Guild Wars 2

I heard that the PPT system will change completely with the HoT expansion.

Anyway, any match-up change would be welcome at this point, even a blowout week.

I’d totally buy it, if it completely change WvW. At this point, I don’t even care about the changes, just want it to change.

There isn’t. WvW population is really small right now.

And BG won the push week last week. Wouldn’t be fun in T2.

Mishi.7058:

If you are on TC and don’t see more than 5-10 people on at any given point you may be doing something wrong. (That goes for T1 in general.)

Eight hours ago, TC capped BGBL Bay, Hills and Garri with exactly 6 people. I was in the map, with 2 more people. And that was it.

Dayra.7405:

yanniell.1236:

The new expansion will change WvW, so I heard. At this point, we’ll just have to wait.

Interesting. Beside
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/preview-of-upcoming-balance-changes/
that says nothing about WvW, I just found
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Upcoming_changes_and_features
but it only says about World versus World:

• Improving the commander functionality: Being discussed, but not being worked on yet
• Matchup information made available ahead of time is looked into, but complicated.

It wasn’t officially announced yet, but they already registered the logo and stuff. If you search on the internet, you’ll know. Their profit expectation for the 3rd quarter is insane.

The new expansion will change WvW, so I heard. At this point, we’ll just have to wait.

At this point, we should just wait for the expansion that is around the corner. Heard that WvW will change a lot.

What will happen in January 24?

Was already suggested tons of times before. U guys should read the topic about it.

Yep, exactly what like 0.1% of wvw players asked for.

How could that ever go wrong?

I’ve been using it for two weeks now. Great app, very helpful.

Which server are you on? Last reset, BG queued 2 maps… We’re lucky if we can queue anything besides EBG during the week.

There would be a lot of PvD from both sides.

I don’t think they ever considered an alliance system.

I’m completely ok with just removing the rally mechanics from WvW and keeping the downed state.

And there’s a lot of others awesome suggestion in this topic, like defensive siege not attackable with skills from the ground, making defense more viable and attacking more challenging.

Hope the devs are reading it and giving it a thought.

Lets put in this topic the next experiments you’d like to see after the “no white swords” and the PPK experiments.

I’ve two in mind right now:

1) get rid of or increase the AoE cap;
2) get rid of downed state in WvW.

What you guys/girls would like to experiment next in WvW?

That would also be an awesome experiment: get rid of downed state in WvW for a few weeks.

Well, maybe it was a limitation back then, but a lot has changed since then.

Don’t hurt to ask, and the experiment could be nice. A change of air would be welcome.

Prob T2.

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coglin.1867:

yanniell.1236:

Sirendor.1394:

gennyt.3428:

PPK would be truly great with a higher or no AoE cap!

yanniell.1236:

Remove or increase the AoE cap would change the entire dynamics of WvW. Instead of stacking, commanders would say “spread!”. Would be an awesome and interesting change.

I agree! Make this the next WvW experiment. xD

Excellent ideia! And if they can’t remove the cap altogether, maybe increase it to 20~25.

That’d be an exciting experiment.

Where have you guys been? The AoE cap was implemented because before it was an utter disaster.

This idea only favors a few builds/weapon sets and leaves everyone else in the wind.

And how is it today with GWEN?

There’re a lot of things wrong with WvW. A visible dev is definitely not one of them, on the contrary, it’s a really good thing.

Prob would get more reply on the Pve section. I don’t even know what is scorps, observatory, etc.

Sirendor.1394:

gennyt.3428:

PPK would be truly great with a higher or no AoE cap!

yanniell.1236:

Remove or increase the AoE cap would change the entire dynamics of WvW. Instead of stacking, commanders would say “spread!”. Would be an awesome and interesting change.

I agree! Make this the next WvW experiment. xD

Excellent ideia! And if they can’t remove the cap altogether, maybe increase it to 20~25.

That’d be an exciting experiment.

Remove or increase the AoE cap would change the entire dynamics of WvW. Instead of stacking, commanders would say “spread!”. Would be an awesome and interesting change.

Nice to see u guys around. Keep up the good work.

Last two weeks, our score not from ticks was around 20%, while this week it’s around 33%. Guess it’s making a difference.

It’s awesome how the forum is overflowing with literally thousands of suggestions for improvements and changes and yet they managed to implement something that literally nobody asked for.

Shademehr.1397:

Nanyetah Elohi.4852:

The key to understanding T1 is going to be voice communications. You will need to establish how voice comms work on your server and always use them. T1 will make no sense without voice comms.

This is a completely off-the-wall question, but what is the current capacity of the voice comms around T1-ish? In other words, how many concurrent connections do you have at one time? We’re rising through the ranks a bit on ET and we’re starting to attract more players because of it and I’d like an idea of what we might need capacity-wise if we continue to grow.

Thanks in advance.

At reset night we can have 250+ people on TS, in different channels. On week days prime time, we regularly have an average of 50 people on one float channel and a bit less on other one or two BL channel.

Nanyetah Elohi.4852:

“The only difference is coverage.”

That theory.

The only difference between a T6 server and a T1 server is the number of players.

It is. Put the same amount of players on the three sides, 24/7, and you’ll have close matches all the time.

VaaCrow.3076:

Jeknar.6184:

VaaCrow.3076:

I really don’t see the argument for salvageable wvw armor either, as far as i can tell it is there for wvw players to have a cheap way of buying gear that can be either crafted or bought on trading post as in wvw you tend not to make alot of money and this offers you a way to quickly gear a toon with sufficient quality armor. It is not there to make you a quick buck from salvaging.

Actually people just want to salvage their runes back. They don’t want mats or anything from these. I can buy crafted exotics EVEN CHEAPER on Trading post, for that if I wish.

oya that is an issue i didn’t think of this, maybe make it salvagable but the only thing you get from it is your rune.

That’s all we’re asking for

While u are at it, check the BG’s EBG queue as well. Right now we got like 50 people in the map, and a 25+ queue. There’s nobody chilling in the keeps, roamers or havocs. Something is odd.

Nanyetah Elohi.4852:

yanniell.1236:

Coverage wins. Always. There’s no talent involved when it comes to ppt.

The population imbalance is a myth most of the time. Even on the high population servers, players and guilds drift in and out. There is massive downtime. What is working is players jumping in at the last minute, on demand. That is talent.

Whatever makes u feel good, bro.

One light berserker’s coat costs 1G + 200 BoH. On the TP, the cheapest armor of that kind costs 5,5G. I would’ve to spend 1100 BoH on alphas (50s each on tp) to buy the same armor.

Well, badges would be freakin awesome if we could, you know, SALVAGE the armors and weapons we buy with it.

Right now, BG is hibernating. I’d recommend JQ if u want to have more action outside prime time.

TC has the best coverage as now, so also could be a good ideia. You’ll have a lot of people to play with on any time and easy wins for the foreseeable future.

Coverage wins. Always. There’s no talent involved when it comes to ppt.

There’s no queues on T1 (at least on BG) outside for 2~3 maps on reset night.

Heard on TS that there’ll be no worlds on season 4.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

LetoII.3782:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Feeling stale?
Want a different type of game play where there aren’t huge zergs on all sides?

Go visit a t7 or t8 server. Let’s see how you do there.

T1 also has empty space.

but in addition there is active battlefields

We’re not just talking empty space here.

Strategy and tactics are very different between t1 zerg fests and (near) barren t8s.

From a former lower ranked server player, u have no ideia what u’re talking about. What I noticed when I just transfered from BP was that the roamers were actually slighter better in T4+, while the commanders and big group tactics were really, really better in T1, probably because they get a lot more practice here.

Hamster.4861:

Between the three of them, they probably have more people engaged in WvW than all of bronze leaugue, and all of this is done under the guise of “getting people more engaged in wvw”?

What most people fail to notice is that it isn’t T1 that has a lot of people, it’s that the other tiers have too few people. We really need more people engaged in wvw, and the servers below T1 need it even more. If BG is just queueing 2 maps on reset night, I can’t even start to imagine how is the situation on the lower servers on non-prime times. BP was already a desert land when I left 6 months ago.

Just saw the videos, LOL…

What would be this build with 1200 regen per second?

Again, just merge some kitten servers.

Nanyetah Elohi.4852:

lot of talk in TC right now about a guild that split so they are on both JQ and BG.

Prob TW. Their leader, Dods, decided to create an account on JQ to make it’s militia better, so people could have even better fights.

I think it’s kinda stupid and that JQ’s militia is fine, but whateva.

coglin.1867:

xGraver.4918:

Who cares what happens in NA it’s all dead.

Top 6 servers have maps with queues regularly and often have all maps queued. So your either trolling to start trouble, or posting about matters you do not know about.

I laughed! BG only queue all maps on reset nights, and just for a couple hours. After that, we are lucky if we can queue EB.

BG was ticking 60ish some hours ago, while JQ were ticking around 500ish. People are just burned out.

Drastic changes are necessary.

Lol, this conversation just happened right now. I think it’s appropriate for the topic. The mighty T1:

Rimmy.9217:

yanniell.1236:

People are really wrong if they think T1 has enough people to spare and still keep a minimum viable population. The days when T1 queued all maps all the time are long gone. Besides reset night, it’s really rare to see a queue, and it’s not uncommom to roam in the BLs on non-prime time and don’t see a soul.

The WvW population as a whole is diminishing, and what we need is less servers, not new prices on transfers.

That’s not what the people coming to us from T1 report their own experiences are. Some are people that have left our server to go to T1 and have returned, and others are people who have never been off of T1 until now.

Well, it’s saturday, like just 12 hours after reset, and here is the amazing T1 queues:

The population of T1 servers right now. On regular days, on prime time, we usually have one float team, that bounces between BL’s as needed, and one commander in each BL. If happens to be a queue, it’s on EBG, and it’s not more than 20. The other borderlands rarelly queue if it’s not reset night.

After prime time, the only BL with real action is EBG, and it’s hard to find a commander in any other BL. Yesterday, a group of less than 10 enemies were capping our towers and keeps on our BL after prime time, and we didn’t have a commander nor the people to stop them. And when a commander tagged up afterwards, there were like 10 people following him.

Anything less than that level of population, isn’t viable nor healthy for WvW.

People are really wrong if they think T1 has enough people to spare and still keep a minimum viable population. The days when T1 queued all maps all the time are long gone. Besides reset night, it’s really rare to see a queue, and it’s not uncommom to roam in the BLs on non-prime time and don’t see a soul.

The WvW population as a whole is diminishing, and what we need is less servers, not new prices on transfers.