Guild Wars 2

The post I had in the other thread:

Habib Loew.6239:

I should clarify here again that the culling fix will have minimal impact on skill lag. Skill lag happens because the server too busy to process everything that’s happening (e.g. it’s at 100% CPU). The removal of culling addresses issues experienced by the client but those changes don’t really impact the skill lag situation. They are fundamentally different problems that will need different solutions.

Skill lag is a much more crippling issue than culling. A complete inability to even use our skills and the accompanied rubber-banding makes for a much worse experience than not being able to see everyone.

Especially since you guys continue to promote the zerg mentality with every change you make in the game. Latest news to support zerging: All kills/captures/etc. give the same amount of World XP regardless of how many people were involved.

The correct way to give out World XP would be some kind of curve which benefits smaller groups and punishes people for zerging in 50+ blobs. Stonemist and Keep takes can continue to work on the old principle, then you do not punish people for using large numbers to take such objectives.

Arheundel.6451:

Intigo.1653:

eldain stenlund.4306:

lol.. “massive damage in a single attack” pfff.. lol…

Ok but…

1) 22 stacks of might
2) bonus food
3) fury
4) maybe vulnerability from friendly zerg

Sure ele doesn’t lack damage for sure, but the picture you’ve posted is misleading

I never said it wasn’t, it was just all the effort that I felt like putting into a reply when the original post was this wrong and uninformed.

Churning Earth is still one of, if not the strongest, hitting abilities in the game.

Also, it was 23 stacks and don’t forget the 25 Bloodlust stacks on top of that. Still had pretty bad gear back then, though.

Habib Loew.6239:

I should clarify here again that the culling fix will have minimal impact on skill lag. Skill lag happens because the server too busy to process everything that’s happening (e.g. it’s at 100% CPU). The removal of culling addresses issues experienced by the client but those changes don’t really impact the skill lag situation. They are fundamentally different problems that will need different solutions.

Skill lag is a much more crippling issue than culling.

Especially since you guys continue to promote the zerg mentality with every change you make in the game. Latest news to support zerging: All kills/captures/etc. give the same amount of World XP regardless of how many people were involved.

The correct way to give out World XP would be some kind of curve which benefits smaller groups and punishes people for zerging in 50+ blobs. Stonemist and Keep takes can continue to work on the old principle, then you do not punish people for using large numbers to take such objectives.

The people who think this is fine as it is have not been on the receiving end of multiple Warriors on AC’s with it WHILE fighting a large zerg. The amount of Immobilize is not just “cleansed off” when it is reapplied constantly.

I really don’t see how some people can argue that this is not broken.

GvG is the only thing that’s fun to do in GW 2 large group WvW because of the massive skill lag / rubberbanding involved in most larger fights.

eldain stenlund.4306:

lol.. “massive damage in a single attack” pfff.. lol…

Braxxus.2904:

This just in:
Warriors have a shiny to feel useful with in WvW besides ganking uplevels and running lol banners in zergs? Whoah, can’t let them have that now can we.

In other news Mesmers that bring portals can teleport Golems vast distances completely bypassing their slow movement speed! Surely this can’t be intended!

You don’t seem to realize how efficient Warriors are in all sizes of WvW.

A tip: Hammer.

No, it’s because the traits are simply better. My gear gets more and more offensively-based the more experienced I get.

If Fire wasn’t such a horrible trait line I would love to use points in it. But it is, it’s genuinely horrible.

You clearly don’t understand how a combination of both Staff and D/D Eles is very strong, LordByron. And RG has been on SFR for quite some time now – you would have known that if you WvW’d as much as you claim to do.

It’s stupid that Necros can completely negate fall damage.

I am completely amazed by how blindingly incompetent some people in this thread are.

I think this might actually be more broken than Confusion.

Zikory.6871:

Sorry for the semi rant but this is getting old. There is always going to be something a different class has that seems OP! Why cry about it? I think getting 5+ necros together and putting all their marks down is OP, it makes necros awesome for holding choke points, anet should take out marks because no other class can do it like they can…As for the Arrow Cart your saying that its broken because you can’t stand in it and just take the damage? A 1 second immobilize is game breaking? I think not, you can easily realize whats happening and move out of the area heal up and try again. Or instead of trying to PvDoor something build counter siege and take out threats prier to banging your head against the door.

While I think its very helpful while trying to defend a objective, I would take a small organized group over a arrow cart traited for a 1 second immobilize any day. IMO we should nerf team work, thats the real issue here.

Are you kidding me? 5 AC’s, 5 Warriors, near-perma Immobilize and you don’t see an issue?

This is obviously broken and if you can’t see it then you have little to no WvW experience.

Wranglerist.5489:

Warrior same mobility or more than ele? LOL TROLL

Nuff saaid kthxbai.

It’s incredible how ignorant people choose to be.

No. Backstab Thief still works great after the change.

Since Ele is the only other class that can reliably 1vX

Such a laughable statement to make.

Pandemic.1032:

Everybody get onine tonight for an evening of WvW. Should be good fun

Much enjoyed the action last night vs RG and others.

The VoTF fights I was around for were great fun. Thanks for bringing it on your own, for the most part.

Mesmer makes an amazing Commander. Overpowered Confusion spec, tanky enough gear, swap to Portal on demand.

It’s a near-worthless skill in its current implementation (at least PvP-wise, maybe the Vuln is handy for PvE).

It should have a ~10s cooldown and go off pretty close to instantly instead. Such low cooldowns are useless for us anyway.

NA drama, worst drama.

Yaro.3251:

Raniri.6178:

Z A P P I N G ____________ T I M E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF_3_q-6Qag

A ray of light in the realm thread of darkness.

Thanks for a good laugh!

Ye, that was awesome. Much love to ECL. <3

You really thought you were going to get an instant CE doing similar damage on a 10s cooldown?

Evasive Arcana is amazing. Use the CE to Blast in your fields, use the Water one to cleanse + heal yourself and use the others because they’re decent.

Ogro you’re a beautiful specimen of the Norn race, you sexy beast, you.

Bombul.2506:

Intigo.1653:

You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about. Elementalist mobility is still good, but its nowhere NEAR the best in the game.

Contradicted by the devs in their recent interview…something about mobility and skirmishing is supposed to be best accomplished by theives, and currently eles far outshining them in this aspect.

If they honestly said that and you’re not paraphrasing badly then they are simply incompetent.

PinCushion.7390:

Compare Mist Form to Engineer Goggles.

Or, you know, compare it to its counterpart skill which is Elixir S? http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Elixir_S

The Elixir S that actually allows you to use your kit skills while invulnerable and has a lower cooldown than Mist Form.

Swimsasa Stoon.8936:

Elementalist has light armor and lowest base health in game. We need to go full on on healing power if we want to last as long as the other classes do. Neither do we have stealth, death-shroud or lots of aegis boon procs.

We do not need to. Some people enjoy it, some don’t. When you are more accustomed to how the class works and better at dodging you start to realize that you may not need as much as you thought.

I disagree with just about everything you do when it comes to heal choice, jewelry choice and nourishment, but you still create decent videos for people who are still learning, so good on you.

You forgot to include your sigils in the gw2buildcraft link, by the way.

Matt Witter.6982:

We will have much more info on World Ranks very soon! In the mean time:

1. Everyone that helped with the kill will get full credit for the kill.
2. NPC’s are not worth World Experience
3. I can’t give all the goods away just yet!
4. Yes.

The #1 point is a bit disappointing. This was a way for you to create an incentive when it comes to promoting smaller groups simply by giving a smaller amount of world XP if many people were involved. I am not suggesting dividing it completely (ie. you only get 1/10th if 9 others were involved), but anything at all would have helped.

Terrible, terrible idea. Build diversity (through Nourishment as well) is ALWAYS a good thing. Food buffs are great.

Score / map update (Deso is split) before I go back to work

selan.8354:

Gab Superstar.4059:

Is this the big blog post Mike Ferguson was talking about? We get some crap about culling that we already knew of, and no info about other stuff that will be in the patch.

I guess March patch will be a disappointment after all.

no, no that’s not all:Don’t forget the monthly mesmer nerf, thief boost,necro bug fix,engineer slight boost with an ugly nerf and the new ranger pet bug!YAY!

Hopefully the ranks will be fun and bring some spice back to wvw.

You play a Confusion Mesmer and you cry about Mesmer nerfs?

You are amazing.

Sird.4536:

When is this RG v GH video coming xD

Musph.6109:

Mobility? I don’t think I have enough sir. Wait, what, I can outrun anything? Fine, I’ll take it. Satisfaction guaranteed you say? Deal.

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How about some of us eles hang out with the engineers, our silly amount of flexibility may just rub off. Please?

You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about. Elementalist mobility is still good, but its nowhere NEAR the best in the game. Thief is obviously far superior and after that you most likely have GS, Sword / Warhorn Warrior. The RtL nerf and Magnetic Grasp change means Elementalists have a tough time getting away from most things now.

And you don’t seem to realize just how insanely good Engineers can be. Try fighting some Engineers that know what they are doing as opposed to people that are clueless about their class.

Man, ya’ll still way too obsessed.

VS ticking +495, 250/250 camps everywhere I go. Seems like they’re back on track.

PvE heroes all up in dis thread.

Everyone posting:

Lani Ster is grasping at straws now. :P

A Commander Academy is something that could be sorely needed for other servers, I am sure.

If you care so much about open world PvE that this is your only gripe, then sure. :p

username is really, really bitter. His posts are always seething with anger and resentment. It’s a joy to watch!

rolos.7491:

If you are quick, you can do:

Fire4->Attune to earth -> evasive arcana into fire circle -> earth 4 -> earth 5

If you are even quicker you can use earth 3 between 4 and 5 for a fire aura, which will now grant might every time you are hit.

You need to use the Leap after the initial Grasp, that’s not normally worth it.

I miss the old Magnetic Leap at times, it was an amazing mobility tool – ie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vePmvye8vU#t=50s

It’s pretty easy to start hitting 20+ when you have the standard 60% Boon Duration (30 from Arcana and 15+15 from 2/6 Water and 2/6 Monk).

A common rotation:

Fire -> Burning Speed -> Ring of Fire -> Earth dodge -> Arcane Wave -> Earthshake -> Churning Earth.

That’s 13 stacks + a Battle proc = 16 stacks.

Then once your Burning + Ring of Fire combo is back up you use that once more -> Earth dodge.

17 stacks (Fire attunement) and another 6 from Battle + Earth dodge → 23 stacks.

If you keep Earth-dodging into Fire Fields then you can easily sustain 15+ stacks when solo’ing and you can hit upwards of 25 for a few seconds.

Razor is very bitter and likes to troll and cry on the Elementalist forum as an outlet. Be smart and ignore him.

Have the new progression divide the bonus given by the number of people that contributed to it.

(If you get a kill, the amount of progress you’d get from that kill is divided by everyone who tagged it)

Yaro.3251:

Yaro.3251:

Videos:
Replay of spectator live stream by RUScorp with commentary (in Russian): http://www.twitch.tv/qqtrooper34/b/375675180

BTW,

Too bad only Russian speaking audience would appreciate sparkling humor of hosts and overall atmosphere of broadcasting. We really need more coverage like that. Thanks to RUS Corp and TRoop3R in particular for interesting stream, analysis (though a little superficial) and a good laugh.

“Warthogs attacking Red Guard! GH lured RG into warthogs! Now they have clear advantage because it’s 25vs30!”
Just made my day xD

Now I wish I could understand Russian.

Your 10+ organized Guardian Train o’ Death and your Lines of Warding will haunt me for a long time to come. It was quite funny/interesting how much our setups differed.

[20 Bowls of Curry Butternut Squash Soup][22 Plates of Truffle Steak Dinner]

Butternut is 100 Precision, Truffle Steak is 200 Power for 30s after killing an enemy. Both are good – just use Butternut when you’re fighting a boss and won’t keep the Power buff up and use Truffle Steak when you have a steady stream of mobs to kill so the buff is constantly reapplied.

These two are very good since they give Crit Damage at a rate of 7 → 1 which is a great ratio (the same reason all your Jewelry upgrades should have Ruby or another Crit Damage component in them).

No, it’s not worth it. Utilize the fact that you have Updraft and Elemental Attunement and you easily have perma-Swiftness with the standard 60% Boon Duration (30% + 30%).

Every D/D auto except for Air is worthless. So, 17 I guess. :p Air is pretty awesome, though.

And Zaflis, feel free to play another class and be sure to tell all your friends how bad Eles are. I hope all the “flavor of the month” players will stick to Mesmer now.

I don’t see why we’d need a new thread.

As for IRON, 2 months later:

“Hey, our GvG team is ready now!”

VcY was doing it when the matchup was already won, last night.

SFR has some of the worst GvG spectators I’ve ever seen or heard of. I avoided being at the fight itself (as all people should), but watching it on the BuLL stream was absolutely disgraceful.

I do not think the outcome of the fights were changed in any way, but the people finishing and dropping siege equipment (the RIP guy) must have caused a massive headache for the BuLL players.

I hope we’ll be able to keep any future GvG’s we intend to have a secret since the people at that event were an utter joke. Try having some common decency.

There is no way you can “handle” 3 Thieves if they are just slightly competent.

Beating incompetent players? Perfectly possible, but you will not survive for long versus 3 Thieves with half a clue.