Guild Wars 2

portals are not limited to 5 people because a portal is not an AOE same reason why a group of 30 can walk through a meteor storm or a field 1-5 at at time and they will all be hit. Skills dont just stop after they hit 5 people just only 5 people can be hit at a time, im sure the portal follows the same rule you just dont notice because 5 people dont all hit F at the same millisecond.

The problem here isnt the portal skill of mesmers its the game engine and calling for a nerf wont help the problem, it would just hurt it more.

I think a lot, not all but a lot, of warriors that say they cant do much in WvW have crap builds or dont know the tactics of melee play and just try to Leroy over everything i run with axe-warhorn/rifle and a shout build and its perfect. I can use my axe the majority of the time and i still have my rifle as a reliable back up and nice spike dmg with the 3 skill.

I love fighting ranged classes, and everything besides a guardi or a thief just get shred to pieces by my axes and I take 2v1s all the time just so long as they are not those 2 before mentioned classes, melee is intimidating and most ranged players dont know what to do once you close that gap and dont let them leave you just gotta know when to rifle and when to melee, it takes finesse.

Hate to be that “learn to play kid!” guy but yea…

Caliburn.1845:

DH player here, member of ZZZZ.

Couple things worth pointing out. First, there are hackers on Darkhaven. Four times now I have seen enemy keeps fall before we breached their inner gates/walls. In two of those cases we were already going to take the keeps(IE I was at an inner gate with rams and people and few defenders around). I was close enough to see three green dots capping each keep lord before we could get in. I tried to get in fast enough to spot names or guilds, but they were gone before I could get close. No one has taken credit for hacking the keeps, and no seems to know who it is.

I want to know so I can report them to high heaven and get them off my server. I don’t care about losing, but cheating? I care about that. So to any DH players out there, help me find the scum giving our server a bad name. Two keeps fell to the hackers last night, my guild ZZZZ was in zone with several groups when it happened, and we just decided to leave to another borderlands, rather than defend hacked keeps and perhaps become associated with those cheaters. Not fun.

Second, all the cheating and hacking is annoying, but let us not delude ourselves. The standings and score would still be largely similar regardless of cheating. SoR has pulled out all the stops and is outmanning and out organizing DH at almost all hours. Last night during primetime hours 6-11pm PST, there was zero queue time for any DH wvw map. In many of the borderlands we had the outnumbered buff for almost the entire night. DH wvw has collapsed since our strong showing sunday. To a large extent because our primary commander known to some as “The Half Naked Norn” recieved an IP ban due to language. Rumors fly about SoR and SF reporting him and getting him banned, but I have no idea about the validity of that. But the fact remains that our most active and successful leader is out of the fight for now. To make it worse he is a driving force in DH’s biggest and only real wvw alliance, and that alliance now seems fairly intent on just sitting out the rest of the match-up(with a few exceptions, looking at you commanders W and Y).

And it isn’t just that, we had three DH guilds recently abandoned the server because our daytime wvw presence was lacking. Pah quitters.

Oh well, at least it all makes for good drama.

Well its good to see someone owning up to the fact that there are hackers on their server for the good of the game. Im sure every server is going through this issue and ill be actively working on finding these guys on any server and sending reports of finding the exploit to Anet can drop the hammer accordingly.

But in regards to ZZZZ your a good bunch of players and ive actually can tell you guys apart by build now and i gotta say HC has had some great times duking it out you you in open field and in sieges, and its always a close fight, with us both taking wins and losses.

Also there is a scepter and dagger ele that I keep somehow finding 1v1 out in the fields at the most random points and its always to the wire, so props to him and if you know who that is tell him the Charr warrior from HC in all Vigil armor is coming for that kitten :P

i personally love trebs and dont think they should be changed, i actually find that i have to put it to close for comfort sometimes, depending on what im trebbing, i have not see a spot where you can place a treb and have it untouchable yet still effective, even in the garrison, if you have a problem with a treb go do something about it, they are usually minorly defended due to the fact that most people think that once its up it is safe in its spot.

A group of 5 can rush a treb from behind and take it out before the other side can react in most cases.

prob a theif and they have multiple inviz skills that they can alternate to stay inviz from 20-30 seconds, they sacrifice a lot to do so, but hey if u wanna hit and run its one of the best ways to do it….

they also have an AOE inviz that is also very helpful for getting teams out of a pinch my guild uses them often to escape, res, and ambush

I main a lvl 80 Warrior and i love it, im actually in melee range the majority of the time in everything from small skirmishes to huge zerg v zerg fights. You just need to recognize when to go in melee and when to range (rifle has a 1200 range btw so its not that bad)

Also i build a bit tanky with alot of condition removal so i dont mind taking a bit of dmg but you just need to know when to have an escape plan and know where your team is, if you think that your team is right behind you but your alone your gonna die. So as long as you know when to retreat and have a crew to watch your back you should be fine.

the deer thing made me lol, good vid, a little to offensive for WvW in opinion how do you handle in large group fights?

taking out a wall to a keep and still seeing your zerg beating on the door even after jumping up in front of them in /s telling them that the wall is down and where to go.

The NA players in IOJ are a joke and lack any semblance of coordination so much that my guild and others that were in IOJ left to a lower ranked server for the fact that they were willing to work as a team. Being on IOJ during NA prime was so frustrating seeing pugs attack a door relentlessly and not care that my guild took out a keep wall 5 feet from them. Or the constant caps “HE IS AN IDIOT LISTEN TO MEEEE!!!” chat in all the WvW zones. Or the totally WvW incompetent that didn’t even know what supply was.

I will not be surprised to see IOJ drop down in rank soon, (not against any of you Ocianics you guys were the backbone of the server) I just felt like I had to warn people what they were getting into.

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Grittz N Gravey.6091:

Even though i think this JemL guy is a complete troll and should be banned from this tread (if a mod can do such a thing) I do think that the repair cost is fine. I WvW every night and 4 the 5 or so hours im out there i make anywhere from 1-2 gold and I spend no more then 30 silver in repair costs.

Yeah but are you on a good WvW server? If your server is doing the roflstomping then it’s no issue but if you are the server who is constantly getting roflstomped then you won’t get any profit :P but I can still see your point.

My server tends to pull second din most matchups but its still very hard to gain ground but as i said taking a more incognito approach nets you more gold.

Even though i think this JemL guy is a complete troll and should be banned from this tread (if a mod can do such a thing) I do think that the repair cost is fine. I WvW every night and 4 the 5 or so hours im out there i make anywhere from 1-2 gold and I spend no more then 30 silver in repair costs. Thats about a 20% dip in my profits, but for the fun that im having and the fact that this is free to play so they have to keep the gold influx relatively low somehow to keep people playing/buying gems i have no problem making 1.5 gold a night.

If your having problems making gold try taking more camps, thats 3 events right there (if there are dolyaks) worth about 2 gold each. 2 camps and you should be able to cover your bill. I complete at least 20 events b4 i have to repair (not counting the ones i get rewards for that i didnt even know i participated in) so you should be making a good net profit. And i play on IOJ so i know what Blackgate players feel like getting rolled by tier 1 servers.

My suggestion, do more side events that help your team; taking sentries, camps, befriending npc factions and ganking yacks, instead of taking towers/keeps 100% of the time. A good balance between the small and large objectives is key to not repairing in WvW.