Guild Wars 2

Yesterday’s lag in BL maps was easier to deal with than before… EB on the other hand, even worse… couldn’t even get my 1,1,1,1,1,1,1 to work…

after elly, all other classes became too easy and boring for me to play (well, never played a thief, but have all others at 80)… except condi kit engi which has sort of a similar playstyle since you can press soo many buttonz!

five of us from gandara fully sieged enemy keep after capping the other day… wiped enemy zerg twice and after that they never showed their face again… was very fun trolling them that 2 times they tried to cap it and got bridge destroyed behind them and 50 of them dying to 4 ac’s
but then again, they never showed up again… which is sad

no, but reverse that…
lower badges drop in eotm. it’s insane for a mere karma-train. in fact, remove mist chest altogether from eotm…

Nymph of Meliai.6739:

I don’t think Anet learned any lessons from last time despite what they said. They should’ve banned transfers one week after announcing the tournament and full month before the tournament started.

Either that or make entering wvw during the tournament dependent on the amount of time a player already spends there… despite mostly being a roamer which means lower ranked than the zerg players, they could even set up the que dependent on what rank a player is… that way those who always play wvw are not punished by being denied access to their game content during the tournament.

19874346536520610256334x this!!!

oh, those are interesting ideas Akitteny for sharing!

some of our commanders sing every now and then…

d/d or s/d bunker condition build theorycrafting using Stone heart (yes, i’m aware there’s no giver’s ascended items, was just too lazy to click on exotic)

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vEAQJAoYhcMqc25wxBf0AARhLmMeoxIAUUkzMA-z0BBohBk8Gk6AIFtIasl1FRjVJjIqWpEjQAKmDA-w

*skill lag, some rubberbanding (rarely for me), occasional complete freezes (i can only move, no animations, skills or chat from me or any other players, lasts randomly from 5-20 seconds)
*Gandara
*usually everyone notices it
*it’s most commonly server wide, sometimes other parties don’t get it if they’re very far away from zerg (complete opposite side of the map)
*gotten much worse since last 2-3 LS updates (since EOTM onward), but it’s usually always there when 60+ people are fighting

Allie Murdock.8152:

sPvP players don’t get experience by playing in it. In WvW, players gain experience from events and killing things.

I’m not saying it’s a bad idea, just pointing out that the two don’t really compare.

sPvP players are already lvl 80 from the second they set foot in spvp… so they don’t need to lvl to be able to play sPvP normally and all the equipment for them is free there

what WvW players would like is to be able to “open world sPvP” from the second they set foot in WvW
it would be reeeeeally unlikely to solo roam on a lvl 20 toon, no?

and levelling in a zerg is bloody boring, even though EOTM zergs got me from 20 to 80 extremely fast, but that’s cause EOTM is broken and imo unworthy of WvW status, but that’s completely different topic…

anyway, hope my post made sense.

i’d like to BUMP… for Vabbi! :grouphug:

Have you seen my (Wife)
Asuraholycs Anonymous (AA)
Get Off Our Land (GTFO)
Perish (FLEE)

and the one in my sig offc

shameless BUMP for AG!

yes yes and 10000000 times yes!

Phantom.8130:

if you move out of the cloud, and cleanse, it stops the supply drain. you can preserve the majority of your supplies that way. if you just stand in the cloud, then you kind of deserve to lose your supply and fail your assault.

you could also avoid the cloud entirely by either moving while the cow is still in the air, or through better planning and offensive methods. it’s mainly just good to drain a really bad zerg.

if you find it to be OP, adapt. because it’s really not.

100000000000 times this…
also, i’d be very much for a change in mechanics where you couldn’t destroy reinforced doors with anything but siege. would stop mindless zergs pvd-ing…

o hai Tanko guy
ty for dropping into our topic and proving that you guys can always sink even lower than low <3

you would be very welcome on Gandara, and be a great help to our GTFO guys & gals

just to add a bit to what Friday said… yes, Gandara is awesome place for solo players and roamers, you’ll find many likeminded people here and make many friends.

but i wouldn’t want to make dedicated WvW guilds and/or commanders feel they have no place on Gandara as well. We invite and welcome everyone!
Also, we guarantee a good time, great community and awesome challenging fights!

bumping for GANDARA!!!!

:ooo.mushrooms:

O_o must have passed right next to it and never noticed it!

ty very much!

might be that my brain is on holiday… ran around vigil keep yesterday trying to find it and saw it nowhere… looked on wiki… wiki said Ariship: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_Commendation_Trader

will search again later when i get ig…

there’s only 1 thing i’m missing in other cities that i’ve found only in that kitten airship… guild commendations vendor… crappy move anet

air 5, water 4, earth 4, fire 4, lightning flash, mist form… plenty of escape tools there alone if you use fgs your 3 & 4 are also escape tools… you should be impossible to catch

maybe offtopic, but heal on water blast can be very useful in WvW as a support for ram masters hitting gates under fire.
adds a very nice heal bonus to geyser and healing rain if ellys just auto attack the gates with water blast.

charging meteor shower, yes… and trolling enemies by pushing them off cliffs and towers (best around longview, cliffside, hills and briar).
situational yeah, but fun.

i’m still using the same pre-patch trait allocation – 0/0/10/30/30, full celestial
tried some other variants, but this one still feels most comfortable for my playstyle.

cos i have a soft spot in my heart for underdogs ^^

and because staff elly is very fun in WvW (except when skill lag hits)

aspirine.6852:

I got a chest but mine was filled with crap? Or was is suppose to be this way..

Working as intended ^^

@Setsunayaki.4907: intrigued now… care to share your build with us?

using my mes only in WvW, and while for solo roaming i’m using mostly Blackwater and it’s variations, on weeks when there’s much blobbing and running with zergs i was trying out Kilya’s Triforce, but it didn’t suit my playstyle very well.
So i made a few adjustments and my “long range zerg-support condition build” was born.
Aoe confusion and blind to punish zerg “1,1,1,1,1,1,1” mentality; bleeding, cripple and confusion from illusions. It may not be the best but i like it:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgEQJARWlwziqXVTmGb9ICaGXn1RSRphalZgbXIA-jkCBYhQINAUgQUFA5QFRjtMsIasKZQqaAqbY6YK1CBsYNA-w

i’m afraid he the poster does have a point there.
it’s not about tagging mobs for loot, it’s about elly skills taking so long to trigger.

i play support staff elly and i play WvW only for the last 2-3 months. i can tag champions/lords most of the time with no issues. however i do have “issues” with reliability of some elly skills.

first, auto attacks are kitten slow, animations + projectile speed seem to take forever (a bit less seen in air atunement, or maybe i’m just imagining things).

second, fire/water/earth nr 2 skill… on my necro i’m AoE mass destruction with all marks and wells, but elly damage aoe are too unreliable when enemy can almost stroll out of range without any difficulties.

i don’t even think we need more dmg, but at least a possibility to be more precise.

for instance, lava font should at least have wider range for it’s slow activation time. water no 2 basically became just a filler. if water2 would be blast finisher, then at least it would have some sense.

air 3 and earth 5 miss a moving ambient creature kitten …

at the same time for example all AoE’s of my necro are instant and have more effects, etc… i do love to play my elly though, but i’d love to see some loving regarding “responsivness” and/or speed of our attacks.

I like this build very much as i don’t prefer to play conditions.
However, since conditions are the new meta, and mesmer is pretty vulnerable to them, what are your thoughts about sigils of Generosity/Purity in weapons?

7/10
like the colour combo on armour, but i just don’t like the ascended staff skin

Personally wanted to go for “Dark Shamaness” look… i like it

agree with you, however, i’d very much like to see faster activation on staff skills.
i mainly use staff for WvW, but some skills take so long to activate. fire/ice/earth2 etc.

also, lightning 3 is so out of place, can hit somebody only if they come towards us, or are running away.
i’d very much like to see lightning 3 as aoe knockback, but i can only dream.

Asura, just cause their skill animations are hilarious <3

doing 100B makes me feel like Yoda on steroids

I ‘m planning to do that, but i had precrafted unsoulbound knights jewels. And since i was making 3 armor/weapon/jewels sets at the time for my ranger (for these 2 builds and faux’s RRR) that left me quite broke

You really need to find a playstyle that suits you most.

I don’t PVP, but i do a lot of WvW, and i generally use 2 builds depending on situation.

For Zerg running i use this build I keep spider on passive to avoid zerg AoE, and tell him to F2 in 1v1 situations when they occur. I keep back lines and AoE enemy zergs. Lots of loot bags, dmg ain’t bad at all and you’re not squishy. Entangle/spider+rapid fire combo will make thieves hate you.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQJATRjEVN2VWCWo2Bi1j9Eo+0PkJOD+zoTeV0WB-jUyAYrARWAIQQJvioxWcLiGraBTdSEV7Nw8HER1yAwMGA-w

For solo/small scale guild roaming i’m specced into BM, but not condition kind. Used that build for quite some time, but made this one cause it just feels more comfortable for me:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQNAR3XjEVJ29VCWo2BimCN1/3jYl+27UMqOdyKa0K-jECBoNCyEEwkIBKLqIasFhFRjVNbQ1KbYaYICB0fMA-w

just one question i have

if using s/t with this build, what do you think about replacing a/d with sb?

Hello fellow rangers!

With some of the last patch changes I was thinking of going ranged BM hybrid as i’ve preferred playing a ranged class in all games. I quite enjoyed BM RRR build, but missing the bow and the feel of sniping.

When I use bow build I’m my pet becomes nearly useless (in WvW group fights and dungeons due to AoE) and i do like my pets…

So i was slacking at work today trying to get both of most worlds… and all of this is untested and purely theorycrafted but i’d like to hear community’s thoughts and possibly improvements.

My basic idea was be to go:

30(II; VIII; X)/10(IV)/0/0/30(IV; V; XII); (i like piercing arrows for zerg fights)
or
20(II; X)/20(IV; X)/0/0/30(IV; V; XII)

LB / GS (GS can be substituted with something else)
All Cleric’s gear, with Runes of Altruism or Monk (or Water)

For pets i was thinking spiders/drakes/canines

I know this may not be viable, was just looking at some other possibilities we may have out there.

I’d really like to hear your ideas and possible builds that use LB and are specced BM?

Discuss pls

@Tom van Leeuwen:

you don’t need to be doing anything wrong mate, Osi really has amazing mobility skills, especially considering targeting with blinks. I think i’ll never manage to preform his way…

As for your dmg with staff… are you talking about zerg fights or smaller scale fights in WvW?
In large blobs staff might seem less useful, besides chaos storm, but that one has a massive CD for big zerg fights.
In those situations i found Osi’s DMG&Support build to be excellent. I only swap sigil of Rage for sigil od Fire on my GS for extra AoE dmg. As a matter of fact, it suits my playstyle excellently so i’m running that one now as my permanent build WvW and PvE <3

as for smaller scale fights, staff is amazing weapon. it’s not used purely for dmg but for survival and utility.

It worked normally for me.
Got “invulnerable” on ranger’s lightning, warrior’s hammer and guardian’s dome :-/

however, i can’t confirm with clones up since i used F4 without any clones.

Osicat.4139:

what to fill the role of the glamour mesmers range dps for group fights, I do experementing with a spec for this, its a direct dmg GS spec and I so far like it alot, It also have good group fighting utilitys, using feedback/reflections + mass blind enemy teams. I will give more nfo later on this.

Gs is a wery good range weapon.

i would VERY much like to know your opinion and build that uses GS primarily.
I love GS even though i’m using Mist build now, and the main problem i encountered while using GS was choice of second weapon set. Couldn’t decide between staff or sword/x, and the traits to choose with it… shatter spec, dps spec, so many choices!

My main idea here being that i was looking for a stabile build that i’d use with GS for longer periods of time (preferably permanently), cause i don’t like to reset traits all the time if i don’t have to.

I have no idea what i’m doing here tbh
Was thinking about something with letting clones and trident attacks stack conditions, and helping get more confusion with glamours and blinds (hence stupid signet of midnight for aoe blind)

dunno if this is even viable due to confusion nerf, but it’s the first thing that popped to my mind

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQBVCPrpeVNFao1jIoecdVn1RShqhalUwbXIA

Named mine “Butterfly Candy”, cause she’s sweet like candy and she farts butterflies

Had soooo much fun yesterday trying out Mist build <3
Roaming on the edges of a zerg and picking on targets who got separated <3

You’re awesome Osi!

AWESOME! <3

can’t wait to try this out!

I love your guides so much Osi, learned a lot about mesmer from reading them

Currently i’m trying out mist build and i really love it for it’s mobility, versatility and survivability. Though i must ask you, lately on Gandarra most of the fights in WvW were with zergs, not so much with small roaming teams and i tend to find myself using GS more in those situations for long range nuking. Otherwise i get eaten away by the zerg wave, aoe’s and conditions on the front lines

also 20/20/0/0/30 is better with gs, for domination GS trait, but i prefer mist build.
however, as i like to play with gs every now and then, i’d like to ask you which alternative weapon set would you recommend for it? Staff od sword/sword?

do you by any chance use some different builds with gs?

tnx again for great help to the entire community!

Bumping this thread a bit…

just wanted to clarify that while we do mostly PVE content, we’re also participating in everyday WvW and PvP.

However, if you’re tired of L337 speak, like to do things casually and without any pressures, and like to talk a lot in the meantime, we might be a bunch for you.

There’s always some party going on, be it fractals, dungeons, WvW or just plain exploring… we also organize guild bounty runs, guild fractal runs, guild map exploring, and WvW nights.