Guild Wars 2

So is FA interested in double teaming CD?

Is FA interested in a ceasefire with IOJ?

I want to see if CD really deserves to be in T1.

Want to see if they can take us both on at the same time?

Golem ‘rushes’ on IOJ can be anywhere from 5 minutes to 1 hour in the making. It depends on what the guilds and alliance are doing. They are easily countered, if you have people disciplined enough to do the diligence of defending. The difficulty is finding such people that will defend when there is killing to be done somewhere else.

I’ll let you figure out how to do it, but it’s not hard, just diligence.

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Waking.6052:

As a member of Drgn, I can say we attract people of the highest calibre.

Might want to run some in guild lessons on the downed system, because I just 1v4’d some of your high calibre guildies.

I said people. Not all of our 400+ members are excellent killers, yet. There is rarely a night in which we don’t have a complete WvW virgin on.

Someone pointed out that we recruit virtually anyone but don’t like people leaving our server. Yes. Our hope and practice is that we will convert them to being focused on the competition and the fun of WvW rather than winning or losing.

This way, they are more likely to WIN as well as not jump ship when times are hard. IOJ had 2 months of straight losses, and Janthirians stayed and had fun. People have a lot to learn from us.

As a member of Drgn, I can say we attract people of the highest calibre.

And we recruit everyone, not just our immediate opponents. We recruit guilds and individuals from people at the bottom of the tiers in addition to the top.

“Give me your tired, your poor
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”

If they don’t like you and your server, but they like us, don’t hate!

Yeah, I personally had written off FA on day one of T3, and am pleasantly surprised.

So you all think my 700 badges aren’t going to be useful for ascended gear?

Speculation? Dev hints in 3rd party gaming news?

I’m saving my badges, every single one ever dropped, in the hopes that I’ll have a set of ascended gear waiting for me on the day it is released

What do you all think?

Blrrgh! I’ve been afgw2 for like almost a week, but T3 looks good so far, in pictures.

Depends what kind of commander you are. I’m a guardian.

If I go somewhere, people will follow me without thinking much, so I have the freedom to charge and I also have the freedom to retreat. People just follow the dorrito automatically in a zerg.

Any character with survivability has an advantage with the zerg.

That said, not all commanders are zerg commanders. Guild commanders can be any profession, and there are some commanders that run supply and teach newbies how to do it while typing strategically in map chat (with auto run on).

I’ve noticed that those which can move fast(rangers and thieves can) often lead the zerg better. But personally, with Staff, Save Yourselves, and Retreat the Guardian has the best of both worlds.

Very cool idea

Well I’m not going to argue about the merit of it, because that would improve my enemy

Thanks Renny, I’ll probably be doing the same to narrow it down.

I see what you did there.

I find that hard to believe given that the scores often end in 1, 9, or 3.

Try again, but better next time

It’s technically difficult to LOOT the bags automatically.

What they should be doing is granting a certain amount periodically.

So for instance, have a permanent kill quest, where you get rewarded in badges every 10 or 50 or 100 kills. No looting involved.

I’ve heard there are discrete WvW server score values associated with the following actions:

Killing Supply Dolyaks
Killing Checkpoint Guards
Flipping camps (not necessarily holding them)

Can someone point me to a resource, or break it down for me?

CD IOJ FA in that order, don’t have exact figures but it’s a nice linear arrangement.

Xonen, SS or it didn’t happen.

And if it did happen, the member’s guild will be informed.

IOJ lost HIRE, but many of hire stayed behind and formed into another guild.

I’d roughly estimate we lost 10 percent of our oceanic presence.

Isle of Janthir is in second place during their first day of T3. This is interesting, because they were previously T2. They moved down and are still in second.

Tarnished Coast is in second place during their first day of T2. This is interesting because they were previously T3. They moved up and are in second!

What other observations have you made that are interesting?

IOJ is in second place in T3, and TC is in second place in T2.

Interesting.

I noticed this tonight, but personally I FEEL that what changed is you need to target the wall or be closer than before.

That may not be the issue with you, because we used 4 golems on bay tonight and I wasn’t hitting with the first ability until I was on top of the gate. In the past, I think I was a step or two out and still hit it.

I had fun.

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Personally, I’m not spending a single dollar over the purchase price until the February WvW update.

The lass in this interview was really antagonistic and annoying imo.

Good interview though, it’s good to hear they like playing the game a lot.

Seems to me that BG is protecting their health and sanity and realizes this is just a game.

You don’t play your best players right before the playoffs if you’re already in. You give them a break.

My post about the true nature of this was removed because Arena net did not approve.

I used no profanity, I spoke in clear language, but it was not considered ‘constructive’. In fact, I was pointing out what should be obvious.

In the United States you must be of major status (not a minor) to do things in person which are permitted in this game without any verification of age.

If it wasn’t obvious to users at the time, here’s the constructive side: Don’t let your kids play in the forge. It’s fire, and you can think about the long term effects of putting hundreds of in game gold that transfers more or less directly into real dollars into a forge random number generator to see what you get back from it.

SOR, you guys are always around when I want to pick a fight. It was nice, even if others call it a zerg.

BG, at first I thought you were just a zerg, then I realized you move your people wherever they are needed, and that was fun trying to take things from you before you showed up and then defending while we were outnumbered.

IOJ, we’re going to keep having a lot of fun as we gain numbers

I had a lot of fun in T2, now to T3!

I love IOJ, and seeing new leaders rise up and continue coverage where there was none before is a beautiful thing.

So looking forward to seeing the server develop and destroy whatever pops up As our numbers stabilize, I can only imagine improvement.

LOL BH.

So you’re going to have your guild fight itself in about a month?

Good strategy lad.

Yeah, now try being useful without skillpoints and traits.

Commanders can use the zerg strategically and have fun at the same time if they are good commanders.

I love the downed state in WvW.

1. Forces you to think about whether you want to slow your allies down healing your stupidly dead corpse.

2. Forces allies to think about whether your stupidly dead corpse is worth reviving.

3. Stomping, resisting the stomp, stabilizing, bubbling and FIGHTING OVER A FRIEND WHO IS DOWN is hilariously fun to me.

Primetime for this game’s NA servers is not hard to predict. It’s in the evening in North America. Happens the same time every day in fact.

Releasing a build at primetime in NA is stupid.

In another game I played, an unofficial discussion board was created for all those discussions and players not allowed on the official forum and it became wildly popular and even made some money.

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I was pleasantly surprised that there was more ways than one to finish of a low health guardian (usually people stack conditions).

The first time an 80 glass cannon warrior Kill Shot me my health dropped from about 5 thousand to less than a hundred, and I breathed a sigh of relief, broke combat, waypointed, looked at the log, talked to a warrior friend, and thought “that’s pretty cool”.

That’s not your typical warrior, their play-style it’s different, has its own unique challenges and drawbacks. It only hits people with no armor for 33k (you can do the math, it’s just a division problem). You should be able to one shot level 1s who have no armor.

First thing I do on lowbies for WvW is invest in toughness and vitality because it scales and you need it to survive at all in WvW.

tldr: I’m a Guardian and a Mesmer and I’m glad thieves and warriors have these powerful abilities.

You can drag mobs there, I fought a moa yesterday invulnerable, didn’t realize what was happening until halfway through the fight (I’m a mesmer, and I don’t get hit). My illusions were getting hit but I wasn’t.

Golems only take advantage of undefended/underdefended towers. Siege chews them up, and you should have scouts on anything you want to keep.

Each siege tool has its uses.

Over the past many weeks of fighting IOJ and BG 15+ hours a week in WvW, I think I’ve come to a fair understanding of the two servers.

The first is that every server has a few good guilds, and a few big zergs. At first it seemed like BG had more zergs than guilds, but now I don’t think that was true. Both can be dangerous depending on what the guilds and commanders choose to attack/defend.

I’m not native to IOJ, but I’ve been here for a long time now, and I can see why IOJ looks like they are just interference in a bigger battle. There are only about 3 hours in a 24 hour period in which IOJ has bigger numbers than the other two, and maybe another 3 in which we’re equal. The rest of the time we are outnumbered or even greatly outnumbered with the outmanned buff even in our own BL.

On that topic, can anyone link an explanation of the score? It makes sense to me why IOJ has stayed in T2 if it takes into consideration how many players are on the field.

I enjoy fighting Blackgate and SoR.

It shows when you’re fighting a guild in comparison to a zerg.

My understanding was we’re not allowed to talk about other games by name. But I’ve played a few that handled this. (I wrote the OP).

What’s the down side to having all characters revealed at 1200 range?

Why not just send all information about all players that are in range? This is is almost 2013. Other games did this ten years ago.

As has been said, I think when Anet finally decides to get rid of culling and just let the player set the data rate, portal will stop being an annoyance and simply be a tactic. Like the thief’s ability to roam and kill vulnerable enemies, and the guardian’s ability to stay alive forever, and he elementalist’s versatility, each profession is OP at something. The Mesmer can portal, that’s one of two unique skills they bring to large scale combat and both of these skills are support.

Anyway, how do you counter a portal?

muylaetrix,
My sentiments exactly. Why is there culling in a game in 2012 when other games fixed this problem with weaker hardware and slower internet connections close to a decade ago.

Habib Loew,
Thanks for the update.

I have a question I really wish a DEV would answer, and a lot of people have asked the same question.

Why not put this in the hands of the players? The game obviously runs in WvW with minimum settings (at around 30 FPS, most of the time). However, there are players with far better computers who are stuck with culling anyway.

Is there some reason we can’t improve the game for those with better computers and leave the game as it is for those who don’t?

I’ve played other games in which EVERY aspect of position was important because there were so many position based abilities, and it was made close to a decade ago. It also handled open world pvp in a good looking 3d environment.

I’ve never seen more than 75 players at once in this game, and I have played games from 10 years ago that made it possible.

When 75 players are on their screen you are not looking at their eyebrows, or the texture of their armor. At most you’ll see color.

Most of us have played other games in which culling wasn’t an issue. That was in the past, when connections were generally less stable, slower, and more expensive. It was also when graphics were worse. Games 7 years ago at least could have large scale WvW.

I understand you weren’t prepared for this, and I don’t really mind that you weren’t prepared, but here’s what you should do in the mean time. While you work on your grand fix for all culling issues, give people who have high end systems the option now to load everything to a given range. Let them choose the range. Let them change it at will.

Let me choose culling settings. There is no way you can decide for me what is important in WvW. So don’t decide for me, give me the choice.

Hey.

I was willing to buy a new computer for this game. Let’s say we make a real solution, like make all players visible if they are within 1200 range.

I’ll turn down my graphics if it’s a problem. But I don’t think it will be a problem. You want a solution players like me are satisfied with? Let me decide which culling I want.

What kind do/did you buy?

Why?

What kind do/did you buy?

Why?