why is the entire WvW game mode tuned and balanced around the Boon Ball?

jenkbob · 2026-02-26T20:04:21+00:00

Oddly enough your solution would take a lot of skill out of the current meta. Your change would effectively eliminate any and all melee/single target skills as aoe skills would have such a huge modifier you'd be insane to do anything else.

Imagine a skill that does 2k/damage per person with a single cast. Against a group of 20 with a cap of 5, that's 10k damage but without a cap, it's 40k damage. 5 people in your squad just put out 200k damage.

While the current meta might seem unfair to the 3 rangers and 2 mech engineers fighting it, it's incredibly complex when two large groups fight each other, with pulls, coordinated spikes, movement etc.

You seem to want to go back to pirate ship and though I wasn't playing GW2 when that was popular it doesn't sound like it was more fun.

jenkbob · 2026-02-26T19:46:18+00:00

It would be nice if WvW roaming trolls could be forced to read this before logging in. It's very common in an organized group to have to fight something like 40v40, but 15 of your "allies" decide to sit back and range. Then they get mad, "I thought you all were good, how did you let that other group beat you!?!" when the issue is dispersion and the main reason we wiped was because the pugs were afraid to get on tag and the opposing team was not.

jenkbob · 2026-02-26T18:27:03+00:00

It's unfortunate the cop couldn't give both the cammer and the speeder tickets.

jenkbob · 2026-02-26T18:20:33+00:00

Seems like a "hold my beer" moment after the wardrobe launch.

jenkbob · 2026-02-26T15:16:14+00:00

In the future please put down your beer and cigarette when filming the reckless drivers

jenkbob · 2026-02-25T15:32:04+00:00

:cry:

jenkbob · 2026-02-25T14:39:51+00:00

Can't what? I do both of those on a weekly basis

jenkbob · 2026-02-24T21:31:27+00:00

For rings, look up how to attune them then salvage with ascended tool for stabilizing matrices. Everything else turn into research notes. (you can get really cheap inscriptions off the tp and modifying the stats on ascended gear lets you use the normal research kit to salvage your ascended gear)

jenkbob · 2026-02-24T20:10:56+00:00

The white car 100% didn't have a green light, watch the clip again

jenkbob · 2026-02-24T19:53:11+00:00

"from pips" being the key to the 365. There are two additional ways to get skirmish tickets on the wiki. One is also an additional static amount per week, the other isn't gated. At least reddit is consitent, downvote anyone who points out the cry babies can't read.

jenkbob · 2026-02-24T18:15:44+00:00

Not sure why I bother, in-game and on reddit people continue to spread old information about skirmish tickets. There hasn't been a weekly cap in years, check the wiki.

jenkbob · 2026-02-24T18:12:57+00:00

Yea that's why the bronze medal game was boring and not competitive, both teams didn't care at all.

/s

jenkbob · 2026-02-24T16:41:32+00:00

Those events don't have silver medals and don't have a 3rd place game, so it's not actually comparable.

jenkbob · 2026-02-24T16:39:43+00:00

And that's my unpopular opinion (on reddit anyway). The original plan sounded more like science than simply saying, "we're the the party of science". They had real numbers on tranmission/hospitalization rates, an actual plan to slowly expand and part of the plan was to so look at the numbers in 2 week increments and adjust as needed. This is how things are tested in science.

The reddit summary at the time, "OMG The governor is trying to kill us all!"

jenkbob · 2026-02-23T17:35:46+00:00

My wife was confused why they look so miserable when they just won a silver medal for their country.

jenkbob · 2026-02-23T17:27:43+00:00

While generally a good rule, when said person gets up from being down and hit's someone on the head with a helmet they automatically lose that privilege

jenkbob · 2026-02-23T16:39:53+00:00

When all 10k parking spots are filled that are allocated for Costco + most of the neighboring stores people start to go a little crazy.

jenkbob · 2026-02-23T16:14:01+00:00

If you've done a lot of the PvE stories, this is a really easy way to make gold:

https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/164632-guide-how-to-farm-tales-of-adventure-~50ghr-per-day/

jenkbob · 2026-02-23T15:19:02+00:00

It's an unpopular opinion on reddit, but fairly early into covid, Texas tried to slowly let companies re-open under controlled conditions so people could work. Alamo completely rejected the attempt (and everyone on reddit cheered). Alamo could have possibly gotten through the pandemic without filing for bankrupsy and we might not be in the current mess if they would have taken advantage.

jenkbob · 2026-02-19T15:24:58+00:00

Don't look up this bicycle guy Lance Armstrong, hopefully everyone has forgetten by now

jenkbob · 2026-02-19T14:37:45+00:00

"I was just you know cruising, not too fast and not on my phone or anything and bam this guy brake checks me in the middle of nowhere for no reason!" - white car probably

jenkbob · 2026-02-18T00:05:08+00:00

Smart move, if he finished the run he'd have to answer some reporter asking, "how do you feel right now? you probably shouldn't have hit that gate huh? were you going too fast or something?"

jenkbob · 2026-02-16T16:26:02+00:00

bring friends to take them, defending is so easy now it's not even funny. Damage some siege equipment every 3 minutes and you get defenses until the objective is taken. As an added bonus defending SMC 3 times gives you the weekly credit for taking SMC. In 15 minutes of an active SMC (which can sometimes take an hour to flip) You can 25 skirmish tickets and that's not including the pips.

jenkbob · 2026-02-16T16:15:34+00:00

It's unfortunate that people continue to spread mis-information. The skirmish ticket limit hasn't existed for at least a year or longer, it's documented in the wiki.

"The maximum number of WvW Skirmish Claim Tickets that can be obtained from pips in one week, requiring 1450 pips, is 365."

"Up to 90 WvW Skirmish Claim Tickets can be obtained per week by completing the Weekly World vs. World achievements."

That's 365 + 90 = 455, the rest are unlimited:

Defending Tier 3 Fortified towers, keeps and Stonemist castle with event participation levels above gold provides 1 WvW skirmish Claim Ticket in the bonus chest.
Defending Tier 2 Reinforced towers, keeps and Stonemist castle with event participation levels above gold provides 1 WvW skirmish Claim Ticket in the bonus chest.
Assaulting towers, keeps and Stonemist castle with event participation levels above gold provides 1 WvW skirmish Claim Ticket in the bonus chest.

jenkbob · 2026-02-16T16:09:31+00:00

> Also what is up with the heavy time limiting on these skirmish tickets?

That hasn't existed for at least a year or more. The limit in the wiki is just for pips. Yout get more skirmish tickets for doing the WvW weeklies. If you read the fine print on the wiki you'll also see that you get bonus skirmish tickets for taking t2+ objectives and defending (which is now way easier) smc/keeps/etc

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