannot be used to kill a king during a battle because it would take far too long. Not to mention historians doubt that it was ever used in practice, but only metaphoric in ancient literature. And if this method was ever used than only for serious crimes like killing your own father or regicide.
To be honest, I don’t see any problem with commander sniping at all. Just to inform some players here: at the times when the game was launched, no one had commander tags because they costed 100 gold and rich players had 70 silvers in their inventories. But we was still able to fight very precisely and organized. Todays “follow the color pin” easy-mode is just a simplified method of organized fighting developed to be easy enough to be understandable even for casual players with no experience how to fight cooperatively.
Oh, and in before someone will say “omg what??? zerg need a tanky guardian/warrior commander with color pin infront of them to know where to move O.o” … no, that is not true. We had range-classes commanders (with or even without tag) located in our back line too and we was still able to fight and win. It just needs players willing to come to TeamSpeak/Ventrilo/other voice communication application and willing to actually and quickly obey commander’s orders.
Again something that works only in theory. GW2 is a casual game and most people fail to stick to the commander even when there is a tag + TS being offered. WvW is not a private map where you can handpick people you play with.
There are diminishing returns in WvW, but they are very hard to experience in normal gameplay.
My evidience: In obsidian sanctum farm (back before loot got removed from it) you got very little loot after around 20 minutes of farming (around 2k kills back then). After that you had to take a farming break for 30min or so to get normal amount of loot again.
I support this idea, getting 40 Mini Llamas (to unlock all 4 variations in wardrobe) seems like a more tedious task than getting all 21 legendaries to me.
For once I actually agree with everyone defending this. Do you think Alexander the Great would have complained about pin sniping? Seriously, this is war, war is dirty, and it’s definitely not cheating, so deal with it.
I am not sure how it was during the time of Alexander the Great, but there have been times in history where honor played a big role and you did not try to kill the commanders first. It was often frowned upon to kill the king of the opposing faction and often more or less just happened by mistake in the heat of the battle.
But I guess nowadays people find it ok to kill people with drones from thousands of km away, so I am not suprised people like this commander sniping tactics.
It’s a legit tactic and people will come up with countertactics.
Will they? I have been waiting for a decent anti commander sniping tactic for months now. The only thing I see happening is that people contact the enemy commander and make a “contract” to not snipe each others commander.
