Guild Wars 2

The thing about the 3 way EB lag is that it lags like hell, the game is unplayable, yet ping remains in 25-60 range for me. I’m no expert but it seems like a problem on their side, not mine.

I’m pretty sure that a few years ago they even admitted that it’s an issues with their servers and they cannot do anything about it.

Hexalot.8194:

Absurd.2947:

Anyone that gets hit by basilisk and has no stun breaks, deserves to die. I have no idea how you’re pulling 10k backstabs off too, some funky signet build? Might stacking? Full bloodlust stacks?

Ascended weapons/trinkets/etc (5% dmg); Bounding dodger trait (10% dmg); Sigil of night (10% dmg depending on period of play) on main hand weap; sigil of force (5% dmg) and/or blood lust stacks on the other.

That aught to do it. Oh and all those damage modifiers are additive by the way.

Yeah I suppose you could build a thief for that one skill alone, scholar runes, those sigils that you mentioned, food etc. etc. But you could build any class to be a one trick pony for that matter. Like that ranger that someone mentioned in another thread mauling people for 24k from stealth and running away when he missed because he can’t do anything else.

Baldrick.8967:

Absurd.2947:

Anyone that gets hit by basilisk and has no stun breaks, deserves to die. I have no idea how you’re pulling 10k backstabs off too, some funky signet build? Might stacking? Full bloodlust stacks?

I can be hit for basilisk and by the time my finger has moved to the button to break stun the thief has unloaded 8 skills on me and disappeared back in to stealth… and 10k backstabs aren’t hard to achieve, even against 3k armor targets.

Might stacking and full bloodlust stacks are easy to get (5 kills and you have your bloodlust…this isn’t pve).

That would be a mechanical issues on your side, perhaps you should remap your stunbreak to a key that you can reach faster when in need, any class can burst you down if you just stand there doing nothing. Sounds like you die to eviscerate warriors a lot.

Anyone that gets hit by basilisk and has no stun breaks, deserves to die. I have no idea how you’re pulling 10k backstabs off too, some funky signet build? Might stacking? Full bloodlust stacks?

Turk.5460:

Straegen.2938:

Standing in BP does nothing other than add another condition to clear. Any decent thief worth his salt turns off auto target and ground targets which avoids triggering the HS shot while stealthed.

The range and frontal radius of HS is much bigger than you think it is. It doesn’t require a target to hit…and unless you start HS behind the target (not on top of them, as that will still hit them), you have a much higher chance of being revealed than not. The hit/damage isn’t at the end landing point only, if a target is anywhere between the start of HS and the end of HS, it will be hit.

Why would the thief even HS in your general direction though? Unless you like blink into that smoke field and get lucky.

Odokuro.5049:

Absurd.2947:

Odokuro.5049:

If only there was something you could buy in WvW that would allow you to reveal a Thief when it’s triggered and safeguard yourself from getting hit by his/her traps, ect…

Or certain skills/abilities that would grant you a way of clearing harmful conditions or not being able to be tripped/knock downed…

Or a way to break a Thieves stealth by standing in something he/she uses to gain stealth, hmmm….

But none of that exists, so yeah, broken class, OP, needs nerf, pls fix nao…

ikr? Popping a stealth trap everytime I stop running outside ouf a tower/keep, while switching specs to have reveal, extra condi removal, extra stunbreaks and whatnot, just to have means of defending myself against ONE build is absolutely fine. Absolutely, these people need to up their game, an obvious l2p case.

It’s almost if Ghost Thieves are the only ones to make use of:

1. Conditions
2. CC
3. Stealth

To this degree? Yes, they are

Odokuro.5049:

If only there was something you could buy in WvW that would allow you to reveal a Thief when it’s triggered and safeguard yourself from getting hit by his/her traps, ect…

Or certain skills/abilities that would grant you a way of clearing harmful conditions or not being able to be tripped/knock downed…

Or a way to break a Thieves stealth by standing in something he/she uses to gain stealth, hmmm….

But none of that exists, so yeah, broken class, OP, needs nerf, pls fix nao…

ikr? Popping a stealth trap everytime I stop running outside ouf a tower/keep, while switching specs to have reveal, extra condi removal, extra stunbreaks and whatnot, just to have means of defending myself against ONE build is absolutely fine. Absolutely, these people need to up their game, an obvious l2p case.

Hiya Aury. I don’t know if the seasons are what WvW needs right now, but it definitely needs SOMETHING. But seeing how they do nothing, balance the game around raids, which seem to be their main focus, and how they think no one plays WvW, I wouldn’t be surprised if they actually shut it down, it’s LA v2.0, a glorified chat room nowadays.

Just had a ~3500ms ping for about 15 minutes, it is pretty funny though, what’s not funny is getting no response from anet. So…you guys playing anything good?

They haven’t even acknowledged it yet, fixing might take a while

I reset my router, changed to port to 80 and it worked fine for a few minutes, but now I’m back in LagCity, shouldn’t even call it lag, it’s just completely broken. Haven’t had 4sec pings since dial up. It’s like playing chess with your great great grandfather, it’s not even anticipating your opponents actions, it’s anticipating what he’s having for lunch two days from now.

Resetting my router and setting the -clientport 80 thingy seemed to fix it for now, I’ll keep you guys posted.

Update: Nope, lag is back.

Doesn’t it go through 3 different addresses between belgacom and ncsoft? Looks like it goes balls up at 89.149.164.42, whatever that is.

Same here, even the forums are lagging, everything not involved with ncsoft is fine.

So…what I understood from all these threads (with no dev response whatsoever) is that we’re, basically locked out of the game, and cannot do anything about it, because it’s the fault of someone that our ISP’s are hiring. ISP most likely won’t give a kitten about us not being able to play a video game, not to mention even if they did, the third party probably doesn’t care either.

Power damage doesn’t tick for a few thousand when you’re evading or blocking. I don’t mean to act like a smart kitten , it’s just how I feel about the whole thing.

The way I, personally feel about the whole thing is that condition damage itself is manageable, the problem appears when you end up in a match against 3 reapers and 2 condi warriors on the other team. That scenario isn’t that uncommon nowadays, just because playing those builds is so easy.

Enough of this complaining and legitimate feedback, please enjoy the new mini arrowhead and reappearing stag helm skin.

Shoku.4697:

Banners are a privilege, you work hard to obtain them and their existence is legit! Claiming a keep, tower or SM finally means something, having a banner means that you are working hard for your guild which reflects on the ground and gives you an advantage.

When our group of 20 players is pushed by a mindless blob of 60, i’d love to have a banner or two on my side, that’s the balance i need to take out such a blob. almost on every encounter with enemy servers the opposing group had a banner carrier on their side.

Banner skills can be avoided and dodged just like any other skill, stay on alert and have some environment awareness and you should be fine, adapt instead of moaning.

The problem is that this 60 man blob will have 3 banners.

We already know what lured PvE players into WvW- it was the tournament with its achievement points and rewards.

RedBaron.6058:

I strongly recommend everyone to transfer to a tier 1 or tier 2 server and fully enjoy WvW, even in the badly designed BL desert maps.

Any other servers are just a waste of time.

You make it sound like higher tiers are some kind of a promised land, while it’s true to a degree, the same problems apply and are more apparent because of the sheer numbers.

Super lag that has been there for years, when was the last time someone said anything about it? Last year? A guy said they’re looking into it and we should see improvements soon. Suck it players, lag remains. The WvW devs, if there even are any, seem to be a 2 man team of interns that works on WvW between designing new mini’s for the gemshop.

Banners? LOL, they must’ve implemented that genius idea after a night of heavy drinking, someone probably lost in rock-paper-scissors and it sorta kinda just went through.

There’s just so much kitten that’s wrong with WvW and so many threads about it. I personally don’t believe it will ever recover and they can shove their sneak previews up their kitten s for all I care.

A focus group? Against a guy in the middle of the blob and a defiance bar? Anyone with half a brain will equip blinks, stealth and whatnot to prevent you focusing him with your imba 2 man focus group.

No player should have a kittening defiance bar.

Those banners are like the PvE event on the new BLs, it just ensures that the dominant servers with bigger guilds that can afford that bullkitten banner, dominate even more. Turtle banner is still so-so, though imho no player should have access to a defiance bar, it’s just ridiculous and reminds me of the golem week and how clueless Anet really is. Oh and the dragon banner is just lol.

Same here, the news feed is stuck in a loading loop and I’m getting the wierdest and most annoying bug ever, not even sure if it’s connected to latency and whatnot.

My chat stops working, I can play just fine, no lag whatsoever but I can’t chat and my friends’ list shows locations as unknown. It all resets eventually with an error that the client cannot connect to the whatever and GMOTD pops in the chat box, if I got friend list notifications turned on in chat I get a spam with the whole list of the ones that are currently online. This problem comes and goes and I can’t see how this is a fault on my side.

Nah, the real problem is that people just avoid anything harder than the Frozen Maw. To be fair, there’s less and less people doing anything in Maguuma every day, a couple in VB because it’s easy, maybe a DS meta once in a while, but it looks like it’s all slowly but surely dying.

Sorry, I wasn’t even referring to it.

Oh don’t get me wrong, I totally get people that enjoy playing certain builds that have no downsides, I also enjoy playing in god mode in single player RPG’s. I just like having a challenge and that “fair game” thing in my MMO’s.

Hacking allows you to “play-to-win” without any disadvantages, perhaps we should all do that?

DeceiverX.8361:

Molch.2078:

The P/D-Build people are talking about: http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Thief_-_P/D_Condi_roamer

Easy and fun to play. You’ll find some other good builds there, too.

And yes, they hate us cause they ain’t us.

No… I’m pretty sure everyone just hates dire P/D because it’s just disgustingly OP with no required skill to play successfully making most people’s efforts playing anything else well feel wasted and dejected.

My server is currently in a horrible place where we’re constantly facing BB and they got like whole guild groups running that kitten, it’s literally only PU mesmers and dire thieves. Someone gave me the oldest advice in the world: “if you can’t beat them- join them” and so I went dire condi thief. It lasted half an hour, I can’t bring myself to play that, it just feels so wrong and lame.

Went back to zerker d/d, I die almost all the time but at least I can look at myself in the mirror with no shame.

Ranger isn’t that overpowered tbh, the real problem is the sheer number of baddies jumping on the bandwagon of 2 skill gameplay.

How about not running repeatedly into the wall of fear?

Alright, I bought the toxic shoulders and gloves skins for my charr elementalist and, SHOCK, they look like crap on him (stuff somehow always looks decent on preview), so I decided to get them back for my sylvari warrior. Now the skin is 400 gems each, so I figured I’d grab a transmutation splitter for 300 gems and give it a shot. What I got back:

- green toxic light shoulders with +2 vitality bonus on them, so not a skin that I could apply to heavy armor
- knights light shoulders
- sigil of the traveler

Is this intended? Shouldn’t I get a skin that I can reapply?