There is always a little excess lag after a patch, but most of my guildies that usually have no lag are now getting lag and crashes. It’s unlikely Anet will read this on the weekend, and Chinese release means all of our problems are irrelevant until that’s up and running (they’ve essentially said so).
Update: Still happening. It’s incredibly annoying, and not even a mention from someone associated with Anet.
I think I might take a break from the game until it gets fixed. I can take a lot of things, even balance issues, but I can’t stand my inventory being screwed up. It’s remarkably annoying.
Update: still happening
But that’s just the point. You shouldn’t have to wait for Anet to get their act together to properly format a matchup system. I don’t think I even require a flawless system, just a system that recognizes its flaws, maybe acknowledges that they need to be addressed. I get that it’s the weekend, but this week it’s going to be swept under the rug with the positive hype from the tournament weekend (as it was last week when the EU tournament happened). I get that there’s an element of PR to this whole thing, but as far as I’m aware, Anet thinks their system is flawless aside from perhaps some lag issues and finding a way to match people with others of a similar rank (not even as simple as matching them up with a group of 4 other people).
I understand that I have now made 4 posts about this kind of thing, but none of them have been attended to or even responded to by Anet. I’m going to continue to make new threads until Anet responds to something, even with as little as an infraction to me because it means they’ve read more than the first sentence of the post.
How does one report someone that they cannot click on? If someone just leaves a match early, how can I submit that report? I’ve only ever clicked on their name in the roster…
I have 2 pristine relics.
I know there have been threads before, but Anet’s not really saying anything about any of them. My team right now made the decision to not fight for the whole match because it’s a 4v5. I have no problems with this, because we’re going to lose anyway, so why not get it over with quicker. My problem is that Anet is STILL not saying anything about how to fix their matchups and actually get a proper pvp match. I’d rather have someone that’s never pvp’d than anything else, but of course we’re all supposed to be distracted by the tournament of legends and pvp is the best it’s even been.
Just a little miffed, and Anet doesn’t say anything about it. Keep this up and PvP will be back to the dead place it was a few weeks ago. Nobody wants to fight outnumbered, even if it means fighting alongside idiots. Please at least say that you’re going to fix something. At least give us that.
I’ll try logging on to my other characters and see if that helps. It’s not so much that the fractals will be hard. They put me through level 19 fractals with 0 AR for my first times through, and it’s fairly simple. I’m just kind of resenting the time I have to put back into leveling myself through a game that I’ve already gotten to an adequate place with. The ONLY reason I would ever do fractals is for the chance at ascended rewards to supplement what I can get elsewhere, and as a primarily WvW player, when I go to PvE, there has to be a good reason to do so. It’s just a shame that the past few nights when we’ve gone to fractals I’ve been forced to get level 4, 5 and now 6 rewards instead of 11s like I should have been getting.
No, can’t be that. My guildies made a big deal of getting me to level 11 so that I could get ascended things from fractals. Now I’ve got 5 more fractals until I can even get that chance.
When the fractal levels reset, I stopped doing fractals for a while, but now my personal reward level is only at 5 instead of 11 where I used to be at. I guess maybe I’m a little late to the party, but I’d hate to have to redo them. Is this a problem that others had, or is it just me?
How is that not a problem? If someone can go afk for a whole match and put you at an effective disadvantage until they choose to return, should I not be able to tell someone at Anet so that they can be punished for ruining the game for the rest of us?
How do you effectively report AFKers and people that leave matches? I’ve heard that reporting people for botting is the appropriate way to report the afkers and whatnot, but recently it’s not working. I was just in a match with someone that went afk for almost the whole match, then on their team again the next match where they just left the match entirely. I understand that there’s something to be said about internet issues on the part of the other player, but I don’t understand how this isn’t something people are punished for, especially multiple times in an hour.
Still happening. It’d be nice to get this fixed. Or acknowledged.
A while back my inventory kept resizing, and it’s been happening again. I position my items along the side of my inventory window so that they’re always in the same place, relative to everything else. I keep moving them to fit the window, but then the window is resized. It’s really annoying.
Now that we’re rewarded with actual items in PvP, can we get access to banks and heart of the mists (maybe also a regular merchant) so that I can sell things, salvage things or put things in the bank without having to leave the heart of the mists? It seems like the next logical step to making the heart of the mists a hub for actual player activity.
I don’t care about anything other than the fact that heartseeker is no longer something that can be put on cooldown. GG anet. Not using any of the new traits now.
Not sure if this should go here, but Anet said to keep our blade shards, right? Because they’re taking up inventory space and I have nothing to do with them.
I’m a little confused by how you expect us to use our crafting materials in the first place. I can’t successfully complete any recipes, so it’s just going to sit there and (presumably) Anet will take them away and tell me it was my fault that I have so much Arcane Dust and nothing to do with it?
I feel like the confusion comes from Anet’s unwillingness to admit that they did not prevent people from participating in the first week and a half of the WvW tournament if they transferred the tournament started.
Yes, Anet stated that you would be barred from wvw for a week or two following your transfer after a certain date. What they did not say is that this would not start until April 7/8. Can’t be certain whether they’re going to bar you from WvW for another week (maybe 2 weeks) or if the barring will end when it was supposed to if Anet implemented this properly.
Anet has yet to state (as far as I’ve found) whether they are even aware that people were still able to join wvw after transfering mid-tournament.
Perhaps I missed something in the livestream on Friday, but what changes are actually coming to wvw? How is the megaserver not going to effect wvw?
I looked for a summary on Dulfy to see if I missed something and all I got was: “Megaservers won’t affect WvW at all. WvW Tournament improved a lot from Season One: Swiss style match ups to balance worlds and give better matchups, more transparent queue system.”
Was more said about this that I just missed? I thought the intention of this week’s livestream was to discuss the megaservers and the future of wvw, but here I am confused about the future of wvw.
Any class could feasibly roam with any other class. You just have to get fairly mobile builds and communicate.
Well, there is a difference. We’re locked into the same possibilities for 2 months (especially for those of us who’s servers are at the top or bottom of the tiers). We’re currently in a match against the servers we’ll likely face in the leagues, and at the top of the league, no less. This match is no challenge. It’s boring. We vastly outnumber the enemy, so they blob. Then we blob. Then it’s just 2 blobs doing things while the rest of us K train.
I don’t know why these arbitrary divisions need to be made. Anet obviously listened when we said we didn’t want to be roflstomped in matchups that we’re obviously going to win/lose in, so they added the Swiss tiers or whatever. But obviously they were not paying attention or thinking things through, because it doesn’t really fix anything. NA silver tier is pretty much guaranteed to go to FA. Either that, or the majority of FA’s serious wvw guilds will be transferring off the server and it will collapse. Either way, gg Anet.
It seems like this is just a reaction against Anet’s community management mistakes. WvW players were feeling neglected, so they told us some things and promised us some changes in an attempt to appease us. Then they don’t deliver it for FAR too long, but we’re supposed to be content that they’re working on it. This worked for a while. Now it’s not working so great because Anet has done this many times. X will be coming eventually and we hope that by giving you Y and continuing to mention the possibility of X, you should be satisfied and stick around until we can bring you Z which will hopefully distract from X and the failure that Y inevitably is.
It makes sense as a strategy for community management to an extent, but there’s only so far the community will allow you to go until we realize that it’s not coming… As far as I know, it’s coming 2 weeks from now, but I’ve learned to expect that in 2 weeks we’ll get a patch that pretends to help WvW but is really just a cosmetic shift or fancy event to distract us from what we were originally promised (like this week’s fix to garrison watergates and next patch’s Leagues).
What is going to be done about the rank 7 NA server? There is a huge gap between servers 5/6/7 and 8/9. Ridiculously large.
At the moment, Maguuma, DB and FA are the servers that will be fighting for spots 5-7, and there is no doubt that whichever server ends up in rank 7 and silver league is going to absolutely demolish the other servers. it won’t be enjoyable for anyone. I’m sure the same can be said about other matchups…
The Mind Spike (sword 3) says it will rip one boon off of the enemy, but lower down in the tooltip, it says it will remove a condition. I don’t know that the skill works properly, but it’s a typo, so I thought maybe the skill isn’t working as suggested?
This has caused at least 5 guildies of mine to stop playing until it’s fixed (which likely won’t be soon). I don’t understand how a patch that has nothing to do with inventories can screw it up so much.
At this very moment, FA has a queue on EBG and FA BL, but we also have the outnumbered buff. How is this possible? Should it not be impossible to have a queue while outmanned?
Mathematically, I question what’s happening with Anet’s queues and map sizes that this is possible. I don’t expect a response from Anet because I’ve made a post like this before and it was met with nothing. I’ll hope that this time they read it and at least acknowledge it. It likely won’t happen.
50k kills in wvw primarily on a mesmer (running 2-3 hours a night, 4 nights a week since last December). I do just fine with most group play. Yes, if you blob into a mega zerg, you’re not going to get any tags, but any sort of ACTUAL fight will have you AoE a lot of things. Glamour confusion mesmers are not supposed to kill people on their own, they’re supposed to damage the group as a whole so that others have an easier time killing them. Other forms of mesmer will do damage just fine. Running greatsword, you can target someone farther away from you and damage ~5 people in a line towards that person. You have iBerserker through a large clump. You can feedback. You should definitely be getting plenty of tags if that’s all you want.
If you want to be single-target dps heavy, obviously you have a harder time tagging things, but it’s the price you pay. If you want AoE damage, that’s easy enough.
To whoever said they get a lot of CC on them, maybe you’re positioned incorrectly. I always run Blink for the quick escape, but most of the time just knowing where not to run is enough to avoid it. And if your commander never pays attention to two mesmers dishing out damage from the back, they’ve never faced a group with good mesmers (either good through sheer damage or through annoyance). Causing warriors to blow their warhorns and use their condi removal IS effective. It may not seem like it, but it leaves them susceptible to other conditions.
Tonight was boring. Props to BMO for actually staying to fight sometimes, but I can’t really hold it against you for not wanting to fight us over and over. It seems like we’re the only groups on the map sometimes.
That Engi commander from DB is still speed hacking around (or at least a strategically horrible internet connection because he’s blinking all around the map).
Is there some way that the nametags of dead bodies can be changes in wvw so that there is an indication that they are dead? My guild’s been noticing that lately when there are a number of dead folks around, it makes it look as if the other server has people ready to attack when it’s actually just one or two guys and their dead friends. I’m sure we’re not the only ones that have bombed an area that has mostly dead people thinking that they were stacking up.
Perhaps if dead names were grey instead of red, or maybe an option in F11 to grey them out. Obviously it’s still necessary to see so we can tell if someone’s getting a res, but I see no reason for them to remain so similar to living enemy names.
Maybe one of the reason why DB is leading in PPT during oceanic time is because of our charr engineer commander in EBG. I’m quite amazed how he turned db’s random pugs and elite trolls into some kind of a militia.
The one who got called out on being a pansy and running at first sight of us? I have to admit this week he is actually staying and fighting. I haven’t seen him speed hack or flee off at all this week, so kudos to him.
I saw him speed hacking this weekend. Just sayin. He HAS stayed to fight more often, though.
Hmm, Zara being an annoying kitten on the forum. What else is new.
Guess life gets a little heavy having to pretend to be a girl every day.
With that face, I don’t think anyone’s fooled. Honestly, after having a discussion with Zara this week, I’m tired. It’s like she’s got a book of insults and comebacks, but no comprehension of the witty retort. It saddens me. All I get are a bunch of “What?” responses…
The GvG was fun last night. Still trying to put our core team together (somehow that means I’m an Ele for the night, which sucks). If y’all transferred to Ehmry you’d be our brothers in arms without having to sit through queues. And I’d have my Protato back.
The important thing to take away from this matchup is that I spend a lot of time looking at Zara’s character.
Aren’t you the joker Zara clowned in 1v1 when she was still a freshly minted mesmer? lol! Still feeling the burn and chugging that extra-bitter Ehmry brand of haterade, I see.
Maybe if you spent less time playing fashion police you’d amount to more than a free stack for the other team.
It’s funny because you think I’m only playing fashion police.
Yes, Zara roflstomped me when she told me she wanted to try a mesmer 1v1 and came with a good old perplexity build. Yes, I lost. Was there an assumption that I was any good at 1v1? No. I’m friendly with Potato, which means I have communicated amicably with Zara. I thought I was doing someone a favour, but apparently it was something to brag about.
Anyways, from these conversations with Potato and Zara, we found a mutual love of trolling Razgerb (which has landed me on his blocked list, even till this day). After Raz blocked us all, we took to trolling each other at which time it became a thing to refer Zara’s character as “the ugly human guardian that looks like she was hit by a bus.” So, take things a little less seriously please. I could take this to a place where I infer that you’re a homophobe, but I won’t. I don’t know you. Therefore, I can’t actually contribute to any conversation about you (something that you obviously didn’t get). I actually like Zara. She’s a super troll, and as long as she lives under her little bridge with Potato, I’m happy to leave her there and troll her right on back.
I doubt it was Cad. He wasn’t online at that time. On another note, our TS went down as well, right as BP’s group was sieging Hills. Mighty suspicious if you ask me.
The important thing to take away from this matchup is that Zara’s character is possibly the ugliest one I’ve seen. Maybe wear a helmet to cover that bit up. Second, SM doesn’t want to be mine. Last night, we catapulted the paper wall down only to find an invulnerable wall INSIDE THE OTHER WALL. I was like ‘WTF’ and then Lost came and beat me up while I was reporting the wall.
Also, as another side not: Tira, I thought you were Bus, so when I said I was beating up on Bus, I meant you. Your thief friends saved you on Saturday mid-afternoon. I had you down and then you disappeared into a stealth field. It made me sad.
All kitten-talking aside, I think this matchup will be nice in a few weeks when everyone’s bored of taking a break. Last week, BP ran away from us when we tried to fight. This week, it appears (from what I have heard) that Ebay is running away from BP.
Edit: Also, to the CD guild that is INTENT on portal bombing: it gets old and then we start to expect it. Maybe try troll bombing or something to vary up the tactic. Or maybe no portals at all. It may be useful if you’re facing different servers or guilds more consistently, but at the moment we see the tag, see the mesmer, and know the portal bomb is coming.
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I, like many other people, am disappointed with the leagues, but I’d be sad if some aspects were simply thrown away because of it.
The best thing that came out of the leagues (for me) was the living story aspect with small, fairly realistic goals for anyone that WvWs with any regularity. The achievement points that came from that and the chest for completing these achievements were not bad ideas.
Instead of pretending like leagues could ever be competitive, what if Anet continued to implement short-term goals for WvW (such as capture X amount of towers or something) for a random period of time, and by the end of that period, have a rewards chest that is similar to the one you would get from any other living story content.
There would be no need to worry about coming in 1st by the end of the season (although I’m sure some will), but it would perhaps provide some incentive for non-WvWers to come to WvW and have fun. That being said, I think Anet needs to rethink some of its achievements, or at least alter them for whatever period is decided. Maybe sometimes the only goal would be to cap 10 towers and 1 keep in a week and get a (very small) reward for it, and maybe other times we have 4 weeks to cap SM once, 5 keeps, 20 towers, etc.
Wait, where’s this band wagon at? I want a ride.
Honey, I’m up for a ride. Trololol.
But really, I don’t know what the heck Zara’s talking about. What server’s a ‘reset’ server? We took all of BP bl tonight and they did nothing. It was boring as. Then we went to EBG and it was a LOT of CD and no BP. It’s as if they were in an alliance to not attack each other when Ebay’s around. And then there was CD defending Aldons for BP. Smells like an alliance to me. Trololol.
But then how would Ehmry Bay and Yaks Bend make an alliance in a 1v1 situations?
Would it perhaps make sense to have a 20 or 30 second ICD with the caveat for the #6 that it’s once per enemy per 20-30 seconds (I’d even be happy with 60 seconds), rather than single target for 8 seconds? I really like the idea of these runes, but for me, it’s too single target to be any good in a WvW counter-zerg situation.
I had already moved on from these runes prior to the nerf, so I’m not too invested, but I always used the runes more to confuse a lot of people rather than to stack confusion on one person. To me, that would be far more useful and potentially less OP than an 8 second individual target cooldown.
Side note: Claude, we had fun fights at NW Hills till the BP pugs bailed on me. Then you all jumped me hard, haha.
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I was never very good at picking you out in the crowds, but I spent a lot of time trying to beat up Bus. Didn’t work very often, but it was fun.
On a side note, do all Yaks and BP zergs focus Ebay BL and give up on EBG? Last night we saw a pug group of Yaks that might have been 40 people and a group of 20 or 30 MM, but that was about it…
Sigh.. YB just keeps hitting BP and not Ebay.
I guess Ebay having a 18k lead is not good enough so they need more help to increase the lead.
It’s because of your winning personality.
Yes, that was quite the fight in your keep. I think yaks thought they’d be able to take the keep after we took it, but that didn’t end up working out. Lots of fun to see Bus and some of the other folks we know from Rekz. I’m a bit disappointed that we couldn’t find more fights. We ended up spending a good hour trying to fight Yaks only to have them run. Tree tactics didn’t work tonight. We also portal bombed and that didn’t work.
yes.. sadly it did not… keep fight was the only exciting thing tonight. lol.
i was quite bored. can yaks pls fight us.
Yup, whenever we see [Void] , that’s when we know to get our game face on and its always exciting fighting you guys. You guys obviously come out on top most of the time because you run 35-45 and we run 20-25 and you actually know what you’re doing unlike most mindless zergs, but i feel we’re getting better and better every time we see you guys! Keep the awesome fights coming
We try to keep our numbers down. On a busy night we might have 30 guildies with us, and then whatever pugs can follow without a tag. I’d hesitate to say that we ran more than 30 last night, though. Great fights from you guys, although I felt a bit bad. It seemed you guys were the only BP on the map last night. Yaks, though, came along later in the night with at least 40 when a lot of our guys had gone to sleep and they kept hiding behind cannons and such. WE WANT YOUR BAGS!
Yes, that was quite the fight in your keep. I think yaks thought they’d be able to take the keep after we took it, but that didn’t end up working out. Lots of fun to see Bus and some of the other folks we know from Rekz. I’m a bit disappointed that we couldn’t find more fights. We ended up spending a good hour trying to fight Yaks only to have them run. Tree tactics didn’t work tonight. We also portal bombed and that didn’t work.
yes.. sadly it did not… keep fight was the only exciting thing tonight. lol.
i was quite bored. can yaks pls fight us.
And just to clarify, that’s fighting us… not sitting in towers or keeps, building siege and cannons. That’s boring.
Yes, that was quite the fight in your keep. I think yaks thought they’d be able to take the keep after we took it, but that didn’t end up working out. Lots of fun to see Bus and some of the other folks we know from Rekz. I’m a bit disappointed that we couldn’t find more fights. We ended up spending a good hour trying to fight Yaks only to have them run. Tree tactics didn’t work tonight. We also portal bombed and that didn’t work.
tree tactics guys, it works. also.. may have just gotten very bored in SM tonight, BUT this made it much better.
I’m just happy that Anet included such realistic forestry in the game so it’s totally possible to stand behind the trees. Too bad nobody caught the epic portal bomb that followed. Must set up video recording.
Last night during our guild mission in Southsun where we have to hold on to the crab for 5 minutes, about a third of our members didn’t get credit even though they contributed to the completion of the event.
I think a lot of what we’re experiencing here is unintentional, too. A lot of people have asked me about whether we have an alliance with Yaks, and I always tell them to take out BP first if you can (not necessarily because we’re aligned with Yaks, but because BP with fewer points means Ebay has a better chance at second place). I think maybe some people aren’t focusing Yaks because they genuinely don’t know whether we’re aligned with them or not.
Aside from that, last week a number of us actually made friends with some Yaks folks. Doesn’t mean we’re not going to kill them, but there are lots of /waves going around between guilds that recognize each other. Today I helped a YB take a BP camp without being asked or thanked, then just walked away unmolested because that’s just the understanding we had. On that same note, a YB tried to kill me and some guildies, so we wafflestomped them to teach them better, then went back to only killing the ones that needed killing. There’s also the added bonus that some people were trolling our forums recently that we’re pretty sure are on BP, as well as some old friends we like to beat up and some old enemies that we’re nostalgic for.
Another factor that seems to be ignored is that BP is going to get 4th no matter what they do, so some of them may have taken a break. If it were me, I wouldn’t take the week too seriously in the first place, but knowing that Anet’s flawed system is flawed would make we care a lot less about PPT because win or lose, you’re getting the same rewards. It’s a throwaway week for BP, so some of you may not be trying as hard as you did in previous weeks (not meant in a derogatory way, it’s just the way things work. If you can predict the outcome, why bother trying to change anything?).
EDIT: also, can we all get it (regrettably) straight? A double team and an alliance are entirely different. If you are, by chance, being double teamed, that’s one thing. An alliance is different. A lot of the ‘proof’ here that I see is proof that you’re being double teamed, not that YB and Ebay are aligned. If BP’s keeps and towers are paper, they attract more people than anything that’s fortified. It’s just the way things work. It’s far too much effort to take anything that’s reinforced.
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So much QQ….Unbelievable!!
I hope FA and DB gangs up against SBI and teach them a lesson.
You hope FA and DB gangs up on SBI for pointing out you 2v1 this week?
How come the only server that seems to be embarrassed by this is Yaks..
EB doesn’t seem to care, and freely admits it… SBI is pointing it out…But Yaks is acting all insulted when we point out the obvious.
Insulted? Lol no.
It’s you who are getting the taste of your own medicine and hence the crying.We are embarrassed? Nope. It’s you, who should be. You guys chest thump, QQ on here how strong you guys are and still would finish 3rd? Can there be more embarrassing situation than this? :p
I’m going to guess relying on a 2nd server to win would be a more embarrassing situation.
Are you sure it is more embarrassing than relying on fairweathers to win?
Nope, i’m pretty sure relying on your own fair weathers + an entire other server of fair weathers is more embarrassing.
Whatever helps you sleep at night, dude (Ooops, unfortunately you can’t due to the humiliation)
I sympathize with you.
Yes….everyone on SBI is humiliated that 2 servers ganged up on us to win… Oh no… what will we ever do… the humiliation is horrible that it took 2 servers to beat 1 server
How we will ever sleep at night with this travesty..
Rofl..
3rd place hahahaha!! It must be getting in your head. Also the 2nd place in league snatched away LMAO!
So did you have EB type part of that response for you?
Nope. What made you think so? You okay?
You need their help with everything else, I figure you probably required them to type your response’s now.
Awww…Just so you know, your assumption is as wrong as your first one.
Btw, EBay just 1.5k behind! C’mon, you can do it!! Humiliate the chest thumpers! Make them cry MORE!
I’m still confused at how you think its somehow humiliating to us for it to require 2 servers to beat us?
I mean…if anything, SBI is quite flattered by it…
If its flattering, why are you guys crying so much about it?
Not only this, it affected the league ranking as well. Like I said earlier, my sympathy is with ya’ll. I am sorry that we didn’t allow you to finish 2nd in the leagues.
2v1 or 100v1 doesn’t matter. It’s not illegal or cheating. What matters is that we will be ahead of you guys in the leagues. PERIOD.
What a copy cat PERIOD.
It might not be cheating (though I believe siege bots are and having accounts on other server just to drain supply from keeps shows a lack in sportsmanship) . . . it goes to prove that people are willing to do anything to win at a video game.
Like I said previously, it’s a holiday in most parts of the world, and the fact that YB and EB have come out to destroy SBI, to push them to 3rd, so YB can be 2nd in league, proves my point . . . at least I can enjoy my family this time of the the year.
The trolls aren’t only from our server, ok? Even SBI trolls wasted our supplies, killed golems, ok? Proofs are here in the thread, dig it up.
Excuses, excuses and excuses. It isn’t a holiday week here in India, so I dunno what you’re implying.
kitten , read first, I said “IN MOST PARTS OF THE WORLD” key word being MOST, implying not ALL . . . kitten , that’s some education you have . . .
I think this was my favourite post of the entire matchup thread. He feels capable of insulting someone else’s education. It’s adorable.
Ehmry get second! Beat those SBI baddies please. By the way, has SBI lost some guilds? Because I am very shocked at your performance this week. Can someone tell me what’s going on?
You’d have known if you didn’t kitten over to FA. I’m on a new computer, so the game’s still downloading, but it’s great to see Ehmry’s got enough Canadians and Americans without family things to do that we can actually hold things (even if it’s with Yaks’ help).