Instead of reinventing the wheel why not just reskin Alpine borderlands to a desert theme? And it the centre they could be “creative” with a different mechanic.
Then make a third reskin as some other theme, again with the centre being a different mechanic.
Would work as a 100% rotation every 3 months or a mix of all 3 always. In fact it would be nice as I am kinda weak and forget which borderlands I am on once in a while without going to the map and reading its name ;-)
I dont know just a thought.
When I saw the thread titled I lol’d and then I thought about it and it actually sounds like a decent idea, I think most people would agree the layout of Alpine map just works a treat, so yeah, why not just reskin it to add a bit more flavour, I like your idea, it’s fun.
We’ll poll the community to see if at least 75% of them would like to see the Desert Borderlands permanent removed. This won’t be next weeks poll, but likely the week
I am looking forward to voting to remove this map forever.
Should be able to toggle on/off to enemies and/or allies, but if that’s too much clutter to allies they could be like those pvp badge things (what relevance do those have in wvw anyways?)
Another possibility is that the titles can just be unlocked and you can pick any you’ve unlocked. I think Gold Legend sounds a lot better than Platinum Recruit anyways. It also doesn’t help that platinum makes your name longer.
Yes remove the tomes from wvw the reward track/s, no do not put them in their own track, there are plenty of ways to get tomes anyway, rank up chests have them 100% of the time, also daily keep captures when that is in rotation.
Yes, we do have a handful of small worlds, but the more smaller worlds we have, the more balanced linked populations can be. As a quick smaller scale example of current linking dilemma, lets say we have to link worlds with the following populations:
World 1: 95%
World 2: 82%
World 3: 81%
World 4: 60%
World 5: 30%
World 6: 10%
Since our final world total needs to be divisible by 3, we either need to avoid linking any of the worlds, or link some worlds even if they give a large population advantage.
Worlds 1+6: 105%
Worlds 2+5: 112%
Worlds 3+4: 141%
After linking, the difference in population between the highest and lowers teams is much narrower, but we’ve made the 3rd rank server now have significantly more population than the previously 1st ranked server. Also all worlds are now over our goal population cap, and probably have moderate to heavy queues.
However, imagine that instead we had twice as many, half as populated, worlds. It becomes much easier to link them in a way that gives every linked team a similar population.
So you want to make some new servers and treat each server as a set of numbers that you can conveniently add together just to make the math a bit more simple, yeah gg I love being treated as just a number, kappa
I am already annoyed enough that we have to have servers linked as they are right now, I do not want to be allied to other servers, I want to fight them, they are all my enemys… and we certainly do not need more servers, we need less, you are now snowballing in completely the wrong direction imo.
If you ever come to your senses you will realize that server merges are actually the best solution for wvw, you need to shrink the amount of servers down and stop with this mess of spaghetti servers that you call linking.
I’d say merge servers and let players swap them once in a quarter. I do not like idea of being a minion server player tossed or linked with different boss servers.
I feel for you m8, if I was on a minion server I would be raging, having said that all the current minion servers should be blown up and you should just join the more established servers for good and become a part of their community, I think Underworlds days are numbered.
I will be blunt, stop wasting time with this world linking and just merge the servers for good, keep the top 18 servers of each league with their original names (Do not merge the names) and blow up the rest, RIP they had their chance.
Agree with the OP, it is ugly and really not very much different to the other gazillion crafting backs we already have which 90% of never see a use, the barrel on the back does sound far more unique and would look funny imo, as it is I will never use the current design.
Same issue as above, play EB for 2 hours, then npcs become invisible then my weapons become invisible, followed shortly after by my character becoming invisible, at any time during this period if I try to waypoint it will take 3-5 mins to load me back into the map, only way to fix this right now is via rebooting the game, please fix asap.
It would be nice to get some random loot instead of tomes, maybe transmute charges, mystic coins, black lion keys as rare drops, something because we are getting tomes from all angles right now, its a bit overkill.
Been suffering the same thing as OP for a few weeks now, it’s extremely annoying, exact same symptoms, after 2 hours of play people start to not render there armor and appear as basic models, then usually my weps become invisible next, followed by my character becoming invis, at any point during these stages if I try to waypoint it will take 3+ mins, so its time to relog game to resest the problem, please fix asap.
Ah okay. You can only get it in EB now.
Although this is kind of problematic seing as eb now has 100+ que time.
If you really think that is a problem I suggest you buy a few of them when you can, since when they are only obtainable via reward tracks I would say that would take problematic to the next level.
I was so happy to have Alpine maps back I barely noticed the tactivators, prob cos there was so much action going on too, gimme a few days I will give you my judgement on them, but right now nothing can stop my joy from being “Home” again.
Just had the best night of fights in a long long time on my home border, it is so good to have alpine maps back, they suit open field fighting far better, tonight was an absolute joy.
Same thing happening to me and others I know, usually after about 2 hours of play npcs start to not render, player models don’t load properly and only load the standard models, then next is my weapons become invisible, and as others have mentioned trying to use a WP means a 3 min loading screen, this def seems like some kinda memory leak and it only started to happen after the last big patch.
Agree with the OP, there should be a “decline all invites” option like in other MMO’s, it can get really annoying in WvW when I’m running around and wanting to be alone and I constantly get spammed with raid invites, there has been times I’ve declined the same raid group 4+ times and on one occasion the invites would not stop until I whispered the raid leader and asked him to take away invite permissions from his group as someone in the raid was trolling me over and over and I had no idea who it was to be even able to block them.
I have put some t5 crystals into the forge: 50 attempts -> 3 gemstones, the chance of promotion to t6 orbs seems to be the same as before. Please provide more data if you have crystals and time to click.
As others have mentioned, pet swap traits just feel wrong to me also, I want my pet to be on the target, not constantly swapping it and watch it start its run all over again, I wish they would remove every pet swap trait we have and rework them.
1 per day? did I miss something here, I was not aware of any noxious pods being available in the home instance, if there was it would certainly only be 1 though not 2-3.
I like the bow but I’m worried about the arrow you see fired during the trailer, for a start it was blue which does not fit the bow at all, having said that you do not see it actually fired from the bow, so that is a bit confusing, I hope it is not fired from the legendary SB though because it looked extremely underwhelming and not fitting at all.
It will help, take a break, go do some spvp or pve, or even play a diff game for a week, I’ve taken many breaks from it over the years, your passion for it will return then.
This will be a nice change, I also hope there will be more uses for them and since they will become account bound,, it would be nice to have something else to spend them on aside from siege.
It certainly would be nice to have more uses for proofs but I think its unlikely, I’m actually more concerned about the lack of uses for memories of battles, the sink for these things is extremely minor compared to how many of them we get, so personally I would rather see more uses for these first.
I agree they do slow things down and should just be removed completely and give us rewards some other way, as I suspect is planned anyway with possible reward tracks or even just a boost to rank up chests.
Did you really think you would get a full set worth approx. 700g+ ? lol be happy you got 1 piece, the bladed armor set reward gives you 3 trans charges….
You know you can transfer servers in this game right..
Valid point but I hope your imagination goes past that.
Ironic since your imagination is lacking when it comes to thinking up new names, that is the bottom line here, you have the ability to make an infinite amount of different names and yet you want to make them tied to server because you cant spend 10-20 minutes to think up something good/unique. My suggestion is you spend some time doing just that, maybe you will even get good at it.
of course my win rate is low, I play all classes to get the achievements, even if I am horrible at them.
No you don’t, you switch classes just before the end of a winning match to get the achievments, you already admitted it yourself in another thread… see below
I got all classes 10/10 wins because of this. If you have kitten you can easily relog at 475+ for lowest chance to ruin it. You only need to be in map loading screen when match ends.
Yes put them back to Fridays, and please stop using that hotfix excuse, your hotfixes happen on any day of the week at any time with no given warning, and on some occasions 2 or even 3 times a day, so lets not pretend like you have some kinda schedule for them, its just laughable, as someone that has played since beta I’ve seen you patch at the most inappropriate times over and over again, even when that patch was for something extremely petty.
I’m glad to see you are listening to the community though.
Stating you have played for 3 years is kinda meaningless, you could have only played for 3 hours in all that time, /age would be a far better indicator of your luck.
Sorry but I hate the idea, I have 22 level 80’s all with different titles, some are class champion titles for that related character, others are for more RP reasons, your idea just forces people to use titles they do not want to use for the buffs, that is not freedom of choice, they are fine the way they are.
I have a question about “Use Free Camera” I have this option set to not realign behind my camera and have had it that way for 3+ years, however a few months ago I started to notice it realigning itself with my character after certain actions, quite often after a shadowstep on a diagonal angle the camera would then realign itself automatically, and sometimes after having gone through a door of a tower or keep in WvW it can also do it, it seems like some kinda bug to me as this never used to happen. Anyone else noticed this?
If I was to guess what has caused this I would say it maybe related to the introduction of Revenant, since some of its skills seem to realign themselves but I really do not want this behaviour to be happening when I use shadowstep on my thief
