It can’t be avoided by transferring lower. The only solution is to buff Tier 2 to be competitive (and therefore glue the top 6), or disperse TC. The latter is far easier.
WvW is a relatively small part of the game. I highly doubt ANet will ever do anything like that to try to fix WvW balance problems.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
I honestly think that basing the teams on home servers is the cause of all these problems. I get that there’s a lot of server pride, but this sort of system naturally leads to these problems. The problem is that the solution would likely take a huge amount of resources that I highly doubt ANet thinks is worth investing in WvW, so we’re likely stuck with what we’ve got.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
Retaliation is a bad mechanic in general. I don’t understand why getting hit is a viable long-term strategy in this game. It’s especially bad that it punishes lots of small hits instead of one big hit and is completely unmitigable.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
Pretty much the most annoying thing in this game is when I’m fighting and I accidentally try to repair, stomp, or revive. For whatever reason, these actions sometimes lock you in and you have to mash move a bunch of times to get out of it. This happening in the middle of combat is extremely frustrating. If I press a directional button, I want it to cancel immediately. Is there any way to make this more responsive?
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
They will remove the Stunbreaks from Mist Form , Earth Armor and Lightning Flash 100 % .
And when they do this , im done with ele.
Necro gonna be OP anyways.
Mist Form and Lightning Flash will likely remain stunbreaks just due to their nature (invulnerable transform and blink). Armour of Earth is almost certainly losing it, though.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
Mag’s overnight is so bad that a lot of us are jaded on the PPT system, so we tend to just do whatever we want. If that means we take random keeps, so be it.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
I know how to play against stealth, but that doesn’t make it less annoying. In sPvP, it’s not as big of a deal, but in WvW, it feels very cheesy that thieves can escape from nearly any situation thanks to their extremely high duration stealths. This is of course about sPvP, but the mechanics apply across all modes so some sort of solution needs to be found.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
Again, I don’t think this is something that needs to be nerfed because they don’t know how to play against it. That would be a learn to play thing.
I disagree. Stealth, more than almost any other mechanic in any game, is extremely frustrating to play against even when you know how to deal with it, and typically makes the game less fun. This is doubly the case when you add high burst damage to the same kit. It was the case in League of Legends, Monday Night Combat, Guild Wars 2, etc. The only game I’ve ever seen that had tolerable stealth was Team Fortress 2, and it was extremely limited (until Valve started messing it up with crummy items). If a lot of the thief’s power budget is tied up in a mechanic that has a lot of gameplay/balance drawbacks, then isn’t it in thief’s best interest to have it significantly toned down so he can be stronger elsewhere?
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
If the goal is to make it easier for newer players to fight thieves, then they’ve been hitting in all the wrong places. The biggest issue new players have in games is dealing with stealth characters; long duration stealth in particular causes a lot of problems. Thief can gain stealth for unreasonably long amounts of time, and yet this is almost never, ever hit. They need to bring it down (especially Shadow Refuge) if they really wanna fix the cause and not just the symptoms.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
Honestly, you can’t rely on the community to fix problems. Currently the incentives push you to transfer to big servers and to zerg up whenever possible. It’s up to ANet to change the incentives.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
ANet doesn’t need to do the specific things people suggest, but they should be able to sense the general discontent, identify the cause, and work on a solution. So far, they haven’t even shown that they’re aware of a problem. That’s what bothers me.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
It makes a lot more sense when you stop looking at “the forums” or “Maguuma” or “Dragonbrand” as some sort of monolithic entity with the same opinions and desires and start looking at individuals and what they want. There’s not really hypocrisy when it’s different groups of individuals asking for good matches versus variety.
But I digress. There’s nothing really inherently “fair” about you getting to beat up one server a week after getting beat up by another one. In fact, that’s pretty much feel bad all around. Ultimately, I feel like World vs World will never be balanced with its current design. As long as it’s server versus server in a 24 hour environment, it’s always going to be about which side has the most players. I think something needs to change to introduce flexibility in that. Perhaps some sort of mercenary system?
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
For the record, FA and Mag are currently gaining rating while DB is dropping.
We’re balanced to the rating system, you should set your goal to keeping us from gaining rating.
We got murdered last week by two T1 servers, but we didn’t drop that much over all. In fact thanks to T2 last week we managed to pass TC to go from 5->4 despite being murdered. Why? It was expected that we’d be outmatched in T1. Likewise, DB will have to win by a pretty fair margin to gain rating in T3.
~ Kovu
Rating is not the same as fun. Given that ANet actually plays their game, I’d hope they recognize this and are taking steps to improve it.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
We don’t really even do that badly. It’s just that we have ~T6 oceanic presence, which tanks our score, which makes people stop playing. Give us a scoring system that doesn’t reward 24/7 coverage above all else and maybe people would be a little more motivated to play.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
lol i literally can’t believe someone on db would say this. you have got to be a troll and a hilarious one.
Calvin does absolutely nothing but flamebait. He’s one of those trolls who finds ways to get underneath everyone’s skin and then flashes the puppy dog eyes as soon as he’s called out on it, so he never gets punished. Just ignore him.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
Wouldn’t be surprised if we sandbagged this week. We don’t enjoy fighting Dragonbrand, and we’d be a lot happier just losing a lot of rating and fighting someone else.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
Why do you call your guild “Good Fights” when the vast majority of you just run thieves and mesmers with berserker gear? I mean, you guys are generally good players, but super uninteractive burst builds are hardly what I’d called good fights…
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
The problem with modes is that when you have a lot of modes, it can be hard to really focus your resources on developing depth in any of those modes. The issue with GW2 is the particular game mode we have right now isn’t terribly exciting or popular, but ArenaNet insists on staying the course with it. I wish they’d wake up and see that the Conquest mode just doesn’t compel many people and make something different.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
I dunno about the rest of my server, but the reason I haven’t been playing so much is because the game just isn’t fun anymore. I don’t know why ANet is so opposed to giving players a way to just have an honest scrap without all these uninteresting secondary objectives in the way, but with the AC change, you can’t even have an open field fight anymore.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
I’ve always felt like defending is easy; it’s just inconvenient and unrewarding to do so. The arrow cart change just makes it easier to defend and does nothing to fix the convenience and reward problems.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
My issue with the RTL nerf is that it’s a direct nerf to the fun of playing the class. The elementalist has so much hidden, subtle power that they could have hit, but instead they hit something very much in the forefront while much of that hidden power persists. It just feels lazy to me.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
More RAM only helps if you’re actually running out of available memory. The main issue is a CPU bottleneck. The game only works with one core, so you need a high clock rate on your processor to keep your framerate up.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
The RtL and Mist Form nerfs hurt offensive elementalists more than defensive ones. Also, s/d eles in general will have a harder time getting close enough to get fire skills to actually hit (offhand dagger skills, Phoenix due to slow travel speed, the best way to give Dragon’s Tooth a CHANCE to hit is to follow up with Earthquake or Blowout, unless you take Signet of Earth for some insane reason).
(My greatest gripe is that scepter/dagger 0/20/0/30(20)/20(30) Berserker is pretty much the only ele build that offers decent ranged damage while retaining solo capability, and its survivability was hit pretty hard with these modifications. (Scholar runes and Vital Striking lose their damage bonus if you take about 1.5k damage, which is pretty much always in 1v1s, so yeah.))
The Cleansing Water nerf really only hurts staff and Glyph of Elemental Harmony users.
Truly, these were the changes required for elementalists.
The Cleansing Water change hurts the D/D bunker build a lot, because you get regeneration from switching to Water as well as whenever you use a cantrip, which is four condition removals from it. Now you really have to space those out to get them all.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
The patch that is coming in a few days has considerable buffs for Warriors, so my suggestion is to try other classes, just for an hour or two, to get a better understanding of what they do. This will help your Warrior play out by allowing you to better avoid the other classes’ strengths and help you capitalize on their weaknesses. Then, when the patch hits, you can go back to the Warrior and try out the new stuff.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
I still think two games should run every day: One from, say, 8 PM to 8 AM, and another from 8 AM to 8 PM (EST). Servers would have separate ratings and matchups for each time zone, and players would be able to participate in both. Yes, there would be many problems to iron out, but I think properly implemented, it would be more fun for everyone than Coverage Wars.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
Yeah… I never played GW1, but I was reading the Mesmer skill page and it just made my head hurt. Then I tried reading about hexes and enchantments and… agh… how anyone managed to learn that game is beyond me.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
I still say that Warriors, from a pure design standpoint, don’t need a lot. It just seems like ArenaNet underestimated how strong survivability from boons and heals would be and overestimated survivability from raw health and toughness. Warriors would be much more playable if the Guardians and Elementalists couldn’t tank direct damage so kitten well.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
To the YB and MAG commanders, do you think the earlier reset time helped your server more than the others in this match-up? I know that most NA DB guilds were fielding less numbers at reset, since many of our west coast players were still at school or work.
I’m not a commander, but our strongest time zone has always been around the 9 PM-3 AM EST time zone. The earlier reset definitely favoured YB.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
So is there any actual reward to doing WvW? I know badges let you buy…. exotics. But the dungeon exotics are vastly better than these (even the karma ones) and even look better.
You get access to level 80 exotics if your character is level 80. They have the same stats as dungeon exotics. I dunno why you can’t see them on a sub-80 character… it would make WvW look more appealing if you could.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
If you are in the EB JP trust no one and kill them all.
YB and DB will always end up betraying any kind of mercy shown towards them.
I found a few cool DB players, one BP thief in particular who just stopped and had a chat with me randomly last week. Though they are mostly ever only people who duel and Fightclub so Quantity is limited this tier.
Is it possible to chat with enemies in WvW? I thought everyone was anonymous in WvW. Which mechanic do you use?
You can add them to your party and use party chat.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
I guess it sucks to know that when DB guilds NA and SEA put their game face on…you guys can’t compete in any timezone, including reset or N/A primetime..but seriously great job this weekend..
A lot of our good players are playing less now that we’re in tier 3. Simple matter of morale.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
Where’s the usual mag posters? We haven’t past 1 page yet, and it’s been 22 hrs since reset.
Cmon start some drama already, yaks is boring to PvF and never GvG.
We seem pretty demoralized. Not many people around to be honest.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
I’m honestly just considering transferring out of Mag. I love it and the people, but NNK and friends make this one of the least enjoyable WvW experiences I’ve had since I started playing in January.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
Retaliation is just a poorly designed mechanic. Passive thorns effects are little more than invisible power and have little gameplay around them. Kinda wish it didn’t exist at all.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
To clarify – I’m looking for OPPONENTS who don’t necessarily zerg all the time. Maguuma definitely has roamers, but you just rarely see smaller fights because everyone is running around in 30 man groups. It was the same issue I had when we were fighting Tarnished Coast – they’re just never not in zergs.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
I’m currently on Maguuma and while I love people here, I’m simply not having much fun now that we’re in tier 3 and subject to Dragonbrand’s nightly “raids.” My friend and I mostly play a roaming style, and we like smaller scale fights. I am aware that all servers have zerging, but is there a tier that is most friendly to this sort of style? Do higher level players play in lower tier servers because of a lower emphasis on zerging? Any suggestions?
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
Someone just keeps asking SEA players to answer his/her question, so here I come.
AS an Asian player who participate wiping out wvw map every night, I can easily tell you why.
“We want to get DB to higher tier by ourselves, not just join another server.”
Is this clear enough??
This is not going to happen, and it’s only making the matchup really lopsided and time-zone dependent. I kinda wish something would change, but I don’t see it happening.
You’re entitled to your own opinion (like everyone else) but NNK (and a number of other die-hard guilds) that have been here from the start or at least risen from T6 match by match week-by-week can totally attest to how wrong your opinion is. He means we have gone up the ranks fighting and fighting regardless of the situation and match up and odds, and we have been rising through the tiers day by day “by ourselves” meaning that we didnt do it through treason and betrayal of our server like TSYM did a number of times and other guilds with terribly fairweather reputations jumping server to server as the mood hits.
Some of us really like the fact that we’ve roughed it out, though that doesnt mean we dont appreciate all the newcomers on the way. It just means some players do not want to rise through the tiers with short cuts.
I didn’t say that I wanted NNK to leave or something; I just said I wish that something would change the awkward time zone gameplay T3 currently has.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
Someone just keeps asking SEA players to answer his/her question, so here I come.
AS an Asian player who participate wiping out wvw map every night, I can easily tell you why.
“We want to get DB to higher tier by ourselves, not just join another server.”
Is this clear enough??
This is not going to happen, and it’s only making the matchup really lopsided and time-zone dependent. I kinda wish something would change, but I don’t see it happening.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
The backpedal looks particularly bad next to the quickness change. That change, like the proposed revealed change, is good for the long-term health, but has major short-term balance implications, yet they went through with it nonetheless.
Maguuma – plays Asuras with various permutations of the name “Viocar”
