Guild Wars 2

lollie.5816:

Thrumdi.9216:

If ArenaNet wanted to run its WvW population in a socialistic fashion (like it does its economy) it could forcibly redistribute these Oceanic players so every server gets an equal amount.

Err…you realise we’re actual real live people and not siege weaponry or anything, right?

Talking siege weapons? There’s an idea.

Looks like someone was jealous that Mike got his own server and wanted their own Crossing.

bladie.5084:

A great match should have been Borlis Pass, FC, and AR. But that won’t happen because then Devona and Kaineng is stuck fighting a server 4-5 tier ahead of them. The imbalanceness. :9

I want that match. It would be beautiful. Someone want to take a dive and play Devona and Kaineng and not be mean? Play nice and act sort of like Ferg or Borlis and it will be almost fair. Then we can have fun times at our tier. eh? eh? Come on Anet, make it happen.

AlienMagi.7102:

This is nothing. You should have seen desolation this morning. 1 supply camp is all we had. ALL WE HAD!

It is not a competition. Ferg has owned the entire map at some points. I have gone in a map and not found a person for over a half hour. Some times it is a better game, chase the supply camps because we have a zerg and they have 10. Some nights they even grab a tower. The first day or so was fun. Now, what is the point of playing?

Ferguson Crossing is either at the top of the bottom, or getting crushed at the tier we are supposed to be in. Can the smaller servers see a little bit of love? We need a way to balance. Winning by 10x the other teams scores, 5x their combined score is not fun. Being destroyed isn’t fun.

Help?

Feuer Liebt Mich.8524:

“Everything changed when the Flame Legion attacked.” :P

Only the player characters, master’s of all 8 professions could stop them. But when the world needed them most, they blew up.

Maybe a simple solution would be to adding 1 more weapon slot for an upgrade. That would not be overpowered, but it would justify spending ten bagilion hours gathering mats.

Xsorus.2507:

Why do I think the main solution to this is for Henge of Denravi to lose? Because deep down, that seems to be what the main complaint is, that Henge of Denravi isn’t losing and SBI/JQ/ET aren’t winning.

I have a feeling of henge loses, that these complaints will magically drop off.

Because the number 1 rule of MMO’s is

“1. It’s never my fault as a player, I’m not a terrible player, if I lose, there is something in the game working against me”

Not everyone here is playing Henge. Some of us can’t get that high up because of population issues. I’m guessing you are from Henge?

Cloud.7613:

I’m Australian, playing on the Sea of Sorrows server, so my prime time is early morning to NA players and I’m baffled by ‘fighting NPCs’ because I rarely fight against any NA server that hasn’t had a stronger force at my prime time and I play on a heavy oceanic player based server. Either you’re just complaining because you’re losing or you’ve actually never played during that time.

It isn’t an issue on every server. Do you mainly play on weekends? If you do the issue doesn’t hurt you as much. I can’t claim to know SoS and their problems, but I can say if you steamroll during the day and are even at night(your night, not NA), it is probably due to numbers.

JonPeters.5630:

we don’t want to inherently make logging in at non peak hours less rewarding than logging in during primetime.
TL;DR Night capping is fun, WvW is 24/7 but getting steamrolled is not fun and we need to work on that to make it better.

I still don’t think you understand it. You say you do but those parts prove you don’t.
You don’t want to make non peak hours less rewarding, Well, hoe about you make peak time more rewarding? The off peak time is already more valuable. If you have higher numbers you roll over the other team. I don’t think I need to explain the issue are there are countless posts about it.
As to your TL;DR, NO. Night capping is not fun. Being night capped IS NOT FUN. Fighting at night is fun. Those two things are fundamentally different. Night capping is taking over when there are no enemies. Night fighting is taking over an objective from a relatively equal opponent.
Please figure it out because so far you don’t know the issues.

You need to transmog them. Exotics from the dungeons are mainly meant for the looks.

Awful idea. Already been suggested. The devs have said no repeatedly. No NO no nO NO no No NO NO NO. Seriously guys, this is just silly.

Kazim.2043:

Looking at those screenshots can anyone claim ranking/match-making system working as intended?

You can see it is working in some of the screenshots. Not many, but some.

I think the problem isn’t the boss. the problem is that if your group is not good enough to face him you get no reward for the dungeon. The chests don’t really matter. I think we can all agree that only tokens matter. Having such a tough boss is cool and I love the challenge, but if someone quits due to frustration you can not get the tokens.

Inci.7560:

You make no sense. And it seems that you didn’t get far at all in the dungeon, if rytlock can drag a single group of ghosts to the spawn point. So stop whining and try again with a different group.

It made perfect sense. For some bizarre reason the mobs became invincible. It doesn’t matter where it happened.

Fubuki.7162:

BTW, most of us on TS are grown adults (men and women) with families. Some of us are even certified welders, motorcycle riders, kayak fishermen, and back yard BBQ artisans, so you can rest assured joining people on TS won’t in any way raise your estrogen levels. The community is also welcoming to women (as my wife can attest to).

This is one of the best things I have seen in these forums. You win a gold star for the day and 3 cookies, any type you want.

The Pale Rider.8054:

Sounds like real war to me, theres always one traitor

Do you know what they do to traitors in a real war? They torture/execute them. Should we able to do that in game?

Coolmoos.8546:

Sure, lets not talk about the FACT that Anvil Rock and Fergs double teamed us at the start and we still held our ground. Anvil was in the lead for like 20 minutes until NSP took the lead back.

Yeah, you held off. FC started coming back. Then in the morning…

MATT THE OWNER.7412:

Kiviar.7063:

Splintrr.7391:

I’m surprised to see Northern Shiver winning, why were they in our bracket last week if they can win in the their own bracket by so much?

Because Anvil still has points from the 24h matches which we did okay in, but nearly every organized guild has evacuated to higher pop servers.

The sad thing is, neither Yak nor NS were actually better than AN in terms of skill. Once they got an population advantage in a map they just roll it. At that point nobody wants to spend 1-5g a day on siege to grind our way back.

I’m not even gonna lie, I’m home server on NS, and basically once an organized guild takes a keep or two and holds something, the zerg does the rest of the work. We’re working though to change that so it’s more organized and stuff. But until then… sadly the zerg is kinda helping us win it atm, which I don’t necessarily like. I’d rather lose strategically than win with zerging.

Perhaps you could convince them to let ferg or anvil have some of this back?

Well last night we (Ferg crossing) we pulling ahead. I’m sorry for not having a screen shot, but I have some from a few minutes ago. Kinda sucks.

That blows. At least we (Ferg) still own a bit of our map. Northern owns the rest of the maps right now. 1 day in. GG balance, gg.

Plus you would need to merge another 2 servers to something else. We would need to have 21 servers to keep the ladder.

Everyone who used the example that war is 24/7 is silly. In real life you don’t get teleported to the other side of the world when you sleep. Don’t compare the 24/7 aspect of this game to real life. It is a terrible example. Soldiers sleep but get this, when people shoot at them they can wake up! Unless you have some sort of application waking you up every time your forts get taken over, the example fails.
Please stop with that crap.

Wow, yesterday was really something. Nice fight Anvil and Shiverpeaks. Yesterday was some of the most fun I have had in WvW. Even if we lose the rest of the week it was worth it for 1 night. We came out on top for once.

Yeah, that guy in spawn was ankitten That is, unless you are one of those idiots who dances at spawn. Those guys are a waste of space.

1313.505 Anvil Rock
1146.019 Northern Shiverpeaks
1056.643 Ferguson’s Crossing
Oh boy, this will be quite the fun time… GG ANet, gg.
FC for life!

SKYeXile.2716:

everytime somebody from ET says it was only a 1k point margin i think of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1Zg7bTXRfU

and then i laugh, like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BaOvM9jXKg

only longer than that.

You win the forum post award for the day. Gold star,

Mug.9403:

Call of Duty analogy, Kill streak rewards… I never understood why it should become easier for me to kill someone because I can kill them in the first place.

Relics in DAoC were specific to your realm, there were 6 total, one magic and one melee for each realm. Taking an enemy one would give a 10% bonus to that damage type, for a total of 20 if you had all 3.

These were permanent. If you took one the whole server would be spammed a message. If you succeeded in taking one to get the bonus, your keeps would become WEAKER (guards etc).

10 year old ideas, possibly superior. I’m sure we could make them better!

I’m happy to be doing RvR again… er… WvW (because it can’t be as complicated as DAoC, people might just complain).

But in Call of Duty when you kill that person, they no longer have kill streaks. Those kill streaks only last a small amount of time or they can be taken out. You can’t take them out here.

Slamz.5376:

Join Fergusons or Borlis. They have no queues. They are doing poorly against a fairly mediocre server simply because they are short handed, particularly overnight. They actually put up a good fight in the US prime time but can’t quite fill 4 worlds.

So they aren’t a ghost town and they don’t have long queues.

Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy, but that post was amazing. Post more maybe?

Pvp.2758:

Fergusons Crossing is active and doesn’t have queue times normally, but we are 21st of 24 servers.

This guy knows what he is talking about.

vrgadin.1943:

ET needs dedicated oceanic guilds, please if you can use ts other than your own, and want a competitive match vs Hendge next week, please move from IOJ or SOS and become our nightcrew!

Can you start a recruitment thread and get out of other peoples? People hate your guild because of this kitten.

This is hilarious.

Can someone explain what this was specifically? How did it work?

As far as I know, no to both of your questions.

The problem is that some servers have a huge population that is night for the other, and about the same amount at the peak time for the other server. This allows them to cap everything at night and then hold off the server during the day. Anything they did not manage to hold then gets capped easily. You don’t seem to understand the issue. If it were as you said the fixes would be much easier.

Complaining that server alliances can’t get on to win it for the world. Good stuff. I iwsh I could get a server alliance.

Terrible idea. I see no cross continent as being and idea. I think there is an issue with French Canadians overrunning a European French server. We would need oceanic servers to not screw over a huge group of players though.

killerkerara.5621:

Ynot.8397:

Halo.8976:

And once again, a wonderful match Borlis Pass vs. Ferguson’s Crossigs vs. Ehmry Bay
Fist screenshot was taken at 3AM, the last one just now.

I have no Idea how it’s possible for us to overtake pure evil of green. 212k difference, yay!

Ferguson took a keep! GOOO FERG! Someone should get their Borlis teammates to stop attacking ferg. Last night we had to fight off roving bands of Borlis guys hitting out spawn supply while we had all of Ehmry distracted. This was our borderlands btw. Borlis was doing quite well in eternal.

We on Borlis Pass were only doing well because my 450 player guild, Shaboozey, got about 50 people together on Teamspeak and did some WvW. We got absolutely stomped by Ehmry Bay in our own borderlands, so we gave up and took our group to the eternal battlegrounds, where we managed to take a keep, a couple towers, and a few supply camps. That was, of course, until Ehmry Bay realized that we had switched, and came to the eternal battlegrounds to continue stomping us. The Shaboozey WvW group is literally the only large, organized WvW team on Borlis Pass, and as soon as we quit with WvW for the night, the map looks like this:

It is a bit rough against Ehmry, especially without coordination.

phamtrinli.6425:

Well so far it has appeared to me whenever I used life transfer that the damage is per tick.

So now we are in disagreement and I neither of us can prove our thinking 100% beyond a shadow of a doubt; thus confirmation please.

If you hit 5k per hit every character would be down in 5 hits.

TheAltarBoy.3176:

Part of the issue is communication. I had that problem in BWE2 and 3. The servers I was on for those were almost useless. You tr to call out things that need defending, or try to rally troops and no one would listen.

It gets really disheartening when you try and organize an offensive front and no one joins. Sadly there isn’t anything ANet can do about communication.

The imbalanced match ups certainly don’t help.

The fact that you got to play WvW in BWE2 amazes me. I got in once for 10 minutes.

Halo.8976:

And once again, a wonderful match Borlis Pass vs. Ferguson’s Crossigs vs. Ehmry Bay
Fist screenshot was taken at 3AM, the last one just now.

I have no Idea how it’s possible for us to overtake pure evil of green. 212k difference, yay!

Ferguson took a keep! GOOO FERG! Someone should get their Borlis teammates to stop attacking ferg. Last night we had to fight off roving bands of Borlis guys hitting out spawn supply while we had all of Ehmry distracted. This was our borderlands btw. Borlis was doing quite well in eternal.

poochythedog.6749:

Stop being lazy, it takes no more than maybe half an hour to unlock all of your skills.

I would say 15 minutes tops.

Sky.9347:

Kodiak.3281:

You all can keep going on about Eredon Terrace, but the reality is you could insert any server out of the top 4 and the results will be the same. The simple break down is:

1 EXTREME server who has 24/7 organization and players (HoD)
3 Highly Active servers who have great organization and coverage during NA prime time and good coverage in the off hours (ET/SBI/JQ)

Someone is going to have to go down each week. ET was actually poised to go back up for the 1 week matches but got held back. If it wasn’t ET, it would have been JQ and the results would be the same.

The same thing is going to continue to happen until:

1. Another server steps into the Highly active server bunch crowd (such as people xferring to or from the Oceanic servers)
2. One of the top 4 servers tumbles down due to a mass transfer, people quitting, etc.

Just the way it is.

But this isn’t just happening with that second group that has 1 of the top servers in it.

This is happening all the way down the rank charts, including the last three.

Obviously, something is wrong with the system.

I would say that was right except it should say bottom 4. The bottom 4 can’t compete with any except between themselves. You have the reverse of the top 4 essentially. You have 3 teams that deserve to be in the bottom and 1 each week will be shafted. In the top 4 you have 4 that deserve to be the top match, but 1 who will be pushed out and wreck in another match.

alanis.6094:

Ynot.8397:

In world v world I have had success with both the condition and minion builds. You have great survivability compared to other classes in game when on the wall or attacking it. You can struggle a little bit in 1v1 matches. If you handle it right, and have 1 or 2 friends with you, you almost never die. Flesh golem is the best elite skill for WvW IMO.

Plague is just too silly good for any sort of large, open-field engagement. Silly good.

Maybe I am just not lucky with it but I ALWAYS get taken out when using plague. I prefer the golem to help in 1v1 situations. I use the plague on occasion, but I get targeted heavily with it. The golem lets me stand back a little bit. For some reason people target that thing like it is a demon. It is also great for getting into gates. Charge through people and you can knock down a ton of enemies.

Mug.9403:

gandhigonewild.3645:

I play on Kaineng and Devona’s Reach….its not even a matter of people organizing. Whenever we do organize a fairly big push to retake things we’re promptly zerged to death. Even if we do manage to hold them off they always take everything back over night. Your approach isn’t working for the least populated servers. People aren’t organizing in WvW here, they are leaving for better matched servers. If we continue to get stomped in every match up the servers will end up being ghost towns.

It’s simply population for us, the way they have matched up Northern Shiverpeaks against the two lowest population servers just means they believe they are the worst server out of all of them (the populated ones) that existed on release. I think that’s a pretty big insult…

They have roughly 80% of the people across the 4 zones and 3 servers. I bet we get 3x the badges though.

I just can’t wait until the next match when 1 of the bottom 4 gets shafted. Currently the bottom 4 are in 2 matches. Next week it will be bad.

If you cut low levels from WvW(which I don’t think ANet will do), it should be a level 30 cut off. By that time you have had enough pve time to get decent gear and your skills up. At that point you are not useless. That being said, I would hate it if I were cut off from WvW.

Sometimes the orb gets displaced by lightning strikes which causes it to respawn. Other times it is bugged and can not be taken.

Mr Girly Man.6893:

Kaineng doesn’t want your pity. We will get our act together and hit number 1 status. Our glitched garrison is holding us together.

Not pitty, just the facts.

Halo.8976:

Your daily reminder, how fun playing WvW on Borlis Pass is.
Oh wait, it isn’t.

I haven’t gotten on since last night. It is sad to see everything we gained on Ferg lost over night

Sometimes it is impossible to organize a group that is low pop. They are so demoralized because they are getting theirkitten handed to them (Kaineng) that few show up anymore. I’m not on Kaineng but I know I would bekitten if I was stuck in that situation like them.

In world v world I have had success with both the condition and minion builds. You have great survivability compared to other classes in game when on the wall or attacking it. You can struggle a little bit in 1v1 matches. If you handle it right, and have 1 or 2 friends with you, you almost never die. Flesh golem is the best elite skill for WvW IMO.