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4/12 SoS - SBI - CD

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The fights will be more interesting after April. At the moment SBA farming is dominating the scene.

there will be farm event every month or 2, can’t use that as a reliable excuse. What if SAB is updated? Then we wait until end of June? Then birthday celebration, halloween, new pve map, wintersday …

Best server for World Completion?

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http://mos.millenium.org/matchups#NA

really though any T1 server or the one you are on will work if you WvW often. otherwise just keep an eye on that site and watch for one that looks like its turning all one color often.

what T1 server loses their eb keep.

Fastest way of attaining ascended gear

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with a solo character:
20 dailies + monthly = amulet
20 dailies fotm = 2 rings
4 weeks guild missions = accessory
1850 fractal relics = backpack

1 month can be 5/6 ascended, 2 months tops for 6/6

It's time to balance PvP apart from PvE/WvW

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Remove AOE cap, lower damage coefficient by 1/2 or 1/4 and add a control effect (daze, stun, knockdown) to powerful skills.

Please don’t Smiter’s Boon Mesmer portals. 90 seconds is long enough a cooldown.

wvw season 1 ending. Reset tier.

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If they were ever dead set on reseting the tiers then reset them every couple of tiers:

Tier 1+2 jumble
tier 3+4 jumble
tier 5+6 jumble
tier 7+8 jumble

Or just bring down NSP and HoD to tier 8 so i can fight them again…they were fun. Had solo roamers, small group roaming, the zergs werent all that big, was nice.

I like this idea. Maybe they could do 1 week a month that is “Jumble Week” where the tiers you have laid out there get randomly placed. You could even make it not affect the ratings, or have a 50% of normal affect on the ratings. Just mix it up some, it’s not a bad idea really!

Lol, you guys are living in lala land;)

I week a month no one would play because putting JQ in with T2 servers would be a joke and boring.

I think you overestimate JQ and underestimate servers getting a chance to fight the top dog. Yea I can see JQ winning 90% of the time, but I still don’t think it would be an absolute monkey stomp if you kept it to t1-2.

How many servers can boast 24/7 coverage ?

Grabbing bags is annoying in wvw

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Why people complain about chests, I always loot supply with them. Maybe you having max supply when you loot them?

Why is SM waypoint contested all the time?

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Would prefer if we could stealth treb, that makes things much more tactical and not zerg blobby like it is now.

Whats a good server to play on?

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T2 oceanic or T3 NA.

Commander's Compendium for Badges of Honor

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The current equivalency, according to the Siege Master merchants, is 1 badge = 1 silver. So a Commander’s Compendium would cost 10,000 badges or 100 gold.

Make it cost 20 Gift of Battles.

4/5 HoD/SF/NSP (4th attempt at civility)

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WOW SF doing so well! Gratz.

When you rise to T6 and leave those servers behind in dust?

Ok its time for some truths/realizations

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We need a Jade Quarry or Fort Aspenwood. I wish ANet could have done the Flame and Frost story a little better, make it so that the Norn and the Charr had a little quibble and then introduce a competitive mission based on that. I don’t even care if they make it so that you grind faction for an armor set, the same as you do in WvW (with badges and gold).

Can the match-ups be rotated each week?

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I suggest rotating the match-ups within the top 1-3 tiers, 4-6 tiers, etc. Playing the same two servers every week gets a little repetitive. Even if a tier 2 server gets smashed by JQ the glicko rating won’t be affected that much and I can guarantee there will be a lot more active WvWers in all the tiers knowing that they get to match up against a variety of new guilds/servers. I think it will spark a lot more interest not knowing exactly who you will be matched up against every single week.

What fun would it be to have to face JQ on week 1, BG on week 2 then SOR on week 3?

Is T1 still better than T2?

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Dear friend,

What is time you playing? If all the time, then T2, if NA time, then T3, if our time, then T4. If no time then go lower.

Peace sincerely

Tier 1:
“The day has 24 hours, if that’s not enough, we will add the night!!! WE NEED MORE COVERAGE!!!!”
“But… we run full 3 hour queues 24/7 already…”
“MOAR COVERAGE!!!!!!!”

Already fact established that T1 have too many players and too long queue. If better go to other tier for more even coveraging.

4/5 SoS/SBI/CD

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Pangloss zerg got locked in until we had to leave to defend SM?

Is T1 still better than T2?

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Dear friend,

What is time you playing? If all the time, then T2, if NA time, then T3, if our time, then T4. If no time then go lower.

Peace sincerely

why do people play wvw?

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Pick an enemy on the opposing team.

Mark , then zerg rush him/her through about 30+ enemies while you kill it.

Repeat indefinitely.

This is incredibly fun if it’s a commander.

Grabbing bags is annoying in wvw

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I just wish we were credited Badges directly to our account, and bags were just for loot like coin and items, Then I wouldn’t pick them up anymore.

WvW just not worth it anymore?

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Exotics in PVE? What is this heresy? I’ve clocked 800+ hours in PVE and looted 1 exotic.

4/5 Dragonbrand - Yak's Bend - Maguuma

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6 pages?

Don’t you guys have something better to do, I dunno, WvW?

What's Life Like in the Other Worlds?

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Wouldn’t mind knowing more about Foostivoo Destroyer of Worlds, too. What’s that do? It sounds pretty neat.

That is a recent occurence. A group of 10+ was roaming when they ran into another group of 10+. 1-2 players rushed in, the rest ran away.

What happened was that the enemy group had 5 pets out and a Fostivoo, which made the pat seem much bigger than it actually was.

After that, everyone brought out their Fostivoo because it could destroy zergs.

Skillpoint - Bear Shaman Marga - Broken.

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She’s bugged on Sea of Sorrows.

Truces, Spies and Cheating and Skype/TS/Vent

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Some servers have guild truces with other servers such as Dragonbrand and Yak’s Bend.

You are not that idiot who was ranting about 2v1 in EB a few hours ago, are you?

3/29 DB - YB - SoS

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I cant wait for T4, maybe we will have even pop fights on SEA time.

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JP/Badges Unfair for Outnumbered Servers

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Give it a week. Maguuma will move up, SOS will move down, and we can have a much more balanced Tier 4.

Although if you are looking for badges via jumping puzzles, you’re doing it wrong. Following a zerg is much faster, up to 50-100 badges an hour.

Please Explain the Logic of the AoE Limit

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Adding more depth to this game is never a bad thing. Adding unlimited AE or forcing 2 rulesets (1 for PvE and 1 for PvP) isn’t a solution.

I beg to differ; GW1 had split rulesets for PVE and PVP so you could have PVE only imba skills while maintaining balance in PVP. Forcing 2 rulesets is a good solution that has been implemented in their previous game.

WvW without commander tags?

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You would have a lot of map chat over where the action is.

Right now you have 1 map chat where 1 person is commanding, while groups of 4-10 players can run around and cap stuff , safe in the knowledge that most of the action is concentrated around the blob which is following the commander.

Keep Lord Battle Standard res

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I thought warbanner only worked on downed, not dead, things.

NPC “death” is equivalent to PC downed (for NPCs who retain a corpse that can be revived). This is also why the rez speeds are similar, if not identical.

This is not true for stuff like Elixir R and Signet of Undeath.

Daoc Vs Gw2

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Pity GW1 didn’t have RvR, with 100 classes it would have been a really good meta.

Please Explain the Logic of the AoE Limit

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I posted this on the WvW thread but will post it here as well.

What it needs is two things:

1) remove AOE cap
2) split AOE abilities for PVE/WvW . Lower the damage coefficients for AOE skills in WvW but give them control elements, like Daze, Knockdown … For instance, Ele Staff Meteor Shower could give 50% chance to Knockdown on hit, but damage is reduced by around 50% – this means that AOE is used more as a control element to funnel rather than a big damage skill to wipe.

In doing so you don’t give an AOE heavy squad the means to wipe a zerg, but you give them control tools to keep a blob in place while your ground crew moves in to mop up.

Making zergs less appealing?

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AOE cap is there for a reason. With my elemental I can spam an area for a minute with hits ranging from 800 to 3K damage. With no AOE cap I could decimate a whole a zerg by myself, and no player should have that kind of power. Ever.

ANet can reduce the damage coefficient by splitting a skill into PVE/WvW , so you could hit multiple targets but deal much less damage.

My suggestion would be to add a control element to the skill so instead of doing damage, you control the zergball, and thus letting a ground crew mop up.

Making zergs less appealing?

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What it needs is two things:

1) remove AOE cap
2) split AOE abilities for PVE/WvW . Lower the damage coefficients for AOE skills in WvW but give them control elements, like Daze, Knockdown … For instance, Ele Staff Meteor Shower could give 50% chance to Knockdown on hit, but damage is reduced by around 50% – this means that AOE is used more as a control element to funnel rather than a big damage skill to wipe.

In doing so you don’t give an AOE heavy squad the means to wipe a zerg, but you give them control tools to keep a blob in place while your ground crew moves in to mop up.

Hitting Gates to Contest Keeps needs to go.

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Commanders should be allowed to place mobile waypoints with the cost of 100 supply.

3/29 DB - YB - SoS

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Where is this 10 man DB zerg you speak of? I’ve never seen a DB blob of less than 40 man during Oceanic/SEA time. And they still fail at taking keeps.

Yet Even Moaarrrrrr CD/Mag/SBI 3/29

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Is it true that CD and SBI have sizeable Oceanic/SEA population?

Armor vendor

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I think he’s talking about the badge-only gear, which is now limited to level 70 max. The ones that cost gold+badges are the level 80 ones.

Do you donate to make REAL commanders?

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What is chinese gold?

gold + badges for gear?

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The prices seem extremely expensive. Im pretty sure I could get equivalent gear off the trading post for less gold and no badges…

that’s not the complaint here, the complaint is that you should be able to buy those gear with badges alone instead of having to grind some gold to buy them.

Moto - most unfeminine asura female

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I haven’t seen a male Asura with more than 1 syllable to his name, except Oggy.

He also has small ears, which must be why he has such a feminine name. We all know that real Asura men have big floppy ears, it’s a sign of sexual prowess.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Oggy

Braham the Norn

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Is his father one of the Sons of Svanir who killed the norn spirits? That’s why they’re coming down from the north, right?

Dragon’s minions … she might not trust him enough.

Anyone else hate Asura shoes?

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I do, I hate the ones that don’t show my extra 2 toes. I mean, how do Asura hide those toes in them? The Cultural T1 needs to show the extra 2 toes, I’ve been complaining for awhile and they still haven’t changed it.

when will we have freedom of stats?

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The problem with fixed stats on gear is it makes respeccing very high cost. You need to obtain a specific set of gear for your build.

Confused about megabosses after next patch?

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Day 1:
Do Jormag with Guardian. Get rare chest and Jormag chest.
Do Jormag with Mesmer. Get Jormag chest only.
Do Shatterer with Guardian. Get rare chest and Shatterer chest.
Do Shatterer with Mesmer. Get Shatterer chest only.

Day 2 to Day n:
Do Jormag with Guardian. Get rare chest and Jormag chest.
Do Jormag with Mesmer. Get Jormag chest only.
Do Shatterer with Guardian. Get rare chest and Shatterer chest.
Do Shatterer with Mesmer. Get Shatterer chest only.

That’s how I see it from the notes.

You should get around 15+ guaranteed rares a day by hopping across all the different events. As opposed to the current system where I successfully farmed 100+ rares today by playing all my alts.

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3/15 - JQ/SoR/BG

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Wow, BG is doing very well.

3/15 DB/YB/SOS

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just to lift up the spirit of SoS….

once upon a time, long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away :

Hello farinas, how’s TC doing?

Guild Wars 2 "Forbes"

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The player who put Eternity on TP has 3500 gold.

Blog post on new rank system?

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I think this might just make the whole thing worse. Now we’re going to have zergs that hunt people instead of towers and it’s basically just going to be a big gang kitten to get more points.

I don’t really have any ideas for solutions atm, but I imagine someone out there probably does.

What’s wrong with this? Not everyone plays WvW to flip keeps and towers.

Prices of Ectos being controlled?

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All I wish is that players who did enjoy playing with the markets would just play the real stock markets and make a fortune, and leave the in-game markets alone so that the economy would work for the players and not the market-players, or the ANet would step in and prevent them from distorting the markets like that.

How much capital (in millions) would you need to successfully do that? We’re talking about large gains over a short period of time, most of these traders aren’t going to be satisfied with long term investments when they can get an ego trip by clicking a few buttons in a game.

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Prices of Ectos being controlled?

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A minor distribution breakdown.

If I’m reading this correctly, the bumps along the x-axis are actual sellers.

This means the top seller sold 350 Ectos, followed by a 2nd seller with 300 ectos.

The bump at 250 ectos is higher, meaning there’s more than 1 unique seller who pushed 250 ectos during a given day.

It would be better if you could shorten the Y axis to around 10-50 max and apply a low pass filter to remove all the data points before 100 ectos. (A single day of farming can nett you around 50 ectos, so 100 ectos should be where sellers start to play the market)

It does look like there are around 50-100 players in the >100 ecto market. Which is quite healthy.

Third most closest soldier profession?

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The strongest tanky non-heavy armor is the necromancer. Either run Dagger or Axe , drop Wells and tank through the damage. With Death Shroud and Life Siphon skills you can solo champions very easily.

What is wrong with Orr

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Personally I find it very difficulty to run past all the mobs on all of the plateaus when they keep stunning, crippling and knocking me over. I usually die about 50% of the time as I try to save the silver on using the way point.

What class are you, do not have stability/stealth ?