T9 EU
Hard to find PvP or actually defend any location since we, like any other T9 server do not have that much people. Hardly anyone wants to spend time guarding some tower or keep. Can’t really blame them, neither do I want to spend my playing time sitting on empty tower. I used to run to white swords for some action. Now totally lost. It seems that it is now even more PvE – ninja flipping objectives.
In my opinion they are going right direction to remove armour repair costs, since it promotes more fighting. Have to just look at applied fortitude, guard leech and weapon stackers, mostly they run until odds are heavily on their favour and only then fight. Most people just bunker up in towers/keeps even more if death penalty was big, I know I would.
I keep getting stuck on siege. It happens when building siege and it gets finished. Switching weapons or using teleport skill (e.g. Blink, Necrotic Traversal) used to help, but now even getting out of combat and map travelling to waypoint does not release stuck state. Only solution seems to be logging out and back again or is there some other way of getting out of the stuck state?
its not public shaming of a guild, its making that guild awere and hopefully trying to do something about this, same as any wvw community would do. i have no problem with the whole guild. obviously only with this hacker commander and hope to bring awerness to this guild so they can get rid of their rotten apple. nothing more.
not mean any offense to the guild itself, the server or any1 exept for the hacker. but since i not know any1 on your server this is a very effective way to reach ppl on there who i much respect and had lots of good fights with. who CAN actualy do something about this. so we all can have fairplay in the future.
edit: every server has rotten apples, i have no ilusions in that. so plz not see this as personal insult, rather a chance to get rid of a rotten apple.
What can they do? Shame? Harass?
Nah, report to Anet and that is it. No need for vigilante justice since it does nothing but create hostility. Besides, it is not still established that your selected person is even the culprit. You just said that (s)he is and that is the whole story so far. Not that it matters, we do not vote who is guilty of what misconduct.
I was there and i totally agree that it was a hack.The picture can confirm it
Screenshot does still not confirm culprit, hence public shaming tactic is really bad way to conduct this. There is even attempted shaming of whole guild.
Report to Anet, but I really wouldn’t hold my breath.
that screen shows it all, if you look closely you see rain of arowcarts shooting over my head and landing in centre were treb was standing…. i had to be fast making the picture so i died during that by targeting the right player on the cart…. and suprise suprise it was the commander. plz learn to play fair…
if you have trouble seeing the proof infront of you try to zoom in on that picture,
made it a litle easyer were to look on that picture for ppl in denial.
edit: picture
Not to rain on your parade, but I can’t see the AC in your screenshot. So, how would we know who is using that AC then, other than your say-so (and selection of said commander). I haven’t tried, but is it also possible to fire AC from opening on top of the door?
This is obviously another attempt of public shaming, which does not work, so why even bother. Report cheating/exploiting to Anet. I mean, what do you expect players to do?
This kind of thing would be better on the private forums. Here:
Www.pikensquare.info
What the other poster suggested rings true. If you don’t like what’s going on, there are four maps. Pick one that makes you happy. Since they are actively asking people not to follow (my guess is to improve themselves as a guild for future GvGs), there are plenty of other options.
That said, if Jin ran over my body and didn’t rez me, I’d bite his ankles off. But we have that kind of relationship. :p
Maybe he wanted “neutral” arena for discussion. Server specific forums can be a bit hostile when somone presents dissenting view and moderation can be biased. There is also something to gain with outside view from other servers.
@OP: Shaming guild is probably bad idea. If it is actual harrasment, then report them.
Some people like listening music/podcast/talks while playing, hence won’t listen TS.
I have ran into problem that I can’t get into our TS, which require verification. Even though have asked multiple times for verification, never got one, so gave up even trying. Might be that I just have really bad luck with it.
yes, well, my problem was just the chasing part
why would 50 people waste a minute or 2 chasing someone they have no chance of catching?
it’s the reason most guilds and even zergs never chase roamers, you’re not going to catch one unless he’s afk
on another note, zerg tails have pathetic drops, I’m begining to think the precursor thing is a hoax
Why would Seafarer’s Rest zergs waste time chasing me when I am roaming? I can give you a hint – every server has those people in zergs that do chase roamers. I like chasing people for fun (http://youtu.be/iZ_R5QIP_5c), don’t see anything wrong with it. I get chased a lot and I get ganked a lot by zergs, nothing wrong with that either.
Axe + focus and dagger + dagger works just fine (or switch focus and dagger if desired) for Death Shroud & power build. I have used even scepter + dagger, but conditions are useless against most warriors in 1v1. In my opinion condition build even against thieves is useless, unless thief is just ‘222222 thief’. I at least seems to have problem with staff condition builds in roaming compared to Death Shroud & power build. Always switch to condition build and usually get kicked around by some warrior, then immediately switch back to Death Shroud & power build. I am using most 10/10/0/20/30, PTV armor and berserker trinkets & weapons. It is not exactly full on power build, but has a lot of survivability and sustain.
I would go scepter + focus/dagger with another set with staff. Both ranged and would make good condition build. Like said if scepter is not interesting enough then with lack of options it is axe + focus/dagger.
Death Magic master trait Greater Marks (VII) and adept Staff Mastery (V) is great with staff and if none of the other weapons seems like fun then can easy switch between staff and Death Shroud. Staff skills recharge so quickly that no need to switch to other weapons. Although I would encourage to learn other weapons even if they seems like useless at the moment. Same goes for traits, it is not that expensive to re-trait, so try out different combinations to find one that suit her play style.
Minions might help “tank” and help necromancer to keep her distance. Learn to switch in and out of Death Shroud, it really help to survive even hardest fights.
And one Piken COMMANDER clearly said they wanted to focus SFR before during and after the league, but you didn’t read it now did you mr. impartial Troma
You should have mentioned this earlier, because I think this settles it. One commander said it. Case closed.
It has been great roaming this week. Maybe most that play (like in game, not on forums) have relaxed a bit.
My bad was the opposite….
Invert the stuff switching viz and piken… was piken bay, and viz instead of getting it just wait to see if piken won and when it did went away….
Here you are few seconds between screen as soon as i saw viz escaping…..
Please if you need other screens contact via PM or i won t pass again from this topic.
There is about 10 or so Vizunah in bay and apparently there is 30 or so Pikens, according to Zing Candy Lips. So, should those 10 Vizunah charge in to get slaughtered? Not that this really matters at all. Even if there was agreement between Vizunah and Piken, which I have not seen, it is no ground to disqualify Vizunah. Then we should disqualify Seafarer’s Rest since they admit that they did double team Piken and of course disqualify Piken. In fact, lets disqualify all and make Vabbi and Whiteside Ridge win gold, silver and bronze. Just to clarify, I am being facetious since some people seems to actually believe this conspiracy nonsense.
This post doesn’t show us exploiting with 2 trebs in savezone.
1. You can’t tell what area that is (no map, no icons, no nothing to refer to)
2. There is no treb showing, only 1 projectile and honestly you can’t tell anything from its direction.
Trebs were (might still be) on “siege deployment blocked” area in our borderland citadel. I reported, Jayne reported, other people reported, so they could actually fix that bug.
My life blast hit was with 114% crit damage and 3500 attack. i just don’t see how hits like this are possible.. it’s like i’m an upscale or something.
9,056 is impressive!
There are other players around, so could he have 25 might stack? Full berserker/valkyrie gear? Can’t really explain. If I had to guess, really squishy power build.
Next time you could take screenshot of combat log, that would show actual numbers. I tested my Life Blast (screenshot) and hit around 3k (critical) with 3,728 attack. Potentially I can gain more might with Reaper’s Might. Practically top hit is around 4.5k to squishier target, this was probably tank in medium armor since damage was really low.
I use 10/10/0/20/30 DS build (Reaper’s Might, Weakening Shroud, Bloodthirst, Quickening Thirst, Vital Persistence, Speed of Shadows/Unyielding Blast and Deathly Perception). PTV armor with Rune of Exuberance, Berserker trinkets and weapons. Axe + focus and dagger + dagger, Blood is Power and usually added Signet of Spite (3400-3800 attack w/ food, depending on BiP/SoS).
Don’t see big problems with your build. I just like more survivability (PTV armor + more vitality).
EDIT: Attack is more like 3300-3700 (can’t check now), used to have 20/0/0/20/30, but then changed for more useful traits at Curse 10.
this is regular politics of Vizunah… guess who will take first place regardless of the result the week? and in spite of this. today they are with Picken during 9 hours tried to take bay from Seafarer’s Rest on the Piken map. and most likely they have not succeeded until guild raid iddqd has not left the border.
30 people from iddqd got a good experience in the battle against 160. and I hope they will take revenge
Cool, you made no sense whatsoever. Match-up threads this way: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/matchups, except our thread got locked in a day (which is an accomplishment), but another one is open.
What it comes to actual topic, dadada.1306 summed up it pretty nicely. Have to say that even if some servers do ally, then it is fine.
Last match-up french clash, they were not holding hands plotting against us. It was really entertaining to watch. That is to say that I have never seen national servers double team third exclusively.
Fun fights near Umberglade with [BG] (Bulgarian something) asuran engineer, [NoE]asuran mesmer and asuran thief (don’t remember guild). I don’t remember if they were from SFR or RS, that much I concentrate who I fight (red name is red name, doesn’t matter to me).
yeeah, you mean the one with a timer on it right? Usually about 2min at start? We actually saw one at the north eastern camp outside of our border spawn with the grey invulnerability symbol.
Camp Veteran Supervisor that has 5 minutes of Righteous Indignation when camp is flipped, sometimes gets bugged and has RI on longer even though buff should have ended.
Teleporting warrior was player porting all over the place and some other things were really strange – adrenaline gain was really fast, using burst skills almost constantly (Earthshaker and Kill Shot).
I don’t know what you mean, haven’t really seen anything that you describe.
Sometimes supervisor lags and keeps Righteous Indignation on even as timer has run out, but it will eventually end. There is cheating going on though. Wouldn’t have believed but saw teleporting warrior and apparently he has been doing it for a long time now.
http://gw2wvw.org/ i’m not sure if this thing tells the truth, but it is telling that both sfr and rs are focusing piken while piken is fighting both almost equally.
And focus is always focus..
Dunno. Just spend two hours running between Durios and Quentin, never a dull moment. Great fights.
I have most problems against mesmers, but try to avoid GS/Healing Signet warriors most. Not that they are deadly, but either it is going to be really long battle or then they reset fight many times (which would make it even longer battle) or both.
Mostly have now played necromancer, which is rather deadly but most of the times is committed to fight for lack of escape options. A lot less juggling skills with necro than with elementalist or engineer. Necromancer with staff + ground target wells can tag a lot of enemies in a zerg, but some don’t like necromancer spamming dark fields all over the place. Decent survival with necromancer, high health pool and Death Shroud.
Have been playing necromancer most now, so it is interesting to see what other people do. Axe + Adam (focus) and Death Shroud (traited) is my favorite too, rarely switch to scepter + dagger.
I have 8 char , All in Exotic and lvl 80.(can show u SS if you don’t believe me)
You think you are the only one who played more than 1 toon?
Lvl 53 ranger is nothing to boost about actually.
By the way, more power and crt dmg give more dmg to a skill that always crt than crt chances. You don’t need formulate to show it.
In thief BS combo, only C&D is affected by crt chances. Steal don’t crt and BS will always crt with hidden killer.
Note that this ranger don’t hit more than 14k against lvl 80 toon which a thief can do more (not much more).
Why wouldn’t I believe it? I already said that many people play bunch of professions. Not bragging with my level 53 ranger as you could have seen on context, but I guess you just like to twist that context and what people are actually saying for your own purposes.
I rather see some numbers than blindly believe what someone says, even though they think they are expert on matter.
100% critical chance from stealth require Hidden Killer (Grandmaster trait, 30 points). If you want to spike with multiple skills, not just alone backstab, then critical chance (i.e. precision) is required for other skills to do critical. Thief does not have trait that would convert vitality into power, so vitality does not alter power/attack. Hence if only damage is desired, berserker’s gear is still the best one for thief.
Do you actually have some calculations or just trolling with something that I actually did not say? What I said was that there is no trait that would convert vitality into power, which was comparison to ranger traits. Nowhere did I complain that I do not hit hard enough with my thief. In fact I stated that I use PTV gear on thief and my damage is on the low side. I am well aware that my thief is not a glass cannon.
Would be nice to see some calculations on berserker’s vs. valkyrie gear and which deliver more spike. Goalpost seem to move accordingly what suits arguments – sometimes it is single hit and sometimes it is spiking (which does not mean using single hit, rather fast execution with combination of skills).
P.S. Why do you classify people as thieves? Many people play bunch of professions in WvW. Only one that I do not play is ranger, but working on it – level 53 at the moment. I guess it is convenience thing. Label people as some profession and then you can disregard anything they say about that profession, just because they play that profession they are just defending irrationally their profession.
I tried to calculate it above, but I got about 4.7 k and that was it. I’m thinking the formula the guy gave me was wrong.
This has nothing to do with topic really, but that is most damage anyone has ever done to me in a single hit – 13k with Eviscerate (Warrior main hand axe burst). Like seen, it was to Ogden’s armor (light armor with power + vitality + condition damage), so armor was then kinda low (~2000). I might have been lucky, but no thief have ever backstabbed me really much over 10k.
How do you get more power? By increasing your vitality and eating +6% vitality to power and +4% toughness to power. You use a bloodlust sigil. You use dragon’s breath bun type food. In this way, I don’t care if you’re ranger or thief. You will get more power and do more burst on that 1 shot. This is the 1 shot build whether you believe it or not.
Again: if a ranger is on tape doing a 23,000 crit on an upleveled weakling, I’m sure thief can crit much harder. Or are you admitting that thief cannot burst like ranger? Lol
I got you guys between a rock and a hard place. Either you admit ranger can burst more than thief or admit that thief can crit more than 5k.
Too lazy to do calculations, so would you kindly present them?
I don’t actually know which can burst more, hence asked to see some numbers. I just told what damage I do with backstab. Granted, I do not have a glass cannon purely build to see big white numbers on screen. I thought it was not about who can build most glassiest cannon out there, rather thief balance and especially stealth.
Sure thief can backstab more than 5k, even my thief with PTV gear does 5k. I don’t know what you are really after. Winning forum argument with semantics?
Allow me to explain. If you get a free crit out of stealth, you don’t ever need precision. See, instead you can go full valkryie(power vitality crit dmg). Rangers, for example, get “remorseless” which gives a free crit after stealth through opening strikes re-application and the activation of the 25 point marksmanship trait of Precise Strikes. We can also convert vitality to power through traits like strength of spirit (5% vitality to power) or food, like a sharpening stone or maintenance oils. Now eat dragons breath bun for another 10% crit damage and more power after kill.
That’s how you maximize power and crits. Berserker is big, sustained damage. Valkryie is insane, massive burst on one blow, then few crits afterwards. If you want to spike, you play Valkyrie in pvp, not berserker, at least with ranger and thief.
100% critical chance from stealth require Hidden Killer (Grandmaster trait, 30 points). If you want to spike with multiple skills, not just alone backstab, then critical chance (i.e. precision) is required for other skills to do critical. Thief does not have trait that would convert vitality into power, so vitality does not alter power/attack. Hence if only damage is desired, berserker’s gear is still the best one for thief.
How can there be a ranger video of a 23k [Maul] (jubskie’s sticky on ranger forums has a link to the 23k Maul thread and video) yet thieves here saying they only get 5k backstabs. That’s ridiculous. Thieves have a troll build they can practically 1 shot anyone with—out of NO where— and it probably uses Valkyrie gear and power stacking. And all you berserker thieves are denying it because you never built with vitality or crit out of stealth because VITALITY DOES NO DIIIIIIIPS BRO. (Couldn’t be more wrong when in gw2, vitality is used in burst/Valkyrie builds). Someone is trolling and it’s not me. These are facts.
Have to admit that I don’t quite get this. Berserker’s gear has power, precision and critical damage, so that would be the highest damage potential gear and the highest out of stealth critical damage. What kind of build are you talking about with Valkyrie gear? I run PTV gear and berskerker’s trinkets and do about 5k backstabs, but then again I might be a little bit on low side of damage. Build to sustain a bit longer fight and take down full berserker thieves.
EDIT: With my build there is no way of taking down even moderately skilled warrior roamer (healing signet, greatword, stuns) that does not commit too much.
What I meant by “killing their own WvW career” is that I don’t want them to be discouraged. A person who goes to WvW at level 20 might get the impression that they are really bad, because they’re being 3-shot by lvl 80s.
Even further, if they participate in bloodlust, they gain almost no experience while getting stomped all the time. I’m just afraid they say “kitten this kitten” and never try WvW again.
Nobody wants that. Which is why I’ve been telling members of my own realm who are new to WvW that they should either level their toons by PvE or at the very least try to group up and take camps/towers/keeps with others, gaining exp and levels. If they stick to the bloodlust area they will never get anywhere and only become frustrated.
My guess is that most that run up-leveled characters in WvW are not new to WvW, but rather run alts. Besides, I don’t think even new players are naive enough to think that they should be up to par with decked out bronze invader or whatever. Personally I think that what drives people away from WvW is those venomous people that in frustration call people “total noobs” just because they didn’t do exactly what that elitist thought they should have done.
I also noticed a lot of upleveled total noobs “roaming” in the bloodlust area. Please tell them to go level in PvE or run with the zerg. They are doing absolutely nothing but killing their own WvW “career” there. I told as much to one lvl 20 from my realm.
Killing their own WvW “career”? What does that even mean? Gotta love these elitists that think they are gift to server and PvP.
Tried for the last two hours to get a nice 1v1 in AR borderlands bloodlust area. No luck. No matter if it’s AR or Viz, they either keel over with 3 hits or run back to their buddies.
Yeah I know, WvW is not about 1v1 but come on, grow some balls!
Finally today tried borderlands and quickly learned that it is all about ganking 3+ vs 1. Every server ran gank squads, so I joined one and we ganked the kitten out of single roamers. Then I got bored and went farm orichalcum nodes in Cursed Shore.
But yea, it is sPvP in WvW enviroment. Jump Mario, jump.
It’s just the straw that broke the camel’s back, it’s just another thing on a long list of mad decisions, and people have finally given up on waiting patiently and hoping it’ll get better eventually.
Did break the camel’s back for me. So much grinding involved to get the maximum stats now. World experience upgrades (guard leech, applied fortitude), weapon sigil stacking (multiple weapon sets), ascended items and bloodlust, which is not individual grind per se but additional stat boost. Have been doing mostly PvE now, so waiting to see how it turns out.
