I’ve come to realize that the trolls for TC and SoR do not represent their servers in any way. Maybe they should all transfer to a new server and name it the death star or something.
I’ve enjoyed this battle. The fights have been pretty even within NA primetime. Last night was a lot of fun. We had the SoR zerg and the TC zerg (Nice to meet you RE!) outside of SM fighting. Was it really strategically important? No. Was it a lot of fun? Definitely.
SoR, enjoy the rest of your tier 2 vacation. You guys definitely deserve the #1 server title. Here’s hoping for more open field, meaningless, yet super fun, battles the remainder of this week.
This match-up has been really fun. While the score isn’t even overall, the battles are pretty even in NA primetime. Since that is when I play, that is all that really matters to me.
At this point the thief class is maybe average at best. Unfortunately, it has turned into a class that is basically only good at killing those with no skills. That is sad. Hopefully anet will buff the thief soon.
While I agree the old system had a lot of ratings that were not accurate, this current system needs some tweaks. Right now it is just creating too many imbalances. I think you reeeeally need to consider having 2 or 3 resets per week while the ratings work themselves out.
Since most of the skillful players are in Heart of the Mists, imagine all the hardcore tpvp players decided to form a WvWvW guild, since they are the REAL pvp players, I wonder how awesome the guild would be in WvWvW
They would get pwned if they tried to play tPvP and WvW the same. They would likely do well if they just took a group of 5 people and roamed with it.
We really need an arrow cart fix. I know this game mode is named ACvAC and all, but come on. It is ridiculous. Here are the changes that need to be made
1. AC needs to have line of sight.
Next pick one of the two:
1. Nerf AC damage by 50% to players and siege.
2. Leave damage the same, but put a proximity limit on AC building. No AC can be built within a distance of 1200 from another AC.
If there are emotes, I do not see them. I have a separate tab for WvW that basically includes say, team, map, and whisper. Anything else can go into a different tab.
I still never understand the complaints around this. I down people, and then I stomp them. What is the issue?
The only thing that needs to be changed is Eles in mist form. They should not be able to suicide outside of gates, and then be able to mist form back inside.
Well, we are all getting what we wanted here. For a long time, players pleaded with ANET to put more of a focus on WvW. We wanted new maps. Instead of more maps, ANET decided to turn this into a more PvE like experience. Sad.
I still think everyone should have a piece of siege automatically strapped to their head when they enter ACvAC. That’s the direction that we are going.
Skill 2 is bad. The problem is that it is more aligned to a P/P set-up. So my suggestions:
—For skill 2- Remove vulnerability and instead apply poison for 3 seconds. This gives P/D players 2 conditions to work with and allows for some new build options (poison duration for example)
For P/P players, move vulnerability to Unload. Each unload cast should apply 2 stacks of vulnerability. In other words if they cast unload 3 times in a row, they would apply 6 stacks.
Thief needs to be a less consequence-free class. There’s no good reason why a pathetically useless player like myself should be able to do so well just because I rolled a thief.
In terms of WvW.. this right here is exactly what it comes down to. No risk, all reward!
Jumper, you are a highly skilled Thief in PvP and I totally respect being able to pull off what you do, but in WvW, thief is a no skill required class, if WvW players had to work half as hard as you do in PvP they would probably reroll to a different class!
Do you even WvW? In WvW, the gameplay is all about zergs. A thief is NOT very good at that. So, what you will see are thieves roaming and looking for people who are out of place (away from their zerg) and have no clue what to do in WvW. In other words, the thief is really killing the less talented players in WvW. Those who know how to play, aren’t really worried about a thief.
Remember that pistol mainhand (skills 1 and 2) is also used for P/D, so you need to think about how any changes impact that as well. Here are the changes that I would make:
Skill 1
—Increase the rate of auto attack
—Increase the damage from bleeds by 10%
—Increase the power scaling to .5
Skill 2
—Increase the damage amount.
—Increase vulnerability time from 6 to 8 seconds
WvW (Roaming) – Average
WvW (Zerging) – The current OP class
sPvP – Average
PvE/Dungeons – Really strong
So, how do you improve WvW roaming and sPvP without making WvW zerging and PvE completely OP?
Roaming: Horrible, almost every class does it better.
Zerging: Average, every class is good at Zerging. Warriors are a missile, however they don’t bring nearly the crowd control a necromancer/elementalist can in Zergs. Unfortunately Hammer warriors lead the fight, however they die very quickly and are very squishy.
What tier do you play on? Warriors are the MOST desirable zerg classes in tier 1 and 2 at least. I can’t speak to tactics on anything lower than that.
Warriors are NOT squishy when it comes to zerg fights. They have some of the best survivability and when it comes to 20v20 fights, most top commanders want more warriors than any other class.
If a warrior is dying a lot or is squishy, they are using the wrong spec or it’s a L2P issue.
DB dominated tier 2 when they first came, then disappeared
TC was MIA the first 2 weeks of the match up and then came on strong
FA was consistent week to week
Basically FA was always in the middle and for some reason TC and DB switched places.
I only request one thing and that is for TC and FA to show some small respect. I have noticed today so far there are a few guilds on TC one with tag INCV I believe that will /laugh when they kill players. This will be like a 40 man zerg versus 15-20 people on SoS. Granted were not as strong as we used to be because of players migrating to other servers. When I kill players and it was a good fight they deserve respect. Please /bow
All servers have their less desireable players. Your server does as well as you can see by the post a few above yours. I think for 99% of the time both FA and TC are respectable.
As for TC and INCV, I’ve been on TC since launch and I’ve never heard of them. So, they are either new, or some really small group.
I’m Commander Guildchat from Sea of Sorrows server.
What kind of motivation should I have for telling my guild to get into WvW this week?
due to the tier 2 servers we’re facing, any effort put out by us will raise our rating and give us more of a chance to potentially fight in tier 1 where we’d get our spit stuffed in even more? A constant losing cycle doesn’t seem like what we should be striving for.
If you really want to change the dynamics of WvW, dissolve the EU servers and shuffle them into NA, as WvW is a 24-hour game anyways. Don’t just put little league teams in the professionals.
I remember SoS as always fighting to the death. I hope the remaining guilds still feel that way. This is an opportunity to show your server is back and then it is better than tier 4.
I’m definitely going to miss this match-up. As a member of TC, my thoughts:
DB: You guys have some of the best quality guilds that I’ve seen. I’m not even going to try to list them all, but much respect.
FA: We’ve probably fought each other more than we have any other server. I look at it as two brothers. Definitely fought a lot growing up, but much more respect for each other as we’ve matured.
Good luck in the new matchups! There’s a good chance we will see at least one of you this coming week.
Not knowing ahead of time if fine for 90% of the population. The other 10% will be upset but not really a big deal. A well coordinated server can still plan what they want to do.
Stealth is NOT equal to burst damage. Burst is really related to dagger mainhand. Those daggers are where thief hate come from.
These are the changes that should be made:
1. Make heartseeker similar to flanking strike. The first strike does damage, and the second steals boons. That means heartseeker can no longer be spammed in the way that it is today
2. Ensure the damage for the first strike of heartseeker is equal to the damage today. The second would be 50% of the first. The total initiative for both strikes should be equal to today. (In other words, you get MORE damage from each heartseeker, but it cannot be spammed)
3. Remove the leap finisher combo on heartseeker. The point of D/P should be about blinds more than stealth
4. Change skill 3 on d/p to blind for 1 second vs the current one attack.
I’d recommend anyone in the top 3 tiers with the exception of SoR and DB. The reason? SoR is stacked already so there isnt much difference you could make there. DB? They are the current month’s Kain. Too many have bandwagoned there and a few more losses and guilds will start to jump ship.
