Guild Wars 2

Zalladi.4652:

Dungeons and Fractals are the main areas you will find hostile (or really just impatient) players. Often, dungeon LFG’s will have other little abbreviations, such as ‘10k+ ap’ meaning you must have over 10,000 achievement points to join them, or ‘zerk/meta’ meaning you should have full berserker gear otherwise they will kick you. It is simply players trying to get through the content as fast as possible, and his makes sure they have experienced players.

Similarly, it is quite unfortunate that there are a great deal of players that will kick anyone with a low amount of achievement points, simply because they think that player won’t contribute as much as someone with more achievement points, i.e. someone with more experience or better gear e.t.c.

However, that isn’t to say that there are also players that are very willing to group with any players to do dungeons, myself included, so I recommend you look for the LFG’s that are solely ‘p1’ or ‘p2’ or ‘p3’ and don’t have any extra requirements, as those are often the players that will accept anyone, or are even happy to teach new players on their first dungeon run.

As for the heart events LFG’s, I am clueless there as to why people would kick you – I’ve yet to see that kind of behavior, but I would expect that to be exceedingly rare.

My friend has 25k Achievement Points and all he plays is PVT+Staff Guardian running world events. Ach Points Mean diddly

Gibson.4036:

Just did this fight for the first time. Was on Guardian, and thought I was just being dumb when I couldn’t damage him with great sword. Thought there must be some mechanic I was missing. Finished the fight with scepter.

This is just asinine. It’s been broken since March 15th!? I just bought it after a break; and A.net is REALLY dropping the ball on this bug. I dont even want to finish this because Scepter Damage is literally worthless.

I’m aware, I was literally ON Nochtli’s butt the entire fight and still didn’t get it. It’s mildly frustrating.

I stood on the rock BEFORE the event started and didn’t fall of the rock the entire fight and still didn’t get the achievement? What gives; is this bugged or is there something I dont know about?

I am trying to get my Necro set up with a really strong build for Exp Dungeons in PvE since I am pretty much done with my War Ranger and Mes.

Halp please?

I have 2 toys made and have 200 left. What’s the point?

Teabaker.9524:

Arcing Slice should give a short CC on the target. A daze would be great!

Together with a reworked rampage (swiftness, heal, hp increase and condition immunity) and warrior could be very fine.

I was about to say this. Logically, if you think about it, getting hit on the head or a shoulder by a 100+ pound sword with added force behind it you would be knocked down or render incapacitated for a little while.

A Short Stun and the 20% crit to make the GS more self sufficient would be a very good idea and might allow Warriors to stay in melee or be more useful beyond being a truck that never gets close to someone.

Schwahrheit.4203:

I agree with most of the OP’s suggestions. Most of the Warriors traits and mastery are GOD MISLEADING. This is where ANET failed, hard. Warrior right now isn’t noob friendly because the traits lack any form of guide. Reviver’s might, Versatile Power, Determined Revival, Fast Healer, Thick Skin, Armored Attack, Warrior’s Sprint, Desperate Power. All of those masteries are USELESS. Not to mention Discipline’s stats need a god forsaken rework.

The only good traits right now are Strength and Arms, causing it to be the only thing popular. But again, there is no guide or recommended Sigils or runes to even make these traits work with new players.

Warriors are the best initiators if built into a roaming tanky/support initiator. Just that when you spec for defense and tactics, the traits you took look ugly and disagree-able. Add to the fact that initiating with a Warrior takes time to actually learn because you actually need to know how burst and conditions connect via permanent vigor as your only form of defense.

Warrior as a DPS is a godly carry because if your team helps you reach your target via immobilize or help force out stun breaks for you, you can 100 to 0 someone via chain stun way easier than a Thief can. But again, there is no infrastructure telling you how to make this work.

A class should be able to work on it’s own it shouldn’t require other classes just support it just to be worth anything.

Please give us the option to hide them on the map. In PvE they’re beyond pointless and I don’t even care where the attention seeking farmers are in the least bit; but unfortunately because they’re ignorant I have to deal with map clutter.

I almost want Blackgate to tank to DR’s tier just to shut these guys up. You are T7 beating up on servers that were victims of mass exodus or servers that were notorious for bots ie FC and Kain or HoD/SF/ET.

Nothing special at all. Bottom tier in a week or two will be SF/ET/HoD
T7 – GoM/FC/Kain and DR will stabilize in T6.

Everyone else has gone through the ET/HoD beat up week; nobody really flaunted near as much as DR is right now.

Juxtaminute.3612:

Oh yeah we also have the best downed state in the game.

Last I checked we weren’t Elementalists.

Jonny.9370:

I took it as, “hey you don’t have fancy moves, but you’re pretty damn good at jamming your fist down someones throat and thats good enough to end most confrontations.”

IE, warriors are designed(or supposed to be) tough rampagers who plow through everything without concern for life or limb. Personally I wish warriors playstyle looked something like a scene from a Hulk movie/cartoon/comic.

Pure, unadulterated, destructive, and savage fury.

Except when melee is a requirement and our ability to stay on a target is kinda crappy and gap closers aren’t NEAR as strong as escapes. Warriors rely on these clunky unwieldy gap closers to do damage.

Guardians have a much easier time getting into melee and staying in melee especially if a Hammer build.

Thieves even have a better way to engage AND escape.

Vodka.3958:

covenn.7165:

Listen, all of this arguing about playing low level toons in WvW is disgraceful. Consider this fact. We could all reroll new characters and step out into WvW in greens with half of our abilities unlocked and STILL farm badges from Icoa and KNT all night.

So lets keep it civil please and make our moderators job easy. Thanks in advance friends.

This guy is obviously a full-time forum warrior that has never farmed a badge in his life. He’s probably not even from SoR and is a troll from Kaineng; where he belongs. I especially laughed at the part when he said “Listen” because everything he says is a joke It does look like SoR is taking second place for the 5th week in a row though… Keep it up Blackgate and we’ll be out of this tier in no time!

Unfortunately the glicko system kinda sucks and does no favor the winner; in order to go up a tier someone in T1 has to lose out or we have to completely blow out SoR and not barely win like we’ve decided to do a couple weeks.

I want BG in T1 as much as the next guy but the rating system is kinda bleh.

Blackgate until I quit… no care in the world.

However Doom; that got a laugh out of me.

Drago.1634:

If thf’s are being annoying, then they are doing their job. Time to stop looking at thief as a “Punching Bag” cause you cant kill one. Look at your own class and figure out whats great about it. Anet just basically handed you the way to kill a thief on a silver platter.
Conditions and Aoe’s. Also, Stun/Root bam bam bam dead…. Just cause some of us use “One trick pony” BS builds doesn’t mean we all should suffer the nerf “QQ’s” We are fragile and mobile. Figure out the counter. It’s easy. Oh a glass cannon thf killed you in a few hits.. well, if you are a glass cannon build yourself, what did you expect? I’m a thf, not a BS Thf, i have 18k hp, And very rarely does a bs thf get the best of me. Learn your dodge and time it. Other than that… i honestly don’t know what to tell ya.

Never lost to a thief; but kitten if the thief isn’t awful it’s impossible to kill them outside of a team fight. Gap Closers are beyond awful if not coupled with some form of ranged root. In order to get that ranged root you have to give up your Axe/Shield+GS synergy in order to counter thieves by getting a longbow and then they see the LB… dodge when a single arrow fires at you.

Bull Rush – clunkiest gap closer ever.
Savage Leap – loves to rubberband as well as well as create a falling delay
Eviscerate – Burst Skill; not designed to be gap closer
Throw Axe – Cripple is designed to keep you on a target not get you on a target
Pin Down – Requires you to use a weapon that really doesn’t lend itself to a play style and is easily countered by a dodge.
Tremor – Mace OH is good?
Aimed Shot – sPvP rifle is awful
Charge – People use Warhorns?
Shield Bash – Too Short to be useful
Rush – Suffers from rubber banding
Whirlwind attack – Only useful when trying to lead a target

Throw Bolas – Have to give up necessary utility slot to try to counter warriors weakness to conditions
“Fear Me” – 600 range fear… k

All in all; stealth is a joke in games likes this.

Indo.8629:

Raven Paradox.1860:

dwahvel.7356:

outmanned…..out coveraged……we at sor just keep doing what we always do.
kick kitten and take names, and watch bg pat themselves on their back for zerg pvdoor us for a weekly win.
also “farming badges off TW” I lol @ that. only way you guys can wipe 20-25 tw is when you outnumber them 3 to 1.

Actually…. I was with Blackgate’s likely best commander (Smokee) on Wednesday afternoon in which we were outnumbered 1-3 and held a t1 keep for nearly 2 hours with all walls/gates down and pushed you guys out of here. It was Choo, TWL, and TW with a few random guild pugs.

As a member of KnT, I have witnessed multiple battles in which was 1-2-2 and have won. IoJ having around 40, SoR having around 40, and KnT having around 20. We won, and held our keep as well.

I have not once witnessed, in NA primetime, this “Outnumbered”. In fact a lot of the times we were wondering how it seems SoR has tons of players while we have a queue and are outmanned (but then again I have been seeing posts asking if there are mesmers in the JP lately).

You guys can make as many excuses as you want. We’ll just keep winning on the battlefield.

If you want some proof of what I just said, well.. I’m waiting for the HB member that filmed it all. Likely a lot of editing and uploading because no one wants to watch a 2 hour long battle, and there was enough to show our miraculous play against those SoR.

I just still feel bad for the SoR players that let a big guild run their good name into the ground with all their garbage talk on here. It’s okay to be loyal, but do you want to be loyal to a server represented by those that talk but can’t walk?

I can’t believe you’re bragging about a keep defense. At that logic TW should be bragging about all the nights we take garrison in BG BL and farm you guys non stop, and that’s including all 3 of the chest thumping BG guilds.

Open field fights ftw. We are happy to meet you anywhere anytime. Please say yes.

NA guild bragging about farming a guild that is hardly on at NA primetime.
Get over losing; can’t even blame hacking.

Balidore.2790:

Alsonia.4753:

ITT – Bottom Tier Server kitten talking.

I can stop playing GW2 now.

Yeah, allot of us have tried the higher tiers buddy. We’re all well aware they’re nothing but massive amounts of scrubs in a big zerg ball, slamming in to another zerg ball, using the same tactics everyone in the game already knows about.

You’re right; that’s why DR is 3rd last at the moment; because your commanders are so good.

Thieves; never lose against one, but never beat one.

ITT – Bottom Tier Server kitten talking.

I can stop playing GW2 now.

Twinklefairy.6739:

Bunzy.8674:

Twinklefairy.6739:

Bunzy.8674:

It’s currently doing too much damage to people
It constantly hits me for 5-7k each hit and that is with around ~1700 armor.
I don’t think any abilities should be able to constantly hit this much, especially spammable ones.

If you run around with 1700 armor then you deserve to be hit for stupidly high amounts.

I don’t know what profession you are, but I happen to have light armor. Every single one of my gear stats has toughness on it. I can’t stack anymore armor then I have right now without going 30 into the toughness tree, which only increases it to around ~1900

Then you mean 1700 toughness, as if you have 1700 armor you can’t really have any toughness whatsoever.

This with Knight’s Gear You can have a max of 1168 Toughness from Gear (Total includes Earth Runes) 1700 armor is low.

Ender.3508:

I’m not missing the point. Any thief who can hit for that much damage will drop to any other glass cannon who gets their burst off, they will fail to kill any of a number of bunker specs if they over commit. They will leave themselves initiative starved and vulnerable requiring the use of long CD utilities for any hope of escape.

Having played lots of thief in sPvP I can tell you that they are next to useless against any class who knows how to counter them.

Just because I disagree with you does not mean that I missed the “point”. It’s nothing more than a “NERF THIS NAO” qq thread instead of actually being willing to learn how to counter them.

THieves are easy to repel; almost impossible to kill. Assassin in GW1 had it right; no stealth and shadow steps so that it took some skill to properly retreat.

ashleydoll.8563:

Bunzy.8674:

My thread is about heartseeker not about any other thief related problem you might have. please keep on topic.

I did stay on topic, I told you Heartseeker and Thief damage in general is fine, that is my view. Heartseeker barely does anything more than auto attack damage when someone has adequate HP, it is simply a waste of initiative then. It is effective to finish low HP enemies, that is the intention. If a Thief is spamming Heartseeker on you, it means they’re not using more effective abilities.

This a thousand times.

Not to mention 1700 armor is VERY low for PvP. My mesmer has 2000 if I’m not mistaken. My necro; even more. However my main is a Warrior.

My main problem with thieves like Ashley said isn’t their damage; I can go toe to toe with a thief, survive their burst and win almost every skirmish with them. The problem lies in my inability to kill them. I get close to killing them they just stealth away and reset the fight; only to come in and lose again, but only to reset the fight yet again.

The ONLY chance I have to kill a Thief is to run a Longbow and HOPE I land Pin Down; and that requires deviation from my GS/Axe+Shield PvP build.

Indo.8629:

I’m glad you can read my signature, very good.

I’d love to see the footage beating us multiple times. Please do share.

The only thing we know of KnT is saying they were going to “headhunt” us then running away every encounter.

Quite frankly KnT talks a big game, but that’s about it.

It’s not KnT it’s just Raven. Apparently KnT can’t keep it’s mouthy members on a leash, in most cases this is Raven. Let us not forget this is the same Raven that got recruited almost immediately after completely insulting all of EBG in map chat.

I find it better to just ignore Raven in the long run since he is part of what gives BG bad publicity with the crying and the ignorance.

Edit : look at him continue posting.
@Raven Smokee worked his kitten off to cover that. If Smokee didn’t work his kitten off that comeback never would have happened.

KolyFrog.5970:

8/10 No gimmicks, no puns and not flashy. In a role playing perspective this, name is perfect for a street rat or common folk human not a name for nobility in my opinion.

My human’s name is “Chiksilog” if you don’t know what it means you can search it on google. :P

Well you nailed the Commoner thing right on the head. Haha

^ 7/10 because the last name is confusing to pronounce.

MY problem is that since the removal of Orbs; the purpose of BLs have been nullified and now nobody plays in a Borderland other than their home for defense; and everyone just clogs into EBG.

Without a reason to play BLs why should we even try to waste our time in them?

Esoteric.5490:

Alsonia.4753:

Fray Formana; best commander on BG!

Loses UPGRADED BG Garrison to get Hills. Loses hills minutes later. Didn’t even get Hills at a points tick.

Last I checked, we are still winning. He is out there working his kitten off every day. You only continue to lose respect from the community by trying to drive wedges between players. You’ve spoken about the greatness and exceptionalism of Blackgate, yet you are the first one to take the most negative stance on any situation. Not every battle ends in glory, but he keeps coming back. That earns him respect in my book.

You try way too hard to sound heroic and professional. It’s a kitten game; making stupid decisions should earn you some backlash. I’m sorry I’m the only one on this server with the balls to speak out against people making stupid decision.

Fray Formana; best commander on BG!

Loses UPGRADED BG Garrison to get Hills. Loses hills minutes later. Didn’t even get Hills at a points tick.

Sunreva.8714:

The izerk bug was annoying but the class was still playable.

Mesmer is now completely broken, ALL phantasms take 1-2 seconds before initiating their attack. This issue needs to be urgently fixed, because it game breaking issue for the class.

Can we get a confirmation or even an acknowledgement that it exists?

Seems like a summoned pet issue; My Hounds of Balthazar take a while to attack as well. They just stood there looking really dumb for a few seconds.

Yeah I would like to say I got nearly 3 hit on an 80 Warrior with 24k health and 2.5k armor at 80; by one of these bandits.

It seems like Bandits in general got bugged to hell and back; that or they met with their steroid dealer.

Bandits obviously got sick of our kitten.

Those perma blind bandits also sit in perma stealth; don’t forget that!

Naturally you can just build stability to counter it; but still you shouldn’t HAVE to build stability to counter a bug; one that shouldn’t exist.

Now spam a knockdown; once you get hit once. You’re dead there is no getting up.

Is there even a way to get this Skill Point without taking Melandru? Apparently my server doesn’t deem Temple of Melandru worth their time to take.

SleepsAtDay.1582:

Dear BG and IoJ,

You’re colluding. We know. It’s hardly subtle. Not faulting you for it, I can understand the strategic value.

But do you have to do it in the jumping puzzle?

How are we working together? We had IoJ spawn locked for a long kitten time today.

@IoJ

Thanks for the heart-pounding race to get the PoI/Vista from Veloka Slope. I wasn’t sure I would make it in time!

I chose http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/thumb/d/d9/Human_female_physique.png/350px-Human_female_physique.png

Third top body type.

Has enough mass to look like a Warrior; my only complaint is the bust size; HOWEVER if you run with armors like Cultural T3 or any covering armor it doesn’t matter.

CharrGirl.7896:

We don’t know what is going on in Elona or Cantha. I’M pretty sure that Elona is a mess (thanks to our brave heroes in GW1 who didn’t stop Palawa Joko on time!), but we don’t know anything about Cantha. For all that we know, they might be thriving in a mighty empire there

Luxons and Kurzicks were stomped out and Imperial law became the standard. Kaineng still exists as a major population more than likely.

pot.6805:

Peetee.9406:

Congrats IoJ on taking all 3 borderlands and 75% of EB, where were those numbers on the weekend when we actually had people to play against you?

BG had no Oceanic presence last night so they weren’t fighting any organized BG presence either. Hence why they were able to take all that stuff.

I woke up at 7am to BG at +400 I don’t know what you’re talking about.

I’m saving for Cultural T3 Heavy for my Female Human.

Once I get that I’ll probably make it a Bunker Build Set for flavor.

7/10 Simple and Clean

- Leah Taril

Taril is a common randomly chosen last name for my entire account. Leah sounds plain enough to be human.

Kumu Honua.2751:

The drop rate has not been steadily nerfed since launch.

What has happened recently is demand is up.

Increase in availability of precursors from the karka event means that those people now need ecto for their legendaries and spent the money they were saving for the precursor on the ecto. Additionally with the mystic forge back slot ascended items people are burning through ecto there as well.

Your perception is the issue.

In all actuality. Selling your ecto for profit while the price is high, and waiting for it to drop when the demand stabilizes would be the best bet if you were a market betting man.

I am selling all my materials on the TP making as much money as I can; because in the end farming the materials is easy. If the price does stabilize and drop; I effectively will end with more materials that I put into the system.

Obsidian.1328:

Seconded…and thirded

I would also like to apologize for using your Server as the crap end of my example; nothing but respect to you guys on SoR.

I can get behind this as a Dual Sword Warrior. While it is frustrating as all hell; being able to do both is very beneficial.

I use Dual Sword/Rifle since I run a hybrid Power/Cond build. If a mob diceds it wants to screw me I can switch out to my Rifle and kite and when Melee is safe again I can go in and run Dual Sword.

They game gives you 2 weapon sets; utilize them.

Around the forums you will notice a lot of the time people are complaining about map completion and staleness of matchups when it comes to W3. I can see where they are coming from with the staleness as this is the third week in a row Blackgate has spawned Green; Sanctum of Rall spawned Blue and Isle of Janthir spawned Red.

Going the way things are going it seems as if it will stay this way next week even. A lot of matchups are facing this same dilemma and I won’t even get started on what Fergusen’s Crossing/Devona’s Rest/Kaineng are experiencing being on week; 7 is it?, of the same matchup.

While the matchups are generally pretty well balanced and the matchups are growing stale. I enjoy a good fight and all but fighting the same teams in the EXACT SAME MANNER is incredibly boring after 2 or 3 weeks; not to mention if the matchups are balanced it is INCREDIBLY difficult to get 100% map completion… which is what I’m stuck on; 99%, because of Veloka’s Slope being almost impossible to capture on Green Side.

If A.net did a simple switch and rotated servers playing each other for multiple weeks in a row; it could not only alleviate map completion issues (See Veloka’s statement) but it would introduce some freshness into the matchup since playing on different sides in EBG does in fact make a difference in play style.

ex.

Week 1 : Green – Blackgate Blue – Sanctum of Rall Red – Isle of Janthir
Week 2 : Green – Isle of Janthir Blue – Blackgate Red – Sanctum of Rall
Week 3 : Green – Sanctum of Rall Blue – Isle of Janthir Red – Blackgate

If a server’s rank alternates or switches it puts the servers back where they should start in the current system to create a new rotation since playing a new server should be seen as fresh naturally.

ex.

Week 1 : Green – Blackgate Blue – Sanctum of Rall Red – Isle of Janthir
Week 2 : Green – Isle of Janthir Blue – Blackgate Red – Sanctum of Rall
Week 3 : Green – Jade Quarry Blue – Isle of Janthir REd – Sanctum of Rall
Week 4 : Green – Blackgate Blue – Isle of Janthir Red – Tarnished Coast

In this example; in Week 3-4 instead of the servers rotating colors for freshness the following happened to reset the matchup.

Isle of Janthir and Sanctum of Rall switched 5th and 6th place
Jade Quarry and Blackgate switched 3rd and 4th place.
In week 4; Blackgate didn’t perform to stay in 3rd promptly switching places back with Jade Quarry
As well Sanctum of Rall had an off week and fell to 7th place pushing Tarnished Coast into 6th; this in turn causes no rotation and Isle of Janthir stays in the same position.

I just don’t agree with non circulating colors on the map. Blackgate is stuck as Green spawn in T2 and will continue to be Green Spawn in WvW and outside of our night crew? Capping Veloka’s Slope is kitten near impossible.

Considering Velokas is honestly the most easily defended position on the map and arguably the hardest point for green to cap on the map. It just so happens Veloka’s PoI and Vista are the only two things I need for 100% map completion on my Warrior… which I might add; I play WvW almost exclusively.

Unfortunately being the GM of a small WvW based guild and Blackgate being full all the time; it’s pretty much not even a thing to suggest me transferring on and off just for world completion and honestly you shouldn’t HAVE to. People complain about the staleness of matchups and getting world completion in WvW. If they just swapped the colors around instead of the matchups spawning the teams at the same location week after week; they could not only stop the monotony of WvW but appease the PvE players going for map completion.

I play WvW all the kitten time; and getting Veloka’s isn’t something that magically happens since it’s the easiest kitten point for Red team to defend and arguably the hardest point on the map for Green to take.

The ONE time BG seems to get Veloka’s is when I either have to go to class; only to come to it being taken back OR when I’m asleep because I have other things to do. Easiest solution to the map completion issue is just switching the teams colors, in the end it still takes 3 weeks to get it… but taking 3 weeks or more working your kitten off for it? Hah yeah, good job a.net.

You’re right; it’s pretty easy when your server can’t get Veloka’s all but once a week and that’s during Night Time when you have to sleep.

I shouldn’t HAVE to wait weeks upon weeks to get a single PoI/Vista just because A.net didn’t see the flaw in keeping the matchup colors the same for servers every kitten week.

This is 6 out of what 21? Come on a.net….

4 servers experiencing the problem then. Magical.

Blackgate’s are brood are dead and Pistrix is hiding in a rock.