etsmith.9025

It depends on where the ranger is in relation to the target. Bow 2 can be evaded either by dodging or placing something between you and the bow with that build. The arrows do not pierce. Meaning you can put an object, NPC. tree., etc in between you and the ranger. Just try to line of sight his skill. The gs 2 has a lag time and easily identifiable mechanic and again can be dodged and or sidestepped. If the ranger can get the opener and your not paying attention your dead. If you keep aware of your surroundings you can put yourself in a more favorable place to survive and once the ranger drops their cd's you have a better chance to kill. them.

No its supposed to be designed to help balance the matchups. it has failed miserably. The only people happy are the ones that are part of the over stacked alliances currently rolling over everyone else in every match up. I havent seen 1 that is remotely close in numbers over multiple accounts.

Alliances are going to be nothing but mega blob guilds. The design itself will mandate the larger guilds to stay competitive just as the Meta has changed constantly that mandates commanders to want specific build/geared/ players in discord mentality. As this match up shows you are going to have some serious issues with mega guild alliances running over the smaller alliances. It is only a matter of time before they figure out a way to manipulate the game matches utilizing alt guild/player accounts. As it is a good portion of the wvw population have already decided to sit out the event and are in PVE atm instead of WvW. IMO they need to lower and limit the amount of players allowed in each alliance. With the current numbers currently listed it will be way to easy to stack and manipulate the matches.

Already is. My friends list on all accounts have nothing but wvw players and commanders. I can screen shot them. Nearly everyone of them except the stacked servers/ alliances are in a pve map right now. Usually its the other way around.

You dont have to play wvw extensively. Just do the daily quests with the wvw reward buff from guild etc. Once you complete the dailies use the potions for the reward track. Dailies take maybe 15 minutes per day. You can also run around just to take camps and claim sentries just to help boost the points. You can also find a tag that is running around karma training towers to help speed up the process. You can also preplan by doing the daily quests and just banking the potions. I currently have a full bank tab on main account and each of the alt accounts have 4+ stacks in the bank. 80 potions will complete 1 reward track from 0 to finished. If i decide to make a legendary and need the gift i just burn that many potions to get one immediately.

except the matches are horrible unbalanced. I guess your on one of the stacked servers who are spawn camping.