Guild Wars 2

(Murky Water is that underwater skill that creates a smoke field)

I want to learn how to reliably use this skill to pull off stealth escapes in WvW! Half the time the field ends up on the sea bottom, the other half it doesn’t even spawn. Are there any tricks out there to reliably landing a blast/leap combo with this?

manveruppd.7601:

KrazyFlyinChicken.5936:

Now, you only need to push 2 buttons.

- Left click to start the channel and immediately…
- Press and hold ‘W’ to walk forward in the direction of your camera’s facing.

That should get the sidewall going, and give you an idea of how the mechanics of it work.

It sounds like it’s impossible to do if your aoe targetting is set to “fast” or “fast with range indicator”

It’s possible. You just need to pivot your character after the cast starts, during the casting animation. I don’t think the green range indicator has anything to do with it.

Loved the video! I play a lot of staff ele, but I didn’t know about the Unsteady Ground pivot trick.

Eucalyptus.9784:

The question is… Using this build, can Staff be applied to both PvE AND WvW? I don’t tPvP, but I’d like to be able to know I can kill someone 1v1, or at least get away/stay alive, before I buy a Bifrost over an Incinerator

Staff is hands down the better zerg weapon, but D/D is probably better in a 1v1. That said, I actually prefer running staff when solo roaming, because it scales better to 1v2 and 1v3 outnumbered fights than D/D. As for escapes, you lose RTL, but Burning Retreat and your many CCs usually make up for it.

There plenty of apps out there that track WvW server score… but I couldn’t find any that tracked WvW guild activity. So I hacked one together over the weekend: https://aduros.com/wvw

The app simply polls the wvw/match_details API, and keeps track of when an objective is newly claimed. This isn’t a perfect approximation of guild activity, but it’s not bad. It’s really useful to have a little more insight into how much your guild is contributing!

There are probably quite a few bugs still. Let me know if it doesn’t work right

zeeZ.5713:

You mean something like this?
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9xw2_f0nBEPUGtkZXNsTWFlYVU&usp=sharing

That’s perfect, thanks!

Does anyone have one of these, suitable for zooming/panning around in an app? I’ve found high res images for Tyria, but no clean WvW maps. The WvW apps I’ve seen use in-game screenshots, which aren’t really ideal.

Thanks!

+1. I’ve been playing for a few weeks, mainly PvP. I’d love to get into WvW, but I’m not too interested in grinding PvE to level 80.

I don’t really care about getting rare PvE rewards while playing PvP, just enough XP/coin to eventually be able to try other parts of the game (and not be completely left behind by friends who prefer PvE).