Balthazzarr.1349

> @"Hesione.9412" said: > Point to note: I'm not on HoD. lol me either ?

> @"Lya Babies.9632" said: > > @"Balthazzarr.1349" said: > > > @"Lya Babies.9632" said: > > > This is the current tick. In addition, green is 3x our score in the current skirmish. > > > > > > https://imgur.com/a/UuIUr94 > > > > > > almost 4 hours later red logs on to continue the flipping of ebg territory that green had done earlier. you can see in the bottom right of the image there's that illustrious outnumbered buff that all these other servers claim to have during NA prime. I guess the only real difference between mag and the other two is they don't spend their time whining about the circumstances and looking for others to commiserate in their 'permanently farmed' status with. oh, and I guess that they play during NA hours. > > > > oh I don’t walk back on the tanking point. I’ve seen it. I was actually on that server for a while and experienced it first hand. > > > > The other issues, however, are actually more of a problem. > > You were on that server for a while, so why are you talking about it now? 2016 Mag wasn't 2017 Mag nor is it 2020 Mag. You have no idea how Mag works now but as I said earlier you are holding onto this tired narrative that they are the same as they were in the past. lol. The pattern hasn’t changed. But I’ll stop now and let you get the last word. ?

> @"Lya Babies.9632" said: > This is the current tick. In addition, green is 3x our score in the current skirmish. > > https://imgur.com/a/UuIUr94 > > almost 4 hours later red logs on to continue the flipping of ebg territory that green had done earlier. you can see in the bottom right of the image there's that illustrious outnumbered buff that all these other servers claim to have during NA prime. I guess the only real difference between mag and the other two is they don't spend their time whining about the circumstances and looking for others to commiserate in their 'permanently farmed' status with. oh, and I guess that they play during NA hours. oh I don’t walk back on the tanking point. I’ve seen it. I was actually on that server for a while and experienced it first hand. The other issues, however, are actually more of a problem.

lol scared? I doubt it. But this is more really about the apparent inability of our game host to manage “balance”. Relinking then allowing people to bandwagon off and recreate unbalanced pops immediately is nothing short of ridiculous. THAT is the true issue here.

> @"subversiontwo.7501" said: > > @"Balthazzarr.1349" said: > > > @"Hesione.9412" said: > > > Oh, we're not trying to tank. We're just completely overwhelmed by the other servers. It's like being in silver PvP and having platinums fight against you. > > > > No we’re not, but other servers are. > Well, this is nothing new since 2012. It is scoring- and population mechanics that are anathematic to the ladder we play on. It could be as simple as Balthazzar points out with other servers tanking around you to inflate your position on the ladder and you didn't see it in time to adapt. > > It could also be something more benign but easily as problematic. Something as small as a 10-man night crew that has no opposition in your "actual" tier inflating you up to a tier where they finally get some opposition, only then, your prime-time is out-populated 2:1 and has to suffer the consequences. Things like that can also pull and push you up and down like a yo-yo between content that matches you poorly. So you may simply be two tiers too high than what your are supposed to be at but what's broken in scoring and population mechanics simply lands you there. > > It could also be transfers of course and that is reaching some rather ridiculous levels by now where the movement of communities that are as small as a single guild in size can move servers across the entire spectrum from 500-gem husk to locked/unlinked simply because the content creator-consumer balance has grown so incredibly out of whack due to ArenaNet's actions. Guilds are often blamed for the migrations but in reality it is almost always "everyone else" that is the problem. > Nope. This is prime time at the bottom of the tier ladder with one server in particular that does this regularly, coupled with bandwagons. It’s not the other groups that are too high, in other words. I’ll never understand the need to play this way. And ANet can’t, or won’t do anything to deal with it.

> @"Hesione.9412" said: > Oh, we're not trying to tank. We're just completely overwhelmed by the other servers. It's like being in silver PvP and having platinums fight against you. No we’re not, but other servers are.

To me this is yet another example of poor linking management as well as a complete failure to manage bandwagoning in any way. I don’t have a myriad of ideas on that other than making it almost impossible to transfer for at least the first couple of weeks, or more, after relinks. People just flip around immediately after relink to linked servers etc. Nothing can be done about the intentional tanking that some servers, like the one in this instance does though.

> @"Veprovina.4876" said: > > @"Balthazzarr.1349" said: > > > @"Veprovina.4876" said: > > > > @"Balthazzarr.1349" said: > > > > > @"Veprovina.4876" said: > > > > > > @"Linken.6345" said: > > > > > > If you have that much of a problem with it stay on your home borderland were you have this in my oppinion imagened advantage. > > > > > > Edit > > > > > > Is this what the american servers are like? > > > > > > I have never been spawned camped on any of the boarderlands. > > > > > > > > > > I've seen some "spawn camping" (i hesitate to call it that, it's not the same as you'll see), in EU servers. > > > > > > > > > > But what it boils down to it is not that a blob is camping at spawn and killing anyone that dares get out, it's more like, an opposing guild comes and waits there for guild fights. And they don't just bomb everyone as soon as they're in range, they wait for everyone to stack, buff, etc., then fight a bit. If the guild closes to spawn is defeated, they wait for another fight, prep, stack, etc., and if the "spawncamping" (again, that's not spawncamping) guild gets defeated, they go away anyway. > > > > > And after a few fights, if the guild close to spawn keeps losing, they move on anayway, there's really no reason to park a blob at someone's spawn when there's other blobs capturing your objectives... > > > > > > > > > > So i never saw some blob, or even roamers, camp at someone's spawn because it's just not worth the time. > > > > > Firstly, there's 3 spots to leave, you're not going to block anyone by camping there, you'll just lose participation. > > > > > > > > > > So no, there's no real spawncamping in GW2, just some guild fights here and there at spawn and maybe some unfortunate soul gets caught in the crossfire. > > > > > > > > You’ve obviously never been against Maguuma. > > > > > > Obviously... :smile: > > > > > > Which one is that? I'm too lazy to check, is it NA? > > > Cuase i've notice a LOT of difference between NA and EU servers in terms of community. > > > From the posts and whatnot on this forum, NA servers tend to be a lot more toxic. > > > > yep it’s NA > > Ah yes. There seems to be a rather large difference between those communities... > > But still, even if a guild is spawncamping a site, there's 2 more exits and 3 more maps, plus, that guild is dumb for doing that because they're losing participation just to be jerks so the joke is on them i guess... > > But yeah, i'm glad i'm on EU. :tongue: What dumber is that people stay there and get killed over and over then complain instead of just going out another way. lol

> @"Veprovina.4876" said: > > @"Balthazzarr.1349" said: > > > @"Veprovina.4876" said: > > > > @"Linken.6345" said: > > > > If you have that much of a problem with it stay on your home borderland were you have this in my oppinion imagened advantage. > > > > Edit > > > > Is this what the american servers are like? > > > > I have never been spawned camped on any of the boarderlands. > > > > > > I've seen some "spawn camping" (i hesitate to call it that, it's not the same as you'll see), in EU servers. > > > > > > But what it boils down to it is not that a blob is camping at spawn and killing anyone that dares get out, it's more like, an opposing guild comes and waits there for guild fights. And they don't just bomb everyone as soon as they're in range, they wait for everyone to stack, buff, etc., then fight a bit. If the guild closes to spawn is defeated, they wait for another fight, prep, stack, etc., and if the "spawncamping" (again, that's not spawncamping) guild gets defeated, they go away anyway. > > > And after a few fights, if the guild close to spawn keeps losing, they move on anayway, there's really no reason to park a blob at someone's spawn when there's other blobs capturing your objectives... > > > > > > So i never saw some blob, or even roamers, camp at someone's spawn because it's just not worth the time. > > > Firstly, there's 3 spots to leave, you're not going to block anyone by camping there, you'll just lose participation. > > > > > > So no, there's no real spawncamping in GW2, just some guild fights here and there at spawn and maybe some unfortunate soul gets caught in the crossfire. > > > > You’ve obviously never been against Maguuma. > > Obviously... :smile: > > Which one is that? I'm too lazy to check, is it NA? > Cuase i've notice a LOT of difference between NA and EU servers in terms of community. > From the posts and whatnot on this forum, NA servers tend to be a lot more toxic. yep it’s NA

> @"Veprovina.4876" said: > > @"Linken.6345" said: > > If you have that much of a problem with it stay on your home borderland were you have this in my oppinion imagened advantage. > > Edit > > Is this what the american servers are like? > > I have never been spawned camped on any of the boarderlands. > > I've seen some "spawn camping" (i hesitate to call it that, it's not the same as you'll see), in EU servers. > > But what it boils down to it is not that a blob is camping at spawn and killing anyone that dares get out, it's more like, an opposing guild comes and waits there for guild fights. And they don't just bomb everyone as soon as they're in range, they wait for everyone to stack, buff, etc., then fight a bit. If the guild closes to spawn is defeated, they wait for another fight, prep, stack, etc., and if the "spawncamping" (again, that's not spawncamping) guild gets defeated, they go away anyway. > And after a few fights, if the guild close to spawn keeps losing, they move on anayway, there's really no reason to park a blob at someone's spawn when there's other blobs capturing your objectives... > > So i never saw some blob, or even roamers, camp at someone's spawn because it's just not worth the time. > Firstly, there's 3 spots to leave, you're not going to block anyone by camping there, you'll just lose participation. > > So no, there's no real spawncamping in GW2, just some guild fights here and there at spawn and maybe some unfortunate soul gets caught in the crossfire. You’ve obviously never been against Maguuma.

My earliest was going in with two of my friends not knowing what the place was. We got destroyed by some player with our bad pve builds, which weren’t even to be considered builds. I didn’t go back for a few months until I learned more about wvw.

> @"whoknocks.4935" said: > > @"spankyed.4735" said: > > Another crying player who doesnt know how to evade LB burst! Soulbeasts have been nerfed alrdy ! > > P.S nerf soulbeasts roaming potential and u can completely remove rangers from WvW! > > That would be fine to me, seeing unskilled players able to kill you because hard carried by a low risk high reward build is never good, same faith for condi heralds and granade scrappers/holos. Unskilled players kill? If you aren’t a skilled player you aren’t going to kill anyone that has skill. I eat most rangers of any flavour if they aren’t real good. I’m not the best player by far but I know my class very well. Oh ya, I play soulbeast exclusively. My fave thing is to plow down other rangers who give experienced rangers a bad name. Anyone can learn to do burst damage, and anyone can learn how to deal with it. The key is knowing when to hit and when to duuuck. My personal favourite is when someone ganks me from behind but I still manage to hit invul. That few seconds usually gets them killed because, well, they’re on cool down. My squads keep me IN because I run some share and get tons of downs, but it makes me insane to see how many people use this class without USING IT properly!

The hackers don’t care. Do what you want to the servers.. it won’t stop the hackers. smh

I don’t even know anymore. They rotate through I guess. Kind of like... they are there? and oh ya here’s more loot boxes to open. meh

Lucky for you 1500 range is the rage now. ?

The current skill is all but useless. I find it doesn’t really affect me when I’m in it, and it’s super easy to avoid. My warrior is shelved now. My new 2nd class choice is rev.

haha. They nerfed the golem runes very well. Takes half of a barrage to kill one now. Yes they are now totally useless imo. Fodder for my arrows.

> @"Nimon.7840" said: > > @"Balthazzarr.1349" said: > > It’s even easier than before to avoid the circle now and it only removes 2 boons now instead of four. Basically useless. > > You do realize that bubble wasn't taken because of the boon removal right? > It is taken because of the secondary effect, which denies boon application. > > There's a downside and an upside with the change. > > It's good that it's static again, because you can actually move out of it. > It's bad that the channeling is now gone because it's basically not possible to interrupt the bubble anymore. > > But it's very hard to balance such an powerful effect. > > Sorry but it's far away from being useless. > > For example ele patch notes sounded much more like " support ele now useless" nah. It was easy enough to avoid before. Now it’s not even an issue, for me anyway. Small melee fights I can see a use if you can keep the person(s) in the bubble. Other than that to me it’s all but useless.

It’s even easier than before to avoid the circle now and it only removes 2 boons now instead of four. Basically useless.

oh don't worry.. it's just another update... there will be a patch to fix this patch fairly soon I'm sure..

sigh... balance patches are never that anyway. It’s a little nerf here, a little buff there. Whatever they think it is that the loudest people here want. Then on to the next set of complaints for the next “balance” patch.

> @"SpellOfIniquity.1780" said: > I play between 4 and 8 hours a day, all of it in WvW. Occasionally I will do some open world PvE but it's so rare that I do I'd say it's only once a month or less. There’s other parts????

I have to thank you for bringing this to my attention. This rune is a lot of fun! Anet don’t change it!!!

> @"Menzo.2185" said: > > A simple toy that’s easy to destroy and gives zero help to anything. > > Hahahahaha... Like golems, right? > Golems can at least take down gates or walls decently. Although the car can do that too, its damage is tiny and slow. They are much easier to kill solo than golems... but I kill golems too.

> @"Menzo.2185" said: > And the CharrCAR??? Restrict it to the area too, it would be a bad design, right? But why not? The charr car is pretty much window dressing. A simple toy that’s easy to destroy and gives zero help to anything. Multiple dragon banners in a group, on the other hand, is a pain. One is also really nothing to care about, but I’ve seen many times where there were 3 or 4 in an opposing group. Now THAT is called planning, and good on them for doing it. But it’s nasty to deal with. I’m glad they are now restricted to the structure.