[June 27 Balance Update Preview]

Boon rip in WvW is already undertuned, why are you nerfing it across the board like this? And you say you just don't like ranged boon rip but you're also nerfing pretty much the only melee boon rip option, spellbreaker. 

[Support Spectre WvW suggestions]

I believe the way you're supposed to support with shroud is by attacking, as all of your attack skills give boons and/or heal your tethered ally. Of course, this is fairly underwhelming because you only tether to one person. If there was a GM trait that let you tether to 4 people (party size including yourself) it would be much more impactful and would definitely be a unique playstyle for a support.

[No Mag Link Thanks!]

MDS is real folks

[Take delete tool and remove SM for a month]

Counterpoint: delete the OP's server's EBG keep

[Hiding in spawn when lose - ruining WvW play]

3 hours ago, Xenesis.6389 said:

YOU ruined your own content, they're not coming out because of YOUR overly aggressive spawn camping, upgrading, ganking.

"YOU ruined your own content, they're not coming out because of YOUR overly aggressive (playing the gamemode as intended), (playing the gamemode as intended), (playing the gamemode as intended)."

Thank you for the insightful comment. We'll learn from this and hold hands with the other servers and sing kumbaya from now on. 

[Improve wvw content by curbing toxic play]

The funny thing is that clearly this strategy of WvW guilds not playing to punish "a certain server" hasn't worked at all. They've been doing this for months and as a result "a certain server" has become the most popular server for transfers on NA. It doesn't even really punish that "certain server" because there's still people to fight against, it's just all the poor pugs who have been abandoned by the comp guilds which carried their servers to T1 in the first place and are the ones doing the "boycotting." 

[Improve wvw content by curbing toxic play]

2 hours ago, Piney.3076 said:

Every single meta includes a "gathering" phase where players group up. This is what makes an mmo interesting. What's the point otherwise, go play Zelda. Actively discouraging that phase discourages participation and ruins the whole mode. 

Even the toxic players actually want this long term. If no one plays, who will you be toxic at?

Why do you need a "gathering" phase to perform well? On the servers I play on people just leave spawn and look for fights. Even when forming groups you don't need to all gather up in a keep. It sounds like treating WvW only as a game mode where you're supposed to follow a commander is what's really killing the game for you. 

[World Linking 1/27/2023]

30 minutes ago, kanderous.7512 said:

How did Maguuma a FULL server

get Kaineng a HIGH server

 

When Blackgate a VERY HIGH server

get Devona's rest a Medium server

Don't worry it's about to be Maguuma (Full) with Kaineng (Full) #Kainswag

[MAG: So what do they do differently that the rest of us arent doing?]

1 hour ago, Gehenna.3625 said:

Now just a noob question because I tend to roam but are they not even in a group together? Don't you need a commander tag to create a certain size group? I think you need to be a commander to start a raid like squad or bigger or is that not the case in WvW?

No, most of the time there isn't some big Mag squad or something. But being in a single guild and repping [MAG] does allow members to see each other on the map. 

[Thieves]

On 12/21/2022 at 11:19 AM, solemn.9670 said:

Can someone explain to me how DE/thief mains manage to crit for like 6k per rifle 2 use? When I do it in full zerk scholar rune with a few trait buffs I get like 3.5k maximum lol

Or am I just imagining things/maybe it's just an elementalist main problem

Binding shadow, often overlooked skill. Knocks down, strips boons, applies poison, applies immob, and most importantly applies 15 stacks of vuln. Definitely an overstacked skill. It'd probably be more balanced if they just removed the vuln. 

[MAG: So what do they do differently that the rest of us arent doing?]

5 hours ago, Sviel.7493 said:

Mag embodies my preferred playstyle, but I just don't want to deal with the internal environment they've created.

Someone doesn't want to be on the furry server smh

[MAG: So what do they do differently that the rest of us arent doing?]

Maguuma has an actual community, people feel like they're on the same page in terms of playstyle, people respond to call outs, etc. Most servers are carried by one or two big comp guilds (cough BG cough) and fall apart when there isn't an experienced tag online. Pugs don't trust each other to play competitively if there isn't someone at the helm. On Mag you can trust other players to fight. As someone said earlier, if you jump into a fight outnumbered, you can be fairly confident that more players will jump in to help. 

[We Maguumamen are being given a bum rap.]

10 minutes ago, jul.7602 said:

Maguumamen? It's Maguuman.

AKHSHUALLY the correct name is "Magomer" 

[CRAZY Deadeye DAMAGE IN SECONDS!]

Very telling that no one in this thread has mentioned that Binding Shadow applies 15 stacks of Vulnerability (AKA +15% more damage) and OP got hit by it according to their combat log. All the confused reacts in here make sense since few people know what skills do, or what skills to dodge, or how to condi cleanse apparently. Yes, if you're in full tank gear and you get hit by a +15% damage debuff, you will die nearly as fast as a non-tank without the debuff. Nothing special there and Deadeyes aren't the only ones who can do that sort of thing. 

[Have a Merry Christmas everyone, no matter what WvW server you're from]

53 minutes ago, captrowdy.9561 said:

Except for mag. They get coal

That's perfect, it'll help us build fires to keep warm outside of your spawn. Thank you.

[Something needs to be done about Maguuma]

This post may be a joke, but if WvW rewards were actually good and competitive, then other servers probably would get better because there'd be incentive for them to not give up when they see Mag. 

[Great balance this beta]

2 hours ago, Junkpile.7439 said:

There is ways to punish players like you. Anet could move you random server until you learn a lesson.

Lol yes, let's ask the video game company to punish players who pay for their game for being good at the game. 

[another buff to maguuma]

Good.