Flipje.8172

Kinda spent my patience waiting for an hour in a queue that barely moved and then getting kicked back to the end of the queue when it finally popped and I got to click 'travel'. Twice. Sincerely hoping this gets fixed soon, what a mess.

We have the same problem and the other guild I'm in complained about the same thing as well. Also at the moment several people in our squad can't even get on the border. Long queues and when they finally pop and we click travel it just says "your borderlands are full, would you like to queue up?" and kicks us back to the back of the queue. Not a huge success this.

I don’t really have an issue with it. I do think the hate towards these classes and the amount of verbal abuse they get on some servers is absurd. It doesn’t really happen on my server but I’ve been on other servers with my alt where it did happen, and that pisses me off. But just the fact that I’m not allowed to be in a squad as a thief doesn’t get to me, good chance I didn’t want to be in the squad to begin with. I only join squads with commanders I know and like, usually only with befriended commanders in a squad with a lot of people I know, and only so I can keep up with squad chat and the banter. When the squad is full I usually leave so someone else can have the spot. I’m usually either away from the tag and informing them on what’s happening on the border, or around the fight picking off loose targets. There’s no need for me to be in the squad. If I wanted to live the zergling life I would’ve chosen another class to main anyway.

Exactly, this isn’t a bug. The other day we’ve had a thief in the lord room of garrison on desert borderlands for hours. We came in with golems at some point and the thief simply never left and didn’t get killed by their scouts, despite them camping the lord room at some point because we kept getting ported back in. Is it fun for the people that own the keeps? Not really. It annoys me too when it’s being done to us. But it’s not a bug. Anet woke up one day and thought it would be a splendid idea to give thieves a portal, knowing that thieves have the ability to permastealth and hide forever that way if they want to. There’s no point in reporting it because no one’s doing anything wrong. It’s the game the way Anet designed it. They should have given that whole thief portal a second thought but seeing as they didn’t, have fun with it. There’s a spot in fire keep where you can hide, as long as you glide into it while you still own the keep. You used to be able to get in there by jumping, so people who didn’t own the keep would often do that and then port their people in. They were exploiting a bug. The ledge they used to do that seems to be gone now because Anet fixed it a while ago, you can no longer jump into that spot, but you can still glide in there if you own the keep. You don’t get marked when a keep flips, so people hop in there before the keep flips and wait to port their people in again later. The thing is that as soon as that keep flips, you can also get in there and murder them to prevent that from happening. It’s not really any different from any other mesmer hiding spot these days. Just remember to check it after flipping fire, you gotta sweep anyway.

I think putting national servers together with the English servers kind of defeats the entire purpose of having the national servers. I had an account on a German server for a while and every time I'd enter WvW they'd be speaking German in chat, so I assumed that was normal on a national server and it makes perfect sense. We are currently linked with a German server and there's people scouting in German on a regular basis, they probably used to do that before as well and it was no problem, but now it is kind of inconvenient, because many people just don't understand them. And while most German people I know speak English just fine, there's always people who don't. Their scout reports are fine and accurate, but they just get overlooked or need to be translated first for the people who don't speak German. I personally don't really mind being linked to a national server but I can see the downsides for both sides, both the national server as the people on the other server who don't speak the foreign language.

I've played a stealth thief for a long time but this does remind me why I grew tired of it. The constant hiding in the shadows got kind of annoying to me as the one doing it after a while. I also usually don't fight stealth thieves. There's more than a fair chance that I'd die while trying to do it anyway (because I'm not too proud to admit that I lack the skill), but that's not what gets me. I just feel like it's a waste of time trying to chase after something I can't see. Go dance in stealth around someone else while I'll go and be anywhere else, lol. But that's all just an Anet problem. Players are just given the class the way it is an can do whatever they want with it. Stealth is an annoying and often broken game mechanic but it's there and people are gonna use it. Can't exactly blame them for that.