Guild Wars 2

Zelulose.8695:

Sorry for not clarifying. This is strictly spvp.
Also, Neko you misunderstand, I am including both meta such as cele eles or shatter mesmer and non meta builds such as aoe phantasm/clone death builds or zerker eles. It would be offensive or unfair to players who play do only meta builds to not include them. Basically, whichever build seems better is being mentioned for the various boons and stealth sorry for the misunderstanding.

I would enjoy hearing why so many players disagree so that other players and I can identify what the real issue is as we are all still learning.

Props to you Zelulose for taking the criticism calmly.

Norns would also be easily able to throw a spear that is 3 or 4 times as big as a human person. 1 Shotted by giant Norn Spear.

Awkward beer analogy is awkward.

TIL :

Gw2 Isn’t Real Life.

/cry

No armor above me! But these are all very very cool. Anyway, check out mine!

Hate to be the Bearer of bad news. BUT, we DID come across a BUNKER GUARD anet Employee with their tag up in TEAM QUE.

and Yes, every single person on the team focused him Every.Single.Time he spawned. Instant locked and burst down
we still won the match.

Our team took moa in case we saw his team again.
We did, and they cycle repeated, except with him being moa’d constantly.

I felt quite bad for him by the end – I would have rage quit after the first few matches but he kept at it.

A anet employee having their lonely tag up in Team Que isn’t going to ‘teach them the meta’.

That’s silly.

Pyroatheist.9031:

Look up Arenanet/Ncsoft on websites that review companies for their work environments and benefits and such, and you’ll find your answer.

wow, some of those reviews from employees ….. ;(

This ^ . Why are you leaving us Powerr, and where are you going?

These bosses have been pretty sweet. Its better than just standing and auto-attacking while you eat dinner, that’s for sure. As for Ranger pets dying, Memser phantasms insta-die, Necro’s cant run MM builds, etc, but it doesn’t bother me too much. I think Ranger pet has more survivability then other classes pets too

People are so impatient. If you don’t want to spend your time in following the story, you don’t have to -

But If you do, there is Lore there, there is story lines, and the more you learn, the more you want to know, and the more interesting it becomes.

But yes, you do have to put effort in, its not all handed on a plate.

When I first started playing, I didn’t care about the lore or story, but now, since I’ve learned more about it, the entire game is a lot more interesting because of it. Its part of exploring!

And what I thought was dis-jointed story lines actually all makes sense now.

Also, its so cool! We’re part of the awakening a DRAGON!
Did we do the right thing by killing scarlet? Perhaps.

Should we have listened to what she had to say? Probably.

But often in real life ‘The villain’ ‘Murder’ ‘Fraud’ etc is not listened to, and people don’t take his explanations seriously either. Everyone is already convinced of their guilt.

Besides Scarlet is insane. What possible truths could come from the mouth of a crazy person?

Was she really crazy? o.0

And the story is coming. I for one, do like epic Stories. Some of my favorite novels are the Dark Tower series by Stephen King.

As long as there is a backstory, and details, and character building and world building, I don’t WANT the ending at the beginning. That is why the ending is where it is.

skcamow.3527:

Atiar.5469:

Xavi.6591:

I randomly fear 1 second at a time on my condie Mesmer.

This is true, I proc fear as well. Is this from Mirror of anguish? But it even proc’s when no fear was cast on me

Runes of the Nightmare most likely.

No.

The only time I remember this happening was when using perplex.
As far as I know its never happened on my power build with traveler runes, or any other builds. I have never used Nightmare.

I will attempt to grab a screenshot

PU condition has incredible survivability. Ill chuck a quick vid of mine up – 1v3.
You can see that although I use my heal (only) once, I could have easily killed all 3 enemies without using my heal a single time.

Xavi.6591:

I randomly fear 1 second at a time on my condie Mesmer.

This is true, I proc fear as well. Is this from Mirror of anguish? But it even proc’s when no fear was cast on me

This build is great… however it feels lacking in defense against 1v1 with good thieves. Especially when you come across them on a plain where you cant blink to different levels in terrain. What are your strategies for dealing with thieves with the GS?

While fighting around treb in kyhlo, I was teleported to under the map where I was stuck untill the game Dc’d me. Screen attached

Foefire is bugged after Halloween update sadly. The amount of lag in this one particular map is astonishing. You may try to cap a point, but nothing happens, and you don’t realize you are dead until 30 seconds later by enemies you never saw.

This means the fights are often uneven as players drop out due to DC’s or just leave because of lag.

My last match was a 3v5.
Puts me off soloq so much

Everyone in the map complained of the reoccurring lag in foefire since update

Mesmer Has EXCELLENT survivability, but it isn’t in the form of standing there tanking damage as such. Its about utilizing the mesmer’s mobility, interrupts, , invis, blink, Blurred frenzy, you can kite and almost never get hit with a mesmer

If Any TC or DB guilds are interested, DTP (sos guild) is looking to have our first gvg. We’re a small guild so we can field 15 max, though 10 might be better. Message ‘Sven Adair’ or ‘Phoenix Wrath’ . we’re normally on oceanic time

wads.5730:

Atiar.5469:

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Actinotus.6410:

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Le Rooster.8715:

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Atiar.5469:

Niim.9260:

So out of random curiosity, why does anyone play on SoS? Seems like such a lopsided server. Big off hour population, small NA population. I could see playing NA there because you would always be in a target rich environment, but I haven’t encountered many on SoS that really seem like the type to appreciate that situation.

The server doesn’t have the population to be competitive at higher tiers, and they have this huge off hour population that never fights anyone because no one in these tiers has much of an off hour population.

Seems incredibly boring for the off hour folks.

So USA is real time and the rest of the world is grouped into “off hour” ?

….

this is a NA server. so yes.

Are there any Australian servers?

no, that’s why any time zone other than NA time zones on NA servers are considered “off hour”.

Considered by whom? Not by Australians, New Zealanders, Fijians, Japanese, Singaporeans…

that makes no sense. if i played on a euro server, i would not consider my own time zone prime time. i would realize that the times when i’d be playing would be off hours of the server time.

how hard is that to understand?

I have the clock in GW2 set to local time so don’t even know what server time is as it is entirely irrelevant to me and how I play the game.

I just checked it though and it is set to US west coast time? NA has about five time zones I believe? It is 3:19 PM in Anchorage, and 7:19 PM in New York. Sydney it s 9:19AM in the morning (nice day outside too). So really those playing east coast NA are as much non-prime-time people as they are “off-hour”?

the term prime time (ie. prime time television) usually refers to the time period between late afternoon to late evening. so 3pm to midnight or so. how is 7:19 pm not considered prime time?

According to your definition of prime time based of TV, prime time is actually 2 hrs only, between 8pm an 10pm
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dayparts.png

As for when afternoon and evening is, this may help
http://www.learnersdictionary.com/blog.php?action=ViewBlogArticle&ba_id=339

I have never heard of 12 midnight referred to as afternoon.

Therefore many timezones in NA are not prime time.

midnight is late evening. read next time.

My bad. Even so, midnight is night , not late evening.

UnrepentantProcrastinator.7420:

You guys realize that prime time refers to the highest player concurrency, right? Among all… three… servers… And if you’re wondering, yes, this is NA evenings for every server in NA. Shocker!

You’re saying SoS has the highest wvw player concurrency in NA timezone? You must be right!

wads.5730:

Actinotus.6410:

wads.5730:

Actinotus.6410:

wads.5730:

Le Rooster.8715:

wads.5730:

Atiar.5469:

Niim.9260:

So out of random curiosity, why does anyone play on SoS? Seems like such a lopsided server. Big off hour population, small NA population. I could see playing NA there because you would always be in a target rich environment, but I haven’t encountered many on SoS that really seem like the type to appreciate that situation.

The server doesn’t have the population to be competitive at higher tiers, and they have this huge off hour population that never fights anyone because no one in these tiers has much of an off hour population.

Seems incredibly boring for the off hour folks.

So USA is real time and the rest of the world is grouped into “off hour” ?

….

this is a NA server. so yes.

Are there any Australian servers?

no, that’s why any time zone other than NA time zones on NA servers are considered “off hour”.

Considered by whom? Not by Australians, New Zealanders, Fijians, Japanese, Singaporeans…

that makes no sense. if i played on a euro server, i would not consider my own time zone prime time. i would realize that the times when i’d be playing would be off hours of the server time.

how hard is that to understand?

I have the clock in GW2 set to local time so don’t even know what server time is as it is entirely irrelevant to me and how I play the game.

I just checked it though and it is set to US west coast time? NA has about five time zones I believe? It is 3:19 PM in Anchorage, and 7:19 PM in New York. Sydney it s 9:19AM in the morning (nice day outside too). So really those playing east coast NA are as much non-prime-time people as they are “off-hour”?

the term prime time (ie. prime time television) usually refers to the time period between late afternoon to late evening. so 3pm to midnight or so. how is 7:19 pm not considered prime time?

According to your definition of prime time based of TV, prime time is actually 2 hrs only, between 8pm an 10pm
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dayparts.png

As for when afternoon and evening is, this may help
http://www.learnersdictionary.com/blog.php?action=ViewBlogArticle&ba_id=339

I have never heard of 12 midnight referred to as afternoon.

Therefore many timezones in NA are not prime time.

Niim.9260:

So out of random curiosity, why does anyone play on SoS? Seems like such a lopsided server. Big off hour population, small NA population. I could see playing NA there because you would always be in a target rich environment, but I haven’t encountered many on SoS that really seem like the type to appreciate that situation.

The server doesn’t have the population to be competitive at higher tiers, and they have this huge off hour population that never fights anyone because no one in these tiers has much of an off hour population.

Seems incredibly boring for the off hour folks.

Reads suspiciously like " ‘merica time, kitten yeah! Other time zones are only allowed to have small numbers. All zergs must be n. Americans ! why you don’t play in NA time? Other times are boring."

Niim.9260:

So out of random curiosity, why does anyone play on SoS? Seems like such a lopsided server. Big off hour population, small NA population. I could see playing NA there because you would always be in a target rich environment, but I haven’t encountered many on SoS that really seem like the type to appreciate that situation.

The server doesn’t have the population to be competitive at higher tiers, and they have this huge off hour population that never fights anyone because no one in these tiers has much of an off hour population.

Seems incredibly boring for the off hour folks.

So USA is real time and the rest of the world is grouped into “off hour” ?

….

Surely if the bloodlust buffs are so strong you just need to get them once as a lower population server, then you are invincible because your entire server can 1v2 or 1v3 everyone.

I agree with arkanfel. This reaction to the orb buff is over the top. You can kill someone with 3 stacks just as easily as you always could, if you die, you were probably going to die anyway. The stacks just make you feel good.

To make another point, do you realise how many uplevels ate running around with no pathetic gear and no runes? why dont you demand that wvw should be like spvp in regards to gear.

If the main issue is really that it makes servers with high numbers stronger, I don’t think this necessarily has to be the case, especially of the server likes to zerg. You can grab the orb buffs with a few small well coordinated group, defend it from roamers until zerg decides to hit you, then your smaller zerg can hit a tower on the other side of the map

kitten , menace ! You seem like such a nice person. I bet you’re very cheerful in real life.
Eager to see your theory crafting progress!

And don’t be afraid to explore uncharted territory!

Thanks! I’ll try it out

I like this thread, because you can clearly see that the ‘tier rank’ of professions are constantly evolving and changing. I.e, you will soon see warrior rise quickly to near the top.

You will always have flavour of the month classes, and I gurantee that even if there was a game where the classes were scientifically proven to be 100% balanced, everyone would still talk about OP and UP classes.

We should of course try to get the classes balanced as much as possible, and have a meta where everyone is treated fairly, but no one is ever going to say all the classes are balanced equally

You should make everybody quaggans when they enter heart of the mists!

Imagine your the game starts 5v5. Your team is winning . about 3/4 of the way through a member of the loosing opposing team quits. Suddenly you get zero points.

That doesn’t sound pleasing.

Thanks for the answer. Is there a solid tpvp build however that you can link? Just so I can get my bearings.

Just stay safe in the knowledge you are uber 1337 pro.

Na, yeah no-one plays hot join seriously. Try soloq. 5v5 no autobalance

@waka. I think your up the creek without a paddle.

(Only kiwi’s will get this one…)

I run a condition mesmer myself, and I love it. However with these builds you need mobility and stealth, which aren’t good for taking or defending points.

Hey mesmerites!

I’m looking at getting into Soloq, and i have a few questions. Hopefully this thtead can help out other people as well!

1) Whats the best playstyle for a mesmer in soloq? (i.e, bunker/roamer/etc)
2) why were mesmers not used in either pax grand final teams? (Because of the condition meta?)
3) what’s a good mes tpvp build?
4) what are some mesmer tips and tricks for soloq everyone should know?

Cheers!

I don’t think it’s a troll post. I agree with OP.

The saddest thing is, I expected the title to be sarcastic, and the thread to be a massive flame.

+1 to OP

15 charr

All your balls are belong to us, waka.

Victory.2879:

If it wasor queues whenever you want to swop toons whenever this terrible lag happens I’d switch to my staff spammer guardian for these fights- don’t need the heal button as regen takes care of that and I can still use an aoe and run around killing all the soft targets who can’t use any of their decent damage skills and can’t use thier heal buttons…

ANet needs to invest in some much better servers for wvw – maybe ditch the left over Pentium 2’s they are currently running it on and buy something a little more up to date?

Processing power really should NOT be an issue, unless you really just don’t care.

It will ALWAYS be an issue, even with subscription based games. Look at EVE online for example. They had to be ‘lagged’ out on purpose for the severs to cope.

I’m on SOS. I play wvw nearly everyday. I only get skill lagg very rarely. Even zerg v zerg in a keep doesn’t cause it.

World bro, your issue is already getting fixed. Why on earth are you making a CAPS lock post about it ?

Plenty of people play spvp, unless these are ghosts, its not dead.
I agree though, open world dueling would be incredible! The only problem I see with it is people might spam you with duel requests, and harass you if you dont accept.

There’s plenty of 1v1 servers, its not that inconvienent at all!

A lot of the OP’s stated problems stem from the fact that pugs aren’t playing conquest on conquest maps, for whatever reason.

I think the game type is incredibly easy to understand. I once played soloq with a complete newbie to the game (first ever PvP), and they did remarkably well.

On saying that, I’ve also seen a lot of people in hotjoin standing in the middle of the map ONLY pressing 1 and heal. These aren’t glory farmers. These are peeps who think they playing team fortress.

TL:DR Give death match to the people who need it, and conquest mode will be played more like conquest.

I belive Rollercoaster tycoon is the current champ of PvP, and I expect it to shortly become an e- sport. Team Curse has already built a team for it, and I hear they are training hard.

There’s DTP. We are mostly Aussies, Malaysian, other SEA, and kiwis. I’m away, but feel free to give Phoenix Wrath a shout. We’re very friendly and close knit. You can always try before you buy!

That’s actually a good idea! +1
They are going to be changing the way tab targeting works in a near patch(the patch notes have already been released.)
However I don’t think it will help with targeting mobs, as pets etc have a higher priority as I recall.

The most simple solution would be just to target him from the start with tab+click and mark him. That way you can always press t to instantly retarget him.

Good luck !

Yeah that’s pretty arrogantly blatant, and the Dev’s need to react for sure, lest they give the impression that glory ranks are worthless. Though it’ll take more than clicking fingers to solve the problem. It will take time .

Also , we all know skill is what’s really important, and one thing these glory farmers arent farming is skill.
I don’t relate skill to glory rank, so personally,

*I couldn’t care less about glory farmers *

I do find them funny, in a pitiful way, however.

I very rarely hear people complaining about focus or shatter builds being underpowered.

If you get wiped by any class within a few seconds, giving a small buff to focus is not going to help much. Ill assume you’re over exaggerating.

Shatter is still very viable, and thieves still scream its OP.

If the devs listened to every post wanting a buff, we would all become unkillable gods that could one-shot any mob. (Only a slight exaggeration)

Lordrosicky.5813:

The obsession is pathetic. Deathmatch will probably suck.

The devs tested it and found it sucked. The “community” cried for it and so they are going to give it possibly.

This is wrong. The community know nothing. They should not listen to them. Look at the forums. Rangers whining about the last patch which made no difference. Necros were crying before the dhuumfire patch when necro was never that bad (other stuff was too good slightly – grenade spam). Eles and mesmers moaning about necros and rangers when actually its sword thieves which completely shut them down by dishing out the most damage with more survive than a guardian.

There is a reason they are game developers and that is because they know what makes a good game. Listening to the people on these forums and in the community has lead them the wrong way. O person x from well known team says we need y. He must know he is good at the game! NO. He probably has no design or programming qualification. If you think sitting in your underwear wasting time on a video game to get good means you know everything about the direction pvp should go in then you are stupid.

Anet should have faith in their own vision for the game and stop kneejerk giving the community what it wants.

I concur!

guys, give a thought to transferring to one of the lower tier servers. Still heaps of wvw action, just not fulltime zergs everywhere like tier 1/2 and you actually feel like you are contributing! And less lag!

Ganksinatra, I agree with some of your points , but you misconstrued what I said. If this was because I was not clear , then I apologize.

I did NOT say gw is all about team play. I intended to state the Anet Dev’s have team play as a focus.

And of course I would use 8v8 hot join as an example , because that is where the majority of players are found!

I agree with some of your points above, especially smaller matchups rather than 10v10. In fact I would look forward 3v3 , or even 5v5 .

What I don’t want to see is 10v10 DM in a small space, as I would find a wvw commander if I wanted to get zerged

Another QQ thread….. Hahaha =)