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my fav was the engi that got downed and stopped taking dmg (from six people on dmg classes hitting on him) at 20%ish HP left in downstate, gaining invuln trait ("determined") till he was healed up again. in mid of outer SM. ah, was probably only skill.

with the current amount of water in the maps, that's not a big deal. weird tho, bc exact of that fact. most water fighting happens in Bay, but that's mostly cleaning up

> @"NorthernRedStar.3054" said: > Literally the most braindead build in all WvW. small input, it's not a wvw-build. once it gets to bigscale, u don't see much condirevs, bc they just don't do well there. it can maybe 1v3, but that's what several classes manage on the right situations.

hope may be low, yet the reminder shall be kept alive. #allianceswhen

skill is knowing what u klick when. it got "nerfed" by stripping a billion of dmg of everything but kitten roamerclasses.. but it's still fine. i can still drown a small pepeguild with my wells... we good. yet, skill should be rewarding. it's absolutely annoying how many people think they can dodge the meta stuff and bring the most random of sh*ts to one of the most endgame formats that gw2 has... and then complain that they get rolled. it's fundamentally wrong to think u can "chill hide afk farm" in a blob, if the enemy also has one. rather, with that kinda stuff + clouding in kinda situation, you basically help the enemy and kill your own people indirectly (examples: group stealthes and jumps of a wall towards enemy... kitten glides and reveals everyone or is mounted up and does the same stuff). also, if u dont actively fight u'll get less loot... this isn't openworld metas. the "reward" kinda is to gain levels faster, and with increasing rank u gain more pips = reward track loot faster. (surely the system is a bit flawed, bc old player have a massive advantage from the EotM farm times. some very high ranks seem to come from metas very long ago. hard to imagine how fights even looked without revenants and firebrand and all other elite specs. @"asterix.9614" i mean, core guard even has immortality for a short time :bleep_bloop: @"Henry.5713" also nailed it. exactly that... balancing chaos, what for? i'd say let's make it more chaos. fractal styled events happening (not 24/7... maybe 3 days a week, randomly 2 different effects) would make the whole mode more interesting again i feel. the new e-specs will shake up everything nicely as well. will be both, scary and funny. and hopefully we get a new map as well. a far bigger one would be nice with a more openworldish character. the closer part of queensdale for example would make a great map, if u just put gates into the fortresses (and broaden the walls surely). plus, the "temporary solution" named "links" needs to be dropped sooner than later. so many people are currently really annoyed by Wvw. might be bc we play so much and therefore all the problem are even more visual than normally...

i agree with OP also, while snoow has a point surely. just that amount of tactics u just don't get while laddering from silver, gold on... people there often won't take close and mid even if u bind three enemies on you for some time - because it's maybe and ele and a reaper/necro and they cannot handle the combo of stunlocks and dps the best are the ones that run around like headless chicken, add in yet won 1v1s and mark random players as target. like marking the bulkiest kiting classes for targets is such a odd thing. kinda wish the target-calling would be deactived in spvp.

siegerazor just runs to the keep and drops a ram at the gate, then stays to help capping the objective and byes. afaik has nothing but a small buff/heal aura, won't be too much use if ur only two players. additionally i think if u own your close towers + garri, it won't even do anything.

all dmg is a ton lower today. traps got nerfed hard, before they did hit into groups with a notable impact. some people do still use dragonhunter, it's nothing compared to the power of a weaver if we talk about puglife. still far from the usefulness of a scrouge or herald tho. i think dragonhunter has a good stand in 1v1 spvp rather than in wvw.

out of interest, what do u need mystic clovers even for as wvw'er... i'm over a full stack of them now :dizzy: @"Lan Deathrider.5910" i also sold this year around 750 mystic coins, all from 2 years wvw. only kinda you get them every week i guess either way. i would trade GoBs for skirmish tickets and memories of battle tho, surely. notsure if a daily vendor wouldn't be too easy tho. also where do badges have a gold sink lmfao? lately someone told me also that spirit shards have kinda "grey market" but idk, never read that elsewhere. the afk pipfarmers or other pvE *****s, who just lurk around and try to leech for participation, are yet there. the rewards i'd see would need to have organized fighting servers, forcing people to organizing into guilds and using good stuff, so that the server performs well. it should be either weekly, monthly or (if we need to have this link system) link-wide rewards. i'd see grandmaster mark boxes and ascended choice boxes for weapons and armor as good monthly rewards. outside of that i'd want an option to get Wvw-legendary weapons. i don't see conflux as having big use, since the mistbands with 3 slots are not very expensive to get... both it and the legendary armors are imo too expensive for their use. like, for normal legendary weapons u gotta do so much stuff that most of us do not really want to do (including myself).... should i ever want one, i'll have to buy it, and that's 2k gold or more. who of us has that amount of shinies? @"imadethistoplayGWtwo.9365" well, i deleted some yet simply. would indeed great to be able to use them. @"Infusion.7149" made some good points as well. while don't forget, you need to have to level crafting stuff as well, and i personally stilll only have weaponsmith maxed, and only on one character ;P after 3 years. u miss that u can get the backpiece with blood rubies (have two of those yet, each simply 200 rubies = roughly 4 times the respective reward track, ez)... okay they have only 1 slot, sucks, but upgrading them is imo not worth the price. and a 32 slot siegemaster satchel <- THIS would be so big time needed. there should be substitutes at least for quite some comfyness things that pvE offers as well.... and as said, the farmbots exist yet. the serverguild of DC has like "farmer A, B, C, D, E" within their ranks, idk. at the moment, the system is kinda soviet communism... nothing special but everyone gets it easy without doing much for it. but everyone knows it won't be like that forever, bc the system eats up itself. like honestly, i only cringe when people complain how hard it is to get one silly gift of battle.... but running through the whole crazy pvE maps ten times for nasty JPs, missions, itemdrops and world completiation just bc the legy receipe says so is fine? we do yet metas to get acchievement points... is that not enough :P

thaha funny thing, the power of hashtags is. #allianceswhen #evenyodawants2know as been said, even if the faith is low, hope dies last.

thief can have a portal.. but walls should block out all kinds of portals. this porting-inside-keeps is a pretty lame thing. i'd care more if ppt had any meaning to be fair, still. and the overall class balance is NOT the issue. the overall system is. servers had their time, server identity is dead anyways in most cases. guilds have still identities, but when a server loses like 180 people u cannot even talk about it as the same server it has been in the past. we need the "temporary solution" named links to finally end and make way for a new matchmaking. and time adequate leaderboard rewards.

> @"Super Fuzz.4980" said: > I do love WvW - but would like to see new maps and also more tournaments. yeah those are core points imo. hope new expansion gives a new map / or upgrades EotM. and tournaments (more? u mean any) would be a nice re-introduction. people play 24/7 yet anyways i feel. @"Shroud.2307" u cannot really blame people to run perfect composition and sets... best builds are mostly known and fun to play, because they are effective. and it becomes more effective, once u get more experienced. that's what a mass pvp format is about. roamers do their things... should be the minority. the creativity shows itself with how exactly u play your class. positioning, timing, what to press when. calling enemy actions. beeing reactive. the 5-10 ppl guilds are a bit annoying surely. basically organized gankers. many maps have too many roamers anyways.... we have sometimes 30-35 roamers on one map. kinda cloudy zerg without any direction provider /driver. also, critizism on comms shouldn't be done harassment style surely... but some tags are just horrible. its not hard to get one, and some do the same stuff over and over, and if it doesn't work for the 3rd time i'd want my tag to adapt and try something else. also, people that don't lead on a suitable tag are kinda problematic as well, bc if they die too quick, or have different pathing that the group, it can kill the group by trying to follow their movement as well (or lose the direction).

> @"ReVanChe.9271" said: > Especially for EU Server: > In my opinion - linking servers that speak manifestly different languages is a disadvantage to both. > There are misunderstandings and occasional condescending remarks in the chat. > In other words, opposing linked servers that speak the same language have an advantage, > because they can communicate in their national language and thus act faster and they will hardly talk at cross purposes. > > e.g. english / german : > ac = arrow cart ≙ pw = Pfeilwagen > nc = north camp ≙ nl = Nordlager > garri = Garrison ≙ mf = Mittelfestung (middle keep) > Short use of a siege weapon to reset the timer = to tick ≙ tab / tabben (derived from tabulator) > ... and not everyone has a good command of English. > > Another disadvantage for all servers is when an ally becomes an opponent and people still have login details to the TS3 server. as native austrian, i gotta say that my game is in english and i only communicate in english there. i'd absolutely not want to be linked with a german server either ... the names in german always weird me out a bit, since they're kinda germany-variant german. btw we call it actually just "refeshing siege", sometimes it's just plainly forgotten either way. and siege does not win battles, players that know what they do win battles. also, not everyone uses teamspeak. most here prefer discord, including myself - while i think the server has a teamspeak... but why using that if u can just go discord, way more easy. but yeah, it is kinda problem. since we have the 2nd time a french link, and french are rather unwilling to even talk english in most cases. we learnt some words and codes yet, but just linking the objectives is more easy. it sucks bc regularly half of the maps does not really respond to stuff people type, and u cannot even know if it maybe just is bc they didn't understand the call/s. as for voiced leading, it's sorta possible to guess what comms want by just listing to the melody of speech... but not if u have not yet quite some experience on group movement and dodge timings. and you'll still die more often than if you'd understand all calls. the problem u think language causes is simply the lacking experience of way too many players on many servers. they feel objectives and keeping them is the magnus opum.... and then once a experienced lead is not available, the battles result in big chaos. but overall, the issue is that people don't organize themselves enough. wvw-guilds need to get more important. that's what Alliances did promise. another relink, again it shows that the link system just slowly poisons the veins of this great and unique format.

lel, i hope really that they find a way to keep underwater battles off the next expansion, despite the thematic sea dreagon.... that's beyond fixable ;P also #allianceswhen

> @"vonhellsing.2819" said: > Becouse that we start think thats is some type of hack, we got this in wvw and pvp, yesterday i try other game note MSI STEALTH PRO thats i have, same troubles, just when we engage in fight. in Wvw, threesome (three color battles of 30+) cause always lags, just mash buttons hard and fast thaha. additionally, if stealth is involved it is extra bad for me. but overall it works quite well, but i play on superlow quality settings. standard models helps a LOT, because u don't need to load all the shiny details. i also use nonshiny gear mostly on my own chars in Wvw and no warkitty skin, bc loading also makes at least a babylag there. (and we all know how easy the warkitty kills you lel)

btw @"Strider Pj.2193" did / how did your view change about this? you been here at page 1, about three years ago, from a seemingly roamery perspective? __ also... reading the old stuff tells where we gone and why it was fundamentally wrong. only way to make your matchup is to buy a transfer. some people in 2018 misunderstood Alliances and claimed it would "kill Wvw". the realists saw that rather the too long missed fix of the toxic link system would be way worse. okay, the warclaw probs also did cause quite some players lose interest due to easier ganking but yeah. my server is, after beeing pretty strong/stacked in the past, finally done. flooded with newbies, impossible to play as a group, you get like 30/70 on a squad, rest just clouds around and rallies +20 sized enemy groups. i never wanted to, but i will 97% ish abandon the server i picked on day 1 randomly, because it was simply killed. idk how many stopped playing, but like 180~ players transfered off over one single year. the link system has ultimately failed, and it killed yet two of the biggest servers of old times, vabbi and desolation. (WSR is kinda swinging state)

@"Deganation.9604" "I would assume that the purpose of WvW is to be in the T1 as the winning server, other than that, what would be the purpose of defending or taking over towers/keeps/camps/smc." and here we have the issue. tier one is worthless, it seems as the "goal" but in the end ur just stuck in a matchup with barely changes (since #1 + #2 stay t1) next, you get no better rewards in t1 than in t4 (because t3-4 are still alive enough to get similar amounts of content plus less queues) further, taking keeps is easy, since defending bonus is marginal. only very casual servers will continue to go the the same keeps to get ganked over and over again, for hours (which is the best and easiest farm for defenders, just not extremly commonly happening) farming bags surely is a nice thing, but in the end you need good fighters for this, which u only find rarely in t1 (bc they like to pick their matches, with a too strong ppt you have rookie players + too much queues to be mobile). killing other groups also is the fastest way of leveling, another thing probably most people miss out. and your participation barely ever drops below the rubicon of 4. (which is a "problem" at pugging + afk pipfarming)

while i think using ascended food outside of organized groups is luxury, i think you should always have at least some of the normal food (just get the core stats of the good foods) and basic oils on. like, if you cannot afford any other, use the stuff that u can buy with badges of honor, the currency is anyways worth nothing in any other way. (older players have like 100k of them, and even i gathered over 20k... when i don't have eventfood to use, i use just that) ideally, u can also have the utility and food primers activated, just i often have them stored in bank when ascended food gets dropped somewhere :P

@"Ayrilana.1396" not zergfights, but three way zergfights it is. if anyone or two of em use stealth, for me that makes the ping/fps and rubberbandings even worse but yes, it does not always happen, just very often. works better if u split them up and keep distance, plus fast kill/cleave.

alliances when? btw i find it interesting that some people seem to expect it dropping with EoD. i personally don't think so, i ask myself constantly, will us WvW players get ANYTHING for EoD :cold_sweat: #newmapwhen #mapupdateswhen #npcupdateswhen #matupdateswhen #mysixstacksofeblemoftheavengerforcedmetoaskthis #betterrewardswhen #attentionwhen #whenwhen #allianceswhen

> @"Cynz.9437" said: > +1 > How do you know there is a zerg in map - your skills are not responding. Been like this for years :< for me its only if i am nearby that happening. and at some (lately rare) occasions, all maps have odd lags for no reason. especially during reset/relink/prime @"Ayrilana.1396" they're correct there, this has been mentioned somewhere. overall, the skill/lag and rubberbands overall have gotten more rare ... but yes, anet should just make the servers less potato. latest with steam release (should that ever come) they'll have to get more or better servers anyways.

@"kash.9213" fundamental error there... i don't smallscale at all, but i killed several roamers with bombs of my largescalecharacters. i help people defending camps if i feel like it, and nah, i don't adapt my set for that. drop dmg, dodge incoming dmg... that's doing it mostly. idk if y o u build for ganking. thieves maybe do kinda stuff, surely. that has absolutely nothing to do about beeing in Wvw. the pvE people in there build even for nothing at all. some run likely the same sets they used for completing their storymode. when i run in a big group, i do that bc i expect other big groups around. if u think u'll not get bombed as roamer trying to poke that, that is not ganking. that's punishing cockyness. zergsets are not built for ganking. they are built to be effective, either dmg/heal/strips/cleanse, and to do their job in a big impact. @"Gotejjeken.1267" stab gets burnt away if too much cc comes in (or its duration ends). that's why even minstrel FB can get cc+entagled/dazed etc

> @"Yasai.3549" said: > > @"Sobx.1758" said: > > > lmao, yeah sure, you totally need one extra pair of eyes. I wonder why don't we specifically see flocks/zergs of thieves if they're so strong in a group v group setting. > > Seems like yu enjoy joke answers so here's one : > They in Stealth. lol. people even tried that, just it failed horribly. there are still guilds of thieves, we had a 15ish group of different thief builds once on a map, trying to interrupt zergfights. they just fed us in the end, they are forced to trade like 3-4 ganks to a full wipe of their 15s. but just because a voiced zerg easily bombs away thieves, doesn't mean their dps isn't broken considering their: upkeep - range - stealth - mobility - attack speed and yeah, i dont think groups of thieves are the main issue. gankergroups are annoying... but every roamerclass can make them.

@"Demon Puppet.6873" thing is, if done right they can stealth from barely out of sight, so u cannot possibly counter that other than necro marks or a target painter trap (but that works only if u place either a ton of em or smell the way they will come, which is again a bad execution of a stealthpush) like if u don't lose at least 5-10 people, the stealthpush was just slow or someone attacked too early and the rest slept. like the only option is to let some ppl die and bomb the inc group asap + stab up and dodges. but they have the first strike. __ the stealth tries i see often is setting stealth up in plain sight, and also there only babystealth, leading to every not totally slow eyed group beeing able to predict where and when the push will come from. the good ones still push from spots where u cannot spot them.

i overall just disagree with the nerfs since 2019 in general, it gone far too far. cc got just plain nerfs, cast time was never taken in consideration. therefore fast and slow cast ccs on all types of weapons lost dmg, equally without consideration if the weapon was even used. (for example, guardian hammer... think i saw not one since three years, still its dmg got dropped as well. (while nerfing superquick waterweapon dps was forgotten...yeees) @"Demon Puppet.6873" someone was stealth pushed a bit too often lel. keeping eyes open still could avoid this. good/full blast routines still give 20ish groups a pretty long stealth option. we still killed 60 people with 20 in 2020. surely, not top tier "blob", but well.