i agree with Fubuki here. Your taking this whole thing way to far. Server pride is one thing but seriously how many threads have you made about this same thing? The only time you gain any significant points is when you guys are capping against no resistance for 6 hrs or more. Over the last 3 days your averaging around 20k points gained during that time period. You do realize that, right?
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If you have almost no defense for over 6h, you deserve to lose and they deserve to win.
I gave it til tonight. WvW is a disaster. Instead of giving the out numbered server a lame “buff” give them increased badge drops. Problems solved. Servers that outnumber their opponents get decreased or ZERO badges on kills.
Any kind of penalty to the bigger force is non-sense. It’s not the players’ fault a server is popular.
Siege has to be destroyable by attackers and all professions have a trick or two to repair the gate. The most powerful one is AoE quickness from the Mesmer.
On a different matter, Blacktide has an opening for an EU guild and a lareg US contingent, Iron and Ruin are welcome to transfer over.
It seems that RUIN transfered to Desolation hoping to be a night crew to help with a 24/7 force so they could fight in the top tier, and while they do seem to do well at EU off times they will not help Desolation contend in the next bracket because in EU prime time they will get destroyed…. however as you suggested if they were on Blacktide then Blacktide would deff become a 24/7 powerhouse which.. as I see it.. Desolation is simply not.
I would actually enjoy seeing a different large American guild come to Blacktide for the next matchup vs Desolation (I am sure that there are some American guilds that would also love to battle vs RUIN).
It’s doubtful Ruin would ever move to Blacktide. Last night on TS, they discussed about recruiting Australian guilds and make Desolation the Commonwealth coalition server.
Once Desolation starts reorganizing after the transfers in and out of this week, the overall presence should be much higher.
The problem, as I see it though, is that we are all transferring all over the place to make a few, let’s say top 9 super servers with 24/7 coverage while we are leaving anything below in the dust.
I guess it’s expected anyway and the PvP/WvW community will slowly start to be separated from the PvE crowd.
Thieves not rendering got my vote… going from 100% to 20% to an invisible foe = broken
Who here knows the mechanics of stealth and thief? Im judging no one above.
The first hit from stealth is pretty much always for free and invisible and usually a backstab or backstab combo.
A fully geared backstab that takes down another glass cannon with no toughness and no orbs and has the HP of a rabbit (or under lvl 80) is perfectly normal.
There are to many glass cannons saying they die to quickly…… thats the issue. Glass cannon is the thiefs favorite prey
I assume you play a thief, and therefor haven’t noticed it.
Spvp and wvw are different. Loading issues in mass pvp, and even when alone if the wvw world is lagging a bit, mean you don’t render after you break your stealth. 4-5s of “loading” invis every time you break your stealth.
Its an issue of visual culling and lag. Again, even with SSD here. There is often a large delay, or as mentioned server side culling.
Yes I play a thief, and Ive killed 3000 people in WvW, a large part of them thiefs. And I didnt use stealth in my build. (Withdraw and RoI)
I have not noticed a rendering issue when killing thiefs that use stealth so must be something your end
Ive only died once from a thief in under two seconds: He used a back stab combo on me but was still able to get him to 5% health in 2 moves before i dropped in about a second flat as i saw him first and took the first move
Looked on youtube… No videos of this rendering issue either and no posts by dev acknowledging it. And lets be fair to Anet…. They acknowledge the issues players have raised pretty well
Stop being delusional. I get hit up to 5 or 6 times before the thief actually appears. Everyone knows stealth and portal have rendering issues except you apparently.
There is almost no Canadian on Arborstone. I speak French, so I went there once at 2am and simply asked and listened. The vast majority were either students or jobless people that were playing until 3-4 am.
I was told France economy isn’t in its best state currently so there are a lot of students and jobless people playing online games.
I don’t mind the changes, but I’ll say it again until ANet clearly understands : your change did absolutely nothing to stop perma Retaliation Guardians, nothing, niet, nada. It’s still easily done.
All you did was kitten off a lot of people and kill GS as symbol Support weapon.
don’t worry they not glitching only on your broderlands but everywhere when they are not able take something by swarm, but taking bay by exploit is theyr favourite,
You lie. Ask any other past enemy. We never used it before and wont use it in future. Problem is to find that imbecile who initiated glitching and smash his head.
Btw, you look like another jealous Xaoc hater (they are russians too, usually).
A small subgroup of you did both times Aurora Glade fought you, amongst other things.
If you really don’t want it to happen, then catch the ones using it and kick them from the guild and have the whole server ignore them.
I have tried to join WvW many times in the morning, night, afternoon, and evening to no avail. I’ve sat in the que for hours and I haven’t been able to get into a single match in over a week.
I know that the game has only been out for a little over a month and like with any MMO, it’s always a work in progress and ANET has been nothing short of amazing in handling issues IMO but I can’t shake this sense of disappointment of not being able to enjoy WvW.
Because he can and maybe believe the item will not sell at 35g. If the true item value is indeed 35g, then that 29.5g will be gone very quickly and yours will sell soon enough.
Gotta love a brag thread like this. Everyone knows why Blacktide has high scores. What they lack in skill they make up for by tossing people/money at the problem, along with the timezone issue.
War has always been amount money, so that’s really not an issue/excuse, but the difference in time zone, especially when it’s being used on purpose, while authorized, is annoying.
The other issue which is also very serious and alarming, is the Vizunah Square, they have a huge advantage compared to everyone else. They are always doing much better because at daytime the French are playing, and at night the Canadians are playing, Canada isn’t Europe, why in the world do they play with us, they have a totally different time period, they are in average 5-6 hours behind us, which means they can get everything they want during the night, because we sleep, and they are up. So when we wake up, everything is Vizunah Square, and we can’t do anything untill School and work time is over here in Europe.
Proof please ? I’m still waiting for anyone to bring official informations about where are players logged from.
Even if I show you proof, you won’t accept it because you don’t understand French.
It’s their server report, I don’t see why we should post here (and my apologies for doing so). Servers with bigger time coverage win in WvW, that’s the nature of the current system. People have to accept this or change game habbits (or game), since Anet doesn’t seem to care about it.
Because they claim it to be superior organization and strategy and tell us to get better at it! And they don’t have more coverage. They simply have noone fighting them during their primetime while AG and GH have to face and divide the points between each other a few hours later. If AG decided to stop fighting, GH would win this week easily.
First of all, if I posted “no comment”, that was it, I wasn’t judging anything, just showing what’s happening, yet you feel the need to come sprout some more crap.
Spare us the organization or strategy kitten, alright? You win, it’s allowed to be that way, but we all know why you win and it’s not because of superior strategy or organization. So stop the gloating like you somehow accomplished anything worthwhile. It’s just annoying for the rest of us. We accept defeat, so be humble in your victory and leave it at that.
Who gives a crap about SoW, Ramza for people that play guardian as a real main and not jumped on one for a few hours, the kitten moving ability’s around on the GS is annoying will i get the hang of the new hot key setup……………. yeah…. ok sure…
That made absolutely no sense whatsoever in response to my post.
I was asked if I felt affected. I said it changed nothing and their intended nerf did not work either.
And by the way, Guardian is my main and GS my main weapon also. Not affected one bit.
Well, what was a close fight between BT and AG until now turned into a joke during night with BT capping everything, taking all 3 orbs and almost doubling their previous score between us in about 12h.
AG simply does not have any night presence and when the other servers don’t either, they get roflstomped (see last week).
If you salvaged, let’s say 30000 rares, and get 0.5 ecto:item ratio, that would be usefull data. Anything below – it’s how math works (rng in that case), deal with it.
1000 is a big enough sample as far as statistics are concerned in such case.
Oh ya, wanted to add: yes, we’re watching Mesmers, bunker Guardians and tank heal Ele’s. Forgot to add that.
Before you do anything to Bunker Guardian, please have the decency of having a couple good devs play with Necro or Mesmer boon/condition manipulation builds and see how easy it is to shut down the Guardian.
Repost from the top but here it is in anets words:
“In the past, we’ve talked about how in Guild Wars 2 we designed the game to avoid a common problem in many MMOs: grinding through chunks of boring, repetitive content to get to the occasional pockets of fun. With Guild Wars 2, we wanted the entire gameplay experience to be something that players enjoyed, regardless of how much time they could dedicate.” From guildwars2.com
You are just twisting what they said to fit your opinion or you simply didn’t understand what they meant.
They aren’t saying there is no grind at all. They are saying to access the fun content, there is no grind. It’s a direct reference to the WoW type of gear grind needed to access the harder dungeons/raids. And indeed, there is no need to grind anything to access any playable content in GW2.
I think you dont understand what YOU are saying…
If what u said is what they ment, then in that case you have access to fun content in any mmo w/o grinding. U can accsess any dungeon in wow or any other game w/o grind, its just u wont be able to do kitten there.
Stop being funboy and accept the facts plz.
My statement stands. You just said the same thing in a different way. In GW2, you can access AND do the content without trouble. In WoW, you can sometimes access without prior unlocking, but even if you do, you can’t do the content because you lack the gear, so you have to grind it, so it’s the same as it being locked out to your character.
I’m not a fanboy and I seriously feel insulted. Watch your tongue next time.
Repost from the top but here it is in anets words:
“In the past, we’ve talked about how in Guild Wars 2 we designed the game to avoid a common problem in many MMOs: grinding through chunks of boring, repetitive content to get to the occasional pockets of fun. With Guild Wars 2, we wanted the entire gameplay experience to be something that players enjoyed, regardless of how much time they could dedicate.” From guildwars2.com
You are just twisting what they said to fit your opinion or you simply didn’t understand what they meant.
They aren’t saying there is no grind at all. They are saying to access the fun content, there is no grind. It’s a direct reference to the WoW type of gear grind needed to access the harder dungeons/raids. And indeed, there is no need to grind anything to access any playable content in GW2. At lvl 80, you have direct access to everything the game has to offer, no extra grind to do to play them.
Did you seriously expect to get Exotics, Legendaries and all the cool skins by playing 30 minutes? Those are meant as achievements for your character.
When Aurora Glade and Blacktide fought Arborstone last week, they did the same thing and took a 30k advantage over the week-end and kept nightcapping during the week as well.
The fight was something like this : 10am-3pm Blacktide dominated, then 3pm-8pm, Aurora dominated, then 8-10pm things were equal amongst all servers and then starting 10pm for the next 12h, Arborstonre would have 380+ points ticking.
I’m not convinced they have that many canadians though. I know for fact at 1am I played several times, three guilds I saw were not canadians, but real french unless they mass recruited canadians.
They have a dedicated night crew, that’s for sure, but I don’t think many of them are canadians contrary to popular belief.
For one, low level people pay almost nothing… A lvl 80 pays about 10s per full armor repair.
Second, you earn money and karma playing WvW therefore you suffer from the same losses as in PvE. It also serves as a deterrent to playing stupidly. If you die too often, then you’ll lose a lot of money.
So OP your saying because the servers are pretty well full there isn’t anything wrong.
Ever stop to think that pretty well half the population in the game is a kittening bot?
Lol, bullkitten. I’ve seen maybe one or two in a whole week. ANet is quick at banning bots and gold sellers.
People are generally stupid and draw conclusions based on normal trends they perceive as signs of decline.
Every single game that is released has a peak for the first few days following it, then it declines as people spend less and less time online as well as people who don’t like the game leave..
Some people are also quick to point out GW2 decline on Xfire, but at the same time they completely ignore the numbers shown to them. That is GW2 still has twice more active Xfire players after a month than WoW did for the last 6 months prior to MoP release.
Nightcapping not an issue? Because there are hundreds of posts about it on the forums, I’d say it’s a legitimate issue that concerns a lot of players.
A vast majority of people will whine and complain about every little thing because they feel, in their own perception of fairness, whatever it is that makes them lose or not have an edge is unfair.
The majority is often, but not always, right as is the case here. Nightcapping is annoying, but everyone can play on any server. If you believe your server is currently suffering from nightcapping with the current rules, then go and make an alliance with people playing during night or switch yourself.
Controlling Quaggan’s Storm Weather will destroy the Trebuchets up there.
What’s next? Are you going to complain people are firing Trebuchets from the southern Tower next?
Most keeps and towers can be aimed at by Trebuchets from the next keep/tower. That’s the whole point of controlling them, to setup assaults on the next target.
