Guild Wars 2

you just need to unlock all the reward tracks for all the people who did dungeons (story modes) before the 1/28/1013 patch and refused to do another dungeon after that (including anything for pvp), because it doesn’t seem quite fair to have most of the dungeon awards from before that patch and yet not be able to unlock any of these until the free turn rolls around.

bad decisions if you want my 2 cents.

personally i was expecting something closer to gw1. guess that’s what expectations get ya.

bump… i’d consider this a bug (might want to reconsider renaming the title of the thread to something like BUG – pvp build – weapons or something like that). it remembers traits, but not weapons.

please fix.

i have multiple accounts. one r40+ (dont recall what i ranked up to last night) on one and like r5 (just dont pvp on the other account much) and i do get comments on my < r10 not to tpvp on such a low toon when i pug it and have a bad game but never hear a word when i’m the top player @ level 1-5, against r30-60’s.

I think its a bad thing to take it away from the end of round scoreboard. especially when you and someone else works your kitten off to try and win a round w/ 3 other ppl on your team who fight off point only to find out its their maiden voyage into pvp @ r1 (… almost like having 3 no-shows) but you try and be civil the entire round and not rage on them to fight on point in case they’re just having a bad round.

its useful info to have on your fellow pvp’ers.

just playing for 3 hours tonight you could tell the influx of r1 players coming in. don’t need a scoreboard to notice ppl stomping bunnies, but imo it is/was nice to see what levels the folks you play with are once the match up is done (especially when you’re playing w/ the same people match up after match up a lot of the time).

its all a matter of perspective. the servers that got free transfers were all pretty much in the boat you’re feeling right now before the seasons started and anet’s testing the tiered cost transfer waters with this, so the idea is the lower servers get free transfers, higher not so expensive, highest costs a premium… if you’re not doing well your server slips and people can come back for free… or low cost; get the idea? you can campaign for people to come back if where they went to tanked / didn’t go as planned and it costs little to nothing instead of the standard outrageous cost.

if you look at kain in na that server sat at the bottom for a long time barely able to work up 25 people a night but they were finally able to get enough people to win a match up and win it well. gom wasn’t free but seems to be doing well; while other servers that constantly held status quo in mid tiers had people and guilds who would have never thought of leaving finally make the jump because the risk & cost was finally low enough to do so.

imo its a good system while it does tend to hurt servers who’ve held a certain status for long periods of time, but isn’t that the whole point? churn the waters somewhat?

Justin ODell.9517:

clint.5681:

Why couldn’t you tell us that earlier?

What I mean by that is why wait more than a week after the patch hit to tell us. I can understand not saying anything before the 18th now so you can avoid a influx of last minute pves

We had to wait for wardrobe to be announced so we didn’t spoil the surprise for the people that didn’t already figure it out. I meant to mention two days ago, but was so busy I forgot to necro the thread. Sorry.

rather than announcing this feature so far ahead of time, why not just do like all the rest of us do and announce it right before its released, and continue not to screw over your user base till its released? guess the super smart peopleguys never thought of that one??? supersmart peopleguys usually lack common sense (I have an extremely high iq child which lacks all common sense too)

this building anticipation for a feature pack business is ridiculous.

Even if you’re perfectly happy with your server (screw the title), come to anvil rock. We’re the server where you and your guild will make the biggest impact. If you’re on a blobby blob blob server, or an underpopulated server, or a server that’s fairly evenly matched up with anvil, our server is the place for you: blob blob servers wont allow you or your guild to flourish and reach its potential like it will on anvil; If you’re on an underpopulated server anvil’s got plenty of veteran WvW’ers (and nooby pve’r’s) for you to both recruit from and game with; If you’re on an evenly matched server, well, AR’s just better than the one you’re currently on (jk, jk… humor all fun and yuks… but seriously we are) we’ve got a lot of guilds to mingle with and play along side during the time you’d normally play, so it just makes sense that THIS IS THE PLACE YOU NEED TO BE

oh yea and bump, join us! only a couple days left.

at least they didn’t delete wvw (yet)

I think most of us in ar not in tbt are pretty clueless about the hostility between el cid and et.

threads get derailed… if that’s what you’re going to base your judgement on, that’s what it is but AR’s a pretty mellow drama free place.

they could say “in order to save pvp, we’ve decided to revert it to how it was before the patch (minus the pve bags…)”

think that would go over better than this is currently flying.

I’ll just throw it out there. I know people are thinking it, been doing software development for 15+ years and know how it all works, this latest update for the vocal few who are playing is a great success (sarcasm), the queues are empty, there’s no real motivation to pvp in hotm.

please just back the update out and return pvp what it was before update. pretty sure this is a lost cause but… i can try right? those who spent their boosters i’m sure will be upset to have spent them all but less upset than what we have now (or whatever we have down the line) for the rest of their pvp lives, as short as that is now looking.

do us a solid?

nope. the companies passive aggressive inability to fix problems in other areas of the game have led to the deletion of pvp as you knew it. you can now skirmish in a server and it will level you up, but whatever you had before the change is what you’ll have and if it was crapwear then crapwear you’ll remain. they say you’ll be able to use your pve stuff if you have pve stuff but lets compare being able to buy full cultural kits in hotm for 30% of what they cost in pve you’ll now pay 200g & no glory and you’re going to wait another few months for that i’m willing to bet.

good luck

our guild has stopped playing pvp, everybody i’ve talked to has stopped. anvil rock mist is empty, maybe the devs really do want to delete the pvp servers.

its a way for them to pretend to give us something while not actually giving us anything at all of value (because after all they have a virtual economy to manage right, which the whole glory thing should have sufficed but they had to take that away)…

all i do is pvp and wvw and most drops in wvw now are t7 mats, so unlike the previously heretofore thought of worthless drop spike they’re really giving us nothing because at least we could sell spike ’s. this crap we just have to destroy because honestly, are we going to spend a fortunes to level up our crafting just to use all this worthless junk we keep getting; especially since we get such small quantities, it takes such large quantities, the weapons / armor looks like kitten and still is unusable in pvp?

genius!

MeanCoffeeBean.2073:

Dear [Every Plummeting Server],
We know those feels.
Love,
Ehmry Bay

no you dont…. you’re beginning to… but kain does.

they want you to be able to spend real money on pvp, which you cant do now, so how else to do that but remove everything that made pvp unique and enjoyable, and join pvp into the stinkhole pve environment that the rest of us avoid, hand back junk that nobody wants or needs (believe me we’re going to get a majority of t7 mats that most of us wont use, cant salvage, or sell & end up destroying doing absolutely no good to anybody, which they’ll call “great rewards”).

in the end, OP’s suggestion is worthy. time to move on i think. qq on the dragon rank & system at large.

when it happens (on your login / character selection screen) there’s a transfer button where you can guest / transfer servers. just pick a free server from the list, and hit transfer… done; where you’d usually have to pay gems, it will just be free on qualifying servers (or the prorated costs for the other servers).

imo tho, wait a few days before doing it, see how sf’s transfer situation fares before moving over. hard to gauge things right now, but once people start shifting, it may be a different story.

after that if you dont find what you’re looking for check out AR (sorry had to plug it) https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/recruitment/Anvil-Rock-Full-of-Potential/first

SoR is the brand new SoR, Dh is the same ol Dh w/ a few less ppl. at least you’re server migration is starting now as opposed to a month or so ago and you’re not falling from 3rd place to 24th w/ a new season starting while you’re in freefall… so, look on the bright side, it could be worse.

if you’ll be “roaming” yes you’ll be in a ghost town. as long as you join the giant sf zerg ball running around mindlessly you’ll be just fine.

here’s the thing. so far, i’ve hated the upcoming change (I never do pve, its pvp and wvw), havent liked most of the changes that have come down to things i haven’t perceived where broken and see this change is a completely useless change to fix a symptom rather than (as usual) a change to fix a problem.

rather than complain, i can just stop playing and take a fairly steady source of income away from anet. I think that is just about the most effective / sound voice i can express about the changes.

gg, thanks for the changes.

Dovgan.8605:

Steve Whitley.8359:

Mariticide.1970:

I’ve found their zerg. They have 7.

(Not my picture, I’m at work, but representative.)

May be an exaggeration, looks more like 3-5 with a couple of pets / minions

Looks like 7. More or less it’s always 7.

one or two, maybe i’ve missed the inside joke & is always why you’ve claimed to have killed more than you say you have (we counting longhorn sheep/rams too?) :-/

Mariticide.1970:

I’ve found their zerg. They have 7.

(Not my picture, I’m at work, but representative.)

May be an exaggeration, looks more like 3-5 with a couple of pets / minions

Go to HoD it’ll be free… save your gems for scarlet items in the trading post.

& take all your pve friends from gom w/ you.

i’d really like to see #gommernation stay consistent in wvw through content releases.

GoM is a fun server to play… it was really fun playing you guys in the end of last season, and gathering intel an carrying it out to keep things papered and flipped was a lot of fun. You guys do have a lot of players, but IMO may be a bit lacking on strategy. If I played on GoM as soon as that announcement came out I would have pushed to change server the wide strategy from high ppt to more open field fights at least for the week (and that’s not tanking, think of it as a deferred expense), giving DR a chance to pass GoM in score for the week end end up in 19th and have you to be under the price point for free transfers. But you guys went the other direction attempting to cap everything in sight displaying all the prowess of your t7 might; like the new season had already started or something. the 800 gem price tag is your reward for that. it is what it is. your fans will either pay it to transfer over, or wont. you’ll either get new folks in, or you wont. I guess to some extent that’s the way it is anyway, even w/ free transfers. I’m sure people will look at poor kain and wonder if it would be worth the price to transfer off if things don’t work out.

good luck guys. look forward to the tourney.

Sad Tas.2509:

GarnetArmy.1023:

I miss you AR

This. I’d come back if I didn’t have to pay the ludicrous transfer fee

so, we’ll see you on the 18th then?

Come to Anvil Rock! We have a community of dedicated WvW’ers made up of quite a few medium sized guilds that run havoc zerg busing raids that will often ball up for a little zvz or run off to claim another server’s borderland.

Our server has weathered the rise and fall of glory and has its share of seasoned veterans. Tier wise, things are pretty stable as well, our opponents are usually pretty generous about handing out candies and bags, there’s not too many times that the match-up gets out of hand here one way or the other. It stays pretty competitive. There’s enough movement (between servers week to week) to keep things interesting, and enough good fights during the week to keep people awake and WvW’ing for the tick.

If you or your guild are looking for a home; If you enjoy good competition, good server communication / coordination please consider anvil rock your next home. We are a pretty heavy oceanic timezone, could use more eu and na players, but any and all are welcome.

Please check out our website at anvilrockserver.com and get in contact with any one of us in game, here, via pm, or ts and let us know if there’s anything else we can let you know about our server.

you know what i tire of? dev’s making decisions that affect the gameplay of the game w/ out input of the player base.

remember the input system you had during early testing anet? at least an opinion system in game that people who play wvw can opt into (if not pop up like early testing had 1-5 rating & make a statement) on changes you’re thinking about making, before you dive into those changes and let your player base get a feel for your next sprints. while its not a totally reliable metric, its something more than basing decisions on the vocal few who make it to the forums and impact the majority who may or may not have had problems with the existing systems.

COME ON BP JOIN US… we can rekindle our sordid 3 way from years ago!!! oh well guess that’s not gonna happen, guess we’ll have to pick some other server to stand in for you and watch :S

Reverence.6915:

What I take from this thread is that low tier servers have better Oceanic coverage than a Tier 1 server.

Huh…

trust me, et doesnt pull the numbers this guy has claimed. esp. now that they’ve lost a guild or two here recently. I play on both anvil and jq and though I think we have really good (I’m CST timezone) overnight numbers down in t7-8, most playing are aussie/kiwi/some other oceanic areas (a lot are american as well), its still about half what we have on jq (when I log off AR and onto JQ) at around 4am CST.

the other servers ar plays against are usually pretty dead around that time though, the stuff we cap can typically get t2 upgrades in before they try to attempt to take it back; if we don’t babysit it too closely (if we have people stay there and escort supply we could have it in before, but… yea that doesn’t happen).

the thing that the lower tier servers don’t typically have though, is the vast coverage disparity that I think exists in the top part of the mid / upper tiers. we’ve got (poor kain being the exception here at the moment, though they’ve shown some resilience the past day or so, but they’re always getting shatupon) some way to balance out our population ebbs and flows to keep the game competitive.

wherever you end up… don’t forget your TP

nothing says “meh, i dont feel like logging in to play cause they blew up the place where i idle” like blowing up the place people afk…

I just dont see people logging in to play people who ***ALWAYS*** played every day, and i think that’s ^^ why. eotm and la destruction have killed it for most i think. just time to move on to better things for most people.

I never lag

not a very impressive setup (pretty old but still runs fine):
w7x64/core 2 quad/4 gig ram/gtx 580 vid/ST4000DM000 hdd

everything turned up to high (I think i have something turned to medium though I dont remember what off hand).

Reverence.6915:

Muramasa.6487:

Our nightcrew in ET is famous for getting huge, like 50-60 plus. Check it out!

That’s quite large. Are you sure that’s Oceanic time zone? As in, 1am – 5am server time. Even BG can’t pull those kinds of numbers during Oceanic. We were pulling a good 40 people last night and that was pretty decent already.

I’ve played against ET during that time zone (on my account on AR) and seen others numbers while playing on my account on JQ; and while JQ can come close to that a lot of the time, no way does ET come close, esp now. AR could probably get that (we’re split into several guild groups though) during those times but not over the whole time consistently.

I think AR has a stronger oceanic coverage than most the other t7-8 servers at the moment, always a decent showing during the 9-4am time when i usually play.

youve all been infracted!

now behave…

Zepher.7803:

Fuzzion.2504:

With the closure of this site Please note your matchup thread is now at

http://www.gw2wvw.net/node/26

and so it begins, ads, third party site, anonymous, garbage GvG posts,

Seriously, enjoy your 12 cents a month.

wtb browser w/ adblock plugins…

i’ve never seen ads in interwebs in ages; compiled an ad block hostfile in the early days of the interwebs before browers had plugins then moved to adblock/noscript when the netscape→mozilla→firefox addins came into existence. think they pretty much all have them these days.

well the current matchup (6 dec-13 dec) we have the 3rd highest score in na… against SF and Kain and we’re up by almost 60k, just nobody posted a screen shot of that matchup (shrug). DR/GoM was a closer matchup than this one at the end of the week so that should say something about the standings of these respective servers… not taking anything away from one or the other.

that week dr was in full force though, and the pic in question is of AR at ~7am w/ a 600ppt (which is not infrequent the past few weeks) and is probably hold overs from our oceanic group.

Dovgan.8605:

Honestly, from an AR standpoint, not to diminish all that has been accomplished by the server, the answer is no, but we are getting better. Regardless of the lead AR holds right now, many players are “done for the week”. To compete at a higher level, AR as a server can’t have this level of complacency. Maybe that will change in the next few weeks, but what AR needs right now is a solid loss to get a few players heads on straight. As always, great fights, see you folks on the battlefield.

if anyone can’t tell, to some degree we’re a server full of brand new puppy dogs (general pug population anyway)… antsy and ready to snap at anything that moves. distracted by every squirrel, fire hydrant, or telephone pole that we pass (regardless of if we say “skip this…”), and ready to chase our tail down at the drop of a hat, and when we don’t catch it, we wander off and wonder what happened to that car we were chasing just a minute ago…

we love the fight when its competitive, but when we’re either down a heftazillion pts or up by that same amount the fights become few and far between, and the pugs (get it…) get distracted and wonder off.

I think when we figure out we don’t have to blow out a billion point lead every week we’ll do better at keeping the doggy’s attention through the week. keeping it focused on the task at hand may still be… well… one thing at a time.

IMO if matchups split midway through the week (between monday and tuesday night for instance) i think it would be like a constant 4 day reset… might make things a bit more interesting for those of us not in t1/2

looks like its going to be a close one between kain and sf…

LOL, it does have that tone to it…

Testify brotha para!

Had a fun reset tonight. think i’ll ultimately (try to) stay far away from the rest of this thread since it will ultimately get locked and someone will find something I say to infract.

hope everybody has fun and keeps it civil. see ya all next friday (on the forums).

Steve Whitley.8359:

i see sinema finally brought his ugly char necro back from blahzgate! gonna scare your fan base away w/ that thing mr reem grimes.

I was mistaken… foiled by guesting.

i see sinema finally brought his ugly char necro back from blahzgate! gonna scare your fan base away w/ that thing mr reem grimes.

everybody gets a mulligan.

dr was pretty absent from last weeks matchup. actually had to hit b to see who we were playing again friday night at the force they brought (and our absence of ppl reset night), and have continued to bring through the week.

everybody needs a break from their escape from real life every now and then…

reset starts tonight, everybody starts @ 0 and we get to try to do it all over again

and there’s no season to compete for!

priororities…

arKRazor.8654:

… Exemplary play from KAOS mes…

… surely we’re talking about mixx (thought I saw dov playing left click mouse tonight) though I didn’t think yall let mixx out of towers to interact w/ our frenemies.

irishhaf.1692:

All that said, AR has always been a class act in my memory and the rest of us should remember that and not let a few poor winners ruin the reputation of a good server.

there’s really no excuse for poor sportsmanship. Its always better to play against servers who can keep it fun even when they’re winning… obviously we haven’t won (first) in a long time (and still havent won anything)… but yea, we probably need to keep the “omg we’re winning…” excitement / amazement ( / gloating even) to our own forums cause it just doesn’t look too good to anybody else here.

and on that note, here’s a turtle:

Crunk n monkey.3749:

HeNnAz.8913:

superior tactics? I don’t know about that but this 600PPT is really beginning to confuse me? Maybe we do indeed have some superior tactics!

Or we just gave the hell up. Getting kicked so many times tends to send the PvE’ers back to the Living Story.

AR knows that feel bro (been there a while).

please excuse our giddiness in anticipation of winning for the first time in 10 months, like a 5yr old in december anticipating lots of presents. gom and dr have been tough opponents. gom has stuck in there throughout the season, dr has surprised me in this matchup at how much you’ve brought it. the difference between this matchup and last has been night and day, you’ve really stepped up your game (noticed TLoT over there last night, sup y’all).

I can see that there’s no motivation to stick it out and fight (you get 5th regardless of if you take 2nd or 3rd this matchup), but we’ve constantly hit gom to try and take a lead just because we knew how you can field numbers to come and reclaim 1st, and we really really wanted it this week, but maybe if we can stretch that out a bit we can get back to our open field bag farming that’s been so much fun thus far…

yea i did, but it ended up crashing anet’s intertubes, not displaying right, being waaaaay too big (displayed full size instead of thumbnail when renamed), so… i yielded. i know when i’m beaten, break out the fireworks.