Guild Wars 2

My Team killed it with a pure power comp. I know some other groups killed it with a condi heavy comp as well. Don’t read further if you want to figure it out by yourself. You can simply stack near the boss let Rigom and Gudhelm come to you. You push Rigom into Samarog. You may ask why. the asnwer is like crosknight.3041 explained before Rigom once “dead” explodes his explosion aoe stuns the boss breaking Rigoms shield, during that phase he is vulnerable to power and condition damage.

You don’t even need to attack Rigom, because he is basically a Sponge absorbing all damage directed to Gudhelm, which you can use to your advantage and use your soft cc such as chill and imobilize on Gudhelm, which Rigom will absorb. As well as the direct damage which Rigom will absorb as well. So you just dps Gudlhem and Rigom will die eventually, the only trick it to let him die near Smarog in order to break the Shield.

I think i saw this before. over time it all boils down that those who want different difficulty levels also want the rewards i.e. want the progression towards the legendary armor with less effort. Why do you want a niche content for a wider range of players? It is supposed to be hard content.

How will different diffuclty levels address issues such as exclusion or players in general don’t want to take the lead in other words taking responsibility? How will those different levels make it easier to get into raids? Somebody has to tag up and organize those groups of 10 players.
If you want something like fractals, play fractals o_O

Why don’t players who want a training mode push for a heavy modification of the Special Forces Training Area? It even has training in the name! It would have no negative impact on raids and you could choose the bosses, have various options such as activating or disabling mechanics so you can pay attention to one thing at a time to train. Regular raiders could just mix various mechanics from various bosses to make more challenging fights.

Why are there 2 seperated Threads about raid accessiblity?

khani.4786:

I don’t press F5 on my keyboard, I actually click that skill in the UI.

Mhm, I’ve tested that and it turns out there is a corellation with clicking on the UI and the weird behaviour of CA. I’ve rebind CA to a different key and it looks like it works perfectly fine, but if i click CA on the UI it cancels it o.o

I have tested Celestial Avatar with some friends in the raid dps arena and it is usually if you are in Celestial Avatar and also give your pet an command, which results in cancelling it. Would help if others could verify

My entire Party in Fractals got that at the same time twice. I get a ping of 2801 in EB before the error message. sigh

i like the design, well done!

The line Salvation with the minor trait “Disarming Riposte”: striking a foe while he is using a skill blinds him (20sec cd) should be changed with something more supportive imo, like grants 2sec protection/retaliation to allies nearby 15sec cd or so.

Also of all the available weapons mace/axe seems to be the better dps set even though it is clearly a condition set.

Hammer skill 3: “Phase Smash” it says that you teleport to your target area which doesn’t happen you are justs stuck in the animation and thats it.

The utlitly skill “Unyielding Anguish” from the legendary demon stance will be troublesome, especially for WorldversusWorld, it displaces your foes and that on a large scale fight will be laggy and annoying for most players to get randoml teleported around.

Like pointed out by others some of the animations/attacks in general are just too slow, except mace/axe, and in a pvp enviroment it will be a disadvantage. Also some of the cooldowns are too huge and there is no trait to reduce cooldowns.

Another point is even with going full berserker stats you barely get a better damage output. it is tanky alright, but the scaling seems to be buggy(?)

Why not use the sPvP- system for dead bodies? Implement a 12sec time after death accured and force respawn. It wouldn’t be a problem to take that system from sPvP and use it for WvW. Regardless if there will be some bugs at the beginning

The rewarding would need some major changes as it is now the offensive gameplay is more rewarding than defending. You get nothing from escorting dolyaks even though they are very important for upgrades.
Defending in general is not rewarding which result in the so called karma trains. Majority doesn’t defend and just flip woodem structures, you can see that in EOTM, it is basically WvW when you throw away the identity of your realm and thats why nobody sees EOTM as real WvW. If you don’t have a cause to fight for, you would simply avoid fights and PvD all day long.
A simple but significant change would to change the rewarding-system.
I do believe that this would be the first step in the right direction and it should be manageable for A-net to work on.

No new seasons would be fine for me, as a kind of compansation :P
Also some communication from A-net would be most appreciated, just saying /hope

RyuDragnier.9476:

Boonprot.6274:

Forzani.2584:

To each their own….and 2 shotting someone is anything but fluid.

I like the change.

My Guardian’s WvW build ate a 42% reduction in Crit Damage. I think it’s asinine and does nothing but encourage the further abuse of condi-based builds.

It also encourages people to put less in toughness. Before, you had to put a lot into toughness to survive when roaming due to all the zerker builds. Now you can put less into the toughness, and more elsewhere, such as power. They’re trying to push people away from bunker builds.

But what is with condi bunkers, especially Dire specced builds, how does nerfing crit damage push them away from their bunker builds?

Goodbye RoF and Match-up Threads.

Congrats Drakkar for winning the bronze league.

Shadowresli.3782:

i see, the RoF whiners are still competing with RoS for “whiners of the year”. if both your servers would put all their effort in game instead of this forum, who knows …

Now, that is insulting. Our whinning has tradition and we deserve a trophy for that!
RoS just happened to get new forum warriors with low quality trolling and flaming.

Van Hamster.2018:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vIoGp3R7ZI

nothing more to say, but hats up to TaG. bow nice condiover;)

Dat video is awesome, is it the jackmcdaniel from gw1?

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

smiley.1438:

Stolen.2045:

But thanks to our absurdly well sieged garrison we could hold at least this…

Wait WHAT? We had siege in a keep and actually used it?

Yeah, it’s not very often you see TaG use siege but it does happen once in a while.

I usually take screen shots.

Show pitctures or it didn’t happen.

Treszone.3897:

Billaboong.6821:

Come on, Dzag has Blacktide border since the start of the reset and they keep having it. That’s 120 free points that Blacktide gift to you.
And what does Blacktide do? They come for our Bay with their border completely green..

i would say big fail! RoF has the same chance like dzago has, but because, rof attack dzagonur-gl with 2 zergs and have big fun . for example, TaGblob runs with 30+ ?! on15 enemies and spam with laughemotes. that is really big fun.

edit: sorry for my english.

We had 25ppl to one point 26ppl there and neither did we laugh/ dance nor used any disrespectful emotes…
I am curious about how many Omegas did you use to retake your bay? The reincorced gates went down under 10sec!

And to this QQ-ing about double teaming: sad excuse is the fitting term.
BT had quite the force on dzarg borderland taking their hills, later on trying to take their garrison, while we had a almost never ending fight in there. They simply don’t have the manpower. really guys

Now i am curious, how much are they paying you for your services anyways?

Agrios.9071:

Atleast you cant mean us with saying handholding. ^^
But on the other hand TaG is also a quite big guild for the bronce league,
i remember one of rof saying that no guild should have more then 20
people in a raid. ^^

That’s irrelevant. We started on RoF and we stayed on RoF unlike other Guilds.
RoF just happen to have the coverage to be in this so called bronce “league”.
I remember one ros guy saying that all the guild which came to RoS will sooner or later abandon them again.^^

The other four could be normal ones, mushroom! And by the way real pros use omega golems nowadays to defend

oh em gee, you are not using warbanner! shocked

@ Shadowresli.3782 was looking forward to fight you guys on reset, but didn`t see you on dl bl

Reset was quit fun, everywhere action and nobody steamrolled the other.
And that was the very firsttime, that RoF didn`t got destroyed by dl/ dzarg reset forces.
We had ques everywhere and our randoms became quit good at tracking our guildraid down, even tho without dorito and mutliple waypointing.

On which map was ODZ running? :p Haven`t seen you guys on your bl and we couldnt swap bls, because of said ques.
The maps were colorful like a rainbow lol

Nice to see BNF roaming around, i have missed you guys <3

Today i have learned from our very skilled PvE ppl, that sPvP does require less skill than PvE, a fractals run requires much more brain than WvW and scripted events are much more fun than PvP. With that mentality no wonder some ppl don`t improve.
Did dzarg and Drakkar have witnessed such thing as well?

Bump from RoF here xd
FoW needs your help!
They have nice roamers and many ppl up for duels!
Their WvW guild [jd] is awesome and they need just more for better and even fights!
Join FoW and fight against those blobbers like Blob of Fire, Blob Lake and Dzagoblob :P

Kodora.9684:

Darkstorn.5423:

Congratulations to Blob Ranik for finally taking Bay in RoF after having their full map skill lag us so hard we couldnt use skills. I guess after getting farmed for days and days they decided to just bring everyone and bug us out

You must be kidding me.
Seriously.
Dude it was prime time.
Three T3 keeps.
QQ cuz we broke your toy? You paid for the keep upgrades? You wanted to farm more easy bags being comfortable behind siege weaponry?
Take example on TaG comments and acknowledge our move was great, although very late (should’ve done that way earlier) – great idea from Alystene but it’s kinda hard and long to coordinate with Fort Ranik as they’ve not a lot of experience doing such things.

Also to add to ich’s reply about our population, so yeah we’ve got one more roaming guild originally from AR, then JS, then SFR – wtf :o – but we noticed transfers to our server are free at the moment (mid pop) and I guess we received a lot of unannounced PUG backup from league 3 servers.
Speaking of which, are you really staying in L3 Bratwa? Guys with your setup you’ll be really bored against servers like Vabbi.

Nice, to hear that you got some roamer transfers, hope not those pesky d/p thieves :P
We are going to stay, as across all leagues will be major blowouts anyways, and i am personaly hoping that those meta achievments will bring some numbers into wvw not only for rof, but also for the other servers, for better comptetition. Honestly L3 won`t have any Skillag lol, i so hate 1-3 sec skilldelay. Worst case is if vabbi is still a ghosttown i will xfer there and hunt guildies down. :P

This Match-up was a surprise for me, because i was expecting ranik to just blob us down like the past 2 matches, but you did positive surprise me, like SoW, aZm and Haa to call some names, you guys are awesome and nice opponents to fight.

Doubt Raniks will change their playstyle and the constant complaining of us about “blobs” is getting boring.

Before the blobbing complains end in a flame war, can we change the topic?

Raniks, do you have an increase of players (fair-weather players) during this match-up or do you have the same coverage in tough matchups, where you are the underdog?

Drakkars, what do you think: will the bronce League be boring, as the differance in coverage below rank 20 is huge, and will most likely resulting in karma trains.
Does your community recover after some of your wvw guilds left?

aww and i had a duel going on with some auroras sniff

Nice Patch, but was the Reset meant for WXP only and not for matchup? XD
Behold RoF vs AG vs Elona

Sajuuk.6420:

Welp… bye bye Blobtide and hello Ring of blob and arborblob

Will the angry zerg be rolling today? :o

@ Noss.4105 sigh you miss the point, as i said, read properly. to get mad it requires to take persons like you serious which i can`t as your respond indicates.

That`s why i so like gw2 forum, because it is PvForum. Peopel won`t even notice if you are making fun out of them.

Good Luck Drakkar Lake and Gunnars Hold on your next matchup.
I hope the fair weather players and bandwagoners won`t transfer away once GH gets a tough match.

Monkeymonger.9235:

Since the update i haven’t been in a fight, neither smallscale nor raid, that i could honestly say was decided by bloodlust. There wasn’t a duel where i lost or won with a couple of thousand hp. Our raids wipe because i make a mistake or players get caught out of position – not because of 50-150 stat points.

It’s a bonus that we haven’t asked for. We were doing fine without it and i can’t stand to have our victories spoiled by it.
I do believe however that the bonus is vastly overrated. On a grand scale we win because we nightcap the kitten out of you. If you have no players online the buff doesn’t matter.

Edit: Also, it’s roaming. Sometimes you get zerged. Get over it.

I hope you are right, that it is vastly overrated, but i am really pessimitic towards bloodlust and its negative impact on wvw. :/

Noss.4105:

Bratwa.6582:

Our roamers are busy getting slaughtered by your zergs, mate and it doesn`t matter if you will believe it or not: earlier this week we tried to roam with 3-4ppl just to get zerged by 10-15 peopel.

Works both ways. I’ve been run over by RoF 5-15 man zergs countless of times too, more than by DL zergs actually. You just don’t pay attention to it when you guys do it. You just /laugh and /dance on the corpse like champs.
BTW, why does so many RoF players spam emotes when you kill someone 5+v1?

P.S. Thanks to that RoF P/P Perplexity thief for nice(and frikin’ annoying!) fight near RoF or DL BL Bay yesterday. To bad I got eventually overrun by some RoF group. Bad place to duel I guess.

You know what, you literally asked for it:

Works both ways. I’ve been run over by GH 5-15 man zergs countless of times too, more than by DL zergs actually. You just don’t pay attention to it when you guys do it. You just /laugh and /dance on the corpse like champs.
BTW, why does so many GH players spam emotes when you kill someone 5+v1?

And i use ballista or rams or whatever i get from rankup chest to put in on corpses!
And i answered one guy, what happens to us when we go on a roaming trip, why we dont have many roamers out there at the moment.
And you are not reading properly.
And I am well aware what our zerglings are doing to roamers, dont jump to conclusions like “You just don’t pay attention to it when you guys do it”.
And i shall come to the forums to say my daily adventures, what kind of injustice happened to me.
But seriously….read….porperly

Sceinna.3561:

It’s not Anet’s fault, WvW will never be a fair fight because a lot of times it comes down to numbers, this you simply cannot balance.. it’s the nature of WvW. I personally like the matchup rotation system more, otherwise you’d be stuck in the same matchup for weeks.. but yes, it has its downsides such as facing servers with far superior numbers.

If anyone knows how to fix this problem, feel free to mail Anet about it.. I certainly have no clue how to fix such a problem, except for free transfers (which would result in most people coming to GH tbh, rather than a server with no numbers and WvW structure).. […]
There will always be unfair situations, such as getting nightcapped etc.. I […] play for my own enjoyment.

Devon Carver alrdy stated, that WvW isn`t meant to be balanced. A-nets fault is: free transfers destroyed at the very beginning any "balance"and another fault of them is to meassure Transfer cost by Server size, but not their current ranking.
How does it make sense to introduce a buff that gives the server with a better coverage a even greater advantage? Peopel wanted to have the maps changed, so did Anet it is great (less PvE like Krait and Quaggans). Fighting against the odds and holding your ground can be challangeing, but when the odds are getting boosted the hope of victory is getting crushed. Now Peopel want naturaly fair fights, but with bloodlust as it is now there is no place for real PvP.
I figure, that A-net will just ignore the playerbase till Leagues start and say that they cannot change bloodlust now, because they stated: while Leagues are in place there will be no wvw related updates only bug fixes.

hihey.1075:

Ring of Fire Scout from [Fire] (A Condi Warrior and a Axe/Shield+Hammer Warrior), thanks for being the only one “roamer” I’ve found in 5 hours of roaming in RoF BL.
This night was REALLY boring. No one from RoF even tried to capture the Bloodlust points. RoF, what are you doing?

We are bound in the never ending quest to slaughter dragons, capturing temples, getting matched up with servers 5+ ranks higher than us. Our research group has decided to find the most effective way to kill Tequel the Sunless. Once Rof has mastered this superior task, we shall capture bloodlust, one of the most kittened things to give the winning server a even bigger advantage!
Our roamers are busy getting slaughtered by your zergs, mate and it doesn`t matter if you will believe it or not: earlier this week we tried to roam with 3-4ppl just to get zerged by 10-15 peopel. Now we are just waiting for the next senseless matchup with another server 5+ ranks higher than us.
Thank you A-net, you know how to balance like in gw1 with power creeping, keep it up.

Acotje.5689:

Veeber.3192:

Thanks GH, didn’t realise that a upscaled warranted 20 of you chasing me to the edge of the map.

This is a unique feature of GH and we are proud of it!
We are a bunch of undisciplined soldiers that do anything for a kill.

Where can i sign in?! That sounds awesome!

Arathor.7419:

biglilstampie.2410:

Just seen “golems hold” at Bay in GH BL, 8 omegas was not needed for a 10 man defense

comes from the guild that blobs

Angry person detected! Suggestion: Take a break

kokiman.2364:

Bratwa.6582:

Does your comment has a hidden message? It makes no sense at all.

You weren`t many and were also hiding behind your towers in your EB corner.

I have to admit, that it took a while to translate your comment.
Despite that we had “no real presence” we took two times Stonemist.

kokiman.2364:

pejot.4806:

Aye, the main problem with FR are their insane numbers – it looks like most of Arborstone guilds transferred there. At least they drop a lot of loot TaG had a lot of fun fighting french zergs all over EB yesterday evening, too bad that it took DL 3 or 4 hours to realize that when FR are at our corner with their zergball, they can hit FR corner, not only come to our every time…

We did that because you had no reason to be on EB at all.

Does your comment has a hidden message? It makes no sense at all.

This kind of thread will lead to no contructive results…
In every Server peopel are holding hands and zerg around. One with the guild, the other with PuGs, despite nationality, everyone is using the same tactics.
ZERG ZERG ZERG
I am tired of wvw akittens current state, almost 1 year wvw and there has been done little to no efford that is something you should be thinking about, rather then national servers and their zergs..

eats popcorn don`t forget we use also rezzing dead mesmers through gates and not to mention we sometimes summon a hotfix for pve while reset..yeap it is all us!
Jokes aside!

Arrowcart close to wall and aim through the gap above the gate, since it doesnt requiere line of sight. It isn`t new and it isn`t a hack. Maybe windowed mode gives a advantage there, but players are not to blame it is anet for giving that. You just show by posting that, that you are a novice in terms of wvw

On another note what happened to Dzarg? You had a better reset lasttime when we met

Sin.4130:

pejot.4806:

Wrong, we downgraded T3 DL bay as well, I also see a blue SM in EB ^.^

at deep night? I have never seen them blue. Yesterday for example SM was opened by our force from your keep-side, and you fail to take it, you only helped to defend it.

We did downgrad some of drakkars structure and nobody cares if you saw it or not and when BT forces where in SM we even tried to put pressure on Drakkar on their EB keep and yet you failed to take it.

Ey sin, will you start to offer duels to prove your point like lasttime when you had no arguments at all and acted like a spoiled brat?

Thanks to BNF from Dzarg and RCT from Arbor for the fights.
Good luck with your new match-ups

Behold if you don`t pay attention we will quaggan rush you!

pejot.4806:

Too bad that I coudn’t be there then ^^ /wave to all TaGs from their commander on vacation :P

Anya, nOOoooOOoo come back!

The Umpire.9510:

@ donrobeez

we kill every night some RoF golem rushes… so why you say that? you tag guys use them also….

last time when we took SM you had more then 15 golems inside… so wtf?

this reminds me to gunnars hold… also always complaining in the forums, plz dont do it, you dont wanne be the new gunnars hold….

Everyone uses them and it is kind of silly to golem rush everything. we have plenty commanders which were using golems most of the time and now they are using them all the time. He is just reminding, that there are more than GOLEMS, don`t you agree?

Complain alot list for each thread:

Arrowcarts: Check
Doubleteaming: Check
Nightcapping: Check
Golems (new! buy buy buy): Check

What is missing:
Blobbing
over use of quaggan tonics
Perma stealhed thieves most of the enemy roamers
both enemy servers inferior in 1vs1
did i miss something?

Homonavn.6348:

Iavra.8510:

Good to see TaG again. Hope you guys had as much fun as we just had on RoS(?) borderlands ^^

-> BNF mesmer and HON mesmer + everyone who got involved into the fight Sadly, we had to run a bit after your zerg showed up but was much fun regardless

Sorry to say this, but TaG has tranferred to another server :P But tbh… I didnt like some of the TaG commanders anyways. They kept moaning all the time, but still… we got alot commanders left from other guilds and enough players. This week is going good so far!

Looking forward to the rest of the week

ye, i miss TaG …oh wait. Good to know, that you know more than the TaG members, when did we transfer away? everytime i log in i am on RoF and all the others are still in RoF… I don`t know where you moaners get those informations, but we did only think about transferring it didnt take 1 hour then kittenheads started to try to recruit TaG members.. takes much respect for that…

FrouFrou.4958:

Dueling wasn’t the point, the point was that they were using emoticons trying to signal that hey, good game and all but I don’t really want to fight you! It indeed is wubwub and red is dead, but sometimes it’s o-kay to just let that one badge go, don’t you think?

1) That one guy had no intention to fight so he tried to communicate via emote /no (emoticons are something different) and still got attacked. That post indeed had the point about friendly communication.
1.1)We have enough peopel that don`t even bother reading teamchat nor do they care if a keep got contested or not, so don`t even bother.
2) The other one wanted to duel so he used /bow emote to signale that and got attacked while doing so => point is duelling and yes it is rather good to duel than killing a foe just to get silly loot.
That said, i don`t expect much dueling in this matchup anymore. Everytime i am roaming alone i get ganked by at least 3 peopel. Last matchup i had plenty 1vs1 with gandara and millers and now most are holding hands…

c`mon i am a lonely warrior don´t gank me :`(

Osicat.4139:

Jamais vu.5284:

Ring of Fire friends, I know you don’t get much WvW experience, but when someone salutes you twice after helping you and emotes a /no after you hit them and they clearly don’t fight back, don’t you think they’re trying to signal … something?

I seccond this, found a in open field 1 on 1 RoF today that I bowed to, he attacked in the bow unsure what I did, so I downed him. Backed of and let him res. Then I did a /bow…. he attacked again without any understanding of social emoting etc. So feld obligated to down kill and place a ram on him.

Tbh nothing wrong with some social emots and communication between servers when open field. Usualy ist just fun.

/Osicat

oh, since we are at it. I found myself in honorable 1vs1 and after time there came more and i ended up 1vs3 most of the time. That happened with Gandarans and peopel from Drakkar, so what is your point exactly? i get chased by stupid heartseeker spamming thieves and i don`t come to the forums and moan about them. If you want to duel go to windmill….