Guild Wars 2

ammayhem.5962:

Tseikk.9032:

Before making up new ideas for WvW, remember that they should NOT favor the server with more population! This is another idea that would just make the higher population servers stronger and smaller population servers weaker!

So, until ANet fixes population unbalances i say
HELL NO!

How would it make smaller population servers weaker? Evidence supporting your thesis would greatly help your argument.

Use common sense. One of the only ways for a weaker server to fight a stronger one is to cut their supply lines. This often happens by sniping the dolyak, since the higher population server has (duh…) more people defending the dolyak. Killing the dolyak with even 4 players defending it is quite hard, imagine if the four players could hard ress the dolyak?
Outnumbered fights suck already because of the way hard ressing works. If a group of 5 could survive and defeat people from say a group of 20, 5 of the bigger group will just hard ress the defeated ones even if the small group could stomp them. Naturally applying the hard ress system to dolyaks would hurt smaller servers and make bigger servers stronger.

it’s not my job to think about that. I have some ideas but they would probadly take well over a full post to tell so i won’t go on about that. Fact is that as long as matchups are unbalanced anything that favors the server with more people will just hurt wvw.

Tribio.8531:

Aye, they are just monitoring the forums after sneak-patching something like that.. The first person mentioning it will get banned for previously using the exploit.. Cya later!

oh shi… i uhh saw a player from the ehhh enemy server jump to ogrewatch…

Before making up new ideas for WvW, remember that they should NOT favor the server with more population! This is another idea that would just make the higher population servers stronger and smaller population servers weaker!

So, until ANet fixes population unbalances i say
HELL NO!

Just joking, it isn’t that impactful. Early april fools.

They simply moved the trees next to Ogrewatch a bit so that you can no longer jump in the tower using engineer’s jump shot and rocketboots + slick shoes combo.
Anet isn’t COMPLETELY ignoring WvW after all!

Tricare.2946:

If your buddy is going to be a support guardian I’d say go with condition necro. They make up for everything the necro is missing. And if you’re solo running around on a condi necro is the hardest roaming build with the most potential if you learn to play really well.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hm--IZqqEs8

Neither of you has mobility. If you find a fight you cannot win you won’t be able to run away.
Just saying, necro/guard is a very good combo, but it requires the guard to play a very specific build and use skills right when needed. Stability is a must, as well as swiftness (guard doesnt have ms signet and necro needs all 3 utilities for other stuff) so the guard’s best bet is running shouts. On the other hand, sometimes removing a necro’s condis can be bad for him, for example if he’s about to heal or transfer the condis.

Thief. P/d dire thief is one of the only builds that can handle heavily outnumbered situations well. Other builds like that are hard-countered by certain other meta specs. Dire thief is countered only by condi necro, but you rarely see those nowadays with all these rangers running around.

Wanderer.3248:

Tseikk.9032:

Fact is population needs to be nerfed. I don’t even care how it would be done, but seeing some servers can afford having 10 man dolyak defending squads it’s quite ridiculous.

I’ve never seen that happen even when all maps were queued.

And a ten person yak escort sounds like ten bags waiting to drop.

Ten bags for who? Did you mean my nonexistent zerg (whole eb was blue a few days ago… again.) or were you assuming that escorting a dolyak means a group of 10 is so bad it only takes one roamer to kill them?

What Dayra said.

They could’ve buffed off hand axe too though

Thieves are the only good class for solo roaming. others will get zerged down by immob spam/are low mobility/are countered by thieves

Fact is population needs to be nerfed. I don’t even care how it would be done, but seeing some servers can afford having 10 man dolyak defending squads it’s quite ridiculous.

bloodletting wolf.2837:

Tseikk.9032:

bloodletting wolf.2837:

Signed, A tower defender

I knew it.

You forgot so add

Signed, A ktraining zergling

Signed, a solo roamer.

bloodletting wolf.2837:

Signed, A tower defender

I knew it.

bloodletting wolf.2837:

oneply.9586:

bloodletting wolf.2837:

So you are mad that you had to fight more than npc’s? White swords are there to bring the fights to you. If you don’t want white swords on a camp stack might and cap it before they pop.

idk about the person you quoted but white swords bring the zerg, not a small group. there was also more scouts and roaming groups during no white swords, which made small scale fights more common.

That’s funny my experience is that there where less small scale fights and more ktrain blobbing with the sneak attack event. I don’t know what tier you are in but zergs don’t generally show up to swords on a camp and if they do you lead them on a merry chase half way across the map wasting their time. I will repeat this one more time – stack might before you enter the camp and cap it before they pop.

Fully upgraded camp took me around a minute to cap, which i consider very quick. Their “zerg” did not appear, but instead, around 10 people came. That’s more than enough to fend off a solo roamer. Worse than that it doesn’t even help my server that much if they decide to chase me since we were already outnumbered and lost our keep and towers, while they were steamrolling around with 9 times more people.

Imagine if each server could only have a set amount of players on the map. Stacked servers would sort out and individual skill would mean more than having high population.
But oh well, transfers are the only thing that anet makes money with wvw.

This. This so much.
Just tried to cap a camp from gandara – Once i had cleared the t2 camp guards, which i did quite quickly, a steady stream of gandarans started flowing in from all directions. What happened after that is they built a superior ac to the camp and left two people to guard it.
Bullkitten. During sneak attack i could very well play four to five hours a day. Today’s gaming session was twenty minutes, I logged out after that.

Sariel V.7024:

If this gets to be a daily thing, methinks you’re courting a suspension.

it’s just a joke about how often this kind of threads are encountered just like my daily skyhammer rage post i did before skyhammer got nerfed

Lethal Njection.8741:

Wait…….you don’t automatically get two chests boxes on first kill?!?!?

LOL I must be extremely luckyDDD

kitten YOU

Me: 17th vinewrath down, 1 carapace chestpiece box
My friend: second vinewrath down, 2 carapace chestpiece boxes

RNG SUCKS WTF OMG WWF BBQ ADHD

rlly, just make the vinewrath give tokens or something for every kill, this is just ridiculous and makes me not want to play the game

I agree with Cygnus here. Tactics is worse than defense by far for a condi warr. also sigil of frailty is a really cheap and good choice for a cover condi, better than on my mark.

Also all “sustain” a warrior needs comes from the healing signet.
But whatever you want to run is your choice – i would rather fight an enemy with no cleansing ire and healing shouts though!

And no, sigil of fraily is a on hit sigil, no crit needed.

They’re OP at what they do, just like guardians and warriors are “OP” in a zerg. Being a nuisance for anyone roaming solo.
I mean it. Their build is CREATED for 1v1’s, like really only for 1v1’s. Almost everywhere else a perplex p/d thief sucks. A meditation guard can be useful in almost any scenario where a thief like this simply becomes useless when there are more than 5 people with brains together.

You don’t have to beat them, they “just happen” to do well against every single solo player and build except good necromancers. A decent p/d thief will win or run away from every 1v1 they encounter. You can’t surprise burst them down either, they’ve got 20k hp and 3,2k armor.

I do not suggest you to try to tweak your guardian build in attempt to make yourself stand a chance against these guys, the best that can happen is you scare that thief off untill he resets combat and then he’ll come back and be more careful. Worst case you’ll just hurt your build too much and won’t be able to kill anything anymore. The best you can do without weakening the build is to run that -36% condi duration food over other foods.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQRAse5cjMdUFaZImdwJagegC5NEDGDglWdbEHhPA-TVSGABAoEE6TAQuHEgAOCAhofo39HgR9nCeAALp8jQAKmDA-w

My current build (though i have reaper of grenth as elite) Doing very well against all these engineers/longbow rangers/p/d thieves. Seriously the projectile deflect on block is sooo underrated.

Keep in mind that these changes should not favor higher population servers. Thus power creep, like new upgrades(t3 towers are enough, pls no t3 camps!), should not be implemented just for the sake of it.

From a solo roamer’s perspective this idea is horrible and would probadly keep me out of WvW for as long as the the thing is active.

Only letting outmanned servers use the disabler is actually a pretty good idea

Perplex runes are actually pretty balanced at the moment imo.
What makes stuff unbalanced is the ********* +-40% condi duration food (which should not exist)

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

The one time I have killed the Grub, it took at least twenty people half an hour to kill it.

How the heck? I mean, i was bored one day and i soloed it on my roaming condi thief. Took maybe 10-15 minutes.
That thing must have really horrible scaling.

seriously! there’s no difference if everyone gets rewarded equally or everyone just abuses the broken spectate system to change teams.

Also “it’s just hotjoin” is NOT A kittenING REASON to have a broken kitten mechanic that promotes leaving your team!

To be honest that sounds pretty kitten cool lol :P
When i did map completion it was pretty boring since i just wrecked everything on my zerker ele, if anet made it so that higher levels would get swarmed in low level areas… It wouldn’t only make exploring low level zones much less of a drag than they were when i explored then, but would also give people reason to move out of Orr (more enemies = more loot!)
Besides, whats cooler than fighting multiple opponents at once while the newbies next to you look at you amazed?

Well, i guess i didn’t really answer the question though. I doubt it would be normal, maybe you were fighting enemies from a group event or something?

I’m looking forward to see the complete video. Maybe it’ll bring my friends who quit the game ages ago back to try out wvw for 10 mins?

I solo roam a lot, server is piken square ^^ i haven’t spotted other solo roamers for ages though (apart from some clueless invader rank ranger lol), i think they’ve all gone to obsidian sanctum for fair duels or something

the uplevel unfriendlyness sadly exists in most servers just becasue the enemies can kill you to get rallies easier :c

how long till this thread is locked too and everybody gets infracted?

what if i don’t enjoy getting stomped by the same premade team again and again? (i actually did play soloteamq some time ago)

who has informed you to fill in false reports? i’m not botting

too bad i’m doing nothing you could punish me for

from this moment on i will afk every single skyhammer that comes up in soloque as protest. i’m so sick of engineers/necros speccing for this very map and knockbacking/fearing everyone and instantly killing.

We were in a match with an afk that has been reported MANY times before and nothing has happened

You worded your forum post a bit better… i think mine’s getting closed soon

Get the guard stacks first

neonreaper.4805:

always spike thieves

Doesn’t the duel usually end in one of the duelers being downed? Like, not finishing

So this is like minion master, but for thief and actually seems to require more than half a brain to use? Definitely going to try this out

Uhh… is there something i did wrong?

I went there to duel people, and that’s what happened at first. I went to a pistol whip thief who apparently agreed to duel me since both of us backed up and bowed to each other. Everything seems to start as supposed… no?

Now the fight was tough but i managed to down him. After that his friend revives him, but they both attack me, finish me and jump on my corpse? Is there something i did wrong, or why did this guy act like a fine dude with manners but after losing loses his mind?

Yes. Would fix this kittened linen price and make ppl that dont play 8 hours a day able to obtain ascended armor before they have a white beard…

What about making Frenzy, Elixir U, Quickening zephyr and haste receive the superspeed boon that doubles your movement speed too, the one you get from engi with kit refinement trait and from ele trait one with air?

Usually when a team is winning players decide to stack on that team, leaving the team with say 50 points less almost unable to win. You shouldn’t be able to switch to a team winning with 25 or more points, especially not using this “spectate-wait for autobalance-take a poor players place in winning team and get credit” trick, which everyone in hotjoin is already abusing the kitten of.

Okay thank you for the answers

1)When is season 2 starting again? I thought it was meant to start last patch ;P
2) how long are there free transfers?
3) are we getting acc bound wxp before start of season 2?

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Moshari.8570:

JustTrogdor.7892:

Look, you were given a window to spend heirlooms. It was advertised and promoted in the last week. Just because you were or were not thinking about what to spend them on does not matter. You didn’t spend them within that window, sorry you lose out.

“Advertised and promoted” would imply that they put it out there everywhere so that no one would miss it, rather than a single post in the “news and announcements” section of the forum. Had they placed it in the Login section of the game, I would have seen it. Had they done an in-game email, I would have seen it. Had they made an announcement in ALL of the relevant forums (such as this one and the living story one, and the general game one) I would have seen it. And had they done all of that advertising and promotion…I would be right there with you agreeing with you 100% But I feel that if I missed it….and I visit the forums at least once every other day, I read every announcement on the login screen (even about gem-store items), I read every in-game mail and actually talk to vendors and surrounding people…If I missed it…then there were a TON of people that never saw it at all.

I would not call what they did “Advertised and promoted”…..I would call it “Mentioned”. SO you cannot blame people for missing it and simply say “it was out there”

That reminds me of “hitchhikers guide to the galaxy” when they are destroying the earth to make a new transgalactic highway and the humans are saying “WTF??” and the aliens simply say…“Hey, the form was filed with the galactic central office, it was located, on display in subbasement 57 of the galactic central offices. Its not our fault you did not have the means to travel between the stars to go and see it.”

Bookmark the following link in your browser. That way you don’t miss updates:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news

What about people that don’t read forums, for example my friend that plays ~4 hours every 2 months and got his belongings he farmed with me made worthless?

Wanze.8410:

Tseikk.9032:

Wanze.8410:

Tseikk.9032:

Wanze.8410:

Tseikk.9032:

kokiman.2364:

Tseikk.9032:

Oh, and why is sonder the seller trading stuff like candy corn?

Because you can still get candy corn and it is tradeable?

HMM? WHAT ABOUT THE FORTUNE SCRAPS THEN
edit: ACCOUNT BOUND, CANT BE GOTTEN ANYMORE FROM ANYWHERE.

Fortune scraps still drop from kite fortunes, if you have some left. Even though Kite Fortunes arent obtainable anymore, there was an incentive to not consume them all before their LS Event ended because they give you a random Boost.

Bag of scarlet alliance supplies still drop belongings if you have some left. They also might contain rare minis or perma quaggan tonics so it might be worth it to wait without opening them if you get lucky. If not for anything else, for saving inventory space.

Minis stack up to 250 in the collectible tab. If you want to save inventory space, just delete your heirlooms and belongings because they are worthless now.
You could have opened all your supply bags before the patch ended and listed your rare quaggan tonic at a higher price without loosing space to either bags or tonics.

I hope you understand now, why fortune scraps are still tradeable with Sonder and heirlooms are not.

Quaggan tonics do not stack and they do not have a bank tab. I also would not have wanted to list it at any price, i have no idea how high they could potentially rise. What if i sold it for 10g if it was 100g the day after?

So you want Anet to make extra NPCs everytime you cant decide on a price to sell your items for or running out of inventory space?

No thank you, extra tab for sonder the seller is enough.