I DCed four times last reset…. SoR took SM before my server could get a stable force on the map. By the time we got to the gate half the force had DCed and as soon as we started hitting the gate I DCed and so did a many others. by this time the force was to small to take it.
At the same time SOR players were dcing as well, I know because I was one of them, dc’ed as soon as I zoned into EB on reset.
JQ probably needs more oceanic to be active in WvW, and both BG/JQ probably needs some EST/EU coverage due to the ppt imbalance in that timeslot. I also don’t think HIRE, OCX, SAHP, SONG, NYS, AFS and all the small guilds on SoR that complement the bigger ones would appreciate being downplayed – as they don’t PvD because we’re always fighting them every night.
I play oceanic and early sea every night and whilst every guild that contributes is appreciated we still clearly don’t have the consistent presence every night that BG does.
How does the backlog work, it seems to be similar to the WvW world xp chests but does this mean I have to wait for each 500 point to get a backlog chest? Do I get the first one when I log in after the patch hits or have to wait until I reach the next 500 milestone?
It would be much better for the future of the game if Anet decide what they wanted WvW to be: hardcore or casual? Not just for the benefit of their players, but for their own bottom line. Other RvR games are coming up, and by all accounts they will be catering to the hardcore.
(If it isn’t obvious, I think clearing separating PvE and WvW, and making WvW less casual is the way to go).
I agree but I’m 100% sure anet don’t. However they’re now beginning to make design decisions which are at odds with the casual nature of the game they want eg. the final guard killer and guard defence abilities.
It’s a matter of personal taste, but I’ll never play a subscription game again, because subscription games are designed to slow you down….far more than a game like Guild Wars 2 is.
This is wrong, it is quicker to get BiS equipment in games like SWTOR and WoW. We’ve had the evidence cited on this forum before.
Isn’t this common sense? Especially in the real world?
No in the real world its insider trading and its illegal. Just because you’ve built up a large bank of gold doesn’t give you the right to make greater profits on knowledge that you receive ahead of time.
JQ can say whatever the kitten they want. Just like SoR does every day on the forums…
And BG but you won’t mention that.
I think everyone is finally seeing SoR for what they really are; a server that is only looking to become the next vizunah by constantly recruiting in time zones where they are already winning. Hope it was worth it.
Bugger the PPT, your tears alone make it worthwhile
I don’t see the issue here. Boohoo, people who aren’t you got insider info about a few things on the market. Last I checked, you can make money on the tp without being one of anets favorites.
If you want to run the game economy like a real economy then insider trading is an issue. The OP is 100% correct to be concerned about the issue and it is something that never occurred to me either.
Morrolan’s tastes are probably used to typical blah blah writing in which everything is stated explicitly and very boring character development.
Well my tastes runs to stuff like Game of Thrones so take that as you will. I actually like books that are done ‘in media res’ but it has to be done well.
Rangers without a shadow of a doubt.
More like forged in blob zergs…Here is a picture of the “difference”
Your mini-map looks like you have a sizable blob-zerg too.
Just saying.
Of course they do, all 3 servers do it its ridiculous to QQ about only 1.
So what ultimately happens is players are forced to make a decision, deal with the flaws of WvW mechanics, or move to another server were those flaws can hopefully be overcome, leaving many servers feeling a bit empty.
I agree its an issue, and the result is players migrating to the top servers leaving little to no WvW on the bottom servers. This is the way the game is going.
So Anet improved on that by making the content itself temporary. Change such as we managed to beat the molten alliance became factual the moment all the events / dungeon were removed from the game. No one can call that change a gimmick, fake or nonexistant because the events happened and left their mark on the world (refugees, the changes to southsun etc…) but at the same time the molten alliance no longer attacks every 30 minutes even though we’ve beaten them.
Anet only gave us what we wanted. Meaningful persistent change.
But its not meaningful. In the world of the game I inhabit it is in fact completely meaningless and out of sight given that SS is deserted again because they didn’t meaningfully change the zone enough to keep people going there in sufficient numbers.
This was all an evolutionary process. Remember the first time we got one such update, the november release, lost shores the situation was a lot worst. Events happened only once and never repeated. Again people didnt like that so Anet changed it to a repeating month long event. People still dont like it so Anet promised more persistent content going forward.
See this is a misreading of the situation, people don’t want the events to be purely once off so now they aren’t which is great they don’t necessarily want those events to be permanent. What people want to be permanent are things like the dungeons or as I said above permanent events in zones like Southsun. Its not like being able to run other dungeons over and over again affects immersion.
I’m sorry you’re kidding right?
The first two were written very very poorly I found myself cringing at the language they used and the really weak attempts at incorporating character description and development. Ree is a far superior writer.
Well I think Ghosts is the better book, Edge of Destiny is by far the worst of the 3.
Ree’s prose may be better than in Ghosts but in almost every other way Ghosts is better. The characterisation in SoS is quite poor with Macha the only character to achieve some depth. Cobiah is pretty much a Mary Sue, we’re told he has flaws but we don’t really see them. The characters in Ghosts were more flawed and believable.
I also disliked the time jumps across critical points in Cobiah’s story. Isaye leaving for years just does not make sense cause it was glossed over for example.
I’m sorry to tell you bro but there are no events that people are farming now.
This is coming from a hardcore farmer who farmed enough for three legendaries.New players are going to have a tough time starting from scratch getting these legendaries.
The only things to farm in this game now are dungeons
So Cof1, TA, CoE.But none of those touch the gold/rate of the old shelt/pen except Cof1, and Cof1 is only efficient for mesmers/warriors who need to invest the +50/60g for zerk gear.
Of course you can also farm meta events but you need to be smart about that and not waste time @ events like fire shaman for jormie.
I find this really sad and it surely can’t be what anet intended? Just jumping between meta events or running cof1.
Whether they’ve done it to protect the economy or try to get people to go to other areas it hasn’t worked and all its done is to make the game decline further.
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Uh, multiple lead designers for GW2 worked on DAoC.
Who? From what I understand they’re either on Camelot Unchained or TESO.
TESO won’t be coming out until 2nd quarter 2014 unfortunately. Anet must thank the mmo gods every day for the window they’ve been given.
I dont know why they dont just do the obvious and reduce the amount of players by a 3rd in all borderlands. They have implemented somthing that technically cannot be accomplished.
To do that they would have to put a 5th map in. They can;t just reduce the no. of players and have the long queues it would lead to.
Pariah I am having the same problem on ET. This isn’t a Tier thing. There is something wrong with Anets servers.
Something clearly happened on reset, I was fine in EB all last week, as soon as reset happens I dc from EB, I get into other BLs and am fine but as soon as I go into EB bang I dc again.
Since the latest WvW reset I and others have had problems with multiple disconnections from Eternal Battlegrounds and general stability issues while in there that don’t occur in other borderlands. This only started happening after the current reset.
Israel mate, I’ll tell you right now, BG does not outnumber SoR in Oceanic.
LOL, the nile is filling up just on this 1 post.
Paying TP flippers is what I’m reduced to it seems if I’m to get ANY kind of legendary.
Where RNG is most likely skewed:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/crafting/3000-Played-No-random-precursor-drop/first#post2338615Personally if sigil’s, rune’s and trait’s don’t work correctly what makes you think RNG is functioning correctly.
I don’t think it is, same with DR. These are amongst the most complex systems in the game, if other less complex areas of the game are bug ridden (as they are) then it stands to reason that the more complex systems are as well. And they’ve already shown they can have difficulty finding such bugs (the loot drop fiasco).
With SoR recruiting more and more it’ll be tough for the other two servers to catch up… Especially during EU time. The power in numbers that SoR has is second to none & the imbalance it’s causing will only get worse with time.
Since SoR keeps recruiting more and more in a timezone where they don’t need any more help in, the matchup will end up like EU’s T1 fast.
You seem obssessed with SOR, why not give in to your obssession and transfer over. C’mon you know you want to.
Why is Orr so underpopulated these days? Is every player seriously in it for the karma and gold? What happened to just playing for fun?
How can you do the same content over and over again just for fun? I can do it a few times just for the experience and I can do dungeons and raids a lot of times so long as I’m doing it with my guild/friends, cause the fun there is in the interaction. But anything else has got to have a carrot, whether its an achievement or reward.
Oh and I WvW all the time because the combat is dynamic.
Just on the issue of celestial ascended trinkets being good for Eles. If the devs are reading this thread Its all well and good to say that but with the way ascended items are handled we essentially can’t afford to buy the trinkets as an experiment, especially if we have multiple lvl 80s.
While I agree that RNG boxes bring some money in… wouldn’t it bring even more money having “SURE” drops/buy instead of gambling, at a higher price of gems with some discounts at times? By “discounts” I mean real money/gem change discounts.
Unfortunately it seems not. But that doesn’t excuse their exploitative practises.
I’m kind of saddened by another flaming armor though, what’s with Anet and flaming armors.
Good point why not frosty armor.
But I’d really kill for new skills and weapons.
I’d kill for existing weapons to be expanded to more classes eg. torch on Ele, plus quality of life improvements such as an out of combat weapon swap.
Thanks now i miss my tankassin
Shadow tank here, loved stealthing to near the line to receive the ball then popping cooldowns and strolling across the line.
Then there was the moment I was in my attacking endzone, the other team had the ball and threw it to someone beyond the firetrap, I pulled the new carrier into the trap, got possession of the ball and scored easy as you like
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LOL huttball swtor was such a fail
I loved huttball.
This, if it turns into the way things shall be, will mean an endless series of hastily cobbled together, poorly plotted, un-QA’d, marginal quality updates with a lot of shinies to get through quickly, but little larger substance.
This, a thousand times this.
Wow, that was more than I was expecting, especially the permanent rewards. Hellfire armor looks awesome.
It looks good except for the fact that it looks like a reskin of the COF armor.
for example, the basic icon no display skin ascended back item could be priced at at least 100k karma or higher.
I’d buy it for that.
Anyone who plays MMOs knows that the playerbase is notoriously bad at understanding/accepting statistics. How many times have you heard the spiel about droprates decreasing (sometimes it’s true) because of a string of bad luck.
I understand it I’m just suspicious.
Please no. I hate the idea of the laurel merchant being a one stop shop for everything, especially something unique to a dungeon. If there HAS to be something added, the basic icon non-skinned w. ascended stats is most appropriate. As above, however, i’m against this period.
I don’t care about the look so I’m OK with a non skinned ascendable backpiece being added to the laurel merchant.
Out of combat weapon swap has been requested for a long time.
What I want to know is have anet thrown out the random variable for the 3 ‘T1’ servers? Cause for the past month it hasn’t been random.
4 weeks ago you got SoR/TC/SoS. If you look at Snowreaps’ numbers, the top 3 tiers will fight each other 50% of the time.
Yeah but including this week its been 75%.
SOR may have the edge in sheer WvW numbers, and their recent recruitment efforts in EU, however petty and unnecessary, will definitely be a test to those BG insomniacs!
If you’re going to make pejorative statements like that at least make sure you have the evidence to back it up.
Node will be account bound and you can only use it once per day for 3 quartz ore.
reason, possible use in crafting ascended armor.
On the one hand I sort of agree with Vayne that making it character bound has the potential to ruin the economy for quartz, OTOH if its is for making ascended armor then we are being punished again for having alts.
I would like a Warhammer 40k style banner as a backpiece.
I thought the back banners that you can buy would be like that but alas…………
To me it all comes back to a lack of standards and procedures that should be consistently applied across al parts of the game.
What I want to know is have anet thrown out the random variable for the 3 ‘T1’ servers? Cause for the past month it hasn’t been random.
Ahh yes, an MMO finally lives up to the challenge of producing content faster than players can consume it, and someone still manages to complain…
Well if its produced faster than players can consume and they are unable to do it of course they are going to complain.
My complaint about producing it so fast is more about the lack of quality control and consistent standards across all the living story teams and what they are producing. IMHO the overall project management is poor.
Will the new backpiece be just a skin or an actual backpiece like the Southsun ones.
Yes SONG is SEA and not very large, but I think people are still puzzled as to why SoR would activily seek out Kiss for a time slot they already had large numbers in. Especially when I believe it was Lettol ( sorry for the miss spelling or mis qoute ) that said “We turn away guilds to JQ all the time so we can have even number and good fights.”
Is there any evidence that we actively recruited KISS?
Think of it as the gateway dungeon. This is the dungeon where dungeon noobs come to cut their teeth, and it’s fantastic for that.
There was AC for that and it arguably should have that role given its the first dungeon.
Why do engies keep crying and purposefully degrading what they got..nvm ele players do that too! :P
Fyi rocketboots is 900 and affected by swiftness which engi got perma with a trait making it go exactly as far as ride the lighting on a 20 sec cd.In addition to that it cures the movement impairment effects while rtl just ignores them for its duration.With super speed it goes further than anything in the entire game.Its also a blast finisher and a dodge roll..
So yeah its better in every way but then again its a utility..though that paired with stealth from bombs kit makes engineer a very capable class at disengaging more than a lot of popular ele builds atm..
Offtopic but this thread is useless anyway..just people complaining a dev didnt go into big detail for 1 class in 30 minutes..
Thats all true yet looking at the class holistically we have advantages that engineers lack. I play both classes but my main remains elementalist, overall elementalist remains a better class IMHO.
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I use FGS as my elite and love it, Frost bow aoe is one of the best we have and overall the bow is great in certain circumstances and lightning hammer as well.
More should be done to improve their usability though such as making the no. 1 attack not use charges and a reduction in the time to summon.
Youre complaining about 1 stack of t6 mats? Try making a legendary.
AHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
Hmm a legendary weapon compared to a backpiece. Bit of a difference I would say.
Yes the ascended backpieces should definitely be available with less grind. They are ridiculous.
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