Guild Wars 2

Levetty.1279:

I mean if we have fallen back to making fun of simple mistakes, then I can only presume you don’t have actual arguments against my points about how weak Mirage is.

Can you show me the gameplay video where you dissect how weak Mirage is with the expansion gear stats? If not, and I know it’s a not because we’re not into next week yet, then you have no argument. All you’ve been doing is putting down the spec despite the fact that:

A: You’ve never played it.
B: You have no idea what new gear we’ll be getting.
C: Your playing since launch experience =/= crystal ball.

You can crunch numbers all you want, but it doesn’t change the fact that all you’ve been doing for the past week or whatever is doomsaying without the proof to back it up properly.

I prefer the new system and I’ve been playing since launch. The game was good back then, but lacked serious refinement. Now I feel like I have more choices on where I want to explore, and when. Back then you had to explore to get anywhere, which was both good and band. I don’t feel like the game is more casual, honestly the more refined builds, specific gear needed, and better play needed have made it less so.

Also, even though dungeons had a purpose back in the day, it was one of mindless grinding. I’ve done enough CoF and Arah for a lifetime. Still dungeons need something to bring them back to relevancy.

zomgbuffalo.5276:

Aylaine.1036:

It looks like people won’t get to have their cake and eat it anymore, they will need to go deep with stat choices that have Concentration now to try and get back to 100%, or close. I honestly feel like this is a good thing though because it makes the gearsets you choose matter quite a bit more now. That and the Boon/Condi meta needed to be toned down.

Does that affect pve only?

Unsure. But I imagine any Chrono’s that use boonsharing will be affected.

It looks like people won’t get to have their cake and eat it anymore, they will need to go deep with stat choices that have Concentration now to try and get back to 100%, or close. I honestly feel like this is a good thing though because it makes the gearsets you choose matter quite a bit more now. That and the Boon/Condi meta needed to be toned down.

I feel like Viper will likely be the best stat combo (that we have right now) unless the expansion adds something insane. For Condi anyways. Who knows what Sword/GS ambush skills will be like.

Pino.5209:

Vindicus.2130:

Chris.3290:

Hey, I’m just glad they held off for 5 years before adding them.
Not that I hate the idea, but I think people need new things added and mounts are just a bonus.

The END IS NEAR if they add unique mounts to the BLTC (I mean totally unique, not just offering a skin to make your rabbit pink instead of red.)

Lol if you think they won’t monetize mounts you’re delusional.

But they didn’t monetize glider … oh wait, nvm. lol …
From the way they presented the xpac on trailer, mounts are the key selling point for them. It’s the new thing that will rack up $$$ for the next few years.

And?

Have people become so disillusioned with their own sense of what should be and should not be that they blanked out on the fact that ANet is a company and needs money? That if you really wanted x mount from the BLTC, you could get it without spending your real money? Jesus, the players in this game have it absurdly good but it really feels like they need a reality check sometimes.

Never thought I would see people complaining about Mesmer getting a much needed DPS spec. The world we live in , heh.

inb4 bandwagon lolzzz

But seriously. DB is a solid server, and they bring it in WvW.

Any fight clubs going on?

Andy.9137:

deathTouch.9706:

My experience with FA is that individual skill of players and guilds are quite lacking. Once they face opponents with similar coverage they perform very poorly.

I invite you to small fights with my guild, 2-5man.

mail me

Ooo, this should be good. I disagree with that comment though. I’ve seen very, very good players on FA. [ACE], [Corp], don’t get me stgarted on [HL]…

By the way Pickle we should 1v1 sometime again!

Today, the guild that I am in did a T3 bounty and got Mayana. She spawned on the top left corner of the map. However, her level was seriously out of sync for the scaling that was done to our levels. We were at 57 DS level, while she was a whopping level 65. It took us awhile to kill her but we had several losses, as well as running out of time. Just putting this out there for ANet so they can fix it.

Pyroatheist.9031:

@ArmageddonAsh: Yes, I can easily beat condition necros when I slot those skills.

@Arale and ArmageddonAsh: A well played mesmer should not lose a 1v1, regardless of the class or build facing it. That is simply a fact. You may believe it not to be the case, but it is.

As much as I like reading your posts, this is an opinion, not a fact. Mesmers lose in 1v1’s, even good ones.

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

I think some classes can and do beat Mesmer in 1Vs1 Condition Necro, PermaStealth thief, Condi Engi for example. I am sure there are other builds that CAN beat Mesmer.

A lot of specs of other classes can beat mesmers. Though out of this list, I lose to necros the most (really depends how good they are) I can hang with perma thieves and engis, being a condi mesmer myself. BM Condi Rangers and trap rangers can get me too if I don’t play right.

Also, depending on the spec, you don’t need all that condi removal to beat a necro. If anything, you’d be better going 2 condi utilities and 1 stunbreak to get out of fear. iDis and Null Field perhaps, as Arcane Thievery can bug out sometimes in my experience. iDis is godly though.

matjazmuhic.1649:

Gw2 still lacks abit of so called “social stickiness”.

I disagree. It’s people who lack that, not the game in my opinion. While certain features could definitely be improved to aid that, I think it falls more on the players then the game itself.

I dont think that’s it. The patch that was released before I made this thread reduced the after animation time by 0.4 seconds (when your character pulls the sword out) it’s bugging out on that part, going right back to your drawn weapon stance, but for the 1-2 seconds you’re there, you cannot move because the game is still counting that aftercast. It’s simply not showing it.

Inb4 Terror goes to GM trait. xD

Orrr before they slap it with a confusion level (50%) reduction. Tis coming. Be ready for it.

Mister Mustard.7203:

Arale.4207:

Lenador.1436:

Arale.4207:

Gellor.6497:

Asudementio.8526:

EnRohbi.2187:

I always seem to forget how obnoxious TC’s forum presence gets when they’re winning handily.

It’s not a good trait.

Well if you have forgotten TC’s be sure to remember DB’s obnoxious forum presence when they were winning handily.

Find it funny that people forget the TC forum warriors came to us saying we wouldn’t win T2 cause we were trash…. Same individuals whined on the forums that our forum warriors were being mean. Big wheel of garbage if you ask me but whatever

However, the mayo comment was dumb that we all can agree on

I still remember. Though, if I had to say who did PvF more, it was definitely DB. I remember a slew of [RE]/[CO] and a few [EA] members talking tons of crap when we were down, too. Well, until that morning we stomped the scoreboard. But before that it was nothing but ’’it’s been fun here gais but T1 looks nice" and “free bags on our way to T1” along with “enjoy another loss this week”. Still, our two weeks of being stomped was well deserved, because of the morons who went into your other matchup thread and talked.

Basically, both servers have keyboard cowboys, and while one of us is winning, the other is sulking, and vice versa. Same goes for population. When we win, they come out, when we are losing, they aren’t anywhere to be seen. :/

I do believe our servers have a fair bit of the same problems.

I want names and address of all those [EA], they will rue the day they spew such slander on these here forums

One I remember off the bat was Lani. A few posts here and there were pretty bad. But I feel that was because of the smack talkers who came into the prior match thread, as well. A few dweebos on our server weren’t helping either. I don’t always see eye to eye with her, but yeah. Most of my example phrases were from RE and CO.

Even I sometimes get annoyed at those posts that go like, ’’hey X, your hills is mighty fine in [color]!" and the like.

From what I recall during those weeks, the forum warring was all of 3 people. One guy was being a real kitten , two others were definitely obnoxious. However, the vast majority of DB posts the weeks we were winning were praising the competition and saying how nice the matchup was. Also of minor interest is none of these three have posted in weeks.

I think our label as forum warring kittens is at least skewed by a very small minority, if not revisionist entirely. By now, whatever offensive comments we did make have certainly been repaid in full. I’ll use your comment about hills being a certain color as a perfect example … Lani says something to that effect once, so in the ensuing weeks we get almost daily screenshots and comments of TC holding our Garrison.

Everyone does it, but for some reason comments made months ago by only a couple people on DB seem to have really stuck in people’s heads.

Yeah. I’m aware thakittens like, 4-6 or so people on each side, depending how you look at it. I just remember the first two weeks being really nasty in the match up threads towards TC. Though, it normalized after we proved some people wrong. The reason I remember the most is because of the T1 aspiring trolls & their master plan to recruit & shoot up. Those posts bugged me to no end, simply because I knew it wouldn’t work out for DB just like it wouldn’t for TC if we ever went to T1 (something that was proven painfully a few weeks ago, for both of us).

Westibone.3985:

Go 0/20/30/0/20 and use full rabid gear (undead runes) with Staff and Scepter/Torch. Take decoy, blink, X, Mass Invis. You are unbelievably survivable with all the stealth + prismatic understanding, and your Torment will hurt like hell on the scepter block. This spec is not amazing in groups, since your dmg is mostly single target, but for solo roaming it’s extremely hard to beat. Make sure you take Illusionary Elasticity to greatly improve the effectiveness of your staff. Also, turn off the auto attack on scepter, as the scepter clones are far inferior to staff clones.

This is the build I use. Desperate Decoy, Deceptive Evasion, CoF grants retaliation, staff bounce, and 3%- less damage for each illusion. You’re very tanky and can melt people down. Gotta have some condition removal on a utility though.

Jinks.2057:

Kiliaan.1934:

Great fights tonight with [NS] hope to see you guys again soon, all excellent players! we haven’t run into a challenge like you guys since AD from DR.

Odinzu, loved the fights vs [EP] you have a great group, highlight was the 5 thieves with thieves guild, and getting focused down haaard, ouch!. Great lols!

Y’all get smoked again I take it?

Think they won. :o

Lenador.1436:

To handle Lani all you need to do is roll up any magazine (newspaper for substitution) and just give her a good smack on the nose and she will behave

It’s more of a disagreement thing. I admire her pride in her server though.

iCryptik.1496:

Arale.4207:

Even I sometimes get annoyed at those posts that go like, ’’hey X, your hills is mighty fine in [color]!" and the like.

Hay Arale, I like the color of your hills…

/wink wink, knudge, knudge

I’m a guy if that makes this any better.

Awesomeee fight club @ dbbl windmill. I’ve really grown in skill fighting EB Roamers. I will miss you guys. Picture for memories!

gets free stuff
complains

Meme worthy, truly.

Lenador.1436:

Arale.4207:

Gellor.6497:

Asudementio.8526:

EnRohbi.2187:

I always seem to forget how obnoxious TC’s forum presence gets when they’re winning handily.

It’s not a good trait.

Well if you have forgotten TC’s be sure to remember DB’s obnoxious forum presence when they were winning handily.

Find it funny that people forget the TC forum warriors came to us saying we wouldn’t win T2 cause we were trash…. Same individuals whined on the forums that our forum warriors were being mean. Big wheel of garbage if you ask me but whatever

However, the mayo comment was dumb that we all can agree on

I still remember. Though, if I had to say who did PvF more, it was definitely DB. I remember a slew of [RE]/[CO] and a few [EA] members talking tons of crap when we were down, too. Well, until that morning we stomped the scoreboard. But before that it was nothing but ’’it’s been fun here gais but T1 looks nice" and “free bags on our way to T1” along with “enjoy another loss this week”. Still, our two weeks of being stomped was well deserved, because of the morons who went into your other matchup thread and talked.

Basically, both servers have keyboard cowboys, and while one of us is winning, the other is sulking, and vice versa. Same goes for population. When we win, they come out, when we are losing, they aren’t anywhere to be seen. :/

I do believe our servers have a fair bit of the same problems.

I want names and address of all those [EA], they will rue the day they spew such slander on these here forums

One I remember off the bat was Lani. A few posts here and there were pretty bad. But I feel that was because of the smack talkers who came into the prior match thread, as well. A few dweebos on our server weren’t helping either. I don’t always see eye to eye with her, but yeah. Most of my example phrases were from RE and CO.

Even I sometimes get annoyed at those posts that go like, ’’hey X, your hills is mighty fine in [color]!" and the like.

If its not greatsword, they don’t care. They already admitted that they put more into certain weapons that are sold/used more. :|

Gellor.6497:

Asudementio.8526:

EnRohbi.2187:

I always seem to forget how obnoxious TC’s forum presence gets when they’re winning handily.

It’s not a good trait.

Well if you have forgotten TC’s be sure to remember DB’s obnoxious forum presence when they were winning handily.

Find it funny that people forget the TC forum warriors came to us saying we wouldn’t win T2 cause we were trash…. Same individuals whined on the forums that our forum warriors were being mean. Big wheel of garbage if you ask me but whatever

However, the mayo comment was dumb that we all can agree on

I still remember. Though, if I had to say who did PvF more, it was definitely DB. I remember a slew of [RE]/[CO] and a few [EA] members talking tons of crap when we were down, too. Well, until that morning we stomped the scoreboard. But before that it was nothing but ’’it’s been fun here gais but T1 looks nice" and “free bags on our way to T1” along with “enjoy another loss this week”. Still, our two weeks of being stomped was well deserved, because of the morons who went into your other matchup thread and talked.

Basically, both servers have keyboard cowboys, and while one of us is winning, the other is sulking, and vice versa. Same goes for population. When we win, they come out, when we are losing, they aren’t anywhere to be seen. :/

I do believe our servers have a fair bit of the same problems.

I seen this build in action today (got to party with Blackwater, huzzah) looks to be very fun & does great damage too! I run a 0/20/30/0/20 build myself, so I’m familiar with the territory. I will give this build a shot sometime today, for sure.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Greedy or not, 50/50 is an achievement that was very hard to get. Precursors are very hard to get. It would make sense if Anet were to magically mail a random Precursor to everyone with 50/50. An extra 500 bonus (1,000 points total) for completed HoM achievement works well too.

alcopaul did come out with a nice suggestion. 50/50 players could get some bonus emote that’s exclusive to them. Maybe something like /gw1, and a giant snowflake drops down with a sign that says “Just too good”. That would be the ultimate vanity bonus.

Until you’ve tried to obtain the 50/50 HoM achievement, you have no idea how hard it is. And once you realize how hard, and how many years it takes to get, you can’t argue against any extra bonus. Again, I’m not begging for anything extra. If Anet agrees and gives us something, great! If not, that’s ok too. It would be nice to get another bonus, and well deserved in my opinion. Kinda like when you got that Pact weapon for beating the Dragon. We didn’t need it, but it was a nice extra shiny.

You have the title, isn’t that bonus enough? You aren’t begging for anything extra, but you aren’t exactly saying ‘’no, I wouldn’t like anything extra" either. It’s obvious by the replies in this thread that you want something more. I don’t care how hard the title is to get honestly. The title is enough in my opinion. If they gave precursors away, you’d see a huge S storm. ANet might give you more skins & titles (though not sure why they would) but yeaaah, nope on the precursors.

This thread reeks of the desire to brag/gloat on your hard GW1 endeavors infront of others IMO. That’s limited in this game as it is & I’m happy. Anything that would change that gets a huge no from me.

Edit: lol @ that link, OP got pegged.

Pyroatheist.9031:

1. Fix scepter autoattack
2. Fix iMage

I want nothing more than to be able to honestly give advice saying that both scepter and torch are strong viable weapons.

They are viable for some builds, though I’m sure you know that already.

1. Change vuln on scepter to poison or chill.
2. Nerf IC by 10%, reduce all phantasm cooldowns by 10% to compensate.

Good fights earlier with the GH/GF peoples in ruins/lake tower in DBBL. I enjoy these 1v1’s with EB, very fun & good skill levels. Kudos!

Excalibur.9748:

How would TC do if it matches up with SoR again? Do you think we could win this time?

No. A lot of TCers who come out in lopsided matchups are fairweathers. Once we start fighting a tougher, better enemy, they will stop showing up. It really depends how many people will stick around after the reset weekend honestly. We should be more competitive next time, but we wont win unless we have more hardcore WvWers who don’t quit when the tough gets going.

Anyone who remembers reset saturday/sunday that weekend knows what I mean. We didn’t have nearly as many queues, and in a lot of maps, we were outmanned. Comparing that to when we had a few maps queued, and a good force on each map save maybe one, and it’s pretty clear what’s going on.

Jinks.2057:

Quells.2498:

These matchup threads are pointless. We’re just giving low tier crybabies a place to whine about us. Let’s cut the umbilical cord shall we?

Normally this would be an awesome line….I’d laugh and give props

Problem is Ebay has more skill than TC. The only thing you have over Ebay a better ability to RP loot bags and zergballs.

ps. Thx for the glicko

I dont think one server has more skill then the other, you’d need to face every single person on TC in some mathematical version of hell in order to justify that statement. The only difference that can be accurately stated is that population wise IMO, TC > DB > EB, in that order. All 3 servers have great players. All 3 servers have players who aren’t very good, but still try and play. And yes, all 3 servers have unskilled bads. No server is immune to these strengths or weaknesses. It’s simply like real life, in that you won’t find the same kind of person or experience each time. They may be similar, but the player is different.

Deyja.6745:

If this is the best EB has to offer in terms of individual ability you guys are going to suffer in the 1 v 1 tournament.

I obviously can’t speak for every EB 1v1 oriented person (no one can) but the few small scale fights I’ve had with EB have been much, much harder then any other server. I 1v1’d a lot of EB’s this week. Some weren’t so hot, but a majority would standstill the fight, if not give me a lot of trouble/beat me. I’m pretty impressed so far, personally.

Lol what? AR had fairly diverse trash mobs. The difference between a thug and a striker was like night and day. Meanwhile, MF had a lot of the same old flame legion or dredge archtypes. Only the Brawler, Gunner and Protector were really unique in that encounter. Fun mobs yes, but they weren’t nearly as diverse in my opinion because we seen/fought half of them before, just with less fiery FX on them.

No. CND mesmers are in a goodish place for once. Sure, it’s not pre nerf glamour cheese, but I’m finding my small scale CND spec to be incredibly fun. You power users have so many options for power based weapons, it boggles my mind.

Looks to be some tears on this page. Was wondering when the score would start to affect some people. xD

Shoutout to the EB thief and DB mesmer @ ruinbs on DBBL, was fun watching you guys fight/fighting you. In the end, the forces from TC/DB interrupted the small but awesome fight. Maybe we can fight again sometime?

AndrewSX.3794:

Arale.4207:

100swag still hits for a ton of damage, son.

I’m not sure you know who are you talking with.

Oh, and DPS =/= doing big numbers pop (well, not just that).

Pretty sure I quoted the right person.

Not really a major issue, but the (( )) within each name was driving me insane.

Wethospu.6437:

Ryuujin.8236:

Wethospu.6437:

LordByron.8369:

nerf to ele and buff to warrior rofl…..

Do you seriously think that change will somehow affect Warriors in PvE?

Beats me :p – I play mesmer and PvE almost exclusively. All i know is that Warrior is crazy OP in PvE, and yet every patch Mesmer get another nerf, and Warrior gets another buff; whether the buff is objectively useful to warrior is largely irrelevant given the only thing warriors need right now is a good solid nerfing to the DPS (Or every other class a significant buffing to their DPS)

Warrior DPS got nerfed while ago.

100swag still hits for a ton of damage, son.

How do we get a guaranteed way of getting protection now?

You guys got trolled.

Wick.1280:

So I guess [Re] was a DB guild that moved too TC? I’m sure we don’t miss them. Took 6 to take me down. I was laughing

No, that was a different [RE].

DB’s RE is from JQ, Red Essence.
TC’s RE is from Kaineg, Rethesis.

Any late nighters on DB/EB want to 1v 1? I can’t sleep so I figured, why not?

Sirendor.1394:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

WvW vendors do sell ascended items but laurels are still needed though.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Laurel_merchant

Which is totally unacceptable. There isn’t a WvW exclusive daily or monthly. You are always required to jump into PvE. Personally I have already given up on WvW after all the months of huge blobs, but I think ascended will mess WvW up even more.

Bull. While I think ascended should be cheaper overall, the WvW prices would beewd to be adjusted to compensate if no laurels were introduced. Running with the zerg and spamming AoE will get you stupid amounts of bags & badges. I’m all for people to get ascended items easier, but not 200% or whatever faster then PvE people. Also, the dailies are pretty split now. A lot of PvE dailies transfer over to WvW, such as daily kills, condition remover, etc. All in all, you’d be looking at a lot of badges for each piece ‘if’ they were to remove the laurel count.

Anyone up for a 1v1? I want to have some fun one on ones. Message me @ Arale Gray if you are interested.

Torment is amazing. I can get 12k damage out of it if they are moving over like 10-11 seconds. It will force most people to cleanse, and most thieves to stealth/SR to remove it. It really helps put condition pressure on enemies in small skirmishes. It’s also very lethal to other condition users, especially necros.

Wait, why-

Ohh, another GW2 should be more like GW1 thread. Gotcha.

I feel for you. Some pug situations can be unreasonably bad. That being said, scope out your servers community forums, the recruit forums here, and on your server in game for a guild. A guild makes 100% of the difference in these situations in my opinion.

Good small fights today! I had a lot of fun battling it out with Thieves from [GH] and [GF]. Very fun fights, hope I can find some more 1v1’s or small scale fights later in the week. Also looking for 1v1’s, if any EB/DB are interested in that.

Anyone else experiencing this issue?

What’s a good name for a sylvari deep cover agent?

Metal Gear Salad.