Guild Wars 2

Manoa.5897:

Ungood.3054:

Manoa.5897:

I feel this video sums it up nicely. Methinks ANet’s WvW development team needs to walk down the hall and have a nice little chat with one of their company’s level artists.

http://youtu.be/fOdgQbZW2Xo

That was a cool video! Thank you!

Anytime! I stumbled upon it during the Mad King Jumping Puzzle outcry and love it.

Also, I feel the need to point out that the Sisyphean task should be the opponents, not the rating system itself.

SF is certainly the Sisyphean task for ET and FC, who have used the insurmountable odds and risk of failure to learn, grow and develop their strategies. (ET especially…seriously, hats off to ET for their defensive siege, I’m taking notes ). And there’s a pride of accomplishment when they overcome all odds to take an objective.

But for SF, the Sisyphean task (and our real enemy) is the rating system itself, not our WvW opponents. When the rating system is our Sisyphean task, there’s no risk for failure, no opportunity to learn, develop and grow. And no sense of accomplishment when we curbsomp the opposition for yet another week. Just frustration when our rating stagnates or backslides. With such stagnation and lack of challenge, people grow bored and seek out new challenges (either in PvE or in other servers).

Please know that this post isn’t intended to be a “poor pity us, the curbstompin’ winners.” But to illustrate the problem when you shift the Sisyphean task from WvW opponents to the rating system itself with the hope that any ArenaNet folks who may be reading understand why a certain level of volatility in the rating system is really needed.

Not to be an “I told you so” type of person, but, I did try to explain this to you (Maybe not you specifically, but your side) about a month ago when I saw the problem looming, and was attacked for “making you feel bad about winning”

Manoa.5897:

I feel this video sums it up nicely. Methinks ANet’s WvW development team needs to walk down the hall and have a nice little chat with one of their company’s level artists.

http://youtu.be/fOdgQbZW2Xo

That was a cool video! Thank you!

Jeknar.6184:

Too bad that only 3 hours later everything is back to green… Oh well… At least were back on 2nd.

At first I had no idea that you posted a score in that image. You sir are gifted at the art of taking a screen shot.

Anyone with a competitive spirit would not want to be comfortable. Comfort breeds boredom, like doing a dungeon a hundred times, after a while, it becomes stale and stagnant, and you want to move on to something more, something new, something challenging.

That is why games put out new content all the time, that is why gamers want new content, or new games, or something to work for. They don’t want tedium to set in, hence why we play games.

And a gamer that wants to play competitive games, like WvWvW or PvP, while may enjoy the noob stomp from time to time, what really pulls a player into WvWvW is the hard fights, the tight fights, and the times when you bust though the wall and all chaos breaks loose.

Those are the moments that pull you back to the field. If you were just looking for.. what’s the disparity? Like a 2% variance between 1st and 3rd for WvWvW buffs?

Any PvE’er who would pick a server based on that, I think missed the wagon on what to look for in a server.

Eternalight.4708:

Brendar.3548:

Glicko is dumb, and broken. SF would have to 695ppt the entire week if they are to move up to T7, or HoD has a real bad week, and never has more than 5ppt.

It’s by all means not a solution but, what if SF was left to hum along at +695 for a few days or longer if it meant SF would leave T8. How much rating points would be gained?

Although SF may get out in that case, it would only doom red in T7 & likely be the next SF2.0.

This is a good point.

There are 2 outcomes.

• If whoever comes down is a good match then all things are rain drops and cany canes, everyone ends up happy with battles and even fights galore, thus everyone wins. Sort to speak.

• If whoever comes down provides nothing but a blow out, then not only is T8 back t where it was before, whoever came down would get stuck here, because how low the point ratings would have had to drop for ET and FC for SF to pull out.

The first one is what everyone wants. The second one is what everyone but T6 is getting.

Kudos to FC, you guys pulled ahead today, and the SF borderlands were a lovely shade of RED. LOL! Good show guys

I’ve said the same things, just not as verbose as you.

TL;DR:

• WvWvW should have it’s own Servers that are made of teams.

In simple terms, it is called “Guild Wars” not World Wars, so WvWvW and large team make up should be just that, guild owned and run, or alliance type of deals, where several guilds can purchase a “Server Team” and then name it.

That way, we can go from 24 teams, to potentially hundreds of teams. Which would result in better match ups. It would also require the people who wanted to be on teams to be part of the guild that hosted the world. While easier then World Transfers, it would put a human (The Guild Leader and Officers) in charge of how their team is handled, so it would be a bit more controlled. Nor could large groups just jump between teams.

• WvWvW Needs Better Gear Options.

My idea was for each point on the map to reward a unique token to it’s type, IE: Camp Token, Keep Token, Tower Token, Etc.

And then those tokens could be turned in for better, exotic, armors that looked more “World vs World” styled, a bit more “hard core” Siege style. With both Level Appropriate Styles (camp-20, Tower-40, Keep-60) and an “Exotic” option.

Not to mention weapons should be put in as well, same system as above, with levels, and styles.

Also have the tokens be able to be turned in for siege items and other gear.

• WvWvW Should offer varying maps as opposed to the same old same old. So even if you have the same teams, at least Something changes each week.

Not much to say here. Just make additional theme maps, or whatever.

Cosmos The Cat.2954:

Merge NA/EU servers together, have 17 tiers.

I could get behind this.

Reset the whole thing, start over again, now that free transfers are done with, make 17 tiers, and see what happens.

That really has some cool potential.

fivekiller.1432:

I sometimes feel like the problems with the game are so obvious and easily fixed they just must not want them fixed.

I would be more inclined to think that is more an issues of them refusing to accept that it is broken to begin with.

Detharos.3157:

People will eventually move on to competitors of Guild Wars 2 that offer better systems of simulated war.

I believe the canned response to this would be something along the lines of every game has things like this said, and they are still around.

However, most games have a spike at the start, and then dwindle, mainly because of disenchantment in their player base. You can see this across most games (Not all, just most)

Some games spike really high and then die away just as fast, others dwindle down, this is why game companies put out new games all the time, because previous versions, or their competitors have failed to entertain their player base enough to keep them.

So, when we see that a problem is arising, and it is growing, which is what is happening with WvWvW, and we see that nothing is being said, or done about it, it builds a bad reputation for a company. Now, Anet had a good enough rep to pull the people who played GW1 to GW2, and draw in a whole new barrage of players, 1 million copies sold in fact, it would be a total shame if they let something as silly using a glicko system generate a bad reputation for their company when they have put so much work into making the rest of the game as good as it is (Bugs and all)

or such is my feelings on the matter.

Slamz.5376:

I bet I can log into your server today and look around and find plenty of towers and possibly keeps that have 0-1 defenders. 5 golems and a couple mesmers and I’ll be on your keep lord before you can get 8 other people to show up.

Let see, that is 5 gold, and 500 Supply. So first you need a nice safe spot to build your golems, then you escort your golems to the location. And then you win the fight. Ok. Well, maybe on T8 that would work moving 5 golems without a solid escort, and maybe if you caught the server sleeping, you might not lose any.

At the same time, 16 people (No Orange Swords) I’ll be able be able to run full tilt though the zone, kill anything in the way, and with only 160 Supply and 24 silver, I’ll chew though the door about as fast with 4 flame rams(40 supply and 6 silver each), and have enough people Zerg stomp your keep lord and the 8 defenders you got to show up.

What would be the point of “Fixing” this?

Because in WvWvW it is Siege Warfare, IE: large Groups, storm the castle, that kind of thing. So it’s the theme of WvWvW to be a large group of people to hit an objective, if you wanted small fights, there is sPvP.

Jeknar.6184:

It’s funny when you have like 20 people to try an attack to Klovan (and unfortunely fail), and then you have only 6 people to defend Quentin Lake during the counter attack…
I think people on ET doesn’t like to play defense…

The problem with defending is that they know where you are, and with orange sword requiring 25 people they will never know where we are till it’s too late Evil Laugh

Manoa.5897:

Jeknar.6184:

Also let’s not forget that Devona’s Rest had to win also 8 weeks straight to move out T8.

SF have 7 wins (by large margin) right now… Who knows, maybe you guys magically move this week? “cross fingers”

Anyone have any magic pixie dust laying around?? ’Cause given our evolution history, a rise to T7 looking mighty unlikely without some sort of magical intervention.

If it helps. HoD seems to be dropping hard, looking to go below 1K this past week, so if you guys pick it up a bit, you might be able to jump past them.

And you can’t expect us to roll over and let you go, that would mean you were not worthy to get out. Fight ! Fight Harder! Fight for your Freedom!

FREEDOM!

Venn.7623:

Jeknar.6184:

WildBoy.3562:

I’m tired of being bullied by SF and ET we lose every week and every time we attack something we normally fail. They outnumber us greatly and we always have the outnumbered boon but it gives no help what so ever

ET doesn’t outnumber FC as bad as SF does… I’m sure SF can outnumber ET+FC.
Also until 2 weeks ago your server was better than ET. The only real problem at T8 is SF.

^ SF has the WvW numbers to cover all the maps lol..

How did you get that from what you quoted? No one said that, or even close to it.

All he said was that you out number ET and FC and perhaps out number their combined forces, which I would believe.

Well the week ends.

SF: 322,429 Total Move: -0.122
ET: 159,236 Total Move: 11.833
FC: 127,202 Total Move: -14.276

And while SF has done a much better job this week, then last week, they are still currently 99 points from the lowest T7 server HoD.

So, Beyond ET getting a night/morning crew and doing a great job of securely holding 2nd place, giving them a near 12 point gain, nothing has changed for the servers in T8.

http://mos.millenium.org/matchups/history/24#NA

Khayoss.2019:

It is good to have the option, I had it off for a while. I ended up turning it back on to help targeting in 3 way battles. It’s sometimes better to be able to focus on a specific group first instead of indiscriminate killing.

What I wish you could do is change the nameplate colors to be server specific… that would make my life easier than armor color. If Blue server had blue names floating above their heads, Green had green and Red was something not so mob-like and had that color name that would be a huge help.

I like this idea.

I have Team colors on for everyone when I WvW, because it is just easier to deal with, and I think it makes it easier on my system to not have to render everyone’s color choices.

Kaisareia.1785:

Usually this is the best night of fighting for all sides involved. Not even sure what to say right now with ET getting 75 points per tick, I’ve never seen it this bad on reset night. All I can hope is that people from ET succumbed to my divine wisdom and joined FC

For the last few weeks ET has had very low turn out for reset day.

XxNuggetxX.7823:

Yes this would help but IMO i dont want more “teams” just yet. I like it the way it is. put a floor/roof on the rating will fix the short and long trem problem’s of stail matches then implament “more teams” by placeing a no transferr to Very high pop servers. (random numbers cause i dont know but) say 800,000 ppl play on the 8 NA servers place a 100,000 account max on all servers and say JQ has 220,000 accounts. knowone can transfer into JQ untill there are less than 100,000 accounts. let ppl leave or stay as they please but eventualy (6 months to a year) the servers will even out.

i guess what im trying to say is: lower the max account limit on servers. i dont know numbers but i bet halving the max pop per server would help even things out. then add more servers.

There is no mistake that Free Transfers caused many numbers to be artificially lower and/or higher then they should be.

Case in point, When Kaineng dominated T8, it dropped the score of ET and FC, because it received many new people, and thus Glicko was still thinking that it was a 900 point server, when it jumped to a much higher one, but, before Glicko could accommodate that, it had destroyed the point numbers for ET and FC.

The real answer at this point is to reset everything, and start again. In fact they should put in a Season Event, where they points reset every 2 months or 8 weeks, because Server populations are anything but static, and Glicko only works well with static teams or individuals.

insanemaniac.2456:

Ungood.3054:

If there were 300 “servers” for WvW, we would not have this problem as there would be a better chance for their to be many teams close to each other so that moving would be common thing, a solid win might move you up, a crushing loss would move you down, and blowouts would result in someone moving, not being stuck.

i actually think that this isnt true.. i thought the same, but there are always the edge cases. example – queue times in LoL went up exponentially at extremely high and low elo. matchmaking forced pairings with drastically different elos because the community of same skilled players was far too small.

overall, with a larger competitor population, the issue seems easier to write off because a relatively small percentage of competitors get stuck on the edges instead of the 25% that currently fill the edge matches… but its still gonna be an issue. i do think a rating ceiling/floor could solve the issue (to an extent) and of course this games matchmaking doesnt need to care about anything like queue times in LoL as matches are always made instantly.

"off topic ish"

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selecting a specific floor and ceiling isnt really a trivial matter either, it has to be tight enough to prevent large gaps (current t8, server wins by 2x-5x point margins but loses rating cuz 300 point gap) but loose enough that servers dont constantly jump more than 1 tier from bad blowouts (a server bouncing between t6 and t4 — curb stomped one week, curb stomping another, and unable to find their real spot in t5 because they win or lose too hard and get huge rating jumps relative to the space between each servers ratings).

I agree with you, there will always be fringe.

But, in the end, more teams means overall better match ups, as opposed to the mess we have right now.

Also, if it was made into teams, like guild teams, or limited public teams, then they would be more or less static, which would work better for Glicko to handle and the truth is, I do not think I can fathom anything further removed from what is a “Static Team” then a Public Server that had Free Transfers between them.

While adding in more servers won’t fix the problem, it will lessen it a great deal.

katz.8376:

it does~!

and on that note… the morning score… from a lovely location

That is a lovely update. Too bad that it is not like that all the time, with tight fights and close battles. It would be far more fun if it was.

Jeknar.6184:

FilthyRat.4652:

P.S. you have to get on Detharos’ case about the score updates he does, those are my favorites.

U DON’T LIKE ME BRO?!?

Dude, that Azura looks cool!

The answer is in MORE WvW Teams.

Ok. Yes I said “teams” not servers, not worlds, but “teams”.

See the Glicko system is designed to create a profile of skill (or establish a number to reflect a skill level) of a single player. Hence why it is used for most PvP games, both on the computer and board games (Like chess). And is used with great results.

However, even if you used Glicko for single players, if you only had 24 players and put them in 3 person tournaments, you would end up blowouts, because the of lack of options. Simply put, you only have 8 tiers, so, people who should not fight, will end up fighting, because even if a player is too good for one tier, but not good enough for another, they have to be put somewhere, so a blowout will happen.

So when you have a mutable thing like a server that people can come, and go from. That people can opt to play or not play, that people can go to WvW and do whatever.

And you mix that with a painfully small number of these servers, and require larger (3 server) battle fields. This end result is, well, the inevitable end result.

So. What they need to do is add more “teams” as opposed to making them servers.

Make these teams like Sports Teams, so guilds can buy them, and keep the private, while some can remain public for the server as a whole.

With more teams on the field, Glicko would be able to make for better match ups.

Right now, the lowest scoring worlds will fight off, no matter how unbalanced the match up is, because that is ALL Glicko has to work with. Just like the top 3 worlds will fight, no matter how bad that match up may be, and on down the list. Which is where most of the problem stem from, is simply too few servers to allow for real motion.

If there were 300 “servers” for WvW, we would not have this problem as there would be a better chance for their to be many teams close to each other so that moving would be common thing, a solid win might move you up, a crushing loss would move you down, and blowouts would result in someone moving, not being stuck.

SniffyCube.6107:

Some people just need attention and I guess talking about it here is the only way they can get it since being blocked

Yah blocking. Good idea. I have one of his accounts blocked already.

I really should block the second one that he is using to follow me.

I wish we could block people on the forums as well. That would be such a handy feature.

silverfire.2547:

Ungood.3054:

Actually, it just hit over 650 today, and I never had to camp the jump puzzle for any of them, but thanks for asking.

There’s actually a pretty big difference between camping the puzzle and portaling people.

Only one of those two options involves losing one of your utility skills to constantly being on cooldown.

So he’s your shuttle service, makes sense why you put up with him. I can respect that.

FilthyRat.4652:

Ungood.3054:

FilthyRat.4652:

I’m afraid to ask how many kills you have cause it probably hovers around 25…but keep making awful remarks in your guild chat though now I have the screenshots to attest to your character.

Actually, it just hit over 650 today, and I never had to camp the jump puzzle for any of them, but thanks for asking.

And oh.. Did you need a picture of me? All you had to do was ask. I am quite happy with this Character model to say the least. I even made it Invader Blue so you can tell it’s me.

I knew it was you in that other screenshot laying there by my feet…Smilely’s armor is black but same look.

You will see me again

Since I don’t do jump puzzles.. I doubt that.

Edit Added: Ummm just to point this out, that’s “Invader Blue” not the actual dye color of my armor. That is what I will look like in WvW to you, notice I am in Stone Mist.

FilthyRat.4652:

I’m afraid to ask how many kills you have cause it probably hovers around 25…but keep making awful remarks in your guild chat though now I have the screenshots to attest to your character.

Actually, it just hit over 650 today, and I never had to camp the jump puzzle for any of them, but thanks for asking.

And oh.. Did you need a picture of me? All you had to do was ask. I am quite happy with this Character model to say the least. I even made it Invader Blue so you can tell it’s me.

Waggs.1702:

Here’s a quick score update.

Good show. Also. As of 5 PM EST. ET has the Out manned buff up and running on all battle fields save for Eternal.

Which means SF is fielding forces on all 4 battle fields, and on 3 of them, they are Larger then what ET can field.

FilthyRat.4652:

Lol…800 deaths how did you ever manage that. Hope they gave you an achievement for it.

It’s quite easy to accomplish when you are constantly out numbered and yet willing to wade fearlessly into battle. I can understand if you have no point of reference.

Jeknar.6184:

FilthyRat.4652:

also… i’m not a man. :-P

Well now I feel like a complete jerk for that then….I did take the picture out last night

Wait, what?

Yah.. I had no way to respond to that, that would not break the forums rules somehow.. so I left it alone LOL.

Pinko.2076:

Ungood.3054:

testpig.5018:

Are golems game breaking?

Simple Answer: No.

Golems are on par to all other means of Siege. They have their use and their situation where they are good, and have their weakness as well.

There’s a hard siege limit based on geography, and golems bypass that. They are completely unique from other siege weapons

That is because Golems do not have a ranged attack. Can you imagine how game Breaking 20 Arrow Carts defending a keep would be? Or dropping 50 Trebs? Geeze, talk about just destroying the game.

Seriously, Golems are about the weakest and least deadly of any siege item out there except maybe for rams.

IVeracityI.8936:

Ungood.3054:

Guild Armor Skins

They have the Tunic, why not Pants, Gloves, Etc, etc? Again, feels like they just did not finish this.

The Guild chestpieces are based on existing sets. Example: Compare the Guild heavy chest to the Banded rare world-drop set.

While this may be true, have you ever thought that maybe I would rather have my Guild tag on my Bracers as opposed to stamped on my chest?

FilthyRat.4652:

katz.8376:

FilthyRat.4652:

Always on the front lines and posting pics of myself….unlike some people but when I do find you will make sure I get i pic standing over you too. I thought this was you by the armor alone.

The temple armor in the corner….but then again you have to come out into to WvW to be spotted

hmmmmm. >squints< are you talking about the blue spiky legs i see coming up from the bottom of the screen with the [PK] tag, or someone else? that might be him. hard to tell since i can only see half a body

Yes I am…but not sure who it was that I tracked down. Oh thing Smiling has armor like that too, got to meet him in LA one day. Was surprised when he made me and we had our words he didn’t really get support from your server mates though…a few of them actually joined in with me jabbing at him.

Could be, I have karma armor on my Norn Guard, but then again, I have been playing for a grand total of 60 days and near 800 deaths. Now, given my very first toon, did 30 levels in WvW while I was leveling, so, honestly, I am lucky if I even could even guess details about a day or time that I died to a castle siege.

Apparently to you, The day you defended a keep was significant enough to take screen shots of.

Meh.

testpig.5018:

Are golems game breaking?

Simple Answer: No.

Golems are on par to all other means of Siege. They have their use and their situation where they are good, and have their weakness as well.

Jeknar.6184:

FilthyRat.4652:

When is last time ET won a fight?

Techinically speaking, Eredon Terrace is a defunct server of a once glorious race that fought on T1 (Just as HoD, IoJ and SBI). Free transfer destroyed all the servers i’ve named.

I’m not going to say “Oh ET, been in T1 and SF never got above T6”, because the people who fought on T1, i’m sure that are on T1 (i bet it might even be SoS BADwagoners since it’s been during SoS ascension). However, i’m sure up till 2 week ago (When eredon finally raised 1 position in the rank), the server morale was entirely broken. I’m sure SF doesn’t have that much problem, since it didn’t suffered a huge downfall.

BTW I’m just throwing random facts here…

I don’t think SF has a morale problem. So far it seems their biggest issue is that they have to wait till our single force can get around to them so they can have a fun fight, but since they have enough people to swarm all 4 maps they need to pick a number and get in line if they want to do more then cap undefended points.

-Greenserverproblems-

katz.8376:

FilthyRat.4652:

Sorry 95% of the time.
Wait you don’t even want me to buy you dinner first

you wrong me sir! don’t make me start timing myself. rofl.

also… shame on you… recycling the same encounter from a few days ago. get some new footage. i was out there tonight. i even spotted a ND mesmer in the pack briefly.

That would require that he leave the jump puzzle.

Scumbag Mawile.6384:

I said nightcapping. Not nightfighting.

If we had defense, it wouldn’t be nightcapping. Or at least, there’d at least be some kind of effort to keep what we had.

Well, if it makes you feel better, you do make an effort to defend your land any time we attack, and I mean.. any time, So there was no real capping going on, just some times, you don’t have enough to stop us. Just like a lot of the times we don’t have enough to stop you, it’s not any different.

Scumbag Mawile.6384:

You seem to be moaning like I’m insinuating they shouldn’t be being attacked? You have a night crew, of course you’re going to attack them.

Scumbag Mawile.6384:

Ugh. All that ET nightcapping.

Sure looks like you are trying to blame us for attacking.

Scumbag Mawile.6384:

katz.8376:

Manoa.5897:

O.o We aren’t kittening.

sure looks like it. look, no offense, but i just read today someone griping about losing money to upgraded items getting taken, and the tone (unless i was reading it very wrong) was totally coming off as “oh woe is us, we blow all this gold and it’s just a waste”.

THAT is what prompted my response. i’m not grumpy you’re still here with us. while i’m sure we’d BOTH like to go our respective ways by now, the fact that someone is now complaining about something that’s been a fact of life for us for months now is just… LOL. seriously, guys… it’s embarrassing.

Complaining about a friend wasting 15g upgrading an entire BL when none of it had been claimed by her guild and none of it was defended for even a couple hours is pathetic?

You’re right. I’m so embarrassed. GG katz you whooped me real good.

Ok. pause and think about that for a moment. What did you expect to happen after you upgraded? That you would hold it forever?

katz.8376:

Manoa.5897:

O.o We aren’t kittening.

sure looks like it. look, no offense, but i just read today someone griping about losing money to upgraded items getting taken, and the tone (unless i was reading it very wrong) was totally coming off as “oh woe is us, we blow all this gold and it’s just a waste”.

THAT is what prompted my response. i’m not grumpy you’re still here with us. while i’m sure we’d BOTH like to go our respective ways by now, the fact that someone is now complaining about something that’s been a fact of life for us for months now is just… LOL. seriously, guys… it’s embarrassing.

^ This.

Manoa.5897:

Ungood, your quotes are broken. The “I know the 20ish aussies in this guild would appreciate some company in wvw.” quote is Sniffy’s, not mine.

Ooops.. edited. Sorry.

FilthyRat.4652:

Ungood.3054:

FilthyRat.4652:

….Kudos to you for making my night. And the icing on the cake was saying we don’t have what it takes to fight “REAL OPPOSITION”, even though we are stuck here cause of the extremely low scores of a few, I really do agree with you sir on your classification of our opposition.

You said it man!

Well, lets see, SF won a grand total of 2 fights before falling to T8, both of which were massive blowouts, and both were followed by crushing defeats. Week 41 (after dropping a tier) and week 47 (Which is a real oddity, I’ll chalk that up to Free Transfers and power-house WvW guilds just messing around).

The reality is, SF didn’t have what it takes to play in the upper tiers, hence why you all are down here to begin with, remember. After all, ET and FC had nothing to do with you all coming down to T8 you all fell down of your own accord. So unless you all got a massive influx of people who like WvW since falling to T8, then that reality has not changed.

When is last time ET won a fight?

Le gasp Oh no! Do you mean tell me, you thought T8 servers had massive winning streaks? NO. We lost every fight, hence why we are T8, so did Ferg. Come on. That should be common knowledge by now, you don’t find the “Winners” on the bottom of the totem pole.

SF lost almost every fight, hence why you also are T8. I mean really, you even lost when you showed up, Giving FC it’ s first win.

So, Unless since your arrival, you got a massive change to your WvW forces then what is, is what is.

Trust me, ET and FC are not happy about it either, because you really don’t belong in T8 with us. The numbers are very clear, We are 600 point worlds, your a 900 point world, not quite T7, but not T8 either.

If the numbers are wrong, you can bring that up with ANet. Good luck.

Manoa.5897:

According to one of your own servermates, you have a growing night crew…

SniffyCube.6107:

ET also has a growing aussie community and I have been seeing quite a few taiwanese players as well as a few korean players. We do lack EU coverage, but would love to get some.

I know the 20ish aussies in this guild would appreciate some company in wvw.

Variety is the spice of life, so come bring your unique perspectives and cultures to our servers.

Everyone in this tier has a nighttime coverage gap that is at risk of nightcapping. Obviously, your nighttime skeleton crew has gotten larger than our nighttime skeleton crew.

That is awesome! Welcome you guys and gals! and I want to say, you all Rockittenep it up! We are doing great! We are getting better and we are growing! That is wonderful news!

If we keep growing, we will be able to have solid even fights all day and night long!

So, I don’t care if you are transfers, or pve players just coming out for the karma! I am Glad to have you and glad to fight along side you all!

I know we got some people from FC to join ET, and I want to say, we are glad to have you all! Anyone is welcome here at ET, even that ratoffilth fellow that is following me.

FilthyRat.4652:

….Kudos to you for making my night. And the icing on the cake was saying we don’t have what it takes to fight “REAL OPPOSITION”, even though we are stuck here cause of the extremely low scores of a few, I really do agree with you sir on your classification of our opposition.

You said it man!

Well, lets see, SF won a grand total of 2 fights before falling to T8, both of which were massive blowouts, and both were followed by crushing defeats. Week 41 (after dropping a tier) and week 47 (Which is a real oddity, I’ll chalk that up to Free Transfers and power-house WvW guilds just messing around).

The reality is, SF didn’t have what it takes to play in the upper tiers, hence why you all are down here to begin with, remember. After all, ET and FC had nothing to do with you all coming down to T8 you all fell down of your own accord. So unless you all got a massive influx of people who like WvW since falling to T8, then that reality has not changed.

As others have said, Downed in WvW is a pain, with mist form, thief teleport&vanish, both of which break the silly slow Stomp animation we have now, you end up just beating a second life bar, which is annoying to say the least and simply not fun.

Equally so. Downed is really handy in PvE. So you don’t want to mess with it there.

I propose that if we speed up the stomp animation to be a swift one hit coup de grâce, and then see what happens, would be a step in the right direction.

Anet can adjust the speed of a stomp, at will, so that would even be a game changing event.

katz.8376:

sounds pretty cool. take a while to implement, because just-for-looks would not high on a priority list, but still.. makes sense. i like it

Thank you the response and glad you like the idea.

However, as far as GW2 goes, after you get to exotics, it’s like all this stuff is “Just for looks”.

So maybe Anet will give it a look see and make it happen.

Well here are a few things I would like to see. Since this is a Little Section, I am just going to lost little things I would like.

Town Clothing

More of it, and not just “sets” but individual parts and pieces that let us build what we want, as we want, as we can afford. They have Glasses and Gloves, why not shoes, pants, shirts, etc, etc.

Really, I love the idea, but then they just kind of stopped working on it.

Guild Armor Skins

They have the Tunic, why not Pants, Gloves, Etc, etc? Again, feels like they just did not finish this.

More Visible Back Slots

I think this kinda speaks for itself. More back options, I mean right now it’s all just books & backpacks, what is this, an after school parade? (Ok they have a Quiver)

But I would like to see more cool stuff like Wings, Banner Poles, Cloaks, Capes, Even just some flowing bands of fabric would be cool. Just More Stuff.

So that is my short list -

More Town Clothing
More Guild Armor Skins
More Cosmetic Options for Back Slots

Runamok.9638:

Ungood.3054:

Ragnarz.1750:

Ungood.3054:

Ragnarz.1750:

Props to KWBH+whoever. It only took 40 minutes, 9 golems and 25ish players to overwhelm the 5 defenders of our keep @ 7am EST.

Been on since around 7 (ish) am, and I have never seen more then 4 golems so. Nope. Not believing this. ScreenShot or it Never Happened.

we killed them all. poor guys had to resort to using siege against inner wall. such a hardship!

I find your lack of screenshot disturbing.

He cannot provide a screenshot because he is fibbing, I killed all the ET golems this AM outside of garrison during the crash fiasco. This resulted in so much elation that I briefly considered transferring to SF.

Noooooooooooooooooooooo…….. Not little Johnny too!

Ragnarz.1750:

Ungood.3054:

Ragnarz.1750:

Props to KWBH+whoever. It only took 40 minutes, 9 golems and 25ish players to overwhelm the 5 defenders of our keep @ 7am EST.

Been on since around 7 (ish) am, and I have never seen more then 4 golems so. Nope. Not believing this. ScreenShot or it Never Happened.

we killed them all. poor guys had to resort to using siege against inner wall. such a hardship!

I find your lack of screenshot disturbing.

Ok.

Yes. I am well aware that I am suggesting yet another “gear set” and more stuff for us to farm/collect/craft.

But think about it, it makes sense that if we jump in the water we are not going to be wearing full plate, or long flowing gowns. We are going to wear swim style clothing.

I mean we have a special face mask, and a unique weapon (even aquatic ranger pets) why not go all the way and make Aquatic Gear and have a selection of Underwater Armor.

And lets be honest, a good part of the game getting gear, using gear, and looking good doing it. And I think that if they added in fixed gear swap, Like they already have set up with the helm and weapon.

Anyway, that is what I would like added if they are looking for ideas to tape to the dart board.

Ragnarz.1750:

Props to KWBH+whoever. It only took 40 minutes, 9 golems and 25ish players to overwhelm the 5 defenders of our keep @ 7am EST.

Been on since around 7 (ish) am, and I have never seen more then 4 golems so. Nope. Not believing this. ScreenShot or it Never Happened.