Guild Wars 2

Zizanzi.4678:

Drednyte.7601:

Oozo.7856:

So yeah today I discovered something pleasant.. People in Kaineng are using hacks! First I saw a Sylvari Necro fly away when I was kind of owning him, and later on I find several other flying Kains. Also I have had the issue of not being able to finish people off. 1 of those was a fly hacker so I’m almost certain that that is also a hack.

Sad to see that you guys have hackers on your side!

I asked Habib about this and he actually directly replied.

Tonight i saw and reported a Kaineng using the speed hack. He was from the [CNB] guild, thats about 4-5 times this week I’ve heard of that particular guild having members using hacks. Hopefully the reports will get reviewed and some accounts will get banned.

@ LARP/NoQQ — not sure if i understand your concept of war. You claim u like to just fight, ignoring server rankings and such. But you jump ship from Kain and run to Ferg. Not like there wasnt any fighting on Kain. Then you claim in the forums, at least NoQQ has, that when DR moves up you’re going to transfer to the #1 ranked server in that bracket. You claim that DR hasnt got any Wv3rs in general, with a few exceptions, you boast and chest thump about how great you are….yet you want to transfer to continue to fight DR? Sounds like that’s a huge compliment to everyone on DR. I mean, if you were as good as you keep ranting in the forums and if we’re so easy to kill and you want nothing but a good fight…why transfer? Obviously your forum rants are fake, you must think DR is a serious threat and great competition.

But on a side note: no real need after this to even address you 2 as you did nothing on Kaineng to help with server advancement, and from what I’m told, nothing on Ferg either. Still not sure why if u just want to fight you dont do sPvP or tPvP….unless you tried and it didnt work out as planned. Well gluck to yas!

@Chris: I was gaining respect for you, until now. When u was on DR you publicly chatted how you’re only in Wv3 for exp/karma trains. You got a very bad rep for it and then you bounced to Ferg. Started hearing good things about you there, and ur Np guild. But lets be honest a bit. Pretty much the only time i see Np is just like when i see SoS…in force of 20+. If you cant zerg I only see the dedicated Wv3rs from Np in the fight. 90% of what I see you do, when Im online, is PvDoor. Just like SoS late night…nobody is on so they take their 25-30+ zerg and PvDoor the maps. But you hit some defense you’re zerg tends to fall to pieces. Np and SoS have both been crushed at your Hills repeatedly by 6-8 DR players. At one point SoS just stopped trying to take it back, now we dont even bother taking it cuz no fights anymore.

And the end: All servers have their “primetime” zergs, their offshift teams, their soloist…etc.

Ton of great players on all 3 servers and I’m sure you all will keep up the great matches. When DR moves up a tier I’ll be watching closely what you all do. I fully expect Kaineng to take the bracket after DR and we’ll meet again maybe. Ferg..well, short of getting some guilds/players in there that want to advance and not just do PvP….pretty sure Ferg will be the “bottom of the bucket” for the unforseen future.

@ DredWhatChaMaCallIt

No one on the servers even knows who you are other than what you type on the forums. Who the heck are you really? I know small man is not popular with you at all. I sense from the forums you are competent, capable, and dangerous though and you appear to have a “loathing” for small man PVP. I have no doubt that your intentions are to be the vocal assassin of small man groups while trying to have others in the guild recruit them to DR. Perhaps you don’t understand the mentality of small man since Devona’s is pretty much a Zerg server and you need to lash out at what you don’t understand. You Sir have no legitimacy in commenting on small mans @ all and I can say with confidence for all of NoQQ/LARP that only your numbers gives you a chance.

Stylii Elementalist
Shoulda Rolled Kaineng (NoQQ) Leader

I think his sentiment is about the same as mine. I skimmed this thread, saw a post from NOQQ saying they will be joining the #1 server of the next tier for what? To beat DR? Seriously – grow up. I thought you had a guild of mature people before you started talking about jumping ship from your server just to hold onto a childish grudge.

Yeah, i should probably edit that. My opening sentence of 2 meant to say stop saying how you have tactics and we have only numbers. Numbers is a valid complaint but also realize it is one that nobody on DR has control over. It’s not like we take a vote on who is allowed to transfer onto our server.

My point does still stand that strategy in Wv3 is laughable at best. The biggest reason being differences in strategy produce usually very minor results, enough to the point where you can only tell the difference if both sides have exactly equal numbers…im afraid that’s never going to happen.

This also assumes that a server is not 100% mindless zergs with no direction(because that’s NO strategy), which i cant speak for other servers but i know for sure is not the case of most DR commanders.

At the end of the day, I think the atmosphere in this bracket has become too toxic and we need a switch-up for some fresh air. I am just sad that it likely won’t happen until 2 weeks from now. Another week of all 3 servers not really happy with the situation. Woohoo…

I think ill go to Fergs map and throw myself at the spawn point blockade. THAT is still fun lol. Been a massive battle there all day, who cares about objectives!

Bones.5762:

Also dred, i made the challenge, by myself, i did not confer with my guild/alliance as you have dishonorably refused the challenge, so don’t say you accepted it. No where any any prev thread did any DR players say they accepted so for you to bring it up here in this week is just dishonorable. Also i don’t really see you guys as rivalry, more like just opposing team.

No offense but rivalry is someone/guild who can match our strategies and skills, not outnumber us.

Lol, now I can see why do many DR eventually become so hostile. For 1, nobody needs to post “accepted” to an open challenge. Don’t make excuses, you made the challenge and lost, horribly at that.

2, stop whining about how it’s only because of numbers that we win. “strategy” in WvWvW is not difficult. Look through every single WvW thread for all the tiers and the ones losing in all of them complain saying they have “better strategy” but lack the numbers. Get over yourself. Your strategies are the same, numbers ARE the only difference.

My most fun moments in WvW are when two groups are in battle and my group starts to win so the others begin to run and they have to go through a tunnel or over a bridge.

That’s when I bust out the staff and throw down the #5 wall behind them and laugh as my team catches up. Just for good measure I teleport to them, use GS #5 and pull them all back to the ground again to make sure they have no chance of escape…

then I laugh maniacally for 5 minutes.

Anybody else do this or am I the only “evil” one?

I am from Devona’s Reach and have been since I started playing before I even knew there were rankings. When I discovered the rankings I laughed and turned to the non-gamers behind me and explained how apparently I randomly happened to have chosen the last place server out of the last place groups of 3. Then I have slowly watched it swing entirely in the opposite direction.

I Joined [RED] a few weeks ago and have loved every minute of it. We are all there for the fun of it. We have a competitive side, but it has always been about fun and community, with server pride being there but not the main focus (and our commander enjoys leading us off cliffs that will kill us.)

At some point guilds started transferring in yes, but I have noticed a change in the commanders we have had (not just my guild). They have all learned better techniques and better ways to manage groups and to communicate. So really I think the learning and adapting put us on par with your servers, the transfer are what put us over. Glad to be moving up after being stomped back then, but sad to see an even, fun fight become a slaughter.

I was on EB tonight when our group went from owning 1/3 of it to owning the entire map. There was practically no resistance. We never saw a single Ferg group and there was only one group of Kaineng that tried to fight back and it was maybe 15 unorganized people. That makes me sad. I don’t know if you’ve all given up or what but this time last weekend there were people everywhere!

Here’s to hoping we move up so that both of us can get what we want. I just hope the server that replaces us is not going to be one that stomps you too. They are a tier above us for a reason so be prepared.

P.S. Every server has its pricks and they tend to be the most vocal. Don’t cast that onto the whole server. Actually being on DR and being in the mapchat and what not the people are nice, determined but overall there to have fun (and get XP/karma sometimes haha)

Mindreaver[RED]

I did not read all the posts but my 2 cents:

The system is not to blame. If you create a good guild that encourages people to play together and you get a handful of leaders who organize WvW runs, dungeon runs etc and give people a reason to Rep if they wanna participate then you should have no problems. The guild I am in doesnt. We continually hit the cap of 500 members and have to purge older non-active members while maintaining about 100+ representing members at peak times. I honestly run into members while questing all the time and join them for WvW whenever i feel the fancy and there is always at least a small group doing something.

You can’t expect to have the rule of “You must always represent” but never give your guild activities to warrant it.

No, for the period in which America decides it’s a good idea to tamper with time we are off more than we should be with the rest of the world. Hurray!

I forgot to add, once everything is thrown out also cast daggers #4 skill to transfer the bleed and the weakness off of you. If you have DoT’s on you still, Staff’s 4 will transfer them also as long as you are in the AoE when it proc’s.

I dont know if this sounds complicated but i find it very easy in practice.

Staff and Scepter/Dagger
utility spells: Blood is Power, Well of Corruption, Epidemic

Gather the group up by side-strafe kiting. Hit as many as possible with Staff 2 & 3 then scepter #2 and Dagger #5. Make sure to hit at least your main target with ALL 4. Then use epidemic on him, followed by blood is power and then drop your well…continue to attack the one that you cast epidemic on, the rest will melt to DoTs. Recast the aoe’s if needed (shouldnt be).

Dont worry if you cannot hit all of them with every single aoe. Sometimes you need the chill from staff #3 or the cripple from scepter #2 in order to kite without getting hit so just hit as many as you can. Epidemic works wonders.

Also dont forget to DS > #4 for added AoE and “added health” if they catch up to you.

I have played all the classes at this point though engineer is my lowest. I like condition damage builds in general on all my classes. IMO, the necro is the best at stacking tons of them. They also get a skill called epidemic which copies all conditions(DoT’s) on your target to everything around it. If other players have dots on your target, you take credit for the copies of their dots too.

As is always the case I believe it depends on which profession fits your playstyle. I have made all 3 of the scholars mentioned and I feel the Necro is the strongest. Tanky, deals tons of damage with plenty of utility.

I find that massive AoE spam on my necro gets me credit for everything usually.

Scepter #2 > Dagger #5 > Staff #2 > Staff #3 > Well of Suffering.

..you’ll not only get credit but you’ll probably do the most overall damage in that group too. If they are veterans/champions feel free to throw in Epidemic afterwards to basically double your bleed stacks on everyone.

Only up to sixty myself so far but Scepter/Dagger with build focusing on condition damage/crit and using the utilities blood is power and epidemic.

Gather up your group, hit them with your four aoe’s between scepter/dagger and staff and then use blood is power. They should all have about 9 stacks of bleeding and a poison on them. Use epidemic on one and suddenly all but one have twice that much. Focus on the one you used epidemic on while the rest melt away. Has worked for me so far. You can even pop into DS and use the #4 if you want more AoE damage to wrap it up. Remember to use Scepter #2 as often as possible to keep them crippled and run in a circle around them. Scrippled foes moving in a circle don’t get a chance to attack very often. Remember to strafe, not run backwards.

I will preface this by saying I am only level 37 on my necro, but even then…

I have been amazed multiple times in the past few days when talking to other necro’s in game. Why? They do not understand how to take advantage of what the Necro does. They all say the necro does meager damage and feel weak/die easily. None of them seem to realize the combo’s.

Every one of them avoided ANY utility skill that applied a condition on themselves. They couldn’t see how it was beneficial to apply things to yourself.

I think a vast majority of players fail to realize the ‘master of conditions’ that is the Necro. I tell every one I meet that putting a condition on a necro is more like giving them ammo than it is hurting them. You can consume conditions to heal more, deathly swarm to transfer conditions AND blind them, you can well of power to change them to boons, for soloing Blood is Power applies two very nice separate bleeds by the time you transfer yours while also giving a huge 10 stacks of might… i mean the things we can do to remove conditions and gain a benefit from doing so is insane and yet so many people are not making this connection between our abilities.

TLDR: Does there need to be something in game that more strongly hints at these combos for those that don’t see it AND don’t read message boards? Alternatively, do you think it’s kind of nice that it seems this failure to realize combo’s is what is making the Necro a not so popular choice while being powerful for those that use it right?

Alamir, I use no pets (except the flesh golem for soloing). In my opinion the pets are very inferior to most of our utility skills, ESPECIALLY in dungeon settings.

PvE specifically, and I just made a post about it in the necro forums…
The Necromancer.

I feel like my necromancer does more AoE damage than my other professions can do single target and she does it all while blinding, weakening and crippling the mobs.

Well that’s good, thanks for clearing that up. For someone not too concerned with PvP can I expect to be a good asset in dungeons up through 80? I feel like the necro played right brings a lot of support AND consistent damage to the table.

Speaking in terms of leveling Well of Suffering is the only Well that I use for solo play. It does not get dropped every fight because I know I may need it, and most times I do not. For the times I need it it utterly destroys whatever I am fighting. If it had a lower cooldown and allowed me to use it every fight I would walk all over everything.

That being said, I do agree that the boon/condition reverting wells should have a better uptime. Yes, it is a great boost to change the conditions/boons in a boss fight for 5 seconds but if it’s a boss that applies them constantly, you’re back to square one after 5 seconds and its down for another 55.

I’ve read many times on here about how people say the Necro is unplayable or under powered. I wonder if I am missing something. Are all of those old threads, are they talking specifically about PvP, are they talking only about very high levels or something else?

I have one of every class at this point some above 60 most 20+ and I have not had as easy of a time with any of them as I have had with my necro.

I can also say that I don’t believe I have been able to solo 5+ regulars mobs or 2-3 veterans at a time on any other character like my necro is able to do and she does it without getting hit very much either. I mean, i can round of 5+ mobs assuming they aren’t ranged and AoE them down in about 10 seconds between wells, scepter and dagger skills and staff and because of cripples, weakness and blind I almost never get hit and if I do it barely does anything.

I am currently level 35 on my necro. Should I expect a wall soon or something that flips my survivability 180?