Guild Wars 2

Staff ele squishy is working well against bad players who run into your static, can’t dodge and do not focus the back line…which is the case in 90% of random matches (good fun). If your opponents have a little bit of skill and awareness…well, your ele has to be really lucky to pull something off.

Aaaahhhrrrg. Piken…please let’s refuse to capture anything for the next few months so we can drop down to silver league and live in peace again….the same bullkitten over and over…THIS IS MADNESS.

JonPeters.5630:

Thief:

• Shadow Return on Sword. Renamed to Infiltrator’s return. Added a 1/4s cast time.

Don’t see the reason to nerf is as my thief relies on it for survivability (we have no stability so at least you should be able to get out of the way)

• Critical Strikes 15 – Opportunist. Increased trigger chance to 50%. Increase cooldown from 1s to 5s.

5s seems a little to much statistically, so it’s a nerf. Too much for me with the other initiative changes

• Shadow Arts V – Infusion of Shadow – This trait functionality has been changed to “Gain initiative when you enter stealth.” 2 init.

Like it!

• Acrobatics III – Vigorous Recovery. Reduced Vigor duration to 4s from 8s.

Oh god please don’t. The acrobatics line will be less useful for survivability than stealth. WAY too much of a reduction.

• Acrobatics XI – Hard to catch. Moved to Master Tier.

I see what you want to do but Assassins Reward is a useless trait b/c of random teleports. Rather change the trait altogether.

• Trickery VII – Bountiful Theft. Reduced vigor duration to from 15s to 8s.

Wow, way too much nerf.

The way I see it, these changed even reduce optional builds. Vigor is way too nerfed down and I don’t see why anyone would go for Acrobatics instead of shadow arts. Perma stealth nerf good though! Please don’t touch the other things (I struggle with my thief enough already).

Thanks for sharing!

Guess what gold league servers got? QUEUES! And Queues. And of course PVErs (circle runners in ruins), which cause even more queues and are quite difficult to cope with for hardcore WvWers (no offense). We had core guilds leaving because of that and even more unhappy people. Had me worried, though I think it’s slightly going upwards again now (thanks Anet for the PVE living world event now ^^) Greetings from Piken.

I know, but for me BL is also contributing to the lag (maybe I’m wrong, but the server has more to load, no?). I don’t see a way to remove blobbing, but now being outblobbed and outBLed is making it worse for me. I appreciate that Anet takes a look at WvW, but please be a bit more creative! Either make BL a more attainable goal (i.e. giving points while a ruin is coloured, so ppl actually fight over it and make it more interesting) or make it a less attainable goal, so it doesn’t have a big impact on gameplay. Atm it is just boring (i.e. I am running after a blob on the ruins to reset a ruin OR I am getting overrun there).

Again, all an expression of my frustration. Maybe talk to the community BEFORE implementing changes? The WvW overflow map is a step in the right direction.

It is about “fun” and unfairness is not “fun”. I play WvW since the start, I ONLY play WvW, but with BL, queues, achs, lag, blobbing and whatnot there is not much for me to do anymore. And the worst thing is, it was working great before. Sorry for QQ, but it is frustrating!

-BL still gives an unfair advantage to higher population servers (i.e. more ppl available to get and protect it EVEN in tier 1!)
-These servers tend to be the strongest anyway
-There is an unfair disadvantage for small groups (taking only a camp takes longer)
-There is an unfair advantage while 1 vs 1
-Blood lust does not decrease blobbing
-It is really, really boring to run in a circle!
-It makes you rely on other players thinking when you try to get it – most frustrating thing ever!
-Isn’t there a better thing to do with these ruins? I’d actually prefer if they would bring points as long as they are claimed, to make it more interesting for fights/ small scale roaming. Atm it is just boring.

What is the reason for BL!?

Ôo

(fifteen letters)

Queues (on Piken at least) are actually slowly returning to normal (which means for us no queue except during EU prime time and being outnumbered from 1am to 3pm), indicating that PvErs are gradually finishing their achievements. Things will get back to normal eventually, all guilds will be able to play and SFR will have a rematch in the end. So be social. Stop whining. Have some dignity. Sheesh.

As for Piken, I think some (most?) people would be happier if we would still be Nr. 8-ish with the old community (instead of losing and gaining guilds every week-so confusing!), so we can be relaxed here and leave the competition between you two (although it is pretty amusing to watch).

Don’t forget to have fun guys!

Well, due to the skill lag pressing 1 is your best and only option, and the warrior matches this role perfectly due to his decent damage and survivability (i.e. running through the blob 1111 while other classes actually have to press 11167(!) to survive). Best adaptation to the current blob vs. blob skill(less) lag fest we all love so much .

Yes, the world could be wonderful…sadly its not. I like the league, I like the future new GvG arena, I like the future new WvW Overflow map. It’s great! What I dont like are queues (which come from PvErs and bandwaggoners) and catastrophic game performance. Also I dont like guilds leaving because they just cant play anymore.

And really, I try to “mentor” new PvE-WvWers. I tell them to please no run around in a circle in the ruins because we already have the buff and other ppl are in the queue. I tell them not to waste supplies and repair a wall that gets trebbed for hours (Must be boring to do the same thing all over again, but I guess thats PVE). Sadly I have the impression most of them just want to finish their achievement treadmill and are not interested in WvW or the WvW community. I have the impression another farming event would have been more satisfiying for them.

I guess I’ll just wait until everything hopefully improves and take a break until then.

Before, I had just skill lag during fights in SM, now also if I stand alone on a meadow, all by myself (except for a moa or 2)…definitely has gotten worse, and I play in tier 1, so it was always crowdy. DCs are same as always I think. (What really annoys me though are all the achievement hunters that just run around in the circle in the ruins or waste supply to get their repair/build achievement…but I guess that is a different matter )

I play mostly WvW and a stealth/condi removal thief (quite tanky, I have actually Guardians laughing at me for making 0 damage to them I PROMISE I CANT ONE HIT OR EVEN TWO HIT YOU QQers!). Even with the stealth removal trap and arrow carts mastery and all this existing reveals going on, it is ridiculous how easy I melt without stealth. Basically this 4 sec are enough for conditions to down me.

It is going to be interesting, I imagine all the rangers are gonna skill this in WvW (as thieves are so hated because it is difficult to kill a stealth build) and I am gonna run around being squishy.^^

Might just play warrior (like everyone in WvW) because I AM SO TIRED OF CHANGING MY BUILD AFTER EVERY UPDATE! Because it means new armor, new weapons, new sigils, and now with the ascended stuff it is even more tiring. -.-

Jayne.9251:

Lol this thread.

Reminds me of this:

http://youtu.be/_JmA2ClUvUY

(Clearly these two are doing their own version of “Put a ring on it”).

Genius video! As we can see, tier 1 consists of a bunch of 12-year olds…Piken excluded (of course), because I play there (naturally). ^^

Anyway, thanks SFR for continually storming our garrison today. All the loot bags! (And continue the flamewar! DADADADADADADA!)

Axle.5182:

Iv missed SFR and it’s forum warriors couldn’t miss the opportunity to poke some fun and raise a few blood pressures A big hi from across the pond Piken keep up the fight

For anyone that doesn’t know what i meant earlier

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/recruitment/SEAFARER-S-REST-IS-RECRUITING-NA/first#post2971003

Lololol guess we are kicking your a** too much so you need NA help, eh SFR? Kisses from Piken <3

This take all the fun out of WvW. I play on Drakkar Lake and the strongest server outnumbers us 10:1 during the night (because that’s how it always is, isnt it? Except when we play against lower ranked servers, than it’s the other way around). So obviously we can’t afford to have ppl on different maps to capture ruins. Before, you could snatch a keep or 2 with 5 ppl before the enemy server found you. Now with the buff, it takes 20 min to kill the lord, which gives enough time to a single enemy to keep you out. Basically, you can’t do anything anymore. I could move to a higher ranked server (which 90% of guilds will do) but I could also look for a different game. -.-