I really want a siege troll in the game xD That would be epic. You befriend a local troll camp and they bring trees and start bashing the nearest tower gate for you like a ram
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
A better idea than Theftwinds would be for for you to help upgrade a keep and run dolyaks into it. A fairly easy job, all you have to do is keep a camp under your control and give the dolayks a swiftness boost to get to the keep quicker.
Once the upgrades have completed not only will that borderlands now have bank, it will have a guild bank too! The keep would even have a waypoint in it too which will help you get to bank whenever you need it. Ikr its crazy!
Plus you would have helped your server out and they would be forever grateful…
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
I hope you take into consideration adding achievements that encourage zergs to disperse. Lets not have another WvExp situation.
Although, all in all, I’m not enthusiastic about this new system. I fail to understand the concept of “competition” that you hope to instill, when the playing field is inherently unbalanced. Numbers win everything. How is that a fair competition?
At no point did I, or would I have, said “Fair competition” WvW is not intended to be “fair”. There are servers with more people, there are servers with better organizations and that will always be the case..
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
SBI has fronted a number of new guilds this week too. Skillful ones too. But they seem to play during my timezone (Australia) which has never been borlis’ strong point.
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
How could that even be regulated? How can you define participation? Is logging in to do a daily sentry slayer achievement and then running off to 1spam a dragon wvw participation? Is using wvw as a means to get back to lions arch without paying waypoint costs wvw participation? Is jumping on your borderlands to get quick access to a craftingstation/bank/trading post wvw participation? Or how about karma training all the pve events?
It seems like it would be far to difficult to regulate or even calculate… If I am throwing gold into upgrading our keeps I don’t want ‘mr wvw for daily achievement’ to get the same rewards as me AND then go on to farm 10-20x the amount of gold us true wvw’s can make…
Sure wvw is fun, but I want cool shineys too…
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
No, all it will be is Rank 1 and 2 will have an extra, essentially neutral borderland to fight over as rank 12 wont be able to summon a force to make a dent on the map regardless of OP npc events.
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
If you are saying you don’t ever even want the chance to try and show your skill against a higher ranked server, then I don’t know what to say..
Please be sure to transfer your game account to server rank 12 (who ever that may be) ready for their first battle with Jade quarry, Blackgate or Sanctum of Rall so you can experience the fun of fighting these servers with us lol
I’m sure we will even let you command and show us the strategies we need to win
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
We, the people of lower tiers, don’t mind testing our metal against tough odds. We do however mind it when the servers with the most players and best coverage gets the best rewards purely for the numbers reason only.
But as you said in another topic, wvw isn’t fair. All rank 12 has to do is throw enough matches to drop to rank 13 and get the best rewards.
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
In addition, you should look at it this way, if people flee lower league servers to get into the top leagues, it opens the opportunity for people to move to those lower leagues and finish 1st or 2nd, rather than being in the top league and finishing 6th or 7th.
is what they had in mind :/
All it will mean is those wanting to flee will just leave the lower end of each ‘league’ the week before the system kicks in and will (in the case of NA) stack tier 1 and tier 5…
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
WAIT. Devons actually telling you all the issues you had with leagues will NOT be a problem and he just CONFIRMED we will be getting more achievement points in WvW and you guys still complain… Honestly wtf guys. Im happy, how can you not be. Progress is finally being made and deadlines are being met…
Of course you would say that, you are on IoJ, and you won’t end up at the bottom of the gold league having to face tier one. That in itself isn’t fun but not only that bottom of gold league is going to get shafted in the rewards department as well…
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
Community concern is that incentives will be high enough to draw players to transfer up the tiers, killing even more low tier servers, over filling silver tiers with players and so forth for gold. Can you comment on any plans to address community size issues?
I can’t comment at this time as we haven’t finalized anything. In addition, you should look at it this way, if people flee lower league servers to get into the top leagues, it opens the opportunity for people to move to those lower leagues and finish 1st or 2nd, rather than being in the top league and finishing 6th or 7th. The rewards for finishing 2nd in the Bronze League will be markedly better than the rewards for finishing 6th in the Gold league.
Why, it’s not our fault our server has less wvw population than the powerhouses of our ‘league’… Why should we be forced to abandon our servers to stack others…
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
It appears this will discourage the dispersal of guilds.
Many guilds have seemingly started looking around at lower tier servers to escape the lag heavy Zerg heavy top tier servers. I can’t see them wanting to move if they will have to pay fees AND get punished in the way of poor/less rewards
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
The issues are not usually that a server has low population, it’s that a server has a low wvw population. A top tier server that has lots of dedicated wvw guilds around the clock who primarily care about wvw don’t neccasarilly have a higher population than lower tier servers, it’s could just be that the ratio of wvw to PvE/spvp players is higher.
However, you can’t tell people what game type to play, so you will still lose each week because they don’t want to help out in wvw.
The issue is, that while you may be on these lower tier servers and still care just as much about wvw as the higher tier servers, you are essentially on the wrong server and if this system rewards the heavily stacked servers more it’s only going to promote more stacking.
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
So if you come last in your league (because you have the lowest wvw population) that means you won’t get the rewards that the server who wins the league (one with the highest pop and coverage) gets?
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
Please ignore the trolls and answer the real concerns… Because if it’s just going to reward the winning servers the most all that will mean is the only prerequisite to winning the league is having the most people 24/7.
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
Another stat that we get no choice in, check their blog post.
A -> B
C-> D
E -> F
There is no oh hey i have set A and i want stat combination F. You have no say, effectively Anet is punishing people for playing the game and investing in those items.
I am struggling to see the issue here. There are a number of things people want and don’t get, this is not one of those things so be thankful. Many people are waiting for the update towards the end of the year that makes the party and commander systems more intuitive.
Orbs were stupid anyway. 9/10 times the glitched or were hacked into by flying noobs and controlling them only seemed to make the already dominant overpopulated servers in a matchup stronger.
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
A new replacement mechanic has already been announced and broadcasted over a number of mediums including these forums and livestreams. If you check the latest livestream at pax you will even notice Devon announced the date on which the replacement mechanic (bloodlust) is going to be introduced.
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
“The idea here is to look at recent WvW ratings and match up worlds in similar levels, with a gold league, a silver league, and so on.”
so take servers 1-6 place them in a league, take 7-12 place them in a league, take 13-18 and finally 19-24
I dont know about you, but imo in this system the (current) top tier servers will always win. WvW is only about population. Strats and skills only decide close matchups between servers with similar wvw populations. Its a shame, but its just how it is.
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
I don’t think we will ever see the day where I am battling in Eternal and a pop up on the screen displays saying “Your server has slain the Risen Priest of Balthazar!” With a nice little reward.
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
The population disparity between ‘Tier 1 (Server rank 1, 2 and 3) and ’Tier 4 (server rank 10, 11 and 12)’ is absolutely huge. There is no chance at all of lower populated servers ever winning in this league system.
Take my server, Borlis Pass, for instance. It has been said that every server will play off against other servers in your league once. Even if we went up against all the heavily stacked servers in as few matches as possible we could never win this.
Eg week 1: BP/JQ/SOR week 2: BP/TC/BG week 3: BP/FA/DB week 4: BP/Mag/SOS week 5: BP/ebay/CD week 6: BP/YB/??
The only matchups we could possibly stand a chance in would be a Borlis pass vs Yaks bend vs Ehmry bay matchup and maaaaayyybe a Borlis pass vs Ehmry bay vs Crystal Desert matchup. All other matchups would see us get decimated purely due to coverage and numbers. And that’s hoping RNG is in our favour and we dont end up with a powerhouse like JQ or BG invading our ‘easier’ matchups against CD/YB or EB.
We still care about wvw just as much as the other servers, we just have less people. Is that any reason for us to be punished like this?
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
Really liking some the organised guilds sbi has right now. Shame at the time you guys are playing we seem to only have disorientated pug blobs to throw at you. Seeing some better fights than in servers higher than you.
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
Also I hope that it’s playable for people outside the US because the rubberbanding in this game seems to kill some game modes (I’m looking at ou sanctum sprint and crab toss!).
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
@TexZero
Anet have said we can trade our magic find gear into another stat set of our choice which is fine in my book. So long as we don’t get a very limited choice. I would be more than happy to turn my magic find gear into one of these new types (dire looks nice) or maybe even sentinels. But Anet have not yet said if those will be available to choose.
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
Is the ‘hunters’ stat set a typo? Or is it a new stat set with only power and precision?
Edit:
Also there still is no clarification as to whether or not the ‘crafted sets’ to choose from will include craftable sets like the new ones you are implementing and previous (now rare to obtain) sets like sentinels and apothecaries etc…
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
The 4th skill is infrequent at best, but I agree it does make confusion a little more viable for classes that already utilise confusion. And it should, especially after confusion took such a hit. It used to be feared by 1 spam zerglings with no condition cleanse, and now people rarely pay attention to it.
Still, increasing duration is rarely important these days in Wvw especially because so many people run condi cleanse groups so it rarely ticks for long enough to make use of the extra duration. A much more effective method seems to be in makeing your conditios more spikey so they deal as much damage as soon as possible, so that it even if they are cleansed they have done their job.
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
I doubt they will let us choose celestial because that set is time gated, however I don’t think it’s unfair to let us have a chance at the others, especially as Anet didn’t allow us to actually craft the sentinels insignias. It would be nice to get another chance to get this gear type.
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
The sixth utility on the rune only applies confusion on interrupt. From your vast knowledge of conditions and boons (proven above by your very informative post) I am sure you can deduce how stability nullifies the confusion applied by this rune.
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
I hope its not just limited to the standard zerk, rampager’s, carrion, cleric, knight’s sets because turning my magic find sets into stuff I already have plenty of doesn’t feel like much of a compensation tbh…
I’m thinking that’s exactly what we’ll get.
Take a look at the WvW vendor…we’re getting screwed one way or another.
Have faith! Lol
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
I hope its not just limited to the standard zerk, rampager’s, carrion, cleric, knight’s sets because turning my magic find sets into stuff I already have plenty of doesn’t feel like much of a compensation tbh…
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
Do we have any idea what the list of sets we are going to be able to replace our magic find gear with?
I mean, I have seen somewhere it is only going to be sets that are craftable (seemingly ruleing out settlers, magi, cavaliers, and valkyrie) but is it going to be limited to a few of those craftable sets? Are we not going to be able to choose the more exotic craftable armor/weapon sets like Givers, apothecary, sentinel’s etc…
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
Unless you run condis which don’t scale off anything xD
Narg is right. If he is a power ranger his base damage stats for skills and attacks are lower than other classes based off the fact his pet is doing damage too. But as he said, the pets damage doesnt scale when his stats increase.
To simplify, say warrior longbow did 1000dps and rangers did 600dps with the pet picking up the extra 400 to round it out. If the new weapon sets gave you a 10% damage output boost the warrior would be at 1100 dps and the ranger would be at 660 dps plus 400 equaling 1060.
Crude but hope it helps to visualise it a little more.
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
The sum of badges is only meaningless to people that wvw a lot. People wvw a lot because it’s fun. If someone in PvE does dungeons a lot because it’s fun they will also have a surplus of tokens for gear.
Difference is, while mr PvE enjoys his time in dungeons he is getting 1g+ per run. Mr wvw gets blues greens and spikes if he is lucky.
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
I dont know of any on borlis sorry! But like Melliah said, TC is known for its RP community and its so easy to guest these days so you can still take part in the RP action and still be on a lower tier server (for less wvw queues etc…)
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
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