Guild Wars 2

The problem with these PSes where there is a never ending battle between NPCs and Risen is that it can be difficult to tell what you need to kill and what you need to ignore. And you need to be very good player to survive if you make the wrong choice because enemies will instantly respawn to take the place of the ones that fall if you kill any that are suppose to fight NPCs and those that respawn will instantly lock onto you. You will then be locked in a never ending battle unless you figure out the ‘trick’ to progress the PS which requires surviving while dragging these enemies around till you fight the ‘right’ enemies to kill and and then kill them while not dying to the swarm currently locked onto you. There are many MMOs that have this sort of thing going on both in instances and in their open world but they all design the respawns to aggro straight on to the NPCs. I have no idea why Anet did not do this.

My instinct the first time I did this specific PS was to help my allies out. This apparently was the wrong thing to do and I spent a long time in this PS. Luckily I was playing a ranger with OP pet tanks so it wasn’t that bad except for the rescue Mira section… I saw she was down but instead of ignoring the NPCs fighting I jumped right in to help clear them out. Unfortunately they instantly respawned and I found I was under constant treb fire. I spent 10 minutes fighting for dear life till I finally decided I had to rez the girl. With the treb fire and enemy aggro I had to do it a few ticks at a time.

This really takes you out of the immersion and reinforces that you are just running a scripted event where you focus on just making it to the next point to advance the script or remove the specific set of enemies required to trigger than next part. This is why so many people ended up running into the bug in the PS ‘Forging the Pact’. People had been so trained to ignore enemies because it could be a ‘forever spawn’ and advance to the green circle that they bugged it out by leaving Trahearne behind.

I view it as everyone is grouped. I’ll call out events but the cool thing is that whoever shows up doesn’t have to be explicitly grouped with me to participate.

fatboy.5016:

im from Sorrows Furnace. Last weeks match up wasnt SoR doing better, They had a pop surge, pretty massive one that tripled their pop. Thus leading to my server and DH gettin squashed. MY suggestion to all sides is, Dont own all bls 100%, those kinds of point scores will raise your ranking yes, But then youll be paired witha server with 50x the time pop size and youll find yourselves squashed again. Now im not saying let someone win, Just dont land your self int he 250k-300k digits, thats a sure jump to land ya somewhere ya cant defend against. As to why im saying this, Fort Aspenwood did this, Guess what, their droping ranks fast now cuz of it.

SoR didn’t have a population surge. During the weekdays the only time BLs had queues was when an event was organized and even EB had no queue most of the time(As a ‘prime time’ casual player that was the first time I had ever seen no queue on EB). 2 weeks ago I was never able to get in EB and last week there was no queue. Overall our WvW population was DOWN. This is hardly a sign of an influx of players.

Bottomline is the reason DH and SF were outmanned so much is that YOUR servers stopped doing wvw. How many posts were there about people who ‘worked on their armor’ or something last week instead of WvWing or how many people said they jumped into a BL and saw 10 people standing in the entrance with no one doing anything and decided to immediately leave?

I find it odd that there is a single new server listed for NA. I always assumed they had to add or remove in groups of 3 for WvW to work.

I backed out of the sticky rankings topic and suddenly I was in a different WvW forum that I believe is in German. It now shows up as German in the forum list as well though everything else is NA English.

Where was the ranger?

Also I see the walls were upgraded. Rumor I saw in another topic is that you can clip through upgraded walls

I’m a casual player on sor who has been playing more of wvw for the monthly resets these past two weeks and I thought I’d drop my observations. First off the hacking, i found it suspicious that sor never got accused of hacking until they started taking the lead(Maybe wrong haven’t been following till last week). My initial thoughts were that transfers were involved but i still see reports of hacking on the other sides. I think most people would agree that no one wants this on their server but reporting for both sides is difficult. Enemies show as ‘invaders’ and the hackers are likely to do the deeds where no other teammates are around to see. We really have to rely on Anet to figure out a timely solution. If transfers were involved the free transfer system is gonna be like hot potato…what server will they land on when free transfers stop? Unlikely to be a server with super high wvw participation since it’s harder to get away with it with more eyes.

Personally considering there was foul play on most sides I think the bigger reason for the change in the match up is solely because of a large drop in wvw participation. As a casual I queued up at the end of last month due to the sudden september monthly reset and i imagine lots of other “carebears” did as well. I had queues across the board and never saw EB pop. This week there has been rarely a queue and i didn’t have a queue for EB the last two days and I’ve never seen that before. The only reason I think SoR is doing much better in pop isn’t because of transfers but due to success. When people see a server doing well they want to be a part of the win, riding coattails as you will. I will admit when I saw we were doing well I decided to jump in this week even though i usually don’t rush to do the monthly wvw kills.

On the flip side the negative reinforcement of seeing the enemy doing well really is killing participation on the other servers. It seems that the first couple days of a matchup are the key(friday reset is pretty smart). Props to the late night wvw crew on sor at the start of the week in holding back dh from gaining too much and an organized focus during the day to limit dh(sf seemed to decide they wanted to forfeit this round and rest rather than deal with dh’s night play). I remember calling out an SF attack on SFs garrison that we had and being told it was more important to deal with DH. Stopping their momentum at night which was what rallied the daytime players and then focusing them crushed the moral. It sounds like patting myself on the back but i hardly consider myself a sor wvwer, just a cb observer

I’m pretty sure we won’t see this matchup next week. Even if SoR doesn’t move up I’m pretty sure NSP is going to bump someone down. Though I wouldn’t be surprised if we are matched up again in a few weeks.

I have a similar but different issue. The forums on my home computer(but not on my cell) forces me to login to view the forums at all. So every time I follow a link to these forums or try to view a thread(on a tab left open) I am forced to login and then I’m returned to the main page.

There is extreme lag on the TP again. Buy orders aren’t showing up, money from recalled buy orders aren’t showing up

It does proc on hit but you do not shout ‘Yarr!’ you shout ‘For great justice’

Yes

I guess you could say the loudness of it is a bug.