Guild Wars 2

It would have been good if commander had required players to donate their badges to other players and donated badges were the only currency for commander title. Oh well, too late now.

Making a personal goal of gathering X Badges of Honor in WvW would be a good start. sPvP rank is good to prove to yourself that you can play your class well – the Gladiator title looks good on a commander.

A minimum requirement is getting a party of 80s to repeatedly follow you on hazardous missions away from the zerg. This means gathering the group and leading it to surprise objectives while coordinating with the local commander(s). There are two players on our server that I’ll gladly follow on party deep strike missions and I think both should be commanders.

The only defense thieves have for their current mechanic is… wait for it… we are l33t, ltp. Really? That’s it? Respect to the thieves out their who recognise the current situation.

Thief advantages:
1. High(est?) burst and sustained dps
2. Reliable, repeatable escape mechanism
3. Best PvP finishers
4. Excellent mobility
5. Excellent rez survivability
6. Good healing on-hit and AoE
7. All other players appear to be clueless noobs, permanently

I run as close to an anti-thief build as possible. PVT, condition removal, retaliation, staff for spamming into possible thief locations to ‘apply pressure’, often on thin air. I may get lucky once or twice a night, but as has been said many times there is no hard counter to stealth. None. It’s a joke. Want to know why everyone runs in a zergathon? Thieves.

Anet has said repeatedly that culling is a very difficult technical problem and will not be fixed soon, if ever. That means there is one possible option to fix this ridiculous situation. I suggest a 2s cast time on all active stealth abilities and a 2s delay for passives. If Anet really wants to pull out the nerf-bat, how about toning down those healing abilities as well?

A shout out to the EBay thieves – you guys are out in numbers and you’re good! The number of times I’ve looked at my kidneys on the floor this week… The CC gets a bit tiresome, but every fantasy PvP seems to ‘need’ it for some reason that is completely beyond me. They should put lots of CC in all FPS games, then ppl would flock to GW2.

I’ve had the outmanned buff more than I care to remember this week, but we’ve learned a lot from EBay, not least of all humility and ltp, and and thanks for that. Things that come to mind are your camp ballista defense, portal bombs on camp trebs, warding on keep entrances and rapid cross-map response. Well, we haven’t all learned these things yet, but we’ve been shown them!

My most memorable fight was in EBay BL where we held Briar for 2 hrs against ever increasing numbers + golems. 4+ trebs got us in the end and the whole time I was chatting to an EB player (sorry I don’t remember your name, GoldSomething?). We had mutual respect and all agreed it was an epic fight on both sides. I was sorry to hear about the inevitable haters, who doesn’t like a good fight?

Can’t say I’ll be completely sorry when you return to your rightful tier. Here’s to staying in the lower tiers and not having to patrol every point 24/7 “For Great Boredom!” Maybe we’ll meet again on more equal footing once BP is all grown up.

To our commanders, you were sorely noticed in your absence and appreciated on your return!

Two separate pools of allies and enemies for culling was a far superior system. I can think of a number of instances where the single pool system ‘cheated’ both for and against me. As a front-liner, having full info on the entire zerg behind me is worth less than the locations of enemies in front. As it stands now I need to idle for 20s to get the measure of the opposition, by which time my contribution may be irrelevant.

I’d like a system that gave me a red dot for each enemy in view distance, with other info coming in as available. If this is too much bandwidth, how about grouping enemies within a 5 degree arc and showing a dot with size proportional to numbers?

Agreed with the commander that their icon should get priority.