Guild Wars 2

I’m getting constant crashes in WvW ever since this patch and the last but mores this patch.

Like the previous guy says. Berserker gear is not the issue, the npc design is. At the current state of things berserker gear will still be the most effecient way to kill something even after this uncalled for nerf. What they need to do is fix their npcs or even make them more resisitant to attacks forcing players to use tactics other than berserker rushing on top of the npc. Resistance to melee or close combat moves that punish this sort of combat could work too. Melee weapons do no dmg to the npc even. I’m sure there endless creative ways to fix this. its hardly the berserker gear thats the fault.

I think thats a problem with the NPC coding not people wearing berserker gear.

+1 crashing here too. Crashed before but it seems worse now.

I think a lot of people are playing because of the no sub fee… I personally play because of it and doubt I would continue to play if I had to pay a sub.

Lion’s Arch, destroyed! That would be nice.

Why not make it so you can choose between 2-3 stats to swap between when you create an ascended item. It will make ascended more flexible and worth the cost and legendaries will still be special.

Currently its not worth making an ascended item. I even tried for a bit, but now i would rather save my money for something else. Something with a better skin perhaps.

They should scrap those ascended skins and use them for another part of the game. Why not make it so you can just upgrade any one of your current armor pieces to ascended instead?

Great ideas. I don’t agree with ascended being equal to legendaries. However, I would be for something in between.
how about making it so you can at pick between 2 or 3 types of stats for ascended instead of all stats like you suggested.

My 2 cents.

How about this, a new Instantly Downed Effect, or Fately Wounded Effect.

Works like this. The higher the concentration of players are in one area then the higher the chances of players taking fatel or collateral damage. This collateral damage could instantly down or kill a random person in the stack. Some weapons would have a higher chance to do this than others. Possibly make this effect apply to concentrations of 10 or more players. Apply this with the right ratio and zergs will be forced to split their numbers or face lots of casaulties.
Perhaps add in some minor protection from this through new utils or new WvW commander shouts.

This would need to be implemented with tactics in mind. Stacking should be useful in certain situations but it should come with some drawbacks and fear. This concept could do wonders I think.

I have absolutely no interest in Wildstar. Possibly ESO because I’m a big ES fan but I doubt i would play it ESO with a Sub. Even then I’m enjoying GW2 and will most likely be sticking with it.

It would be nice to see what GW2 has planned for 2014.

WvW and Teamspeak

I’m not doing any grinding for ascended. The skins are mediocre, and if I did any grinding at all I would rather just save my gold for something better, like a legendary.

These are just a few very simple changes that i think would make a difference.

Ability to choose the color of your commander tag.
Ability to set the distance your tag will be displayed: globally, or within whatever distance; 3000, 5,000, 10,000, etc.

Possibly make it so your guild members can always see your tag globally by default when they set their tags display distance. Players want to know where their guild mates are at anyway., and regular players can see the tag if they are in the general vacinity. This would be useful for guilds that usually run around in havoc groups or a 2nd group. and wouldnt take too many people away from the main force.

I think you definitely need a global commander for people to gather around because not everyone is running around in a gigantic one guild zerg. However, you also need a way to distinguish between havoc groups. i think having a way to set your tag display distance would be useful for havoc commanders and it would still be hard for spies to keep track, since they have to be following within range to see the tag anyway.

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Wow, i use this trait all the time for finishing people with ranged axe , maul, , counter attack sword throw, point blank shot(fast reaction and can do 6k or so without buffs). Will do 10k+ with maul or 8k+ with path of scars. You can even preload it throw path of scars and click it for crazy dmg on both hits plus knockdown. Or combo it with longbow knockdown. Use it with longbow auto attack and you’ll hit someone for 6k while they are trying to run away or as a surprise. There are many useful situations for this.

Wow, are you guys trolling rangers are something? Remove signet of the beastmaster? No thank you.

I agree and think that Anet is losing out. They could easily increase the price on gemstore skins but make them permanent unlockables like the ap skins.

Alright, this may be on the side of insanity but i have only three words to say, Super Siege Weapons. Yes, you heard me. Now hear me out.

I was thinking that these SSW items could possibly be unique per server(something to boast pride) or have some generic one that each server can pick before each matchup (easier to balance). These items would be insanely deadly (offensively or defensively) and would also come with some anti-zerging capabilites, like Tequatl style death waves, death rays, whatever. These weapons could possibly be mobile structures or deadly terittorial NPCs/dragons whatever you can think of that sounds painful and makes you go ouch.

List of possible items:
Territorial dragons, airships, tunnelers, beam cannons, titans, flesh eating rabbits, air strikes(something ANET is already planning?), black portals, something that makes you go Oh ajdhfbk!

These structures would require multiple commanders just to initiate and to place on the field for construction. Possibly even a commander to control it too, to prevent trolling. It could folllkw it the nearest commander perhaps. The SSW would have a time limit or course, or perhaps better yet, make it start costing supply/player sacrifices to upkeep and upkeep would increase incrementally the longer its out before it self destructs or leaves the field. Of course have some drawback to using the SSW as well.

However, these items should give each server a major ACE card up their sleeve to play which would change the battlefield completely and create more dynamic smarter fights. Smaller severs would be able to put a major dent on strongly fortified keeps and bigger servers. Servers could use dirty tactics and team up on a weaker servers or coordinate an attack on a much stronger server. War isnt fair right?

Of course some balancing would need to be done such as making it so that these SSW’s could only be created once every few days or possibly just once during a weekly match per borderland, or just have it on a global build counter – start with less and increase as needed.
If its a mobile weapon then it would move quite slow and also have its icon on the world map for all teams to see because of its size. If its an NPC then it would claim a chosen section of the map giving the server domminace of that section for whatever amount time and could also have its icon on the map.

*Dragons demand player sacrifices from their own team to upkeep.

Another zerg counter
Possibly make the siege upkeep increase faster when more players are bunched around it to prevent zerging from side using it.

greater than 30 players for +1
greater than 60 players for +2

The objective would be to create some strategic super plays, that could be unpredictable, and make for some epic battles.

Anyway those are just my crazy ideas. I figured I would share with the community. Does anyone else have practical or crazy ideas for super siege?

Well until they fix the animation on it you might as well keep auto attack off. You will be dead in no time if you keep it on in WvW or PvP. In its current state you have a lot more control without it on, but if you need to maximise your DPS then go ahead and be a robot if thats what you want.

Just turn off auto attack. You really shouldn’t have it on to begin with unless you want to kill yourself.

50% to 25% is a HUGE decrease. You won’t realise how big it is until its done.
Besides a lot of classes can keep their vigor buffs up often anyway so why nerf this trait? This trait is insanely useful especially if you are playing on the glassy ranger side.

Well rangers get 1hand sword rollback & leap, great sword swoop – you can trait swords to have 20% reduction on cool downs, lightning reflexes (you can also trait for reduction on survival skills), war horn for swiftness, birds or shouts if you need more swiftness, rampage as one for more swiftness and stability.

I’m not really certain what the total would be if you added those all up. But it would probably look something like this.

Total calculation of your leaps/evades –
rough estimates
Sword: 450? roll backwards (not a real leap but its pretty quick and it evades and you can rotate your camera to rollback in whatever direction you need) + 600 (leap forward) = 1050 range
GS: 1100 range?
LR: 450-600 range??
Total leap potential: 2750 range give or take

If you want to get some distance you use your warhorn or rampage, face backwards, use your lightning reflexes, sword #2, turn around sword #2 to jump forward, then greatsword swoop. Master doing this and good luck to anyone who tries to catch you because you have other tools to keep people off of you on top of all these leaps like fears & chills, whatever.

Also, your sword cooldowns are quite fast so you can be doing this pretty constant and easily pass up people who don’t use leaps but have swiftness even if you don’t have swiftness.

“Wilderness 5 Natural Vigor. Reduced the increased endurance regeneration from 50% to 25%.”

I’m not too thrilled about this change. I like to run a close combat power roaming build for WvW and this change will definitely hurt my build. Also its a large decrease too.. If they do decrease it, is it really necessary to decrease by so much?

Stamina regen has already been nerfed pretty hard when they made it so healing spring doesn’t give stamina with every tick so I don’t see why we would need more nerfs in regards to stamina regen.

Sorry haven’t read all of the notes yet so maybe there is a good reason for this nerf.

Yeah, I agree to an extent. This skill can easily be abused and there is really nothing you can do to stop the warrior from doing so either. They could really just do it indefinitely if you had enough warriors and you can’t stop the warrior from doing it because they get all sorts of invulnerability to damage and conditions and zergs.

Actually I noticed I get random crashes if I put my settings on max as well – basically exactly what Mystic says. This used to not be an issues for me.

Pro Tip: Never you auto attack – it will get you killed.

Just turn off auto attack and use your tab button to target or click on the target. That’s what I do.

Jade Quarry-[KVG]Kaminari Vanguard is still recruiting.

We are located in Japan but are seeking any members who can play during our regular play times: 5:00 AM – 9:00 AM server time or 9:00 PM – 1:00AM (GMT: +9)

What we need: WvW regular members. (Teamspeak used). If you can get on Teamspeak that would be awesome..
What we have: Small tight nit group of 4-5 regular players on every night. We would like to increase this number. Mail me in game if you are looking for a WvW group to play with.

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Honestly I think this current version of the bloodlust buff they are using is pretty dumb and a lazy way to go about it. I don’t think it really promotes any tactical gameplay what-so-ever. I’m not going to quit because of it but I will now have to assume EVERY time i go to WvW that my server will not be having this buff during my play times – we are usually outnumbered. Thank you ANET.

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Kaminari Vanguard is over one year old and we have been around since head start. We have guild Bounty/Rush/Challenges(very soon) unlocked and host weekly guild missions on Sundays, 11:00 PM (GMT +9). We are mainly a WvW focused guild but we have no real restriction on who we invite.

Kaminari Vanguard has a community of players living in Asia (Japan and other locations). A lot of our members are bilingual and speak English or Japanese – English being the guilds primary language, but feel to speak either language.

We are recruiting members for WvW and players who can play regularly week nights at around 9:00 PM~ (GMT +9). If you are interested in joining, then please mail or message me in game. Mailing works best since I tend to be afk at times.

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-Aaron Storm

I’m not sure if this idea has been used but why not make the new bloodlust mechanic work like the sigils use on your weapons. You dont start right away with the stats, but when you kill a player with this buff active it gives you power stacks, maybe 5-10 to all stats (x3) if you have them in all the borderlands. of course have a limit. Also make it so you lose the stacks if you are downed or die. That way players can still get up to 50 – 150 and whateve from stomping to all stats if they’ve killed enough players. This might enforce more tactical gameplay and still make the buff worth getting. It will also keep some fights balances since you can down your enemy to have them lose their stats.

Of course you will need to find that stat bonus golden spot to make capturing these points viable. Anyway just my take on it.

Even if you are able to cleanse yourself of these confusion stacks there are builds out there that let them stack 20+ stacks on you every 10 seconds. There is absolutely no way you can keep up with it.

Yes, if you are doing PvE/PvP stuff then you can probably do your daily in 30 minutes, its relatively easy for you PvX guys. Although i think they should make it take less than 10 minutes max to get your daily done whether you are doing PvX or WvW. Unfortunately If you play mostly WvW like myself then you are out of luck because it may take a few HOURS to complete your daily – very one sided. i actually want to ENJOY WvW and the game so i dont focus on doing dailies everyday.

If you didnt know your axe can travel down a the wall and pull them to it.

Path of Scars can be a bit hard to land but the dmg output makes up for it.

Raganov knows what hes talking about.
i usually use signet of the hunt twice(buff last 16min), with signet of the wild, and you will do well over 20k with just Path of Scars and another 10k+ with Maul. its insane dmg really. You can swap to your greatsword while your axe is flying and wait for the pull to take them to you. Switch back to 1hand sword and keep crippled on them if you havent finished them in your first combo. I usually run with chill sigils and 1 hand sword to keep them locked down after.

I updated my previous video and included some more kills. My game was running just about as smooth as these videos recorded, which was terrible. Nothing to special here but I hope you enjoy watching anyway. I couldn’t finish off the warrior unfortunately and got zerged in the process of retreating. I did outclass that warrior – he entangled me and tried to headshot me. Anyway, enjoy.

http://youtu.be/x1G6S31a34U

I run a probably permanent protection build and I would suggest going with the 2x sup water, 2x major water, and 2x superior monk runes on your armor. You need all the boon duration you can get to keep protection on you, plus boon duration helps your regen and other buffs stay on you longer. When you dodge you gain protection as well, and if you have the stamina regen trait when casting heals then every time your healing spring ticks regen you and part memberr will also get the stamina regen with it. You should have excess amount of protection just from dodge rolling in your field.

Im not positive but i think bark skin stacks with protection.

You can also give yourself and allies perma fury/swift if you eat boon duration food and use warhorn with offhand training.

Also run with your stone spirit and one of your pets has an AOE shout that gives protection. THis will also give your party members protection as well.

This will also have good synergy with a retaliation/aegis guardian if you have one in your groups since they heal for more with more buffs on and more people around them.

Yeah you can still hit people with it but for a close combat weapon it makes no sense to me for a practical weapon skill to have to rely so heavily on other skills just to execute it properly. I find that I have to rely on my other utility skills like chills, cripples, or my pet cc to really pull it off, or I have to wait until they are already knocked down to hit them.

Anyway, this is just a pet peeve of mine recently.

This is related to WvW and PvP. I have trouble actually getting number 5 greatsword Hilt Bash attack to hit anything. Does anyone else think that this skill has usability issues? Seriously, I doubt you can hit any target with it since you cant move while doing it, and pretty much all player targets are moving non-stop. Even if you were to swoop in and use this skill you would probably miss. On rare occasions do I find it to be useful. What do you guys think about it?

I recorded a video of me bursting down an unsuspecting victim. My frame rate was pretty horrid but I managed to get a good kill here. It’s great killing someone this way because they can see their death coming. Make sure you watch for the commander’s comment too.
Too bad all my kills don’t go this smoothly!
Vimeo Link: https://vimeo.com/73219061
I just uploaded the file so it will take 50 minutes or so before you watch it.
YouTube Version: http://youtu.be/lX3Tg2YVzrg

Wow that sounds awesome. Looking forward to it.

Here’s an idea: Have a real reason to do a zerg farm other than having the zerg farm content available EVERY DAY. Why don’t you MODERATE it by just making it a once/twice a week thing. Monsters raid a random zone destroy everything even the buildings once a week and the zerg can destroy/rebuild the whole zone or do whatever until their hearts are content. You could make it give better rewards that way since because the zerg wont be doing this sort of stuff every day.

Like I said I don’t plan on participating in any more zerg fests. WvW and maybe a few dungeons (for cash) until they make changes to this zerg PvE content.

Maybe if it wasn’t 100% Zerg farming all the time it MIGHT be interesting.
You guys go ahead and enjoy your Zerg farm, I don’t plan on participating in it.
100% WvW for me until they make some changes to that farming junk.

Honestly I’ve done enough running around mindlessly farm grinding things over and over that I’m pretty fed up it, and I didn’t even farm that much compared to most. You guys go enjoy your farming I won’t take part in it.

Just a random OPEN WORLD suggestion. You could make all those already added heart quest redo-able with some reward system in place. This might promote OPEN WORLD play and it would work well with doing daily achievements . Although I wouldn’t make this a daily thing per say, something that can be done daily but it would stay on record until you complete it, you know for those busy players who may not have the time to spend doing it in one sitting. My idea would be if you started it previously and finished it on a different day then you could start another and finish it also the same day. That way players can catch up if they really wanted to. Anyway I would make it only register 2 completions per day for finishing a semi-complete one and a new one. This would prevent it from being farmable. Oh, and perhaps some NPC in Lion’s Arch would give you a random big list of hearts to complete but you only have to complete a certain amount for the reward. Perhaps even make it build up to a monthly goal with a cool reward too?

Well they added this new finisher system now so that will give them more profit in the WvW and PvP department.

Yes, just take off auto attack and you wont be stuck on a target. Your auto attack does also put a cripple on your target which makes it easy for you to stick to it too. The number 2 leap skill is very useful for getting out of combat quickly, getting into combat, or even switching targets. You can leap backwards away from your target, turn around then leap forwards again away from your target, or the reverse if you are trying to catch your target. Use lightning reflexes, leap back, turn around leap forward then use your GS leap and you can cover distance pretty quickly. You basically can have 4 leaps.

I guess Path of Scars can hit the same mob thrice if you’re lucky.

My ranger with legendary Bolt and Magitech gear.

Jade Quarry][GW2][PvX/WvW] Kaminari Vanguard is recruiting! Playtime: 6:00 AM – 9:00 AM(SERVER). Every Sunday: Bounty/Rushes

About:
Guild Name: Kaminari Vanguard [KVG] (Kaminari means lightning in Japanese.)
Time Zone: Japan/USA (Anyone is welcome)
Regular Play Hours: Weekdays/Weekends – 6:00 AM ~ 9:00 AM(Server Time/Game Time)
Voice Communicate: Teamspeak3
Contacts: Gufuu.6384, Aaron Storm, Ebicha, Giusta

Kaminari Vanguard has been around since GW2 launch but we area relatively small guild. However, we do have a lot of public guild event attendees. We do weekly guild bounties and rushes every Sunday at 7:00 AM server time – we haven’t missed a Sunday since the release of guild missions.

We are on Jade Quarry and we are seeking active players that do daily dungeon runs, weekly Guild missions, and WvW with guild members. You won’t be required to be online 24/7 since we are all mostly casual players. You will be required to represent the guild while you’re online. If you are really outgoing you may be given the opportunity to help with the hosting of guild missions.

The guild was started to attract bilingual players who live in Japan, originally, but now we are seeking players in any time zone.

Send me Gufuu.6384 a mail in game and I will get in touch with you. I usually check my mail every day. You can also post in our guild’s forums, but contacting me directly would be the quickest way to get an invite.

[Jade Quarry][GW2][PvX/WvW] Kaminari Vanguard is recruiting! Playtime: 5:00-9:00~AM(SERVER). Every Sunday: Bounty/Rushes

About:
Guild Name: Kaminari Vanguard [KVG] (Kaminari means lightning in Japanese.)
Website: http://www.kaminarivanguard.enjin.com
Time Zone: Japan/USA (Anyone is welcome)
Regular Play Hours: Weekdays/Weekends – 5:00 AM ~ 9:00 AM(Server Time/Game Time)
Voice Communicate: Teamspeak3 – ts.jadequarry.com (Kaminari Vanguard)
Contacts: Gufuu.6384, Aaron Storm, Ebicha, Giusta

Kaminari Vanguard has been around since GW2 launch but we area relatively small guild. The guild was started to attract bilingual players who live in Japan, originally, but now we are seeking players in any time zone.

We are on Jade Quarry and we are seeking active players that do daily dungeon runs, weekly Guild missions, and WvW with guild members. You won’t be required to be online 24/7 since we are all mostly casual players. You will be required to represent the guild while you’re online. If you are really outgoing you may be given the opportunity to help with the hosting of guild missions.

Our guild currently has a total of 140 members (95% of them are weekly participants in our public weekly missions). These members are not required to represent 24/7. We started running public missions since the release, so a lot of these players are regular attendees from March ~. However, we are posting here because our guild is not seeking participant only members. Kaminari Vanguard is looking for active players who will represent the guild.

Send me Gufuu.6384 a mail in game and I will get in touch with you. I usually check my mail every day. You can also post in our guild’s forums, but contacting me directly would be the quickest way to get an invite.