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I would rather they had lowered the overall stat count rather than remove Concentration and Expertise.

Jade bot is a nice QOL upgrade even in WvW with the junk recyclers. I burn through a lot of bloodstone dust making leyline tools for upgrading guild halls so run that one on the toons I regularly play.

I kinda do the same. Whatever I feel like for the number of maps and work left to right on the world map. I save Lion's Arch, Bloodtide Coast, Sparkfly Fen, and the Orr maps until last. Then I just work my way down. Once I get to the Orr maps I am happy as there are NO MORE KITTEN HEARTS! I usually do all 3 of those at once since they go so fast. PVE'ers get all the reward track boosts to make GOB easier but we still gotta do all the hearts that take forever. Especially the broken and pointless ones. One thing that helps is to watch a movie or show. I have 2 monitors so I put something on while I do it. It makes it a little more bearable.

Yeah otherwise I wouldn't be there. I am in an alliance and run with a few of the guilds.

My second is for an old guild. If the guild leader ever comes back I want an account I can use to run with them. In the meantime I mostly just do dailies and weeklies and slowly work my way to improving it. It's a lot better now than it was a year ago. If they never come back maybe I'll find another group I like while playing it. I'm too invested in the guild my main is in to just leave them.

Legendary gear is such a quality of life upgrade that it's worth the suffering. I have a full set of the armors plus runes and sigils. If they ever make leggy breathers I will have to get a full set of those too. That said my 2nd account is the absolute last time I'm going through it all. If I don't decide it's not worth it and stop part way.

You should have 2 left if you made the Staff and GS. Maybe you have them on a toon. Hopefully not one you deleted. My son was bad with deleting stuff with toons. I have a full set of the g1's and doubles on all the dual wield weapons like sword and axe. I already had the leggy spear but, me being me, needed another for land use. I am well acquainted with the map completion suffering.

I am currently suffering through map completion. 🤮Curse Anet for making the spear a ground weapon! I thought I was done making legendary weapons on my main account. 😭 I also have one started on my alt account, but that's just me being a glutton for punishment and deserving every second of torment.

Even if you have it set, it's best to check again. There was a bug that reset your guild selection. Supposedly it's fixed, but it's Anet so you may want to double and triple check. 🤣

1. Change stealth so you may stealth into or out of combat, but not both. 2. Change it so if the keep lord is down it contests the waypoint (if available). 3. I know it would probably tick people off but, Assign all alt accounts to the same team. In the case where multiple alts have different WvW guilds selected, contact the player to see which one they want. If no response before team selection give them gold locks but the first account selects for all the accounts.

Agreed. Lets get it nerfed after minstrels. 😉

There's no excuse for that. Had something similar happen in a guild I was in once. A commander was doing it to one of our members. The difference is everyone was in discord and it was obvious even the kicked player was having fun. I still put a stop to it as I was an officer and it an abuse of power.

IIRC that's under admin lower ranks. It gives you the ability to invite, kick, and promote up to your level. The kick perm should be separated from that. Sometimes you want a recruiter but you don't want to also give them the power to boot people. And now it's an even bigger deal. Some officer that gets disgruntled with leadership could boot people right before the team selection deadline just to be a jerk.

Guilds can only have so many sent invites at a time. If they didn't accept right away that's their issue. We did ours during a rally when the majority were online.

1. Yes it still happens. I don't know how common it is. I only know of 2 players who had it happen to them. A third never set their WvW guild even after being moved to where we were the last match. They get to sit this one out on the wrong team. I honestly wish it showed your selected WvW guild on the character select screen along with mastery rank, PVP rank, and WVW rank. Maybe that's a QOL thing Anet can work on. 2. This one I see. I'm stuck in 2 like that. One with a stacked team we're facing, and the other where my team seems to be tiny when I'm on. Though that one I probably play during the off hours. I'm being patient and hoping Anet will figure out the team building and get the teams a little fairer. 3. You can play with up to 499 of your friends. Just make a guild and get them all together. I'm part of an alliance guild of 490ish. I can't call them all friends but I know a few of the people in most of the guilds in the group. Some of which I can call friends. 4. I'm seeing something different. I see people that my guild ran with during the old links joining us. I also see new faces joining from time to time. We had a new WvW player asking to join tonight during rally. You get a month during these teams where people can play with different groups to see if they like them. And there's nothing that says you have to stay with the same guild every match. If you have a couple groups you want to play with, you can alternate from month to month or just make an alt so you can split time with the groups. There's no more waiting for servers to open or link hopping every linking. Overall I think it's slowly getting better. Anet still has a ways to go with getting teams a little more even.

Tuning I would be fine with, Cele got an amputation. To be fair though it had all the stats at the time it came out IIRC. When they added expertise and concentration was when it should have been fixed by reducing all the stats to account for the two new ones. With the old 3 stat combos, they should buff them a little instead of nerfing the 4 stats. They should also adjust the stats in both PVE and WvW instead of just nerfing them in one game mode.

All the exploits should have been fixed a long time ago. Anet has the wrong focus with WvW. They seem to care more about nerfing stats and classes than fair play.

Like it or not, but that's the only way to make it truly fair. Give everyone the same class, weapons, gear, and skills. You play whatever you want in PVE but as soon as you step into WvW your something else while your there. Remove all the choices but race and skins/outfits, because fashion wars. 😉No more masteries because those can make a difference as well. It's also the quickest way to kill the game mode.

Keeps/castle should be the same way. It's annoying fighting in a t3 keep, with the lord dead and it's not contested. They just keep coming back over and over via the open waypoint.

That's exactly what I see happening. It's just a matter of time before they start nerfing other stats. You don't make a new tool to just use it once, you will use it as often as you can because it's the new shiny thing.

Extirpate was fairly useful in WvW. My guild runs Cele scourges with a spear. We drop our ghastly breach then extirpate on top of the enemy zerg. We've wiped a number of larger groups with this. Maybe we deleted a dev with it for them to nerf both at the same time along with transfuse which we also run on our scourges.

There goes the only reason to use Necro spear in WvW. It was a big help with preventing the reapplication of boons. That and the cele nerf is a big blow to scourges in WvW.

Every server has it's low pop times. Also there are a number of tags that run hidden so you've got no way of knowing if anyone is running by looking at the maps. I'm also on Hall of Judgement and my group has difficulty moving during our play times. As someone recommended, join the NA discord so you can find a group for your play times. Then join the guild and set it as your WvW guild so you can play with them after the next relink. Restructuring does suck for new players/returning players. It would be nice if new people picking teams had the option to change their mind within the first week and get a second choice. It would double the chances of finding somewhere that suits them.

There was an XP and reward track bonus. More PVE'ers in WvW trying to get gifts of battle. Plus there's also the chance that your current team is stacked during your play time.

At least I know it's not just me. Same.