Hire moving off was a far greater hit to the server than the event. There are players on SoR and BG doing the event as well so I don’t think that was much of a factor.
Your new T3 matchup should be relatively even but that’s not to say it’s going to be a fun matchup for any of you guys. Last I knew Fort Aspenwood was primarily European, Crystal Desert was primarily American, and Isle of Janthir was primarily Asian/Oceanic. So while the scores will stay close there will not be very much quality fighting in this matchup, a lot of PvDoor would be my guess.
Hope I am wrong and it’s a great matchup for you guys tho. Good luck IoJ! Was a blast in T2 these last 2 months.
Lol this is so wrong its funny.
FA is primarily American, and Crystal Desert is Primarily oceanic
I apologize then.
If CD and IoJ both have primes during Oceanic time then Fort Aspenwood should win this matchup. Good luck!
TC has a strong Asian/Oceanic presence, doesn’t it? The NA presence is also very competitive. TC could make a stronger difference in T2. This is going to be interesting! Looking forward to it!
TC is SoR light. Blackgate should have no problems taking and holding the entire map during Oceanic and European primes without IoJ’s resistance.
Once Blackgate builds a huge lead, I doubt we’ll see SoR’s and TC’s fairweathers in WvW the rest of the week especially with the holidays.
My prediction = Blackgate wins by over 200k and is never seen in Tier 2 again.
Hire moving off was a far greater hit to the server than the event. There are players on SoR and BG doing the event as well so I don’t think that was much of a factor.
Your new T3 matchup should be relatively even but that’s not to say it’s going to be a fun matchup for any of you guys. Last I knew Fort Aspenwood was primarily European, Crystal Desert was primarily American, and Isle of Janthir was primarily Asian/Oceanic. So while the scores will stay close there will not be very much quality fighting in this matchup, a lot of PvDoor would be my guess.
Hope I am wrong and it’s a great matchup for you guys tho. Good luck IoJ! Was a blast in T2 these last 2 months.
And yet I was ridiculed for leaving HoD for a better server. Your entire guild is praised for leaving for a better server. I don’t understand this community.
Two different groups of people.
While ANet has done an exceptional job of removing the borders between casual and hardcore, it still has yet to address the gap between those playing to win and those playing to have fun.
I make the assumption that the players playing for pursuit of fun would much prefer to go back to 1 day transfers as a server that is fun to play on during the weekend may not be the same during the week (Sanctum of Rall being a great example).
Meanwhile the winning group seems to want to lock people to 1 server permanently, only allow 80s into WvW, and remove all puzzles/mining nodes from the map.
I just hope they did their research properly and don’t up and leaving BG too if things get hard. I feel SoR’s pain for losing guilds, we’ve had the same problems on our servers too.
Free transfers need to end.
Forcing playrers to stay in a poor situation is not the answer. People would be more apt to just quit or play PvE.
The next time you run into a large battle turn your monitor off 5 seconds, back on for 1 second, and off for 5 seconds again. Repeat this process until the fight is over.
You’re a great commander and your guild has a lot of talented players within their ranks. Being one of the SoR regulars that puts in 6+ hours a day I understand your plight. I hold no hard feelings toward your departure and I would hope that others wouldn’t as well but we’ll see in time.
This is a video game and people play it for fun. Having to play against the same servers every week when one is clearly more dominant than the others is not fun. Proactive players are going to move away from that situation.
Limiting server transfers is not the answer. If you forced someone to play on a dead end server, they’d either go back to PvE or quit playing altogether. No one is going to willfully subject themselves to something that is not enjoyable.
Devona’s Rest after being forced to stay in Tier 8 for 3 months despite winning every week minus 1 finally was given the opportunity this week to move up into Tier 7. Not shockingly to a lot of us, they are crushing Tier 7 and Kaineng which was able to play Devona’s Rest to relative draw every week is now crushing Tier 8.
I don’t know where these two servers should be ranked but I do know they are not Tier 8 servers and they haven’t been for months, but the system has kept them there because they were able to play each other so well.
The problem is if there are 2 or more servers in a Tier that are able to play each other close than neither will ever move unless another server comes along that goes into free fall mode like ET and HoD have done and chances are that will never happen again.
I like BG and IoJ, our matches this last month and a half have been entertaining and competitive but after 5 weeks of this match (7 for IoJ vs SoR) I would like to see some new faces.
The only counter argument that I hear is that BG would get crushed in Tier 1 and/or IoJ would dominate in Tier 3, well honestly how do you know when nobody ever moves?
I spent about an hour trying to do it and gave up, not a big fan of the speed run jumping puzzles. I tend to take my time when doing the WvW ones, just not my cup of tea.
Here, ill sum up the next 400 posts on this thread
SoR complaining about double team
IoJ pointing out their lack of coverage
SoR commander trolling BG players
BG players getting defensive
Many thanks for random combat at random location
Complaints by all sides about having to play a 6th time
Hope I saved you all a lot of frustration and time!
You can say this for EVERY mmo game. If you don’t get those Fractals/Legendary then you are behind and will likely be kicked from groups for things and won’t be able to progress later. Just like EVERY MMO. GW2 has nothing new to offer. Why do you think they completely changed what they told us about this game? Reminds me of SWG how the game was one way and then completely changed to try and keep up. GW2 is doing the same exact thing.
Haven’t seen anything new or ground breaking and revolutionary yet like this game was hyped to do. At least ToR brought back the RPG part of the mmoRPG and make incredible storylines with voice overs and options instead of just clicking a quest giver and not even reading the quest and clicking accept asap so you can get going.
Where? Where are these groups kicking you out for not having legendaries? And if there is such a group, which I doubt, it’s probably a poor group to be in anyway. If you want to be taken seriously, quit exaggerating.
GW2 has plenty new to offer, maybe not completely new, but redone better. The whole idea alone that you can do anything in the game in just blue gear is new and that is the games biggest selling point.
You completely miss my point. I indicated that it was incorrect to say that this game is different after years of following the carrot. This game has carrots too. That is not different. Also in other games you can ignore end game.
It is different.
If you wanted to see the best things WoW had to offer, you had to grind the gear. That is chasing the carrot.
If you wanted to see the best things SWToR had to offer, you had to grind the gear. That is chasing the carrot.
There is nothing in this game that you can’t do in blue gear, there is no carrot on a stick. You are given a giant buffet of food and on any given day you can choose to eat what you want.
Of course its at the top of the charts, its an amazing game
After 15 years of chasing a carrot and being yelled at by 12 year olds I would hope that a vast majority of the MMO community would be open to change.
So, why is it different? Chasing the carrot has been introduced here too. It’s called Fractals/Ascended.
GW2 has a lot of positives, just not the ones that matter to me, but the carrot is here.
You are not forced to do anything in this game.
You could play the entire game in blue gear and you’d be just fine.
Fractals are not a forced loot chase and a Legendary is not a grind, if you don’t want to do those things then don’t do them.
The Fractals/Legendary are here for the players that want to chase after the better gear. People have been brainwashed by WoW into thinking you have to chase after better gear, you don’t.
If you willfully subject yourself to doing something that you don’t want to do, that’s your fault. That’s not ANet’s fault.
Sea of Sorrows has a glicko rating of 2149, Sanctum of Rall has a glicko rating of 1940
Sea of Sorrows is 209 rating better than Sanctum of Rall
Sea of Sorrows beat Sanctum of Rall by 20k, 84k, 82k in their three matches.
Sea of Sorrows beat Sanctum of Rall by an average of 62k.
Sanctum of Rall has a glicko rating of 1940, Tarnished Coast has a glicko rating of 1832
Sanctum of Rall is 108 rating better than Tarnished Coast.
Sanctum of Rall beat Tarnished Coast by 477k in their only match.
The system says SoS is 209 rating better than SoR despite only winning by an average of 62k in their matches compare that to SoR being 108 rating better than Tarnished Coast and having won their only match by 477k.
And I will go so far as to say that dungeons ruin good mmos.
1) They restrict the amount of people that can participate
2) They force players into builds they dont want to play
3) They segregate players based upon gear and/or experience
4) They force players to play at peak efficiency which in turn causes stress and creates a hostile environment.
Dungeons/Raids in their current format embody everything that is wrong with todays modern mmorpgs.
Now I know there are players out there that love their dungeons, they love the small group content, they love the challenge, they love the loot chase...god bless you. Do whatever makes you happy thats what the game is here for.
But if a game wants to make a perfect dungeon system that everyone will enjoy, they only have to do one thing. You have to do away with the stupid restriction on the amount of players that can come. If a group wants to do it with 5, let them do it with 5 but if I want to bring 500, let me bring 500 that way I can still play with my friend Bob who is a great guy but sucks at video games. That way I can play any build I want because I dont have to be optimal and the stress goes away because if we cant beat it we can just go get more people.
I think its both a matter of map advantages and 2v1.
Red keep can treb SM, Green keep can mortar all 4 surrounding towers, Blue keep really has no advantage. Also its significantly easier to go through Hylek and Ogre than Dredge, there are definite advantages.
Couple that with the natural 2v1 of Green fighting Blue to perserve ranking and Red fighting Blue to move up and the Blue server is just in an awful position.
I really dont think forum users represent the overall playing population well. I am the only one of a group of 7 friends that actively posts on these forums so I feel as if I am the voice of us 7, that being said I don’t post all that often.
My group would like to see a lfd tool, an individual ranking system in wvw and more armor/weapon skins but as to the content already in the game we are very satisfied so there is no reason to post.
Jedahs is an excellent commander and a good guy, I had the opportunity to speak to him when I transferred to SoS for a week to grab my green nodes for world completion and scout out a potential new home. There’s no reason to flame him for his opinion.
To an extent he is right, there are many players in both Tier 1 and Tier 2 that can not control themselves and play ridiculous amounts of hours. But I don’t think there is anything that should be done about that. Disabling WvW for a certain period of time so a few players can get sleep at the expense of other players is not a feasible solution.
I dont like dungeons, I dont like the stressful environment, I dont like mob skipping, I dont like excessive dying, I dont like forced builds, I dont like standing around explaining mechanics, I dont like waiting to find a group, I dont like playing at other peoples paces........
I have found a solution
I do not do dungeons, perhaps this would work for you.
Scepter/Focus have their uses in WvW but are not strong enough to be carried around for constant world play.
Staff had great utility until the AoE nerf. The weapon still has its uses in WvW but they are mainly for lightly defended towers, in cases of heavy defended towers you can drop your AoE on siege and never have it hit. Your also a free kill for every other class you run into in your travels.
Ultimately the only true viable choice right now is Dagger/Dagger which is a blast at first but you come to realize its a 1 trick pony and the outcome of fights are not determined by your skill, but actually your opponents. If he dodge rolls Churning Earth, you lose, if he doesnt, you win. It gets stale after a while.
Let me buy dungeon tokens and badges of honor with karma, I dont care how ridiculously high the conversion rate is. I would rather spend 10 hours doing DEs than rrun one 20 minute dungeon.
Waking up every morning to put my daily vote in for game of the year. Never done this with any other game but I feel moralely obligated to given how truly awesome this game is.
I feel your pain, it does bother me a bit as well. I came into the game with the expectation of seeing the roles of healer and tank removed in a dungeon setting but was not expecting to see the roles completely removed from the game.
Always figured dungeons would be able to be completed by 5 dps if you wanted but you could still play a healer or a tank if that’s what you wanted. To an effect, tanking is still in the game with bunker builds, there is however no healing support at all. When your main heal only does 1300 points and that thief or warrior is hitting for 13000 points it seems completely worthless.
I also wish there was more support for players that want to play healers.
Yeah, SBI and JQ ’drummed’ Tier 2 almost 2 months ago.
Things do change except the ratings......they don’t.
As for SoS ’drumming’ every tier, they only beat SoR by 20k. You know, about the same margin they beat JQ and SBI by every week, except we had to play against PRX.
