While I’m sure many WvW veterans wouldn’t call it dynamic so much nowdays. The fact is that compared to dynamic events in PvE, WvW is more so and even tho ANet have been pushing sPvP really hard. The nature of open field fights in WvW is more dynamic.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
This is at least the second thread this week by an SoS players suddenly noticing the pop issues. Funny how quickly people will notice an issue when it starts hindering them rather then benefiting them.
It does make me wonder if there’s been an partial exodus away from SoS recently.
Hahahaha.
The issue is that during free transfers all the instant win kids went to SoS due to their success. Before paid transfers started JQ did a huge recruitment drive that has benefited them greatly.
The result, a bunch of QQ threads from people that were winning but now currently are not. These people now have to use gems to transfer in order to get their instant win or simply quit the game.
So yes while a portion of the population on SoS has imploded. There a still a number of significant guilds on SoS that are staying. Also, SoS was always the unofficial oceanic server, those guys were happy even before they were expecting to win every week.
Expect the QQ threads to continue for a little while but once SoS settles down and the instant win kids have either stopped playing or transferred. Expect SoS to be focused and ready for action.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
I have 8 level 80’s, 4 of which i play seriously and nothing reaps better than the thief. My favourite tactic is to go invisi then just unleash dagger storm in the middle of a zerg. All things going well, you’ve managed to tag 1/2 the people in that zerg and if your zerg is doing its job, it will wipe them for some serious loot.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
WvW is better thought of as a mini game within GW2 rather than a major aspect of it. The removal of orbs and only one significant update, that being break out events, around the 6 month mark is disappointing. Compare it to the updates we see in sPvP and PvE and it’s even more depressing.
I realise that an update is only around the corner but what are we expecting to see come from this update. The lack of communication is, at least for me, indicating what we have seen over the last 6 months, as it stands, I’m not expecting much.
In summary I guess I’m like many others. That is the zerging/culling/rendering/stale nature of WvW has worn thin. I like GW2 and most likely will keep playing it but given that many other aspects of GW2 are even less appealing, well….
I guess I was wondering what other people’s feelings are about the current state of WvW.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
Come on guys it’s covenn, just ignore him. Replying to his posts just encourages him.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
GW1 were always by the way just wannabe necros, they both are nothing else than occultists using undead minions and spirits are nothing else, than undeads, just without corpses
Do you use a necro primarily? While you have some valid points you post seems to cry more I’m a necro, I’m special.
Necros are wannabe ritualists, they are both occultists using dead minions and minions are nothing else than undeads with out a spirit.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
As I understand it sPvP is nowhere near what they intended, it wasn’t “done” when the game shipped. Whenever it gets expanded, expect some heavy PR and in-game promotion.
lol, if sPvP wasn’t done then WvW must have still been in alpha mode. WvW has gets even less <3 than sPvP.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
Will definately have an impact for world completion.
It will, and if people make enough noise ArenaNet will rejig the WvW completion system.
To this thread, 1800 gems, who cares.
If you’re not in the server you want to be in by now for WvW then it’s your fault. You’ve had how long to transfer for free!!??
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
JQ and SBI had to battle for 2nd for months. Nothing new in T1. Besides, JQ won the weekend by quite alot, was that purely down to numbers?
Yes
SoS was leading JQ subsequent weekends. What has changed, it wasn’t the numbers, did SoS give up?
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
It goes towards your HoM points. If you’re at 30/50 you will have all in game skins for GW2, If you are at 50/50 you will have all in game titles for GW2.
If you want more than that and you did it because you expected more you should probably stop getting titles in GW1.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
Usually I drop flame ram blueprints on the corpses of vanquished foes, for you my beloved friend I will spare a catapult.
Don’t drop those blueprints instead build them with something called supply and take towers. People will love you more.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
If you want to be taken seriously then stick to debating the issue rather than attacking the poster.
I never made one personal attack. My statements were based around the fact that you’re argument is fundamentally flawed.
Feel free to reply.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
We are now getting slaughtered because people jumped ship, why they jumped ship no one knows i guess they were all server hoppers…
It was free transfers previously so when SoS started winning lots of games it also recruited the ‘instant win kids’.
Now that JQ is doing well and free transfers have stopped the instant win kids are upset because they have to use gems to transfer or stop playing altogether. It’s meant that a portion of the SoS population has imploded (just read some of the rants on the forums).
Having said that SoS is not in serious trouble. It was always the unofficial oceanic server so those guys are happy and because of paid transfers, many big guilds will stay. In the end SoS may not be no. 1, but they will still be strong. It will just take a month or so for the dust to settle.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
Only a few commanders actually take the time to form squads and instead spam team chat
It’s the problem with WvW not the commander’s. WvW winning is based mostly on out zerging the other server.
It’s easier to complain about commander’s, giving yourself that power and in turn, absolving yourself of any responsibility, because you refuse that system.
If you wanted to be taken seriously you should have complained only about the commander system, rather than complaing about commander’s in general.
The issue is that it’s purchased through gold. Meaning that a good WvW player, who could be a great commander, may never have enough gold to buy one.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
Rendering now is a different dog with different fleas.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
JP has more interesting fight breaks out than WvW, which can be more like siege wars. The JP setting creates little skirmishes like sPvP but with a far greater dynamic to it, an easy 3v1 can suddenly turn into a 3v6.
I don’t want it neutral, if anything make it more applicable. Have a flag at the top of the puzzle that can be built and contributes 5 points to the tick.
PS They offer siege, that’s strategic enough to compete over.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
People should not post the names of their own toons. Typically people think that their toons are named better but there’s no perspective and more often than not, they’re wrong.
People should just enjoy the names and not comment otherwise
Or skip most of the thread because the names are not.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
Do people realise that everyone is laughing at this tier 1 forum thread? Just stop it already:
Jayne.9251:
After reading the Tier One thread, I think it’s safe to say that all servers should be fighting to stay in Tier Two.
Morning all. Got your coffee?
Wouldn’t say laughing per se … More flinching.
Tier 2 thread has a nice vibe going on. Tried to intro some of the stuff that helped in this thread, but only a few nibbled. Frankly it takes way more energy to be angry than it does to be happy. /shrug.
You and your crew are welcome in tier 1 anytime ^^
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
Do people realise that everyone is laughing at this tier 1 forum thread? Just stop it already:
Jayne.9251:
After reading the Tier One thread, I think it’s safe to say that all servers should be fighting to stay in Tier Two.
Morning all. Got your coffee?
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
I can understand ArenaNet wanting to run things client side to save money/resources but concurrently what it does is place power in the hands of players to modify their script to accommodate speed, teleport, FoV hacks.
What the community should be familiar with is that the game has been out for 6 months now, and the players that perform these types of hacks are legitimate GW2 players that have spent a lot of time and effort in developing their toons and don’t want to get banned, but want to give themselves a distinct advantage.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
March is pretty much make/break for a lot of people
If it’s not already to late. Core players that used to make up WvW have left, if the March updates are siginifcant and relevant perhaps we can get 50% back? Many of these players are already looking to other MMO’s.
Overall WvW is getting old: hacks, exploits, invisible enemies, scoring, zerging (please add to this list). Where the most significant updates were Orbs (removed) and Breakout Events, I mean were 6 months in, come on.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
I recommend that people go into WvW armed with Fraps, or similar. Record these unusual events and upload to utube, then link it here.
In game report measures are mediocre at best and sending any recorded info. to ArenaNet doesn’t guarantee a fix. The best we can do is educate the community who will in turn place pressure on ArenaNet to do something about it.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
People should not post the names of their own toons. Typically people think that their toons are named better but there’s no perspective and more often than not, they’re wrong.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
No. If u don’t walk to talk to someone temporarily then go offline or just ignore the particular person. Blocking someone means exactly that.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
So, when the going gets tough the tough……… use gems to transfer?
If that’s true its a stroke of genius on ArenaNet’s behalf. If people are prepared to spend gems to ensure a win ArenaNet are probably wondering what took themselves so long to stop free transfer.
In any event I’m sure the healthier part of the SoS community are grateful to be rid of the drama queens. It’s always been the unofficial Oceanic server and as far as I know will continue to be so. SoS won’t die the way HoD did and will always maintain a strong community.
Respect.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
Tier 2 discussion thread owns this one, just saying.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
I had to take a break from the tier 1 discussion thread, the amount of ranting that is going on in that thread atm is insane.
Even your combative posts here are pretty luke-warm in comparison. Were others are actually telling people to clam down and not get so emotional.
I encourage the tier 2 community to view and bestow some maturity on the tier 1 discussion thread. Use it as an example of how not to behave when u guys are in tier 1 next.
Respect.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
A few names appear in this thread, posting again and again and again with nothing useful to say.
I don’t want to mention them by name, they will only feel the need to post…… again. What I wanted was to encourage people not to reply to them directly, as it unfortunately encourages them more. While their comments can be silly and deliberately provocative, I just ask you to move past it and ignore it.
If these silly people say something particularly silly, report them. With any luck they will accumulate a bunch of infractions and get silenced for awhile.
That is all.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
Weapon swap should have been in the game before release and it should be for ALL your professions available weapons.
To not break any balance that ANet has in place, limit it to being in/out of combat as to being able/unable to swap weapons. Keep the ele and engineer limited to one weapon in combat, everyone else gets their 2.
But when a profession is out of combat they can switch to any weapon they want instead of manually opening inventory double clicking (twice if its equiping 2 single handed weapons)
In GW1 you had weapon sets, click a button and that set would come up. In GW2 we went backwards.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
What date format should we use!? Don’t answer that!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
ArenaNet would be disregarding a significant part of its former GW1 client base if they did simply just open it up.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
It is still funny that ever since JQ took the top spot, this is an issue, where as, SoS had no problems with holding on to Tier 1 for months.
Before free transfers closed SoS was a significant force that was usually guaranteed victory. That’s why we see so many QQ posts now. A portion of those people on SoS where there because they expected to win.
Now anyone with any foresight could see that JQ had done a much better job at recruiting guilds then most. I guess the kicker at this stage is that you couldn’t quantify that until after free transfers closed.
So those people that expected the instant win are now stuck contemplating either to use gems to transfer or quitting (I’m sure we don’t mind if they quit).
ArenaNet has already announced that significant changes are coming in March. So if you want people to take you seriously, tone down on the QQ posts and wait to see what ArenaNet does in March before you start the QQ again.
ArenaNet has been in the MMO industry for many years now, they seem to be pretty good at giving people what they want. So everyone just take a chill pill and stop the QQ, if the current match ups bother you go get some sunshine.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
Just came from Hidden Garden and knew I had to come and post here, what magnificent setting. The landscape was amazing, I actually spent some time their just taking screen shots.
The only thing I was disappointed about was how small the puzzles were. I would have loved to have spent more time jumping around that area, exploring more of it.
EDIT: On a side note I really dislike Professor Portmatt’s Lab.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
Has always been my issue, I never notice the bags until i turn around and look back on where I’ve run because they finally rendered.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
I wonder now, if reasons like this was why ArenaNet originally planned on resetting scores. So people had a greater chance of grabbing missing poi’s. For those that don’t care about map completion however, resetting the scores was a ridiculous idea.
In any event, don’t be surprised in ArenaNet changes the map completion process in WvW.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
I’ve had this happen to me previously on 2 occasions at smc, both when a large guild was present and held it.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
My zerg saw an afk invader in open field. We yelled “WATCH OUT” but he didn’t hear us.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
I got to disagree. In the Tet Offensive the Vietcongs failed to take the US embassy because they lost their 2 commanders right at the start. They lost more than just 2 extra guns when they lost their commanders.
I would say survivability, morale boost, enemy psychology and buffs/benefits for allies are very important for a commander.
Interesting analogy. At the time the US administration had been arguing that the war was nearly over. What the Tet offensive did was fail militarily, but politically destroyed that administration because it highlighted that the war wasn’t nearly over and put the US into a mindset of simply leaving, which led to the North taking over.
I guess that point feeds into enemy psychology.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
I think you should all wait for the culling to be fixed before you complain about thieves.
The culling is what’s really driving all that hate. For all we know, stealth without the culling problem is perfectly balanced; there is a reveal-debuff between stealth, last I checked.
I’ll agree with you about the rendering, I guess the issue I have with that is the rendering has made thieves OP for over 6 months!? Thieves do have a revealed debuff, but it’s a few seconds and combined with the rendering issue, well it feeds back into this and other posts I made in this thread.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
Man the available siege …. Run supply and help build it …. Scout and yell out in map when you see an enemy.
I would like to reinforce this. These things are pivotal to winning in WvW and it’s surprising sometimes how many people don’t do it.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
The point is that if nobody in the US can watch the video…how do you expect Anet to watch it and see the problem being discussed?
Because ArenaNet is based only in the US? There are no free work arounds?
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
This video contains content from The Orchard Music, SME, Warner Chappell, Sony ATV Publishing and INgrooves, one or more of whom have blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.
Ups. It’s been discussed already, please read before posting.
It’s not a broken link, if you don’t have a work around for the internets then you can’t watch it.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
The most important thing to have is a good reaction time, because the moment the thief appears behind you, you have about a second to react before you’re either burst to a downed state, or near death.
That’s one of the frustrating aspects of thief encounters to. Heaven forbid you sneeze or need to scratch your kitten at that exact moment, but thats just part of the game.
There needs to be counters in place other than just AoE everywhere! Some kind of stealth detection skills.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
To the OP: Do you have a proposal? Do you want thieves removed? There’s no conclusion here.
No conclusion? That’s short-sighted. If the communities informed and aware then it places ArenaNet in a position to be more proactive about it. An uploaded utube vid that used fraps is our best detection and report mechanism? Seriously?
As it stands for report mechnisms in game the d/d bunker ele in the vid could right click the thief (when hes not stealthed) and report for….. i dunno… botting?
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
day/month/year or year/month/day, at no point does month/day/year make sense.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
The Thief discussion has been ongoing, ArenaNet have really mismanaged the thief Full-stop.
Stealth is a mechanic that has rarely worked in any MMO. ArenaNet really needs to implement more counters to this. Considering the rendering issues in WvW thief’s using stealth has become a ridiculous farce.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
The video is viewable. Can people not see from their mobiles? I did notice a comment that the utube poster couldn’t enable it due to copyright issues. You need to see from your computer.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
I think its important to encourage ppl to attend WvW which this does. I also agree that with some match ups, you will never be able to get 100%.
The solution imo would be to cut back on the poi’s/vistas needed from WvW say 4/4 from each map to get 100%. That way there’s some flexibility in obtaining them instead of all, which on some server matches are impossible.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
