Bristingr.5034

Since I can't vote for 2.... Mesmers: Double our Mass Invis timer plz. 12 seconds isn't long enough as a Chrono! Elementalists: Give us back our fall damage reduction and boost Tempest healing power.

> @"Sileeent.5861" said: > The question is, if you remove all bots from sPVP, how many real players are left? I just try to understand it logically somehow. As a programmer, I'm 100% sure that bots can be completely removed from sPVP. But the fact that bots have been in sPVP for years, as if they were welcome guests. I mean, nothing is done against bots in sPVP. So I could really imagine that Anet leaves the bots in, because without them the population would decrease too much, which ultimately leads to longer queues or even to endless queues, and a completely dead game. But the big problem with this theory is that it would then even be likely that the bots could even come from Anet themselves. > > Complot or fact, we'll never know! But the bot problem has been around for how many years without any solution? Normally, these problems should always be in focus of a company as these are guests who consume resources without paying rent and in doing so they usually even make potential paying customers unhappy. From a purely logical point of view, there must be a reason for this permanent problem, and no, ignorance won't be the reason. No, because then it becomes which ever team has the more bots loses. If the population is that scarce that killing off the bot population will kill the mode, then the mode was never alive to begin with and the bots are just inflating the economy.

There was an event?

> @"Danikat.8537" said: > For people afk farming that can involve someone from Anet whispering them and trying to contact them in other ways to see if they're genuinely afk or just not moving around much right now. > > With bots they've said previously they ban them in 'waves' - they wait until they've identified as many of that type of bot as possible and then ban them all together, so it's harder for the people running the bots (who likely have a lot of them) to work out how they were caught and update all their others to avoid detection. It won't stop them forever of course, but it makes it more likely they have to start over with a whole bunch of new accounts instead of just losing one and fixing all the rest so they can keep running. It's mostly in PvP. Every match there's at least 1-2 afkers, and the rest are bots (generic names, no guild tag, same pathing for all of them, etc.). Seriously, an Anet person could literally look at any of my matches in the past 3 days and they'd have at least 20 characters to ban without needing a 2nd review. It's absurd that such a game mode can be taken over and they do it because of how little Anet cares or does anything. At least with WvW and PvE, you get kicked from the game if you afk for too long, but matches don't last long enough in PvP to trigger that timer -- it used to be 60 seconds or something really short, but now players can just afk all match without penalty. > @"mercury ranique.2170" said: > A good example is when you see someone breaking the rules. If they are banned within 5 minutes afterwards they know exactly how they where reported and for what action. But if they wait and observe for a while they can see the entire behaviour and check the severity of the breach. They also can take more appropiate action while not giving away what got them busted. That's a terrible analogy as other companies explicitly tell them that they were banned for x or y (e.g. Blizzard and Overwatch) and do just fine.

> @"LetoII.3782" said: > > @"Bristingr.5034" said: > > They're free to come play on the BLs if they want fights. > > You'd go hide on a different map. > > > their link is dragging them up to T1, so they get what they deserve. > > Jelly xD Nah, they're just not fun to fight. And EVERY other server can attest to that. I'm in a JQ Server as well and they were complaining about having to fight them last week. FC asked to not push them up to T1 so they didn't have to fight them (which I don't think they expected to drop to T2... lol), and so forth. Face it, when your server is nothing but SMC-humping kittens who love to spawn camp and play ONLY on EBG, no server wants to fight you.

> @"LetoII.3782" said: > > @"Bristingr.5034" said: > > > @"fuzzyp.6295" said: > > > Spawn Campers will get bored and leave. > > > > Only way to play against Maguuma is by not playing them in EBG. > > > > > > you mean hide They're free to come play on the BLs if they want fights. That said, their link is dragging them up to T1, so they get what they deserve.

> @"fuzzyp.6295" said: > Spawn Campers will get bored and leave. Only way to play against Maguuma is by not playing them in EBG.

Get an episode of the Office running when you do Guild Seige crafting. It's the only way to stay sane since Anet is very out of touch with game mechanics.

Give us stronghold (even a new map for it). Capture the flag would just mean Mesmers and Thieves everywhere.

> @"Veprovina.4876" said: > Does that actually happen though? I was under the impression that no one gets banned for anything in this game... Can confirm that Anet's CS doesn't do anything towards the toxicity that breeds in PvP (which is magnitudes times worse than anything I've encountered in WvW).

Eh, I still prefer big map events (LS1 anyone?) over these. Seriously, blow up DR or something!

If it's an AT, I'll try, but if we're down by 300+ points, there's no point to keep trying. Just let them run wrack up the points so we can move on.

You think that's bad mechanics? How in the world is someone able to screw over 4 other people in a Tournament when they hit the "Decline" button? That's completely awful game design and mechanics there.

> @"Lya Babies.9632" said: > you guys are still on this 2016 conspiracy that mag is tanking so they can get "easy bags" when you could easily log on during ocx/sea/eu hours and see that mag has absolutely 0 presence during those hours. we try our best to ppt during na prime to get out of this forsaken tier but it can't deal with the heavy ppt during the morning hours. Unlike these other servers that post pictures from NA prime on NA servers, we actually have outnumbered buffs when your blobs are rolling through our bl and ebg keep daily so there's kind of an excuse. mag has zero public tags that they don't laugh off and are currently linked with dr that only has fight guilds that log on late na. Please tell me why it's not ok to have a populated NA prime on NA servers. Except it's actually true. Maguuma ONLY cares about SMC and it's bags. That's why other servers regularly party in their Home BL Garrison. TC fought against them last week and said "fuck it" and left EBG all to Maguuma and they started freaking out because they didn't want to go up (turns out T3ing EVERYTHING on EBG gives a lot of PPT).

Tarnished Coast is generally the "go-to" server for Pugs. Hell, the pugs generally carry the server. There are frequently Pugmanders in the server, a decent number that can herd them up in EBG/etc. into voice comms or just be good with typemanding if needed.

> @"Linken.6345" said: > > @"Bristingr.5034" said: > > > @"Linken.6345" said: > > > Then it would not be a challenge anymore. > > > > Snowden Drifts is practically impossible right now to the point even Raid-geared teams are struggling. > > Raid geared as in ascended? > Well that dont make the person but skill do, great raiders (I'm not one) can do raids in greens so yea. I dunno. I got kittened out because "my DPS wasn't high enough" and they blamed the failure on me. (I was running full zerker). So I'm calling them raid folks because they're toxic as hell. The boss in that map is much more tankier than all the other maps anyways. Hell, Jormag probably has less than that he does.

> @"Linken.6345" said: > Then it would not be a challenge anymore. Snowden Drifts is practically impossible right now to the point even Raid-geared teams are struggling.

> @"vier.1327" said: > There is a great drop of quality in all this Icebrood Saga. Firing 1/3 of your staff, especially your veterans, tends to do that.

[The Perfect Song]( )

> @"Strider Pj.2193" said: > > @"KrHome.1920" said: > > The 3 exits on EBG are not an argument, because spawn camping is usually a result of snowballing. This means you don't have any structure you can move to after you left the exit and it is quite eay to chase you down by the campers. > > Hmm. It’s too bad you can’t party up as 2 or 3 groups of 5 and leave one of the side exits and start to take other items from them. > > > > > So the only real workaround (I don't call that solution, because being forced to leave the map to be able to enjoy some basic gameplay is not acceptable) is switching to a borderland. Unfortunately all borderlands are inferior in design to EBG. So it's no surprise, when people just log out and never come back. > > If you only like EBG, maybe you should transfer to Mag. Otherwise, either tank your matchup to avoid them, or, and here is a better solution, work with your server to own their BL as they won’t defend it at the expense of EBG and push them out of your tier. This. It's literally what CD and TC have been doing. Don't bother fighting them, don't give them what they want, just ignore this map and fight each other on the other BLs, and/or play PvP/PvE. 

Yeah, we're against Maguuma this week. Both CD and TC are taking a "go kitten yourself" approach to them by simply not playing on EBG. They have been the worst server to play against. If you don't play on EBG, they whine and throw a fit because they're bored. Meanwhile, we're having fun playing the other team on all the other BLs. All they want to do is spawn camp and hump SMC. EBG's spawn is terrible, but that's why there's 3 other maps to play on.

> @"Hannelore.8153" said: > The chickens in Bitterfrost will down you instantly if you kick them too much. There's even an achievement for it. Guess I'm stopping in Bitterfrost after my guild's WvW raid today for an achievement! Thanks for the heads up!

> @"Schimmi.6872" said: > You can also look at the trading discords or the gw2exchange subreddit for someone who sells them to your guild, sometimes you will also find sellers in the lfg (the price is around 20s per shovel atm i think). They're that cheap now?

Can we mystic forge all the eaters together? Same with the Event Gobblers?

We have Cat Tags, can we have Dog Tags? You can even call them Pugmander Tags.