Guild Wars 2

SquirtyMagoo.8321:

Who on earth do they get to make these ratings systems…. my god this is so terrible. As said previously Rand[-1,1] is too big a range initially, tone it down for the first few weeks at least until the deviations work themselves out.

I’m almost considering applying to work for Anet, as some of this is beyond beleif.

And the fact they think Kaineng vs JQ or BG could even be a fun matchup at this point shows how completely uninterested they are in WvW.

Absolutely shocking…

The concept of “hypothetical situations” seems to elude some people.

pixieish.9627:

I’m still waiting on the “Asura” option for when it comes to trebuchet ammunition.

That would be listed under “smart bomb”.

FIRE did a “running of the dolyaks” a month or two ago. Nice to see other guilds trying out the things we did, gives me that warm and fuzzy feeling inside.

JonPeters.5630:

timidobserver.7925:

I have a couple of serious questions.
1. Did the person that came up with the math for this graduate from high school.
2. To prove it, please upload a copy of your high school diploma.

How about just a copy of their resume. I don’t see his high school experience on there. Hopefully the other stuff can count as relevant experience for your assessment.

http://www.glicko.net/cv.html

By the gods. Simultaneously trolled and pwnd with overwhelming data and facts. Dude holds the Glicko patent as well? I got smarter just reading that resume.

kyro.8162:

sostronk.8167:

sostronk.8167:

Orion.9075:

Kaimick.5109:

Pvp.2758:

SoR will reign fire on all the nations below them

Please keep in mind that SoR wasn’t doing much before IRON came to your server with almost two full guilds, leavign SoR with an EU presence that can cover a 40+ man zergs on 3 different maps at the same time. Now I am not down playing any of you guys on SoR and congrats on this weeks win and last weeks win, I think it is much deserved for you guys. Although lets not forget it is only becuase of IRON you guys are in the position you are in. Any how grats on winning.

Props to IRON. Not to try and take anything away from them, but SoR was T1 for a reason before they came over. The issue is, we probably received one of the best EU guilds in the game, as well as already having some of the best NA guilds, and I guess that coverage and how well IRON fits with SoR just screwed over the other 2 servers. Hopefully BG/JQ get some other good EU servers, and we can have full coverage all around for all 3 servers.

An answer I think Anet made for this was the upcoming patch where it may be easier to drop and gain a tier. This will stop a lot of transfers, which affect the fluctuation of how un/covered you are. People may still transfer, but I doubt quite as frequently.

Sounds like Anet is trying to destablize servers to promote server hopping and profit$. Well played Anet.

Oh wait, Santum of Rall and Blackgate going Tier 2. Have fun down there guys. See you soon. lol.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/big-changes-coming-to-wvw-matchups/

I believe that was just an example.

Not just an example, but tiers won’t mean the same thing they did before. You can win in T1 and still wind up “moving down” to T2 with the new system. Instead of us chest thumping about what tier we’re in we’ll actually have to win to thump.

Cover Girl.2580:

VOLKON.1290:

Aarean.5398:

Yshyr.8709:

Aarean.5398:

Hope some guilds see the senses to join JQ. Hot competition of jq vs sor and iron made a mistake going to sor and just killing the chances of balance considering its been fairly stable sor being ahead by far for weeks now. Sor will stay ahead till some guilds get bored or others move to jq. All coverage aside the score is perfect proof of the current imbalance in the grand scheme

Rewriting history a bit. SoR had the weakest coverage of all 3 t1 servers. No one could foresee that JQ would start bleeding guilds. At the time Iron made the choice SoR was the best choice as far as balance is concerned.

Yeah no hate on them. They made an unforeseeable mistake and now we can fix it or we can leave sor at top spot for a few months till the guilds get bored and they fall out of t1

I’m on JQ and I don’t think it’s fair to ask them to cough up another 1800 gems to appease our biased sense of fairness. Instead it’s up to us to recruit, fill gaps and bring the fight.

I don’t recall JQ offering to send any guilds to SoR when JQ was in the top unbeatable position. Why all of a sudden are you asking for SoR to break itself apart to help you guys win again?

If you read carefully, you’ll see that I’m not asking that.

Pvp.2758:

SoR will reign fire on all the nations below them

Rain fire. Unless you intend to rule over a couple burning twigs, in which case no one cares. Not that anyone did anyhow…

Aarean.5398:

Yshyr.8709:

Aarean.5398:

Hope some guilds see the senses to join JQ. Hot competition of jq vs sor and iron made a mistake going to sor and just killing the chances of balance considering its been fairly stable sor being ahead by far for weeks now. Sor will stay ahead till some guilds get bored or others move to jq. All coverage aside the score is perfect proof of the current imbalance in the grand scheme

Rewriting history a bit. SoR had the weakest coverage of all 3 t1 servers. No one could foresee that JQ would start bleeding guilds. At the time Iron made the choice SoR was the best choice as far as balance is concerned.

Yeah no hate on them. They made an unforeseeable mistake and now we can fix it or we can leave sor at top spot for a few months till the guilds get bored and they fall out of t1

I’m on JQ and I don’t think it’s fair to ask them to cough up another 1800 gems to appease our biased sense of fairness. Instead it’s up to us to recruit, fill gaps and bring the fight.

Sirendor.1394:

Pulling on the rope from the front Volk

I know.

Sirendor.1394:

Why can’t we be able to prod the dolyaks? This would make escorting a kitten ring activity. You would prod the dolyak to go faster and that might give you wxp after you did it. Seems like a fun idea xD prod
Another idea, why can’t we pull the dolyak along on a rope? :p This would both make it more realistic and add more options for rewarding players in wvw.

If you want more realistic, pulling on the rope should make it stop.

Actually, there is a benefit to the way the system is implemented. For example, while sometimes I’ll get the gathering portion done in WvW there are other times I’ll sneak out and pop down to Orr for some mithril and wood needed to make superior equipment. While there I can also round off kill variety if needed or even grab a group event or two if I come across them. So half an hour or so of PvE actually boosts WvW.

CuddleStrike.8215:

VOLKON.1290:

Chopps.5047:

T_T

I want to live in cuddles’ timezone / make LOVE sammichs for all! lawl

You guys rock, great competition this week. I heard there’s a guild, OTWO (oxidizer), that’s coming for you IRON. They are corrosive! :p

I may or may not be making this up.

I actually managed to get into a photo op with Cuddles. Still waiting for a score update with me in it, but I snuck a few shots of my own for posterity’s sake. Something to pass on to the kids.

Volkon….

All I have is this for you tonight… before I depart for the night…

<3

Score Update attached!

EDIT:

Also, did you know your ears are on fire?

EDIT 2:

<3 Chopps
Make me a sammich? Or maybe Shini, I hear he LOVEs them

Cuddles even makes me look good! Now that’s power!

Somehow the thought of projectiles coming from the rear end of a dolyak seems to be rather unappealing to me.

ikiturso.4026:

Laurels only for daily is bad bad decision. Now player that starts will take half year to get all ascended in wvw? And they truly make ur char ALOT stronger. Hopefully there will new currency soon for ascended and also claimed from WvW. Killing other players (having skills to play) should be more profitable and give access to top gear!

I nearly exclusively do WvW. The only ascended thing I’m missing so far is the backpack.

I kind of feel bad for him now. All those hardships forced him to turn over a new leaf.

Chopps.5047:

T_T

I want to live in cuddles’ timezone / make LOVE sammichs for all! lawl

You guys rock, great competition this week. I heard there’s a guild, OTWO (oxidizer), that’s coming for you IRON. They are corrosive! :p

I may or may not be making this up.

I actually managed to get into a photo op with Cuddles. Still waiting for a score update with me in it, but I snuck a few shots of my own for posterity’s sake. Something to pass on to the kids.

It’s quiet. Toooo quiet.

If you’re considering a move to the quarry…

Stand up and be counted
For what you are about to receive
We are the dealers
We’ll give you everything you need
Hail hail to the good times
‘cause the Quarry’s got the right of way
We ain’t no legend, ain’t no cause
We’re just livin’ for today

For those about to rock, we salute you!

You’ll get laurels in WvW doing WvW based dailies.

Calm down cubed. All they did was put the siege back in siege warfare. The vast majority are adapting fine to the changes as they are.

I can see it now…

“Here’s the beef you son of a..” <BOOM> “MOOOOoooooooooooooooo”

Anyone else have a first image of a cannon firing dolyaks at people?

Ok I Did It.2854:

The fact that they made it the only way to reveal the perma invis thief’s was to use a trap that cost 10 supplies and 4 seconds to cast, not to mention the cost of buying them, and then you have to relay on the thief running threw it was a joke in the first place, they should have just stated, we are happy with the perma invis thief’s and left it at that.

You do realize they’re not meant for the thief you’re currently fighting, yes?

Xavi.6591:

You cannot farm Karka shells in WvW so this wouldn’t work.

Good point. OK, scrap the karka shells. I still want babies.

It does add the potential idea of a third component for specialty traps however.

You know what would be fun?

Karka traps.

15 badges, 525 karma (I think that’s right), 1 karka shell.

When a foe triggers it a certain number (10 maybe) of baby karka spawn and do that baby karka thing that they do. Have them be indiscriminate when they spawn, however, attacking foe and ally alike.

Alternate cost could be that it requires 10 supply and 1 karka shell to set the the trap, removing the karka shell from the purchase price.

gaborkaldy.3210:

The biggest fail in this story that they could have added the reveal trap to the ranger class and bring the class somewhat back to WvW life…

Personally i run WvW almost everyday for hours. I never get ripped off by a supply trap neither our guild thiefs moaned they got revealed by a trap.

The traps are too expensive, and almost useless without it being profession bound.

You know… the reveal trap idea in interesting. However, I wonder if that would result in rangers being pigeon-holed into that type of a role. If that’s a utility skill, for example, should rangers be “required” to carry it, much like many mesmers are expected to have veil and portal on their bars? It would have that potential as a skill.

Now, if it were tied to a “profession specific” thing (on an “F” key) with a decent cool down I could see that being a lot more viable and not burdening.

There’s one major point that needs to be addressed here.

When WoW adds an expansion, such as Pandaria, it’s also obsoleting all the prior content. All the earlier raids, zones, etc. are simply no longer viable content once you’ve reached max level. That’s a major, major flaw that GW2 does not replicate. Yes, we’ve seen some content come and go, but nothing has been obsoleted. GW2 adds content. WoW adds and kills content simultaneously.

to break WvW as the gloom and doomers had forecast. When I see them used, which isn’t all that often, they’re used tactically as opposed to being smeared all over the map. We don’t see thieves hiding in corners with their dangly bits exposed unable to stealth. We don’t see people abandoning mesmers in a pool of tears.

I think we’re seeing a classic example of people over-reacting before we had any facts to go with or experience to fall back on. At least, that’s what I’m seeing.

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Apologies to the EU folks… you’re not being slighted in the least, it’s simply a matter of perception. Over here in the NA group we never see Viz. Never think about them, fight them or even notice them, because our focus is obviously on who we’re fighting now or potentially next week.

I think the only real way to help this be understood is for your guild to transfer over here to Jade Quarry. It’ll give you that “other” perspective that will help clear up the misunderstanding.

sostronk.8167:

VOLKON.1290:

Holy crap, did you see this here? I never noticed that until now, a live map of WvW.

Excuse me while I geek out for a few moments.

Doesn’t seem to work for me. All I get is white buildings. Is it / does it show the colors?

It’s showing the colors for me, as well as real time changes – seeing the colors change while I look.

Funny watching BG circle clockwise around JQBL flipping camps. If I had TS at work here I’d be yelling at someone now.

Holy crap, did you see this here? I never noticed that until now, a live map of WvW.

Excuse me while I geek out for a few moments.

Jade Quarry. The cat filter interferes with catchy slogans.

MarauderKing.4572:

Nuked.2360:

Kryyg.8576:

Nuked.2360:

Kryyg.8576:

AoS quite frankly is a cancer for JQ.

They are one of the reasons we are losing our NA guilds.

Worthless guild that doesn’t do anything but kitten and complain and give our opponents free bags and give their own server-mates their self righteous bs.

I’m glad we are on the same server and you chose to hate on your own server but it’s ok I don’t harbor any ill will towards anyone because well its a game after all

Why don’t you listen to your own advice bud? The kitten AoS gave FIRE and EMP were the part of the reason they left.

You’re a hypocrite.

Um I never gave EMP crap FIRE I have screen shots that could prove my point but that really doesn’t do anything but get us all infracted. So please come back when you have something other than lies and false hope.

You have no right to ever mention our guild. We have PLENTY of our own screenshots but we have ZERO interest in the political manipulations you guys thrive on.

To the rest of JQ it was an honor to fight with you and we wish you the best of luck!

Haniko, … hush.

Gavi.9538:

VOLKON.1290:

Weirdest thing I’ve seen in a while that didn’t involve certain JQ commanders, a jar of mayonnaise and a shaved dolyak.

You know the rules. What happens in the van, STAYS in the van.

Moderator: thanks for passing the disconnect issue along to the team. We anxiously await an update.

That… <shudder> it didn’t stay in the van…

Moderator.1462:

Hi everyone,

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. While the team is aware of this, we are going to forward them this post to remind them or ask them about an update on this. Please, we ask you to be a bit patience and we ask for apologies beforehand for the problems this might be causing you.

Thanks for your understanding.

It’s ridiculously sporadic as well. Last night I didn’t disco once, but I’d be hearing others regularly getting kicked. The night before after logging in I had a series of four or five in a row before something stabilized, then no more kicks after that. Weirdest thing I’ve seen in a while that didn’t involve certain JQ commanders, a jar of mayonnaise and a shaved dolyak.

MrKnieves.4162:

Using skills is cheating now? Maybe you should place the seige farther away.

In some towers, there is no “farther away” that can’t be blindly hit.

gimmethegepgun.1284:

McFribble.2349:

Oil single handedly stalls a group from siegeing a gate for a good minute or two. How is that in anyway useless…?

Just because you aren’t wracking up kills from it =/= serves no purpose.

Yeah, the oil itself is useful simply by its presence.
That doesn’t mean Oil Mastery will be at all useful.
No one builds anything on the gate while the oil is up, so points in making the oil better are a waste.

Based on… what evidence exactly? It may be that you’re right, but before I take your word on it I’d like to actually see some facts first. I’m funny like that.

You know… a hot oil trap would indeed be lovely…

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Niim.9260:

Dayra.7405:

Niim.9260:

So I saw this and began hitting my head into the nearest wall:

Dangerous New WvW Abilities
Become even deadlier in The Mists with new World vs. World abilities like Burning Oil Mastery or new ranks in Defense Against Guards!

Who comes up with this stuff and can you please make them actually play WvW before they do?

1) You never saw a bunch of golems dying in forgotten oil? There are some funny youtube videos about that.

2) This is an advertisement not a patch note, this is written by an advertisement designer and not by a player/game designer. It contains as many useful information as any other advertisement

I am not sure we should use events of stupidity as a basis for what makes a mastery useful or not.

Even if it is an advertisement, it still represents two new abilities being added that are completely worthless. Each of those abilities represents design/development time that could be better spent on useful aspects of WvW, real changes.

It’s nice that we have you to tell us what’s useful and what isn’t in WvW. It saves us the time and trouble of actually waiting and seeing what gets added.

Stei! My poor thread. But… this is so much neater.

The problem, if I’m not mistaken, was that people could enter a borderland from anywhere, use the TP then quickly log out and in and be right back where they started from without any cost or real effort and at the expense of temporarily clogging up a WvW slot when they had no interest in WvW in the first place.

I’d like to see this (which was mentioned in a prior thread…)

Flame rams (all): 10 minute timer
Regular Siege (non-ram): 1 hr timer
Superior Siege (non-ram): 2 hr timer

That, at a minimum, would be a great quality of life improvement.

Jayne.9251:

I spent five straight hours yesterday in WvW JUST ticking siege. Five straight hours. This is not fun.

On any server there are only a handful of dedicated folks who do this. If these people take a break, or go for lunch, chances are when they come back all that siege will be gone. It’s incumbent on our servers to relegate this more so that it’s just not three or four people constantly doing this … but upping the despawn timer to an hour would make a MASSIVE difference, and maybe allow these folks a chance to get out and fight more, rather than be chained to a keep, or madly running the entire map to ensure there’s proper defense.

I respect that dedication, seriously. Sadly I think I have you beat from an eight hour encampment one Saturday in the NE tower. If you ever come over to JQ we can take spell relieving each other.

You’re dead on right, though… it reduces the fun to the occasional spurt if someone tries to attack and that’s it.

JQBL really is bad. I’m not seeing the skill lag as much as others appear to be, but the random bursts of repeated disconnects whenever there’s a large fight… if you’re trying to defend a waypointed structure and get DCd it can cost you that structure.

I call it “fondling the siege”. It becomes more fun that way.

The timers… they do need another looking at. I’ve spent so much time in the NE towers on the BGs babysitting that I have a butt groove worn at the top of the ramp.

muekung.2518:

Vespirisa.1497:

Aurust.8961:

Vash.9183:

To my knowledge, there is no other guilds transferring in. There is only members of the newer guilds that are trying to help the rest of their guild transfer. Like [Omen] and [FIRE], they are not done transferring.

FIRE is leaving JQ? This was from page 5 of the tier 2 thread….

Yup they started transfering in today

D:

noooooooooooooooooooooooooo

A good number, but not all of us. You won’t see the tag, but you’ll still be able to feel the bite from those of us that are spreading our chocolaty goodness among other guilds.

There’s a post in the JQ forums that needs to be read. Keep it positive.

fade.8603:

FOO/AGGR/SANC/FIRE is no longer in JQ?

FIRE is still here, I see FOO as well, don’t recall the others.