Guild Wars 2

I know at least some of you had some questions about the abilities in WvW after reading the short descriptions that were provided, right?

+1 please so that this topic gets some attention now instead of months from now.

+1

Me too I want to know the real meaning of the WvW abilities.

Another question: the Guard Defense one says it reduces damage you take from them by x%, but Mercenary’s Bane and Siege Defense say they increase your defense against them by x%. Does that decrease damage by x%, or increase armor by x% (which would mean, at level 5, a 4.8% damage reduction, which against level 5 Siege Offense would change it to the unaltered damage level)?

Anet skill tooltip example.

Swing weapon
15 second cooldown
Swings a weapon

+1 too. I’ve already put 3 points into Mercenary’s bane assuming it was any enemy…. Is it too much to expect some descriptions please Anet.
Ok, after further digging through Gw2 wiki and then finally an answer on Reddit:http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1c2119/i_dont_understand_the_wxp_upgrade_mercenarys_bane/

On further investigation, on the wiki link at top of Reddit page, if you scroll down far enough there is another link ‘mercenaries’ which leads to another page with explanation…Seems very convoluted….
It’s all fine and dandy if you play Wvw on ONE char everyday. I play Wvw on at least 4 characters………I’ll post this now before l say repeat what the person on Reddit said….. >:|

To try to clarify some issues:

• Guards: They are the NPCs of the player’s races that are always on the same server side. The ones inside the castles, or defending the places, for example, are guards.

• Mercenaries: They are the “mobs” NPCs that switch alliances from one server to another depending on the players actions. Dredge, hylek, ogres, and the like, are mercenaries.

(No skill gives you bonuses against PCs, except if you are using a ballista, cannon, etc)

• Supply capacity: It only let you carry more supplies. Don’t create supplies nor gives bonuses to anything else: you just are capable of carrying more supplies at once.

Hope this help.

I find it incredible that Anet doesn’t have a manual or at least explain WvW in full.

The wikis are so incomplete on WvW as to be very convoluted or downright useless to the player who is serious about trying to stay alive when others seem to be superbuffed and you’re trying to figure out how and where to just survive a 1v1.

Rangers should be able to fight any other player – and I could until the last mini-patch – then my “build” somehow melted and I am back to not being “useful” at all and am one or two shotted to the ground by almost every player in every profession.

I’m confused, you are obviously a necro, but you seem to be complaining about rangers being weak?

Wolfheart.1938:

I’m confused, you are obviously a necro, but you seem to be complaining about rangers being weak?

I wanted to make this joke. You’ve ruined my evening.

Its worth noting that this is a 5 month old thread that was necroed so the stuff in the older posts about siege is obviously completely out of date.