EDIT: Only an engineer would decide to use their mortar to HEAL people and then decide that “Healing” means covering allies in goo.
Seeing as how they tie your WvW rewards (gift of battle, WvW equipment) to badges then everyone should have a good means of getting them. I don’t think that farming JP for badges is the solution to the problem. The only offset would be to add badges to mission completion. The Veteran Overseers for Supply Camps drop 2 badges on death if you hit them hard enough. I would just take it one step further and let people get badges for completing supply depot or higher events. So long as you participated then you get rewarded.
I just started WvW in December after reaching 80 on SoR. I have to say I’m surprised at the player hate but I’ve seen it before in other PK games back when “guilds” were called “clans” on text based games.
I think SoR needs to realize that there is no use picking a textual fight with BG or TC through insinuating some type of alliance. TC is doing what TC needs to do against SoR. In order to get 2nd it has to allow BG to take on SoR and while denying supply to SoR. That’s why in EB, I see TC take SoR supply before taking their own supply. Better to deny supply go BG and SoR than just retake their own which they can do fairly effectively.
BG right now has momentum. It has a good playerbase but also the anticipation of going to Tier 1 creates more energy and dedication from new people/returning players. Earlier this month they were winning by a smaller margin than they are now. You could take into account vacations but I’m not sure too much about that. It may be both.
In 30 days I have learned a few things about WvW.
1: Supply Deny is critical and EASY. All you need is 3 people who are mobile and you kill yaks and take depots. Which is why protecting yaks/depots from the small groups is equally as required.
2: If you can’t take a tower in 10 minutes then you are doing something wrong. Taking towers is about speed. Half them time on SoR we don’t have all the seige we need. The more time it takes, the less forces you have to defend and to continue the attack on other towers.
3. The best defense is a good offense. If you are attacking and taking then people have to defend. On SoR we are always on defense most of the time. We need to switch momentum and always be on attack and do it quickly.
The zerg is a beast of another color but ultimately you can work around it. Honestly, if SoR just focus on being coordinated and efficient. It has the numbers to be effective.
Thanks guys! I don’t have as much ram as Nuzt but I do have an i5. I think the video is intel instead of better graphics board. I tried a PC with a decent GPU and it seemed better. Must be the specs on my laptop. I’ll look at more RAM.
Culling aside, I noticed that my machine gets laggy to hell when we zerg. When there’s about 5-6 people it’s fine but I always fall behind when there are 10+. I have a cable modem with 30Mbps so I don’t think it’s a bandwidth problem. PvE is perfectly fine even when running say Balthazaar in Or.
What rigs do people run? I will admit it’s a Laptop so I could be graphics bound but I wanted to hear other people’s thoughts. I do have a PC rig that was decent in 2010 which I could move to but not sure without some input.
Thanks for the assist.
The DE event chain for Arah and the DE event for Melandru Temple are not working on Sanctum of Rall. You can’t guide the lost people back to Meddling and the Temple always remains contested.
1. The rescue of the merchants in Vindar’s lagoon seems bugged.
A. You can’t find the merchants.
B. It never ends either in failure or success. I have seen it go on for 15 minutes with 2 merchants left.
2. Protecting the researchers in Remanda Saltmarsh
A. No waves of enemies ever came over the course of 10 minutes.
B. No dialogue options with the researchers.
Just to add, swindler pants show a glove instead of pants in the inventory panel. This has been reported just wanted to bump it.