Guild Wars 2

All Ley Line skins have a draw sound effect when you draw the weapon apart from the Ley Line Short Bow.

Also, not a bug but as a side note, if the pistol and rifle change the projectile sound effect, I think all of the weapon skins should have a similar alteration to attack sounds to maintain consistency in the skin pack.

Alter.net servers are screwing up an otherwise good connection to GW2 servers:

Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address
0 Calsifer.Orcon [10.1.1.2]
0/ 25 = 0% |
1 1ms 0/ 25 = 0% 0/ 25 = 0% BoB.Orcon [10.1.1.1]
0/ 25 = 0% |
2 4ms 0/ 25 = 0% 0/ 25 = 0% 121-99-252-1.bng1.nct.orcon.net.nz [121.99.252.1]
0/ 25 = 0% |
3 5ms 0/ 25 = 0% 0/ 25 = 0% xe-2-2-0.cre1.nct.orcon.net.nz [121.98.9.141]
0/ 25 = 0% |
4 9ms 0/ 25 = 0% 0/ 25 = 0% 121.99.12.0
0/ 25 = 0% |
5 7ms 2/ 25 = 8% 2/ 25 = 8% team.orcon.net-gw.customer.alter.net [210.80.27.6]
0/ 25 = 0% |
6 5ms 0/ 25 = 0% 0/ 25 = 0% GigabitEthernet1-0-0.GW6.AKL1.ALTER.NET [210.80.27.5]
0/ 25 = 0% |
7 6ms 0/ 25 = 0% 0/ 25 = 0% 0.xo-1-0-0.XT4.AKL1.ALTER.NET [210.80.35.17]
5/ 25 = 20% |
8 144ms 10/ 25 = 40% 5/ 25 = 20% 0.so-0-0-0.IL2.LAX12.Alter.Net [210.80.50.89]
0/ 25 = 0% |
9 149ms 5/ 25 = 20% 0/ 25 = 0% 0.xe-3-3-0.IL4.LAX9.ALTER.NET [152.63.114.17]
1/ 25 = 4% |
10 —- 25/ 25 =100% 19/ 25 = 76% 0.ae1.XT4.DFW9.ALTER.NET [140.222.225.49]
0/ 25 = 0% |
11 185ms 10/ 25 = 40% 4/ 25 = 16% GigabitEthernet7-0-0.GW12.DFW9.ALTER.NET [152.63.97.98]
0/ 25 = 0% |
12 170ms 6/ 25 = 24% 0/ 25 = 0% 65.205.119.210
4/ 25 = 16% |
13 200ms 10/ 25 = 40% 0/ 25 = 0% 64.25.32.9
0/ 25 = 0% |
14 —- 25/ 25 =100% 15/ 25 = 60% 64.25.32.26
0/ 25 = 0% |
15 195ms 10/ 25 = 40% 0/ 25 = 0% ICMP.ArenaNetworks.com [64.25.39.1]

As you can see from the traceroute, connection is perfectly fine until there’s a sudden 76% packet loss at ALTER.NET servers. This is likely causing my frustrating lag issues during Oceanic prime time.

1.5k/2k hrs on thief. I’m alright I guess? No where near the best though.

Shhh…no one needs to know about the infiltrator strike trick :P But in all seriousness, if you want to know it, figure it out for yourself. It’s so much more gratifying more fun when you finally figure it out! :P

BlackDevil.9268:

style.6173:

BlackDevil.9268:

Ghostwolf.9863:

musu.9205:

But since thief highly counters mesmer

Never noticed this, 4/4/0/0/6 shatter.

And no to your request, 3s stability from a stolen ability from a steal that might not even land and clones usually deal with Aegis. You can also make a build focusing on destroying boons if it bothers you that much.

Maybe you never faced good thieves then, cause overall, thief is the hard-counter to mesmers at the moment.

Might not even land? Either that mesmer can dodge really good, or the thief is just failing to spam f1.

Make a build to counter a skill? Let’s just not do that shall we?
The stability and aegis are both not in the description, while the buffs are already long enough. The moment you think you can counter the thief by using I-wave when he uses his shadow refuge, it wont push him out cause he uses the cheap steal skill. The skill is already strong enough without it, why put both aegis and stability on it too? It’s not like mesmer gets stability from the signet of inspiration. It’s actually funny cause mesmer has almost 0 access to stability.

Wrong. At equal skill levels, a mesmer should win.

Wrong, at equal skill levels a thief should always, but really always win.

Chicago Jack.5647:

The reason why thieves have a better game against mesmers is not because of consume plasma.

And that’s an argument for not nerfing consume plasma because…?

Calsifer.6079:

You do realize that the I wave doesn’t push us out because we dodge inside the refuge right? Not because we have stability.

A good mesmer will never make it so obvious when he will cast it. For example; you can precast it from range, teleport in/near the SR and even the best thief wont expect that to happen. Another thing is casting it from stealth. That’s only for if the thief can’t dodge or isn’t fast enough. Had enough times that in a 3v3 environment I could easily push the thief out cause of too much kitten going on. Skilled or not, dodging I-wave as thief against a mesmer who knows how to do it stealthy is pretty hard. That consume plasma just takes away all that skill in 1 push and granting another 6 boons of at least 10 seconds duration that can easily win you the fight.

It doesn’t matter how stealthy you play your I-wave if I’m dodging inside the refuge as a precaution against cleave and the anticipation of a pull or push at anytime.

EDIT: Also, you can only be so sly when using I-wave. It still has the same big kitten animation. If my reactions are fast enough, I WILL dodge it every time.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fZQQNAoYFmYng2OA1eCcfiOUiu2BA-TFTBABJqF4hTAwVK3i4QAKB7SJxNqygimAi2fAPdAIYCKH1GA4JAEAAB4mtZA4m38m38oJEgutA-w

This is roughly what I’m running. It has only 30 less armor and 800 less health than your build, however, it has a much higher damage output and group synergy (imo) than your build. This is due to 4% higher crit dmg and + 6% (+ 13% when striking from sides and behind) crit chance over your stats. Rune of the Pack can also proc bringing my max possible crit chance to 77% which is very deadly. It also applies to nearby allies which boosts their dps nicely as well. I also have Sigil of air on my dagger which adds a nice bit of damage.

IMO, D/D can no longer rely on merely backstabs. Crit chance is important now for D/D to pick up on the damage lost from backstab.

I wouldn’t use rune of air. It has 3 useless effects. Pack or strength are much better imo.

I was in conversation with an ANet employee in-game who confirmed for me that the rucksack is available from the supply boxes. I poured all my gold and all my mats into buying these boxes. After selling T6 mats and ectos for gold, and converting all my available wood, leather, ore, and scraps into boxes, and after buying over 600 gossamer scraps, and over 200 linen scraps, I found myself with ~600-700 boxes. I opened all these boxes and have nothing to show for it apart from gauntlet tickets, 2500+ quartz which is useless to me at the moment, and 1000+ tokens.

Is it possible for a dev to give some indication on how much I should expect to spend on these boxes until I get a rucksack skin. After pouring everything I had into buying and opening these boxes, I want to know whether I should go on trying to buy boxes or not.

BlackDevil.9268:

Ghostwolf.9863:

musu.9205:

But since thief highly counters mesmer

Never noticed this, 4/4/0/0/6 shatter.

And no to your request, 3s stability from a stolen ability from a steal that might not even land and clones usually deal with Aegis. You can also make a build focusing on destroying boons if it bothers you that much.

Maybe you never faced good thieves then, cause overall, thief is the hard-counter to mesmers at the moment.

Might not even land? Either that mesmer can dodge really good, or the thief is just failing to spam f1.

Make a build to counter a skill? Let’s just not do that shall we?
The stability and aegis are both not in the description, while the buffs are already long enough. The moment you think you can counter the thief by using I-wave when he uses his shadow refuge, it wont push him out cause he uses the cheap steal skill. The skill is already strong enough without it, why put both aegis and stability on it too? It’s not like mesmer gets stability from the signet of inspiration. It’s actually funny cause mesmer has almost 0 access to stability.

You do realize that the I wave doesn’t push us out because we dodge inside the refuge right? Not because we have stability.

“Shadow Arts V—Infusion of Shadow: Increased the amount of initiative gained to 2, but only when entering stealth.”

What: Shadow Arts V Trait, Infusion of Shadow.

Why: Obviously increasing the initiative gain to 2 makes it way too OP compared to the pre Dec. 10 patch Infusion of Shadow which only gave a 2 initiative gain. This new 2 initiative gain that they gave us is way too powerful compared to the old 2 initiative gain and needs to be nerfed immediately.

Aesthetic Quietus.5346:

The death of d/p build. That build will absolutely get trounced by anything 1v1. its defense was stealth. it was a bit troll like to be able to hide from a zerg..but did that impact balance? seems not a whole hell of a lot different than walking around CnDing to stay in stealth. A shred more skill to land it.

Correction: D/P permastealth is dead. 0/30/30/10/0 D/P Backstab is still alive and well. I run 0/30/30/10/0 D/P Backstab and I never stack heartseekers in black powder.

No.

Altering a pistol offhand skill just because you want your mainhand to be more viable is not the way to go. Adding a teleporting retreat to this skill would make D/P a frustrating set to work with. Running D/P, or any spec, if you interrupt an enemy’s heal or other crucial skill you’ll want to press the attack and use your momentum to end the fight. making us teleport back every time we interrupt their skills would be very frustrating.

You don’t fix pistol main-hand by changing pistol offhand. You fix pistol main-hand by fixing pistol main-hand. ANet just doesn’t want to for some reason.

My human thief standing outside his hometown of Divinity’s Reach!

Armor: Head – Whispers, Shoulders – T3 Human Cultural, Chest – Viper’s gem store skin, Hands – T3 Cuman Cultural, Legs – T3 Human Cultural, Boots – T3 Human Cultural.

Weapons: Main hand – Corrupted Shard, Off hand – Destroyer Pistol.

Dyes: Mixture of Ivory, Gunmetal, Iron, and Charcoal dye.

KStudios.2850:

Waffler.1257:

KStudios.2850:

Just felt like getting belted in the groin and having your wallet taken by some little kid you could’ve otherwise thrown like a ragdoll, only to watch the kid mirthfully run down the street and get that wallet stolen by a larger kid right right before your eyes like twenty feet away lol. Pretty demoralizing all around. XD

wot?

TL;DR?

In short, I took a quick shower, lost my tower to a group that shouldn’t have got it, then they didn’t even get to benefit from it.

Uhhh, lol, okay?

I think that there needs to be a rebalancing for warrior in terms of skill to results ratio.

For instance, on my semi-bunker d/p thief, I have to spend 75% of my initiative in order to enter stealth. If I’m fighting a warrior who knows anything about thief, they’ll immediately take measures to make it hard for me to get behind them. This means I’ll have 3-4 seconds with which I have to outmaneuver my enemy and get in a position to make a backstab that will only crit for 4-5k vs. a sustain warrior, 6k if I have might.

Not only must I spend 75% of my initiative pool, I need to outplay my enemy in terms of positioning and speed in order to land a successful backstab.

With warrior on the other hand, I can get chain cc’d by a hammer warrior whose attacks crit my thief for anywhere from 3-5k dmg per hit. If I’m unlucky, I can be dead within the warrior pressing 3-4 buttons and then maybe some auto attacks.

The level of play involved with landing a backstab compared to the amount of skill required to cc train someone is where I feel the imbalance and “OPness” of warrior lies.

Excalibur.9748:

Warrior received a bunch of buffs (cleansing ire, berserker stance, healing signet, 25% passive movement increase trait w/ melee weapons, dogged march -33% condition duration on yourself and regen)
Thief received a bunch of nerfs (larcenous strike only steal 1 boon, larcenous strike ini increase, cluster bomb range reduction, shortbow AA no longer homing, lotus poison nerf)

Just use your warrior for everything now. It is strictly better in everything from PvE, to WvW, to PvP, to roaming.

Warrior was also indirectly buffed by making immob stack. Leg specialist + Sword main hand auto attack = wtf.

kazi.6438:

I DID IT! I alone have braved the dangers of the EB jumping puzzle and several groups of gank squads to reach a forbidden treasure camped by no less than 7 individuals hailing from the faraway lands of the Crystal Desert!!!!

Look, I bring proof of this miraculous achievement! As an act of celebration, many CD uplevels were knocked off the top to the deaths they so rightly deserved. The intrepid guild of campers known as PDoX even set off fireworks and celebratory /sit spam to commemorate this momentous achievement! Oh glorious day! REJOICE!

Honestly, though, you guys are kittens.

Hey look! It’s me! The Bronze Invader from [QCS]! Don’t worry though, CD wasn’t just camping NSP, CD was also camping CD Hint: Knockback fire arrow traps do not differentiate between friend or foe.

XJJX.6430:

hey guys thank you all for your time, but the guild eventually decided on which server we will transfer.

Deep Penetrations [DPS] will go back to IoJ, and we will spend our 1 year anniversary there

thanks again

lolwut? Why do I see you guys fielding 20+ on BP then? Thought you guys were going to IoJ…

EDIT: You guys field 30+…as if BP wasn’t blobbing enough this match-up -.-

Too bad that just like the perfect CD/KN/YB matchup, transfers will eventually screw up the near perfect balance of this matchup as well

To all the people suggesting that transferring to servers with higher populations should cost more from a WvW perspective, that isn’t entirely fair. Sure, BG, JQ, and SoR are all ‘very high’ pop. servers, but so is CD, DH, Anvil Rock, IoJ, GoM, NSP, and SF.

Pricing should be based around the WvW ranking. PvE population doesn’t matter because people just guest for PvE. WvW is the only reason people mass transfer.

Tyrlis.8072:

I’m one of the community reps for CD and I’ll tell you we would not condone anybody cheating like that.

On a positive note. SoH + Friends are doing their ‘Attack of the Clones’ Theme Zerg right now. We’re listening to Star Wars music, answering Star Wars trivia, and playing alllll of our mesmers on BPBL. And drinking copiously. Come fight us!

Dio.2394:

You do realize that saying people who generalize are sad and pathetic is generalizing right?

That makes no sense at all. He’s calling the people who are generalizing CD sad and pathetic because that IS sad and pathetic behavior. He’s targeting a select group of people who have made specific comments towards CD. That isn’t generalizing. Generalizing would be calling the whole of IoJ sad and pathetic just like how some of you seem to believe that everyone on CD is a no good cheater.

You should check us out at CD! You would be a welcome addition to our night force. We’re also active on our community teamspeak and our server runs regular events inside and outside of WvW. We run naked WvW raids and drunken WvW raids for fun! We also run proper raids regularly throughout the week.

For more info, contact:

Tyrlis[SoH] (Tyrlis.8072)
Grieve Logdan[SoH] (Grieve.1432)
Daeronz[TDS] (Necro.6432)
Amber Vine[CLAV] (hmsgoddess.3869)

No offence, but the lack of logic and rational thought from some IoJ and BP players in this thread is just astounding. Honestly, do you think that us on CD planned and purposely spent 140+g/$40 to transfer to your two servers just to build a bunch of trebs and waste seige?

Also:

“Oddly enough, the griefer, after first claiming to be brand new to the game, claimed that he was from CORE guild. Which just confirmed the idea it was actually a CD player trying to make people think he was from IoJ.” -Dio.2394

In what world is this sound logic?

Even if it is an ex-CD player griefing you guys, that doesn’t entitle you all to make sweeping generalizations of an entire server of thousands based on the actions of one person. Using that train of thought, I would assume that everyone in the US is a mentally unstable gunman. You can’t just make two observations, skip a few steps, then draw a conclusion. That’s not how logic works.

We on CD would love to have you Our SEA timeslot is filled with good people to play with. We run regular events on our server like drunken WvW night and naked WvW parade and we also run giveaways on reset days!

Contact:

Daeronz [TDS]
Gismor [EK]
Stack Of Pancakez [INC]

For more info.

Quaggans interested in sieging and havoc guilds for WvW. All time-zones are welcome!

Quaggans also interested in any guilds who want to join our awesome community!

Hey there! CD has a very good PvX population with WvW focus and two oceanic/SEA time slot PvX guilds that come to mind are [KoMe], [PA], and [OCAU]. Queues do not exist in CD oceanic and SEA and they rarely exist during NA outside of reset.

SoS is also a good choice for Oceanic but I can’t guarantee that they won’t be queued.

Drop me a mail ingame if you want more details on who to talk to regarding oceanic/sea timezones

You should definitely look into join us on CD! Your time slot is perfect as there are enough guilds you can co-ordinate with but we aren’t so stacked that you have to compete with other guilds for good open field fights if your guild wants to go solo.

Rest assured that if you join us, you won’t be treated as second rate xfers. Ask any of the guilds which have xferred onto CD, they’ve all been quickly welcomed into the quaggan family

Like others have mentioned:

Daeronz [TDS]
Gismor [EK]
Stack Of Pancakez [INC]

have more info on CD WvW.

Agreed, we need servers to have closer populations or at least have populations that balance each other out. I remember when the new matchmaking systems first kicked in and us on CD got YB and KN. Those two CD/YB/KN match ups were the most brilliant fun I’ve ever had in WvW and that’s because both weeks, the score was within 2000 of each other until the final few days of the match up. Suffice to say I did NOT have fun when we got matched to TC and the only “roamers” I could find ran in groups upwards of 5 man.

Chin up Darkhaven, losing guilds is hard. Trust me, CD knows.

melodey.4652:

Lord Galwrath.9302:

Mallechos.9876:

Hard to find good 1v1 fights against CD – they all seem to turn into 1vX. Oh well. It’s good practice.

Conceptually speaking, generally rule of thumb is virtually, DH are bags, loot many.

Coming from the server that tucks tail and runs when they start losing people to numbers half their size. CD and SoS should have a dream date, you might find you have a lot in common.

lol, you’re complaining about no small man fights against CD? Tell that to the two Darkhaven peeps from [SFX] who would try kill me 2v1 and when I killed one of them, they turned tail and ran to the nearest sentry and then when I kill one of them again, the other one logs. I still got the bags though

To that bleed thief and ele duo from Darkhaven from [SFX], it was fun screwing around with you guys for a bit but just because I killed the thief doesn’t mean you guys should retreat halfway across the map to a sentry and sit there And then when the thief overextends and I kill him again, it doesn’t mean you should run away and then proceed to log out while I’m chasing you…

Btw, you logged out while you were still in combat so I still got the bag

Guise, waht r u doin? I found this on the 5th page D;

Grats ANet! People have been saying PC gaming and MMORPGs have been dying for years now but these figures obviously say otherwise.

NineOnine.4327:

Ok mate love the “most likely” bit, clearly only the top 4 servers have toxic spawn campers on them. The reality is that if CD was wining there would be people on your server doing the exact same thing.

I never said that all people who left CD are toxic. In fact, I knew many of the people who left CD and they were cool guys. However, there were certain people that may or may not be on Blackgate at the moment who weren’t always a positive presence on CD.

Also, where the hell did you get the idea that I think that only the top 4 worlds have toxic players who spawn camp? You only need to look at Maguuma to realise that that isn’t true.

Kranky.8231:

You don’t do much for your credibility making such fanciful suggestions.

How are my suggestions fanciful? Is it so far fetched to suggest that of the many people who have left CD, some of them might have ended up on TC? I know for a fact that TC has at least 3 ex-CD guilds. I’m not saying that those are the people spawn camping CD atm but I am saying that there’s a high chance that people on TC have camped TC when they were on other servers.

I’m sorry that I’ve rustled your jimmies somehow but what I’m saying is you can’t just take the CD from last year and say that it was the CD today. We’ve bled to many people for that statement to be valid. That would be like saying the SoS from last year is the same as the SoS today.

Of course I can’t really expect this post to go down well because this is the forums and everyone knows logic and reason don’t exist on here.

NineOnine.4327:

Zenjii.6819:

Stay classy, TC. Spawn camping CD everyday outside of NA prime and then running into the keep and jumping on siege if you get pushed at all. And spamming emotes as you kill 5-10 uplevels with 20-30 people.

I’ve seen a few comments along the same line as this in this thread. Late last year there was a a few weeks where CD had a huge number advantage over TC and smashed us… Take a guess at what CD did outside of NA prime time every night without exception?

lol, the people that were on CD last year are the very same people who now populate the higher tier servers including yours. Those who were camping you back then are more than likely to be the exact same people you are playing alongside now.

Luckily for us on CD, the 2-3 guild exoduses we’ve experienced have removed some of the more toxic players from our community.

I play this game for fun. Please take all your animosity drama bullkitten to a private arena.

NO! We can’t let this thread die! We want Cantha!

Obby Shards.9365:

wow boring thread

Well it’s a boring matchup, what did you expect? There isn’t anything to talk about.

I think they’ve almost completely revamped the borderlands map but they just haven’t updated the overview map yet cause if you look at the attached screenshot, there is little sign of the lake what so ever. In fact, you can see cliffs or hills in the background.

lol.

/15char

I jumped this SoS guy a few matchups ago and dispatched him quite quickly. He proceeded to party me and kitten talk me. He then ranted to his friend who then whispered me saying that the guy I killed called me a:

“Heartseeker spamming kitten Thief.”

I was running S/D.

To that FA condi warrior from [sd] (Or something like that), sorry, but that fight was getting way too long and I had to go to sleep. I tried to break off and party you but you didn’t accept

Kman.7358:

evilapprentice.6379:

Kman.7358:

Making it insta cast would not work. At all. It doesn’t need anything and it can be landed very reliably with a steal mid cast. With the amount of damage CnD can do being so ridiculous, changing anything else would push it far over the top.

Note that the picture below is NOT on an upleveled player.

The title says PvP – what bearing does WvW have on PvP?

Because ANet doesn’t split skills. Ever. If they make a change for one, it’ll be for both.

Wut? ANet already stated that sPvP balance will be split from WvW/PvE balance. They also had no problem having PvP variants of skills in GW1 so I don’t see why they can’t/won’t do the same here.

Just a bump for a good suggestion

+1

You should contact [FKVA], they don’t do organised fights but I think if you contact them, they’d be all for roaming on the same borderland!

Sorry I’m no good at photoshop but I believe I have deciphered DB’s secret tactics which they use to achieve success in the battlefield. Attached is my detailed analysis of top secret DB tactics used to emerge victorious in combat. Now that these stratagems have been exposed, I’m sure we will see this match-up become much more even as DB no longer has the advantage of superior tactical approach.

What’s with all the kitten talk from Ehmry Bay all of a sudden? Wonder what got their jimmies all rustled.

John Widdin.9618:

I got Sanctum 2, X3 Terran conflict, Endless space, Strike suit Zero and infinity, Universe sandbox, and FTL.

Oh, and my Power supply just gave out on my PC. kitten sakes.

Also, here’s a gif representing majority of players in WvW.

Nice picks, X3 is a good game but it takes a little getting into imo. Gets better when you mod it.

FTL is also an amazing game XD That kitten is addictive!

Just a shout out to to a Mag mesmer from [DERP] I had the pleasure of fighting a few days ago. I think it was Tsazari(?) or something like that. You are one hell of a 1v1 mesmer mate, a true master of your class :P Rolled me in less than a minute. Never had a problem with mesmers before you came along, really made me want to step up my game a learn to combat mesmers better

P.S. If you read this and are keen to drop me a message w/ build info etc. I’d be all ears but of course you don’t have to give all your secrets away :P

EDIT: Also, is it just me or does [DERP] have a whole kittenload of rank 100+ players?