Oh god yes. Sometimes I load in wvw in like 5-10sec.
Sometimes I sit there for like 2-3 minutes banging my head on the table waiting to finally get in…
The new farm spot does its job.
Its not broken like AB was (good riddance) but it still provides a decent amount of leather.
The only thing about is how hard it is to reach the POI. Not every class has a perma stealth or million reflects.
Absolute and relative.
Yes. 3-2-1 scoring is different from 5-4-3 even though its still 1 point between each.
The last fight was plain stupid.
Its a good thing I had repair canisters on me…
There is simply way too much aoe/cc going in that tiny kitten room.
Just leave it alone. I finally came to realize that condi is the only thing that can kill anything in this meta. If they gut epidemic fights are going to be long and boring.
The way to fix epidemic would have to be a huge change that will cause the entire meta to change.
2-1-1 is bad bad bad. 2nd place server just get punished too much for it while weakest server gets heavily rewarded for no reason. change it already wth!?!?
You don’t need to know how the enemy commander looks or what his rank is to recognize him……
Either karma or magic find. I use karma.
I think magic find is completely useless though, on matter how much of it i stack its just never enough to be noticeable.
So karma is pretty much the only infusion that gives you at least anything in wvw.
This thread.
10/10.
Thief. Highest mobility, super fast exploring.
Stealth makes life easier in a lot of situations.
If you can get 80 fast and get daredevil even better.
Anet lowered server caps. even if ppl bandwagon SoS will never have enough pop for T1 without a link.
literally all it needs is a ‘skip’ button so the next guild can claim..
When is this skill going to get nerfed already?!!?!
It is absolutely ridiculous. It requires 0 skill. Find a down, hit epidemic and insta down a few more people. Repeat in 14sec because the CD is a joke.
Fix this kitten already seriously…
back to 321 score pls.
i agree on 1 thing. ‘guild wars’ is a very unfitting name.
gvg was the closest thing to ‘guild wars’ but anet saw that as a threat to wvw and pretty much kill it.
now there isnt anything that really justifies the name ‘guild wars’.
Literally no point for any off-peak players on smaller servers to play anymore.
If you don’t come first, you might as well just go play something else.
10/10 change I have to say.
Oh boy! I cant wait to see what change is going to happen next.
People need to understand that this system punishes both the first and second strongest servers.
The strongest server gets 2v1’d. DIRECTLY encouraged by the new system, even more than the 321 system.
The second strongest server will get the same amount of points as the weakest server regardless of how they perfrom. Meaning the weakest server can finish all skirmishes in a day at 1k points and still be tied for second place in the overall matchup with a server that finishes all the skirmishes at 4k points…
berry farm nerf was good and those stupid packets need to be nerfed further tbh.
I opened 10 packets yesterday and got 3 ascended crafting mats worth 25gold…
That is way too high of a rate considering how cheap they are…
AB is a different story. Im mindblown that it still wasn’t fixed after all this time.
I also got a gift from Santa Charr! Thank you Santa Charr!
Awful change. They might as well completely remove any points seriously.
Revert this back to 3-2-1.
Why?
Plenty of reasons.
It is a direct encouragement for 2v1’s vs the leading server. Even more than the current system. The game mode is 1v1v1.
If two server are close in a skirmish while the 3rd is doing nothing, the server that comes 2nd get as much as the server that gets 3rd despite trying so hard. It does not show the true strength of the 2nd strongest server. Will only encourage people to leave wvw since their hard work LITERALLY means nothing under this scoring system.
I actually haven’t seen a single spoon drop for me in.. maybe a year now?
And I play wvw quite a lot.
The drop rate used to be pretty high, like 2-3/week easily. But then they changed something and.. yeah.. no more spoons.
You guys really want to have “even matches”
Give everyone 1 point, regardless of how they score.
There you go, perfectly even matches.
Seriously though, this needs to be reverted.
I cannot understand why on earth they would change this. And even worse how people can possibly justify that this is a good idea.
Seriously just delete wvw and have every1 go to pve land where every1 is a winner zzz
There should be no “teaming up” this is a 1v1v1 no matter what. The new scoring system directly entourages a 2v1.
Bad bad bad change. I hope it gets revert next patch. I really do.
Awful change. They might as well completely remove any points seriously.
Revert this back to 3-2-1.
2^32 = 4,294,967,296
Pretty exactly the same number as in the pix (minus the last digit).
Past Dates
- 2012: 14 December 12 – 3 January 13 (20 days)
- 2013: 10 December 13 – 21 January 14 (42 days)
- 2014: 16 December 14 – 13 January 15 (28 days)
- 2015: 15 December 15 – 12 January 16 (28 days)
Speculation
- 2016: 13 December 16 – 10 January 17 (28 days)
Pattern
- Start dates: Tuesday, at least two tuesdays before the 25th, no sooner than the second week of December
- Duration: 28 days the last two years.
That suggests a start date of the 13th this month, lasting until the 10th of January.
42 days in 2013-2014??
Oh wow. I hope we get this one as long.
Wintersday is my personally favorite event. GIFTTSSSS
Focused Solar Logging Tool does 4 gathers per click instead of 3, which is nice for when the WvW bonus grants extra swings.
Likewise the Glitter Bomb Harvesting Tool does 3 gathers per click instead of 1. Again, nice for wvw bonus gathers, and perfect for guild hall harvesting.
Nothing compares to the Watchwork Mining Pick though.
Wait am I understanding this correctly…
If Im in front of a gather node, like the guild hall for example. I press “gather” and my char picks 3 items from a single gather?
So would that mean you only need to gather 2 times to get all 4 mats from the guildhall harvest nodes?
And same for the logging axe, you would only need 3 gathers (4+4+2) to get everything instead of 4????
edit: Is the speed of those 2 tools the same as others?
If yes, those tools are definitely worth since they will save a lot of time gathering 1 node multiple times.
I would really love to know if that’s the case. Ill definitely be on a lookout for those tools if all this is so much faster..
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I agree with the veteran creature daily.. that one doesnt seem to do anything with wvw except being in a wvw map…..
The rest are completely fine though.
It’s a good change in tiers with BALANCE population. There it actually a good incentive to have people fight over T3 objectives. Create more fights hopefully.
But the problem is populations aren’t balanced at all especially in higher tiers. So this change only rewards the more stacked servers.
Im okay with them keeping cannons if they fix them first.
Increase siege cap so you can’t stack like 10 of them in 1 spot…
Also make them cost more supply…
They are simply too OP at their current state..
So zero info on this patch… and it is currently downloading 8-10 Kb/s ?
wtf?
And no, it is not my internet problem.. my internet is way faster than that…
2 main issues for me.
1. No real ‘end-game’. Once you have full ascended set(s) there isn’t really anything left to farm for. I do farm some cosmetics to make my char look nice, but it doesn’t really do it for me.
I see WvW as the only somewhat viable ‘end-game’ activity honestly.
2. WvW is in a terrible state. Really lame tanky + condi meta which I personally dislike a lot. Very bad population balances and just overall a lot of bad decisions from Anet’s side. (like opening BG for transfers).
At this poing it’s not even the WvW that’s holding me in the game, its my friends that play this.
If something they need to lower population per map down to 50 (same size as squad).
This will:
1. reduce skill lags in 3-way sm fights
2. create queues on over stacked servers (BG…) and hopefully make ppl get sick of queues and transfer out. Then if they over stacked server destack a bit Anet might go back to like 5 tiers to spread the population better.
But yeah… player caps should absolutely not be increased.
Yes what you said makes sense. But this is only true to the very small servers or those with very few active players.
But this is 100’s of players we are talking about, not 10.
What this means is that on average all the server will have relatively the same activity times per player. The the players that plays 30 min will be balanced by those who play 12 hours. This is the case on every major server that has a large enough player base.
Anet should have a dynamic population threshold.
The 3 most populated servers should ALWAYS be full no matter how many ppl they have.
The third most populated server should be the “100% bar”, even if it means some server will be 150% full (or 250+++% in BG case….).
When the #4 server gains enough ppl to and surpasses #3, it becomes closed and the new server becomes open.
this way servers that actually LACK player will remain open while the stacked ones will always be closed.
Also it doesn’t have to be top 3. It can also be like 5 or more… the higher the number the more balance population will become over time.
Im mindblown and disappointed in you anet.
You need to UNSTACK those server but instead you unlock them to stack them even more.
And you’re telling me the server that is ABSOLUTELY dominating in T1 has less pop that the t4 servers?
smh.
I lost all faith I had in you to try and save this mode. This proves that you simply do not care about actual balance… only gems from people stacking BG some more.
gg anet.
A_ T killing jq and bg guilds
no new player
no new member
more and more can’t join back their guild wvw team
A _T think that these players will join to other server guilds?
Do you think that this game players number will
Increased substantially?
of couse no. this game already have 4 years
Don’t make more people afk pls
WvW already lose a lot of people
why still make some clever setting destroy the game
You want to play with your friends? Trasnsfer to a lower population server then.
No need to stack those server even more.
Anet is doing the right thing by not opening those servers.
GoM to SoS about a year ago.
But all the mussels food is fine honestly… it’s the lack of good offense food that is the problem..
That’s not even better than seaweed salad…
10% dmg increase (while moving)..
vs
6.67% extra crit dmg and a 5sec might stack for 1sec icd….
Yeah.. Ill take the 10%…
Plus getting might in a big fight is pretty easy as it is.
I do somewhat agree with op.
I wish we’d get better offense food… something like seaweed salad but instead of the useless move speed an actual offense stat like power or ferocity…
But all the mussels food is fine honestly… it’s the lack of good offense food that is the problem..
I feel like this is something that should really be addressed…
Right now when a person takes an Ewaypoint while it is still active but takes too long to load in, he gets redirected back to a different place once the Ewaypoint expires…
This is really annoying considering how ridiculous are loading times in this game in general.. half the time I cannot even make it in even if I take the Ewaypoint as soon as it pops… Then I end up being redirected to citadel or w.e.
Can this pls be fixed?It’s not just the loading times, which are approaching 30 seconds to get into the game alone on every single start of the game, it’s also the fact that the waypoint is not staying active for the “stated” time.
There are many times when an EWP has been pulled and instead of being there for xxx time, it’s gone in less than ten seconds, leaving most who are loading in, back to spawn and losing the darn property.
The timers are off.
The loading time isn’t being considered.
Yes, I noticed that too. It also sometimes pops several seconds after it was pulled, if you are trying to take it from another map…
Some ppl can see and take it immediately.. some have to wait for like 5-10sec for it to appear.
+1 for merge.
At least for NA server.
I feel like this is something that should really be addressed…
Right now when a person takes an Ewaypoint while it is still active but takes too long to load in, he gets redirected back to a different place once the Ewaypoint expires…
This is really annoying considering how ridiculous are loading times in this game in general.. half the time I cannot even make it in even if I take the Ewaypoint as soon as it pops… Then I end up being redirected to citadel or w.e.
Can this pls be fixed?
Why did mag get a pair lol??
At this logic u might as well give BG a pair too, cause you, why not…
Very fail links.
Replace like 80% of the tomes of knowledge in reward tracks with a “box of siege”.
Make box of siege drop 2-3 piece of siege blueprints with slight chance of it being superior…
Or even better replace ALL the tomes in the reward track with something else, and instead make a “lvling track” which gives a bunch of tomes just for those that actually need them.
Honestly I have several stacks of tomes, over 5k spirit shards, and every class I ever want to play already at lvl 80. I DONT NEED MORE TOMES!
You got a mad king chest from that? I literally run to the top 4+ times every time I do the clocktower and I’ve only ever gotten 5 tot bags.
And yeah… the rewards are total crap.
Yes twice… but now i cant get it anymore for some reason…
I feel like they fix only made it worse for me :/
Hi.
Im a little confused about the how to get more mad king chests…
I did the clock tower on my ele a few days ago, and got the chest. sadly all it had a was lame exotic and 5 ToT bags.
I did the tower again yesterday on my DH and got another mad king chest, but this time I could choose from a lot more things, one of which was a candy corn cob.
I redid the clock tower again on my DH today and got only 5 ToT bags today…
So my question.. how do i get more of the mad king chests? Is there a limit?
The tower clock is pretty hard to complete and it kind of sucks waste so much time to finally do it and get just 5 ToT bags…
God I love these new cannons…
So much trolling potential..
But for sure, they will need to fix them a bit first. Maybe up the price a bit and make them siege cap a bit.
I mentioned something like this in the past.
There should be local, dynamic “outnumbered buff” which gives the smaller group fighting the much bigger group some means to actually deal with the bigger…
Right now most abilities are capped at hitting 5 enemies. What this buff would do is for every 10 (obviously this number an be experimented with) people you are outmanned in the fight, you get to affect +1 target with you abilities. For example this means necro wells will hit 6 enemies or guard will grant stab to 6 allies.
This buff could scale by how much you are outmanned in a fight.
down by 10 players = +1 target,
down by 20 players = +2 targets, etc.
This buff would only be given to players in a certain range from the fight area and as the smaller group gains numbers the buff may change from say +3 targets to +2 targets…
This will give the smaller groups a better chance as wiping a brainless blob that can just run through your dmg because of their numbers…
Smaller more skilled groups should be better at the fighting aspect of wvw, while mindless blobs should be better at the objective capping aspect.
Idk if this is even possible lol but I feel like this sort of change would be fair for both sides…
Absolutely NOT to this suggestion. You are basically asking anet to nerf boons and buff conditions. Conditions are already OP enough as they are…
Maybe if in return condis also get some changes, then this could work.. but condis do not need to be any stronger than they are already… if something they need to be tuned down…
I do agree that some boons are really annoying and with boonshare it is even worse. It looks like boonshares are getting nerfed very soon so we have to see how it plays out..
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