Guild Wars 2

I’m also stuck on a PvP map with 9 others, and missing my guilds event. =*(

Ponder.3647:

Thundar.3910:

This 2v1 crap is getting old now. It always stems from EB. Well loud vocal minority on BG, you’re blue, and it sucks in EB. You have the worst keep, poorly placed towers and several inroads for the other 2 teams into your side of the map.

On top of all that you beat JQ one week. You think you can poke the giant in the rear and get away clean? So yeah now you’re a threat to them and they’re going to focus you, HARD. SoR is currently in 2nd, we know we don’t have the coverage JQ has, we’ll fight them the whole time, but BG’s going to be the focus from us as well. So there you go, you get 2v1, next month something may happen and JQ is 2v1 from their perspective for 3 weeks. Or SoR feels they are being 2v1 on every map. And you know what? we are all right, every team is being 2v1’d, every match, all the time.

Stop it, you’re making too much sense.

^This.

Graybes.8251:

Anyone complaining about 2v1 has never played a game of RISK in their life.

There’s complaining and then there is calling it like you see it. I honestly think it is funny. =D Trully. Last week wasn’t really anything. This week though lol… I have respect for those in JQ and SoR that have at least admitted they are more focused on BG this week. Especially at certain times of the day. Seriously props to you! I think its good practice for BG. There are a few really good guilds on both servers that earn their wins by just plain playing better than we do at a given point in time. I have much respect for you guys. =) Much love and good luck the rest of the week!

Ponder.3647:

Heavens Brethren.6471:

Congrats JQ for maintaining first place by being the lead server in a two server team. I solute you for your individual servers skill in Wv3. Good job manning up to your loss last week by showing such excellent strategy! =) Go “Jade Rall.” Cheer

nomnomnom, the feels are so delicious!

For the record, I think “Sanctum of Jade” rolls off of the tongue a little better.

I like it! I’m their biggest fan boy lol

Bakitten291:

Nuked.2360:

Heavens Brethren.6471:

Congrats JQ for maintaining first place by being the lead server in a two server team. I solute you for your individual servers skill in Wv3. Good job manning up to your loss last week by showing such excellent strategy! =) Go “Jade Rall.” Cheer

You seem a little mad you do realize that SoR hit us just as much as you guys. Thing is our stuff wasn’t paper when they hit it. We capitalized on your guys dead periods and you guys struggled to do so this is the result.

So Sor is in the water only attacking our people… JQ is on the hill, only attacking our people… yep sure your point is totally proven. Btw, this is directly outside our spawn.

I think its cute they both see us as so much of a threat ^.^.

hex.3218:

How come SoR is always killing me? I thought we had a truce?

I saw the SoR zerg coming and was like “Finally, reenforcements~!” and they killed me! WTF? THEN, they took our tower! It must have been a clerical error because we have a truce going on.

THEN, I hear “SoR 40 + heading to Bay.” Okay, now I’m pretty sure it’s not a paperwork mix up. These guys are really attacking us!

Did someone call off the secret agreement?

Or maybe is that 50 PPT for Balckgate because no one is playing on BG this week?

It’s going to be great thrashing SoR again =)

And no tears here, I enjoy it when you throw your zerg at our keep I have never gotten more loot than when both of your servers wipe over and over on a daily bases both trying to take it from both sides. Thx for all of the leet loots brothers =D!

btowl.7869:

Heavens Brethren.6471:

Congrats JQ for maintaining first place by being the lead server in a two server team. I solute you for your individual servers skill in Wv3. Good job manning up to your loss last week by showing such excellent strategy! =) Go “Jade Rall.” Cheer

Have another box of tissues, on the house. Tell your friends, too, we have a whole bunch more for the next time your eyes start leaking.

Go “Jade Rall!”

Congrats JQ for maintaining first place by being the lead server in a two server team. I solute you for your individual servers skill in Wv3. Good job manning up to your loss last week by showing such excellent strategy! =) Go “Jade Rall.” Cheer

On a helpful note to the OP. There are a few things that you can do to give you the best chances against this build but you may have to sacrifice other things to get there. Most people don’t want to gear/trait to fight this type of thief and not be as effective at combating the slew of other builds out there. One thing that might work as others have said is to trait into the focus and master it. IWarden causes reflection when traited and is actively spinning so you can stand in its animation. you can also place spectral curtain on top of yourself and keep it between the thief and yourself while he/she is in pistol mode. If you are like me and trait into distortion also causes reflection than shatter 4 is really invaluable. I love popping it on really hard hitting rangers pelting me with their longbow (point blank shot back in their face) or a warrior just before he/she gets kill shot off. ^.^

For the bleeding, poison and blind that this sort of thief build or variation there of will undoubtedly apply all i can say is null field ( long cool down, slightly less long if traited) can get you a few seconds of reprieve just long enough possibly to get a couple phantasms up before the thief stealth’s again. Boon removal might prove useful as you will see that this sort of thief can stack them on, applying new ones on dodge, stealth, skill activation etc. I have really learned to love using arcane thievery against all sorts of things (D/D ele, invincible guardian/engineer etc.) It is also another one of our best sources of condition removal and a way to throw blind back in the thieves face, along with poison and however many stacks of bleeding.

You can also use blurred frenzy defensively just to alleviate damage until your skills come off of recharge. It is a really great defensive stall-er. For those thieves that like to get up close I like feeding them shatters via Illusionary Persona. All that said, you have to be really good at using all of these strategies to out class a person that’s really good at these types of thief builds. Otherwise the next best thing is travel with friends. Focus fire and lots of really hard hitting aoe and very well timed crowd control can put a stop to the fight fast. Solo though, I think this build may be a hard counter to most mesmer builds, including the one I like to role. Hope this helps.

Lol Stiv that’s not entirely true. D/P #3 is a highly spam able blinding shot that teleports you to your target for a second dagger strike. It also has a very short animation. It goes pistol shot+blind into teleport to target and strike in less than a second. Skill 5 is a smoke field so not only will melee characters trying to hit you miss 99% of their attacks but projectiles fired from the field also reapplies blindness. Try skill #3 (blinding shot-teleport-stab) skill 5 for smoke field, weapon swap + cloak and dagger. The next auto attack is an unload like skill that fires repeated rapid shots, each applying bleeds and blindness from a smoke field. Swap skill 5+heart seeker combo for up to a four second stealth. Rinse and repeat. There are other combos as well but this is a good one. It is really, really challenging to counter a thief that is really good at this for a Mesmer who’s attacks are target based and not AoE. And you have to get illusions off for them to hit and this type of thief is a medium armor class that is typically built for survival so a few phantasms hitting wont be that big of a deal when you can fully heal back up passively from stealth. I’m just saying if you think this is easy to counter you have not experienced a master at it yet…

As an added thought, if other players and or monsters are around its even tougher against a p/d thief because they will have tons of stuff to cloak off of. I kited around 6 players once on my thief and picked them off one by one cloaking off of them and a dolyak. I was using P/D & D/P. You can pretty much spam what ever skills you want if you are specced so that you gain initiative faster and on skill use etc. I have also been killed by a really annoying P/D thief with Quip while I had a ton of allies around

add blind (which all pistol thieves have access to), and due to the changes made to non target-able illusion skills when blinded its auto lose. Good thieves have unlimited blind capability; for all intents and purposes unlimited stealth, and have the upper hand when attacking from stealth. Mesmer’s have really poor condition removal. you can’t counter with stealth because you will run out of stealth capabilities before a thief will. I play both thief and mesmer classes and have seen both sides of the issue.

/sigh ……………

I wanted to start this topic to see if Anet is aware of a problem regarding monsters resetting randomly during battle. I have been running into this more and more lately and its really frustrating to get a monster below half health, in a long time wasting battle, only to have it suddenly turn invulnerable and full heal for no apparent reason. In the cases that this has happened to me I was doing little to no kiting, the monster was in or near the location where it originally starts, I was not using stealth, downed or anything else like that. I ran into this problem with Giganticus Lups in Arah exp. This was the first and most frustrating time. I tried doing that dungeon on several different occasions only to have my group give up because he just kept resetting. I have had this happen with an underwater veteran skale in Plains of Ashford near a skill point, the Giant boss rampaging in the town in Deissa Plateau, and also with a champian etton in Lornar’s Pass. It happened to me yesterday with the Spider Queen in which area I don’t recall and a few other times that I moved on without taking much note of it. Its frustrating, really frustrating, to me to keep wasting my time wanting to and trying to kill stuff in the world only to have them randomly reset. What is the problem here because I know its not something that I am doing wrong. Is someone aware of what is happening to me and already working on a fix? =(

exeon.7430:

We just came out of an Arah exp run stopping at Lupicus. Every single time we fough him (4 times total), he resets. We are not leaving the room, we are all in combat, we are not regening (so still in combat). Even worse, on the 4th attempt, he resetted during PHASE 1!!! He was about done with phase 1 and boom, resetted to 100 and kept attacking as nothing happened…

I have had the same issue on two separate attempts to complete the dungeon. Made me wish you still got tokens from the chests up to the boss or that he was not in every single path. I should have tried doing this dungeon sooner. He is bothersome enough as it is without randomly resetting. >.<

Olcsonn.9327:

There are a lot of good points being made here, FA does has a huge population and for their size they are well organized. Also they seem to be able to amass a good amount of players really quickly. I personally haven’t really fought DH that much, so I can’t comment on them. HoD’s population is suffering, but we got some new guild transfers in this past week. HoD also seems to have a problem with population, organization of the masses, following commanders (the right commanders, we do have some moronic commanders), and just generally long term, strategic thinking. HoD does have some very talented players though, I firmly believe HoD will get better.

I feel similarly about Darkhaven server. We go up and down every few match-ups. Our WvW population soars when we are winning, but as soon as we hit a little bit of a wall we end up being out-manned 80% of the time. Sucks for those of us that want to WvW and don’t mind a challenge or learning and growing from our losses. I can’t say we have gained any new guilds this match up. I have noticed a lot of deserters and people considering it though. I figure its a shame for the server that they end up transferring to.

I have extremely high regard for the guilds that have stuck with Darkhaven through the ups-and downs. They are the ones that deserve all of the glory as our server continues to evolve and becomes truly great. Cheers to you out there continuing to fight. =)

Arcadio.6875:

Our original plan for the evening was to go into DH BL, take everything, then go into EB. So we went in and took everything as expected. But then there was a queue for EB so we did the jumping puzzle in DH BL. Afterward we went to the north supply camp since it was red and some of your pugs kept coming out of the spawn area so we fought them and the rest that kept coming out. At that point your people stopped coming out and instead attacked from the cliffs where they still had the invulnerability buff so we went into that little shack seen in the pic (hey we thought we were hidden lol!!!) so you guys would come out and we could fight again. After we went to take back a tower. By the time we came back to get the north supply camp again, half of our guys made it to EB and throughout the battle against Littlefeather’s guild, a lot of our people remaining got the prompt to go to EB. So you basically drove away the 10 people that hadn’t made it to EB yet lol.

I don’t know why anyone would be mad over that event. It was more funny than anything.

no hard feelings here =D. It’s more obnoxious than anything lol. But I imagine that’s why most people do it. I had just logged into WvW just before the Godsword pics. What made me make my original post was the multi-hour EB camp shown in the other pics and a few others that I didn’t bother to catch screenshots of. Seems like every time I log into WvW we are being spawn camped this match up and I start Kamakazee stealth portal bombing the siege lol. doesnt work out always, you guys just end up building more. lol

In all fairness there has been GODS members building siege and such every time, that’s what made me make that comment about your guild. I’m sure you guys are cool. I imagine your pretty large though and cant control all of the noobs hehe =D Anyway its all good. When I get bored of fighting at spawn I move on and ninja stuff. =)

Control the objectives not spawn. Spawn camping is for noobs in my opinion =D

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

If you can’t leave spawn you can’t take any supply camps/towers now can you?

The goal of WvW is to get the most points. If someone can’t leave spawn to take objectives controlled by our server, then they can’t lower our incoming points.

Littlefeather.8623:

Heavens Brethren.6471:

…There were two trebs, and morters aimed at spawn as well lol…

Too bad I wasnt there for the EB spawn camping :/…But I did lead the charge in the DH BL Spawn camping lol. Was so much fun, I did go down a couple times, but I know people eventually run away after a few times of seeing people charge at them

Glad your out there doing a little bit of Kamakazee anti spawn camping too Little =D. Always nice seeing you on the battlefield!

…There were two trebs, and morters aimed at spawn as well lol…

I just want to say my perception of Fort Aspenwood is that they are the worst spawn camping server I have personally played against. And GODS guild is a huge culprit. I don’t typically post on forums but I felt a huge urge this round. This is not something I would want my guild to be known for personally. Just saying. =P