Guild Wars 2

Berserker isn’t worth using at the expense of any of the strength/defense/discipline lines and doesn’t bring much to the table either. The rage skills are just lol-worthy except the elite one.

Tyler Bearce.3427:

The chest, containing Proofs, being account bound is a bug.

Pretty ridiculous. I wish it wasn’t a bug …
Somehow, you guys (Anet) keep screwing up the WvW’ers intentionally or otherwise.

Getting sick of this client crash every 20 mins or so.

Looks like Anet don’t give a kitten about it … Reinstalled Windows 7 and the same problem.

morrolan.9608:

bubbachua.1243:

Thank you for listening, i hope the servers remain open for awhile longer while players farm gold for transfers. Already there are movements being planned for offhours guilds in NA servers. I hope anet gives some time for the transfers to complete.

….weakest T1 server is still locked and how will it help off hours considering JQ is now the weakest SEA server in T1….

You are kidding , right? lol

Anet, PLEASE fix this client crash. Been happening CONSTANTLY since HoT update. Crashing every 20-30 mins or so especially during loading screens (not always).

Was doing tequatl and it was at 25% and boom, crashed and couldn’t get into the full map.

Lacrisma.1540:

“Sir, after three years of ignoring them and luring AP hunters into their gamemode, the WvW community still hasn’t died down!”

“But… we gave them the Stability change, how are they even still playing? I mean, they crash at least every two hours and have massive queues on their map, how is that possible?”

“We don’t know, sir. What should we do?”

“… do it.”

“No.. you can’t… this is.. are you sure?”

“UNLEASH THE PVE BORDERLANDS!”

….
….
….

“They are not happy with the new borderlands and the EBG changes, but they still seem to hang on to WvW!”

“But the verticality! The dinosaurs! The mechanics that kitten on everything WvW! How can this be?! We even denied the existence of WvW players!”

“If I may… There is still one thing”

“What is it?”

“Reset. They still have the reset to be excited for.”

“…ruin it. Now.”

“With your permission we’d change it to saturday. This would double the queue. With this, we could also rub salt in the “this gives us more time to look into WvW problems”wound"

“You can do better.”

“Let’s change it to noon for EU players then, no drunk reset and they will be disconnected when leaving for lunch, facing at least a queue of 100 when they come back.”

“Good. Come back when you’re done, we need to talk about your promotion.”

This is a gem

Dear Arenanet,

Please don’t change the current reset schedule. I have talked to my friends, people in LA, in PvP lobby and NO ONE agreed to this change. Just keep the schedule as it is.

Regards

I am glad that PU is being nerfed but IML every class should have access to reveal. CURRENTLY (pre HoT), only rangers and engies has access to reveal. So unless, you are one of them good luck finding a mes (let alone killing it)

Conditions on the other hand are beyond ridiculous. Burn and confusion (thx perplexity) is way too OP. IMO there should be a 1 sec window before you can be inflicted with a condition again.

Not the first time anyone has done this but Congratulations anyway.

Don’t like when people congratulates his own self in public in third person but some people here are really bitter lol. If you didn’t have anything good to say just ignore the thread. Like every thread, it will die down eventually.

What is your point?

/Edit: Will be locked or deleted anyway when the mods come online.

Pretty easy to get account name. Block the person and check your blocklist.

Zolazie Grengche.3051:

Luvpie.8350:

Hi Anet,

Please limit free accounts to EOTM. It is one of the easiest ways to control them trolling WvW. Otherwise you will need to restrict supply carry, commander tags, upgrades etc for them in WvW which will be more complicated. Restriction to EOTM only will entice them to purchase the game more if they like WvW and want to help their server ‘win’. Level to 60 before WvW is not a restriction at all for serious trollers.

Restrictions listed here : https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/95982157
Free accounts need to be limited to EOTM only.

I agree 100%. Otherwise we end up with people cheating with no fear of losing the account, as seen in this video of a Yaks Bend player hacking into structures in Jade Quarry BL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTu0W2H3OpY&feature=youtu.be

No one here condones such actions. Help the community by reporting such players immediately and sending the video to “GM Proheals”.

Fully agree with OP.

Reaching lvl 60 hardly takes few hours of PvE’ing thereby making trolling/griefing even a bigger problem than now it is.

Personally, I hope we roll more T1 matchups in future as its really exciting 24/7 doing something or the other. Most people are forgetting that this is our first T1 match and our very first encounter against JQ (We fought a smaller TC back in 2012) and its been hell lot of fun defending against endless blobs T1 has been throwing at us.

About glicko, as long we don’t lose it (currently we are) nobody here is too worried about it. I really hope the other T2 servers get some transfers and Anet increases the matchup variance by a bit.

Chaba.5410:

NiloyBardhan.9170:

Chaba.5410:

Sungtaro.6493:

And does the twenty guilds leaving T2 include the two guilds that are reported leaving just recently? One from FA, one from YB.

Nope. I started with the 15 GvG guilds that left according to their spreadsheet and counted from there. This doesn’t include individual players.

YB: EP, Hymn, Ark, AUX, BOO, fR
FA: BMO, Bae, Syn, oT, TFH, PS, VP, DN, JINX
SoS: MM, BGA, GS, Agg, GBP

Now add in LUN (YB), Rynter’s guild that quit the game (YB), and CL (FA). Up to 23 now.

There are a few unreported guilds I’m not counting, like UL from YB was rumored to have left too since they are GvG guild, but they were on break afaik. And I’m concerned for the status of TE. That might be Rynter’s guild? Then there’s HUNT (FA) which is a small-man guild that left when the GvG guilds did. I didn’t count them either.

[LUN] isn’t leaving lol
Nice try though

And your point? Still 23 guilds total have left T2 as of the last 24 hours. This thread is about the state of T2, which will have ripple effects across all of WvW as the 2nd most populous tier, not the state of YB.

Just corrected a misinformation in your post about LUN.

Chaba.5410:

Sungtaro.6493:

And does the twenty guilds leaving T2 include the two guilds that are reported leaving just recently? One from FA, one from YB.

Nope. I started with the 15 GvG guilds that left according to their spreadsheet and counted from there. This doesn’t include individual players.

YB: EP, Hymn, Ark, AUX, BOO, fR
FA: BMO, Bae, Syn, oT, TFH, PS, VP, DN, JINX
SoS: MM, BGA, GS, Agg, GBP

Now add in LUN (YB), Rynter’s guild that quit the game (YB), and CL (FA). Up to 23 now.

There are a few unreported guilds I’m not counting, like UL from YB was rumored to have left too since they are GvG guild, but they were on break afaik. And I’m concerned for the status of TE. That might be Rynter’s guild? Then there’s HUNT (FA) which is a small-man guild that left when the GvG guilds did. I didn’t count them either.

[LUN] isn’t leaving lol
Nice try though

Fuzzion.2504:

Since ken is on vacation

ANyon1 have the T1 and T2 Stats??

http://coveragewars2.com/prediction/?world=1003

Zanther Deathbringer.4762:

I see whats going on here. So your plan to push Yaks Bend isnt working out to well, so now youre making suggestions in the hopes that anet will throw you a bone?

LOL

OP is on CD.

The difference between T2 and T3 is higher than that of between T1 and T2 :P

NaotsuguLH.8915:

You all completely missed my point. I just want to know how long it’s been Mag vs SBI

Sorry my bad

http://mos.millenium.org/servers/history/31
From this data we can see that this is the 20th consecutive week that SBI and Mag have been facing each other (since 28th March).

SBI and Mag are locked in T3 unless either’s population increases/decreases dramatically to replace one of T2 or fall down to T4.

Farm SW (not just chest trains, everything including events). If you farm it regularly and know when to tag the defense events (not letting any of the forts go down meanwhile) you can earn upto 15-20g per hour. Farming 4-5 hours daily can get you upto 100g a day.

Chest train helps a lot not only with the champion bags but also with the lower tier cloth scraps that you get to craft Bolt of Damask which is required for all ascended armor crafting. In addition to that you get obsidian shards random from the lost bandit chests (range between 3-10).

Rynter.3975:

The way it is on Yak’s Bend right now is that we had to call of nightly WvW because Fort Aspenwood and Sea of Sorrows are no shows, and no fights are to be found. This is probably because a bunch of T1 guilds transferred to our server a few weeks ago to try to boost it up to T1 and shake things up, and ever since Yak’s Bend has been absolutely crushing the other two T2 servers, so they don’t bother showing up after Monday or Tuesday night.

The Glicko system sucks balls, as does the whole current state of affairs concerning Worlds, overpopulation/underpopulation and servers facing each other for months on end.

I feel like WvW needs to be redesigned in some way. Why not, Lion’s Arch went through 2 or 3 redesigns, they could put some time into WvW, right??? haha

The way glicko rating works, if a server were to move up from T2 to T1, it will have to crush the other two T2 remaining servers. Otherwise, have to wait for Anet to adjust glicko manually for some matchup variation.

Kaiser.9873:

The quickest and simplest way to solve the lower tier population problems(NA) is to eliminate the lower tiers. I have never played on EU servers so I have zero idea how the pop is spread over there.

I’m not denying that there are probably players in the lower tiers that enjoy that kind of gameplay, but when you’re talking 20 players per night(example given by low tier players in their own threads) the few that actually enjoy that versus the ones frustrated by the situation are negligible. So merge T7 and T8 with T5 and T6.

T8#3 -> T5#1, T8#2 -> T5#2, T8#1->T5#3
T7#3 -> T6#1, T7#2 -> T6#2, T7#1 -> T6#3

After this is done implement a change in Glicko where the high cap is 2000 Glicko, and the low cap is 1000 Glicko, or if you like make a high cap of 1000 Glicko with a floor of 0. Reset Glicko to zero, and have a round robin series of 1 day matches to find out your initial order(as was done in the beginning).

Gold Bracket T1/T2
Silver Bracket T3/T4
Bronze Bracket T5/T6
Have a set schedule of tournaments, not this haphazard system of, “Hey why don’t we do a tournament?” in order to rerank servers periodically.

Not sure if I agree with the merging part but fully second the glicko rating part you mentioned. T1 has been locked for a very long time (unlocks only during season), now T2 is also locked (Thanks to the 4 T2 server fest) and there is difference of ~100 rating points between the lowest ranked T3 server and the highest ranked T4 server. There’s almost a difference of ~1270 rating b/w the #1 server (JQ) and the #24 server (ET) which is too big IMO. Lowering the range (and capping the upper/lower bounds of glicko) considerably will help out a bit.

IMO Hoelbrak is better in WvW because of the -20% Condi duration. Big bonus for a little damage reduction trade-off.

Strength/Scholar are arguably much better in PvE, but thats another matter.

Sick Puppy.7098:

NiloyBardhan.9170:

OP, time to move your alt account elsewhere

/edit: typo

Nah-I’ll keep my alt on YB-I have three computers. I will just set my alt to queue and let it set.

Haha pretty brave to admit it in the official forum. Good luck with whatever agenda you have

OP, time to move your alt account elsewhere

/edit: typo

Jayne.9251:

NiloyBardhan.9170:

I have asked this in the other thread but still unanswered. If a FULL server implodes i.e. guilds/players transfers off in masses within a short period of time, how long will it take to reflect the lesser coverage?

Believe the dev said something about weekly assessments, but can’t remember where….

So server status gets updated weekly? (during reset?)

I have asked this in the other thread but still unanswered. If a FULL server implodes i.e. guilds/players transfers off in masses within a short period of time, how long will it take to reflect the lesser coverage?

Doors shouldn’t have been allowed to be damaged by player skills in the first place. Only siege should damage doors/walls.

NiloyBardhan.9170:

Couple of questions:
1) Will there be instances where a FULL server goes non full for a brief moment like it used to?
2) If a mass exodus happens to a server how long will it take to reflect the new population status?

Still waiting for replies from a dev

Judging by their performance in T8, its very hard to believe that ET and DR are marked as medium.

Blix.8021:

Except the ratings are determined by coverage, not overall population, and if you make all the tier 1-2 servers full then people can’t move around to balance.

Tier 2 probably has a similar number of active players as tier 1, but in tier 1 the players are spread out over multiple timezones where in tier 2 they are concentrated mostly in NA.

What if I’m a SEA, EU, or OCX player or guild that wants to move around to balance out tier 1-2? Guess my options are stay on a server where my time zone is already stacked, or move down to a tier 3 or below server and fight doors?

THIS!
My server has few off hour guilds (nevermind the fairweathers) and another full server in our tier got even fewer off hour guilds. During a season where a T1 server meets a T2 server, its gonna be a steamroll (like it has always been). No way to counter.

Couple of questions:
1) Will there be instances where a FULL server goes non full for a brief moment like it used to?
2) If a mass exodus happens to a server how long will it take to reflect the new population status?

Swiftly.2385:

Specifically I am looking to become a member of a smaller tight knit NA based guild that enjoys WvW tactics over zerging all over the map.

I am looking at YB as I have heard good things but it seems to be at the top of T2 and I am worried it will just be Zerg on Zerg…

Unfortunately, our NA is pretty stacked (regularly queues 4 maps during reset). So it gets blobby. I play during OCX/SEA so you still get to fight roamers or group fights and there is no queue unless Anet turns WvW into a ktrain fest.

T3/4 for NA might be a better choice if you want to avoid queues

tym.3791:

Rumor has it that FA lost Dawn to another server. Can’t see them leaving FA but anything is possible.

If FA lost Dawn, its gonna be a huge blow and a real game changer.

Pretty sure FA is barely showing up this week due to Anet’s joke. DAWN has moved to Mag. There were other rumors like Munt xferring off but they reformed into another guild ER AFAIK.

In this time of need of your own server, pretty funny how you transferred off FA instead of staying and helping your servermates.

Spurnshadow.3678:

Well, don’t worry. There are a bunch of people currently trying to manipulate the system so that YB comes to T1. Unfortunately, they are really just trying to spice things up for themselves by doing something new and different under this altruistic guise. What will end up happening is they will get YB up to T1, and one server will drop to T2. Due to the glico system, the new T1 and T2 servers will stay that way.

Now, the only way this doesn’t happen is if these people transfer again to another T2 server once YB comes to T1. They will have to perpetually do this again and again in order to keep cycling fresh servers into T1. This is due to the way the glico system will treat the new 4th place server. It severely punishes the new 4th place server if they don’t win by a large margin, and greatly rewards the new 3rd place server, even if they loose. This immediately creates a large gap between the the tiers.

But I don’t think that will happen. I think these new transferrs will just stay on YB and enjoy fighting against their old server mates and be happy that one of the T1 servers, either BG or TC, will fall.

The funny thing is, one of the reasons these transfers give to going to YB is for something new. But if their plan succeeds, they will be back in the same tier fighting many of the same people as before (many of these people play regularly on both BG and TC).

Unfortunately, glico is very hard to manipulate.

Us going to T1 hype is getting overblown. Most guilds that are coming are NA guilds (we already queued 4 maps regularly prior to their arrival – this includes the GvG guilds) and a few off hour guilds AFAIK. Each of the three tier 1 servers have off hour coverage that it exceeds off hour coverage of the three T2 servers combined. That alone will make JQ/TC/BG stay in T1 until one of them really implode like SoR did and that is not happening.

If we are in for a 6 server rotation then the other 2 T2 servers MUST get fatter (but that’s difficult since they are full most of the day) because the overstacked server in T2 for the week will lose guilds/players constantly due to lack of action during off hours thereby arriving at the same situation as now.

Vavume.8065:

Call me cynical but I do think there is some underhanded motive behind this whole golem event.

Two things I believe:

1) BoH sink before HoT releases
2) Preserving rarity of golems – Depleting the number of golems on TP

Dtorx.7813:

Bump for all players on YB – Ty for all

New players are always welcome to join us and have fun with us

http://yaks-bend.enjin.com – check what time zone is not queued !

That is our highest ever rating IIRC.

We don’t have queues outside NA except for special circumstances like heavy focused attacks on our territory in our BL or EBG, offensive push where we rally our forces from PvE (Ty YB PvE’ers) and omega rushes.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Following Anet’s lead:

• Arrow cart week: Players can’t use any skills: only siege. Arrow carts cost 0 supply.

That would be awesome ^__^
There will be endless supply of salt that week if it were to happen XD

If you’re looking for a stable, very casual WvW community feel free to check us out @ yaks-bend.enjin.com. You won’t regret it

Tequatl is an absolute joke now. Tried 8 times total since the buff, only once we managed to get him under 50%.

Quickness was probably converted into a “boon” from an “effect” because of how fast a reinforced gate could go down with quickness buff.

Chaba.5410:

atheria.2837:

Chaba.5410:

atheria.2837:

Why don’t you go hit FA for once.

That comment is not related to the match-up at all. /sarcasm

Keep being the troll you always have been.

Why do you think some have left your server?

Unkind and unrelated comments like yours are more bullying than informative.

They left the server because of the queues and/or because they got tired of DK push weeks. You have a habit of accusing other players of a lot of things. :/ Asking SoS to hit FA more is match-related. IDK how you don’t see that. Doing so would not solve their issue about being full either.

There’s no such thing as “DK push weeks” over here lol

On topic, new players shouldn’t be forced to join a server when they start playing since PvE is megaserver now. When they decides to WvW, they should be able to choose a server for which they can play for. Also they should do a monthly WvW attendence check to gauge the WvW population of a particular server but this can be abused before an upcoming season by tanking intentionally and hence representing a lower population than it should be.

/facepalm x 10000 to Anet…
Whenever you think they could sink no lower, they always exceeds that expectation.

Also the lies that Teq could be crit (only the head can be and its difficult to land a hit on its head).

Cindas.6149:

• we gained +74 precision with the base attribute changes, however they kept the base critical chance at 4% (meaning they gave us 74 pts and it didn’t do anything at all)

• more importantly, when you’re downleveled your critical chance is nerfed even more than before

real ingame values -

2,202 precision use to be 71.76% critical chance
2,202 precision now gives 68.23% critical chance

the ingame values for when you’re downleveled are harder to get because the display values and the tooltip values are completely bugged

Yep and the worst thing is that they haven’t mentioned it anywhere regarding this. Kinda like trying to fool the mass by saying they buffed base stats to 1,000 yet didn’t change the crit chance.

Confirming that the 20% boon duration from this trait isn’t working.

Anet, kindly fix it ASAP.

They nerfed crit chance yet again. Atleast mention that you guys have changed the formula in the patch notes.

Stealth nerf to power (zerk) builds.

xBrownZ.7360:

NiloyBardhan.9170:

Why not the standard edition?

When gw1 releases New expansions with new professions, they gave out equal number of free additional character slots. I hope Anet reconsiders tis ASAP.

P.S. I am totally fine with the $50 price which includes the core game.

Not enough.

I am not going to pay an additional $10 just for the char slot. Would rather convert gold to gems.

Why not the standard edition?

When gw1 releases New expansions with new professions, they gave out equal number of free additional character slots. I hope Anet reconsiders this ASAP.

P.S. I am totally fine with the $50 price which includes the core game.