Guild Wars 2

It’s been 2 months now, 2 months of barely logging in GW2 due to horrible lags in most areas of the game (sPvP, PvE, WvW).

I know you have a lot of incompetent folks (NO OTHER EXPLICATION), but this is a new low. I payed to play the game like everyone else, not get bitter on forums.

I run a triple med guard in spvp so I love the Renewed Focus change, but IMO it’s only problem is that will buff builds that are already strong. The culprit being easy access to Meditation Mastery.

I would change this trait from an Adept trait to a Master trait, easily done by swapping place with Focused Mind. So Focus Mind becomes Adept trait and Meditation Mastery a master trait.

This change wont impact in any way a triple med dps guard since we are already going 6 points in Valor, but it will stop some bunker builds from being even stronger than they already are and generating a “shave” that will affect triple med guards in the long run.

Guardian pets were not vastly used so they will “fix” this “issue” (moar AI).
Oh and by pets I mean spirit weapons aka yet another dumb AI for equally brain dead players.

On topic: I would have preferred some changes to the sigils …making them more interesting with both passive and active viable options (in most cases you wont equip them on your utility bar and if you do, it’s for the passive effect).

The biggest issue is not even the nonviable utilities/traits but the fact that we are OUTDATED, everything around us evolved whilst we remained in same spot since launch.

/guard with over 5500 hours spent in all areas of the game ( PVE/sPvP/WvW) waiting for another “guardian is in a good place” dev reply (justifying why we did not get an overhaul).

Branden Gee.2150:

Xista.7391:

Branden Gee.2150:

Where are you seeing rank as a spectator?

Where the experience bar is.

Thanks for reporting this issue. This is not the intended design!

After the GuildMag interview this reply can be called the “cherry on top”. -)

Huge lag ONLY since last patch.

I have a 1 Gigabyte Internet connection. I know for sure is not on my side, and only happens in GW2 (specifically in WvW for me, and even on non-zerg fights).

Pls find the problem it is on your side, and it’s so obvious that I wonder how the hell is not fixed yet.

Problematic server IP address: 206.127.159.236

Yes, got the same auto-replies (the only human who bother to look at the ticket, was Gaile under “Tickets for review” thread) it’s funny and sad in same time. I’m “waiting” for a reply telling me I wont get anything… it just takes 7 days + ….to get it

I got part of my answer to the reimburse request:

Tiket #567819: You are asking for items we cannot provide. An agent will respond to your ticket as soon as possible.

So basically they sweep this bug under the rug and will use the “we don’t have the tools” card to avoid any hassle with reimburse requests. I guess that if there isn’t a reddit thread with 600+ upvotes they don’t feel the need to handle things equitably.

Fair warning… let them get away with this now, and we gonna see far worse situations in nearby future.

PS
I nearly forgot how horrible is their support, had to use all the available “ways” to get a reply after 4 days. The only thing more horrible than their support is their"new" support software.

Ticket number: 567819
I’m glad that I did not got a reply during the 3 days interval, because I want this issue to be brought to the attention/ resolved by someone from upper management (a lot of other players are in this situation, not just my case).

I’ve sent them the following support ticket:

Hello

I would like an reimburse for the “daily not resetting bug” which I was affected by from 15.04.2014 until 22.04.2014.

To sum it up: I lost and I would like a reimburse for:

- 7x 1Laurel(s)= 7 Laurels;
- 7x 10 AP= 70 Achievement Points;
- 7x 1 Lump of Mithrillium= 7 Lump of Mithrillium (time gated crafting material);
- 7x 1 Glob of Elder Spirit Residue = 7 Glob of Elder Spirit Residue (time gated crafting material);
- 7x 1 Spool of Thick Elonian Cord = 7 Spool of Thick Elonian Cord (time gated crafting material);
- 7×1 Spool of Silk Weaving Thread = 7 Spool of Silk Weaving Thread (time gated crafting material);

I should add the reimburse for the daily dungeons I normally do: 1xFotM 49, 2xAC,2x SE,2x CoE; 2x CoF… but I wont because it involves gold and that’s something that’s always subjective, specially when it comes to reimbursing.

PS

No copy/paste replies, a sample of this support ticket answer will end up on reddit/official forums to become the official stand of Arenanet’s policy regarding a bug that affected a part of GW2 community.

Thank you in advance for your support,

Knox.3748:

No chest at the end. Good fix, keep up the work!

You obviously can’t read, she said that the fix will only apply/work at the next daily reset.

I’m pretty kittened myself by all this, but then again I knew they outsourced their QA team so patch fiasco was the expected result.

We are now stuck with some 3rd party clueless doing their testing and “Guardian is in a good place” type of developers, we’re all doomed, doomed I say. -)

COMMON SENSE DICTATES:

Reimburse for all TIME gated content rewards: laurels, tokens,time gated T7 crafting materials.

The reimburse for tokens can be in the form of how the extra bonus chests in WvW works, i.e.: at the end of a dungeon run you get the normal chest + 1 extra from your bugged time. Same with the laurels, when you complete your daily, you get 1 extra similar reward.

Note: players unaffected by this bug should stop posting in this thread, they contribue with nothing except antagonizing everyone affected by this fiasco.

They capped hotjoin/custom arenas progression at 2 tiers/day but that doesn’t explain why I didn’t get any progression after daily reset…also same kitten happened to a fractal run (no bonus chest), it’s like last night reset only happened for the quests from the daily tab and not the reset of the game.

Probably no compensation for this either, just “we’re sorry/working on a fix” (at best).

JonathanSharp.7094:

It’s 2 TOTAL, not 2 per track.

Custom arenas only allow 2 tiers per day, but solo and team have no limit. They are tracked separately.

My progress is still stuck at 28% after daily reset and it did allow me to get to that percentage in 1 day, so something is wrong with this.

Justin ODell.9517:

We removed glory and match reward chests early to prevent a flood of PvE players from coming into PvP just to fill their wardrobe.

I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news but PVE players got their rank 50 and the millions of glory + skins during the months (close to an year) of skyhammer farming.

Well since my previous short post: " we’re not Chinese" was deleted, I will further expand what I meant by that.

sPvP unlocks=grind (even if u pay for them, you grind the gold/currency … you get the “picture”). The term grinding is used to provide a “level playing field”, this effect could be achieved with any time-consuming behavior that is accessible to all and provides game advancement. The behavior need not be tedious or repetitive, as the term grinding generally implies . As long as all players remained equally capable of killing each other, the same leveling-off effect would be generated. Thus, the “level playing field” effect is considered by some (MYSELF AND EVERYONE I KNOW) to be a misleading attempt to hide the real reason for grinding: unwillingness to budget sufficient content resources to produce a varied game.

They gave us -diag and -authsrv [string] but it’s quite an archaic system.

Anyway, taking into account the high volume of similar threads that I see lately, I strongly believe that an official reply/stand on the matter should be made.

Less “check your xxx imaginary problem” and more " It’s our fault we’re working on a permanent solution".

I attached the tracert screenshot, but here is the raw log as well:
(I masked 1st 3 logged Ip’s for security reasons)

Basically after hop 12 (206-127-157-102.plaync.com [206.127.157.102]) it’s a nightmare, only time outs.

Tracing route to 206-127-159-126.plaync.com [206.127.159.126]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     2 ms     1 ms     1 ms  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
  2     6 ms     4 ms     3 ms  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
  3     5 ms     2 ms     2 ms  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
  4    15 ms    18 ms    15 ms  port-channel201.car1.Bucharest1.Level3.net [212.162.45.41]
  5    31 ms    31 ms    32 ms  ae-8-8.ebr2.Budapest1.Level3.net [4.69.141.30]
  6    37 ms    30 ms    30 ms  ae-102-102.ebr1.Budapest1.Level3.net [4.69.201.137]
  7    30 ms    34 ms    30 ms  ae-42-42.ebr3.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.201.106]
  8    31 ms    29 ms    30 ms  ae-93-93.csw4.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.163.14]
  9    31 ms    30 ms    30 ms  ae-4-90.edge6.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.154.202]
 10    35 ms    32 ms    31 ms  195.16.161.58
 11    32 ms    33 ms    34 ms  206-127-157-86.plaync.com [206.127.157.86]
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 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
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Trace complete.

TL;dr: This is 100% a server side connectivity issue. Fix it.

For the Romanian users, if your provider is RDS use your DIGI mobile stick (assuming you have one) to patch the game then swap back to your fiberlink (PPPOE) connection.

It is a 100% connectivity issue and the above solution was tested successfully.

Later edit: if you still have issues after doing the above:

• open command prompt
• type: ipconfig /flushdns then press enter
• start the game

Justin ODell.9517:

Updated Reward System
With gear unification we will also introduce a system that allows players to set goals for rewards in PvP and work towards them. We are not ready to discuss this system in detail yet, as it is still being developed, but more information will come as we get closer to being able to release this system.

Once this new system is in place, glory will be retired as a currency, and gold will be the standard currency across the game. All existing glory vendors will be removed at this time. We will give advance warning when this is coming so you can spend all of your existing glory before that happens.

That’s the part you should keep in mind.

Bad precedents are being set.

• Fractal progress wiped to implement a leaderboard (that no one cares about);
• Spvp ranks delete to implement a new system;

I guess ppl are starting to have trouble taking arenanet serious and commit to anything long term.

Setting goals?
Goals that might be deleted at any given time, due to “insert random arenanet thought here”?

Ranks don’t mean anything. Removing them means everything.

Arenanet SpvP road Map Blog Post

Also in this update, the Skills and Balance team will introduce new healing skills to the game. To acquire new skills, in both PvP and PvE, players will need to spend skill points to unlock them. Unlocking the skill unlocks it for all parts of the game. Going forward newly added skills will require skill points. Existing skills will remain unlocked for PvP.

Soo this bit doesn’t raise any eyebrows?

Unless my interpretation is wrong, they are now saying that newly spvp skills will require skill points to unlock.

I know they will add Tomes of Knowledge in spvp, but what about having access to every skill/trait in spvp from the get-go? This seems a step in the wrong direction.

Only ppl affected by this change, will be the new players, this aint a very friendly move, if the intention is to attract more players. -)

Compared to some lower lvls, in my opinion fotm 49 is easy mode, so I wouldn’t make it sound like we’re doing anything special. As for rewards of course they are bad, it’s arenanet, what did you expect?

The only way they look at the reward chests is if we QQ hard enough, which frankly is not worth it.

Fun facts. From the reset to 30 and until the “new” 49 (done multiple times), I got:

• zero recipes
• zero fractal weapons
• zero more than +1 infusion

Don’t even start me on how unbalanced (time wise) are the final encounters (Maw vs Mai vs Dumb and Dumber), they could at least increase the loot quality based on final boss version.

Why didn’t they reset the achievement points when they added the AP reward system and leaderboard? In fact they went the other way around and they retroactively rewarded us.

If they didn’t do it then, there is no reason to do it here.

phys.7689:

Floryn.6307:

They could have made the new post lvl 30 changes a post lvl 50 challenge, that way the majority of players would still keep their lvl. Or at least give us a choice between keeping our current level and not be on leaderboards or accept the reset and be eligible for leaderboards.

For those still confused by the New Agony slot on rings and backpacks
(here is a quick graphic representation of how I understood the changes):

dont see the problem in the pic,

you payed 250 ecto for an extra slot, those who dont have this new slot cant put agony resistance in their gear other than versatile, might precise, etc.
essentially people who infused have extremely high AR potential, people who do not are limited to 5 per ascended peice
(And early ascended armor suggests it may not have infusion slots at all).

Yep, you are correct. Still I think we should get more from the get-go. Anyway no shame in asking. -)

@VOLKON.1290 yes the screenshot now removed the problem, you are probably still seeing the cached version.

They could have made the new post lvl 30 changes a post lvl 50 challenge, that way the majority of players would still keep their lvl. Or at least give us a choice between keeping our current level and not be on leaderboards or accept the reset and be eligible for leaderboards.

For those still confused by the New Agony slot on rings and backpacks
(here is a quick graphic representation of how I understood the changes):

Neko.9021:

I’m very confused. Help me out here. Where in the article does it say your fractal level is being reset to 30?

-> * legit confused, just trying to find the exact wording *

it’s not there it’s here (added anchor)

I like how that article is signed “by The Guild Wars 2 Team”. I guess no individual wants to take responsibility for this unreal/utterly flawed decision.

Can you give us a a choice at least:

• reset lvl to 30 and you will compete for a spot on leaderboard
• keep your current lvl and remain ineligible for leaderboard

If I can chose between keeping my current lvl or appear on a piece of kitten website that no ones cares about, I know what I will pick. -)

Finished everything in 2 hours (all achievements), My content rate is: 3/10.

• Horrible open area gameplay, mainly due to high mob density and annoying CC skills (you really didn’t learned anything from Orr feedback)
• Easy/weird top dungeon, which you also have to grind few times to get the achievement.
• Forced cinematic on a story I couldn’t care less (very unappealing to follow)
• RNG obtainable keys
• Crappy end chest loot.

The only shocking part is that some ppl actually enjoyed it. But I guess it’s a matter of taste.

PS: this is not hard content, it is frustrating content. You do it for achievements and never look back.

Naduk.8750:

So, I really think putting your personal reward level higer than 50 prevents you from getting any skin or ascended boxes!

Is it a bug? Is it intentional?
.

Level 80 here since before I can remember, short answer is NO, a personal lvl higher than 50 does not prevent you from getting a skin or ascended boxes.

Great so now your rank points are tied to the huge amount of mentally challenged players you meet in hot-join.

Up to this point no one cared, you were still able to score high even if the team was not optimal.

With this change only last night I witness a game of lvl 50+ vs lvl 10-15… and who can blaim them? I tried to be the hero who went against them, ended up getting chased by 2 lvl 60 thieves for the entire game (was not fun). -)

I think these changes are good, but not for hot-join. The only way this can work, is if you fix the way auto-balance works, so you don’t get steamrolled non stop (or swapped to losing team).

New hot-join mentality: if you can’t beat them, join them
Players are going spectate mode to force auto-balance then they swap to winning team.

hihey.1075:

Everytime I won a “duel” (that is, a fight without anyone else interfering) with another player, regardless of the class I was using, I was called a “noob”. EVERY SINGLE TIME.

Basically this is similar to: “If I win is cuz I’m a PRO, if you win is because you play an OP class/build, thus you’re a noob.”

Ben Newell.1759:

Floryn.6307:

When someone joins a group that you created via LFG tool, who is he actually joining?

• The person who created the initial ad?
• The person who entered the dungeon 1st?
• An unique instance ID that has nothing to do with the players.
  (from my observations this seems to be the case)

I’m interested because I would like to know how this works with ppl you have on ignore.
Normally via /join, they cannot join your party, and even if they do know someone else in your group, you always have the accept/deny window as a safety measure.

Thanks in advance,

The third option is closest. When a party is created, it has a unique ID that provides a handle to that party throughout the game systems. Normally, there’s no way you can interact with a party without doing it through another player. The LFG system is a bit of an end-run around this, though.

When you advertise your party in the LFG system, you are opting in to separate method of allowing players to join. It involves publicly broadcasting the details of your party, including the internal handle. This is then used to directly join the party.

If a player is abusively using the LFG system to circumvent a block you’ve placed on them, please report them via the conduct reporting tool.

Thank you for the answers. It works as I suspected , and I guess that even if it is possible (i.e. the player who get’s instance ownership upon entering 1st will also receive the unique LFG ID ownership) to check the block list, I assume it will create additional queries which will slow down the LFG tool quite a bit.

My suggestion, beside the report option is to add a “join group” confirmation window instead of auto-join . That should fix a lot of the current issues.

Ben Newell.1759:

This has been nicely answered already. We intentionally went with making groups collaborative and open, and we were aware of the potential for abuse. That’s why we implemented the reporting system for it. It was a decision where we decided to trust in our community and make things more powerful and flexible, instead of locking everything up and making it slower/more cumbersome. Honestly, from my experiences using LFG, it seems like this was the right call.

Also, griefing in LFG is not a lot of reward for a lot of risk. It’s just not worth the suspension/ban to cause a minor inconvenience to someone.

Ben,

When someone joins a group that you created via LFG tool, who is he actually joining?

• The person who created the initial ad?
• The person who entered the dungeon 1st?
• An unique instance ID that has nothing to do with the players.
  (from my observations this seems to be the case)

I’m interested because I would like to know how this works with ppl you have on ignore.
Normally via /join, they cannot join your party, and even if they do know someone else in your group, you always have the accept/deny window as a safety measure.

Thanks in advance,

9 out of 10 mesmers I fought, disengaged after few minutes and never looked back. But as Brutality said, there is always that 1 guy who is skilled enough, to make you burn your burst on clones and troll you from there.

Tip: Superior Sigil of Fire on scepter does wonders to those clones.

The troll quality is too low, I guess you cannot have to many expectation from twitter/facebook generation. When you folk grow up look for me and we can have some decent arguments.

PRO dungeon player in GW2 …that’s an insult to any decent MMO carebear out there. -)

…until then I’m out, I strongly suggest that this thread get’s locked, it can’t lead to anything constructive.

Skillful and gw2 don’t go too well together, but then again, we go back to Dunning-Kruger Effect. Not understanding that is the issue. -)

I can accept that zerker is one of the efficient ways to complete dungeons, what I can’t accept is that some random self entitled pros are telling the rest of the world that PVT is not viable and that is bad.

The fact that I can accept that I don’t hold the absolute truth makes me immune to DK effect.

On the other hand lets check the symptoms and see if you recognize yourself in them
(Dunning and Kruger proposed that, for a given skill, incompetent people will)

• tend to overestimate their own level of skill;
• fail to recognize genuine skill in others;
• fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy;
• recognize and acknowledge their own previous lack of skill, if they are exposed to training for that skill.

PS
Even the trolling is bad, although judging from the various threads you folks are flaming one would think you are PRO’s. -)

You folk should get a special troll division badge.
Now Dub.1273 is telling us that PVT= casual noobs. I never loled irl soo much.

In my humble opinion [rt]/[DnT] suffer from Dunning–Kruger effect.

Note:

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their mistakes. Source: wiki

That was my last post here, if I continue I will most likely say stuff that will get me infracted.
Now run along go solo Lupicus, or whatever you think being skillful means. Oh and I almost forgot, post videos, showing your uberness, that doubles your skill right there! -)

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

Floryn.6307:

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

I just want to point out, that popping food buffs and ‘Empower’ before you take a screenshot is not a very good way to show off your stats. Lets see your bases big boy.

Is [rT] made of trolls only?

[rT] is made of players who are deemed as top tier players. If you think you meet the requirements, you’re free to apply.

I’m leading GW2 division of one of the guilds who made history since MMO’s were invented, so I think I will pass.

Plus I don’t meet the requirements, I am adjusting my gear, food buffs, weapons, utilities, traits (having AH or PoV when you are equipped for a fight that requires SotA and WoR, is kittened) and armor, before each boss fight . I’m not “phew phew zerkk powa, 1 shot boss” type of guy, I’m just slowing you down. ^^

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

I just want to point out, that popping food buffs and ‘Empower’ before you take a screenshot is not a very good way to show off your stats. Lets see your bases big boy.

Is [rT] made of trolls only?

Seems so. I mean I CAN’T even begin to explain what’s wrong with that reply. But then again I lost my hopes for you when I read that 44% crit chance only generates a feeling of constant crits… just lol.

Mepheles.2087:

If he has 4100 Attack, and 44% crit in PVT gear, I’d say he would be doing anything BUT dragging the run down.

I don’t just say it I show it, in a previous screen. Not to mention that with a warrior buffing I can reach over 5000 attack in PTV…. that thing does wonder to my GS Whirling wrath (which I use standing next to boss or group of mob, without having to waste a hit by dodging or running away).

I am not saying berserker is not ONE of the optimal ways to play a dungeon, but dismissing PTV, just because of pulled out of the kitten numbers and calling ppl bad for using it, it’s just malicious and plain wrong.

By using conversion traits and food buffs, you can actually benefit from having a lot of toughness (half of my precision is from that) , basically you can build die hard chars that can do more dps than the average berserker. Again I’m not talking about top players, I am talking about the average Joe who comes here reads this and thinks: “I iz noob if I not use zerk gear, I must use zerk and call ppl noobs, then I iz GOOD” …these guys die before landing a 1hb or WW.

Yes, over 4100 attack, while having the critical chance above 40 % (44% in my case) and not having to worry about getting 1 shotted when a boss or a mob sneezes ( over 3500 armor, and normally 22 000 hp and not 21 000 as you can not see in screenshot) is totally gonna ruin your dungeon run, totally, yes ptv IS BAD long live berserker, thank you for opening my eyes random xyz.

You are totally not wasting dps dodging and running to stay alive, while I am meleeing the boss 99% OF THE TIME…totally.

Do you folk actually play the game outside your small circle, do you see the reality? 99% of the so called berserker PRO’s I meet drop down in 1st TEN seconds of a fight.

PS

The only dungeon I spend an hour in, is daily 48 and when we use to do the daily fotm 80 (back in the days when than was possible).

On the other hand I don’t know why I took the bate and reply… the fact that you don’t think 44% critical chance is not enough to constantly land critical hits, is depressing enough.

For anyone outside their small circle, in my view:

• Berserker= burst
• PTV = sustained
• Cleric=useless
  The rest of the armor sets are also important depending on the class, the traits, utilities and weapon used.

Trivializing this to berserker or GTFO= narrow mind.

swiftpaw.6397:

Floryn.6307:

swiftpaw.6397:

Floryn.6307:

Ty for the enlightenment, you 2, fortunately after over 3000 hours played on guardian (12k AP, legendary, spvp 45 without farming SH, etc etc), and thousands of dungeon runs, I am pretty secured and I stand behind my words PTV is not a bad choice and it doesn’t hinder a group, assuming you are running the correct rune set, sigils and trait lines.

I would ask if you guys are banned from high lvl fotms groups, but I already know the answer to that one. No wonder you spend more time on forums then in game. -)

I guess I should throw away my eternity,

You crafted eternity? why didn’t you start with that, I would have label you and moved on since 1st reply directed toward me.

Now here’s 50 minutes no one will give me back !

It took you 50 mins to read that?

It took me 50 min to realize that you are from NA (actually it explains a lot, I assume that your cheerleaders are also from same area). If I knew earlier I wouldn’t reply at all since I DON’T really care what info you are spreading there . -)

In any case last reply from me, the moderators have work to do here anyway. Did a quick search on your post history… I’m surprised that you still have posting privileges. -)

swiftpaw.6397:

Floryn.6307:

Ty for the enlightenment, you 2, fortunately after over 3000 hours played on guardian (12k AP, legendary, spvp 45 without farming SH, etc etc), and thousands of dungeon runs, I am pretty secured and I stand behind my words PTV is not a bad choice and it doesn’t hinder a group, assuming you are running the correct rune set, sigils and trait lines.

I would ask if you guys are banned from high lvl fotms groups, but I already know the answer to that one. No wonder you spend more time on forums then in game. -)

I guess I should throw away my eternity,

You crafted eternity? why didn’t you start with that, I would have label you and moved on since 1st reply directed toward me.

Now here’s 50 minutes no one will give me back !

Ty for the enlightenment, you 2, fortunately after over 3200 hours played on guardian (12k AP, legendary, spvp 45 without farming SH, etc etc), and thousands of dungeon runs, I am pretty secured and I stand behind my words PTV is not a bad choice and it doesn’t hinder a group, assuming you are running the correct rune set, sigils and trait lines.

I would ask if you guys are banned from high lvl fotms groups, but I already know the answer to that one. No wonder you spend more time on forums then in game. -)

guanlongwucaii.3162:

Floryn.6307:

nagr.1593:

Now since its profitable to only run one path daily once, however if it is say a daily speed run for all paths of a dungeon, it makes perfect sense to occasionally see people checking for zerk gear. Though I would say again the number of elitist posts has drastically reduced..

Please stop implying that zerkers are elitists. Most zerkers are utterly noobs, labels like this is what generates false myths and leads to a so called general consensus.

Dead DPS is no DPS.

That being said I am strongly against cleric gear, PVT on the other hand is perfectly acceptable, specially in high lvl fotms .

Tl;dr: Zerker gear can be excellent unfortunately most ppl using it are not.

My PVT stats self buffed only,:
(wvw reset day so my hp is 1 000 lower than normal)

stats don’t mean much. proper DPS builds also get many damage modifiers which aren’t reflected in hero panel but make a big difference in actual fights.

erm, cba to engage, this thread is not smart enough for that sort of talk.

Please continue : " zerker wars pew pew pew, hundred blades, I iz good, feeel the skillz"

nagr.1593:

Now since its profitable to only run one path daily once, however if it is say a daily speed run for all paths of a dungeon, it makes perfect sense to occasionally see people checking for zerk gear. Though I would say again the number of elitist posts has drastically reduced..

Please stop implying that zerkers are elitists. Most zerkers are utterly noobs, labels like this is what generates false myths and leads to a so called general consensus.

Dead DPS is no DPS.

That being said I am strongly against cleric gear, PVT on the other hand is perfectly acceptable, specially in high lvl fotms .

Tl;dr: Zerker gear can be excellent unfortunately most ppl using it are not.

My PVT stats self buffed only,:
(wvw reset day so my hp is 1 000 lower than normal)

Gandarel.5091:

I assume you don’t know who Symbolic is

It’s not hard to be the best man in the room, when the room is empty… so spare me. I couldn’t give a kitten on who he is in GW2. When I was “legendary” (in TRUE competitive games) he was still playing with his kitten in the sand. Fame means nothing. Stop with that nonsense, it diminishes the importance of this thread (I agree my hot-join screen might have been a bad one to post) .

Back on topic: you get 10 AP for each tier of a rank, that’s 10 tiers per rank, which is 100 AP/rank. Going from rank zero to 50 means you get 5000 AP by farming skyhammer.

If by the end of the day there is no official reply stating that they will take measures against those who farmed, I will also start to do this.. .I can’t pass the opportunity to go from rank 45 to 60 and get 1500 AP in return (gold, laurels, acc bonus, badges, etc).

leave them the ranks, add an UN-removable custom title called “Skyhammer Farmer”.
That should be enough to make them laughable.

It’s hot-join because due to meta fail, matchmaking fail, leaderboard fail and now this rank farm fail, pretty much no one takes sPvP seriously anymore, so most action IS in hot-join, ergo the screenshots. -)

The only GAMEBREAKING part is that the Op only recently learned about this. It’s been like this for ages, it actually got “fixed” at a point and then it returned to removing 2 conditions, few builds later. -)

..and if this is gamebreaking I wonder how will you react when you learn that there is a certain rune bonus that acts completely different than what the description saiz, and it happens only @ guards. ^^