Guild Wars 2

Anybody up for a petition to have ‘blob’ censored into ‘kitten’ as well?

There is a maximum amount of players per borderland per server. So say the limit is 100 from each side, that means if server A has 1000 players wanting to play, server B has 400 and server C has 200 and assuming they all try and distribute their numbers equally the distribution will be as follows for each borderlands:
server A: 100 in and 150 in queue
server B: 100 in and 0 in queue
server C: 50 in and 0 in queue

or possibly server C maxes out two borderlands and just gives up the other 2.

The limit of 100 per borderland is just an example as Anet generally doesn’t release these sorts of numbers as they continually tweak them as time goes on and they don’t want people holding em to these numbers.

The only time numbers will be equal is generally when all servers have a queue for a borderland (or through extreme luck where servers just happen to get the same amount of people in)

Yorric Hunt.8214:

Is anyone here aware then EU tier 9 has it much worse and dont complain. Since launch Vabbi and FoW have made 1 thread as far as i know complaining about how uneven it is and have never left that tier since falling there.

So on that note…. Dear Anet pls fix EU tier 9!

Aye, both bottom tier have some fundamental issues. The only way for a server that’s absolutely crushing the opposition to leave there is for one of the servers in the tier above them to do really badly for a long time so they can swap places.

I’ve never set foot in a server in the lowest tier, but I can completely understand why they complain. There’s not really a whole lot they can do besides posting threads and hoping some of the Anet stuff understands the issues the bottom tier is facing.

Chancer.3716:

Dina Van Heyr.3018:

Gamgee.8612:

A video from JDGE from last night on AG borders (Thanks peach<3)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VYuzbU7puts

so you had fight at camp against pug which you outnumbered and where you got wiped well done
well most of you, rest got lucky and escaped

In respect to the dont see us much in WvW Comment, we are there, we just dont draw attention to ourselves as we much prefer the guerrilla style of play, While major forces are sorting out towers and keeps in the south we Distract and disrupt in the north sometimes taking out groups much larger than ourselves as shown in that video and many others posted by osi on his youtube channel : Osianic2.

@The matchup

So far had a brilliant week some excellent fights against many guilds, Hope we can cross swords again soon

We found some of the elusive JDGE hiding in a camp!

Nah, they’re actually around quite a lot, they routinely help with breaking up sieges when they’re up with decent numbers

GW2 is all about giving casual gamers easy access to the different gaming modes and allow them to do well enough that they don’t give up right away. This means that you don’t have to be in party for boons, everybody can rez everybody, downed state and you don’t have to worry too much about positioning in large groups.

I really don’t think any of these things will change any time soon, however much some people would love it.

It has been mentioned quite a few times before, at least you don’t have to run to an enemy’s corpse anymore to loot them like it used to be

Anet has basically stated that it’s not easy to implement a ‘loot goes to inventory’ type method in the current system so that’s not going to happen. People have suggested ‘workarounds’ but they have not responded positively to those as of yet, so I wouldn’t keep your hopes up about them changing it any time soon.

I personally love running around grabbing my loot bags after a successful battle, but on the other hand absolutely hate dying and seeing a ton of loot bags spawning right next to my corpse I’ve trained myself to quickly press F whenever I see the message pop up, but this does result in a fair amount of accidental banner pickups or ram usages.

If you’re truly desperate kamikaze rush their siege (possibly by stealthing up a mesmer and portal bombing them) just like when you’re defending a tower or keep. But, like others said, if they are camping three exits and you still can’t get people through you are so heavily outnumbered you really won’t be able to do much there anyway,

I get all that I need from WvW. Sure there are quite a few improvements to be made, but none have to do with incentives for me. My incentive is the challenge of the fights and the joy of doing well in them. Learning how to improve and tinkering with my build to get just a little more boons out of it while remaining survivable and enough of a threat to scatter enemies when I charge in.

Once you have your exotic gear, you don’t need anything else. Sure you make only a couple of gold a night, which you can either spend on upgrades or saving up for a nice skin. You can always faceroll some dungeons if you’re truly desperate for cash.

The leaderboards won’t be showing who is skilled or not, so they’re pretty pointless to me, the only way you’ll find that out is by fighting people. The new wexp system is a fun distraction and I do get some joy out of it for all my alts as well, seeing at what lvl they are now. The new ‘skills’ aren’t very strong, but they’re not useless so I don’t really care about now having them yet, while retaining the desire to eventually get them. I believe Anet really gave them just the right usefulness and I’m pretty happy the way things stand there.

If only they could do something to spread out the zergs a bit WvW would be truly awesome.

On my tanky boon guardian I tend to just charge in, pull all with greatsword, whirl them, then start running circles around the nice concentrated group of NPCs while whacking away at em.

Dranul.2094:

Oh if gandara is in AGs tier next week, could you let us know if you plan on having a presence at reset? :P Cause its a letdown, we get hyped up for insane action, but your server doesn’t do resets en mass like Riverside and BB, even FSP for example.

Kind regards TUP

Reset is the worst time for any guild to play unless they blob up with others (or are large enough by themselves) so count me out. Tried it a lot of times but there is just no fun at all to be had during reset sadly. Think I’ll go to bed early that night instead

Raeyne.5086:

I miss civilised competition. All this trolling and flaming is a little unfortunate, given how well the guilds and competitors could get along. It can be very difficult to see things from the opponents point of view, but remember that most people are playing the way they feel is the best for them, their guild and server, and aren’t purposely playing to upset anyone. There will be conflicts in a war based event, naturally, it’s what it’s all about, but there’s no need to insult them for it… They’re all playing the game. The players make the game, let’s make it a game with a good community of players that get along, at least!

Some of the best times I’ve had while commanding have been in battles against XxX and Dius (Two of my favourite guilds of all time, in fact!) and they do things very differently to each other. I can see why XxX wouldn’t be interested in organised GvG, it doesn’t suit their tactical style. That doesn’t make them any less of a force, it’s just how they play. I still remember commanding a fight that went on for a fair while against XxX that nearly made my heart give up from the adrenaline.

The same goes for Baruch Bay, there have been some fantastic moments in the battles against them in the past, as well.

And moving on to this YOLO thing. I don’t get the hate… It was a community server event, by the sounds of things (I wasnt there, I literally got back from holiday late last night and didnt touch wvw), and these are the things that people remember from the communities they work with. Props for celebrating april fools and making an event out of it. Sure, there are times when you look at a blob the size of a small city and you cant help but think “Why?” But this time there certainly seemed to be a reason.

I know this will fall on many deaf ears, but I would definitely like to see more of
“Awesome fight with [x] vs [y] earlier!”
“Yeah, your [z] tactic was awesome!”

and a lot less of
“Lol u only win cos u blob lulz lulz omgwtf /testosteroneoverload”
“wtf circumstantial screenshot ur all noobs!”

I hope to be on the field a lot more this week, since I’ve been pretty busy the past week and a half and have barely been able to make it out for some repair bills! I look forward to some good fights and some good fun, and hope that every time I pay for repairs… It’s not because of how air-headed I can be.

I agree with your sentiments here.

The reason there are a lot less
“Awesome fight with [x] vs [y] earlier!”
“Yeah, your [z] tactic was awesome!”
type posts is that there is a lot less reason to make those posts as you don’t really get into a lot of awesome fights anymore. Tactics are very much absent in most of the fights, or the tactics are pretty much irrelevant due to a big disparity in numbers.

Speaking from the perspective of a small scale group: At the moment we measure how well we do in a fight by ‘how long can we keep it up till we need to flee / die’ and that doesn’t really lead to either side being very impressed with the other. The opposing side knows they’re going to win and are just annoyed by it taking a little longer than usual, and our side just thinks “well they should have killed us sooner than that, we did pretty well”.

The only ‘fair’ fights we have are against groups of randoms that just happen to be split off from their main group and those fights are generally not exactly tactical marvels. I feel sorry for the person in charge in our guild (usually climbatize) during WvW because he puts a lot of energy into making the right tactical decisions when it will pretty much always lead to us wiping eventually anyway.

Simply put, there’s not a whole lot of impressive gameplay going on from any side that I’ve witnessed, as there’s simply not a lot of opportunity for it, although there’s an AG guild that does seem to kill us off rather swiftly in general. N something or other, I’m not too good with those tags.

It might be due to your graphics settings then. I have my WvW settings at lowest and even people reviving are instead using their basic attack animation

I’m perfectly fine with it though as I rather have my 10 FPS than seeing all those fancy animations.

I would also recommend engineer. Everybody sees an engineer and just HAS to fight them because well, how hard can it be right? They don’t need to be able to catch up to people as people don’t view them as a threat usually. At least that’s been my experience. Even thieves just keep on trying instead of running away, killing themselves oh so swiftly with confusion.

Solution0:

Stop blobbing up.

ANet has already stated the skill lag is due to their servers maxing out on CPU usage. As you will have the same physical server handling all the battles on a single borderlands, a big clash anywhere on the same map will mean the same lag for everyone on that map. Your own computer specs / internet will not really matter for this.

A server basically has two bottlenecks when it comes to performance: bandwidth and CPU usage. Culling was taking care of the bandwidth issues that they have now fixed (so they removed culling). The massive blobs cause a huge strain on the server’s CPU as the server needs to calculate who and what all the skills affect, which probably isn’t very easy to solve.

It could of course be a sort of deadlocking issue, but I can imagine it will take some work getting this fixed. So in the meantime pray your server mates and enemies stop blobbing up as this affects all the smaller roaming groups as well. In a blob you can usually get away with just spamming your ‘1’ key (which tends to still work during skill lag) but when you’re up against superior numbers you need every skill available to you to survive.

I actually noticed the direction of your dodge is also ‘bugged’ during a skill lag period. Imagine my surprise when I’m retreating backwards shooting at the group of enemies before me, using the occasional dodge backwards to throw up some heals on my allies to suddenly find myself dodging forwards right into the big group of enemies I’m busy trying to avoid… Found that even worse than waiting half a minute for my heal and stability to go up.

FURY definitely runs by themselves quite a lot. We run into them in BB BL all the time as TDA

Use this to your advantage and go full out tank spec. You’ll be able to get some insane HP with some of the gear and while they start wondering why on earth they couldn’t kill you your teammates will have an easy time killing them.

I tend to get vit/toughness gear on my lowbies at lvl 35 till around 60 or so and be very durable. Just try and focus on getting skills that give a benefit to the group such as boons / CC and wait for the true damage dealing till you’re higher level.