Guild Wars 2

Nevermore.2058:

Gate of Madness
who is currently paired with Crystal Dessert, we have the best of both worlds it seem’s . We have those outnumbered hard fights but we also have those roaming groups to beware of. T4 OCX and SEA times are not dead but they arn’t full of blobs…. NA prime is well that, and it’s pretty good

CD/GoM are a pretty good team, hence anet will break us up lol

msalakka.4653:

Without a doubt, Jade Sea has the best, flying Dragonhunters. The third week against these clowns, the second “lagger”.

35,000 achievement points……..and he’s still going strong. Unreal anet

Dawdler.8521:

On DBL it must be 10, since its always action all the time yet no one join the map!

LOL

Dawdler.8521:

Deratrius.4035:

Would it be possible to get some fair feedback from players on these servers?

No, I very much doubt it since you’ll probably either get my server sucks and everyone on it is an idiot or the enemy servers suck because we’re awesome and everyone else are idiots as replies.

Or the cliche silent treatment “match up thread” closing.

With trueanimus, if you are a roamer I wouldn’t recommend T2 sir.

I myself transferred to CD when it was 500 gems because a host server that cheap seemed like a good idea, plus my personal best roaming experiences the past years since launch are from the lower tiers. It still holds true.

Have some friends in other small guilds down here/enemy servers too, they are enjoying the fights as well from my understanding.

I think they’d just put a massive currency wall in front of it requiring some form of acquisition through pve or pvp.

They want pve and pvp to be fat and happy, point blank truth given their behavior towards wvw.

Balthazzarr.1349:

Rambitshouse.8712:

Odokuro.5049:

Flip Supply Camps
Kill Dolyaks
Tap Keeps/Towers
Grab Ruins
Place Supply Traps EVERYWHERE
Kill Sentries
Form a Small Group and Flip a Tower

Basically anything/everything that doesn’t require a Zerg to do, and remember, the Commander is only one person, keep faith in yourself and others to do work, and don’t allow having no Commander cripple your resolve.

I think the main problem is we all try those things solo or with a small crew. The sentry markers show the lonely dot, blob comes, runs you over.

You should be able to kill a sentry in 10 seconds, or even less.. and that’s solo. On my Ranger it’s easy. Then you run one way in case they’re looking and in case tracking is still on for a second or two.. then change directions. By the time they even try to get to the sentry you are already gone.

A camp that’s not T3 is pretty easy to get almost all of the npc’s down before the swords show up it you group them up and target the supervisor with everything you got.. Once again you can usually get the camp down solo pretty fast.

If you are bored and alone.. take up the challenge of doing things like this alone and time it. You will find tricks and skill combinations that you might not have thought of. At least you can have fun making the enemy run all over the place as you cap, port, cap the other side, port..

And then as people has noted.. there are towers.. Alone it’s not super easy but it’s doable.. With 3 or 4 people a tower can be capped easily and maybe you’ll even get some pvp out of the deal.

It’s not just all about zerg, roam, get blobbed, go home.. As others have noted.. it’s all about what YOU do with the game. For me, I don’t typically roam alone because I prefer to run with friends. Live or die, running with friends is what’s fun for me.

Bottom line.. find a way to have fun!

Yeah I feel ya, just gotta make the most of it with the current wvw mode state. Still get some nice fights, just hate that sentry marker from towers mainly and I roam on necro, so slow lol

It’s basically a billboard “NECRO HERE FREE BAG WITH EVERY IMMOBILIZED SKILL USED!”

Digikid.7230:

You know, I used to think T3 and T4 were empty, then I started actually playing in every tier and realised that there are more fights in T2 and below. T1 is a barren wasteland of PPT tryhards that never fight, if you want a good experience in the game, I recommend T2 or T3 for a fighting guild, and T4 for people who want to roam mostly.

First rule of T4 is you do not talk about T4. We all know this rule, just reminding you

Odokuro.5049:

Flip Supply Camps
Kill Dolyaks
Tap Keeps/Towers
Grab Ruins
Place Supply Traps EVERYWHERE
Kill Sentries
Form a Small Group and Flip a Tower

Basically anything/everything that doesn’t require a Zerg to do, and remember, the Commander is only one person, keep faith in yourself and others to do work, and don’t allow having no Commander cripple your resolve.

I think the main problem is we all try those things solo or with a small crew. The sentry markers show the lonely dot, blob comes, runs you over.

Guys….come on. It was a joke post making fun of condi thief complaints. I expect more from you next time.

Maybe I should move to Mag…….too good at trolling.

Besides, everyone knows Angry Aaron is king ghost thief.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzc1jTyA26g

Oh no…this should be good.

Baldrick.8967:

Klipso.8653:

We have the Fractal and sPvP tournament wings, why can’t we have a legendary back piece for WvW?

That might involve a dev actually doing some work that is wvw centred….not going to happen.

Same with the one place where these things matter (wvw), legendary armor won’t happen for wvw either. I mean, who would want to change their build in wvw anyway? /sarcasm

They want to drive players from pve into spvp and fractals – not wvw, which I’m beginning to think they wished they had never included in the game.

Whoever is “driving” needs a DUI test.

BlaqueFyre.5678:

This is how the majority of people complaining about Ghost Thieves react to being attacked. Keep AA spamming and don’t try to cleanse on the first sign of Condi Burst….

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KPcucSQHBI4 not my video

I like the guys you tube comment, little did he know LOL

“This is an hacker bro.. 5 stack of confusion dealing over 5k dmg?! 4 stack of poison for 1k+?! SUREI have a full dire PU mesmer and I need to build up more than 18+ stack to reach the 5k+ dot.. IMO you should report this crap at….”

Fat Disgrace.4275:

Is there really a 5 page thread of a build that does nothing buy annoyance or troll people? Come on there are far greater things in wvw that needs to be looked at and people cry at this. It does nothing game breaking, it can’t do anything apart from kill people with no stun breaks/condi clear. I managed to run away from 2 of them on my power reaper.

I agree that there’s far greater things to look at in wvw, but ghost thief is becoming more and more common in wvw. That in turn is continuing to add to the degrade of wvw. It is a fun build to mess around with but its ran its course.

Jacion.6302:

Just promote your brand new 73 view video aND don’t hide behind “look what I found”

Says the jabroni with his link in his signature

Was a joke post but of course the gullible kids button mash again assuming. I still own a flip phone, loading a YouTube video would be like organic chemistry to me.

Wanted to share this awesome build I came across on you tube, never seen anything like it!

Dusty Moon.4382:

I hope it is a dead game mode. We need more WvW maps.

Wasted resources that benefit only pvers yet again. Should have dedicated their time to improving the wvw mode, now we have EOTM where the pvers sucked the map dry and moved onto the next mmo like vampires.

Tricare.2946:

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

It wasn’t in today’s patch.

Neither was the ninja nerf to Epidemic.

Wrecked

Anet, keeping the dream alive

Willkilliam.5012:

“Posts about matchups are not allowed” #Theyareouttogetme

They are so busy closing forum posts instead of communicating lol

katniss.6735:

I just noticed this is the third of these threads. I’ve been playing Path of Exile and just doing dailies in gw2. hueh
/customaryinb4lock

Dragon age and vanilla knights of the old republic for me, though that pillars of eternity looks neat too.

GW2 dead game dead.

I highly suggest CD to you if you like solo and small scale groups. Still on the cheap side to transfer last time I checked and quiet in a good way.

Menyus.4610:

Seriously this makes the game unplayable, my question to anet devs to you test these kind of changes? How u dont feel like this is aint utter bulsh*t?
Or u tested it and thats why its aint in PvP?

Have a heart buddy, those pvers need to melt those bosses quicker. MORE LOOT.

You and your crazy skill requirements…….

In all seriousness, this is the many of mistakes anet is making. Catering to loot hungry mmo players. When the next mmo’s come out watch the continue migration as gw2 loses more players.

ProDecius.2609:

epi is only op when people act like idiots?!?!? kitten you just kitten you

Condi cleanse is hard…….build fail most likely. Need to reevaluate their builds and adapt.

Straegen.2938:

Just ask Ghost Thief or Condi Chrono how well that works.

Or the burn guards, my god is that fun to play lol

robertjan.2197:

Rambitshouse.8712:

Choppy.4183:

Rambitshouse.8712:

You wouldn’t happen to be in T4 and captured SBI’s Quentin Lake Tower this morning?

If so, I’m sorry

Oh sure, NOW you’re visible…. :P

Packit’s right though. He solved your problem for only 10 supply.

lol was never killed though

@Rambitshouse, what build, traits and gear are you using? I can’t seem to find a good combi to play around with once in a while

In game mailed you build

Go forth, DERAIL THE KARMA TRAINS.

TorquedSoul.8097:

Chaba.5410:

Aurika.6751:

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

Using exp boosters does not affect play hours and thus does not affect world sizes.

It speeds of WvW rank gains, which were another metric that you mentioned.

Just because something was mentioned doesn’t mean you understood it.

“Rank gains is tracked for comparison purposes since they usually follow a similar curve, but isn’t actually used to determine the world size.”

be nice … the first dev post said this …

“Yak’s Bend is among the highest worlds in terms of play hours and ranks gained, which is the primary metric we use to determine which worlds we lock each week.”

It was “clarified” later in the third dev post.

I thought the same as Aurika in first reading, guess I’m only human lol

Thanks for the replies McKenna.

expandas.7051:

Shadowsong.2569:

We are looking to fill Darkhaven with guild that have been looking to move servers for a more competitive WvW habitat.

Wouldn’t the WvW landscape be more competitive if guilds spread out over multiple servers instead of just simply stacking Darkhaven?

Was thinking the same thing but history repeats itself. Guilds will transfer there, server will rise up, then complain that it’s too blobby and the cycle will continue again.

“Zerg busting guild”? Right………..sure you are special snowflakes

Match up thread. Go ahead mention a servers name, I imagine the dev sounds like this kid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxjk9ooCmPI

MarkBecks.6453:

I honestly cannot understand why a dedicated person cannot sit down with the communities, and figure a workaround to bring life into WvW before its destroyed completely. Unlinked server against 5 linked French servers last week, same unlinked server against 4 linked German servers this week, I call that diabolical, enough said.

I don’t doubt a brave dev tried to step up to the plate and offer their time. But do you honestly think they want to waste any resources or time on wvw?

Some companies and management are perfectly fine with average results.

Straegen.2938:

Fenda.1398:

Last time i checked a condi chrono was nigh unkillable as well because you simply cannot escape the mass amount of conditions being thrown at you, not to mention the insane sustain that build provides. The problem is that you need to burst it down while being lucky on all evades, which you can’t if the condi chrono is not afk.

Evasion condi thieves, boon duration warriors, power mesmer, mallyx rev, several guardian builds and several other builds can beat condi chrono. It does generally require a higher skill level to beat one though as the class doesn’t really have a hard counter.

Condi Chrono is busted as its effectiveness doesn’t require a lot of skill. Not as low of a skill floor as DH but generally more effective in small scale.

Agreed, anytime I see a condi chrono I bust out my ghost thief and dispose of them. Can be quite a battle though because I’m not that great at roaming anymore.

I did once beat one on my own necro cleric wellomancer build. DS is still better than reaper IMO. Any other build I get smoked typically.

Xenesis.6389:

PyrateSilly.4710:

Really? I play pretty much every day for several hours at a time and I see massive numbers of players still playing in PvE and WvW.

Ahhh take a moment if you will, relax, and close your eyes. Now imagine the sky being a beautiful sky blue, with the fluffy clouds being fluffy white like marshmallows, and passing by in great numbers, and the sun shining like a sun shines.

Then you look down into wvw and see what it was four years ago with twenty plus full status servers, with almost all servers complaining about people not being able to get into maps and long queues.

Now jump ahead three years before the game life changing expansion is delivered and many of those servers have lost a great amount of players, with only three of them able to carry full status tags.

Nonchalantly skip ahead six months after the expansion was delivered, and the population dropped so much that they had to fold over half the servers down to twelve servers, to bring the population back to what it was just before the expansion was delivered.

Massive amount of players? sure of course nothing would look dead much if you play in the prime time of your server where zergs are abound everywhere. Sure as hell isn’t at the levels it was at even from when they did the links.

Also, pve zones has megaservers of course it’s going to look full all the time, that was the point of it.

That was written quite beautiful lol

Jim Hunter.6821:

maddoctor.2738:

Did they really buff the Ghost Thief build?

Yes…. Yes they did….

I am so completely disappointed by this balance patch that I have no desire to log on. Think I’m going to fix a drink and do a little reading. God I can’t wait for a new RvR game to come out….

Back to Dragon Age Inquisition and a glass of wine for me.

Disappointed as usual but plenty of other games to play and purchase!

Byakku.9187:

Hey there, figured I’d be in a position to contribute to this discussion.

Siphon.8405:

[…] Staff/Staff with sigils of endurance
Runes are adventurer for 100% daredevil stamina heal with channeled vigor. […]

Truth be told, I wasn’t using Adventurer at the time. I was on a test run with Runes of the Earth to find out whether or not I truly need the extra endurance; same goes for the daredevil heal which is usually too risky to take in fights involving multiple competent enemies since random/targeted rupts can pretty much kill you instantly.

Here’s a video (along with UTTERLY terrible music added in a feeble attempt at replacing the original file’s audio with something even more cringeworthy, you HAVE been warned) of how this usually goes (and ends): https://youtu.be/vlIXP81Hx9Y?t=1m15s

Also, the OP might want to remove any references to account names from his post, else this thread will soon be deleted.

HoT in a nutshell

Elementalist Owner.7802:

SkyShroud.2865:

yea, is boring. it is no longer 2013 where you can fight a bigger zerg
you either blob or be blobbed down
otherwise, bunker up in towers or keep

Throwback: remember stuff like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-919RMwyfnk

I remember that vid! I like the part “They have so much condi”. Could you imagine them playing today? Instaquit gw2 lol

Kumouta.4985:

i hope condi warr gets a bit of a nerf.

Who needs condi? I click like one button typically.

EremiteAngel.9765:

Princess.7584:

wvw keeping those gem sales alive.

That’s the paradox. If WvW is contributing so much to gem sales, why isn’t mori attention devoted to making it better and keeping players here?

Because fixing it would reduce gem sales and transfers most likely. Easy cash grab.

monded.7016:

Stop saying u play the game we tried talk to devs when the where aying strait up ignored up and refuset to follow the tag pls dont say u play the game when u really dont if u play wvw follow the tag and geth ure kitten on ts

monded.7016:

So every keep saying wvw is dead u poeple only player tier 1 ore someting silver server us be 1 qeu now ther 2 ore 3 and u guys stil think linking is needed unlink the servers so u can geth healty wvw server aigan not every 1 want to blob accept that buth no anet want force blobbing on every 1 cause few pve players say its not populatet enough and than never play the game mode thx pve gw2 for the desert bordera and the stupit linkjng

Ni In.6578:

Yea but T1 ded. T4 highest activity.

Dude…….have you forgotten?

First rule about T4 fight club is YOU DON’T TALK ABOUT T4 FIGHT CLUB.

trueanimus.4085:

nope TC is dead.. we lost a ton of people and even on reset, we are lucky to que 2 maps. Most of the time.. we only Que EB. Some nights we dont even have a team on our home BL because we dont even have enough to que EB.

This week we have been outmanned so badly, but yet again the outmanned buff is broken and almost never pops.

We would have 20-30 max on a map while both BG and MAG would have 2 groups of 60+ fighting against us and we would never get the outmanned buff, not that it would have saved us.. just saying its still broken

If we get Tier 1 again tonight, i may be leaving for WoW again or transfering to a mag or something.. i cant stand playing on TC anymore with this BS happening, yet Anet says everythings working as intended.

TC is dead.. the game is dying, devs leaving left and right… and WvW will never get fixed… hasnt been yet and when you ask you get the same BS answers as above.

I’d probably move on as you will be happier with your gaming experience. I’m down to maybe once a week with wvw, if that, and spending my money elsewhere with a MEGA better experience.

You’re suppose to enjoy gaming, not be frustrated.

People going into statistics, percentages, transfer rates, etc etc etc makes zero sense to me. This is suppose to be your free time for enjoyment from work and life and people are turning it into a mathematics and debate class. Anet should be the one correcting their design, not the players. You build/install it, the responsibility is yours to correct. Show some accountability, which you won’t see here so players should stop asking.

Just move on……

Agreed, no likey the dbl. Need a change from the boring dbl.

Nothing will stop the bandwagoning. Today’s society wants things now with little effort put in.

Strictly players fault.

Shazmataz.1423:

Jim Hunter.6821:

Shazmataz.1423:

Jim Hunter.6821:

Paarthurnax.8931:

each time we got wiped, people left the squad until our commander said kitten it and we all went to EoTM instead.

^This is your problem, it’s not that you lack the players, it’s that they log off when they don’t have the numbers to steam roll.
JQ is even worse about it, when Cloud Fly tags down 90% of their players leave WvW.

Mag on the other hand almost never has a tag running all through euro, but there are still a kitten ton of people playing, and those people respond to calls in team/map chat.

Your servers are listed as full because they are full, they don’t need to be opened just because you have a lot of fairweather players.

Sorry you are way off the mark here. TC doesn’t have numbers to compete in T1 at the moment or even at NA in T2.

You say yourself that in EU Mag has a kitten ton of players playing even when there is no tag but that’s not true on TC. There is no kitten ton of players maybe 10-15 at best if there isn’t a pin or sometimes even if there is! This is numbers across all bls….

BG friends saying, TC people saying, likely people on other servers saying…how on earth is Mag still open? Mag blobs are real and even Mag guilds complain that they can’t run private without a kitten ton of people following…it’s killing T1 and the poor unfortunate T2 server who rolls T1, end of story.

Anet needs to revamp the algorithm that determines wvw server size but I guess they collect easy money as band wagoners head to Mag while ushering wvw to its speedy death.

Mag needs to seriously destack if it really wants people to fight otherwise why would you fight that bloated kitten?

Totally agree with OP’s points.

Yeah I’m going to go ahead and call bs on that. I don’t have a TC account so I can’t talk about it to the same extent as Mag and JQ but just in this thread alone I’ve seen multiple people from TC saying that their zergs are going to eotm after they wiped, certain guilds are taking the week off to purposefully tank out of T1, and people already gave up at the beginning of the week when they saw they were in T1.

If anet opened up a full server every time a handful of guilds took a week off the system would be stupid easy to manipulate.

Haha there’s no telling some people…. I’m on TC so what would I know right?? Zerg of 20 TC being wiped by 40+ then logging probably true…that kitten is no fun. Guilds tanking? Our tag is out of town this week or we would be raiding. TC wasn’t tanking in T2 and doesn’t have the numbers to compete cept our ppk kept us afloat…but keep your story going cos it will mean that you have no one to fight.

Fact! T1 is no fun with a truck ton of mag pouring down on 20 people and BG painting our bl with their colour….if TC had numbers to compete we would but we can’t field the numbers-it’s that simple. And not going to get any cos TC locked.

Yesterday 3 friends from Mag complaining once more that their guilds cant get fights cos they are too fat with pugs following….guess that’s bs too right??

Mag needs the slim down for even population fights or are you happy steam rolling a zerg of 20?

Mag has and always will be dependent upon numbers to win. The combat system now allows that style to be amplified. Simple.

Eval.2371:

AikijinX.6258:

I wouldn’t be too hopeful for any dev or ANET response here lol. They’ve stealth deleted the other threads that were made expressing people’s frustration with WvW and population lel. So don’t expect this thread to be up more than another 2 days.

Devs don’t like being told their cr*p sucks lul. They’ve stealth deleted like 3 threads already within the last week.

But to get more on subject. Transfer to Mag. We got Gud playerz. It’s basically Mag Vs. The World since everyone h8’s us.

Do the community a favor. Flood support. It’s the only way policy will change. If they get enough feedback eventually it will pile up and they will have to do something about it.

Doubt it.

Play what you want and just hang around the commander. It’s not like he can banish you from the map lol

I personally like to get on vanilla ranger just to annoy elitists tags or guilds. Have fun with it bud

Threather.9354:

Man, dont listen to this Turk guy, i moved my 2nd account to FA and basically they have max 20 on teamspeak on primetime and its all guild members (excluding reset).

NA is dead in t2 compared to EU…. i bet in t3-t5 as well. Every EU server at least has 40+ in teamspeak at every primetime. At least EU pugs run revenants, guardians and other useful specs (+ are on ts) instead of everyone being DHs and rangers like in FA..

They have people, but 0 organisation outside guild activity. Their guilds dont even communicate with open tag and their guilds raid on eb Their comms are horrible whiners also.

NA is on way worse position than EU at the moment, their guilds dont trust pugs and even when they run open they close the squad from them. The pugs dont join teamspeak and only skirmish around. I am not sure what NA t1 looks like though, but the t1 servers are closed so you cant get in anyways.

Only thing NA has going for them is that they have lot of different guilds, but that is only because it is dead outside guild activity. Their guilds are somewhat mediocre because that, they run right comp but they’re relatively bad compared to EU guilds where all casuals/slackers just stay outside guilds because its not necessary in EU to join a guild to get some action.

But yeah, leave Aurora Glade, its a horrible server, they are doing PPT the boring way, they dont even try to win the matchups and their commanders have too much ego to lose fights and keep the spirit up. They had 2 chances to go to t1 and become a real server, but they couldn’t even bother to try. They’re eternal t5 server.

Just dont go Gunnars Hold or SFR, those are the 2 servers you want to avoid if you want to experience real WvW where you try to win both fights and ppt.

He showed his cliche FA attitude in his post. You’re not known/belong to a guild on FA you will get treated like trash, just the way they are. You’ll see the FA spokesperson come on here soon telling everyone how great FA is, don’t worry. She can’t resist

Whole game mode is yawn. Blowouts, condi meta, roaming is awful every tier, no guilds, etc.

Grim West.3194:

Lol the GW2 devs are such easy marks. BG suckered them again.

Just shows they couldn’t care less about the lower tiers and balance.

Easy cash grab for them.

alairus.4521:

WvW players are ingrates and can never be happy!

Dude….we get it you learned the word ingrate lol