Guild Wars 2

Thank you for the responses. We’ll discuss our options at lunch today.

3 or 4 ex hard core WvW’ers now looking to see the rest of the game! We are currently on SoS but with guesting, could participate on any NA server. We’re mostly looking for PvE content as we are pretty burnt out on the WvW.

We are a small guild of RL friends (about 10, but only 4 of us are currently active ATM). All of us are working professionals 30+ in age, and very experienced in MMO’s dating back to Ultima Online.

We’d like to find a guild of easy going mature individuals in which the few of us could participate in some PvE content with. Please respond here or in game if you are interested in adding us to your group!

Edit: We are all NA/PST

Thank you!

How much damage needs to be done to get a loot bag in WvW? Pretty sure you can’t just “tag” for a bag. Is there a base percentage threshold needed to produce a bag that is different for XP from WvW kills?

Also, I notice that I get differing XP amounts during WvW combat, and I never see bags produced from the lower XP value (I always assumed they were pets, but now I’m not so sure… I’m thinking now it’s basically a “tag” that rewarded XP, but not enough dmg was done for a bag)

Anyone know for sure?

ArtemisEntreri.4138:

Alsonia.4753:

PRX carry SoS so hard. Good to see HoD back on top.

PRX was on EB duty this week. They did a great job but you can’t expect people to actually believe that PRX is carrying SoS. Sea of Sorrows is carrying Sea of Sorrows. Go back to Blackgate and work on your tactics.

Thank you.

PRX was actually “assigned” to JQ BL this week… Just sayin.

Sleepy.2647:

arcaneclarity.5283:

The pets stop, attack, stop, and attack. The long range pets end up whiffing because the same problem as the longbow, the attack moves too slow and if you just stay on the move, it will miss.

Mesmer is a good example as any. If a pet is on me, I don’t bother wasting one of my skills to get away from it.

Pet stops, attack AND HIT. That’s what you don’t realize, you think that because they stop to attack they won’t hit. That would be the case if you could get far away during that time which it’s not likely to happen if you are in combat. Obviously the ranger is the biggest threat, so it’s quite pointless to waste a skill on the pet…which doesn’t defeat the purpose that they hit 500-3k easily on you (that’s far from being useless). Or the double knock-down you can get with two canines which RARELY misses…but you are right…pet’s are so useless.

If the target is moving, the pet will miss.

I sit on “keep watch” all the time in WvW. To pass the time I’ll use the “guard area” ability with my pet, and set him out on the road to harass enemies if they run by. While I’m waiting, I’ll send him out to attack creatures that are nearby. Once he smacks them, I call him back to start reeling the creature toward me so I can shoot it. But to keep the creature coming, I have to tell my pet to re-attack a couple times along the way. This is where it is easy to see the problem.

Both NPC creatures and pets suffer from the same moving target problem. When my pet turns to attack the NPC creature, they run through each other, “rubber banding” back and forth 2 or 3 times before they settle in to a stop… Only then do any attacks land.

It’s also why it is so easy to just run thru NPC content if they are melee only NPC’s… They can’t hit you very well while your moving, because they have to stop for their animation. By the time the animation ends, your out of the hit box.

Is this even being looked at? It would be AWESOME not to have to redo my pet names after switching them around. Please put this below the other major issues with Rangers, but it would be nice to know that we can expect a fix/change for this in the near future.

Is this a recent vid? I thought the churning earth blast finisher didn’t work anymore. I see it used in this vid.

These are all real laws in California!

Tango.7089:

Grim West.3194:

Tango.7089:

When Military special forces go in behind enemy lines at night to do secret missions. Do you think the enemy wakes up the next day with all their stuff gone and say, " Hey we were all asleep that’s not fair!" “Your only allowed to fight when we are awake too!” Puppies NO! they don’t say that! and if they did the attacking force would laugh in their face like HOD is doing now.

Its called Spechul Takticz!

It’s not war, it’s a game. If your favorite NFL team was only allowed to field players for the first half and the second half the other team could score unopposed, would you think that was good tactics? Or just a lame game?

If HoD was winning because of superior tacticts that would be one thing. But their wins are mainly because of a population imbalance. That is lame and you know it.

Except no one, no where is saying you cant come fight at night.

If in the NFL they were allowed to play at night but the other team didn’t have enough players/ didn’t want to play at night but the other team could still play. That would be the rules, the other team wouldn’t cry like babies saying they dont have enough guys. They would get enough guys and then fight like no tomorrow instead of just complaining that the game isnt fair.

Take off your extra tight, short, shorts. Put on some man pants.

OH! NFL references… AWESOME!

So then we can assume from your arguments prior, only part of the WvW matches really matter (the weekend). Just like in the NFL when in preseason the starters for one team come out, put their team in the lead… only to have the 2nd team give it up after the first half and lose. The NFL recognizes this and awards the win based on results from the starters… Right? Oh they don’t?

Or when the giants are 20pts down at the end of the 3rd qtr against the Buc’s… So what if the Giants rattled off 21 straight to win the game! The Buc’s OWNED them for 3 out of the 4 qtrs… THAT’S what matters most… BUC’S WIN! Oh, it doesn’t work that way either? Geez! Life sure isn’t what I want it to be…

No… It’s harder for the alliance to get their people in due to the population. If we had lower pop, we’d have better coordination… And we’d STILL have the 24/7 coverage.

Recently.1043:

Dunno whats funnier, the oceanic hod guilds talking kitten when they roll over the map against empty towers and keeps, or the NA hod guilds that take credit for the work that happens when they are asleep.

Or the fact that everyone not HoD can’t understand that having 24/7 coverage (BY DESIGN) in a 24/7 game is not a BS tactic. I guarantee anyone in that alliance is not taking general credit for the win. They all know it was a team effort.

Nick.3926:

No doubt… But it’s not because of a lack of skill.

Anyone implying lack of skill on HoDs part isn’t very bright. The problem is that you are equally skilled which makes the 24/7 population imbalance basically impossible to over come. Impossible without a 7 day alliance between the #2 and #3 servers.

Or, growing your own 24/7 coverage. There was probably more work put into that alliance than anything else.

In that scenario we would be 3rd without a doubt, but the difference is that we would of most likely stayed in 3rd where as you guys are now 1st, and by this time tomorrow your lead will be insurmountable.

No doubt… But it’s not because of a lack of skill.

Fury.6248:

Bottom line is your only as good as the people you are playing. Winning when people are on low peak times gives you no respect. Winning vs low population servers gives you no respect. An well when people were on over the weekend you lost. So sorry if I had to put a end to your “Fantasy” even though its a fantasy game… your not pro when you can’t win Friday-Sun. So you can post all you want pretend all you want. Feel free to role-play as a champion all you want. In the end your only as good as the people you play and looks like most people are playing Friday-Sun and you came in last GG.

I’d love to see what would have happened if HoD landed in 3rd this week… You would then understand what it feels like to be focused… Maybe not outright doubleteamed… but just to the point where both servers main objective was to put you down. Because I guarantee JQ and ET would have. And just like HoD, you’d be in 3rd before Sunday. Would it have been because of skill then? Would you wish you had an “after hours” presence then? It’ll be easy for you to answer “no” to both, because it hasn’t happened to you.

No doubt HoD would have lost this week if it were a Fri-Sun match, but it was never because of skill (or lack thereof)… It was because we were #1, and we had a big target on our back.

All this crap about “we were also 2v1’d” is just that… Crap. There were moments of opportunity taken by both sides (ET and SBI) against the other, but neither was the focus of the other. And if you believe they were, you’re blind or a liar.

HoD’s dominance isn’t JUST because of population. It’s also because of a very diversified alliance that can put quality players on the field during all time zones. And it’s not by luck. The alliance was designed that way. Call it “jobbing” the system if you want, but it’s a 24/7 persistent world bro… And the same rules apply to all of us.

What’s sad is, you haven’t even lost yet… But you got your excuses all lined up.

The fact that they are even competing against HoD is an accomplishment in itself. That’s literally like you watching the movie “300” and laughing at the Spartans for losing.

Not really… Being on a medium pop server allows them to get more of their members (that are in VOIP) into the matches than the TA on HoD can due to the over population of HoD.

So the fact that HoD can STILL perform as well as they do despite a lower ratio of “guild” vs “militia” is pretty spectacular. AA has already shown they’re not willing to work with the other people on their server by leaving 1 server already.

If ET gets to high population, I bet their rank actually drops.