Mesmer still has the best pull in the game…
1) Short CD
2) AoE
3) No line of sight requirement
This skill was seriously OP before, now it is offset by a 1 second delay. This skill is still very powerful, the only change is that now it takes skill to use it.
My main is a staff ele. Even after this patch, most of my good skills have big delays. Meteor has a 3 sec cast time, and a HUGE visual warning. Trust me, a skill can be quite effective with a 1 second warning. In fact, you can use that warning to your advantage, if you know how.
I noticed they made a dev post saying they finally (freaking ANet) found the bug with the Dolyaks on the Blue team for EB, and that they will be fixing it soon. Anyone lemme know if it is out yet?
The supply is a lie!
We totally got hamstringed with that this week….
Wow that really sucks!
I’m not sure what order they should be in, but the classes with the highest skill ceiling are: Engineer, Elementalist, Mesmer.
That said, the skill ceiling of every class is high in this game. A good player on any class is a force to be reckoned with.
Step 1: Learn how the new match-up system works.
Step 2: Read the forum ToS.
Step 3: Abort pointless, unnecessary, and ToS violating petition.
Also I can’t understand why GoM and SF are so intent on focussing their efforts on FC?
Normally, I’m a “don’t beat down the little guy” kind of person. Unfortunately, the rating system does not share my sentiment. Glicko expects GoM and SF to grind FC into the ground. If they don’t, they will lose rating to FC because they are “doing worse than expected.”
So honestly I’m torn. I don’t want to focus FC, but I also don’t want to lose rating to them for being nice.
People can hear my bell in WvW now! I’m so happy, many many thanks!
Completely agree,
Anet might think they will profit more from the fine-transmutation stones. But create a wardrobe system and sell news skins each month and gobs of people will buy them just to have a full collection. Knowing that you can freely use skins will make people buy them more.
Can other players hear the Marriner’s Horn in WvW?
I ask because other players cannot hear the Choir Bell in WvW. If the horn bypasses this restriction, I’d be interested.
For a game called Guild Wars, there is seems to be nothing for guilds to do in the dragon bash.
Here is hoping Anet still has something up its sleeve. I would LOVE something like the Halloween labyrinth. Just give us anything we can do as a guild!
Honestly, ET and FC are tanking so hard point wise, that they have a good chance of staying together most of the time.
Your best bet will be to stack on ET and FC and on most weeks you will be in business.
Orbs as they used to be:
1) cause snowballing
2) encourage playing for second
Orbs that give Karma/Gold/XP/WXP boosts:
1) encourage sacrificing points to gain money
2) encourage winners, discourage losers
Both types of Orbs do bad things to the meta. Why would you want them?
I don’t know if it is a spy or troll, but someone sabotaged GoM Garrison this reset. They queued cannons, then built ~10 trebs and ~20 catas in useless places keeping the supply drained.
Let me be clear, I’m not blaming any server or group. Its just sad that someone would troll a whole server like that.
oh, and it looks like SOMEONE is certainly distracted with the dragonbashing… heh
No surprise there. The last time a holiday event came out, GoM dropped down to T8.
Completely agreed, this design allows kill stealing. I hate WoW for a reason.
sorry to report but, most of us on GoM disagreed with giving up points to the ET/FC that needed map completion. it’s caused a lot of infighting that will most likely continue.
How many points did we really give up?
We are going to gain 20+ rating points. And it looks like we are already set to pass up SF in rank: http://mos.millenium.org/na
As for the GoM community, I personally talked to leaders of 5ish WvW guilds and they were all on board. No one even hesitated, they all supported it completely. If people really lost morale about this…
I’m not exactly a “feelings” type of guy, but have a little empathy. Should they have to server transfer to get map completion? Personally, I’m glad that we were able the other servers out with map completion.
Blamethrower, 1200 range. Enemies target each other for 1 seconds. + 0.1 seconds for every infraction you’ve gained on forums without being banned.
so awesome
Completely agree.
The people invested in WvW don’t want to dig through the general suggestions forum. If you want better feedback, make a separate WvW suggestions forum.
Playing for second already happens, I’m not sure how displaying ratings will make it worse.
In fact, it might make it better. You will gain more rating by stealing a few points from green team, than by red and blue destroying each other. Red and Blue teaming up to steal points from Green will be the best tactic.
Will playing for rating encourage strong servers to crush weak servers even more? It might, but it will also improve the moral of the weak server. If all sides are invested in the battle, then it is a better match-up in my book.
Did I take a wrong turn and end up in the engineer forums?
No… it can’t the engineer forums. No one is complaining about engineers being a broken class, or getting nerfed every patch.
Lol Tenebrous, I was thinking of copying those posts over also, and you beat me too it.
Just a simple follow up: I think managing expectations through the GUI is enough. There is no need for an actual handicap.
SF never fought GoM, we switched places with them when we moved down to T8. Then when we got back to T7, SF moved up to T6 at the same time.
To be fair, GoM has grown (both in numbers and coordination) since all this happened, and my current understanding is that SF has collapsed some.
GoM/AR/BP
We would probably get stomped, but it would be fun for old times sake.
Why is there no Omega Golem slayer achievement?
WHY!!!
So many omega golems…
Why is there no omega golem slayer achievement?
/starts praying that anet rolls out the sandwichmancer next April 1st
The point of WvW is not PPT or score, it is rating.
- If you fight a stronger opponent and hold your own (while losing PPT), you will gain rating.
- If you fight a weaker opponent and win by only a little (while winning the PPT), you will lose rating.
If you randomly get assigned an opponent that is too strong for you, you are not doomed. Instead, this is a great chance to steal some of their rating points. If you randomly get assigned to a weaker tier, be careful not to let your guard down, or you might lose rating.
Every battle has meaning now.
There is always the opportunity for success, even against impossible odds. This will become the new meta, it is just a matter of time before everyone realizes it.
Why would you call this a bad thing?
Because it is not tracked in game in a visable way. Again lower tier (if they are like mine) servers have more marginal players which turn out for WvW when there it seems their participation will make a difference. If it does not there is always PvE.
Rating is not an explicit in game stat. like the score is. Explaining it is kinda pointless because it is often counter intuitive, and it is mostly the WvW involved players that will check mos.millenium.org and understand the rating system.
With matchups where you are getting beat into the ground, yet gaining rating, there is all these marginal players see is the score, so they are less motivated to turn out, which means we will be consistantly outnumbered (often by quite a bit) and have a problem drawing more people into liking WvW in general. You can not sustain ratings on that.
That is a very good point. Perhaps Anet could build this into the GUI. If the ranks, ratings and rating changes were all easily visible, that would probably change peoples’ perspectives. They could even take it a step further, and show the average PPT needed to maintain your current rating, thus setting a reasonable goal in players minds.
Instead of thinking:
“We suck and this is hopeless.”
or “We are dominating this is pointlessly easy.”
They might instead think:
“We are fighting a server three ranks ahead of us and gaining rating, GJ guys!”
or “We might be winning, but we are losing rating to these guys three ranks below us.”
The point of WvW is not PPT or score, it is rating.
If you randomly get assigned an opponent that is too strong for you, you are not doomed. Instead, this is a great chance to steal some of their rating points. If you randomly get assigned to a weaker tier, be careful not to let your guard down, or you might lose rating.
Every battle has meaning now.
There is always the opportunity for success, even against impossible odds. This will become the new meta, it is just a matter of time before everyone realizes it.
Why would you call this a bad thing?
playable wvw already exists on 66% of other servers.
make me laugh when wagon servers complain about skill lag. You all piled into 1 server, what do you expect?
Yes its unfortunate, Yes they are working on it.Tired of being a mindless zerg autoattacking and skill 1’ing? im sure that DR/NSP/HOD/ET/FC (and w/e low pop eu servers are there) will welcome you to their non-zerg, no-lag lovefest.
Until then. Enjoy the lag.
I see what you did there.
We love you too NSP.
Since some of you don’t know
Commando: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Commando
Sandwichmancer: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/More-Than-An-Expansion-s-Worth-of-Content/2074801
I don’t even care who wins this match-up, it has been loads of fun. I’ve been in good battles every time I log on. Keep it up NSP and DH, this has been one of my favorite weeks in WvW.
lol truly pathetic display SOCO commander. Come 1v1 instead of running to your zerg / siege.
Finish the fights you start -worst -necro -ever.
If I’m tagged up, I don’t have time to stop everything and do your pathetic 1v1 call out. It’s about the XP, not the miniscule points I will get for melting you.
But there is no better way to inspire your troops than by displaying your prowess in a true display of what WvW is all about: isolated 1v1 matchups in the open field!
Wait, WvW is about 1v1s?
I thought it was about 5v5 battles that are not planned in advance but only count if they are completely even in every way.
I’m a big fan of the new matchup system. If you haven’t read about it yet, take a look.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/big-changes-coming-to-wvw-matchups/
There is only one thing about the new system that I do not like, there is no way to tell who you will be fighting until the match has been reset.
I like speculating about the next match-up. I like doing the research on next weeks opponents and working out strategies. It can we an awesome incentive, push hard this week and you get to fight XYZ server. Some of my guild mates have pulled all-nighters due to that kind of excitement. It makes the battle more alive and exciting. Unfortunately, this is not possible with the new system, unless the “Random Rolls” are released early.
So that is my question:
Could we get the random rolls released a week early? That way we can still speculate about, prepare for, and get excited about the upcoming match-up.
1. Proper objective names
2. “Contested” boolean for each objective in match details
3. Status of upgrades for each objective in match details
4. Add mercenary camp statuses to match details
5. “Outmanned” list for each map in match details that lists which servers are outmanned on that map (empty list if none)
^^^ this
pvdoorin’ on a firday mornin’
I ain’t even mad.
Pretty gentle morning. Woke up to everything green.
Lost our bl. Gained our bl. Lost our EB. Gain our EB.Looks like DR had the same in the reverse order.
Just walked around and kicked the doors back down.Keep on truckin’, Rob.
^^^ that made me actually laugh out loud. Best gif ever.
At the moment, the events API only returns events for public maps. That means that instances, WvW, PvP and any other map types that may have events will not appear in the list.
We’re being careful with the information we release with the WvW API so that we don’t disrupt the balance of the game.
Do you have any plans to release data about contested points in WvW? Or would that cause the balance disruption you are talking about?
This still needs to happen.
Yeup just came out of NSP bl.
Apparently we had no one on it, literal figures 0 for most of night.
GoM took most of it with 7 people, or so I was told.
Then DR showed up too with 3 Omegas.Wanted to ask if either of you had siege problems? It didn’t look like it though.
Ours is bugging out, we drop it, get it to 90% built and then Poof. Its gone.
Reason why you may have witnessed some gate chewing.I’ve seen this happen a few times lately. But in most of the cases I’ve seen the siege disappears almost instantly after being dropped. It happens too fast to be despawning from not being built quickly enough. Don’t think it is a siege ca kitten ue, just a glitch.
There isa post about this glitch the debuff from spawn is glitching on people and when you apply supply with the seige lock debuff it destroys said seige
-frost
This is the issue. It is unrelated to the lag.
The age of the score update is over!
Anet released an official API so sites can access the match-up data. Millenium has already integrated it. You can even see a map of who owns what.
Devon, you have my gratitude.
Keep it up!
If you are like me, you have gotten used to the broken party/context menu system in WvW.
I’m not mad or distressed about this, I’m pretty used to it by now. That said, it would be such a quality of life improvement to get this functionality in WvW.
Why don’t we get access to the full party and context menu system in WvW?
Don’t punish legit WvW players to fix an exploit please. WvW players have to deal with that enough already…
Adding my voice to the post count. Please do this Anet!
HAY GoM. Our date night is overdue. Us, you… some daggers and booze… and a flamethrower to set the mood lighting. Whaddya say?
I couldn’t agree more, I can’t wait to face DH again.
We were just starting to build our community back in the DH/HoD/GoM days, I’m really looking forward to a rematch, (if that is possible, tiers are really locked in place atm). You will probably still smash us with numbers, but it will a fun fight!
Well now consider this. If the daughter of the Choo-Choo’s marry’s the son of the Chugga-Chuggas, would the resultant name be Chugga-Chugga-Choo-Choo, or would it be Choo-Choo-Chugga-Chugga? I am sorry my train of thought is going a bit astray.
Very punny
/exaggerated groan
Thread successfully derailed.
Oh crap your right!
Lets get this back on topic…
I think maybe DR and NSP both attacked at the same time once kinda. Super evil conspiracy! Outrage! Kitten Kittiness of Kittenry!
Well now consider this. If the daughter of the Choo-Choo’s marry’s the son of the Chugga-Chuggas, would the resultant name be Chugga-Chugga-Choo-Choo, or would it be Choo-Choo-Chugga-Chugga? I am sorry my train of thought is going a bit astray.
Very punny
/exaggerated groan
Announcement for GoM
We have moved to a new larger capacity teamspeak server. Ask for the info in EB or GoM BL, and I’m sure someone will get it to you.
seems we launched it off again
Ahhhh yep.
^^^
That one is so creepy.
Rob just loves his meme collection and takes every chance he can to bust it out!
Does he have a meme for “I’m losing this argument so I’ll just say no one cares?”
There is no argument Oozo.
What you are mistaking for an argument are trolls, toying with you to see how long it will take until you realize it…
There are probably several bets ongoing as to how long they can keep you posting about a dead topic. 4 to 1 odds on Oozo posting the word PUG more than 30 times this week. 2 to 1 odds on getting Oozo to declare he “won the argument” before the end of the week. 1 to 1 odds that Oozo will maintain his one man crusade despite being told point blank that people are just messing with him.
I think you get the idea… or maybe not.
Another QQ thread….why don’t we just remove eles from the game? Seems all the baddies would be happy.
A “QQ thread” in the discussion forums of MMORPGs like World of Warcraft, is where a user starts a discussion thread which is basically a complaint, whine or whinge about something in the game they are not happy with.
QQ itself is meant to symbolise someone crying; the Qs looking like eyes with tears streaming from them.
“This isn’t a QQ thread, but please nerf class X as they beat me in combat and thus must be overpowered and imbalanced!”i actually have a point here in my posts
the eles are cheating getting out of door, spamming aoes, getting downed then immediately vapor and get to safety….isn’t this cheating ?
Actually, QQ came from warcraft 2 (and later starcraft) ragequitting.
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