The overabundance of these materials is ridiculous. Can we either get better randoms on the salvage or give us something unique to make with these materials?
As far as I am concerned, [SoCo] is the best guild out there, period. It’s not because we never lose fights; we /release more than you guys do fighting the same guilds. It’s not because of our notoriety; I’m sure there are plenty of enemy guilds who aren’t familiar with the tag (probably more that don;t than do). It’s not because we blindly support the guilds on the server; just ask the DR Alliance.
We are the best guild out there because these are the people I play with daily. They know my kids names, I know their kids names, girlfriends, wives, birthdays, been across the country to visit with people I have only known from pictures and teamspeak. With the exception of an intolerance for cheating, I could give a good kitten what others think about me or my guild. Our actions on the field (and in chat) are where our reputation is made. Like us or not, it does not matter to me. Why would I let someone else’s opinion of my friends and I add stress to a GAME? It’s supposed to be fun. Enjoy it with your friends.
Perhaps you’re putting too much stock in what others think of you and your group. It’s an added stress that just isn’t needed. I’ve watched most of your guys videos, fought alongside you (you probably rezzed me many times), and seen enemies pause when they see your tags pop up. Does it matter if they say you had more when you didn’t, or when you wipe 30 with a group of 10 and they have nothing but excuses?
If you didn’t have a video, you wouldn’t remember a month from now which guild said you had more numbers, which you beat 7v15, or which had the most excuses, but you will remember having a good time with your friends. And if that is why we are here, why does any of the other kitten matter?
Here’s a start. I’m new to necro, so if I’m missing something, let me know. Currently have a URI and I can’t sleep due to the coughing… The build is here:
You might have to copy and paste the link for it to work properly.
It’s dag/foc with staff as backup, using wells for all 3 utility slots and flesh golem as the elite. Siphon health is going to come from Life Siphon (dagger 2), your blood magic tree (II, V, XII), and wells. This is augmented by some regen and health gain in the first Spite minor, Reaper’s Touch (focus 4), Mark of Blood (staff 2), and Sigil of blood.
Half the time, we have people leaving borderlands or eb because they can’t agree on the best way to hit the next objective. To think we could come together as a server and not hit NSP/only hit GoM is preposterous. You’re giving us far too much credit if you think some alliance between servers is happening.
Anyone from [bots] frequent these boards?
First they need to fix the Squad function. After this long, it’s obvious it isn’t a priority for them.
There’s been a bug since the last patch (30th) where if the timing is right, enemy guards or yaks will spawn. See this sometimes when flipping camps as a duo. Camp is red, we kill the guards, flip it green, and if we flip at same time as red guards or yaks spawn, you get the green guards attacking the red guard or yak that just spawned at moment of flip.
Good luck to all, here’s hoping this week is as fun as last!
GOM performs for DR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnQEFXQLYf0
Now you’ve done it! While we were distracted by your performance, some PvE noobs summoned a monster to help them in Orr. He has accidentally escaped their control and is headed for a BL near you. Sorry.
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I opened this thinking it was going to say “we will never leave SBI”
I lol’ed
There IS something worse than losing every week (2nd place is 1st loser, right?)… it’s winning every week. What the idiots who decided to give up and not defend so that we can drop a tier seem to forget is that we’ve been in T7 and T8 before, it wasn’t fun. Weeks upon weeks of nothing but PvDoor because we outnumbered the enemy enough that they quit wvw’ing. Every morning, we would log in to see the entire map owned by DR, so we would log out just to see if maybe we could log in later and catch a group out trying to retake stuff.
Unless T7 got a major influx of players, this is the tier we belong in. Suck it up and go fight instead of hiding, or do us all a favor and go to another tier (and take your entire alliance with you, imo). If we do drop, we’ll be back next week, we just have too many people for T7.
^^What he said; there’s no guards past the originals. Two schools of thought on this:
- No harm, no foul (invuln buff makes it so they can’t kill anyone)
- OMG they’re spying on us!
It’s just another hole in the code that Anet has yet to fix.
Btw, DR’s [DDLG] decided to interrupt a really obvious duel. Very classy.
Complaining because you got killed in WvW? Even more classy.
It’s a pic-a-nic basket, and you can’t have it!
Fun times today, especially the pita thieves DH has that keep 15 ppl busy trying to kill them!
There IS a feature that does this. Right click on the portrait of the commander you want to follow, and click JOIN SQUAD. This way, the commander can also see how many people they have following them, and how much siege they have with them. And it also takes all the other blue doritos off the map.
You can right click on the commander’s icon on the map and click JOIN SQUAD, but Anet has not fixed it so that this actually works yet, despite it being a known bug for the entire time the game has been live. Thus, ppl right click ont he icon on the map, and then say it doesn’t work… it does work, it’s just that WvW is last priority for Anet, despite the fact that that is what is keeping the game alive.
We’ve taken Veloka at least once in the past 3 weeks or so of our matchup against IoJ and DH… and I know we have turned IoJ’s BL completely blue in the past 2 weeks. The problem is being on long enough for us to hold it. Weekday mornings EST are a good time, as DH’s presence dwindles then, and right before reset, as DR’s presence balloons. If you’re not getting it during the times you are normally on, try to switch it up a bit.
Two months or so ago when uplevels were hard to find, Ranger was almost always the primary target. Their complete lack of defense and mobility makes it an easy way to drop dps hitting our group, and we can quickly move on to the next target.
There is a time for zerging, but it gets old pretty quick. Usually run with like minded people (ie, guild groups) of 3-10 and get done what we can get done. The game is still fun, but that is because of a 3-4 week break a few weeks back. If it’s getting boring, step away for a few days/weeks and come back later.
Does anyone care about wxp? Sure its nice as a bonus, but its hadly ame changing enough to chase it.
Extremely disappointing addition to the game in that they could have done so much more with the system. I understand they don’t want to add anything game changing (like a TOA expansion), but the changes they did make were kitten and completely insignificant. The only differences I see from before the change is now people are more likely to hit the pve content (grub, wurm, warg) than they were before.
For staff, Fire 4, Water 4, Air 3, and Earth 2, 4, & 5 are all abilities to help you get away or prevent a melee character from quick closure. Learn to use the tools you have.
No thanks. Staff AoE area is a silly trait for WvW, I don’t want to see it become a “necessity” for some 100 vit/tough increase.
It’s already a necessity, imo. Even if you’re a zerger, the extra area for heals and speed themselves make it worth it, not to mention the getaway tools having more surface area.
Had a blast last night; thanks IoJ and DH for providing free trips to wp and many loot bags!
As always, thanks to my guild (and TBE!!) for keeping me rezzed when able!
Except it could be MOAR fun if they would just listen to me!
Don’t feed the trolls. Love watching your vids; keep them coming.
New wvw points system just means more PvDoor. And that is the problem with this game’s wvw… too many groups just farming. By giving more emphasis on killing players, instead of objectives, the game could have been changed significantly to give wvw’ers 2 options: flipping objectives for ppt, or killing players for wsp’s. Neither is exclusive of the other, but by putting the emphasis on objectives, you just take a stale game and make it…. more stale.
But wait, we have 8, 8 whole abilities with 5 tiers that are completely… boring. I understand not wanting to affect the game much (like RR’s in DAoC), but come on, 5% less damage to/from a guard? Does nobody have an imagination?
-Seriously disappointed in the changes it took so long to be made to wvw.
As the title suggests, plain and simple, why are there repair costs? There aren’t any in PvP.
/end rant.
There aren’t loot and gold rewards in sPvP, either. Simply WvW’ing should pay for your repair costs.
I want to apologize to IOJ and DR for SBI running the table and getting everything. Apparently the server has forgotten what the feels like, I sincerely hope we get bumped up somehow 2 or 3 tiers and zerged 24-7 for about 3 weeks. Maybe that will weed out more fair weather players and cause the server to realize it isn’t smart to stack 500+ points for 3 weeks straight.
We have done the same thing moving up from T8; it’s a problem that fixes itself because eventually, you have nothing left to take and nobody left to fight. Besides, I’d rather be on the side that has stuff to take and people to fight, if we choose; it’s always better to be the other 2 servers when the score gets like this.
Regardless of previous posts, zerging is not an interesting method of game play FOR ME.
Ftfy.
I’m not a fan of zerging, but what is someone who doesn’t play 4-5 hours a day, maybe even not playing 4-5 hours per week, supposed to do if he wants to wvw? You have to remember, this gme ha no subscription fee, people are going to be popping in and out for the life of the game, and not always playing regularly. Zerging is here to stay, learn to deal with it.
You would think Anet would want to know asap when someone is cheating in their game. Now the exploits are bleeding over into wvw. We can not send an email with the persons name attached if we see them cheating in wvw. There is no choice except to click on the person and use the report function. Why is it, 4 months after release, that we can’t report a player for exploiting? It isn’t botting, and it isn’t scamming, exploiting needs its own category and should be given primary attention in wvw. Wake up and add the feature, it is going to be needed more and more as time goes on.
I guess the question is, how do you fix it? Free transfers to FC? 5000 gems to transfer to JQ?
I know I (and my guild) moved to DR on day 2 due to 20 min que times on JQ the first day. None of us want to move again… I am sure most guilds are in the same boat. So the only way to affect changes is changing gem prices, or allow guilds to transfer (with upgrades) to a lower tier.
Or is a more volatile ranking system the answer? If you win, you move up, if you lose you move down? Or change the formula altogether?
How do you do it without completely jacking up the system, and so that it is fair to all?
RED doesn’t want to WvW, they only do karma trains. You might have encountered them during that time.
That’s not entirely true; the past week I’ve been seeing them out and about in WvW, helping commanders and such. I think 5 of them were roaming with us for a stretch on reset night.
I’m from ioj whats this about a que?
Yeah, on DR the only que we see is on LA, usually when everyone gets kicked out of wvw for reset. I know what you mean.
what happen to DR tonight? Did some guilds change servers? O_o
Yeah, we were shocked when LA didn’t even have a que during the reset… noticed a difference throughout the night as well. Maybe alot were doing guild quests?
We just got ours done… we got Sotzz and the Prisoner 1141. We did our prep work though, and had at least one person go out about 30 mins or so before we planned on popping the bounty to find the marks. It’s a good thing, as it took em nearly 20 minutes to find mine… I figured it would be easy since Sotzz doesn’t move, but it took me a while. He ended up being near the heart in Cornucopian fields in the cornfields by the grubs.
We had 8 or 9 people at each, and they went down relatively easily. Each group hit only the 1 mob they were at, we got 15 guild merit points, and each person got 2 commendations and 2 lvl 80 rares.
I can’t find it now, but if you research it you should be able to find it here on the forums… devs said they want the title to be tied to a name and not all 15 characters a person has on an account, and they have no plans to change it.
Good luck to all 3 servers!
As (primarily) an Elementalist, I (and others) have noticed boon durations reduced from 10s to 5s (aura trait, not in any of the patch notes… this is NOT a cantrip ability), and a change to mist form that makes the utility skill share a cooldown with the downed skill. Neither of these is necessarily game breaking, but are fairly important changes not mentioned anywhere in the patch notes.
Stealth nerfs are a quick way for players to lose confidence in a publisher, and more specifically, a game. It seems every patch it is the players finding the changes as much as what is in the patch notes.
My question is this: Is this an intended lapse, or is there a lack of communication between whomever is making the changes and the person publishing the patch notes?
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No sir, didn’t like it.
Tier 5 has been IOJ, DR, and whichever tier 4 server has been bad/unlucky enough to drop a slot in the ratings. Our primetime population tends to be about the same across all 3 servers (at least until a server starts to take off in points), but both IOJ and DR have significant coverage issues, while whichever server drops from tier 4 has had nearly 24 hour coverage. Check out our current matchup thread to see if one rubs you the right way: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/2-22-DR-IOJ-SBI/page/4#post1509394
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FC was one of our more enjoyable matchups to date… you have a great set of players there!
Just because they’re green doesn’t necessarily mean they are dominating the score. It may be the case on our current matchup, but what if the green team is only ahead by a total of 50 points, or even behind by 10k; why should they not be able to use the breakout?
And if they are way ahead, where do you set the threshold to deny them the ability to regain that lead? 1k? 10k? 25k?
Over the weekend I was very disappointed. Every time I logged on, the world was mostly Green. I would just sigh. At one point I actually started gathering, lol.
This weekend, even though we were destroying you, you would keep attacking each other. You know what happens when you do that? We steamroll into your weak area because you are occupied with each other.
We fight IOJ because we enjoy fighting against similar numbers… every time we start hitting green, we get “steamrolled” by the SBI zerg. If you roamed in groups of 10-20, instead of 20-30, you’re more likely to be engaged by those of us running in groups of 10-15.
Does the “D” in DR stand for “delusional”?
Warmed my heart to see so many SoCo out!! It has been ~2 months or so since we’ve had those numbers, some new members plus lots of old friends that we hadn’t seen in a long while just showed up the same night, it was great!
Those fights between the camp and South Bay last night were a blast; throw in some ninja attempts on the SW tower by you guys, and it made for a great night all around.
Meh, I was being facetious, we had 3fg+ of just SoCo, not counting the others that were there. Call it what you want, I call it fun!
Lol that isn’t the Kaineng WM.
Oozo is my favourite poster in these match-up threads. He does an okay job at veiling what is really just typical outnumbered QQ.
Got some pics of DRzergserver QQ :‘( i’msadcauseigotzerged.
Good fun on SBI BL, DR.
Yeah, actually that’s not a zerg. You see, we were all soloing, and Lion called us in together to hit the same objective at once… so yeah, not a zerg. Totally.
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Sounds like a great Halloween event.
No hitting below the belt; let’s get it on!
All of the listed would be awarded to each guild present at the objective at the awarding of points except for the upgrade points and rewards for claimed objectives. The idea is to promote guild name recognition in game, upgrading objectives, defending what has been taken, and the use of buffs at objectives.
For instance, say 4 guilds are present at a tower when it is taken; guild A has 2 players, B has 4, C has 3, and D has 12.
Points at objective taken: A+2, B+4, C+3, D+12
Guild A claims the tower and puts up buffs. Guards get their tag.
Guild D starts the first upgrade: D+1
Guild A, C, and D leave, Guild B stays to defend and starts the 2nd (1st tier) upgrade: B+1
Guild B starts another upgrade (2nd tier): B+2
A group of 5 comes and attacks the gate, Guild B kills 2 of the before they move on. At award of karma for defending the tower: B+4 (4 players present at time of karma award)
Point tally occurs A+1
A group of 15 then comes and drops a ram, Guild B calls for help, all 4 guilds show up again and are inside at karma award for defending. A+2, B+4, C+3, D+12.
Point tally occurs A+1 (claiming guild is present at point tally, so 25% buffs are now in effect until a point tally occurs without the claiming guild at the objective).
Defenders wipe attacking force, at karma reward for defending, A2, B+4, C+3, D+12.
Not including players killed, total would be:
A=8
B=19
C=9
D=37
If C owned a tower in all 4 of the maps, their total would be increased by +8 (1 tower in each borderland for a total of 4, 2 point tallies), making a total of C=17.
This is more what I was thinking than just only rewarding 1 guild for task completions…
- Currently there is no reason to claim keeps/towers/camps except to distribute WvW buffs.
-While your guild insignia goes up on banners and such, anybody not in your guild is clueless as to what that symbol means. Make the guards wear the [SoCo] tag of whichever guild claimed it.
-When you claim an objective, you don’t know if your guild currently owns another objective unless you see your banner there. Add a tab to the guild interface listing the name of each battleground/borderland and whether or not your guild currently has an objective claimed… could be viewable only in WvW, or everywhere. Another option would be to prompt the claimer if the guild already owns another objective on that map to ensure they want to drop the other claim.
-Make guild buffs more effective (+25%?) if a member of the guild that claimed the objective is present during the previous point tally. - Reward guilds for participation in WvW; after all, it is GUILD Wars. Players get mention/ranked for PvP, guilds should get the same for WvW.
-Award a guild 1 point for every player in the guild present when a camp, tower, or keep is taken, and 2 points each player present for taking SM. Double points if outmanned buff is active.
-Award a guild 1 point for every player in the guild present at an objective when credit for defending against enemy players is given at some point during a point tally. Double points if outmanned buff is active.
-Award a guild 1 point every time a player starts an upgrade at an objective. This could be expanded to increase the number of points based on the tier level of the upgrade (value gained for spending gold).
-Award a guild points every point tally that a claimed camp(1 point)/tower(1pt)/keep(1pt)/SM(2pt) is owned by that guild.
-Award a guild points for players killed by its members per point tally. Maybe 1 point for 10 players? 20? Double points if outmanned buff is active.
-Provide ranking stats at the end of the week, based on total guild population. 100 member tiers, list top 10 point tallies for the match (all 3 servers combined); in other words, a list for 500 member guilds, one for 400, 300, etc. A top 10 list for points per player would be desired as well (point tally/total members), call it member effectiveness or something. - Another list could be generated of top 10 players per server as well, or even just the top 10 of the match. no rewards, except your name in lights.
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