Guild Wars 2

Kontrolle.3514:

Hammers, just hammers.
maybe some necros, eles or mesmers to support the hammers.

staff+GS, I would say, but I’m a noob, so…

I wonder if I’m the only toon that (nealry) maxed up ballista mastery in the whole game, kitten :>

a 5th map would actually be detrimental to low pop servers, which actually struggle to defend their own BL plus EB.

what would it happen if they had to defend another map?

they will NOT make them account bound, they have said that over and over again, but i woul love a way to reset your points by spending gold, as you suggested

question: by maxing up guard killer and defense against guards you would get 100 power, 100 con damage and 250 vitality after just killing five guards?!

rank 4 of supply mastery does give you a chance to get 0/4 extra supply that, remember, is not taken of from the total pool you get from your keeps/camps/towers/whatevers

it already makes it a lot more worthy than supply capacity, I do actually think that (COMPARED TO SUPPLY CAPACITY) supply mastery is really overpowered

btw, of course you MUST have at least 1 rank in repair and build, in my opinion! that’s why I ranked them so high.

basically

4 ranks in supply mastery
1 rank in repair
1 rank in build
whatever you fancy to level up afterwards

What are the 5 WvW skills you guys prefer?

1. supply master
2. repair mastery
3. build mastery
4. AC mastery
5. Ballista/Cannon mastery

(if Supply capacity was cheaper it would’ve been #3 or #4, probably)

Actually a Ballista has a range of 3000, a Catapult of 4000 and a trebuchet of 10000.

Would it be such a bad idea if, to increase the uses of ballistas, its range on reinforced shot would be increased to 4500?

consider that it still requires LoS to attack a catapult, which is an important factor.

Yeah, you got a very good point in RI being essential especially when we consider dolyaks moving out of camps, I do also agree that there should be some bigger incentive to defend a point, rather than attacking it, but there’s plenty other topics talking about it already.

what would be a beneficial activity to encourage people to defend? 1WXP per second? every 10 seconds? every minute?

sorry for what happened to you mate, but still, it’s a PvP area, I feel your pain, but I think you will realize soon that there’s no real point in posting what happened to you here.

Disclaimer: I basically play 50% WvW/ 40% PvE/ 10% PvP, so I do NOT consider myself an expert of WvW AT ALL, but just for the sake of theorycrafting I was wondering…

Would it help WvW if you would get a set amount of points every minute, instead of every 15?

let’s just have a teorethical scenario

At the moment the points you get for camps/towers/keeps/SM every 15 minutes are 5/10/25/35plus one point every time you flip a sentry, what would happen if, let’s say, you would get 1/2/3/5/7 points every minute you hold a place of Interest (POI), and we get rid of righteous indignation?

I’ll not write down my opinion so we’ll not just talk about if I’m right or wrong, I just want some honest opinions from more experienced people.

What would it happen?
would you still give one point per sentry flip?

We need a RP subforum!

Janse would change “This will not end well” with “Whining”.

Janse still wonders why Janse is working with Plantperson…

(nice one! )

Janse would like to thank everyone for voting Janse Charr of the Year on Famous Charrgazine that Janse will not name because Janse hasn’t been paid enough to.

Janse wrote a small writtentalk that janse will fake Janse just thought to say THANK YOU to Janse admirers.

“Since Janse was a cub, Janse has always had a dream: To kick humanpeople bottoms, and plantpeople, and gardengnomepeople, because Janse has always thought that all races should be equal in bottomkicking-receiving. (Janse is not sure this is actual humanword NDJanse)

‘But what’s the difference between Janse and any other healthy, sane charr cub that has lived before?’ Janse can hear one of you gardengnomepeople say.

First, Janse would like to point out that those kind of questions are the reason Jansespeople love to kick gardengromesbottoms so much, Janse never asked you to ask any question!

Second, Janse is different because Janse LOVES bottomkicking. While Jansespeople average day goes with the feeling that we kick bottoms for duty, Janse does it with passion! (Janse would like to consider Janself with that humanjob that goes for “Art”)

Janse knows that this prize means so much for many of you that have followed Janse as a leadrole for their human/plant/gardengnomelifes for so long, and Janse is glad to have made the world a better place.

Thanks again, Janse."

Now, Janse thinks Janse has wrote a decent writtentalk to deliver, so Janse will patiently wait for everyone to Just deliver this much deserved prize to Janse, thanks again.

(On a completely related note: We don’t have a Roleplaying forum. I feel like this is not the proper subforum to post this post, but oh well…)

since I have a support ticket for this reason, and I think it is something that should be adressed:

I do suggest you all to create a way to make us able to buy the game for someone we know as a present, in someway that would make the process painless!

:)

yes I did indeed register the account, since I was trying to make a surprise to him. I know I shouldn’t have, but I tought he could just change his password later on (and still, since I have my own account, I don’t have any real reason to look at his account once I give it to him)

I did use my own email to buy its account, which its exactly the same I used to buy mine. It was stupid to be honest, I should’ve used a different one, just in case. and as a friendly advice, I do suggest you people to enforce an email check on registration, just to avoid this kind of problems (not trying to blame you guys, it’s definitely my fault)

I’ll follow the links you sent me, thanks

Today is my brother’s birthday and I’ve bought an account for him and it looks it’s not working, it’s probably my fault but still…

Here’s my situation:

I, of course, own my own account, today it’s my younger brother’s birthday so I bought him an account, but I used my own email address to register his account as well!

what I’ve got:

*my own GW2 copy, bought by a shop
*my own serial code

*his serial code, sent on my email (which is sadly the same I used for my account)
*his unique user name
*his unique password
*his order number

Just so you know, I did this because we don’t live in the same country anymore (I live in the UK and he’s in Italy) and I wanted to make him a surprise.

What should i do?

Just wondering, and I can’t check at the moment, but how can you forge items requiring paid tournament tokens? Have they been merged with the free ones?

Kando.9046:

I think it’s very important to make sure that if a visible ranking is shown then i hope it is introduced with a separate solo queue system and current single round free tournaments are kept in the game as another option for players like yourself and me too.

I hope so, even though I’m scared the wait times will get longer with all the people joining ranked games and the possibility that people will join unranked just to blatantly troll around

Zinwrath.2049:

8 professions.
Each with 20 utilitys that can offer SEVERAL combinations of 3 ontop of healing options and ultimates.
Multiple weapon options across each profession.
37 sigil options
52 Rune options.
150 traits with 70 trait points per profession offering hundreds of different customizations.
aprox 60 major Traits (around 10-12 per trait line) to customize.

All while trying to balance the effects of said abilitys across different style conquest maps.

This game is a balancing nightmare and it just came out and imo isnt close to an e-sport scene. Balance changes need to be frequent because there are a LOT of very obvious imbalances that need addressed BEFORE it can call itself an E-sport…

I’m not saying that the game should stay as it is now, far from that! What I mean is that we need to have “frequent” changes until we find an optimal balance, then the game will need to stay as stable as possible. I’m just saying that in a good game you probably can use your experience to predict what an opponent will do, but if you change the rules every two weeks then you just end up smashing the keyboard hoping for the better

short nerfs/buffs would be detrimental to an esports scene imho (if you want to consider that aspect).

an Esport needs a balanced system that seldom changes (seasons in LoL, or tell me how many changes have you seen in CS, for example).

ensoriki.5789:

Huh?
The games going to have CA eventually to do things unranked and foster growth.
So even if games were visible ranks there eventually would be a place to experiment

Yes, you will be able to experiment in unranked games, but I guess a ranked game will probably yeld bigger prizes than an unranked one, shifting the playerbase into ranked games, where point two of my argument will be predominant, thus curbing the chances for experiments, it’s a vicious circle. Mind you, I’m just speculating here (Even if I consider my speculation quite plausible)

I just don’t think the ranking really matters when it’s not team based but individual.

I hope this will be the case, because if what happens in LoL will happen here, your ranking (and how you affect theirs) will be the only thing thatyour teammates will care about.

Disclaimer: This is my personal opinion, I’m not stating “truths” or trying to troll, I just want to give my opinion on something that kinda worries me, so we can have a nice discussion about my concerns.

I’ve seen people talking about a quite famous moba in this forum, saying that it’s the most played online game at the moment (and it is) and that we need Ranked SoloQ because it will attract more people. (which is probably true).

But, as a former LoL 1450ish ELO Jungler I will tell you why I don’t really like the idea of bringing ELO into GW2, bear with me, it’s for two reasons basically:

The first reason is that it will probably not improve the variety of builds, it’s the other way around, LoL was(is? I left a while ago) built around a very specific team combination that you’ll know if you ever played that game before. (Solotop, AD Carry, AP carry, Jungler, Support with some variations brought sometimes by professional teams just to try and counter a specific well known opponent -on average the team comp, especially at my ELO or Lower- would stick to the meta-).
What makes LoL entertaining is the fact that you get different characters that can fulfill the same role in different ways. In GW2 we have 8 classes, which can be customized in a finite set of builds that, as the knowledge of the metagame progresses will be considered “optimal builds” to be run to win a game.

(I’m nowhere near an expert in GW2 so take this with a pinch of salt, what I’m basically saying is that people realized that Ele are the best at X, so the meta will be “X MUST be done by Eles”, Guardians are the best at y? “Y MUST be done by guardians” then!)

Which brings me to the second and most important point in my long, boring wall of text: Expectations from your team mates.

If I want to describe in one word the LoL community, The first word I’ll use is “Awful”, but that’s the direct result of number one and visible ranks: Since you’re supposed to run the optimal build to do X, Don’t you dare to try something else! It’s not about you enjoying your game, It’s about your kitten ELO! I found myself not enjoying the game anymore because it felt like a job where I was expected to do always the same thing at the same time instead of just having fun! (Tell me you never had someone saying “Jungler didn’t gank at lvl3 gg noob” or “support buy more wards!” or “Carry LAST HIT kitten #8221;)

What I fear, basically, is that a visible ELO will destroy people’s willingness to try different stuff while making the ingame community nastier at the same time.

Comments?

Necros are actually good carriers as well (if they can get the orb)

I’ve been neglecting my Engineer for way too long (Is my main Char, but I seldom play PvE anymore), so I started playing him in PvP a bit more.

Now, on average I don’t really complain about this build (with the obvious exception of lacking damage), but is quite good on survivability, so what would you do? How would you try to improve it, if you were to play it? (I’m rank 13 and started pvp a couple of weeks ago, so be forgiving if you see blatant mistakes on my side )

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcIQJAqelspCYnuyuF17IRIF4XwgUo36K6xjp8kB;TkAAzU7Y2RsjdH3OydGVMJA

Exactly, stay on retrying and wait.

It’s basically putting you in queue to download the patch, restarting the client will probably just reset your queue position, making you wait longer. I’ve downloaded the patch at 2MB/sec after having that message for around 5 minutes

after three reinstalls (completely wiped my .dat files) attempted through DVD, I tried it with the online installer, and it worked…

12 hours to install a game, GW2 I hope you’re worth it!

Looks like I get some corrupted files during the download, if it can help

Hi there,
I’ve been trying to install the GW2 DVD version for 8 hours now, It copies the files from the DVDs fine, then at around 80% of the installation process it goes to 0kb and stops and I get a white window occupying around 80% of the screen (the crashed client, I suppose) and the only way to stop the process is through task manager, .

Now, I’ve been checking the forums and I’m quite sure I’ve done everything in part 3.3 and 3.5, so since I’m now clueless I’ll upload my Gameadvisor’s report for you guys to have a look at it.

Disable UAC done but the report says it’s still enabled?
Disable Antivirus/Malware tools done
Run as Admin done
Change default ISP DNS to google or opendns or namebench done
Open router ports done
Check firewall settings on router done
Disable router SPI feature. done
Winsock reset done
Run game advisor and look at the trace route. check it please
Check file/folder permissions can write into folders
Try -timeout command (See thread) I don’t get how to do it in vista :x
Computers that don’t meet the system requirements can also see this behavior. my computer should meet the minimum requirements