Guild Wars 2

Sororita.3465:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

Sororita.3465:

i like how their steal fear is almost double the length of a necros….

Still run the perplexity gun slinger? Ran into quite the few, they all die in the end.

Nope. I bought those runes specifically to make two very silly videos, then salvaged and put them back on the tp right after. I just don’t find condi builds very fun to play, even on my necro. :/

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

As a Necro the extra long Fear they steal from me is much more annoying x,x. Still, I wouldn’t exactly call it OP. Only because multiple other professions have multiple dazes and stuns at their disposal as is. Maybe if it were something more unique to the Thief, but because a Warrior for example, can chain stun me until next Tuesday can’t say this Bone Crack ability needs to be removed.
Still though… Dat Fear… Traited to have 50% Fear duration increase, and with runes of the Necromancer, I’m only JUST getting Fear’s as long as the ones they steal from me | :

The Skull Fear we steal from necros is actually more like a warrior’s “Fear Me!” shout. The duration is based on distance from target, however the stolen version is extremely telegraphed and can be dodged while the warrior’s version is instant.

So while Skull Fear is a pretty useful (although, situational) stolen skill, it’s got several ways to counterplay it: condition cleansing, stunbreakers, dodging, interrupting during the channel (look for the thief to raise his hand up in the air for about half a second). I think even blocking skills and aegis prevent it from hitting.

Mattargul.9235:

Stick, meet dead horse. Dead horse, stick. Commence beating.

Several threads have been over this. ANet would have to be blind not to have seen any of them, though I don’t recall any dev ever chiming in.

My favorite solution would be to simply split the day in to 4, 6 or 8 hour blocks and compute score at end of block. This way your NAs can all play against each other, same for OCX, EU, etc. Some overlap, people with more time can play other blocks, too. Some blocks may still be blowouts, but it’d affect a smaller percentage of a servers WvW population vs now having the whole servers week long work undone overnight.

Yup. I posted an idea similar to this last season. If the score only ticks once every 6 hours instead of every 15 minutes, you’d have much more meaningful fights and matchup scores. The “downtime” would still relevant, though, because it would be spent jockeying for map position and upgrades leading up to each score tick.

It wouldn’t completely fix the coverage issue, but at least servers would be able to consolidate their efforts around more manageable scoring intervals.

I think the proper way to handle things would be to make individual rewards tied solely to participation (achievements) while giving the winning servers some form of in-game prestige. Maybe a statue or plaque in Lion’s Arch (or whatever the hub city is now) that displays a list of season champions, or add those server names to the lore/game dialogue… basically, something that places emphasis on server pride and encourages players to be emotionally invested in their chosen homes as the game evolves.

Right now, it’s just a mad dash of transfers in search of shineys. Or a cash grab, depending on your point of view.

Sororita.3465:

i like how their steal fear is almost double the length of a necros….

the sober ninja.6539:

When theives steal they get skills based on the profession that they’re stealing from. If a thief steals to an NPC (like a vet ogre), they have a chance to get other skills. One of these skills is Bone Crack. It STUNS (not daze like thieves from guards) for 3 seconds, which is a long time. I play thief and I think this is way too OP for an environment where PvP happens.

To put it into perspective, this stun has twice as long a duration (and a 1/4 sec cast) as Basilisk Venom, which is an elite skill.

TBH I’m suprised it has lasted this long. I think the best solution would be to make it so you can only steal certain skills in WvW (only the ones we get from players), even from ogres and other PvE.

Thoughts?

You could always bring along a stun breaker to deal with it.

A single-use, 3-second stun attack is nowhere near as powerful as the many spammable and stackable immobilizes/conditions or chainable hard cc you’ll run into frequently in WvW.

highlandria.7941:

how is seasons looking so far for the lower tiers?

Zergy as all hell, but that’s to be expected at the beginning of a season.

Bumping for new official Anvil Rock Season 2 logo!

clint.5681:

If anyone wants to know where the mlgpro420blazitesports players are, they are on SF, so come join us.

#esports

get 360noscoped u filthy casul

#RaiseYourZergers

#UnNerfFireworks2014

Of course I’d like to see GoM win it, but I think it’s too early to call us the favorite. Every team in bronze has talented squads that can terrorize any potential matchup. Once activity picks up for leagues and the herds of achievement hunters are unleashed, it’s really anyone’s game.

As long as everyone is fighting their kittens off, I’m happy wherever we place. Bronze league is best league.

Fortus.6175:

GoM shot itself in the foot, despite warning; we proceeded to try-hard and thus we went up in rank, and thus we felt into a 800 gem category, which nobody would pay 800 gems to go to an already low server. Regardless, the WvW community has restarted to rebuild, we have a [not so recent] return and transfers of new guilds, some of them small but organized. Right now we are just looking for coverag since we are all aware that it is night coverage what wins games.

We don’t tank, even if it means passing on an opportunity for free transfers. There’s plenty of servers in need and trying to skirt the system just wrecks things for everyone.

How to roam:
Step 1: Find a friendly zerg.
Step 2: Switch to another map.

But seriously, Dee Jay covered the basics. You’re mostly going to be picking off stragglers and dolyaks, tapping on towers/keeps, flipping camps, etc. If you want to roam while still purposefully contributing to your server’s overall WvW strategy, look for situations where your zerg is fighting another zerg, then go camp the route between the enemy’s spawn point and the location of the battle so you can pick off enemy players running back to the fight. If you’re in a small group, look to cause some noise on the opposite side of the map that a friendly commander is working on to split the enemy’s attention or ninja some objectives if possible.

How about you keep your 2400 gems and stop trying to break our quality of life on lower tiers so you can get a stupid weapon skin?

At this rate, HoD might get even bigger than VLK’s mama. She’s so fat she puts on a white sheet for Halloween and goes out as Antarctica.

Sir Vincent III.1286:

Heh, can you imagine having 200 power for 30s only because you triggered an anti-stealth trap?

lol, the tears of the QQ are sweet. This is so going to get nerfed.

I didn’t even think about that. LOL

evilapprentice.6379:

Acro : Laughable Garbage – as someone already said, who in their right mind decided to tie the effect to revealed? Acro is the defensive tree you go into when you want survivability outside of stealth. Why isn’t it an effect (not necessarily the same effect mind you) tied to DODGING?

Exactly. Acro 30 should be some type of condi-removal on dodge (REAL conditions, not like that crappy Fleet of Foot trait).

The trait line usually reserved for stealthless builds gets a GM trait that requires stealth.

Anet is straight-up trolling at this point.

I’m actually pretty hyped about this feature patch, but for all the wrong reasons. Anet has struggled with class balance thus far and their history of play-testing before implementing has been way less than stellar. I can’t wait to see what kind of kitten they break by dropping 40 NEW TRAITS in one day.

The first couple of weeks after this patch will be comedic gold.

Nuzt.7894:

Great people on GoM, can’t wait to get a crack at you during seasons the battles will be glorious for all.

I anxiously await more of AR’s amazing drawings!

Seconding the Bandicam suggestion. It’s way lighter on your system than Fraps is, and the quality is great. Definitely give the free version a try (limitations: 10-minute video length + watermark). I liked it so much I ended up getting a commercial license for it.

Dxtory is another good option out there. I haven’t used it personally, but it’s quite a popular choice amongst streamers and content creators in the Smite community. The website can be found here.

Jamais vu.5284:

You will find organized hardcore guilds of equal capability on both ends of the ladder and all in between, but the upper servers simply got more of them, which leads to a raised overall player/zerg skill.

So, more people means higher tier. Got it.

SniffyCube.6107:

GoM, we drew you a picture

<3 from Anvil Rock

I’m going to print that picture out and hang it on my fridge. <3

Aomine.5012:

Monsteratic.5487:

NotKalkz.1286:

2- Pug commanders do work and efforts and carry servers more than guilds
…
6-Anet (PVE>PVE>PVE>PVE>Spvp>dungons>scarlet>quaggans>WvW)

So true!

Dont make me laugh .

The order is LS>Scarlet > PVE >Quaggan> Dgns > WVW >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> SPVP.
If you don’t agree with me, clearly you rarely play SPVP at all.

Let’s see which mode gets more dev attention, at least on the forums. Count the red posts.

Heizero.9183:

Has GoM gotten a lot of transfers? Or are the other servers in taht tier just losing population? When I was on GoM WvW was nearing extinction on that server.

The only recent transfers we got is the handful of RISE members that came back from an extended vacation on SBI. I think the population discrepancy is just a combination of the other servers losing people and/or general disinterest in WvW until the season starts.

Reslinal.2359:

I’m actually curious do lower tier severs (besides tier 2) have the ts organization to facilitate constant across map communication and force movements between commanders in all maps? I know BG certainly did not have this level of communication until entering t1 for some time. Also it’s my impression bloodlust area is completely abandoned in lower tiers? I know in t1 controlling bloodlust is a top priority, not sure what it is like in lower tiers? What about scouting, to what extend are they practiced? Genuinely interested here.

Yes, there’s server-wide TS communication, planning, and scouting here in the lower tiers. However, since each server’s coverage can vary dramatically, people tend to only play in tryhard-mode on the weekends. Usually servers have one “large” group (about 30-50 primetime) that hops from map to map making quick strikes at weak points, and then a handful of skirmish/roaming guilds coordinating to stir things up in order to disguise the movements of the larger group. The object here really isn’t about PPT, it’s about putting waypoints in your opponents’ keeps.

Then once the weekend ends, the focus shifts away from trying to out-smart your opponents over objectives and becomes much more fight-oriented. The larger groups actively seek out the other larger groups, skirmish groups go after skirmish groups, and so on. Scouting and defending still happen, but there’s much less emphasis on the scoreboard and more on trying to get some big epic battle going. Bloodlust control is mainly used for attracting attention away from elsewhere, or for after you’ve successfully locked down a map. Most of the time, though, everyone seems to be comfortable just having their own bloodlust buff and letting the enemies have theirs.

tl;dr: Server-wide communication, planning, and even weekly strategy meetings exist in the low tiers, but simply on a smaller scale and with different purpose than upper tiers. The scoreboard holds little-to-no importance here (excluding seasons) and there’s a healthy balance between playing hard for objectives, looking for good fights, and goofing around (gvgs, dueling, quaggan parties, etc) over the course of a matchup. One benefit to having less people is that we can usually recognize each other pretty easily and have some interesting cross-server rivalries/friendships.

Junkpile.7439:

Suxen.8574:

2 League

Anet does not know create good rewards. They does not value the effort.
PVE rewards are much better than those of WvW, with less effort.

In WvW, we want EXCLUSIVE rewards for the first three Servers.

If my server wins the League we want to have a exclusive weapon design and an exclusive FINISHER PERMANENT.
and no one should ever be able to get it, even from PVE (forge mystic, …)

We want something that differentiates us from others.
I would like to say: “I was there and we won” and you… not. Look at my Finisher!, Look at my weapon!

9 week, 24 hour = great effort. Anet, value it!

This and if you play well you should have cooler gear and items than player who play badly. If you kill 250k players you should have some ultimate zergling armor set and if you kill lot’s of enemies while roaming you should get some cool armor too. Now they just give same rewards thousand and thousand players. Probably cool wear some item when everyone in server use it too.

I’d support this idea if the exclusive armor set literally looked like a zergling.

Nuzt.7894:

I’m not sure which servers your saying are “trying to tank” ? Ranking looks about what they have been looking like for the last couple months with the exception of Ebay whom I would say is suffering what many of us have already expierenced which is a mass exodus.

There was some pretty notable (and vocal) tanking in season 1.

I think what he’s saying is that having the pricing structure announced before the server positions are locked in allows the potential for further abuse.

PariahX.6970:

zen.6091:

Regardless, the chance to avoid gold league blobs, queues, and lag for 0 gems is intriguing.

Color me intrigued indeed If TW had stayed on SoR with the loyalists I would even have considered paying to transfer there to what will now undoubtedly be a very tight community. Wish I knew more about some of the lower tiers competition and community personalities but I guess that is what we suddenly have all these world type threads for.

Well, if you’d like to get to know some of the lower tier servers better, please feel free to drop by one of our weekly matchup threads to see when gvgs, fight nights, and other cross-server events are scheduled.

Oh… that’s right. Matchup threads are the devil.

Naz.2607:

Seigfried.5938:

Fuzzion.2504:

You must be new.

Everyone moved to gw2wvw.net for matchup stuff.

Hahaha that site is a joke! Everyone certainly did not move there. It’s just a handful of trolls trolling eachother.

Hence the closing of the official match up threads….

The sPvP forums are way more toxic and are still open. Also, you can chat freely with enemies in-game in sPvP, which is an option many WvW’ers wish they could have. For whatever reason, WvW is the only game mode that gets censored so heavily here and in-game.

Ynot.8397:

Banzie.5248:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

We duo’d ET’s bay keep last night, then were in the process of duo’ing ET’s hills keep before one guy showed up and managed to make us reset the lord room. There were no other players from any servers (including ours) running on that map.

This was less than an hour past NA primetime (around 10:30pm CST), by the way.

As much as I’d love to protect the awesome small fights we get in the lower tiers, the time window for any actual gameplay is limited to just about 2-3 hours per night and then just completely shuts off. We NEED mergers at this point.

We love you long time taquito. Join the bunses in the glory of IoJ!

Taquito doesn’t even steam anymore. He is lame now!

I’m actually planning to start streaming again very soon, with a fancy-schmancy schedule and everything. But I probably won’t be streaming THIS game. :P

And sorry Banzie, I think I’ll pass on joining the buns crew.

We duo’d ET’s bay keep last night, then were in the process of duo’ing ET’s hills keep before one guy showed up and managed to make us reset the lord room. There were no other players from any servers (including ours) running on that map.

This was less than an hour past NA primetime (around 10:30pm CST), by the way.

As much as I’d love to protect the awesome small fights we get in the lower tiers, the time window for any actual gameplay is limited to just about 2-3 hours per night and then just completely shuts off. We NEED mergers at this point.

We tested this already and discovered that the main hand weapon was completely unnecessary. The internal cooldown nerf did help out a bit, though.

http://youtu.be/umKuvv_d-4o

“We want some balance,”
the masses cried out online.
“Nope. We’ll nerf fireworks.”

Kayzi.9752:

For destroying unorganized zergs: two support guards, two zerker well necros, with lich form, and an aura sharing ele. We don’t run it that often, but when we do we consistently wipe groups 4 – 6 times our size. Proof is in the sig.

All I see is a bunch of SPCA meanies preventing some poor, helpless SF PvErs from getting the grub’s loot chest. My heart goes out to the victims of this terrible tragedy. Killing people in a pvp zone is just rude.

Why’s it gotta be black quaggan tonics?

random fall damage
while climbing carver’s ascent
works as intended

Yes.

A few months ago, I’d have said no, but population seems to have declined dramatically on GoM and the servers we’ve played against recently. At least at the time of day I play, there’s no point in even logging in for 3 or 4 days a week.

He’s playing engi. I am disappoint.

P/P is viable, but you have to put in the work to make them so. If you want to play on easy mode, pick something else.

Galsia.4102:

aLovedhater.4096:

I don’t really want to read the whole thing, but it wasnt a lucky hs ^^ i know how to fight a mesmer, don’t worry bud. it was an easy fight and i didnt take it seriously

Well, I tried offering constructive criticism.

I guess I’ll just go with my initial un-filtered impression: Please don’t shame D/P any more than you already have with that awful gameplay.

It wasn’t a wasted effort. I don’t play any builds even remotely close to what the OP uses and I still enjoyed reading your analysis while scrolling through the video.

+1

RedSpectrum.1975:

SoLeciTO.3490:

This is what i feel when i see our thief community.

It’s not that we feel pro, I acknowledge I’m giving myself an unfair advantage. It just feels right. D/D is our iconic weaponset. That and Im a human being so naturally I dislike what everyone else likes like Flappy Bird, D/P, Nutella, and Pewdiepie

I was with you until you said you dislike Nutella.
Get the pitchforks, boys.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Vavume.8065:

Ragnar.4257:

Does this mean that the Ruins and Bloodlust are a waste of real estate? Could they be put to a better use? Or is my experience of it, in EU T2-T4 not reflected in other tiers/regions?

I think is is a waste of space yes, I would even rather see the krait come back than have these ruins. The whole middle section now just feels completely different from the rest of the border in the sense that you almost feel you are in spvp rather than wvw, this creates an immersion break for me, and makes the border feel like its wearing odd socks.

100% this. Unfortunately, this looks like the style of maps we’re going to be getting here on out — EoTM is very similar (except worse, IMO).

Has anyone ever built the siege in there?

Yeah, we sometimes build cats/trebs in Hollow (Briar) and Ascent (Lake). Both spots are decent for small-group sieges against moderately defended towers because there are some good choke points to use if the enemy tries to push back.

I’m not sure if they ever got around to fixing it, but I used to use it a ton when I was solo roaming with PPT as my goal. The thief it summons appears next to you wherever you are regardless of where you set the trap, so I would place it at a camp or road (or any other landmark) while I went to scout elsewhere around the map. If someone triggered the trap, the thief would pop up and I would alert our zerg squad of the location it triggered. It was also incredibly useful to use as an alarm system whenever we’d try to ninja objectives.

I haven’t used it in ages, though, so they might’ve changed that functionality in one of the recent patches. They have a tendency to patch away all the strategically-useful stuff.

We have Aussies. They spend most of their time running around as quaggans.

alvinjason.3109:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

This is my dream WvW map. Let’s make invasions a real thing.

I do want an ascalonian tileset and off topic im interested in your pistol thief

Sure, send me a forum message and I’ll be glad to help out.

This is my dream WvW map. Let’s make invasions a real thing.

I was there and witnessed the whole thing. The commander called for everyone to stack up and then they all activated rams.exe on your gates, sometimes up to as many as four times per gate. This happened multiple times throughout the night on several of the maps, even our own.

This must be reported to IGN immediately! I’d offer to help you out in-game, but DH has accused me of using aimbot before, so my reputation may be a little sullied.

cortin.9174:

Speaking as someone who recently moved to a tier 1 server, that $25 was the best $25 I’ve spent in entertainment in awhile. For me it was either spend $25 to server transfer, or quit the game. I was having fun in WvW, when the server had good WvW participation and good leadership. But ever since some guilds transferred off, it just hasn’t been fun for at least a couple of weeks straight. Of course all these server transfers just entices Anet to not fix these coverage/participation/imbalance issues with WvW.

Highlighted the important part.

I’m glad you’re enjoying a better gameplay experience, but every person that pays a transfer fee is basically just agreeing with Anet’s “Pay us or get kittened” stance on WvW.