Guild Wars 2

Thanks for the praise and good fights this week DH and SBI (especially to that 10 man SBI group on SBI BL this afternoon!)

FlamingFoxx.1305:

It’s something that we should see fixed soon.
The character draw distances used to be much higher. But for some bizarre reason they added culling to PvE. They’re addressed the issue in WvW but in PvE we still have INCREDIBLY short draw distances for characters. And I seriously mean incredibly short, like almost the equivalent of a dodge roll in radius -_-.

You can tell it isn’t actually the draw distance (and is instead specifically the other character draw distance) because you can see the NPC’s below you

The problem has been made a lot better in WvW, but there are still a lot of times when I’m standing on a tall spot (at a keep or what have you) looking into the distance, when I see a few people running up to the structure.
“About 5 SoR inc to Stargrove,” I’ll say in map chat.
Only to have to immediately append that to, “NO NVM IT’S THE WHOLE ZERG 40+!” following the massive character pop-in.

My point is, if I can see the terrain, I’d like to be able to see some representation of a character on it. Even If it’s a little red blob, as long as I can tell a player is there, and what server they’re from, I’ll be happy.

If it’s on a newer character it’s worth noting that the first several WXP levels only provide badges, and no items.

Valik Shin.9027:

Hickeroar.9734:

I think SM is fine. They need to expand the thirds outward, and balance them though. Inner towers should be able to treb SMC, but the fact that OL is the only keep which can treb it just just bloody stupid. Honestly the entire Red third is just mindlessly designed. It really doesn’t fit with the design/layout of the other thirds, and tends to be horribly unbalanced as a result.

EBG just needs a general overhaul in the “balance” category.

It’s not supposed to be balanced. Red is supposed to be for the 3rd place server in a tier and their end of the map is designed to give then an advantage to off set the fact that the other 2 servers are most likely better. Blue is supposed to be better than green which I think it is just a hair but that debatable.

The problem now is that tiers no longer exist. Last week poor Dragonbrand got stuck with being green, while Jade Quarry was red.

VitalSuit.1980:

rogerwilko.6895:

3s bleeds are just meh…

Who said we were talking about pistol autoattack? 3s bleeds might be meh but 5-6 burns are delicious.

Being able to pump my fear times up is a huge plus.
I’m buying the crap out of this and the kraklechocolate bars.

I would personally prefer the shattered wings didn’t flap at all. If they didn’t move, I would be all about them.

Eviator.9746:

Gotta give a /bow and /highfive to RISE from BG on DBBL this afternoon (for me it’s afternoon). You were showing great coordination in Titan outnumbered 2 (DB PUGs) to 1 (RISE). I think a lot of people, those who have never seen a GvG, were surprised by the effectiveness of a moving stack. You were very difficult to kill in such a formation, and a lot of people who didn’t know how to fight it died. Hopefully our PUGs learned something from that, and when the commander asks people to stack, they actually stack!

Thanks :) It was a ton of fun for us too!

I thought mid month was the mini content patch, and end of month was balance and more content?

FlamingFoxx.1305:

We’ll probably all get a free BL key. If that happened a would laugh my face off.
But no seriously, I think they will continue the GW1 tradition of birthday mini’s. They would be insane not to

I’m expecting birthday minis that are account bound, so we can’t make crazy bank off them like we did in GW1.

Vena.8436:

I give a lot of props to DB for putting up a fight whenever they have numbers. JQ and BG, love when our armies clash. That reset night, DB vs. JQ vs. BG in JQGarri was looooong and fuuuuun!

I am having a lot of fun in this match up…

…amazing what not having to face SoR will do for you.

Not having to fight SoR is a breath of fresh air.
When you go against them you always feel like a full map zerg might be around every corner..

cyyrix.6105:

Word is a couple of guilds on SoR aren’t too happy about TW’s transfer shenanigans. It isn’t helping the fact that some of those players already felt a little swindled by a false promise of good fights during the guild’s prime time.

Hopefully TW’s obsession with BG doesn’t destroy that #1 NA community. eek.

Good! Use your aggressive feelings, SoR. Let the hate flow through you!

If the only thing you want to do right now is make cash, run Citadel of Flame.
If you want to actually have fun, there are other options.

Elano.2014:

SpitFire.4690:

[RISE] had alot of fun in EBG reset !! tnx for all the cooperation bg militia jl and ruin!

Why didn’t you hit JQ side? :O

Here’s a good allegory.
You’re being crushed by two large objects. One of them is made of stone, and one is made of jello. Which one do you try to go through?

Selwynn.2758:

nOCter.4263:

[RE] respectfully invite both blackgate and JQ into our garrison. We welcome any fights.

You welcome them to your garry because its the only thing you and your “Legendary” leaders have managed to hold.

Enjoy your 60 point tick. Clearly, your superior talent was all DB needed to rise to #1.

Your response completely ruined the subtle humor of them getting pushed out of their garri.

Burl.9567:

Looks like we are stuck together another week.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Update-on-new-matchups/first#post2124865

Well if you look here

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/New-matchup-system-official-info/page/8#post2094394

We’ll probably all be together again anyway.

scootshoot.6583:

Kaimick.5109:

Then all of our NA poeople ( 70% probally ) as to what I can only suspect went on their Memorial day vacation. .

Say again? are you trying to say BG is still undermanned and needs to recruit more guilds?

btw…..24/7 “FULL” status even during long Holiday weekends

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cropping_

I’m fairly certain when listed items are bought, or placed orders are filled, it is first come first served.

Doomdesire.9365:

Why would you want to discourage zergs in the first place? Zergs only exist of a large number of people participate in them. If you participate in them, you likely support them.

Despite this constant QQ about zergs on the forums, the fact is that zergs only exist because a large majority of players support them.

/agree

I enjoy a good zerg, but running small group ops is where it’s at.
However, I don’t trust most PUGs to understand what they’re supposed to be doing in a small group, so thank Kormir for zergs.

w..what?
I would guess the only reason we can’t get swimwear as town clothes is because Anet hasn’t made any..

Zaxares.5419:

Minos.3450:

No, I think the fact the precursors are (slightly) diminushing in prices because of Colin’s recent post on precursors. He stated they are still working on a scavenging hunt while most players were thinking this idea was over.

Eh? Where was this post? Can I get a link to it?

Colin has also said several times now that precursors will be obtainable out of the new WvW rank-up chests, so there’s more speculation.

bobross.5034:

weird, I wrote in a-w-k-ward and apparently profanity filter caught it…

apparently putting the “of” followed by a-w-k is a curse word XD
news to me

Otokomae.9356:

Mooodster.3470:

you know those pesky thief’s what everyone hates cause they cant been seen…get them on ts and use them to fallow the enemy zerg…there you go you have you intelligence

All of the serious WvW groups already do this, but the problem is that the Thief can’t follow them everywhere; the enemy zerg can simply port across the map any time they want if they’re not in combat, and the Thief can’t follow. They may also have more than 1 Waypoint to go to, and can even split up their force that way, making it very difficult to track them.

Not to mention that knowing where a zerg is doesn’t mean you can do anything about it.

I don’t personally play one, but I’ve heard playing an engineer effectively is a challenge.

PvP has some sort of rating, but we don’t know what it’s based on, or what an individual’s rating is.
You can see where you rank compared to others, but that’s it.

IMHO the ranks in WvW haven’t made it more compelling, but I loved WvW without the ranks, and I still love it with them.

DeeJay.8504:

*To all hatter’s I welcome your comment’s as I love you.

I agree. Nothing quite like a good hat.

Rackhir Tanelorn.9123:

Eviator.9746:

Good luck, have fun. Posting just to make this easier to follow, but also to say, I really don’t want to read a bunch of posts about cookies, quaggans, and dolyaks again. My time is precious and those topics are dumb.

Poobadoo wants to lick you…

That picture is waaaaaayyyyyyy too sensual.

Deniara Devious.3948:

Another way to balance the game is to make the outmanned “buff” to actually do something. Preferably increase the defenses of the weaker side e.g. give more health and toughness to the outmanned side (NPCs, players and structures). NPCs and objects should be buffed more than players, to avoid giving the outmanned side “godlike” powers.

33.3%/33.3%/33.3% <- perfectly equally distributed population on 3 servers

It could have multiple levels e.g.
Outmanned (<25% total population) +50% NPC & structure hp & thoughness, +10% player health & thoughness
Overpowered (<17% population): +100% NPC & structure hp & thoughness, +20% player health & thoughness
Last Stand (<10% total population): +200% NPC & structure hp & thoughness, +30% player health & toughness

My idea (in the same vein):
Bring the orb of power back. However, this new orb doesn’t affect player stats. This orb applies what is currently the outmanned buff to the entire server (PvE sections too, if that’s possible) but to a lesser extent. (sans no repair cost, of course)

The reason that’s relevant is because the second part of this idea is to take what used to be the old orb buff, and make it the new and improved outmanned buff. This way outmanned is actually useful. This new outmanned buff would retain the property of no equipment damage upon death.

Not only does this make the outmanned buff useful, it motivates PvE players to come to WvW and claim the orb so they get additional magic find, etc.

I’m personally not a fan of the idea because you can still use skills to move without physically walking (leaps, blinks, etc).
I also highly doubt anet would let us have a way to track people who are stealthed.
Lastly a combo field on top of damage and stealth negation would be too OP.

tolunart.2095:

So your solution to prices rising is to print more money? Seems like this has done very well in the real world, I’m sure the same thing that happens there would happen in the game, too.

Post WWI Germany anyone?

nirvana.8245:

kyro.8162:

Akio.1749:

Azure.8412:

oxide.8324:

SoR burnt out from all that PvD overtime?

We’re not burnt out haha. :) We never did any kind of significant overtime over the past two weeks. We’re just getting double teamed. :) we’re cool with it though. We love the challenge. :) You seem to always pop out when you guys win to troll and brag. :D i suppose you’re from RISE?

O_o What’s being from RISE got to do with anything?

Anyway, good fights in EB tonight. [RISE] had fun with our [JL] allies fighting against SoR and the (seemingly) revitalized JQ.

Hopefully the fights remain plentiful for the rest of the week and remember… Stay classy :D

Well it is probably because RISE transfered up to bg, and instantly started kitten talking the guilds on both JQ and SoR. Many of those trash talkers are gone, but like a certain other bg guild, it was enough to tarnish their rep. That rep will stay tarnished for a while, but in time people will look at RISE like an actual guild. But until then, RISE is viewed as a trolly bandwagened guild that feeds bags.

RISE trash talk was just that. They were just trying to become a part of the community and probably jumped the gun because its a different community they have been in. No big deal. No “tarnished reputations”. Their conduct then is still better than what I see from some guilds that have been in Tier 1 for a long time.

If anyone from RISE is still running their mouth, please let the officers know so they can be promptly kicked. We don’t need that sort of thing.

Orion.9075:

sostronk.8167:

The buffer between Tier 1 and Tier 2 isn’t getting any smaller. Pitch your tents guys, we are going to be here for a while.

I guess you didn’t get the memo. They are changing how it’s all going to work next patch (in like 1 week), so it’s very likely that DB could hit T1 shortly.

We have no idea how the ratings system is being adjusted. Anet hasn’t told us yet.

Doomdesire.9365:

UnrepentantProcrastinator.7420:

What is going on in this thread…

Did some guild transfer again or something?

Choo transferred off and went to dragonbrand. TW decided to form a love marriage with SF and go to TC. FEAR decided to join Viz to help them against Elona. Tsym went back to SoS, BG bought the remaining EMP after KnT left to HoD and ICoa merged with RISE. This had no effect on the score though, and firmly reinforces the theory that pugs carried all the servers to tier 1. PUG POWER

I thought everyone said “let’s be friends” and all just transferred to DB?

McFribble.2349:

No, Arrow Carts have changed the Meta for the BETTER. Sorry you can’t just roam the map and trade caps with the enemy team, but if you have an Arrow Cart and Ballista already setup in your keep, there should not be ANY reason for the enemy team to set up siege of their own.

What actually happens though is that they set up an arrow cart right outside your wall and use a zoomhack to melt your trebs and ACs, even if they are right in the middle.

Can we keep the score updates coming?

You shouldn’t list the email associated with your account.

Also those emails are probably just a phishing scam attempting to get your account login info. Why would Arenanet tell you if they were investigating your account?

scootshoot.6583:

Liquid.9672:

Omg it’s only Sunday and this discussion is actually taking place. There’s no hope for some folks I swear.

Agreed. JQ lost a 10k+ ppt advantage going into the school/work week last round…..

No ones going to be able to tick 400++ ppt for hours on end during the weekends when players are staying up late to play. Work/School week however is a different animal…everyone in Tier 1 should know this by now, haha.

This is exactly how we on Blackgate have won the past few weeks. We let JQ go nuts on the weekend, and during the week we slowly get point advantage.
Matches are not decided on the weekend, they’re decided Monday-Thursday.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

ArenaNet did tell you beforehand that there was only going to be some dialogue, etc. at the final event. And you do receive an hour-long boon, as well. Not sure what you were expecting from the information they gave us.

‘The Flame and Frost epilogue will be active from Sunday, May 12 at 12:00pm Pacific until the release of the Secret of Southsun on Tuesday May 14. The epilogue will mostly consist of conversations and story elements; there are no exclusive rewards to be given at this time.’

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/a-guide-to-flame-frost-retribution/

The fire is going to be there until Tuesday?! I’m going to have that buff 24/7! This epilogue is better than I expected.

What I’d really like to see is a true (but optional) autoloot system.
ie, I kill something, the loot it drops goes into my inventory.

Is there a good way to find up to date WvW scores/action without scrolling through pages of bickering? Some twitch streamers would be ideal.

For anyone not transferring with CO or WM, I’m sure RISE could find spots for you