Guild Wars 2

This is really funny. ArenaNet is trolling us. Need that new math, stat!

I understand ArenaNet’s seeming indifference to the forums in many posts, because we as a group will split into opposing factions on any topic. When culling is 100% fixed, the thief forum will explode with “we have been nerfed”.
But, it is good business sense to at least try to give some background to players on highly commented topics.

Osicat.4139:

Spacchiuso.5230:

zastari.1730:

Only a WvW player has 2 million karma and 2 silver.

I’m going to be reincarnated as a cow

this XD lol

Sadly true lol! And I was hoping for a cat

Reincarnated as a Dolyak, with mad offensive skills, full PTV gear, and 20 second invulnerability buffs every 22 seconds.

1/10 for effort.
Hopefully the achiever stuff in the upcoming WvW patch makes this less of a problem to “live” only in WvW.

Manbear.3408:

Check out the big brain on Thrumdi! Thanks for the Bartle reference—I’m not familiar with his work, but it sounds interesting. I’m going to pick up a copy of his “Designing Virtual Worlds” on Amazon. It’ll give me something to read while I’m trebbing.

All we need now, to read while trebbing is that “auto-repeat my last shot at the duration I last specified” button.

Coming up with “explainable, justifiable” new math for the new rating calculation will be a challenge for ArenaNet’s WvW crew. Balanced match-ups get sent to the middle of the pack, uneven matchups against weaker foes boost you to the top.
I await the announcement of these new ratings formulas.

Dolyaks need to L2P.
Buff them with Toughness, Vitality gear, and stun-breakers. Give them a “Kick” skill similar to the warrior rifle#5.

Congrats SoR! ….

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Master-Carver-lost-after-some-patch-Merged

Get 15-50 of your closest friends, all near or at max level, bring flame rams and knock on the doors of all these keeps and towers. Knock really, really hard until the door breaks. The residents will get all angry and demand blood price. Defeat them. For extra credit, and the gratitude of your server, defeat the tower lords and stand in the colored ring until it goes away.
You can expect a little hostility to these acts of breaking and entering, just brush them off and carry on. There is a reason you have weapons and armor and mad skills.

Keep doing this until you get all the Points of Interests and Vistas.

Adrenaline Rising

This is funny.
There needs to be some quick explaining of the “new math” for ranking calculations.
Props to Ferguson’s Crossing for the 17 rank rise. And SoR, climbed to T1, and then drops 16 ranks. Fishy.
Unless there is some new math, close matches (what we want) appear to handicap servers.

An initial score.

VOLKON.1290:

Just remember, it doesn’t matter who’d blue, who’s green or who’s red… without all three of us they’d have to throw away the monitor for one that works!

This was a bad week to be red.
In the NA match-ups, 4 matches will be won by green, 4 by blue, and 0 by red.
In the EU match-ups, 6 will be won by green, 3 by blue, and 0 by red.

I hope the next set of matches is exciting.

I predict double teams, ganks, aoe, siege, zergs and some good fights. Commercial Bowl is this weekend? meh

It would be a slightly useful additional requirement to have some tier level (perhaps T2) in all those WvW achievements, before you can show your icon in WvW.

AdliBot.4718:

When SoS decides to focus on BG BL, SoS BL ends up turning into blue and red.

When BG decides to focus on SoS BL, BG BL ends up turning into blue and green.

When JQ decides to focus on SoS BL or BG BL, JQ BL still looks blue all round.

Insert conclusion here

Blue is a very nice colour. Everybody likes it.

I’m one JP away from getting them all. It is on one of the borderlands. But, learning to navigate WvW more safely took awhile, as I’m a slow learner. I went through the rage, fear, disgust, acceptance, rebuild for success steps. The single best strategy for a newer player is to travel in groups, ideally with a mesmer and or thief to give you some advice. There is enough incentive in the chest rewards to get a few players during slower times to join you. You don’t have to party up, but it will help you see what everybody is doing, and why. JPs make for more difficult smaller battles as some skills lead to oops, off the puzzle. Removal of siege will make it a tiny bit less hostile.

Is the only chance to get to the “new, improved formula T1” after this match, to really dominate your foes?
Leading to Sorrow’s Furnace, Kaineng, Ehmry Bay being the first to hit “new math T1”?

You realize that the PvDoor players don’t really want opposition to their Karma train.

Zenyatoo.4059:

I didnt get a chance last night. But I wanted to congratulate the BG players on their borderlands yesterday. You guys turned a paper cragtop into a bloody fortress.

But it’s all good, we managed to get that PoI for the person who needed it in the end :O

“For the PoI, we will take anything” Our unofficial rallying cry.

There are a large number of excellent and resilient commanders on JQ.
Even in the discouraging days of heavily outmanned, I would take a day off, think about it, and go right back in. I can think of only one match in the SoS T1 era, where I’ve basically said kitten it. But, next Reset, I was back at it. I have never seen a post, or heard on TS, mapchat, teamchat, squadchat the command to “stand down” and quit fighting.
Go JQ.
PS that post by Esoteric is spot on. Perspective is needed.

The later stages of the story line seem to encourage grouping. This is a multi-player game, though.

Jayne.9251:

Don’t care. As long as its challenging and offers as near equal footing for all three teams.

Agree

Diashame.6328:

A count down queue position would be fantastic.
Queuing for the first available slot in a 4 map queue would be awesome as well.

Excellent suggestions. Please post in the suggestion forums, too.

I think it’s an improvement. I think the culling queue counts are still too low. And I don’t think I’ve seen any placeholder models, yet.

I am sure that we will see SoS’s famous “Shock and Awe” campaign at reset.

sostronk.8167:

When everyone else in WvW sees that scoreboard, does it upset you to know that you have been working hard for those small stat increases, whilst players in PvE are still getting those stat increases and not doing anything to get them?

All of the pve members of my guild and allies are fully aware that others are fighting for their server and benefits. JQ really does have a pretty good community.

That +695 ppt is obviously wrong.
BG has no intention of going quietly. I think they have lots of face-smashing to do yet. Congrats to BG and all its hard working guilds and militia.

That was epic! . . . .

I would also like to commend the developers. The ‘annoying’ factor is mostly gone. It’s still a ‘dangerous’ place. You can carefully work your way though it. How you do it now depends on your character class and inclination. The seemingly continous CC (read pulls) is toned down. Depending on which of the classes I took there, the original was very difficult to seriously annoying. Thanks.

Hmm, my G510 keyboard is also showing this anomaly.
Points of Interest: 0/719
Tasks: 161/301
Waypoints: 0/509
My character is standing right next to the “Fort Marriner Waypoint”.

edit: After jumping to a PoI I knew I didn’t have on this character (Chantry of Secrets)
Points of Interest: 466/719
Tasks: 161/301
Waypoints: 362/509

Account.9832:

MarMaster.6241:

“The game client lost its[sic] connection

By [sic] do you mean “I don’t understand the difference between its and it’s” …?

http://www.its-not-its.info/

You’re right, it’s my error.

“The game client lost its[sic] connection to the server. Please wait a few minutes before restarting the client and trying again.”

I am on Jade Quarry, Bloodtide Coast map, working on the underwater kills. Hit 100% and then in the space of 30 minutes have hit this error at least 5 times.
Client reverts to the char select screen. There has been a roll-back on the kills, too.
I have restarted client twice.

Halfway there. Keep working on it.
Or, as we say in WvW, “push push, they are almost down”.

Yep, something is not quite right. I’ll keep experimenting.

As the other posters have stated, 0/1 but still have the title.

Yumiko Ishida.3769:

Yay TC is #5 we should shoot for #1! Role Players are also good at World PVP too!

Aim high. Go for it, grab all you can. Do you hear the siren call of those bags?

Smokee.1754:

I guess the weekdays are showing JQs true massive coverage. They are sitting at +475 ppt. I know I would be bored, but I guess we are playing the game for different reasons

I have finally been in battles with HB, and I’m still getting bits of dirt, dust, blood and other unidentifiable debris out of my armor and kit. All I saw was this license plate “HB is Here”. Well played.

Lets see now. Looking at the first time SoS won in T1, to now; SoS has won 9 of the 10 matches. And now because we are trying to even things up, it’s “bad” for wvw.
Is that an accurate summary Ohai? What did I miss?

Now, if they tweak scoring rules to take into account population & upgrades & defense, and find a way for supporting players to get badges too, and reduce armor repair costs when you are outmanned. Then things will seen a bit brighter.

Darkrider.7461:

Whatever happens this week, i would like to tip my hat to everyone who has put in the extra time to push hard on our server and others. We have had some great fights no matter what has been said on this forum.

That being said, all you MERC guys can you do me a favor, please leave the purple asura alone my repair bill is breaking me =).

Nitejack the portal slave of EMP

Why not leave all of us poor Asurans alone, we are really quite harmless. Except for those OP engineers.

But, if you play WvW, you develop a thick skin.
All those foes, dancing, laughing, gesturing, lying on your lifeless body are easily ignored. You glance at the +ppt, and say it was worth it.

Maguuma is definitely the #1 thread this early in the week. The rest of us have to pick it up.

Only a WvW player knows that a defeat, is a learning opportunity to get it right the next time.

You could consider thief.
Oh wait, culling may get fixed soon and then we kittens will have to find something else to do.

Virtsuoso.9761:

morrolan.9608:

jason barnes.4239:

I wouldn’t start panicking about our oceanic poor showing yesterday yet. It was australia day so most folks were at bbq’s etc celebrating hence the outmanned buff on several occasions. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/diverse-celebrations-across-country-for-australia-day/story-e6frf7kx-1226562528407

Plus it didn’t help with half our population being disconnected allowing JQ to take SOS garrison.

You do know that the log-in server being down last night affected all the servers, not just your own.

<kidding>
Shhh, It’s all part of JQ’s and BG’s nefarious secret alliance to deny SoS their chance at #1 again.
</kidding>

This area has been like this since the first days. Look at it as an opportunity to learn to deal with endless waves of bombing bandits. It can be fun for a bit with 3-4 other players to practice for continuous play. Staggers skills so not everything is on cool-down. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.

Skale Venom and the Blessings are next?

Vicious Conflict.