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Two servers full but not only 'full' but with links. Add two 'high', not even 'very high' servers linked and that's not WvW, that's abuse.

How long has the person who does these links worked at Arenanet? We all know they are manually generated even when the algorithm says 'do this' they still put full servers with a link against two 'high' servers. WvW is a great hobby, but many of us are tired of Anet playing dumb about the numbers and laughing as servers are playing against impossible numbers OR no one.

It was a horrid beta and I hope we never have another. It was depressing not knowing people who were cruel to insanely abusive in team and map chats. Get rid of links. Expand maps at need when all maps are queued. Give commanders voice. Hire people to work on WvW who actually play WvW. Give us back tournaments. Expand the tiers.

Anet has a real dislike (that's being nice) for Rangers.

The point is at 3am there are queues, the numbers are insanely uneven and we can't play with whom we want to play with. With just five guild slots, many who have no guild and many who have friends on the servers they are on but not in the same guild, Anet is doing a huge injustice to the community we chose -- forcing us into 'matches' with people we never wanted to play with and our transfers are a testimony to that fact. Those of us who have been in the game from the beginning are watching as WvW falls apart at the seems while Anet tap dances around the fact that we LOVE our server communities. Alliances are NOT the fix for WvW -- release the servers and let them fall where they may. Give us our tournaments back and expand the maps AND servers -- stop corralling us into more and more numbers with less of a chance to play at all in most time zones.

Oh too TRUE! Undo the links. UNDO the links!

Returning players: You have what we didn't at the beginning of the game and for a long time after... --we now have a LOT of player support by gamers who show you how and what to do in WvW as far as builds -- some would say metabattle.com is ok, but it's hit and miss a LOT of the time. Better websites are guildjen.com and Valun (youtube) and a few others who make a huge effort to theorycraft the build and then SHOW YOU how to play in videos that are also entertaining and grin worthy. Harbinger is great but it takes a while to learn its real strengths and mitigate any weaknesses -- AND always feel free to tweak any build you find for survivability until and IF you can get used to the build -- I found that a single change of a utility can make or break a fight. Don't forget your food and tools in WvW -- with the other buffs at structures and map bloodlust, both can make a huge difference in game play and winning or losing.

I agree that sometimes it's not convenient to join Discord, but it does help, textmanding is not fun -- and it is exhausting over time. So your next point -- off meta -- BRING THEM! I WANT off meta builds IN my squad! I am tired of people pontificating (preaching) 'meta builds or nothing' -- BALONEY! Off meta builds are 'unexpected' and can do a lot of good. Just bring you BEST toon, the one you LOVE the best into WvW -- run with a few people whom you trust or run havoc alone against camps and towers -- but don't allow others to truncate your gaming in GW2 because they demand one toon or another when you are more comfortable and a much better player ON another toon.

I am faster than you are 😛 That said, I agree, people don't join a tag -- but they will beat up commanders who they think are bad players because they run a mesmer or ranger as a commander -- any toon, and I mean ANY toon can run a commander tag successfully -- the players who aren't in squad can't see targets -- and that's the MAIN issue with 'squads' -- no targeting, fewer 'wins' in any fight. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So, all that being 'a no duh moment' for Anet... -- everything I said is true, how about Anet making sure that we can ALL see targets laid by a commander? Gee... what a scary thought -- commanders AND lieutenants have targeting rights and all can see it... what a game saver that would be....

Alliances, which will make so many players strangers to those they play with, whose server identity is nothing, whose guild is not known or scouts who can be trusted, will destroy WvW, effectively for good. Anet made a promise -- if the links didn't work, and clearly with six servers locked and the smallest servers getting trounced daily, the promise was made that Anet would undo the links and allow us to have our servers fall where they may. It's long past that time. Stop trying to force faceless names and a lack of server cohesion destroy what's left of WvW.

Some of you were bullies in the extreme. For anyone to vent, you must do it the way you want or you pile onto the person because they didn't think 'your way'. Advice, great. Bullying comments, like a second grader on the playground, not good and not welcome in the player HELP forum. Please do grow up and be kind -- we need good players in this game, not just the trolls who hate and demean others for fun as we see almost everyday in many game modes in this game alone.

Please remember -- all builds can be tweaked. If a build is good, but one or two utilities aren't working out -- first go look at videos. Barring that, use other utilities or switch up the sigils to see if you can get more a flow in your rotation -- and by 'rotation', I mean what you will know that most skills on cooldown are the ones to be picky about when using and "1" is sometimes your best friend after your burst is spent.

www.guildjen.com

To those of you who think removing Public Activation is a fix, it isn't. The trolls are usually very quick to have really good builds, even a few of them on the Lord, THEY get the claim and the very people who need to be locked out put all the wrong and sabotaging tactics on any keep or the castle. There's no fix for those who are determined to match manipulate their way. Even if you manage get your clean claim, most guilds will not take off the public activation check mark -- far too many do not have the permission to touch the thing and that is another thing that must end -- if you rep a guild you need to be able to change public activation -- period.

WvW is about the numbers -- you have a challenge if you are evenly matched. Please read this as a ten year Veteran -- but try to see it the way a new person would also, we can't do this much longer with guilds that do pve and other content and avoid WvW like the plague, coming in, many of them, to get the Warclaw and not much else. If you are outnumbered and being spied on by alts -- a huge practice now -- the game changes into hiding tags, watching as people dump your supply so you lose any incursion, infighting in team chat, abuse in team chat so much so that players, again leaving so we are losing people to strikes, raids and even fractals impacts our ability to have our own guilds in Prime Time or any time if unevenly matched. -- so the focus on numbers and matching servers of better of 'timing' so as not blobbed at one time zone by two other servers who are twice as big as you are no matter how many players you have, just plain needs to be addressed. No matter how you change WvW, you still haven't addressed servers; our identity for over ten years which has been all but stripped from us now, we don't claim a thing our host server does. And it's much worse to see it in beta as a huge amount of people who don't know one another are stuck in a beta that destroys morale more than any other WvW experience to date for many. Every claim in beta was proof that we didn't know any of these players and couldn't trust many. This is the most irrational to date: Very high marked servers are paired with very high servers and yet they are matched with medium X2 servers and Anet expects us to accept this forever without a bit of why? Lastly, please and thanks you, release the links -- the promise made to WvW players needs to be honored, to undo them if they didn't stop the queueing, is here, it's bad and it's losing us guildies who go to other modes while we are blobbed into depression and fighting for every single player to go into WvW at all.