Buying X5 Quils, have multiple alts with rookie buff. Message me here to discuss pricing / times.

Thank you.

Quick Edit: Also if anyone wants to legit run it, I'll run anytime I'm on as tank or dps across 3 toons (Warrior Lancer and Archer).

Alright, so the CD is 30 days at the moment due to the free transfers. Thank you for clearing it up. Been away for too long.

Just need a quick answer since it was worded a little strangely in the Enmasse quick answers.

It said that the CDs were reset on the 6th and it'd be a 5 day CD after the 11th. Does that mean there are no CDs for server transfers at this moment?

As much as I liked seeing you guys fight it out, I'd like to stay on the topic of how the pvp can be somewhat improved in this game by EME without BHS intervention (since that would increase the time to get anything decent to well over months).

For now it seems you agreed on two things. First, that arena's need more incentive to be done, and second, the rng stun on VM has no place in 3v3.

I personaly believe (and I'm pretty sure I'm right) that EME can fix both of these on their end without referring to BHS. The first problem can be fixed two fold, and I believe both these fixes should go into account. Add winner / loser boxes to 3v3, and add BG points to 3v3 as well as a static BG point gain (I'd say 60 / W, 20 / L for ranked), maybe 2/3rds of that for unranked (so roughly 40 / W, 15 / L). Or change it to 80 / 30 for ranked and 60 / 20 for unranked. Basically, give more people incetive to queue, and this would do it (as well as put more BG points out there for new players to gear up faster).

VM stun proc....just remove it from 3v3 arena at least, make players immune to it.

As for the warrior / lancer comp. If possible, if you can change it to where only dstance warriors couldnt run with lancers, I think that would solve a lot of the issues. From what I've seen Astance warriors with lancers aren't as big of a threat (although still a pretty easy team to play). But I'd like more suggestions on that one.

One other thing I'd like EME to consider is turning off a lot of the safe zones in the game. At the moment gvg pvp and world pvp is near impossible not only because it's hard to find people, but because they can almost imideitly jump into a safe zone and switch channels. As this would only effect pvp servers, I don't think it would be much of a problem. (As it is a pvp server, everyone should have the right to gank everyone, unless they're in a main city).

Unfortunately I don't have a specific link for that change. But as everyone noticed, their points didn't reset this Tuesday or Thursday. This information was gotten from a GM in game a guildy was talking to. This could be incorrect and it could be a bug, but whether it is or not, I'm still a supporter of removing the KS point cap completely, as I see little need for it.

(skip to the bottom for the changes I'm suggesting)

For whoever hasn't noticed lately, 3v3 has recieved a few changes recently. Some of these are good, some of these not so much, but in general I think they were on the right track. The following is a recap of the changed 3v3 has recieved.

No KS points from BGs (wonderful change)
KS points from unranked (meh, I don't mind it, but no the greatest fan)
Cap changed to 1000 every 2 weeks (horrible in my opinion)

The change to the 3v3 was good, except the cap every 2 weeks instead of every week. I understand the logic they tried to use for it, to keep teams from getting too far ahead, but what I'd like to point out, is if a team is doing 3v3 well any decent amount of time per week, they'll cap out on 1000 points easily. It should be the rating holding people back, not the points.

Here are my suggestions:

Change cap to 1000 per week again (if you can't get to it, you probably didn't have the rating for the piece anyway), most people know it's true.

Another option which I personaly would prefer, is to complete remove the cap on points in 3v3. This would give more teams insentive to queue for 3v3 and increase the amount of teams / population in the 3v3 arena.

As for the worry about the overinflation of points, I don't think that would be a big issue at all. Though I would suggest changing point values to: Rated: 40 / W, 10 / L; Unranked: 20 / W, 5 / L

Lastly, the final change I wouldn't mind seeing for 3v3 (and this might earn a lot of flames): Disallow the Blacksmith's Hammerstrike proc in the 3v3 arena, or completely against other players. If you don't know why, you obviously don't have one, or have never faced one (I've done both). If anyone wants a referance on why, the most well known one I believe would be "Skillherald" from WoW.


I'd love to hear everyone's comments on these proposed changes. Most of them are to incourage more people to join and play 3v3 to increase participation, and all the above suggestions can be done by EME themselves, without the need for BHS to do anything (which is something that's a repeated thing in people asking for changes. If BHS needs to get involved it takes a long time).

Alright, so here are a few things I feel like I should update judging by the posts I've seen on here.

BG Participation: With the removal of KS points from BGs, that would lower participation in that area of the game. A few ways to fix this would be to add unique rewards from BGs, or make the Bloodrave gear cost a mix of BG and KS points (probably not the most popular option, but not a bad one).

As for another thing of level playing field and all that fun stuff.....

This is an MMO...there is gear progression, the playing field will NOT be leveled across the board, that's stupid. You can get close and fight on par with people in VM with conjunct / bloodrave, but as mentioned in a few thousand other threads, it's an uphill battle. Guess what, they deserve said gear since they've worked for it and obtained it. I don't have VM, but I'll work on it at some point.

Adding a lot of cosmetic and other rewards to BGs in the KS shop would be nice, and an idea I would support.

As for the noobs getting 1 shot, it happens. In some games you can hit 60 and fight on near* even footing with players who are 60 and have the best gear. In this game, the gear scaled too much, so you actually have to work for it, sucks, but you can't just hit 60 and expect to own everyone, it doesn't work like that in this game (and if you don't like it, should probably move on now).

One thing I will say for the above topic, is a story quest should be implemented similar to the quest you get in Pathfinder upon hitting lvl 58 to get a set of golds for all slots of armor. Implement another one (or if you can't do that easily have it mailed to you) that would give all players a set of Victors gear to start out with. It won't stop you from getting destroyed by fully geared people, but it does boost your survivability by quite a bit, and I think it'd be beneficial.

--- I've seen a couple of suggestion threads on here about this, but I cannot personally agree with them, since they seem more of a QQ post made by someone who just lost and tanked 200 points in rating. ---

With the recent patch that's coming out today, I felt like this post should be changed in it's nature at this point. EME did some changed I like, which included removing KS points from BGs, adding KS points for losing ranked matches, etc.
--- The only part of the patch I could not completely agree with is the points for unranked matches. In my opinion, if you want points you should have your rating on the line, not be able to farm it up then hide behind the fact that your rating is untouchable.

Now, as for the other things. One thing I see mentioned a lot in this thread now is gear. I understand the whole upgrade of gear system, and WoW's 3 tier / patch gear system some are referring to, but at the current point of the game it's near impossible to do. At this point, here are your 3 tiers: Fraywind -> Conjunct -> Bloodrave (I want to add VM here, but that's it's own outlier)

For those referring to that type of system, that is it right there. They can't really change it or add something new, because that'd require a lot more content which probably won't be hitting till the alliance vanarch patch (which is supposedly bringing it's own new pvp set). One thing they are doing for this is making conjunct easier to get through nexus. All you need to do is invest in one 7 day rep boost and you can pretty much get most of the points you need from these changes if I read them right.

The bottom line is, there is a gear disparity, but you're really not going to get free gear in this game. The #1 thing for that was the bloodrave gloves / boots, but luckily they're removing that. One thing I do think needs to happen is a free victors set for everyone. (make it an achievement or something that gets mailed to you after you win your first BG if the whole achievement thing would require BHS to get involved).

Now..the best part, class balancing which is another big issue.

First off, I completely agree, stagger lock is broken, even on warriors. I play a warrior, and I realize how gay it is and I try to stick to AStance, and even though I can fight Dstance warriors (barely) I can easily understand why it's so strong, since I can get locked down for 60%+ of my health. I've tried it, and although it is a cool combo, it is a bit over the top.

Ways to fix this....block CD is one thing, but people [filtered] a lot about that in PvE. I find that hilarious because of how few warriors I see trying to tank. From my experiences there's only a handful of bosses a block CD would even come down to be an issue (SG, AC HM first boss...I believe the first couple of bosses of MC HM, but it's been a while since I've tanked those). To tell you the truth, I'd love to hear *realistic* suggestions on a fix like this, but I'll say this now. It's not the auto attack stagger that's a problem, fix it if you want, but GOOD dstance warriors were never relying on that to begin with. If you were getting messed up by that, might want to rethink your play style.

Second. Lancer Giga / survivability with iron will. All I have to say is tone it down. You can't really mess with PvE too bad on this one, it might hurt a few lancers that like acting cool and doing a few tricks during queen HM with iron will / Onslaught, but it's not breaking PvE in any way. Increase the CD on iron will, maybe decrease stun duration on giga so the lancer doesn't have enough time on his own to chain his 4 second stun off of giga and that he actually needs an assist off it instead of doing it solo (because even with double 10% earrings it'll still land before you're out of stun).

Besides that, the main thing I can think of is sorc damage could be toned down a bit, and pillar humping is a little gay with some abilities, but that's about it on my end. One thing you can do if you want to nerf Dstance warrior / lancer / healer comps though, is just make it so you can only have 1 tank per group when queuing for 3v3, so lockout warrior Dstance or something (if lancer is in a group you can't use Dstance), or remove warrior / lancer teams all together. Might be interesting to see what comes out of it.

Thank you, I'd love to hear any comments on this. Also, I don't think these changes (the 5 listed above) are too major, and should be within EME power to do without BHS involvement for coding / etc. (though I could be wrong).



Last thing I wanted to throw out there (and hopefully this won't become the center of this thread):

Fix world pvp if at all possible, at least for guild wars. If you war a guild or get warred (at least on a pvp server, you can keep this off of pve servers) the only safe zones that should apply to you, are velika, allementhia and kaiator. Besides that, something cool to do would be to move the champion's skyring NPCs (and maybe fraywind?) outside of the main cities to locations in the world (1 per capitol city???) to force people to go out. Make a little camp around them with dailies or something that send you around, have the pvp gear sold there and maybe some other cool [filtered] like costumes that can only be gotten there. Dailies to go kill people, [filtered] like that for costumes (I understand it would be exploited and people would be trading kills, but better then what it is now).

I'm looking for a sorc and mystic for 3v3. Must be able to get in VOIP and talk.

Have at least full +9 fraywind, preferably with a mix of conjunct and KS gear.

Contact Final in game, shoot me a mail with the times you can be on, level of gear, etc.

Refer to the tittle. Let's get some 3v3s going after the BGs last night. Queue for rated 3v3 at 8PM PST.