Guild Wars 2

fragnstein.3486:

Sardonia.8196:

What I do not understand is why these transferred guilds did not go over to SoR. It would have made for a much better and close matchup. BG already had decent coverage and SoR was lacking. WM and others stated they transferred because the fights got boring, well I do not really see much of a difference now. Same thing just different tier. I think if they would have gone to SoR, it would of been better for everyone involved.

You do not get anything for winning anyways and the only thing left it to have good clean even fights. Perhaps it is just me, but to each their own I guess. Congrats BG on the win this week

SoR needs to quit being greedy and offer guilds assistance moving over and getting set up. When a guilds wants to move, and everyone cant afford it, chances are those that cant afford it will leave the guild. Any sensible guild leader will want to get everyone over asap

SoR isn’t greedy. We simply share the same mentality and don’t want guilds that just want to be bought over. Brings a bad vibe buying guilds. And now BG is just, for right now anyway, the next stacked server. I mean really, all you’re going to get now is a lot of PvDoor… Enjoy!

It’s the same thing with all MMO’s these days. There’s a giant amount of people that want to be handed things. So many just flock to the easiest way to achieve the win, or cry until they get it.

pot.6805:

oxide.8324:

Sad to see SoR on 0 ppt :/

The tactical decisions made by SoRs night crew last night made no sense.

Luckily some servers look for fun, rather than mass recruiting to obtain top PPT.

I don’t understand why a server would push so hard to win something that doesn’t earn anything but bragging rights, in which, really doesn’t mean anything because it’s all just a coverage battle.

Stop hiding behind your arrow carts guys. Try and win a fight for once. I know you’re used to PvDoor, but come on. Surely that gets boring? Or is that XP leveling your alts just amazing!?

shortcake.8659:

How to take hills from an outmanned buffed team: about 30 gold worth of golems.

wait that didn’t work either. back to the drawing board guys.

Because defending with Derpcarts is hard. GG anet.

uberkingkong.8041:

Why do they always do server maintenance during Jade Quarry primetime?

Interesting. Didn’t know Jade Quarry had it’s very own prime time.

This will actually allow skeleton crews to defend their keep with their siege against zergs, otherwise zergs can just stand back treb EVERYTHING down, and even if the skeleton crew is defending with their seige it doesn’t matter because they just protect their seige with swirlies making the zerg have to put much of any effort at all into taking a keep.

I’d rather have more ways to gain protection. Like trade spiked armor from retal to prot and that would be awesome.

What? Fotm? Is this serious? I see 10x more guardians and necros in most organized zergs.

These buffs are awesome. That is all.
Can anyone tell me if they’ve confirmed to be removing leg spec on arrow carts? Trying to decide where to get the extra 10 points for boon hate.

Never really payed much attention to spirits, and I’m looking for a good build for WvW. I know most pets in the game in general are pretty squishy in zergy fights. I’m curious how the spirits handle themselves. Or are they just as squishy as any other pet out there and not worth using.

It’s a good ability, problem is it leaves you vulnerable because everyone has to be stacked there which gives them opportunity to bomb you. Most good organized groups in T1 need to be very mobile. Standing in one spot other to buff up before the initial bomb is ill advised.

People have learned how to totally destroy the turtle thing, plus it was killed a long time ago when they nerfed healing in general. Maybe it was good then. I dunno what groups you run with, but our group has a specific build that pretty much removes conditions being a problem. And we dont run a single ranger. And if we need to refill to full we simply call for a quick stack and someone drops a water field and everyone blasts. And we’re full and clear of conditions in less that 5 seconds.

Also even if you didn’t stand in the ranger healing field all day, it still requires you to return to it just for condition removal rather than keeping superior position in the fight. And at the same time, what if the ranger needs an emergency heal for himself? He just has to use it and now it’s on a 30 second cooldown and unavailable when the group needs it.

There’s just plain better options, guardians can pull them all. And I really have no idea what guardians you’re running with but ours pull them all the time and they still are living the longest if we lose a fight. We also have several elementalists who are almost constantly removing conditions and healing.

You can be defensive of ranger all you like. People play the better classes. It’s just that simple. I’m not a fan of cookie cutter crap either, which is why I’m trying to find a ranger build that brings at least a little utility to a large man fight, as well as small mans. I’m sort of hoping for the patch to give them a little something. But I’ve tried several builds and so far everything, dps, healing, conditions. Someone does it better.

Guarantee a guardian can heal tank and condition removal better than any ranger.

Air Runes are a good choice.
I’m still personally undecided on sigils. I do run bloodlust on greatsword and sword to 25 stacks and then have another greatsword which I currently have sigil of stamina because I run a shatter build with clones on dodge. But I’ve been thinking of changing it up to Fire for some more AoE.

I’m sure it’s debatable, but I think fire might work out nice to do more AoE not just for the dps but for tagging more players and getting more bags.

Although me personally I really like making clones on dodge, however I’m not always fighting in a big zerg so I’m thinking of also switching to Energy for something a little more reliable.

Interesting, I completely forgot about friendly projectiles. So I could maybe potentially catch my own mirrow blade. Curious if that’ll create a clone as it’s technically not the first hit I’m absorbing.

When I say second ability I am referring to Echo.

So I think I get pretty much what happens when you use the ability. You start the channel but nothing happens until a projectile hits you, which does in fact hit you and deal damage and whaveter else the projectile does, from that point on, you reflect and block anything else during the channel. Now for my questions.

1. Is the secondary ability affected by the damage of the ability absorbed?

2. Is the secondary ability affected by any of the secondary effects that the first projectile may have had? Like a condition or perhaps a stun or knockback?

3. If I happen to activate distortion can I absorb a hit while distortion is active or does the projectile have to actually hit me?

The wiki doesn’t appear to say anything and I’m unable to test it right now. Does anyone know if the Spite trait XII Close to Death applies to condition damage as well?

Sebrent.3625:

Please don’t take this as an insult, but perhaps you are running into better players that are more comfortable with the smaller engagements than you are? It may not be the build but that in zergs you have quite a buffer there of people to hide behind so any mistakes you make are not as glaringly obvious.

Perhaps whatever build(s) you’re running is/are fine and you just need more practice them with?

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I don’t do large group support unless you count me wading into the middle of a zerg with my greatsword and dropping traps, entangle, etc. crowd control (I’m not using frost trap).

I’m by no means offended. However this isn’t really the problem. I have several classes at 80 and really what I’m asking is a balanced build. I understand that I’ll run into better players and sometimes one’s that entirely build themselves around small man fights so essentially I may not be able to beat them. But like for instance on my warrior I run a hammer build that helps destroy zergballs when I’m on the front line with guardians. However in the case where I may not be running with a large group, I can still handle myself in a small man or even 1v1 and actually sometimes can take on several solo depending on the opponents.

My problem with ranger is finding a balanced build where I can bring some nice support whether it be damage or healing or some kind of utility to a large group fights. But then at the same time be able to do reasonably well in the case where I’m solo or havok grouping with small groups.

I can’t find anything that ranger brings to a large group fight besides damage. No nice walls or mass stuns or confusion or blinds. I can maybe do a kind of decent root for a second. But its really not enough. Even healing is pretty much out. Several classes can do all of these important utilities better than a ranger. So with that, I basically just went for a longbow piercing shot and axe warhorn(The axe seemed to do well in large fights due to bouncing axe with a fire sigil for more aoe.) Also tried greatsword but didn’t seem to do much of anything that I couldn’t do better on my warrior. Heck my warrior can even throw the greatsword better and do a 1 second root in the process to everything in its path.

I’m really thinking the only thing left that I could try is running a condition build with shortbow and sword/dagger. However this seems even worse because there’s no aoe, at least the longbow had decent aoe. I’m really beginning to think and even convince myself more as I’m typing this that there’s nothing a ranger does for the zerg that someone else cant do better. Which make sme a sad panda.

Oh and as for the healing signet. I do like it, but the reason I don’t use it is because the activated heal is so low. I’d rather have it on a long cooldown with a big heal than the short very small heal. Similar to the guardians healing signet that removes conditions.

You typically need a big heal in emergencies so if you get really low, you’re in pretty big trouble because now you’ve used the signet for a very small heal and lost your heal over time from it.

Dolyak – Meh, would rather have the shorter cooldown stability.
Fury – I love when I’m running my sniper build.
Might – I don’t feel like it’s worth the utility slot for only more might.
Stamina – LOVE this trait. I mostly power through most conditions on my hammer build and simply dodge around and have this available when I get loaded with conditions.
Rage – Only elite I like using. And it is a pretty amazing elite since I also run rune of lyssa.

I dunno why anyone would say avoid water. Thats pretty much the primary tree that almost all your cookie cutter builds put 30 into. Especially for leveling getting basically what’s a free heal and regen and condition removal just for switching to water.

Personally I think you could throw 30 points in water and everything else wherever you want and do just fine for leveling.

Personally made me sad when we bumped up to 2nd again. Blue is lame color and even though I rarely EB, red has much better position.

Pretty sure SoR has been blue at least 80% of our time spent in tier 1 and 2.

Anet give us a regular rotation in EB and new colors please!

After seeing the awesome video I had to give this build a try. And I have to say that I absolutely love it. I have to say it’s definitely not as tanky and easy mode as the typical d/d aura builds. However I’m also not the greatest elementalist being that I haven’t played the class all that much. I find that while my tankyness is lower, I kill things a lot faster, even other bunkers get burnt down pretty hard. And typically my deaths come from the unavoidable zergball catching me off guard. Or my lack of experience and not expending all my tools or using them unwisely. Already have pulled off some sick 10k churning earth on a group ressing a friend following an arcane wave that immediately dropped 3 of them. Still trying to get in a good fire grab, haven’t gotten much over 7 to 8k. I also love the 4 second strike that hits 4 to 5k fairly regularly.

I think I might be in love with this class now. I think all I need now is more playtime to improve my tool usage and mastering the class and I’ll love it even more when I top off my skills. <3

I feel like my ranger is just terrible. I like the class, but the build I came up with only works well when running with a large group. Whenever I run into a small man fight or even 1v1, if it’s even a remotely decent player I just get wrecked.

I have every class to 80 and I’ve manage to put together my own decent builds for all of them do run well with large groups and handle myself in small mans or 1v1. But I’m struggling in finding that balance with ranger. I haven’t tried a condition build yet, so I’m curious if that’s a more ideal path for what I’m looking for.

What builds do you WvW guys run and does it work well for you? Or are you just settling for a large group support.

The flaming boulders shall blot out the sun!

And that’s not all! I think you guys got like 10 of them.

Edit: Victory! For now!

Doctor Feelgood.3214:

TW don’t feel bad, they are merely doing the same thing you did with Sanctum of Rall, it is so clear that EMP is idolizing you!

Free transfers ruined JQ and made queues unbearable.

Anyway… I’m still sad about all my bags and wxp. It was such a nice thing farming EMP. Well, if there’s any luck in the world DB will get stacked, move to T1 and I’ll get to continue getting my bags.

:( my bags…….. so many bags….

You know I was thinking the other day, warriors and leg specialist should be removed from the whole arrow cart thing. But then started thinking. Well why not give that utility to rangers and their longbow? At least then 5 is on a cooldown long enough so you can just spam it. We also have to cast the initial channel. It just makes more sense to me. I mean several classes have a utility that can manage many people in a zerg like static fields and line of wardings.

I strongly believe barrage could use the immobilize factor like a warrior on a cart with leg specialist. It just makes sense to me. Can’t be any more OP than an elementalists static field or a guardians line of warding.

They’re aware, yes it sucks, but whining on the forums isn’t going to fix it. As long as Anet knows how close they are to having the best large scale PvP by getting this fixed.

It could be another easy gold sink though. Make it expensive to reset like 20 gold or something so people know they need to pick wisely.

The reduced aoe damage could work. Seemed to workout in Wow. Though skills work differently in this game so it might be harder to classify what is aoe and what isn’t. Especially since most abilities can hit more than one target. Perhaps something linked to swapping like reduced damage for X seconds after swapping. Or shorten the swapping cd in general.

Ranger could really use some WvW large scale fights utility as well, one suggestion I has was shorten the cooldown on entangle and make it an aoe targetable skill. Ranger typically doesn’t want to be on the front line so it would be nice to be able to use it at range.

Rawnoodles.1398:

Great fights tonight against the TW/TWL/TSYM mega zerg on SoR!

We will break your numbers with 1:2 ratios, just you wait and see.

EMP Team

That would be a treat. I would enjoy a nice change in pace. Watching you run away is getting old.

If JPs had their own instance it wouldn’t be a problem. But when people are trying to get in to actually participate in WvW and there’s an hour queue, and people are asking for ports to the JP is where it makes it a problem. If it didn’t affect the queue I would say ask away.

Lol entertaining. “They brought a bigger zamboni than our zamboni”.

KensaiZen.3740:

Coldviper.6794:

I for one am loving my ranger. The only thing that I have found is they lack a good utility for large scale fights. But I would rather be a ranger than a thief right now. But that’s just my opinion.

It depends what you want to do in large battles. I either support the zerg with search and rescue to keep the zerg alive and at max strength. Either that or flank the zerg and harrass them from the side, make people chase me with the “Rangers are easy kills” mentality. If i can pull away 5 people from a zerg. Thats effectively reducing their strength by quite a bit for losing very little on yours.

Plenty of ways to support the zerg.

Not that I entirely disagree but truthfully anyone can do many of those things. I’m referring to utility like mass confusion from mesmers and portals, mass blinds from necros, front line cc and support from guardians and warriors, ect…

There’s really nothing like that, that rangers can bring to the table. Unless you consider their long cooldown root. Which could be better on a shorter cooldown and aoe targetable.

Also its pretty easy to farm karma, run a few AC explorer, or follow a zerg for badges to get full exotics in which I would recommend with the stats power, toughness and vitality. Lot of people don’t realize how hard you can hit glass cannons for in tanky gear and live to tell the tale.

I for one am loving my ranger. The only thing that I have found is they lack a good utility for large scale fights. But I would rather be a ranger than a thief right now. But that’s just my opinion.

I had every class but ranger to 80 until about a week ago. Lot of people have claimed them to be weak, but I’ve found an incredibly fun build using a lot of dodging for protection and sword/dagger for lots of evasion abilities. And I’m considering maining ranger now instead of my juggernaut warrior.

If you’re looking for perfectly fair fights where gear plays no role you’ll have to play spvp. WvW is quite gear dependant and requires organization. If you just jump in and kitten around by yourself you won’t accomplish much. Many servers have communities that use a voice chat program which makes for a lot of fun.

Even if they simply made the current ones more interesting I’d be happy. Maybe balance changes based on terrain. Like make adjustments so bay isn’t such a weak keep. Bring in other interesting aspects like the old orb, and maybe other various things. Give JP it’s own instance.

There’s so much they could do, but in all honesty, they really need to focus on a solution for ability lag and this would easily be the best current game for large scale PvP.

Fix your game please, would be nice to WvW without crashing every time I’m in Bay, pretty much water in general. Because waiting in queue for an hour to play with my guild is pretty silly.

Where’s a score update!

One thing I can’t get my head around after trying a turret build is why the cooldowns are so long. I understand the overload cooldowns, but an engineer is pretty strongly crippling himself by using all turrets and having a lot less tools for survival. I enjoyed the turret build when I could actually put them out but find if I’m ever needing to move I’m incredibly weak without them and not noticing that I’m immensely strong with them.

Seems to me they should be on a lot shorter cooldown because without them on a pure turret build you may as well run.

Recently started getting more in to sPvP as the update to WvW has made zergballing even worse. So I’m curious about the map changing for tPvP. From what I gather it changes on a weekly basis, however my one concern is if that map with the water and sharks(sorry dunno its name.) is ever on that weekly list.

It concerns me mostly because water combat is not only annoying and stupid, but INCREDIBLY imbalanced. Is it even possible to beat a mesmer? And how is it they nearly get stronger when they’re downed? I can’t stomp them so I’m forced to spam them while they spam confusion, ultimately killing myself.

If this stupid map is on that change I guess I just skip that week? Or just play mesmer I guess.

I could swear its bugged, because sometimes I’m loaded full with almost every condition, I use Elixir C and only get 2 or 3 boons in return. Is this bugged? Or am I not understanding properly how it should work?

So far the only thing that hasn’t been a huge disappointment has been the culling fix… All my warrior changes have been terrible, ranking system is terrible and made the overall gameplay even worse because everyone zergs harder now than before. I’ve actually had to stop playing the game because of all this massive disappointment. And now this joke of a ranking system…. Fail.

I appreciate you stacking for my bags Lords of the Dying.

Every single time I’m fighting in bay, I crash. Has anyone else experienced this? I would assume it’s probably something to do with water. But who knows.