Guild Wars 2

I’m currently on Henge of Denravi borderlands. I placed a treb on the western cliff overlooking the field to Dreadfall Bay and started to treb Dreadfall’s gate.

Not too long after that, I start taking 2-5k hits of damage and my treb starts to get destroyed. I exited the south west gate of garrison, went around to the bottom of the cliff, and discovered that there were 3 Stormbluff Isle invaders spamming their AoE and single target abilities…that were somehow hitting my treb placed at the top of the cliff.

Could someone tell me if this is a bug/exploit I should report or if this is working as intended? My single target and AoE abilities could not even reach halfway up the cliff.

Badge of Honor drops are random. They can be rewarded while fighting other players and from Claiming NPCs that you defeat to take over supply camps, towers, keeps, and SM.

You may completely 1 v 1 a person, get the finisher off, and be rewarded no badges. You may hit a player once, have them go down, and get finished off by another player and receive 2 badges.

The only way to get the badges, really, is to just play. Try to be an objective player. Find a group that’s moving to defend or take over objectives and contribute. Conflict will always be found in those circumstances. Where there’s conflict, there’s a chance for badges.

I think another negative you might have to contend with is the inflated queue that could come as a result of funneling those who are below 60.

In my opinion, this seems to be devaluing the Borderlands in a sense, in terms of the significance that they hold in the Wv3 overall. It’d become much harder for a designated group to enter that Borderlands to provide the necessary level of presence to maintain a point flow from that area.

The idea is very interesting and I think fine tuning could turn it into a very strong point, though.

Currency sink = working as intended.

@Mishi
I never said that our servers were allied.

Thesilentflute.8761:

Soonkyu can we have a link plz?

I believe this was your response to me when I asked you for proof:

Thesilentflute.8761
We have all seen how Titan Alliance operates I do not need to post anything these people are witness to your actions.

I’ll take a page from Piccolo: it’s on guildwars2guru.

HoD vs ET vs JQ? 1000+. There were many players stating that ET was going to devote time to re-making money and a few TL members that stated the 24-hour match-ups were just too strenuous without much pay-off, so they were going to step away and then re-focus when the longer match-ups came in.

Piccolo.7296:

Malpractice.7850:

soonkyu.1275:

Stormbluff Isle has easily earned recognition from multiple guilds and players on HoD. They have a very scary force in War Machine (WM), EviL, and SiN. Underestimating them is not a good idea.

This is the truth. Theyve done better than ET and JQ in recent days. Theyve improved a lot. and war machine is a beast at night.

I will admit that ET has been slacking the past couple of days. However, ET does belong in the top 3 as of right now we are destroying BG and SoS. We literally have the entire WvWvW maps owned within the first hour. (Not sure how it looks right now though, I’m in bed) However, I think we will come back in full force once the 1 week battles start. Like I said, we have a VERY strong day time force, even better then HoD I think because we come out ahead of HoD and the third server. It isn’t until night time that we fall behind because of our fail night time force.

I’ve only seen one match-up where ET was ahead of HoD. The result was that ET still lost.

If ET deserved to be in the top 3, I’m sure they would be. However: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Current-world-rankings/first#post82393

I’m not saying ET isn’t competition. There are always good fights when ET is on the field against HoD.

Northern Shiverpeaks was matched against Henge of Denravi in a HoD vs NS vs BG (Beastgate) on September 1st. They lost. AA/TL transferred to ET citing queues made it nearly impossible for them to field their players.

Stormbluff Isle has easily earned recognition from multiple guilds and players on HoD. They have a very scary force in War Machine (WM), EviL, and SiN. Underestimating them is not a good idea.

Piccolo.7296:

Mishi.7058:

Piccolo.7296:

Mishi.7058:

Piccolo.7296:

Mishi.7058:

Piccolo.7296:

soonkyu.1275:

@Piccolo – Where is the open admission from HoD that they were working with someone to take ET down? I’m assuming this is the match that HoD won by 1k points? The one where Jade Quarry was given multiple opportunities by ET to capture Stonemist?

@Tarinis – What bug are you speaking of? Is there a link you can post that provides details for the bug? Or are you talking about HoD players relentlessly trying to enter the Wv3 queue to resume their fight, which is not a bug?

@Thesilentflute – Screenshots/FRAPS/etc of HoD exploiting? If you’re talking about the previously provided screenshots and solitary video of Stonemist, I’m almost 100% certain that said “exploit” is being thrown in with that “we can hit people through the gate with catapults from inside and flame rams/players on the outside exploit”.

You can hate HoD all you want. Leave your baseless accusations at the door, though.

Last nights match. Go look through the GW2 Guru forums and you will find it. It’s no secret Hod and SB sometimes work together. It’s only a matter of time before SB wants to come in first place and starts to work with ET or JQ to take down HoD.

Why would SBI have to work “with” HoD to take JQ and ET down? SBI does it without HoD in matches as it is, so there is no point in working with HoD to take out servers SBI can already take out.

I’m willing to bet my 50 in game gold (lol) SB can’t take down ET by themselves.

That’s why when ET and SBI were matched without HoD ET was spawn camped?
Oh wait SBI has a night crew who does things, while ET has mainly pugs during the night who lack any organization.

Believe me, I was 1 of the 3 who camped 30+ ET in EB. They kept grouping at the legendary guards then running out 1 by 1 to die.

So spawn camping on one battleground means you owned ET the entire match?

Spawn camping all 4 maps, and numbers above 300k means we owned the entire match.

Was that before or after AA/TL transfered to Eredon Terrace? Because They were not always on Eredon Terrace. They were on Nothern Shiverpeak then transfered to ET.

Eredon Terrace was never placed against HoD until AFTER AA/TL transferred. ET started at the bottom of the ladder because it was a new server.

Too lazy? No. Wanting to avoid a waste of time? Yes. You didn’t tell me where to find it. You gave me a site name that has forums that I visit frequently. I’ve never seen any admission. Forgive me for not being baited into wasting my time.

Piccolo.7296:

soonkyu.1275:

The previous 24-hour match? The one that HoD sat on the lead of from the very, very beginning?

Let me go ahead and take a guess at this: it was a non-tagged/no server listed “random” poster who’s account had been created in the last 12 hours, yes? I’d rather not dig through 6 pages of HoD vs ET vs SI to see a random account make an accusation.

It wasn’t a random account. I don’t know why you’re getting so defensive. Again, it’s no secret HoD and SB work together sometimes. Stop acting like you don’t. It’s part of the game, no one is going to get mad at you for doing it.

If it wasn’t a random account, why didn’t you just provide a link or re-post the admission? I’ve never worked with another server against any other server. The only public Wv3 TS/Vent’s I know about are the ones that TA offer so that HoD players can log in and coordinate.

I’d personally suggest you stop acting like you know. Just saying. It looks silly.

The previous 24-hour match? The one that HoD sat on the lead of from the very, very beginning?

Let me go ahead and take a guess at this: it was a non-tagged/no server listed “random” poster who’s account had been created in the last 12 hours, yes? I’d rather not dig through 6 pages of HoD vs ET vs SI to see a random account make an accusation.

@Piccolo – Where is the open admission from HoD that they were working with someone to take ET down? I’m assuming this is the match that HoD won by 1k points? The one where Jade Quarry was given multiple opportunities by ET to capture Stonemist?

@Tarinis – What bug are you speaking of? Is there a link you can post that provides details for the bug? Or are you talking about HoD players relentlessly trying to enter the Wv3 queue to resume their fight, which is not a bug?

@Thesilentflute – Screenshots/FRAPS/etc of HoD exploiting? If you’re talking about the previously provided screenshots and solitary video of Stonemist, I’m almost 100% certain that said “exploit” is being thrown in with that “we can hit people through the gate with catapults from inside and flame rams/players on the outside exploit”.

You can hate HoD all you want. Leave your baseless accusations at the door, though.

Wv3 currently provides chances at gear. The event system provides experience (relevant for any player that is leveling and even players at 80, since it provides skill points), karma (relevant for numerous things), and currency.

Along with the chance at gear, enemies also drop Badges of Honor. Badges of Honor can be used to purchase PvP oriented gear (toughness + vitality vs something like precision + crit dmg %), weapons, and accessories.

There’s a Wv3 reward system in place. Not liking it doesn’t make it absent from existence. The smartest thing ANet did was avoiding the creation of a bar that separates players from getting access to PvP. You can say Wv3 isn’t competitive if you want to, but there are many that would disagree with you. Your opinions aren’t everyone’s.

There are a few things mentioned in this thread that already exist in the game. Through guild influence, you can purchse PvP/Wv3 buffs. One allows you to collect 5 more supply for a total of 15. One allows you to create a guild siege weapon, which allows you to build a siege weapon with less supply. There are karma buffs, xp buffs, and banners with speed buffs that ALL your allies can touch and that’s not mentioning Vitality, Toughness, and other buffs.

You may not see Wv3 as a competitive venture and ANet might not have created it to be such, but players constantly evolve and change game dynamics, sometimes outside of the intended purpose. Don’t discredit other players who chose to indulge in it on another level.

In final note, not being happy with the current incentive system is one thing, but the fact remains that it does exist.

I could understand excluding repair costs from Wv3 if the only rewards I received from it were Badges of Honor.

Since I do receive money and other loot that I can sell, I think repair costs should remain.

A true auto-loot would be very nice for Wv3.

I also think it would be an awesome idea if Badges of Honor and other token currency (like the ones obtained from the PvE dungeons) was like karma and simply displayed in the inventory instead of actually took up bag space.

If arrow carts and other AoE abilities have been able to hit the Stonemist Keep Lord since the beta and the issue has been expressed to ArenaNet on multiple fronts, the only deciding factor is ArenaNet.

Let’s quickly point out that when ArenaNet discovered an exploit where small amounts of karma were traded for large amounts of gold, the reaction was swift and decisive.

As we haven’t heard anything from ArenaNet on the issue, it may be SAFE — not necessarily prudent or correct — to avoid calling it an exploit. From the “physics” stand point, it doesn’t make much sense, but neither does the aforementioned ability for players and flame rams to hit through gates as they try to get in. This works on the opposite side, considering catapults + ballista emplacements can be created to hit the door from the inside and players can also attack those on the outside.

This may be working as intended, like the keep gates, to avoid conflicts/engagements turning into wars of attrition, which are significantly more drawn out.

Event reward for escorting Dolyak caravans will return. ArenaNet simply said they were going to disable the rewards while they tweaked/worked on the system so that it could not be so easily abused.

In situations where supplies are desperately needed, the lack of getting a game reward for escorting the Dolyak should not stop you from doing so. You still get a reward: you’ve helped your team by escorting the Dolyak to a location that’s being contested, which means you may get to keep that location and have it continuously adding to your Wv3 points.

Unfortunately, like many situations, a (comparatively) small few tend to ruin it for the group as a whole.

Switching servers is only a stop gap for the issue. Now that the game is on sale again, the populations will continue to increase and the servers that are currently sitting on low/medium population will inflate.

Naturally, that’s going to create queues for Wv3 and escalate queue times on already full servers, since being full doesn’t necessarily stop transfers/new accounts from joining that server.

EDIT: Disregard, question was answered.

3) I could be wrong, but I thought auto-loot had to do with automatically picking things up out of the “loot bag”, not looting it for you when you get close.

6) Using red to distinguish players in a group with a commander would make it extremely confusing if you were to suddenly get into a zerg of enemy players.

I think a potential answer would be a menu that allows you to customize the colors of the tags that you see.

Creating a queue priority based on levels does not fix the problem — the queue. There are two problems for Wv3 right now.

1. High Population on server vs Wv3 Population Cap
2. The queue is actually broken

A potential fix for #1 is population triggers that open up more Wv3 maps. A potential fix for #2 is through actually fixing the coding. I shouldn’t sit in a 3 hour queue starting at 9 PM, only to have someone log in at 11 PM and spend ~10 minutes in queue.

The queue itself should be the problem you are trying to solve. Getting around it doesn’t fix that.