Guild Wars 2

Dagraan.2854:

a completely stacked server with 5x as many people as the other 2 servers saying wvw is really fun.
nothing surprising there, i’d like to see you keep your attitude when your constantly matched up to servers with more than double your numbers on all the time.

FA is called fort stackwood for a reason

I’d take it easy on the OP. He said he’s newer to the game. You’re right in what you pointed out to be certain, WvW is certainly more exciting when you’re dishing out the pain, and I’ve been on the receiving end of some of the FA steamrolls in the past. No reason to be so kitten someone who’s having a great time, and that fight didn’t look too terribly lopsided from what I saw (I admittedly didn’t watch a ton of it).

To the OP, you are lucky to be on a server with a healthy WvW population and its good to see you’re having such a great time. Inviting more players to FA though may not be the best idea with the current population imbalances we have. It can be quite a frustrating experience to be rolled over by groups 3x your size and FA is currently a served dishing out some steamrolls in the current league setup. Other than that keep kicking some butt.

Reverence.6915:

Yeah… no.

Organised 2v1s are just in bad form.

I get that servers get stomped on and that’s not fun, but this really isn’t the answer.

From what I’ve always understood the whole point of a three way match is specifically to make it so the most populated team can’t simply steamroll, that when one of the sides gets too strong the other two do a “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” sort of deal. This makes it so people don’t simply stack the winning side to collect rewards, as the stacking only compounds the problem of lopsided matches. Unfortunately the second place team often will often see the third place team as an easier target for running a karma/wxp train on as well as the easiest way to up their ppt to try and compete with the first place team. While this is happening however, the first place team is rightfully taking the second place teams objectives, negating the gains of the second place team, while completely putting the third place team out of contention. This then starts to hurt morale of the less hard core players and drives their population in WvW down, now the second place team has no one to fight but the first place team and must do it on their own, often times a hopeless endeavour.

While we can never eliminate all players on the second and third place teams from fighting each other if we can the commanders on similar pages we might be able to have some more even, or at the very least less grossly lopsided matches. I think what the OP is suggesting would be good for 2/3’s of servers in most matches. Of course this will make the top server a little overwhelmed, but I’m sure you’ll be OK. You do deserve to be top after all, right? Time to prove it.

IonusX.7905:

yes let the war begin with CD losing their keep in EBG on reset night >.< really CD really you will never b able to live this down FYI

NSP took it at one point as well, around 10pm EST, right before a push into SM from Anza. Was definitely fun last night, I never made it into NSP’s BL but I spent most of the time I was on in between Anza and Mendon’s seiging, upgrading, escorting Yaks from Speldan and fighting for Speldan. Was definitely a blast, let’s keep at it and keep those numbers up NSP!

NOOOO!!!! Man, that’s so crappy. I always try to spam my interact key (I think it was F but I’ve rebound it to E) whenever possible, just because you never know when you might suddenly have that glass cannon thief pop up out of no where while you’re at 25% and ruin that fight for ya.

I’m going to have to sign on to the no league again, at least in it’s current form. While it looks like a good idea on paper at first glance the population disparities in servers has made it all but a disaster. Not that server population differences are the end of the world, but let’s be honest, 75% of players could look at the WvW schedule when it got posted and give the results of a vast majority of matches on day 1. The top of silver and bronze don’t face much of a challenge against most of the servers in it’s league, while the bottom servers face servers they have no business competing against. I’d argue that before leagues servers had a better chance at more even match ups, and that leagues have made the issue of population disparity more of a problem, not a good thing.

Liquid.9672:

TooBz.3065:

Liquid.9672:

To me, the sweetest reward for winning isn’t some title, finisher, or piece of gear. It’s not even the win itself. It’s the road your server traveled to get there.

So, how many times during the season has blackgate been stomped in a completely unbalanced matchup?

Um none? Sorry I didn’t realize this thread was about population/coverage imbalances.

I think he was referring more to the fact that not everyone is enjoying the road they’re traveling in WvW. Take NSP in Silver league for example, here’s a video of the road we’re getting to travel this week.

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He was saying that blackgate is in a good position as far as it’s population vs the other servers in the league, not all of us are quite so lucky, some times our road is lined with ballista’s. And as we all know ballista’s were designed specifically to make roads rough, or deadly, or rough and deadly, or rough, deadly, and a nightmare. Yeah, not all sunshine rainbows and butterflies in all the match ups. Doing what we can with what we have though, it would be nice to get something worthwhile after 7 weeks of getting drubbed by whoever is blue in each of our matchups though. Helps to keep morale up a bit and players on the edge of quitting WvW going until the end of the season when we can hope for some less lopsided matchups.

Please note the video is not mine and I take no credit for it.

koopeh.9376:

Anyone remember that 80’s horror movie The Blob?

season 1 winners should get a mini version of that

Oh my gosh, that’s awesome man, I laughed pretty good at that one, it’s just perfect. I wonder how many people would be offended by that one?

As others have mentioned, it may not be the greatest idea to hand the stronger servers an advantage over the weaker servers, but a reshuffling of the league structure could help to remedy that.

As for what I’m expecting, probably a mini, a title, some more dragonite/bloodstone/empyreal materials so I have to buy another bank slot, followed by some stuff I’ll salvage without ever thinking twice about. Time will tell I guess.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Guide-PvE-Dungeons-Phantasm-build-s/

I found a damage build here that I use. It has served me well in open world and is very potent in dungeons for dealing a lot of damage. It does take some getting used to if you are coming from a ranged style of play, such as GS, Staff, or Scepter, and it takes time to get used to not having deceptive evasion to save you and use other abilities instead. That being said, once you’re used to the build and play style it has good survivability while pumping out some impressive PvE damage. As for WvW, it’s, well, terrible I’ve found, but you did say PvE damage build.

A warning, the author of the build, while right in so many of his points, can come across quite harsh at times. I’m not a fan of his personality, at all, but he’s got a nice build going. I’d glean what you can from his post and let any negatives roll off your back.

A note on Clock heart, he will only do the multi slam if he hits 30 stacks of his buff, he is also takes no damage while his stacks are building. Once you destroy the holopirate next to him his stacks don’t just disappear but start to count down, during this time you can damage him, so, the later you stop the stacks from building, with the holopirate, the longer you have before stacks begin building again.

On the electric floor puzzle, if you have a Guardian, they can use blocks to help prevent getting the negative charge debuff, making getting to each platform and kiting the bolopiratw to the door much easier.

While I don’t necessarily agree that Tequatl isn’t fun (I actually like it, it’s friggin hard man, haven’t beaten him yet but I’m gonna keep at it), the rename is pretty darn clever and you got a laugh out of me.

I wanna know who on CD I should send my dry cleaner bill to. I spent a lot of time dying that gear to look nice and now the back is covered in grass stains and the front in foot prints after spending some time in EB last night.

It’s been a while since I’ve seen groups like that crashing through our gates, you guys wereeverywhere when I showed up, nice showing. Hopefully things go better for us tonight.

Auvit.2970:

I hope PB guild on NSP reads the forums. I’m not bothered that we got killed, its expected when a large zerg passes by. What bothers me is that you guys took the time to jump on our two bodies as if the kills meant something.

Boy did you look foolish when your zerg + 5 golems wiped to our smaller defence.

I was with that group that did that, though at the back helping to move the golems. I’m surprised by that, definitely something I frown on. I’ll talk to my guild leader about it as that’s not the image we want for ourselves or our server.

As for the fight at your garrison, yeah, we blew the port up on that one for sure. We were talking when the port went down and only half our group moved up, the other half were coming up as you guys were pushing out, that one definitely didn’t go well. I don’t know that we were a zerg per se (15’ish of us give or take a few, close to a zerg I guess) and while I didn’t count your force it looked comparable as you ran over my dead body :P ,though maybe we pulled some extra guards from somewhere. You guys did a good job cleaning us up quick and I tip my hat to ya on that one, and again apologize for my guild members actions, my enemies have my respect until they lose it and I work hard to gain the respect of my enemies, hopefully we do better next time.

I’m sure once we figure out for sure what it is the bigger guilds will rotate people out of the cannons to make sure everyone gets credit, so you might get the short end of the stick a couple times but in time you’ll likely be OK.

I do agree though, you should definitely be able to get gold via the turrets, it’s a very necessary action and vital to the success of the event, why should it not count towards event participation?

azizul.8469:

DH/NSP can have a fair match up by double-teaming CD.

that’s all i can say…..

btw i’m from CD

This would be my suggestion, NSP and DH should focus on CD and make an effort to leave each other be, push our BL and EB while leaving the others BL alone except to maybe help push out CD. Obviously not everyone is going to be on board and small groups will go after the other, but if a lot of the larger guilds encourage their members to focus CD it could be a decent match. We may still not have a chance at winning per se, but it’ll be a better showing for us than if we’re constantly trying to fend off each other and stop CD from over running us too.

I’ll talk to my guild about it.

Hey guys, forgive me as I haven’t read the whole post, but I’ve caught some things that ring similar to a problem I had with my laptop shutting down.

I have a Nvidia GT425M card and had crashing problems, while playing my screen would suddenly go black, I’d get a sound error (like the current sound playing getting stuck on a rapid replay) andy computer would shut down. This happened in GW2, Planetside 2 and Star Wars: The Old Republic, on Star Wars I could prevent the crash by playing on all lowest settings. This issue started off about 1.5 years into the computers life and has progressively worsened since. I’ve talked with support in Planetside, and had the computer to repair shops but to no avail (Planetside said my GPU wasn’t approved repair shop couldn’t duplicate the issue as it only seems to happen in online games, not during stress tests via 3D mark).

I was reading around again about the issue last night as it has forced me back to Star Wars to enjoy a stable game and I find GW2 superior and really want to play. I have found that many people with my GPU have this very problem, many people with a GT540 have had the issue as well. Finally I found an old post here about someone who downloaded a program called MSI Afterburner. They used it to drop their Core and Memory clock speeds by 50-100 MHz’s. After doing this myself I played 3 hours and ran a story quest that I ALWAYS crashed in without any issues.

My guess is that NVidia overestimated the cards capabilities and ran it a bit fast for stable operation. While it may not fix your issues it might help guys, I hope it can help you like it did me at least .

lawfan.7095:

Not sure about the precise kind of armor but I know it’s light armor. In my opinion they need heavy armor like the warrior has just to survive at all. As It is right now meeting 2 ettins means instant death for me since the hit very hard and keep me knocked down all the time. And it takes 1-2 mins for me to kill just 1 of them. Not fun at all.

Ettins were tough for me at first as well, and yes, if you’re facing two of them and one gets you on the ground you’re toast. As others have mentioned the mesmer becomes much more effective as you level. The ability to make clones on dodge (deceptive evasion) makes a huge difference for survivability. As you get some of those key abilities things swing drastically in your favor. Learning enemies key abilities to dodge is absolutely necessary for the mesmer as well. You learned the hard way with those ettins (don’t worry same thing happened to me, I was all WTF was that!). The class is based around deception and confusion, I am always moving around, pumping out clones and phantasms, then shattering them to give myself the edge. It’s not a style for everyone and takes looking at fights in a different way, but once you do it’s great fun and very effective. I think of it as if I’m getting hit I’m doing it wrong. Try looking at it like that, it should help you out a lot.

@Jia Shen You are correct about how the secondary weapon set does not show up, however what Shiren is talking about is having 3 weapon sets. For example, I use a GS/S&P for PvE, but in WvW I use GS/Staff. When I equip my staff into the S&P spot the sword goes to where the staff was, but my pistol moves to the first open slot in my bags. If I’m not careful and just selling my stuff quick, or salvaging it I may accidently get rid of my pistol. While I believe it is possible to buy back from vendors if you salvage it it’s a crappy situation.

@ Shiren I agree with you, a box for that would be very helpful, or maybe just a check mark on all bags to have the option to hide them from vendors. It would make the invisible bag obsolete but I feel it would be a nice QoL feature.

Personally I like to nerdrage a little, then say in my guild vent “I hate thieves!” To which the reply is now “Seems like they hate you too”.

Ok, sorry for the non helpful reply. There are some good videos online of how to deal with, and in my case it’s still a l2p thing. We are their target, they are designed to destroy us quickly. I honestly rarely ever even see them before I die so I just accept in that specific case the odds are currently stcked against me, in time I’ll get good enough to counter them, otherwise I’ll just go and see the armor repair NPC and feel good about having helped that thief get 1 kill closer to his daily and maybe have helped him out with some badges =)

I think that removing the flood protection for commanders in WvW sounds good. If a bot spends 100 gold just to spam more it likely won’t do him any good anyway, the second I see someone offer to sell gold I instantly report then ignore them. I’d be willing to bet that is SOP for just about everyone out there. Commanders need to be able to communicate, we need to have them able to do so for success. I would say limit it to WvW if it’s possible like previous posters have suggested, but I do feel this change is one that’s needed.

I look forward to meting you both out on the battlefield SF and DB. Good luck to both of you (But more to us =) )

Lets take this one Hope Alliance!

“I’m so glad I rolled a male Mesmer. This light armor looks so much better on me than the female toons.”