Guild Wars 2

You guys are getting off topic. I use a Sword/Focus and Scepter/Shield. I’m not going to throw on a Staff or Greatsword just for one class I can’t seem to 1v1 as easily as others.

I use 10/30/30/0/0 and 3 meditations. Knight amulet, Berserk jewel.

Next time I see a mesmer, I’ll try cutting down the illusions fast. JI and Smite Conditions are still technically AoEs.

ah, my term is becoming popular. Yes, you need stability to make it work. Warp in, Binding Blade, Whirling Blade, Pop Retreat! or Save Yourselves! and get the hell away.

Daze is a condition. Condition removers, Pure of Voice or Soldier Runes remove it.

Knockdown and stuns are stuns. Stun Breakers remove it, Stability prevents it from happening in the first place.

especially the bulky variety when using sword/focus and scepter/shield.

I remember seeing this covered a while ago. Right now… You can’t.

Put them in a pot in the morning and watch them grow

There’s gotta be something you’re missing, even if its a lower rank like Deer. I know you get so much glory per rank later on that its wasteful not to spend it.

The issue is that Anet (rightfully so) made a clear distinction that what is done in PVP does not affect PVE and vice versa. So, what could we spend glory points in in PvP? Ranks is not an option. That’s not fair to those that aren’t so lucky.

Personally, I think tickets should be purchasable with glory.

Or Endless Tonics.

I have. I just swam around saying “tunatunatuna” because I had no idea what any of my skills did.

then here, lets throw a specialty tier for “hero” npcs like escort mission characters and make it right under party members

Because laying a critical hit provides at least a +150% to attack power. Having more crit chance will allow more of that to happen.

The general rule of thumb is to always improve the lesser stat.

Could also supply even more achievement points. Kill a champion/vet/anything and their data is collected. Collect enough data to get actual prizes like minis.

Arenanet does not keep timeshots of characters. In WoW, the server population is backed up frequently. If you get hacked, Blizzard can provide you a backed up version of your character. It might be lacking the items you have gotten in the previous few days, but it still remains your character.

longbawl.5072:

Kita.7819:

Because here’s what Arenanet does.

ArenaNet is the only chef in a world class restaurant. There’s a lot of people pulling them in every direction, but he can only focus on one thing at a time. Eventually everyone will have their food served, even if it does take a few hours. Or months.

People are walking out of the restaurant….

I think the only reason i still bother is because I have masochistic tendencies. I get so riled up at the inequities in the game, yet continue to play and queue in the hopes I can somehow outplay those inequities.

The fact is that what the game has devolved into isn’t even fun in the mists. If I wasnt so prideful about having ranted and raved about this game to everyone that would listen for the past, I’d have probably given up like most. I feel like the last rat on a sinking ship.

Which is why Arenanet needs more chefs.

(When am I going to hear back from my application already?)

Because here’s what Arenanet does.

ArenaNet is the only chef in a world class restaurant. There’s a lot of people pulling them in every direction, but he can only focus on one thing at a time. Eventually everyone will have their food served, even if it does take a few hours. Or months.

Because sometimes more crit chance equates to a higher attack power.

okay, but just how often are there swarms of people gathering around the Dolyak in WvW? Not that many. The escort NPCs around the Dolyak will change speed depending on how fast the Dolyak moves. Otherwise they’d never catch up when killing bears and harpies.

What type of escort npc are we talking about. Maybe we can throw it in

Team buffs, like shouts, are really stupid right now. They can only affect 6 people, including yourself. However, the game bases the remaining 5 people on proximity only. This translates to some really unfortunate situations. If I’m in WvW and running alongside a minion necromancer and shout Retreat!, I could end up hitting all 5 of his minions and completely missing the necromancer!

Buffs need to start prioritizing targets. Here’s my suggestion:

Tier 1: If you are a Ranger, your pet.
Tier 2: Party members
Tier 3: Guild members
Tier 4: Other players
Tier 5: Your own summons
Tier 6: Other players’ summons
Tier 7: Dolyaks
Tier 8: Other NPCs

Zoe.6230:

Can guardians be pure DPS or do they have to tank?

No and no. Guardians can be offensive, but they will lack the burst damage of thieves. However, Guardian’s offensive capabilities prove to be great in the long run. When other classes take too much damage, they have to fall back. A guardian can maintain their position for quite a while due to their constant healing. Ranged attacks are typically weaker than melee, which means Guardians instantly have a dps buff. Skills like empowering might show that stats do not mean everything. at 50% crit chance I can maintain 6-7 stacks of additional might. That translates to a little more than 300 extra power, which also translates to maybe around a 6.5% boost in damage.

DPS is a subjective term and only assumes the player is spending their entire team whacking the enemy. Well, what if you’re stunned for 5 seconds? You’re dealinkittenage per second. But pop a stun breaker or stability and you’re dealing more dps, simply for playing smarter.

OneManArmy.5617:

“Juno Guardian’s Staff 2 is an orb, which is a projectile.

Until its credited as a projectile finisher its not a projectile by my standards!

I think they just don’t want Guardians having access to all 4 finisher types.

I go for Accuracy and Perception since I have very little crit chance, yet I have high crit and Empowering Might.

Its really for seeing things far away. So far you can’t even tell if they’re allies based on your map proximity.

ryan.5106:

Edelweiss.9815:

Kita.7819:

Fine, I’ll just end this thread now.

Guardians are Mystic Knights. They rely on some element, in this case spiritual energy, to synergize with their strengths. Without that magical aspect, they would be lesser warriors.

What the hells is a “Mystic Knight”?

Guardian is a Paladin. It was created for the people that enjoy playing one. Paladin is one of the oldest RPG archetypes, it’s taken many forms, but it has always been an iron-clad fighter with some good/divine magic which provides support.

Mystic Knights were a hybrid Mage/Warrior class in Dragon’s Dogma. The game had a lot of potential but the Npc’s were basically cardboard cut outs with crappy old english dialog and the Pawns (Npc controlled allies that followed your character around and sometimes “helped” during combat) babbled incessantly like broken records… IF you could put up with that, the game had a pretty fun combat system as well as a pretty involved crafting system and relatively interesting character classes to choose from. Think of it as a cross between Dark Souls, Kingdom’s of Amalur: Reckoning, and Skyrim.

I was really going for Final Fantasy 5 and 6 with some Morrowind.

Fine, I’ll just end this thread now.

Guardians are Mystic Knights. They rely on some element, in this case spiritual energy, to synergize with their strengths. Without that magical aspect, they would be lesser warriors.

Guardians ride alone.

This is a load of kitten. The economy will become so kittened up right now. My guild is gloating about how much gold they god through this. Its in the triple digits. Yet, I put in the same effort and all I have is 3 gold to show for it. Is this Anet’s definition of fairness?

Dota 2 still lacks a ladder interface. All ladders are good for is to stroke one’s ego. MM systems however, are different.

ViRuE.3612:

Implement anything like this and watch the keep trading begin…

keeps still have indignation. and you can already farm badges if you want.

First thing first, we need to understand Arenanet is not perfect. Things that look great on paper do not necessarily translate well in execution. Arenanet spent a long time balancing the classes, yet even now they’re still nerfing and buffing things. Okay, lets get on this.

WvW needs to adopt its own setup. Much like how PvP is entirely separate, so must WvW. That is not to say some things should still overlap. Armor you earn and PvE should still be usable, etc etc.

The badge system is good, but there needs to be other things. Here’s my idea.

First, introduce a new type of badge I’ll call “Tokens of Valor” or “ValorTokens.” Tokens work differently from Badges. Whereas badges are randomly obtained by anything, Valor Tokens are only obtained from events. taking Camps gives almost nothing, attacking Dolyaks gives squat. Flipping towers, keeps and castles however, gives a ton. These tokens will be awarded like dungeon tokens. They appear via a UI chest popup.

Once you have these tokens, you can do a whole bunch of things with them. However, everything available is restrained to just the WvW environment. Get enough Valor tokens and you can buy things like Siege, tower upgrades, and even roles like the Commander title and anything else that may come along in the future.

Next, give a new type of buff each player receives when they enter WvW. This buff is reflective of the amount of enemy players you have killed. What this provide a quality system for players. Lets even mimic the PVP setup. A player that is of a rabbit rank will pay more attention to a wolf than a deer. It would even be better if these ranks were viewable simply by hovering over a player’s name in chat. The great thing about this is that the game alreakitteneps track of kills! We just have to translate it.

I’m still waiting to hear back on my job application Arenanet.

We talk about zerging like its a bad thing, but what happens when at 8 person zerg hits an 8 person zerg? Its no longer a zerg. Its a skirmish. You can’t win by numbers anymore, you need to win with strategy. Take out the thieves, stun the guardians, dodge the elementalists, make sure your shouts hit those who need it, so on so forth.

Remember that to Guardians, the Staff is a melee weapon. As with any melee weapons, it can hit through objects as long as the object is small enough. Most melee weapons have a range of 130 or 160. The staff has a range of 600. A ram has a range of 360. This means no matter how far away it is from a gate, your staff will be able to attack it and its user, while hiding safely inside your walls.

My WvW build is centered around defense, boons, staff, GS and Judge’s Intervention.

boxjon.7682:

Kita.7819:

Its more like this

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/246/a/0/the_protoman_by_kinnikufan-d2xx0lq.jpg

Is that Protoman?

Yeah.

Yeah, it has some really nice locking. Its a good PVP setup. Immobilize however isn’t that great of a PVE skill. Immobilize is meant for the dangerous burst types like thieves since it doesn’t stop you from using skills. Scepter is not damaging weapon. Its really meant for catching and preventing kiting. You’re using immobilize to gain distance, which is counter intuitive for a weapon like the hammer.

xxxzavulonxxx.8413:

Mucho respect to CD. But is DH’s strategy is LOL.

Rethesis has turned into a temporary PVE guild thanks to fractals. At the same time, I’ve been seeing a lot less GOONs. I guess we just like having fun.

Like, imagine if TF2 only had capture the flag maps like 2Fort. It would be boring. Even now, Valve is constantly making new modes. For example, Mann vs Machine . It helped draw in a lot of new people. Dota 2’s Diretide helped treat the game differently.

I dislike how its the only form of PVP. Most people just want to zerg around and fight. Now we have to worry about that one guy running around and capping points since 5 seconds of a capped points is equivalent to one player kill – and it doesn’t require a player to be dedicated to it.

Danicco.3568:

You didn’t got all those stacks by yourself, so what’s the point of the topic?

…That is the point of this topic. I somehow managed to get 25 stacks of might using just my greatsword.

sarcasm. I’ve never gotten any more than 6 stacks of might as a guardian outside of Staff’s empower. Now I get insane amounts.

As for the trade off, that’s different. I wanted to use two-handed mastery, empowering might and pure of voice. Problem is, 2 of those are master traits and one is grand master. Soldier runes do a similar thing to pure of voice, but I’m already tanky enough. I don’t have much attack power, BUT I HAVE 25 STACKS OF MIGHT!

So glad I traded Pure of Voice for Soldier Runes.

You could say WE and RE WERE there.

You’re probably right!

To the CD thief that ran away from me, only to fight (and lose) to me when she ran to someone who she presumably thought would protect her,

Hi. I’m Kita.

ayaya silence all of you. Every server will want you Serebus because everyone wants to be number one. They could care less about you. They just want more population for their WvW. They all have their share of default and standard comments. “Oh our server is for old people. Proof? Well they say they are.” “Our server needs more primetime. Oh, that queue? Well, I mean we need more good people in primetime”

Okay, let me talk about Darkhaven. The real Darkhaven.

Darkhaven started off as “THE” server back in beta. All the cool cats were on Darkhaven. As more servers were created, the big guilds realized that if everyone remained on darkhaven, there would be no competition. So everyone dispersed. Perhaps too many dispersed.

Our beginning was rough. Our first matchup was against Jade Quarry, which we now know is a Tier 1 server. We lost many people that week… those weeks. Then we were matched up against Sanctum of Rall. A plethora of hackers decimated us and Ehmry Bay, plummeting us further down in tiers and as consequence, lost even more people. We were up against Kaineng for Pete’s sake!

But those who remained never lost hope. We kept fighting. Tier 8. Tier 7. Tier 6. Tier 5.

Now we’re at Tier 4… and we need help. We keep getting matched up against a pubstomp server like Aspenwood or Crystal Desert. You know, the ones that keep talking about how desperate they are for help.

Darkhaven’s population is amazing. Even when outmanned, all of our players are located together, trying to fight for the same goal. What we need now more than ever are people that can make a difference and help us continue to rise. We were tier 8. We’ve come too far to give up now.

c’mon, bumpa bump bump

Panther Chameleon.8465:

Xom.9264:

The new map… cant stand it melee burst heaven terrible for condition stacking so many LoS issues. As if burst melee really needed anymore help.

I know, right? Like why am I constantly falling down this kittening hole every time I dodge. Why is this map so small? Do the ranged classes get a map where the melee dps spawns inside a barrel and we shoot at them?

You mean the Clocktower point where it takes 5 seconds for people to reach your ledge, the Graveyard point where it takes about 3 and the Keep point where it takes nearly 20?

Okay, I roll a guardian in pvp. I’ve been trying to figure out which stackable sigil I should use – Bloodlust or Perception (Minor Accuracy). I did a test with both to see the stats with each one maxed. Can anyone tell me, on average, which spread would deal more damage?

Some things to note:

I have right-handed mastery, which allows my 1-handed weapons to have an additional 15% crit chance. This is not listed on the hero screen, so factor that in.

I deal 10% extra damage to burned foes

My sword deals 5% extra damage

My sword/focus set has sigils of air and blood. They are both proc on crit, but they do not conflict

You guys also need to realize, this is a level 80 zone. The enemies here are just as strong as those in the Cursed Shore.

boxjon.7682:

Kita.7819:

Guardians can’t dps? You don’t say…

PVP is much different then PVE.

Not really. It still plays the same way.

The overall problem with guardians is that burning stacks in duration. This means if there is more than one guardian, each guardian’s burning is basically queued.

Guardians can’t dps? You don’t say…

buy trainer books.

Its more like this

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/246/a/0/the_protoman_by_kinnikufan-d2xx0lq.jpg