Guild Wars 2

Yes, the runes explained it. Thank you very much.
About the enemy invitation, I find it wrong that you can party with the enemy in order to know his location. Still, it doesn’t bug me, I can just reject. I just wanted to make sure about it since I heard people saying it wasn’t okay to do that.

So, today I saw some things that need to be explain to me, so I may know if they are legit or not.

Today, during WvW, I saw a Ranger using Mist Form… Twice. How did he do that?
A couple of minutes later, a Human Elementalist casts a Defense Golem (Asura’s elite skill).
One guy from the enemy server requested party, when I wasn’t even with lfg status. He spammed the invitation during the jumping puzzle. I heard this is bannable, I would like to know if I can report this.

I got all this three recorded on video (not showing now, cause you know… might be hack situations).

Thanks for your time.

Same here. Daily went from 60% to 20%.
No point playing until fixed if I keep losing progress.

I’ve been leveling up a Necro in WvW most the time. I’ve been very pleased so far with my trait choice (0/20/20/30/0), but I’m not sure what to wear once I get to lv80

Carrion for vit/condition dmg, or Rampager for pre/condition dmg.

Since my build is mostly based on resistance while I cast some conditions, I thought Carrion should be the one for me, but at the same time, I feel like I probably have enough defense already. If I’m enjoying this way an I’m not even lv70 yet, should I really need more vit?

What do you think?
Also, I don’t know yet about the runes. I use vit/frost duration in spvp but I’m not sure I want that in WvW.

Ugh, I knew this would happen. You guys are missing the point, so I’ll have to explain everything else since you talk about everything but the intended situation.

- I said no cry intended. I’ve never lost a 1v1 fight against a thief until now. Altho this wasn’t much of a fight. I just wanted to know what happened here, because this damage was way too suspicious to me. I’m not asking for tutorials or anything too.

- That ranger. He was low lvl, I used every greatsword skills. It’s normal to a guardian take someone down with that. He was distracted and took all the skill. It’s a balanced weapon since you can kite pretty well (it’s slow attack move, slow spinning but strong dmg). STILL, this wasn’t the point. He was low lvl anyway.

- I’m not glassy. It’s like you didn’t read my stats. All I’m missing is having vit/tough on my armor instead of precision/tough. Everything else, including runes and trinkets are vit/tough.

- I didn’t see the thief, still not the point. I know I was heading to a zerg group and I was probably going to die, just trying to take one with me, or distract them. Still not the point.

- @Solori.6025 – How would I react fast on this situation? I used Save Yourselves, and I also blocked one attack. I tried to heal. It’s all there in slowmotion.

The problem here, is no matter what. I could be distracted, I could be aware on a 1v1 situation, I could be in a group or not. There was nothing to do here. He just teleported and killed me in 1 second with NO CHANCE of doing anything.
What? If I was able to tank that, everything else he’d do would be low damage? I don’t think so. If with all my defense traits, a class can still 3 hit kill. I don’t think this is right.

Hi. I don’t mean to cry or anything, that’s why I came to this section of the forum to ask you what’s the logic on this situation I recorded here by mistake. I should have checked the combat log but at that time I didn’t really care until I’ve re-watched what happened.

So, I’m not the tankiest Guardian, but I think I have a pretty good defense. Could have more, but I could have a lot less, and not to mention, what if I wasn’t even a Guardian in this situation.
I have 30 toughness, 20 vitality/healing power. Knight armor (tough), soldier runes (tough/vit), and tough/vit trinkets

Still, one Thief alone, was able with only three hits, deal this damage in this order:
4410dmg, 4651dmg, 7344dmg.

How is this even possible? I repeat, no cry intended. Just studying the situation.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFvDU22TL_4

Great week ya’ll. This last three days were losing a bit the emotion, but still, it was a great match. Pretty sure we’re not getting another one like this in a long time.

I play greatsword, scepter/shield and enemies have hard time running away from me, for most classes.

I can use Leap of Faith, Binding Blade and pull them. In case of running too slow, I have “Retreat”, “Save Yourselves” (which btw, with Soldier’s rune, it might heal cripple/frozen). I can teleport to them using Judge intervention. Scepter has immobilize, I dodge roll in front of them and push them back with shield.

I don’t think you need more than this.
This is good when they run away, and even when they are trying to sneak pass you, to get inside their own tower in WvW.

Guys. I’ve never had as much fun as I’m having right now. Playing since day one and this is the first time I see a balanced WvW. All 3 servers so close to each other. It has been awesome so far. I wish it could always be like that.

PS: Checked the score today, I guess RoF’s being outmanned this morning, crippled the server’s score a bit. But it’s not too late yet. Gl hf.

Quaggan’s are being bullied and no one is doing anything about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCqELta-tVo

I wanna thank you for finally being able to play 5v5 hot join. I dunno how long as been there, maybe since 1st day, but I just noticed now and got back to practice some sPvP.
Too bad I can’t play any match after midnight since the mists become such a ghost town and all the active players are joining randoms which puts them on 8v8, making 5v5 empty.

Can something be done about this? Like a seperate tab, or making 5v5 on top instead. I’d say to get rid of pointless zerg vs zerg matchs on structured pvp, but I know you don’t wanna do that.

I think at least, players should be aware that, there’s a 5v5 option, and maybe some might be interested in joining it. I don’t know, I just don’t want to play zerg fest cause that’s why we have WvW, I guess.
So far I can only think of a tab as the best option.

Thank you.

I can’t see a thing with all those effects.

Why do people always complain about this? No one is asking you to grind. You do if you want. Your gameplay wont be any different than the others just because of some cosmetic gear. Grind is not an obligation, but you guys keep crying about it since day one.

I’ve been practicing 20 ranks of Hot joinable.
Finally tried tPvP 5v5… All that time at hot joinables was just a waste of time.
5v5 has NOTHING to do with 8v8. Totally different gameplay.

I’m sorry, but who writes this stuff?
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Swampland_Fractal

“Bloomhunger
This guy is easy, just dps him and kill the different adds Spirit of Frost,Sun Spirit as soon as they appear.”.

Hi. I’m almost hitting lv80 with my Guardian and I’m really undecided about my traits for PvE/WvW (mostly WvW). I was wondering if it is a good idea with guardian to mix it up his stats a bit, like, having offensive traits but with defensive gear. I was considering having two sets in my backpack. Probably one with condition dmg and other tough/vit, or something.

Still, I wanted to be sure about my traits without having to change them all the time.
I’m always thinking about defense, but I want to be able to kill something. Maybe I shouldn’t worry so much about traits, as long as I choose those who provide better passives for my playstyle, rather than the stats themselves.

What do you think?

I’m constantly dealing with afkers on my team. I can’t really do anything. I can’t vote kick, and I’m pretty sure I can’t report them. Shouldn’t there be an auto-kick for that?
I don’t like having them on my team, I don’t like them on the opposite team either.
What do? Rage?

Don’t bother to give answers like “quick match sPvP is suppose to be fun and not competitive”, please.

I though I was the only one who hated the spinning camera. But I didn’t want to mention it because people wouldn’t care. Also that message every time you join a match and after your first death.

If a server is full, it means it is filled with players on and offline, right?
If it was only online players, then what would happen if you wanted to play? “oops the server is currently full, you can’t play for a few hours and you can’t join any other because this is your main”.
This doesn’t seem right. Then what is it? All players regardless they are on or offline?
But if it really is like this… Then, are the inactive players flooding servers? Almost every friend of mine stopped playing. So are they dead weight on my server?

Explain me please. Which one is right? And if inactive players are wasting server’s space.

I try not to get mad about what people say on the internet… Or in real life. I bit hard, I know.

I also used to play Thief and gave up. I was dying inside with so much easy wins. It wouldn’t be so bad if NOT EVERYONE was playing the same class. When I’m fighting a team with 5 thieves, it means something’s wrong with this game.

Draw agrees with Daish.

I’m a Far Shiverpeaks player, I play at night and I have a few things to say.

Yes, we lack a lot of players there. Sometimes the chat doesn’t even move for some minutes. But night time players could at least try to defend themselves.
What I mean is. There’s a huge motivational problems from the players at that time. When they see a zerg fest coming to our fort or tower they just use the chat to say “well we lost already, let’s logout”. It’s really annoying how Far Shiverpeaks players are so afraid to die in this game.

I feel like I’m playing alone most times. I can throw a lot of people down alone (down state ruins the plans but, whatever). If people would help eachother, rather than just cry about it, we could make a lot better work.

Far Shiverpeaks has good players. The french can’t even fight 1v1. I find them always running away and only fight in big groups. But when FS players see a group of VS’, they just wet their pants, logout and come cry to the forum.

I’m really ashamed to be on this server, at the moment. But I’m not switching like people do when they don’t like it. It’s only the night time players that have to chance their spirit, and start fighting rather than running away. It’s the night time players that have to change.

Another thing real quick – At night, sometimes we can build a group and come up with a plan. Eventually after conquering some stuff, we might lose in a fight. When this happens, players tend to give up and those you keep playing stop communicating. If you die, you just respawn and get out there again. Stop using the chat to cry, and use it to plan the next move. Stop being slow. You’ll get nowhere.

With no intention to offend anyone.

Down State – the mechanic that tells if you don’t zerg, you lose.

Oh you did you win in a fair fight 1v1? Oh too bad, you’re not gonna get rewarded because there’s 50 guys after you.

Not to mention the time you waste in spvp trying to get that thief or the mesmer who wont just stop. Making the match reeeally slowwww. So much time wasted on doing nothing.

Player vs Player they say.

From the game I came from. There was a lot of problems regarding xenophobic feelings towards the Russians. This because they lack any communication with the rest of the other guilds and were a bit selfish when it came to sieging and pvp. Ruining most the of plans.

I hope this doesn’t happen here in Gw2. In fact, a couple of nights ago we were led by Nugos and they did a really awesome work. They were fast and determined. The only problem it was a silent leading. Where they were talking to eachother (probably via TS) while the rest of us were just following them. It kinda worked.
But this is a problem anyway with Far Shiverpeaks commanders. They don’t talk, and I see most of them AFK. Tonight I saw some newbies leading and doing a better job them most commanders who only wasted they’re gold to get some useless status.

Back to the topic. If Russians keep on helping FS. Than it’s nothing but a good thing, I guess.

So today I was at the forest. The match started and I rushed to Svanir as I always do. He was with half hp when I got moved to the other team by the “auto-balanced” system. And then, not only I got the points for killing the boss, the points also went for my new team.

This is pretty messed up. Even if it was in my favor, I still find this system pretty bad. I’d deserve the personal killing points but probably the red team should be the one get the team points, since they were the ones you stood there taking care of the rest of it.

Btw, to avoid creating other threads: there were 7 thieves playing on that match. Seriously, fix that too please. Something’s not right when everyone’s playing the same class.

But that’s the problem to me. If Humans are so struggling to survive why they don’t seem to be?
The issue here as been all about the feelling the Human zone carries. Okay, they are constantly at war with the centaurs, and that’s noticeable, how they always need your help. But at the same time, they seem to be wasting their time thriving in beauty and fine clothing. It just… Messes with my brain.

I guess this isn’t wrong at all. I mean, it’s kinda like our Human nature in reality. Even during awfull times, we still search for this little things.
I guess I ended answering my own question lol.
I’ll take a look at the Human story quest and see if through voice acting and current events, it really brings this “struggling” feeling.

Thanks.

Okay, I admit I jumped to this without taking a closer look to the current Era of Tyria. But it’s kinda weird how Asuras are so evolved and, living nearby Humans, raises a lot of questions. In my view, Humans are fast learners and get their hands on everything. Wouldn’t they be all over Asura’s creations and coppying them?
What I mean is, by now, the technology would evolved really quick, unless there’s something to explain how they can still be slowed down. If there’s any answer to this like “humans can’t really get asura’s technology” or something, explain it to me. I haven’t read any of the books yet.

After creating my human character, I realized the lack of beards you could have. I mean, why in almost every mmorpg, Humans have to be young, handsome and rich? Always giving the feelling that they live so well, I don’t even understand why should they have to fight.
They seem so rich, they could even pay the Centaurs to leave, or even invite Zaithan to a cup of tea in their gigantic houses filled with gold and beautiful people.

To be honest, since this was my first western mmo, I was hopping to see a more realistic image of our medieval times. What happen to the old stories where humanity is starving and dying of plagues? Now it’s more like “Omg, they damaged my cute hair. NOW WE HAVE TO FIGHT!”.

Well, pretty sure most of you wont agree since Humans are always the most played race. I guess you guys enjoy being rich snobs, or something. I don’t know… I guess I’m going back to being a Norn. Just wanted to share my thoughts.

All this because I could only find one beard to my elementalist.

I just think they shouldn’t have put both features in one map. If it was only underwater pvp, people wouldn’t mind that much. If it was only one terrain spot where you have to kite mobs, people wouldn’t mind that much. But both at the same time? Really? Since my first match on that map I knew people would hate it. I try to enjoy it but people don’t even try to make a good match out of it, why should I?

The only reason I hate this map is because I always have a bad team, who doesn’t even want to try.

Quaggans plushies would only make sense if you could press a button and hear them saying Ooooh. Tickle me Quaggan.

Last night I was at WvW and some Quaggans were helping the other server defending a fort. I was all like “stupid people, pushing this creatures to fight for them”. You should lose Karma everytime you kill a Quaggan.

That was my idea of Engineer. During beta I had a lot of fun the first 5 minutes and then stopped and I had a feeling it would remain like that. Might be really cool in spvp, but not to pve.

With Warrior I just use greatsword and rifle since lv1 and I have no intention to play with other weapons. But with Ranger, I switched my weapon set hundreds of times and I still do after lv80. I find them all fun to play. I can’t tell about any other classes, altho I’ve played a few in spvp, this two are the only ones I did some time of pve.

I’m currently playing with Thief and I think Heartseeking is not much of a problem compared to imobilized + quickness. But then again, Warriors can also stumble and burst all my hp with greatsword before I could get up, and there’s nothing I can do about stumbles, unlike imobilized.

You guys enjoy the down system because you’ve never fought alone against several players. In other words, zergers always win, no matter how good you are.

He’s also using that passive which makes your pet boons work on you aswell. I was actually considering trying this, since you can use toughness and regen passives and make a big deal when you activate them. The only problem is the cooldown :\

Down system is saying “pvp is only for zergers”. If you are outnumbered you should be rewarded to take down some of the players with you, right? Gw2 says no. Doesn’t matter your skill, as long as you have more players with you, because the down system will denie your kills. I’ve met a lot of people who are hatting this too. And I’m pretty sure it’s something that they won’t take it off the game.

Not sure if it bothers me. I never rez’d my pet during combat because it takes too long. Only did that once during Megadestroyer because he was tanking and my pet switch was in cd. Other than that, I usually kite the enemy until the cooldown is off.

It is annoying sometimes you rez someone’s pet by mistake instead of the player who really needed your help during group event’s chaos.

In a rp prespective, it sure makes no sense that you can’t rez him. Personally, rezing him or not, does not affect me very much, but I respect your opinion and it might bother some other players aswell.

Ravnodaus.5130:

I use a tanky support kind of build on my ranger in sPvP. I’ve yet to die to a 1v1, just doesn’t happen. Between dodging, continuous protection and regeneration, water field combo beatifulness, etc… coupled with moderate toughness and high vitality/healing… yep, too hard to kill. I had a really good 2v1 take me down once, but it was a pretty epic drawn out fight, lasted almost 2 minutes. Most of the time I just don’t die the whole match though.

It doesn’t have really any burst damage, it doesn’t have much sustained dps either really. But it will wear people down if they decide to stay and duke it out. And it’ll outtank and outheal anyon else’s dps, most assuredly. Pretty mobile too, don’t have to get lockedinto fights, can just disengage and move on…

Not sure how/why anyone would think rangers are squishy…far, far, far from it. Maybe your ranger is…but not rangers in general.

That’s what I did with my ranger after a couple of matches in spvp. Even in PvE I went for a defense build. Still, ranger feels like a support class. You can tank and annoy other players with bleed, cripple, stuns and your pet always after them, but when it comes to deal some dmg, it doesn’t seem very good. I guess we’re just not used to that, seeing rangers with low dmg. I just thought we’d have a wider choice of builds and if we wanted to be squishy and deal great a great amount of dmg, that would be possible too.

Sometimes I can carry matches with ranger but not by kills. Just tacticaly running around and conquering points. Now I tried to play warrior and thief and it’s completly easy compared to ranger. Feels like spvp was made for melee classes. Too easy to catch people.
On the other hand. Ranger is way too good for pve. I spent most the time just sitting, watching my pet tanking mobs and my character auto-attacking.

I don’t really consider myself a thalassophobic but it is still really hard for me to play at Orr with all that dark green ocean with undead and titans. Still very entertaining. Really good job doing that including the sounds you hear everytime. I’m always afraid of what is going to appear next and when I’m swimming to the surface I always have the feeling that something is going to grab my leg.

Anyone else has fear of the depths of the sea? How are you handling it in this game?
I know it’s just a game but my mind keeps imagining it like it was real.

You can have thousands of combinations with ranger it makes you a bit confused.
I noticed so far no one plays with sword and torch like I do. I didn’t really care about torch before until I tried in late game. In PvE, mobs rarely dodge you so when you set the floor on fire while you spam your sword, trust me, it’s a huge load of damage right there. Mostly if you play with condition dmg, crit and toughness. Wouldn’t recomend for PvP cause they’d just dodge your flames and would be a waste of time, unless you want to use those flames as a combo for your long range attack.
Here’s just an opinion. You’ll read a lot of combination ideas and probably none of this is the ultimate ranger build because it’s how you like to play and you’re what you’re good at. One of the things that makes Gw2 unique and good.

An anti-farming and anti-botting system?
It wouldn’t bother me but, the question is, how long will this cap be on until you’re able to get karma again? And what’s the limit?

You don’t need 50 guys just to “Finish” a downed player when there’s another 49 still there and fightning you.

I warn my brother to log in as the servers would open. He woke up 1 hour later and my server was full already. I went mad with this system but then he was able to switch. Still, I have some real life friends in other servers because of this. Dunno if the server switch is still free.

What upsets me is watching my server losing points while I can’t go there and help. Might be some afkers and stuff.
It takes me more than 5 hours waiting and most the times I just give up and go do something else.

You have to find where they are. The right spot. And press F. It’s just a game feature where you can appreciate the landscape where you are. Some vistas are hard to get but fun to try.

I actually started a new character because I’m curious about the other personal stories possibilities. People tend to forget this game isn’t to farm lvls like every other mmo. This is supose to… Play the game and have fun with it. Enjoy the story.
I never worried much about an endgame in PvE. This game is enjoyable as it is and most games I’ve played there’s nothing besides PvP after you beat the content aswell.
My only concern is how easy it was to get 80. I wouldn’t mind if it took a bit more time and if it was a bit harder to pass content. I played solo and I can’t imagine how the game is with party all the time.