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some people seem to be able to tell which opposing player in WvW is a commander, but they all look the same to me, just red labels with rank, class and guild. How can you tell which one of them has a commander tag?
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I think crafting stations in the keeps is a good idea. It would give the sentries something to do.
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you have to laugh when you see one of those big norn guys or a charr with heavy spikey flaming armor on his kitten with his hand out going “uhhh… uhhh… don’t hit me again..” after some world boss or something has whapped him.
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I read this stuff remembering all the downed and dead warriors I see all over the game. I have never played warrior but I am guessing it is their lack of ranged attack that is getting them killed. They definitely can be killed at any rate.
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I wish I could do some crafting. Didn’t there used to be a do it yourself crafting bench for sale on the TP? I don’t see it there now.
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I agree with these ideas, and I too am extremely frustrated with being AOE’d to death when I’m trying to defend a tower/keep, etc.
However, I have built one of my characters specifically for being able to hold out towers until reinforcements arrive.
Arrow Cart Mastery
Siege Might
Repair Mastery
Build MasteryAll maxed.
I can build siege, repair gates/walls, and just myself on one arrow cart can push an entire zerg the other way. If I had a video I’d post it because I’ve done it more than once. All you need to make this all work is enough supplies in the depot and you’re golden.
Now bear in mind I’m not saying any of this to disprove what you have said because I agree completely. I’m just making a suggestion so that you can prevent this to the best of your ability.
Similar strategy here. Siege Might didn’t look like much benefit to me, so I haven’t used that trait yet. I have maxed ac, treb, cata, cannon and repair, and use a build that emphasizes toughness and condition damage. I keep a good sci fi anthology handy.
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big part of our coordination is how we talk to eachother in chat. It matters. It really does. We are real people in WvW.
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oh man, our team chat is so good. If your team can’t command like this, I just feel sorry. It can be done.
Really, I have no idea how you can enjoy WvW like we are if you cant hear anthing.
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Mystic forge in the keep would be nice too. It is a hassle to leave WvW to make superior siege when the castle is in perpetual flip mode.
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Yep, it can be really boring. It would be cool if ANet could make defense more interesting and rewarding. Like give you some wxp for ticking siege once an hour, offer some more interesting upgrades like more and better built in siege if you hold the location a certain number of hours, more levels for npc guards for holding the location longer.
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I think warrior is the most popular class overall in GW2, isn’kitten I saw some stats on percent of players in each class somewhere a few weeks back.
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weirdness you don’t see a difference. I can only guess your commanders must not be very good.
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defending towers, too, because you need your towers and your camps to defend your keep.
One thing to know is a well defended objective will feel boring. It’s like being a fireman, you wait. Well upgraded, sieged and defended objectives will be passed by over and over. The better job you do, the more boring it will be to maintain it. Your patience is your most powerful weapon once your keep is upgraded. Don’t leave. Don’t stop ticking the siege.
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Dunno, maybe our commanders are better than average. (A couple of them aren’t that great but most are probably top notch.) There is so much information we get in voice command it is hard to imagine play would be better without it. I enjoy getting to know the commanders and other players by their voice also. Big variety of personalities. Getting to know team members better adds to team cohesion.
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players would probably be more understanding if ANet provided little more detail about what the problem was and why it was considered necessary to mess up our momentum at such a critical time. The explanation we are given comes across as a kind of brush off.
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we are fighting actual people in WvW. This is tribal warfare. Listen up or go play with a bunch of npc toys or something.
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WvW is war. Go chill and fun in PvE.
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thanks! That hot thing must have sucked. LOL
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we get sick of watching you die stupidly. really. Brings everybody down.
That’s what the rally bot and pug slurs are about. People are trying to discourage the get killed supidly behavior. Voice communications can help a lot with that.
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Just the way it is. If voice communication is too complicated for you, get out of the zerg. Everyone in voice comm wants you to leave, belive it. Go Do Your Own Thing. Leave.
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I’m an ele. Examples of the kinds of commands I get in voice comm this afternoon are “I need a static field between those two trees…” “Can I get a water field on the treb…” “Two people on those catas, the rest with me, we are heading to…” That kind of detail will not be typed into chat on any channel.
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You dont need to speak, just listen. easy. I almost never speak, I respond in Say if I am on tag, in Team if I am scout or sentry off tag.
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There are servers where avoiding voice communication while following a commander is not acceptable. Go do your own thing, stay out of the zerg if you don’t want to follow the commander.
The problem is, the commander is working very hard sometimes long hours for the benefit of the whole group. People who are too lazy to listen and respond wear the commander down, and that impacts the whole server. Just leave if you cant be bothered to listen up. Leave, go do your own thing.
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somebody was aoe christmas ornaments type stuff at a gate too, how did they do that?
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friday night kitten up has IT mess written all over it. That is exactly when this kind of stuff happens.
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not convinced. I would give benefit of the doubt. ANet might have been kittened by some update from Microsoft or their security provider or somebody and had no choice.
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They wont tell us what it was either, I bet. They cant risk telling us what an exploit was.
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Ima guess it had nothing to do with WvW. Someone found a massive bug or exploit somewhere and they had to update the whole deal immediately.
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Voice comm is a big deal in TC. All of the commanders disparage people who are not in Mumble in pretty strong terms. The commands are often detailed and you would be expected to hear them.
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We have some good commanders on TC who direct small teams to do different tasks then rejoin the zerg. The small teams tend to be pretty small so they might not be that noticable unless you hear them in Mumble.
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The supply dolyaks are carrying gifts now.
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water field, fire field, dodge roll, wait
The pugs who dont hear any of that are so obvious
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we have good success with people are in voice communications. Maybe it is because the commanders who use voice comm are better, but it really makes a difference. Movement is so refined, timing is refined, left-right, up the stairs, pvd or dont, wait, go now, go left, go right, all of it matters a lot
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delighted conditions are considered a problem. Good news for us squishies.
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At least on Tarnished Coast, get Mumble installed and use it. Listen to the commander. If you have a problem with four letter words, deal or change servers or something, but get off the zerg. Go guard a tower and take care of the yaks.
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you too. If your guild is leeching and draining server resources you need to be called out.
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please do that. Not sure why anyone follows your guild if you don’t have a commander tag up, are not using team or world chat in WvW, and don’t run into towers shouting DRAIN in say.
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killing players who are real people is pretty immersive.
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pug is a stupidly dirty word, as if we don’t need new players.
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(not to post too much, but a blob is exactly the same thing as a zerg except it is one of the other two opposing servers. Just trash talk.)
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well, there are those of us in TC who wish our friends were still friends, you know how that goes with divorce. We can’t trust them any more.
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There is weirdness which is kind of a rivalry between TC and SoS because a major guild left TC and joined SoS. We in TC can’t help enjoying killing anyone we find from that guild, but it is bittersweet because we thought they were our friends. Lot of suspicion about spies and uneasiness when TC and SoS are matched up now.
So EP haven’t transferred back to TC with the end of the league?
No. That would be the impossible reversal of a bad divorce.
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Another thing is, playing with other human beings is way more cool if you talk to them. It is just way way more fun. Install and use voice comm.
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I would say keep offering complete information about how to join voice communication for your server, and keep saying it makes a much bigger difference than you think. Staying on the tag is not near knowing where the tag will go. Watching the tag on the map is not nearly as effective as being able to respond to commander calls for specific classes’ skills and positions. We win with voice communtions.
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Guild only just make yourself invisible, and you will not be a problem. No one will follow you. They won’t even see you.
Trust me pugs follow almost any group, with or without the blue Doritos
Not for long. Pugs will go with the main zerg on the person with the guts to tag up.
Guild only doesnt have the right to the honor of having that much guts.
are you serious?
Guild groups dont have guts….. we dont rely on hiding in the mass of the zerg.
we look for a fight not a gate, we down players not keep lords, we help our server more than any karma train will ever be able to.
Go have private guts. Nobody will care but you, guarantee. Just stay out of the server chat channels, off tag, and get off the supply with your golem bs. Thanks.
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If you want to play only for your guild, use only guild resources. I am sure, nobody will care at all, they will not even notice you except as some odd group running by. They wont care at all if your guild does not tag, does not use chat channels and does not use supply they did not capture themselves.
Trust me if there was an upgrade where only the guild who claimed the camp/tower/keep can get some supply there will be a ton of complaints.
Camp is completely drained as soon as it is capped. You ever seen that not happen? I think I have once or twice.
Guild only, go cap a camp if need supply. Do something useful for change.
…do you not know what guild runs do?
by your comments you make it sound like we run around in a circle playing with our…..well anyway we do cap camps, defend camps/towers when we are in the area.we also look to fight their zergs or other “guild groups” in order to demoralize them so that your job as zergli….PPT players will be easier since there will be less resistance.
Why does any of this need to interfere with the main server population? Stay out of the main server resources – chat channels, commander tags, supply. No one will bother you. No one will care what you do. No one will even notice you.
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Guild only just make yourself invisible, and you will not be a problem. No one will follow you. They won’t even see you.
Trust me pugs follow almost any group, with or without the blue Doritos
Not for long. Pugs will go with the main zerg on the person with the guts to tag up.
Guild only doesnt have the right to the honor of having that much guts.
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If you want to play only for your guild, use only guild resources. I am sure, nobody will care at all, they will not even notice you except as some odd group running by. They wont care at all if your guild does not tag, does not use chat channels and does not use supply they did not capture themselves.
Trust me if there was an upgrade where only the guild who claimed the camp/tower/keep can get some supply there will be a ton of complaints.
Camp is completely drained as soon as it is capped. You ever seen that not happen? I think I have once or twice.
Guild only, go cap a camp if need supply. Do something useful for change.
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Guild only just make yourself invisible, and you will not be a problem. No one will follow you. They won’t even see you.
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