Curse

Darth The Xx · Oct 01, 2009, 09:10 PM // 21:10

+1 !!!!!!!!!!!! Over the past week I've become rly attached to TA, sad to see it go, hope SD will be as good without the crappy gimmicks

The Arching Healer · Oct 02, 2009, 04:37 PM // 16:37

Holy shit, removing content from a game is just stupid. We all paid our fifty dollahs to play TA or HB and now they just remove it? Oh wait, less content less players, less lag on servers, no need for better servers. PROFIT

Couldnt care less about TA gettign removed tbh, bai

Hyozanryu Sanada · Oct 04, 2009, 12:54 AM // 00:54

Pretty much of a scam by Anet if people sees TA in their manuscripts and find some weird arena in place of it instead.

Darth The Xx · Oct 04, 2009, 12:59 AM // 00:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hyozanryu Sanada

Pretty much of a scam by Anet if people sees TA in their manuscripts and find some weird arena in place of it instead.

Don't think so, I'm pretty sure there's a disclaimer something along the lines of "Game play is subject to change over time" or something similar on the box.

Talania Vulcanclaw · Oct 04, 2009, 01:09 AM // 01:09

Yeah gameplay...not whole frikken Formats. If I buy a Jam Donut, I don't want it snatched out my hands, have the jam removed and have it pissed in instead.

Darth The Xx · Oct 04, 2009, 09:17 AM // 09:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by Talania Vulcanclaw

Yeah gameplay...not whole frikken Formats. If I buy a Jam Donut, I don't want it snatched out my hands, have the jam removed and have it pissed in instead.

its more like them using a different kind of jam instead of the usual raspberry or whatever it is.

Barkeep · Oct 07, 2009, 03:32 PM // 15:32

I haven't played GW for about a year. Been a bit busy with other stuff.

So this morning I installed it again to see whether my old friends were still doing balanced in TA like old times, and to perhaps try a few runs myself. Somehow I got an error 45 when I tried to log in so I opened Guru to check what error 45 is all about. However, I could not resist to check on things in the TA thread, so now im here, and apparantly some goofball removed TA if I understand correctly....?

No need to remove that block on me then.. TA was my baby.. Without it I'll be helpless and homeless in GW..

Cammy · Oct 07, 2009, 04:11 PM // 16:11

It's not gone yet! Typical Anet being slow. Still time to farm the next glad rank xD

urania · Oct 07, 2009, 07:10 PM // 19:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barkeep

I haven't played GW for about a year. Been a bit busy with other stuff.

So this morning I installed it again to see whether my old friends were still doing balanced in TA like old times, and to perhaps try a few runs myself. Somehow I got an error 45 when I tried to log in so I opened Guru to check what error 45 is all about. However, I could not resist to check on things in the TA thread, so now im here, and apparantly some goofball removed TA if I understand correctly....?

No need to remove that block on me then.. TA was my baby.. Without it I'll be helpless and homeless in GW..

u nab.
been missing that snowie avatar.

most of the better oldies who TAed a lot in the past (including u! ;c) quit, so yeah....
furball gone for wow and aion, rok and void playing HoN and working on their Conquest, leya missing in action. americans farmed their g8s and g9s so they dont play anymore either.
moreover, its super gay anyway, so if i play i do byobway most of the time or go RA.

hope ure doing oki btw <3

GladTitleNerf · Oct 11, 2009, 02:07 PM // 14:07

Wait times in TA are very long at certain hours then you play an RA team and win which is obviously unbalanced. The amount of people in TA playing is why so many people don't play. If you aren't on a good team you're likely to face a good team g8+. Assuming you aren't a TA grinder they will likely win because that is what they do 24/7. They are good and they are well practiced but I would not say they are "meta". I've seen them beat people with plenty of different builds. Most of the time they resemble what we call balanced but skills change and honestly the builds are not gimmicky, definitely not shove spike or hexway. But I guess what I was getting at is that TA is stagnant because a players of a higher skill level completely run the place whereas GVG and HA and HB you will face people closer to your level. I mean who wants to play in an Arena where you hit enter and get beat down every time because the only people in TA are pros? It has nothing to do with the skills. Only problem I have with it is that the good guilds, and it's pretty much just Zulu in TA, sit there and farm RA. TA for a good team is just farming RA at this point. No reason to sync if you don't mind wait times. Just farm RA teams from TA, eat some cheetos, watch a movie together on vent. I really don't know how they deal with those waits.

Only solution I can think of is to start tourneys based on glad titles maybe. The current TA most times of the day is usually just one really good team dominating RA teams. Put some prizes up so the good PVP players (GVG and HA) will come out and play. The incentive right now is not enough considering wait times and the fact your going to be facing the TA grinders.

Part of the former solution would also be stopping RA teams from entering TA altogether because honestly that lessens the integrity of the Glad title when all you do is farm RA teams while on vent with a well practiced team. Most of those people are simply going for G10. I'm at G8 and I really don't even care to get G9 because it's either RA of TA grind both of which are very little fun compared to GVG or even HA which has its own problems.

So stop RA from entering TA and maybe make it so that once an RA team hits ten or maybe even 20 which is max glad pt award they would be moved to an arena where they play other RA teams that are have hit the max. I guess 10 would be more feasible.

Also the merging of the districts didn't work for syncing. It's about the same difficulty to sync as it was before. Need a system where they have like four queues at all times and when you hit enter at the same time all four of you would go to different queues. But all people filling one queue in a numerical order is how we get syncing. I think there is already a queue system of some sort it just needs to be changed.

What i just said but maybe more clearly:

Get rid of TA and start daily 4v4 tourneys similar to HB based on glad title.
Stop TA players from farming RA teams by stopping RA from entering TA.
Give RA players a chance to higher consecutive wins by creating an arena that is teams that won 10+ or whatever.
Do something that effectively stops syncing in RA so that the integrity of RA is no longer jacked (always on game ten you face qp or some TA team starting the night in RA with a sync)
TA's problem is not skills. You give those g8+ players a sealed deck they will still defeat every team that enters. The problem is skill level. Make RA and TA better so that people can actually get better skilled and the problem might be solved.

Also, and I don't know who reads these post anyways, but how long has it been since 4v4 got a new map? I mean RA is the most popular PVP in the game regardless of what the elitist want to say. Give the people a new map. Show me how to make a map Ill do it for you. With a statue of myself in the middle but whatever. Seriously though, there hasn't been a new map since Nightfall. How hard is it? Just re-skin an old map I dont care just something new. I paid for EotN for what some new skills and I guess a pet menagerie? Give the PVP players something.

AlsPals · Oct 11, 2009, 02:32 PM // 14:32

Im all for keeping TA if they revert it to Proph only skills.

Delete HB Already · Oct 12, 2009, 01:05 AM // 01:05

Im all for finding a better online game when sealed deck is put in.

Karate Jesus · Oct 12, 2009, 01:09 AM // 01:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by Delete HB Already

Im all for finding a better online game when sealed deck is put in.

Can't say I blame you. Regina has already said they're having issues with it (and with Linsey solely at the helm, I'm not surprised).

I'm just very, very nervous that SD is going to suck royal ass.

Aeon221 · Oct 12, 2009, 01:26 AM // 01:26

I suggested a while back that they change TA to 6 man because 4 man was stupid, so no, not particularly. Bye bye TA, can't say I ever really bothered with you.

Elephantaliste · Oct 12, 2009, 07:17 PM // 19:17

anet said 6v6 failed, so they arent going to bring it back.

sLiceR · Oct 13, 2009, 07:23 AM // 07:23

everyone go play HoN, it owns!

sorasora · Oct 15, 2009, 09:04 PM // 21:04

/signed

keep TA. stopping RA victors from entering TA is also a good idea. proph-only skills is a bad idea. uhhhhhhhhhhh, look into gothspike, cos speccing for gothspike is embarassing and if the best your embarassing team can do is stall then thats still not very fun either.

erk · Oct 20, 2009, 12:06 AM // 00:06

I believe that TA and HB are getting switched off in this weeks update, the "red resign" thing is one of the concerns.

I Jonas I · Oct 21, 2009, 12:29 AM // 00:29

Yeah TA is gone after this week. I may or may not quit GW, depending on how good SD is

TheSackMaster · Oct 21, 2009, 01:11 AM // 01:11

Oh no, Jonas quiting, what will GW do with out him, I could care less If TA was gone.