Nice guide. The demolition one looks like it might be difficult to take, even for some dedicated WvWers as it depends on what roll you play in your guild. 250 yaks might take a while also. Although for a dedicated havoc player, 1k yaks in a week is achievable (Ill probably be finished this one in the next 24hours because my commander asked me to roam and farm yaks). I also completed the 450 kills on reset which I did by going to EB as the map cap is higher in there so you generally get more kills.
Of all of these I think its a little funny, but I actually look at the jumping puzzles as the hardest ones to complete I mean, everything else I will complete by just playing the game, but the JPs I don’t do at all.
Keep in mind that calls by only one server to try and institute a 2v1 on another usually backfires in that it kitten es off the people targeted and also makes the second party to want to spite you. We’ll try and show respect if you do – keep the vitriol to the minimum please.
Dont worry, SoR is a much better fight so we will keep fighting each other and leave you guys to your stacked queues and your pvdoor while we have some fun.
I find it funny you talk about our stacked queue’s yet Everyone has queue’s right now. Every single Tier 1 server is stacked compared to the rest in Gold League.
our ques are 5 minute max. how about yours?
I would call BS on that but it’s really not worth the effort. I mean every server claims they don’t have queue’s but the simple sizes of the groups we have been fighting. Don’t discredit our intelligence please. To answer your question it varies our queue’s are buggy I’ve had guildies get in instantly and then some wait hours. It also depends what guild is on what map for us as some guilds such kitten and SG and HzH have larger pug/guild crews that thus lengthen queues.
He said we have 5 minute queues. Which is quite true depending on the timezone. For instance, right now we have a 5 minute queue on two borderlands, no queue (and outmanned buff) on one borderland and a 30 minute queue on EB (which was about an hour during early Oceanic but dropped off during late oceanic/sea). Although keep in mind Anet have actually admitted the queue system is broken.
Your home BL musta been outmanned you guys owned your garrison less than an hour all of OCX/SEA timezone
Nah that map was queued LOL! I was in there for a bit and my assessment was… we had alot of PvErs trying to get their achievements and not help at all. We have been outmanned on SOR BL for a long time and as you might have noticed we recently lost our T3 bay over it
In all honesty, Ive moved around a fair bit. Some of the most enjoyable fights I have had in game are on low tier servers. The fights in T1 are lame 99% of the time. If I wasn’t committed to the guild I was in, I would consider moving. But I am and they aint moving. It certainly seems like a good option though and Im surprised more guilds dont do it.
Keep in mind that calls by only one server to try and institute a 2v1 on another usually backfires in that it kitten es off the people targeted and also makes the second party to want to spite you. We’ll try and show respect if you do – keep the vitriol to the minimum please.
Dont worry, SoR is a much better fight so we will keep fighting each other and leave you guys to your stacked queues and your pvdoor while we have some fun.
I find it funny you talk about our stacked queue’s yet Everyone has queue’s right now. Every single Tier 1 server is stacked compared to the rest in Gold League.
our ques are 5 minute max. how about yours?
I would call BS on that but it’s really not worth the effort. I mean every server claims they don’t have queue’s but the simple sizes of the groups we have been fighting. Don’t discredit our intelligence please. To answer your question it varies our queue’s are buggy I’ve had guildies get in instantly and then some wait hours. It also depends what guild is on what map for us as some guilds such kitten and SG and HzH have larger pug/guild crews that thus lengthen queues.
He said we have 5 minute queues. Which is quite true depending on the timezone. For instance, right now we have a 5 minute queue on two borderlands, no queue (and outmanned buff) on one borderland and a 30 minute queue on EB (which was about an hour during early Oceanic but dropped off during late oceanic/sea). Although keep in mind Anet have actually admitted the queue system is broken.
The amount of lag I’ve experienced all weekend has been far worst than any other time in Guild Wars 2. My question is, how is it we’ve had these fights before and haven’t had this much lag? I’m roaming right now. Not even CLOSE to the zerg fights, and it’s taking me 20 seconds to cast my heal fighting 1v1.
Other than the massive queues and lag, this season 1 has been incredible so far.
When I have roamed on my thief the game has been close to being uninstalled a few times I think. Like you know I have a very small health pool and rely on stealth to survive but I can’t use my stealth skills so Im dead. When I go run with the guild or zerging its a bit better. Like I can at least not be sure if I had of won that fight or not. Its mostly when your doing a 1v1 or 1v3 or whatever and none of your skills work that I try my hardest not to turn into angry german kid.
I remember you. Aren’t you the guy from that QDS guild, that went to JQ from SoS, starting flame wars against SoR and flaming your own server in matchup threads. After that you left JQ because you thought we couldn’t get transfers and SoR was #1 at that time.
After a while on SoR you left to.. BG? TC?
So, what level are you?
My level is 9001. Wow man you remember my guild name! I totally forgot myself what I called it. You must have a good memory. I can’t remember what happened back then either. I did leave SOS for JQ. Then I think I went to SOR for a week or two. Then I think I went to Erredon Terrace, Fergusons crossing and I think the other one was HoD. Then I joined a guild on BG and we lived happily ever after!
The amount of times I have died because the server won’t allow me to use my skills is alot. Way too much. I don’t see why we should have to pay to repair when we are getting these repair bills from something we have no control over.
Are these queue complaints from lower tier servers? I don’t get it. Im used to queues on weekends after reset. I presume everyone else in T1 is as well. We don’t even have queues on most of our maps tonight and if there is, its like a 2-3 minute queue.
All Ive seen so far is entire maps being wrecked because one server or another has too many PvE players who are only there to get achievements and won’t join teamspeak or work as a team or do the simplest of tasks that WvW players do frequently. Sure, this might be an opportunity to engage some of these players, but chances are they will just do what PvErs do and go farm other content once its over and anet hangs another carrot on a string.
I dont know what to laugh more about. A FEAR guy constantly complaining about hacking or that Anet still hasn’t banned him from the forums.
Most posts here are deleted even when they are quite harmless but namecalling guilds 6-7 times per page is legit?
BG so desperate to make an alliance with SoR so that SoR has a better chance at winning?
Lol…
SOR has frequently been taking an advantage of this. I think they see us as more of a threat since they are heavily focussed on taking first this week even at the cost of risking JQ coming first. I understand where their tactics are coming from but they don’t realise how strong JQ is right now because they haven’t had to face them in a JQvSORvT2 server. They don’t understand that when JQs Oceanic turns their map to paper and then JQs SEA logs on and spawn camps them until EU timezone that their early NA isn’t going to have such a big boost. In short, I don’t think SOR understand the coverage in T1 atm. Not from the way they have been playing.
We had our butts kicked by JQ and SOR in a 2xT1 + T2 matchup. The week SOR kicked out butts alot of our guilds and players where taking a break. When JQ beat us we were trying.
I dont know what server you play on but scouts, siege and fierce tower/keep defense is a commonplace in T1 NA.
I think there has been a trend away from it though. Like I remember not so long ago it was common for servers to upgrade and work on keeping SM for the entire week. Now nobody does and its flipped quite regularly. The same goes with Garrison, bay and hills. They get flipped so much more now. We all take our time scouting. But there is always that underlying tone that as soon as X servers Y coverage comes into play its likely to be a paper keep again.
Its actually possible to get 50 WXP ranks in a night. But thats if there is a karma train going on. Im fairly sure Anet intended on making the achievements require fairly regular WvW attendence though. I think they were pretty lenient on a number of them as I have completed several of them already.
I think SOR mostly. JQ might be a bit now due to their influx of guilds, but prior to that influx I think they would have been loving the queues. On BG Im quite liking it. I actually wish the queues were longer because I wouldn’t feel compelled to be there every minute of my game time to make sure we have the numbers.
Just had a fight over Hills. It is the absolutely worst lag I have ever experienced. Players were teleporting all over the place and 1 skill was not even working at all. I don’t think this is a population increase as there is always full queues in NA T1 for reset, so to have the worst lag i have experienced would suggest something they have done has changed.
Gotta love the JQ players coming in here and playing this down hoping this doesn’t get attention so they can have their free win.
Is this really any worse than SoR and BG players coming in here and playing it up as if you guys got the kitten end of the stick where gold league scheduling is concerned?
Yes, its infinitely worse. BG and SOR have a genuine grievance here. I find it offensive that any JQ player would play this down. If it had of been the other way around and say my server was given the better end of the stick, I totally would have kept my mouth shut and not said anything or shared sympathy for them. Not for JQ though, they want easy wins so they come in here and play down the draw.
1: Server population imbalances
2: “Alt-unfriendlyness” of WvW (WXP)
3: Advanced commander options – different colors and icons, visibility settings etc.
i think wins should be more important than points.
if the top 2 servers fight each other once, and the server who wins that match loses the league because the other server scored more points karma-training the lower servers, that doesn’t seem fair.
This reminds me of a topic regarding sports I have had from time to time. In some sports there is a minor premiership and a major premiership. The minor premiership is decided by the total points at the end of a season. The major premiership is decided by finals and subsequently grand final between the top two teams. For sports coaches, fans and teams I feel as though there is too much emphasis on the major premiership. As someone who has been a coach, Id rather my team went out and won the minor premiership rather than the major premiership, because to get the minor premiership you have to go out there every week and perform at your best. The same could be said here. Even though there is no “grand final”, there is going to be one or two deciding matchups during the season that will be comparative to a grand final.
Seems as though this isn’t yielding as much as other methods of farming like champ farming. But one thing I noticed is there seems to be alot more coin dropped from mobs. Is it possible that farming the labrynth is actually a good way from gold drops if you run food and any gold drop boosts you have? Ie it feels worse because you don’t get alot of good loot compared to champ farming, but there seems to be more gold drops so maybe its deceptive?
With all these buffs going on I decided to roll solo on my warrior tonight. Suddenly I ran into a zerg. It was time to be chased down. It took some time, but eventually the zerg was dead.
At the moment bunker warrior and Guardian are the most forgiving.
I can see spirit ranger and necro being pretty solid in high latency too. Basically spam evades on CD for spirit ranger.
I don’t have good luck with condi rangers. Basically Im finding lag tends to effect movement skills to the point where they are bugged and dont work. This goes for stuff like ranger sword and greatsword and others. I find Necro to be completely fine and forgiving because it mostly comes down to positioning and making sure your not CCd. Clerics guardians are pretty good and even though warriors do have some movement skills, they are an easy class to play and very forgiving.
I’m at about 105% and I already feel like I get a lot of rares and about 1 exotic per day, I would love to hear the subjective experience of people who are running 300+ all the time.
Its meh tbh. Most of the decent farm events give loot from chests/bags which aren’t effected by magic find :/ It will pay off in the long run, no doubt, but its not like raining rares like you kind of wish it would :p
Its not photoshopped. He has 8000 + achievement points. Achievement point panel will show luck + account bonuses. If I had 300% from luck right now, I’d have 304% (6667 AP) my hero panel will show 334% with the cupcakes used.
Yes this is correct. I also have over 8k APs. However, his post is a little misleading. The AP panel displays account bound Magic find. This includes both achievement point bonus’ and essence of luck magic find. It does not display the addition of food and boosters. In order to see your full magic find from all sources, you need to go to your hero panel and it will display your total magic find from account bound magic find and other sources (food/boosters/infusions etc).
Wow this guy would have hit 300% a week ago. That is quick!
I know it’s a tall order to beat T1 servers for T2 servers. Everyone does.
How are you going to do it? If you intend to beat T1 servers you will need a serious game plan of some sort. They have more manpower, more experience, and are more organized from top to bottom than you. 4 out of the 6 servers in the league can field similar #’s. TC has the most coverage holes, but roflstomps ranks 5 and 6.
I would suppose due to the concern that the above posters are all on the 5th and 6th ranked server? That you’ve beaten the snot out of ranks 7-24? Ie… 18 other servers, to get your rank.
If you do end up rank 5 and 6 for leagues, and would like some organizational help or advice, many people from Sor/BG/JQ will help. Your community leaders (which you will need if you do not have already) can probably also join teamspeak with any of the above servers and have real time conversations.
I can respond to any e-mails and can set aside time for some teamspeak and offer advice etc. Most long time GM’s of T1 servers would also probably do this. You’ll have alot of work to do if you’re ranked 5 and 6 for the leagues in the future. Good luck.
The solution is to reduce the map cap. Its the only way things will change from the status quo. I see no other way. And this is in the hands of Anet. T2 servers won’t ever be on an even footing with T1 servers, with the exception being the rise and fall that goes on from time to time…but I hardly count that. As for the T1 servers, there is nothing they do that is sufficient to place them above the other. I must have played on about 15 servers now including the current top 3 right to the bottom. There are little differences, like ET only setup a public TS a couple of months back.
But its all the same. Players just flock to the servers that are winning. The only exception is JQ and its the longstanding loyalty of certain guilds in the server that have kept them “T1” for so long. Its not anything JQ specifically does, they have just been fortunate in this regard. There just aren’t the numbers in the game to provide for the map caps on a 24 hour basis, so there is always going to be this issue regardless of how much blood, sweat and tears you put into your server.
Yes you can still consume it and I do still get it from daily rewards. All food and boosters still stack. Here is a picture to show what happens at cap to extra luck when consumed.
I think this is photoshopped. Firstly, your MF display in your achievement panel only displays account magic find and does not include food or boosters. To get the total from your food and boosters you need to go to your hero panel (not AP panel). Also, the amount of luck required for each level is roughly half of what you need to be at 300.
Im at 278% magic find. Hopefully will be at 300 soon. Once done I can work on other goals. If you run food and/or boosters this will increase above 300%. The AP panel will display your account magic find. But if you just hit H to display your character stats it will give the total MF% at the time. IE 278% + 50% (booster) + 40% omnom = 368% MF. Considering there are others out there with alot of gold and whatnot, my guess is at this stage there are already people at 300%.
yeah it is definitely not line with a given number of players ahead of you for sure. Think we’ve had that figured out for quite awhile so prolly best to quit asking and try to find a place to play without regular queues. Tier 1 is going back into queue nightmare just in time for season 1 to start. ><
Rarely get a queue on blackgate and when it is its not long :p
I dont see whats wrong with getting to 300% mf fast~ If he’s found a way to get to 300mf without losing much, why would he not do it?
The way I see it, MF is an account bound upgrade that will pay dividends the quicker I get it upgraded. I know there are alot of people who see it the same way and are doing the same thing and I discuss it with them in LA. The others here don’t see it the same way and thats cool. I don’t really care about their opinions on my how I should live my life or anything. As someone said above, what is next? I don’t know what these essence of luck could be used for. They could be very valuable and if I start deleting them I may be deleting something of value. So I will have to start banking them for now until Anet let us know what they are going to be used for in the future or I run out of bank space and I come here and start raging about not telling us :p
I think skill 2 is a useless buff to a useless skill. The initiative is too much. It essentially nerfs your DPS by reducing the amount of unloads you can do (by expending your initiative on it). There are rare occasions where you are chasing down a target the immobilize will help, but regardless in most of those cases Id prefer to keep the initiative for DPS. Its the kind of skill buff I expect to be useful maybe once every 200hours of gameplay.
As for PP, I know there are alot of critics saying its the weakest weaponset, but I stand by my claim that it is one of the better ones. My build is quite different to the one above. I do not mind it. But I prefer 0/30/30/0/10. I very rarely get beaten with it by any class.
I’m from NZ, my latency can get REALLY bad with 5-7sec delays in skill activations. I don’t see much thieves from uA and if I do, I barely remember em. Doesn’t take much to be a good thief in WvW, in sPvP I never see uA in there.
uA is the only aussie/nz guild I know of in all GW2 lol.
These three below are all Aus/NZ based guilds. There are a few others. I play for Nocturnal. I main a thief. I don’t really do sPvP all that much as I find it rather boring. I mostly only WvW.
Some of the better guilds and better players in the game play in lower tiers. For quite a while the lower tiers were actually alot better tbh. Things have changed since though and I have seen a considerably improvement in high tier players.
Also, the remark about PVT and high survivability. This is only because most people are bad at the game. Its not because the gear is the best option. Its only the best option if your bad at the game and don’t want to be a rally bot. Although there are some builds that it might actually work on optimally. For compositions yes, its still good to have a heavy frontline, although this meta is changing and its still only because most players are bad at the game.
In all seriousness BG, please please recruit more oceanics. This is 500 tick is boring a hell.
Ahahaha good lord that gave me a solid laugh. You must be new here.
lololol. Dat awkward moment. I recall us having some oceanic guilds who left for server balance reasons. Can’t remember who they are though :p
No fear, we have trained koalas and a couple of croc commanders to pick up the slack. Said guilds who left shall not be missed when these crack troops get on their feet!
What about platypuses (or platypi? English is hard)?
We will be utilizing the Platypus as our small scale fighters targeting orb nodes and giving us the buffs. We are also looking into getting kangaroos to escort yaks. With this I really feel that we can compete with JQ. But first we must train said animals to log into a PC, which we will get to work on right after we throw another prawn on the barbie!
It could have been a simple massive oversight. What does concern me is that they continually tell us that they are looking for ways to make the game “more alt friendly”, whilst continuing to implement ways to make it even more alt unfriendly. At this stage, I doubt the game will ever be in a place where I would consider it remotely alt friendly. Wish I had of known that before I payed for character expansion slots.
I mean, everything else I will complete by just playing the game, but the JPs I don’t do at all.
