Guild Wars 2

And I’ll just fix this bug.

Rise my butterflies …
Any chance of teaming up for the upcoming beta?

/sig: Bump bumpity bump

Sucks that I transferred to SoS with my guild now…that makes me a traitor to OMFG? Haha xD

I won’t do anything to interfere with you guys (even if I am I’m but a lone roamer with few guys haha), though YB has be dominating us after they got several big guilds. Love to see more zerg actions before people started to give up and T2 WvW ended in total collapse.

Though you guys may need to shift chaos armor strategy with the nerf, any alternative plans for mesmer zerg Pyro?

NICENIKESHOE.7128:

Though you guys may need to shift chaos armor strategy with the nerf, any alternative plans for mesmer zerg Pyro?

Well, the chaotic dampening nerf certainly reduces the potential a little bit, but it doesn’t change the ultimate strategy, just pushes it onto a slightly longer recycle time, might make me get a bit more creative with rotations. I’m not foreseeing any large problems due to it.

I was thinking more about the offensive AoE pressure now that chaos storm is not as accessible, not so good if we are always on the defensive…wells perhaps? Alternatively Sword/shield (for AoE stun) + glamour builds could work with inspiration granting resistance and chaos armor granting protection + defensive boons.

NICENIKESHOE.7128:

I was thinking more about the offensive AoE pressure now that chaos storm is not as accessible, not so good if we are always on the defensive…wells perhaps? Alternatively Sword/shield (for AoE stun) + glamour builds could work with inspiration granting resistance and chaos armor granting protection + defensive boons.

Yeah, that’s what I mean though. The initial pressure isn’t going to change much. Since 20 chaos storms at once would be overkill no matter what, I was planning on having a rotation of 5/10 chaos storms per cycle, alternating with a similar number of shield walls for total lockdown of whatever group we’re hitting. This gives us a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 4 rotations before actually hitting a potential wall due to recharges, translating to ~15/30 seconds of full lockdown + damage.

I don’t really see it being an issue. The combined aoe pressure between shatters, chaos storms, wells, shield walls (which look like they’re doing a surprising amount of damage) is going to be enough to kill anything in 15 seconds, let alone 30. The main concern would be a group that suddenly burst out with a bunch of stability, and that would need some sort of panic response, potentially null fields from the folks carrying it combined with gravity well drops.

I can see a pirate ship zerg being a source of trouble as they won’t be as much in range of our interrupts (shield in particular). Else, stability is an obvious problem and I think null field has to be a core of the strategy.

Except for that, I wonder how useful could a full distorsion-share frontline work. With well synchronized signet distorsion (basically all the time 1/5 of the team providing distorsion while they other ones DPS) + blurred frenzy, that’s a high invuln up-time…

Silverkey.2078:

I can see a pirate ship zerg being a source of trouble as they won’t be as much in range of our interrupts (shield in particular).

We’ll be running with enough mass invis that we can chain 10-20s of stealth on the entire group. Combine that with blink and if we’re unable to close distance on a pirate ship zerg, it’s nobody’s fault but our own.

Silverkey.2078:

Else, stability is an obvious problem and I think null field has to be a core of the strategy.

It’s actually a far less significant problem than you might think. I did the math for this in the first post of the thread, you may want to take a look at that. Real quick though, the majority of stability skills provide 5 stacks. The vast majority of the time in the frontline of a zerg, they’ve got 5 stacks when stability is up. Just 5 shield walls will chew through that in one direction, and stun in the other. Combine that with chaos storms and potentially some mantra dazes for more aoe cc and you’ve just burnt right through the stability on a frontline before any boon strip at all.

Silverkey.2078:

Except for that, I wonder how useful could a full distorsion-share frontline work. With well synchronized signet distorsion (basically all the time 1/5 of the team providing distorsion while they other ones DPS) + blurred frenzy, that’s a high invuln up-time…

Now that’s a fun idea. I’ll have to run some numbers on it.

So this’ll be on Fort Aspen?

Dondagora.9645:

So this’ll be on Fort Aspen?

Correct. That being said…

The new borderlands are significantly larger than the current borderlands. If they don’t do anything to address the current configuration of servers, the majority of servers in the game will have an abysmal experience of wandering for 20 minutes without seeing another living person. Due to this, I have a feeling that they’ll probably make some sort of change to how servers work. Feel free to transfer to FA right now if you’d like, but my personal recommendation would be to wait and see what happens.

Fay.2357:

The new borderlands are significantly larger than the current borderlands. If they don’t do anything to address the current configuration of servers, the majority of servers in the game will have an abysmal experience of wandering for 20 minutes without seeing another living person. Due to this, I have a feeling that they’ll probably make some sort of change to how servers work. Feel free to transfer to FA right now if you’d like, but my personal recommendation would be to wait and see what happens.

Given the way they have changed how server status is calculated last week and that FA is full its impossible to transfer to FA atm anyway.

And what about EU?
I am in the worst situation possible: low-tier EU server (Vabbi) but currently living in US west coast

morrolan.9608:

Given the way they have changed how server status is calculated last week and that FA is full its impossible to transfer to FA atm anyway.

FA has been full for a very long time actually, that’s not a new development. You can transfer to it anyway though, it’s sorta lying to you. It’ll usually not let you in, but if you’re persistent for a day or two you’ll get in without too much trouble.

Silverkey.2078:

And what about EU?
I am in the worst situation possible: low-tier EU server (Vabbi) but currently living in US west coast

Well, I’ve been keeping a list of folks that want to do the raid on EU as well. Currently, there’s only 5 people who want to do it, which isn’t enough for me to really formally set something up.

Fay.2357:

morrolan.9608:

Given the way they have changed how server status is calculated last week and that FA is full its impossible to transfer to FA atm anyway.

FA has been full for a very long time actually, that’s not a new development. You can transfer to it anyway though, it’s sorta lying to you. It’ll usually not let you in, but if you’re persistent for a day or two you’ll get in without too much trouble.

No its changed now, in the last week, so its a full lockout, autoclicker won’t work.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/World-Population-Changes-Are-Coming/first

The one thing I don’t like about this whole idea is that if this is even mildly effective, we will see a massive nerf hammer…
The one thing I love about this whole idea is the purple mess and the devastating confusion on enemy players (and I’m not referring to a condi build )

Oh Lyssa, may thy chaos spread on our lands

Nerf hammer because of something happening in WvW is unlikely.
Also unless there is a significant increase in mesmer WvW population pug zergs are not going to pull this off and GvG is not a WvW supported format

A year and a half ago or so, my main guild ran a WvW team of eight Mesmers that looked identical.

I figure there’s very little chance of pulling that off with a larger team of people who are already invested in their Mesmers, but what can it hurt to mention it, right?

I looked for a screenshot, but it looks like I don’t have one. We had eight female Charr Mesmers, all with the same face, stripes, and colors (black tiger stripes on white); all wearing the same (looking) gear, all dyed Orchid.

32 identical purple-clad cats is confusing. Imagine what 80 of them would look like.

NICENIKESHOE.7128:

Sucks that I transferred to SoS with my guild now…that makes me a traitor to OMFG? Haha xD

I won’t do anything to interfere with you guys (even if I am I’m but a lone roamer with few guys haha), though YB has be dominating us after they got several big guilds. Love to see more zerg actions before people started to give up and T2 WvW ended in total collapse.

Though you guys may need to shift chaos armor strategy with the nerf, any alternative plans for mesmer zerg Pyro?

I’m on SoS, too. Been there a good long time. It used to win all the time, but nowadays it needs the help.

Gravity well nerf!!!
A bit less CC in our zerg
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Chronomancer-changes/first

I’m in JQ t.t I want to change… but JQ cries

FA is just too full~ QQ

Dondagora.9645:

FA is just too full~ QQ

Maybe that’s a reason to move the project to SoS ;-)

Yes, of course that’s a self-serving suggestion, and of course I won’t be miffed if the team elects to stay where it is or move to a server other than SoS.

On the plus side for SoS: its NA coverage is currently weak, which means it’s always in last place in Tier 2, which creates an opportunity to change its fortunes. Of course, that’s also another way of saying that a team that moves to SoS risks losing a lot of the time.

Regarding server transfers:

It’s certainly a pain that FA is full right now, but my official recommendation is still to wait and see what happens when HoT goes live. If there’s no restructuring, then we’ll have to see, but it’s not as if you’re missing out on a good deal by not transferring now. FA certainly won’t get more expensive to transfer to in the future.

Regarding this beta: I’ll be on and playing on FA. If anyone would like to join me in WvW for a bit of a Mesmer romp, feel free to pm me on the forums here or ingame to arrange a time.

Regarding gravity well: It’s a shame that the devs saw fit to take a cool and strong elite and reduce it to the level of something not even worth spending the time to unlock. It lowers our absolute maximum cc potential, but ultimately just means we’ll have more time warps (more slow on engage is always good) and more mass invis (more stealth for engaging is also always good).

Just a heads up, as of right now FA is open for transfers.

Come, join the fold.
At least I am around 20:00-23:00 PST most of the days so if you are on guild chat we could group up.

Hey,
although I’m a pretty old GW2 player (been on and off the game since the start), I haven’t really played seriously, and haven’t really been in any guilds. Is anyone allowed to join? IF not, what are the requierments?
Btw, I’m on the ’Gunner’s Hold’ server at the moment. Is this a problem? If so, is there a way to transfer between servers?
(I do have a level 80 Mesmer, albeit not with proper gear or anything, rare’s all around)

Thanks in advance!

Black Cat.1024:

Hey,
although I’m a pretty old GW2 player (been on and off the game since the start), I haven’t really played seriously, and haven’t really been in any guilds. Is anyone allowed to join? IF not, what are the requierments?
Btw, I’m on the ’Gunner’s Hold’ server at the moment. Is this a problem? If so, is there a way to transfer between servers?
(I do have a level 80 Mesmer, albeit not with proper gear or anything, rare’s all around)

Thanks in advance!

The OMFG recruitment main thread is just a bit lower down on the forums here. Anyone can join, the only requirement is wanting to participate.

The raid will be occurring on Fort Aspenwood, which is why Ross piped up with the helpful info that FA is now open for transfers. Transferring is easy but fairly expensive, I believe it costs 1800 gems to do so. My current recommendation on transferring re: the Mesmer raid is to wait and see what happens with HoT. I have a suspicion that server/WvW matchups will be reorganized on release somewhat, making transferring now potentially a waste. If you really want to participate though, feel free to transfer over now!

Not having proper gear is fine. I suspect a lot of the gear we may use is somewhat non-standard stuff, so we’ll work together to make sure everyone has appropriate gear for the raid.

YO! This still on in FA, right?

Yes indeedy. I’m actually gonna be sending out messages to everyone that expressed interest in it earlier, I just haven’t gotten around to it yet.

’k, transferring now, then~

Any more insight on builds or strategy now that we’ve gotten a good taste of what the Chronomancer offers?

Ah, on that same note, I’ll probably be running this: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAseWnsIClqh1fCOoBEgilZjqMAutcr+WD2hFdJKuiA-T1REABKoE8o9HlfB/EAwR9HHOFApoPAAzfkCYSxWA-w

Condi-Bunker Chrono made to vanguard against zergs, using the 4.5 second continuous block of ours to apply mass amounts of blind/confusion/burn[Ineptitude+Guardian Runes] along with providing a good amount of reflection Evasive Mirror. Will be humorous in larger numbers.

Well, condie won’t really ever be good in zergs. As an easy example why, imagine trying to condie load the mesmer zerg when every single person’s heal removes 3 conditions in a 5 target aoe. Not gonna happen.

In answer to your question, there’s really just 1 massive thing that changed, and that’s well of precognition. With enough people running that well on a quick rotation in each party, it provides an absolutely insane amount of damage mitigation when needed.

Oh man. This looks like a ton of fun. I’ll likely not be able to participate.

RIP Tealot. You were a good dog.

Tealots.6095:

Oh man. This looks like a ton of fun. I’ll likely not be able to participate.

RIP Tealot. You were a good dog.

D: Why not?

/15characters.

Recent move, bad internet, working on career, yada yada.

I’ll still read the forums every day at work, have no fear. Ross and I chat from time to time about what’s goin’ on.

Tealots.6095:

Recent move, bad internet, working on career, yada yada.

I’ll still read the forums every day at work, have no fear. Ross and I chat from time to time about what’s goin’ on.

Tea is my gossip be’ache.

Work on your career backward, game at work, soon you will have enough time to game whole day

Ross Biddle.2367:

Tealots.6095:

Recent move, bad internet, working on career, yada yada.

I’ll still read the forums every day at work, have no fear. Ross and I chat from time to time about what’s goin’ on.

Tea is my gossip be’ache.

On Wednesdays, we type in pink.

All seriousness though, happy HoT day everyone. Have a lot of fun, and I’m looking forward to seeing what the WvW Division is able to do.

So where do we meed tonight (after work)? It is a flip night so I am assuming normal borders are going to be queued up.

didn’t they move the reset on saturday?

Hey folks, just got back from a short trip. I’ll be sending out notifications later tonight about the raids.

Oh wow, looks like I’m going to FA for this! I’ve been dreaming of this forever. I’ve only ever managed to muster a 5 person mezz havoc team. (And oh was the shattering a joy)

Lady Fay, Please add me to the contact list as well!

Alrighty. I’ve sent out messages to everyone that I have recorded as being interested in the raids. Everyone, that is, other than Chaos and Ross Biddle, who are dopes as usual.

If you didn’t receive a message and want to participate, toss me a PM here on the forums.

As I get responses, I’ll post updates here about how many people have confirmed, and the list of potential raid times that I’ll be compiling. If you have concerns about things such as getting gear or unlocking chrono in time, just mention those and we’ll work with you to make it happen.

Inbox clear. Fan mail can now commence.

bump clones /15chars

Ok, so far we’ve got the following availabilities:

After 8 pm PDT
5:30-8:00 pm PDT
Friday 7am PDT to Sunday 3pm PDT
Saturday 0:00 PDT to Monday 0:00 PDT
After 3pm PDT
After 1pm PDT Thursday, all Friday/weekend

So, adding all this up basically gets us the weekends. Currently, I’ve only got confirmation from 11 people for the raid. I know that sticker is forum banned but would like to join, which pushes us to 12. There’s various other folks who haven’t responded yet though, so I think we should be able to hit the raid size of 20 shortly.

Just got the gold for transfer.

FA now Full

BG now Very Full

FA stacked for T1 move?

Either way, unlikely it’ll reopen anytime in the next year.

Ok, I read it might be a bug attached to EOTM populations.

Hi Faye,

I’m on FA and would be interested in joining in the fun!