Guild Wars 2

Reverence.6915:

You also know that your server is the only server that produces those queues? Jade Quarry’s coverage so overwhelming right now that no one can even compare with those numbers. Your experience is not indicative of what’s going on in WvW. Neither is any server in T1. Perhaps get an alt down into T4 or T5 and see how the average WvW server plays without queues.

No my experience is not indicative of everyone, I agree. The difference is, I am not suggesting they make changes to WvW based on my personal needs for my server. The person I quoted previously is.

Dayra.7405:

Isn’t the Reason for outnumbering obvious?

The match capacity is to high.
4 maps a 100 people a 24 hours a 7 days is 67200 play hours per team and match.

No server is even close to use that, in mean the capacity is probably used to less than 10%.

You can only have balance at times where the capacity is used. And as it is never used you have never balance.

Which server? How many hours have you spent on each of the 24 servers in your region, that gives you the experience to make this claim?

With 20-50 player queues on four maps regularly on weekends on my server, I suspect your making uninformed and inexperienced assumption in my opinion, about other servers based on your experience on your servers. It is unfortunate that you would make suggestions that harm other servers, for the sole purpose of your personal gain on your server.

Keep in mind that your experience does not define that of others, so before you push for changes, it would be nice if you could look outside the context of your experiences first.

As GM Proheals AKA Michael Henninger has said in some threads in his post on this sub forums, PM him and let him no.

I recently had a issue in which we had a player building golems to burn supply, then walking them off a cliff to destroy them.

I PMed him with the character name, the account name, the server, and the time. He replied back the next day. Checked the logs of that player. Upon confirming it, he replied, informing me that he made certain that account will not be in game again. Haven’t seen the player since.

Keep in mind, to be certain you do not do so with a player who you are not certain is being problematic, as they have been punishing those who make false claims.

Sizzle Hint.1820:

i remember one of my friends who mained the engineer always laughed at our leader for bringing him on his engineer into the GvGs after he played a guardian because he felt so useless… mind you that guy loved the class to death

Well lets address some specifics on statements of this nature for a second.

First and for most. If your “friend” has an opinion, let him post it. I have experience on bit these professions. Lets stick to speaking for ourselves bases on our our experiences shall we.

One of the largest reason GWEN has lost significant value, is the stability changes. That change lessened the value of guardian the most. You see, the value stability gave to a group was extremely strong. Going from any profession to one that had it in abundance is empowering. You became immune to entire sets of weapon skills and entire utility sets. Being able to apply it to multiple allies gave it that much more value and was that much more empowering.

That stability has no where near the value now. A single engineer can pop slick shoes. Run through a zerg. He can literally strip all of the stability that 5 guardians can apply. In T1 EB last night, I found it rather entertaining when we were going to cut the enemy off of getting into the portal. I was not commanding last night, and my guildy who was called for walls to block portal. We were still a distance away. I, Adam, and Lobo were all running SS/RB/BK so we used super speed, then rocket boots (RB are a native movement range of 900, 1200 with swiftness, and 1500 with super speed) to get into range quickly. The 3 of us pasted oil from SS around the portal. Out of 60-70 enemies, only 4 made it past and we demolished the rest. A few folks in TS were surprised. I said, "Hey, guardian walls only strip 1 stack of stability, slick shoes have the potential to strip all stacks from all who pass through it.

Where is your precious GWEN in situations like that? You see, this isn’t much of a discussion, in my opinion, before the stability changes. The problem is, one of the key component of what made GWEN so valuable and cohesive, was AoE stability and the fact that it was so reliable for a specific period of time. They change that functionality entirely, yet you still have sheeple arguing the exact same argument.

The arguments you keep making here start with “back when” and refer to an older time, in a no longer existing guild, and refer to GvG from a previous time.

Sizzle Hint.1820:

Why does none of the top guilds run an engineer in their GvG comp? I guess they all suck and you must know some stuff about the class they don’t.

Possibly, and possibly not, but I am glad you think so enough to post it, thank you. Although I do find it interesting that you were the one who made all of the comments about being defensive, and here you are, making unfounded implications, when you reached a point in which in which your arguments have limited merits.

Perhaps I am smarter then them, perhaps I am not. I have been running PvP or RvR style guilds since the 90s. I have learned to adjust for changes, think outside the box, and have fun doing it, but you are making your arguments that are out dated.

I am not, nor did I get defensive. Neither did I try to insult you in any way. Your reading that into it yourself. As well, apparently you made your post, as I was making an edit. As I said though, your reading into it a little to hard to reach the conclusions you are of my intentions.

If you took it as being defensive, I would gather your doing so because you are repeatedly stating your opinion as if it were fact, and making repeated declarations rather then statements of opinion. that is on you, not me.

I am simply sharing my opinion, based on my experiences. Simply because I do not accept your statements as doctrine (which they are not, they are simply your opinion) does not mean I am being defensive. I could equally read into your statements in the same fashion, but that doesn’t benefit the conversation.

I will say one thing, you do make a good deal of statements of fact, in which you offer no actual evidence to support that, where as it has had evidence in previous discussions of this matter to suggest you are incorrect. Such as your statement that an engineer does not have reliable burst as M/T.

Why do you assume that is the only value of an engineer is to replace a thief or a Mesmer? How do you compare the single target value of those professions to one that can do 3 times the damage, only spread among five or more targets?

Part of the issue here, as I see it, is that you have made a few attempts at making one to one comparisons, then make a declaration based on that, and not offered any evidence to support your opinion, yet you word it perfectly definitively.

Sizzle Hint.1820:

@coglin:

Do you play a GWEN class aswell? You really should and see for yourself why the engineer lacks in comparison.

Yeah, I do play all the professions at times. At some point with in the first 6 months around release, I leveled each of the 8 professions to 80. Mostly in WvW. Back then, uplevels were common, if not the norm, and leveling was a common thing in their. I did so to learn all of the profession, both to know how to play as each, as well as playing against them.

Sizzle Hint.1820:

Don’t get me wrong i love the engineer and ofc it can somewhat work in a pug blob with 50 other people but it really doesnt shine in comparison to the GWEN classes.

Yeah it kind of does. I mean, you do not have to agree. Judging from the perspective you portray though, I suspect you do not do well at stepping out side of the box. I, on the other hand, do not enjoy stale play in a stale meta. I have fun creating my own and thriving with it.

Sizzle Hint.1820:

And yea you can lead pug blobs with it ofc no problem, heck ive seen thieves lead pug blobs with success somewhat, doesnt mean it is anywhere near meta

I have seen at least one very good commander, of each profession, thrive at it. So much so, that the meta on their servers or those the fight, feels it so strongly, that they feel the need to make adjustments to compensate.

When you thrive in such a manner that your enemies change there composition and game play, it is by definition “meta”.

With all of the regurgitation of buzz words between forums post, I would bet 95% of the posters here couldn’t define what the definition of “meta” is. I would wager 25% wouldn’t understand it fully after using a dictionary. I say that with confidence, because I see it used incorrectly on a regular bases.

That aside, my experience of my guild all playing on one profession (different every week) has already shown those with an open mind, how well you can chew through enemy parties of equal size, as it seems all of the “meta” followers are not equipped to handle something outside of that.

Sizzle Hint.1820:

Im curios what build u run aswell? How do you pressure?

Bombs are downright terrible and nades are okish but reta just kills you (maybe that changed though, havent tried to blob with my engineer in a while)

Well, I would gladly share my builds I use, or how we utilize the profession if various forms or in composition with other professions. But I feel when you went directly to bashing skills, I do not feel you want to have a serious discussion.

The manner in which you present your opinion as statements as if they were fact, I feel you are confusing subjective opinion with that of objective fact.

The medi-guardian was a good example used earlier, it was rarely used until a skilled player did some great things with it, then everyone followed suit. I am not asking anyone to follow suit with what I saw, I was simply responding to the OP and participating in the conversation as it flowed from there. I am not asking anyone to agree with me or try anything new. I will do that myself, and enjoy it and thrive with it. Everyone else is welcome to play GWEN and step or not step outside the box, to what ever degree they please.

Shrapnel works with any grenade kit, bomb kit, and mine skill.

Ins.7139:

No lag Deso BL during reset, had alot of fun 60vs60 fights. Just a +1 something is working post

We had no lad on BGBL last night or today at all either. I heard several of the varies channels on our TS, last night in particular, speaking ecstatically about how lag less it was.

It is unfortunate to see some other still suggesting that they are having problems. Odd at times how it is worse for one map or server then it is on another.

Conaywea.5062:

i dont understand how there is people who takes EoTm like something serious

That is perfectly fine. You are not required to comprehend why certain players enjoy certain aspects. It is possible there are aspects you may enjoy that others do not comprehend either.

Orochimaru.4730:

In EOTM it’s normal, especially if you get into one of the instances where VotM are on.

This guild is spread over several servers, and have made karma training EOTM into an actually train.
They have commanders on all 3 colours who are all on the same TS and parties so they know where they all are. They then simple go round and round in a circle making sure they never run into each other or catch up to each other.
They are all about capping towers for karma and champion loot bags.

This is why no real WvW player considers EOTM to be WvW. It’s a farce of a map.
So if you tag up you disrupt this karma train and they get annoyed.

If you are in a bad WvW matchup, going to EOTM is fun to ruin these karma trains. Reading all the comments of why are you tagged up, you are ruining our karma train, go back to WvW; it’s hilarious!

Please stick to speaking for yourself, and refrain from disingenuously claiming to represent the entire community. Such actions benefit no one.

If your choosing to disrupt the karma train for your entertainment, as long as you are not breaking any actual rules, it is as valid as any other experience for fun.

Coldtart.4785:

McWolfy.5924:

Finaly melee trains not unstopable. I like it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L91Sq1zzAQ

Back when melee was at its absolute strongest, VR was stopping them. It’s a simple matter of being good at the game.

Every organized guild or group was stopping them, that is not the point being made. That is not the point. Stopping them wasn’t particularly special to be honest. What he is suggesting is that they are not as unproportionatly strong as they used to be (many felt the stability was op).

BlackDevil.9268:

No here’s the deal: An engineer is required to have guardians and warriors in his party to keep him alive while a guardian can keep himself alive already and doesn’t always need to rely on his guardians to have stability. .

That is not true in the least. As we have established you do not have any commander experience, will you at least share your engineer experience? It is a necessary question considering you are making statements that are inaccurate to my experience.

BlackDevil.9268:

Rotation wise you will be lacking a lot stability if you go for an engineer instead of a guardian. .

Not much difference really.

Also, stability isn’t of near the value of what it once was, and multiple players can have it removed entirely with one single pulsing AoE CC.

BlackDevil.9268:

So in theory, a guardian is already better than an engineer and no one has proven that wrong in practice yet. So yes, it’s quite easy for me to say Guardian > engineer as leader. Go prove me wrong with actual arguments, cause I haven’t seen any besides ’’invurnability’’..

A. This is not a “is the engineer better then a guardian for tanking thread”…Please stay on topic

B. That is not what “theory” means. You cannot use theory and “proven” in the same sentence in that matter. By definition, theory defines it as unproven.

C. We already established that you are not a leader, and do not PIN up as a commander. So where do you get off suggesting what is best suited for the position when you have no experience to make such a determination?

BlackDevil.9268:

Edit: if there’s anyone close minded about his profession it’s you. Engi is the best! Yet, no one bothered with it.. I wonder why… Oh that’s right, because people have bothered with it and concluded it’s just not as good. But seriously, keep playing the way you want, but don’t expect it to become meta unless you actually come beat an actual guild with it.

I do not see anyone stating engineer is the best. Please do not disingenuously claim that those who disagree with you are saying that.

As well, do not claim “people have bothered with it” or people have played it. You for example, shared you have no time as a commander, and have not even suggested how many hours you have on the engineer, if any, and are making statements as to what it can or cannot do as a profession.

You can literally beat a guild just fine with nothing but engineers. We have done so with literally nothing but all of a single profession, and done so with every profession. We have posted videos of it here, in the past, so I am baffled as to how you claim it isn’t done or is entirely difficult.

BlackDevil.9268:

What guild are you in man? Destruction Engineer Raid Power [DERP]?

I am in [SG] Shadow Gypsies is a casual playtime, hardcore PvP/RvR guild that has been together for over TWO DECADES and has been pvping since Meridian 59 in ’94. A dedicated motley crew of friends intent on wrecking your day to alleviate their real life workplace frustrations. Our player base is “old gamer.” We do not tolerate drama queens, cheats, nubs, n00bs, l33ts, hax, or whiney kittenes. We PvP on the internet to kill them, as we can not legally kill them IRL. If this is you…welcome home my friend.

They are designed to work in conjunction with the games design around dodging and damage avoidance. I like the system. Personally, I feel any changes that would resolve your complaints, would likely be damaging to the game over all.

BlackDevil.9268:

And this whole relates to the topic in what way?…
I avoided the question as it was irrelevant.

I felt it realavent do to your statements in which you suggesting what a commander does or does not want. As well as what you do or do not want other groups to do. To make those claims, I felt your experience, or possibly lack there of, was relavent.

I PIN up about twice a week for 4 or more hour stretches. Sometimes more days, depends on my life schedule. I do not particularly believe in the GWEN theory, I have fun, feel I do well with the fights, we are very productive, and did I mention having fun.

You? As well I noticed blackdevil, that you avoided answering the question.

BlackDevil.9268:

I’m just gonna quote myself now since people can’t read aparently:

BlackDevil.9268:

But that’s not the question nor the topic of this thread.
Just cause you can command or participate in WvW it doesn’t mean you isntantly belong to the meta. The meta is what is best and engineer isn’t in there for WvW. That doesn’t mean you can’t make such profession work, but it’s just not as good as the profession you would replace.

Why do you suggest folks are weak readers simply because they disagree with you? You can have a discussion without backhanded comments.

When you PIN up, you do not have to have an engineer if you don’t like. Speaking of which, how often do you PIN up?

I find the engineers pull with magnet, ranged AoE with grenades, AoE cleanse with ED to be very valuable.

I am kind of with the OP on this one.

In my opinion, there is no justification for a players investment in precision or condition damage to be completely ignored and invalidated by any object in the game, particularly minion and pet types.

If they feel adjustments in hit points are needed to justify making a change, then so be it. As long as they are not immune to damage stat investments.

waSte.8640:

@Coglin: You post so much as an expert on gw2 I would assume you could answer your own question.

I am sorry my questions confused you. I do know the answer to the questions. They were intended to guide the original poster in a direction to understand that his points he is using to claim hacking, are points that are readily accomplished through normal means. Sorry if I confused you. ( It is nice to see that you feel I am an expert. Thank you, but I am simply sharing my opinion, based on my experiences )

Lunacy Solacio.6514:

zach.9726:

I like how the “How to Address Lag” post is basically a non-answer dodging questions about the lag. It has nothing to do with my connection or thousands of others with more than sufficient connectivity.

Just because your connection is supposed to be ‘more than sufficient’ does not mean that your connection isn’t at fault! It doesn’t matter if you have a direct connection to an internet backbone or are 1 mile from the servers. Even if you can 100% rule out every possible situation involving your computer, your home network whether it is wifi or not (hardware does fail you know, including modems, etc), the cable to your home could be at fault, or your isp, or the isp they connect through, or etc., etc.,

It is NEVER clear cut, ‘I have 500 megabit cable therefore I can NEVER have any sort of lag.’ I’m sorry but you share that connection at some point with everyone else in your area. That area could be just a corner of your city, or nearly half your state as mine is. Nevermind if you use wifi, and the things that can interfere there.

Does anet sometimes have issues? Yes, and this is to address those issues. But the suggestions on causes of lag have a very good point, because sometimes, it isn’t Anet’s fault.

Indeed. Last summer, I was having a great deal of disconnect when no one else I asked was having the problem. I was also having lag when no one else in my guild or team speak did.

After 3 visits from my ISP, out here running test, they actually determined that I had a corroded connector on my eves. They replaced the part, and Viola, it solved my problem.

On another occasion before that, I was having issues with lag suddenly, when others were not, and I had none previously. After a few email exchanges with Anet CS and some information sent back and forth, we realized a router/modem reset, for whatever reason, changes the ports I was using. We lined that out.

With both those issues resolved, I have had a pristine experience since. Even with the current server problems, I appear to be hit by it to a much lesser extent then others I play with.

It is truly amazing how some players are so resistant to accepting that they can do so much to reduce problems on their end to improve their experience.

Can you get to that point without a hack?

Can you get into a way pointed keep legitimately?

How do you claim “flying hack” without evidence of flying?

No. I agree there is no reason to blindly believe the OP either. But that is not the point. In that case, he is not specifically calling names or declaring random superiority either. He appears to be making an extreme example.

Personally, I see no issue with chasing a player, nor do I see an issue with choosing not to stop and bother fighting one either.

There is a guild/pvp/group subforum toward the bottom section in “community corner”.

It isn’t universally hated by any means in my opinion. Personally, I am all for it. In my opinion, the folks that dislike it, have created their own idea on how to do things, and chose to speak negatively about out of the personal bias of their subjective opinion.

aspirine.6852:

coglin.1867:

aspirine.6852:

I see runners as cowards, so you bet I will come after you and kill your kitten .

I wouldn’t call someone a “coward” simply because they had somewhere they were going, and they don’t stop to waste their time with you, as some random roamer they came across.

He was fighting in NC, lost his mates dead and he ran from the fight. Sounds like a coward to me.

Got a video of that? Or are we intended to blindly take your word that you kill everyone and the only reason you do not kill someone is because the run?

This isn’t a discussion about how good you are or aren’t as an individual. Nor is it a place to insult players who do not pause to fight you specifically.

Point is, there is nothing either good or bad about being chased or chasing a player. It simply is what it is.

That’s not math and logic my friend. Thay is disingenuously suggesting that your subjective opinion is actually objective fact, is all that is. Please do not confuse the two. Once you do that, you may remove yourself from having a reasonable discussion.

it is a matter of personal opinion. Not a matter of declaring ones opinion as if it were fact.

aspirine.6852:

I see runners as cowards, so you bet I will come after you and kill your kitten .

I wouldn’t call someone a “coward” simply because they had somewhere they were going, and they don’t stop to waste their time with you, as some random roamer they came across.

NeroGuilt.4720:

coglin.1867:

NeroGuilt.4720:

Is respect for the GvG community not enough of a statement?

It is totally irrelevant in my opinion. If someone is intentionally being dishonest is claiming that a thing is something that it is not. I am simply asking if the claim is blatant dishonesty, or if there is a fact of any kind to back it up. As I feel that is extremely realavent to the conversation.

“Obsidian Sanctum Update
The Eternal Battlegrounds jumping puzzle, the Obsidian Sanctum, is receiving some changes! Along with being able to enter the jumping puzzle from inside your world’s keep in the Eternal Battlegrounds, you’ll now be able to enter the map directly through the WvW menu. Along with that, we’ve added a new arena space to the Obsidian Sanctum where opposing groups of players can meet up for combat. The Borderlands Bloodlust buff will no longer apply in the Obsidian Sanctum.”

While part of the reason behind OS was to get people who only care about the JP out of ques, they at several times mentioned it being geared towards GvG. This was in 2013, which is entirely too long ago for me to want to fish up a mod statement with it word for word, but the arena area was added in for GvG/Duels.

Do you have a link to both the statement you “quoted” and perhaps one that actually mentions GvG?

NeroGuilt.4720:

Is respect for the GvG community not enough of a statement?

It is totally irrelevant in my opinion. If someone is intentionally being dishonest is claiming that a thing is something that it is not. I am simply asking if the claim is blatant dishonesty, or if there is a fact of any kind to back it up. As I feel that is extremely realavent to the conversation.

Do we have a link to an official statement, designating the area for GvG?

insanemaniac.2456:

i like the idea of juggernaut giving stability but i kinda dont like the idea of engi (or anyone) always having safe stomps. its kind of an interesting tradeoff, “sacrificing” your build and a utility in order to always secure stomps, but im not convinced its either worth it or good for the game.

This is actually exactly why the original features of the trait were changed. I for one, can agree with your statement completely.

Thanks for the update Stephen.

Were the caps increased back to the normal setting? Or some lesser amount between the regular cap and the temporary one?

ImLegion.4018:

coglin.1867:

ImLegion.4018:

coglin.1867:

Ravezaar.4951:

for us WvW players.

Please do not post your off topic, negative attacks here, and claim to speak for everyone else.

Do everyone a favor, and stick to speaking for yourself if you don’t mind.

You are only allowed positive feedback or nothing at all?

No, you are not allowed to speak for me in my opinion. I thought I was fairly clear on that aspect, given what I quoted.

Speaking of going offtopic then…It’s not just about you. We are all in it and if you think that’s not the case it’s fine. But lowering the cap isnt the solution, at next lag they will simply lower cap again, because it is the quickest way of “fixing” it.

Personally, I do not feel it is a solution either. Nor did I like the idea in the first place. Although, I am in favor of it, in the context, and only in the context, of it being used to root out the original problem and being used as a tool to test what they need to, in order to solve the issue as a whole, as long as the cap is reverted to normal, in the end.

At what point does that justify another poster, disingenuously claiming to speak for me, or any other player?

ImLegion.4018:

coglin.1867:

Ravezaar.4951:

for us WvW players.

Please do not post your off topic, negative attacks here, and claim to speak for everyone else.

Do everyone a favor, and stick to speaking for yourself if you don’t mind.

You are only allowed positive feedback or nothing at all?

No, you are not allowed to speak for me, or disingenuously claim to speak for others at all, for that matter, in my opinion. I thought I was fairly clear on that aspect, given what I quoted.

Ravezaar.4951:

for us WvW players.

Please do not post your off topic, negative attacks here, and claim to speak for everyone else.

Do everyone a favor, and stick to speaking for yourself if you don’t mind.

Kasteros.9847:

@SpellOflniquity, yeah but what about issue with queue to OS cos of them? As i wrote it is fine that anet’s accepted that( for me it is still kittened and not gonna make UD there, even if i will make it in next 2 years and after all other players), but guilds don’t have other place to fight than borders and ppters are bullying them by flaming and engaging their fights.

Queues because of who? Who is “them”? Players who are playing in an acceptable, and specifically approved manner?

It appears to me that you are complaining to try to have others forced out of there, for playing differently then you, so that you can get yourself and and others who play the way you like in.

Kanebrake.6192:

coglin.1867:

Ultimaistanza.4793:

coglin.1867:

Yep, he is doing a great service by sharing what is going on.

It is a shame he is often being rewarded with negatively aggressive comments from the occasional poster. And folks wonder why they would want to avoid posting in this subforum.

That’s vastly incorrect. There has been more support and encouragement for this Dev than I’ve ever seen on the WvW forums. The posts that I see that are overly negative have been met with swift defense from other WvWers.

That being said, I want to say thank you to Stephen. The amount of solid communication you’ve shown in just these past few days has been what I’ve been yearning to see on the WvW section for quite literally years. ^u^

I think you misunderstand. MANY post have been deleted. But in my opinion, quit likely, not before he saw them.

It is kind of like the old analogy. If you walk pas the same homeless man on your way to work every single day. And every single day, you give that man a dollar. It is likely he will always think positively of you. Then, one fine day you walk past the man, rear back, and kick him in the groin as hard as you can. Although you have been positive to this man for 1000 days, and only negative once, that single negative action will have a infinitely greater impact then all of the positive ones.

You seem to be overlooking a simple fact in your analogy. Arena Net is business. Their interactions with the public need to be handled in a business-like manner. Regardless if their clients are “positive” towards them or not.

It would be comparable to you always treating the cashier well then one day going in and after a bad day biting their head off for whatever reason. You think that from that point forward that employee or the entire store has any right to treat you any less well than they did in the past? Of course you don’t, nor would you accept them doing so.

They are not cashiers. That is not a reasonable comparison as I see it.

You seem to correlate not posting g with a lack of professionalism. That doesn’t make it true. It seems to me, that is you get a portion of the community that replies to any post with such negativity, that it is extremely professional to avoid doing whatever causes the irrational negativity.

Personally, I find it interesting that so many posters shift the blame so readily. I see more logic in publicly condemning the irrationally negativity itself. Rather then condemning those who avoid the negativity.

blim.6320:

Why on earth don’t they have a god mode for the moderators already when the game has been out how long? says alot about the situation!

And why a director who doesn’t even make money from the business they are meant to direct. Hence the name, so why does he even have control over the servers!

Something smell fishy here!?!

I’m feeling a bit misled.

No one suggested that they didn’t. Seems to me you are purely jumping to conclusion, for no good reason, and with out all of the information.

Perhaps using them would alter the experience needed, to actually experience the actual issues or run the test he was running, in order to get the same effect that the average player does

I do know GM Proheals stated in a recent post that they had changed the GM tools and that he was in the process of familiarizing himself with them and teaching the others how to use them. So it is possible he is not familiar with them, as he is not in need of them as a tech guy as much as a GW would be.

(I see Ark Bladesteele beat me to it on a similar explanation)

With just celestial gear, elixir infused bombs + Backpack regenerator while in bomb kit, heals more then warrior healing signet on ones self, plus maintaining a 250-275 AoE heal per second, so I wouldn’t particularly say it needs a buff, just my opinion.

ANort.1425:

insanemaniac.2456:

i cant justify healy bombs in any game mode :/

They really need to revamp that trait. Moving it to the Explosives line would be a start, but it would still have the problem of not healing enough to justify taking over Grenadier. They could fix that by having it proc on each pulse of bomb kit 2, 4 and 5, but that might make it a bit overpowered in sPvP.

Moving it to that line is a bad idea in my opinion. It would be competing with way to many traits. It makes sense to me, to have it in a line that offers defensive and healing stats, as it is a defensive and healing trait functionality.

Ultimaistanza.4793:

coglin.1867:

Yep, he is doing a great service by sharing what is going on.

It is a shame he is often being rewarded with negatively aggressive comments from the occasional poster. And folks wonder why they would want to avoid posting in this subforum.

That’s vastly incorrect. There has been more support and encouragement for this Dev than I’ve ever seen on the WvW forums. The posts that I see that are overly negative have been met with swift defense from other WvWers.

That being said, I want to say thank you to Stephen. The amount of solid communication you’ve shown in just these past few days has been what I’ve been yearning to see on the WvW section for quite literally years. ^u^

I think you misunderstand. MANY post have been deleted. But in my opinion, quit likely, not before he saw them.

It is kind of like the old analogy. If you walk pas the same homeless man on your way to work every single day. And every single day, you give that man a dollar. It is likely he will always think positively of you. Then, one fine day you walk past the man, rear back, and kick him in the groin as hard as you can. Although you have been positive to this man for 1000 days, and only negative once, that single negative action will have a infinitely greater impact then all of the positive ones.

slamfunction.7462:

We did not re-experience the issues lastnight. It appears the queue “bug” only occurred Saturday night between the hours of 7PM EST and 11PM EST.

Well it is a bit difficult to re-experience something that never happened in the first place.

It is very dishonest of you, in my opinion, to claim your defeat in a specific time period, was do to a bug , that no one else experienced, that you have no evidence for, and that appears completely fabricated.

Crrrystal.6845:

slamfunction.7462:

…ad add a variance of +5 for roamers. I may not be accurate down to the exact number, but i can surely come withing at least 5 players of it.

I’m curious what kind of powers you have to tell exactly how many players are on a map at any given time.

That is just it, he doesn’t. He is making a blind assumption. He is using it to suggest the other servers magically had a higher population cap, with no evidence. In my opinion, this is the type of situation someone would self create to attempt to justify to their ego that when they lost a fight, it was because of completely unfair conditions. Rather then simply admitting they lost a fight.

slamfunction.7462:

Regardless of who is winning and who is pushing, none of that matters if there is a bug of flaw in the system that doesn’t allow appropriate queuing or matchmaking.

Actually, none of that matters, when you are making claims with zero evidence to support.

slamfunction.7462:

This is a thread where a flaw was found within Arena Net’s either infrastructure or programming code that created a situation where one competitor received a larger allotment of on-map players than the others.

I do not believe you. You have no evidence of said flaw. Now devs or officials with Anet have mentioned said flaws.

Yep, he is doing a great service by sharing what is going on.

It is a shame he is often being rewarded with negatively aggressive comments from the occasional poster. And folks wonder why they would want to avoid posting in this subforum.

Because they are attempting to change the condition stack limit. Thus, in PvE, conditions will matter. So I agree, your idea is indeed crazy.

xDudisx.5914:

dancingmonkey.4902:

So because you feel the various elixirs are not what you feel as equals they are bad?..

Yes, if there is a better class to bring it makes the worse class bad. No reason to bring an engi instead of a guardian/warrior/ele/necro.

You appear, in my eyes, to be having two major problems here. To start, that is not what “bad” means. What your describing is simply “slightly less efficient” which in some of those cases you are factually wrong, other you are simply subjectively wrong in my opinion. Do a online dictionary search, study the definition of that word, and see if you still feel it applies.

Your other problem is your tactic of suggesting replacing anything at all. There is no reason to discuss this in the context of replace one profession with another. Again, it is not an “either/or” matter, it is a matter of value when incorporating the engineer with other professions. This discussion should take place in an inclusive manner to those professions, not an exclusive manner in which one replaces the other.

DarkSyze.8627:

Stephen ClarkeWillson.1802:

Yup, it’s bad for EU tier 1 Eternal Battlegrounds right now. The cool thing I just discovered is another perf counter that correlates better with the lag than total CPU. Y’all in a big fight right now? I guess if you are you’re not posting to the forums.

Giving us player update is not solution! Will Arena net fix the lag? Yes? or No?

If you like, go back and count how many post specifically ask for an update and confirmation of what the issue is. As well as many request to know what the issue is.

He is specifically filling each and every one of those request, as well as informing us of the efforts being implemented to resolve it. So please do not troll a dev who is doing precisely what a large portion of the community has specifically asked for.

Dawdler.8521:

Look at it this way: Assume a quick battle. If two engineers have 20hp/20dps, they wont win against 1 guardian with 40hp/10dps and 1 necro with 10hp/40dps. In the scenario that the GN attack first, both engineers die because 50dps win over 40hp. In the scenario that the EE attack first, the guardian hopefully absorb all the damage even if he dies, making the necro kill both engineers..

Why would players dump damage at the guardian?

Dawdler.8521:

As always, it would be interesting to see a 20 man GvG of GWEN versus Engineers with 2 perfectly equal skilled guilds (or any other profession, GWEN vs Mesmers could be hilarious), but that doesnt really happen I’m afraid. All profession raids has been done, but not under controlled forms.

Why does it have to be engineers or mesmers against every other profession? This is the context approach that some are using that I do not get.

Why does it have to be “either/or”?? In reality, or at least my experience it is all of the above or “GWEN + Engineer + Mesmer”. Ranger sniper groups. Mesmers for strong utility, portal, feedback, mass invis, and so on. Engineers for fields, AoE grenade range pressure, front line stab strips, AoE heals, and so on.

The limited mindset approach of the “either/or” angle, and the unnecessary perspective of insisting on trying to come into a thread like this with no practical knowledge in some cases, of the profession, and try to argue from an angle of preventing people from playing it, is such a limited mind set to me, that it is baffling.

BlackDevil.9268:

Any other arguments used are based on comparing warrior to engineer.

Why? Is there some new game mechanics that irrationally prevents them from fighting together? Or being on the same battlefield? Again with the unjustified “either/or” arguments.

One thing I do notice, is that it seems like an odd argument to me, BlackDevil, to suggest warrior does X better, ele does Y better, and guardian does Z better. If engineer can do good at all of it, does it matter if 3 professions combined can do it “better”?

The fact that you need 3 profession to stack for your argument, against one, takes a lot of wind out of those sails if you ask me.

BlackDevil.9268:

Why wouldn’t I use my builder if I want to check how to gain 3400 armor? I should just guess it? That’s so much more reliable.

I never suggested not to use a builder. I suggested if you are going to disingenuously claim to tell others what a profession can or cannot do, that you actually have experience with it, and know what it can do, rather then argue based on your experience with a theoretical builder.

For example, I leveled all 8 profession to 80, predominantly in WvW within the first 6 months of release. I did so, so that I can know what they can do against me, as well as what they can do for me, as I knew I was going to be a commander.

I see you continue to avoid sharing your time and experience on the profession, again.

I enjoy commanding on my engineer because it is both unorthodox, and very fun.

BlackDevil.9268:

3400 armor… What are you fighting to deal 1400 aoe attack? EotM raids ftw? That’s full soldiers on medium armored classes. I can’t even reach that much armor in the builder on engi.

Why do you project your inabilities on others?
I have been PIN of a build group on T1 since release, and those are perfectly reasonable stats (I generally exceed those numbers slightly)

Try putting the builder aside once and a while, and have some actually experience with a profession, before you attempt to tell folks what it can or cannot do please.

BlackDevil.9268:

No I’m looking at the facts what a class can do and what it can’t. With that I took the 2 builds you linked and compared them. These responses you’re giving to me are quite leading towards personal attack so might wanna tone it down a little will ya.

Facts? No, not really. Your making very many statements that display a lack of understanding of the profession as a whole.

It is not a personal attack to inform you that you that you are making inaccurate statements.

Personal attacks, in my opinion, is more in line with your dishonest claims that they stated “replacing” warrior with engineer. Can you quote specifically where anyone claimed that in this thread at all?

Seems to me, that reasonable posters are suggesting using them in conjunction with. As most of us do now. You are the only one speaking in terms of “either or”

BlackDevil.9268:

Aoe debuffs -> aoe invurnability ??
Invurnability is a buff
Since when can an engi give allies invurnability?

I think it was a typo and he meant vulnerability.

BlackDevil.9268:

The water fields are okish

“okish”?

What kind of guild group are you in in which waters are simply “okish”???

BlackDevil.9268:

The water fields are okish, something you also gain from eles and far longer/better.
The aoe might stacking is a joke right? Cause I’m pretty sure the might stacking you mean, is by laying down a fire field and then blasting it. Something an ele + warrior can do aswell.

Not entirely certain where you are going with this.

So it is a joke when any profession other then guardians or warriors do it? When a profession with a 5 blast finisher build does it, it is a joke?

By the way, I see you avoided answering the question asking how many hours you have on an engineer in WvW?

BlackDevil.9268:

Bomb kit? You actually spam auto attack bomb kit? Idk which eotm blobs you’re fighting, but if my guild’s melee would be so slow to even get hit by your auto attack bomb kit I would instantly delete my game.

For the record, please do not cry fowl, and point fingers about personal attacks, then make uninformed accusations of this nature.

I see you avoided my question. Interesting.

What region are you in?

I mainly would like to see more resources into your 3rd mention. I feel the exploiters could be dealt with if they had someone avaliable at all times to respond to reports in real time, on a regular bases.