Youll find warrior and guardian to be significantly stronger than the other classes in a PvE setting. Human is probably the best race to start if for no other reason then more people play human than the other races so youll have more people to play with.
What actually causes the huge morale drop at the top of the hill is because a wave of Risen nobles that spawns...mobs that go invis and shadow step and basically you have to stand back and let yourself die to them unless you want your pact to be instagibbed.
You should also time it so thaty you get two escort events completed. It more than doubles the available morale, making the event really easy.
This is somewhat correct.
The issue is the Risen Nobles that spawn however it’s not the shadow step that is the problem. They do moderate AoE damage upon first entering combat (before they render), if there are too many spawned this will instantly kill a majority of the pact.
The issue you are having is bad scaling. If you do Balthazar with a small organized group it’s hard to fail because not enough Risen Nobles will spawn to kill the pact so no morale is lost and you can coast to victory. If you bring a large amount of people, very many Risen Nobles will spawn and just wipe the pact instantly and you will fail.
I apologize for not being able to offer a link but I do remember there was a study on this and the ratio was actually 52% male, 48% female. Study was for all games tho, not just Guild Wars 2.
I love the, “now tht the drama has died down, I will start it again with a pretentious fathead statement about how other ppls accomplishments don’t count because they are not as good as me and can only win when I allow them to win”
These 3 servers remind me of Claw of Jormag phase 3.
SoR = The grp that just stands on the rightside hill in a big laggy grp and autoattacks for 1/10th the damage.
BG = The grp that escorts the Golems and tries to play the event the way it was intended.
JQ = The grp that has so many ppl they can manage to do both.
In the end the Dragon still dies and everyone can claim they had fun doing it w/e way they decided to do and its no use trying to convince the other side tht your way is better.
I think the more apparent double team that we see on BG is during the SEA hours.
If we are going to be realistic, the effort FoO puts forth carries JQ. It’s the same effort that MERC put forth on SoS (except with triple the numbers). The borderlands get reset during SEA time, waypoints go up, and NA holds. JQ has a lot more players though, so EU and late-NA are not ghost towns.
The problem is that FoO goes from JQ BL Blue ->BG BL Garrison -> Blue keeps elsewhere -> done. We can’t hold (unless our NA’s stay up) T3 keeps against 3 queued borderlands, and this pressure is not felt by SoR.
The other maps/timezones, it’s a matter of who is commanding and what the situation is, but I don’t think 2v1 or double team is ever usually said unless it is to invoke it on JQ.
If SoR wants to win (and subsequently, utilize its new SEA transfers) you’re going to need to scout where BG is getting pushed and instantly mobilize to take T3 stuff from JQ. If FoO can be pressured during that timezone then they can no longer make every map green. You may be inviting them to attack you for the first time, but you’ll never win without shutting them down.
You make the mistake in thinking that just the FoO zerg exists for JQ during SEA prime. JQ runs 3 full 80 man teams in that time slot, the FoO zerg that flips between JQ/BG, the TKG/friends that sits in SoR, and the mixed guild EB group.
We would push during that slot if we could but we struggle to just hold our map/EB as we’re typically outnumbered on both.
Righteous Indignation needs to be removed all together. Lower the rewards for camp capping if there’s worry about exploitation but making 40+ people stand around for 3 minutes doing nothing is not good gameplay.
We had the same group that Vena encountered do the same to another t3 tower we were ramming said tower but we ran inside once it flipped (gates hadn’t broken neither was wall) we got their names and reported them ourselves with our group. We also left full supply or as close to full as possible. No one stands by such actions and hopefully it doesn’t spiral out of control.
Jokes aside,
We’ve been having the same issues with the same group of players on SoR. Have also been reporting them, hopefully something will come of it.
5 people out of that really is a drop in the ocean.
You have to love it when the 5 random targets Meteor Shower chooses walk out of the circle, you end up with it raining down an entire zerg and not one person is taking damage from it.
JQ/SoR have like 7x our numbers, we’re outmanned on every map including Lions Arch 22.634 hours a day. Us BGers arent giving up tho, sure attendance is down and guilds are transferring off but nobody is giving up.
You watch, we’ll rally to finish only 50k behind SoR this week. You’ll see...
Skill lag, as many here have pointed out, is a server side issue. Your PC’s components will not have any impact on it.
So how come I have Zero skill lag in 150 man fights? , so called server side issue does not effect me
Skill lag at 200+ is a server side issue, skill lag at <200 is your ISP throttling your bandwith. Most players can avoid this issue by forcing GW2 to use a different port, there is a fix posted on reddit for those still having issues.
Wow, a forum thread not started by a JQ player, I am shocked. Did you guys sleep in today?
Also this blatant double team of BG on every map needs to stop, I know we’re easy bags but you got to give us a chance, we didn’t pay all that gold to finish in 2nd place.
Can I start crying about the impending 2v1 we’ll face in EB when we move back to blue or has everyone accepted by now that the EB map just naturally disfavors blue?
I know Mes GS 1 and Ele Scepter Air 1 are both bugged right now. I’ll be hitting a gate or cannon and randomly get a 2nd set of numbers out of no where and its always some arrow cart out of sight taking damage.
Earthquake is Dagger 4 which does 1k damage and knocks down 5 players. Churning Earth is Dagger 5 which is channeled for 3 seconds, hits for 3k, puts on 8 stacks of bleed and also hits 5 targets. Since the bleed only stacks to 25 and it could be easily purged it would take 8 eles bombing just to kill 5 players assuming they all hit the same targets which is highly unlikely.
So if you have 30+ people dying you are being bombed by 50+ eles which means the fight has atleast 80 players in it and the skill lag would be so bad that the eles would be unable to combo lightning flash and churning earth anyway
I can sympathize with OP as I am feeling the exact same about T1 US. I didn’t transfer into this massive zergball, lagfest meta game that T1 has become.
When I joined SoR it was still #17 and in tier 6, slowly overtime the server has grown, moving up the ranks and acquiring new players. It is natural progression and what every server strives for. I love the community and players on this server, everyone has put in their time into making SoR what it is today. I do not want to leave.
JQ’s domination this week is a by product of the skill lag, not a population issue.
SoR and BG both outnumber JQ during NA prime, in the past they would just roll through JQ’s T3 keeps with waypoints but now with the skill lag nobody kittening dies. It’s very easy for outmanned JQ to hold their keeps since it takes the 80 man zerg 5 minutes to kill one person and they can just waypoint back in every 3 minutes.
Prior to the patch, it hard to get people to defend, repair, and escort. Now its impossible to get people to do those things. Everyone is roaming the map looking for kills and easy caps.
There is no weak class in WvW, there are weak builds. A grenade engy, a banner warrior, entangle melee ranger, and a blinds necro all bring far more to the table then the D/D ele everyone complains about. Being able to win a 1v1 in WvW doesn’t amount to being useful.
Just an example of them working together. 12:15 am pst, JQ is attacking hills in JQbl, we are just about to take it from Sor, then a BG zerg kills us, and leaves Hills without attacking 1 Sor, or taking Hills , thanks for saving Sor’s butt, total and obvious cheaters.
Siegers always leave themselves extremely open to flanks because they spread out to avod defensive siege. Free bags are free bags, BG just took advantage of a good situation.
Interesting. I thought SoR was some awesome server?
He’s just a troll.
I have never seen this guy or his guild before.
Because you are online 24/7 and you know every player and guild on a first name basis. Just because you don’t agree with him doesn’t mean he’s a troll. Each to their own. I have had the most fun in wvw at t3 level so I would choose one of those servers. Just my 2 cents.
Yeah, he is a troll.
His signature says he’s a commander yet I have never seen this guy on and I’m on quite a bit. SoR runs a community teamspeak that regularly has over 250 players on it yet I’ve never seen him or anyone from his guild.
Or someone who is adamant in adhering to the rules of the game. Quite frankly, I’m surprised more people aren’t outraged about this. Why play a game with rules and systems if they are just going to get thrown out the window.
What ever happened to honor on the battlefield.
Perhaps many players do not take the game as seriously as you do.
Congrats BG on a well fought and well deserved win! Shout out to the old Nine Dragon/Crusade guys that are still around, it was a pleasure fighting beaide you for the first few months of the games release. Glad you guys finally got what you were chasing after!
If you wish to obtain a Legendary without doing dungeons, you can buy one on the trading post.
All you miss by passing on dungeons are the skins. The exclusivity of certain skins versus other skins is what makes them interesting in the first place. Making everything obtainable via Laurels would be the same as removing horizontal progression from the game, you may as well just be playing The Sims at that point.
I have had the most fun in wvw at t3 level so I would choose one of those servers. Just my 2 cents.
