Guild Wars 2

Khang.6743:

Didn’t you know this was coming?

I knew a reduction was coming but not of this magnitude. Oh well time to go back to a bunker guard zzz.

Thank you Anet! Going from 262% crit dmg pre patch I’m now at 225%!

divinity reach maiden’s whisper cellar

Seems odd to setup in a cellar.

“We aren’t quite ready to go into all the details here, but what I can say is you will see a specific way to build precursor items on your way to a legendary. On top of this, you’ll also see new legendary weapons and new types of legendary gear in 2013.”

Can we get an update to the progress on this?

Good thing they didn’t add her into the Wintersday update or else she would have taken all the donations.

CC Danicia.1394:

We are still planning on implementing this. We’ll have more information as we get closer.

aka we’ll add this to a future patch that has an underwhelming list of improvements.

Merlin Dyfed Avalon.5046:

Guardior. The one class dev’s play.

PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT

SonOfKrypton.4357:

~ ATTUNEJAM AND THE TALE OF ANZALIAS PASS ~
a short story, by Attunejam

I saw a brave adventurer in the Battlegrounds of Eternity, running into the Pass of Anzalia! His sinful ways had to be eradicated from this fair land. I followed him silently up the treacherous staircase and into the Room of which the Lord resides! I saw his two sidekicks, poised and ready to pounce. Any other cowardly master of all four elements would have flown in terror, but not the daring Attunejam. For she is the ONE true master of all elements.

As I began to churn the earth beneath me, I took a deep breath and my brow furrowed. It was time to show all of Tyria that I truely HAD been training for this day since I was in the crib. The earth exploded with an almighty blow, impaling all those who didn’t flee when they had the chance.

As the dust settled I saw two of the brave adventurers had succumbed to their injuries. I put one out of her misery and left one just breathing, in case I also buckled under the weight of my life threatening wounds. An almighty swing of the Warrior’s axe and I was through. I finished off the second brave adventurer, and regained the will to fight.

I conjured my mighty flaming sword of fire and whirled at the warrior. He also fell to his knees. Being the merciful master of elements I was, I granted his death wish with a bovine to the face. I claimed the Pass of Anzalia for myself, and watched in glee as the three brave adventurers returned to mourn their loss.

I am Attunejam, Master of Elements.

fin~

P.S. <3

Marquie Thomas.1873:

You want a expansion when they already given you a expansion worth of content for free what I DONT EVEN…..

I think he means a proper expansion. One that gives more dungeons and continues on with the main storyline of the dragons. Possibly add a new race and new areas to explore. I DONT EVEN understand how someone could think 1 day worth of content with the equivalent of “kill this many of x or find this many of x” every two weeks should take the place of an actual expansion.

You’ll be waiting a long time for an expansion. Arenanet has been focusing on making gw2 for the Asian market and has been feeding us fluff until it happens. There’s no hope right now but there might be some after the release in Asia.

akamon.2769:

giving up damage to gain damage. wait, what?
the life of trying new things on a Guardian.

this is so true…

selan.8354:

FA is totallly ready :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH5ZO33cjYM

I was the real reason we capped garri

katniss.6735:

Gotta love the terrible FA thief/warrior duo in ruins on Mag. ’Always running away from me. Then I find the thief alone, he calls for back-up within 30s of the fight. I kite him away, and we fight for another 2 mins, and then 5 more FA run straight to our location and chase me. These guys are desperate for kills. They finally get me, and 1 person on mag comes to join and they ALL bail. lmao Tier garbage detected.

Don’t mean to burst your bubble but mag does the same thing. It’s something on all servers; handful of good roamers and a bunch of bad ones who only win through outnumbering.

Waffler.1257:

IoJ to FA is gud move.

Are we repeating January?

Can it be? The great trolling that was once Obsidian Sanctum is coming back?!

it said 3 before patch

Congratulations CD! Never have I seen a zerg portal bomb just two people until now.

Every FA person that complained about JQ outnumbering them in fights will now outnumber Mag and SBI and see nothing wrong with it.

Seasniffer.1763:

http://emboldcreative.net/jedquarry.gif

Summary of this weeks matchup.

That was amazing

replace smc with esports

I think this will sum up Anet’s response to this pretty well:

Wemil.7052:

Moh Jay.7240:

1. Lower the queue cap to half of what it is. (Isn’t it 100 people per map? 50 v 50 v 50 still seems like a lot for that “epic” war feel)
2. Queues happen more often -> people move to a different bl
3. Stacked servers complain that there are way to many Queues
5. Make transferring free for a limited time
4. Stacked servers have guilds move to lower populated servers to avoid Queues
5. Now there is less of stacked servers and servers struggling with outmanned have a chance to get people.
Bonus: People complain about server loyalty being an issue and don’t see the picture of a more competitive WvW.
Bonus 2: Now that half the people are on the map you avoid half the skill lag.
Bonus 3: No more blowout 500-600 ppt games.

except the servers that create a good community get a lot loyality for it.

and 50 game?

wow you want to cut it in half your probably one of those pve scrubs.

here is what anet should do

a) buy better servers

b) show us how many ppls currently in your server in WvW so we know when its close to que.

It may seem drastic (and it is) but why do we strive to have 1-4 stacked T1 sized servers when we could get multiple competitive T4-5 servers? Also, this will make some borderlands not be empty because the queue would force people to spread out. To each their own about server loyalty but I think having your alliance guilds/friends move to other servers with their guilds creates a more fun experience when you meet them on the battlefield, it becomes competitive and enjoyable without being too serious.

P.S. Yes I was a PvE scrub until I really got into WvW 7 months ago.

1. Lower the queue cap to half of what it is. (Isn’t it 100 people per map? 50 v 50 v 50 still seems like a lot for that “epic” war feel)
2. Queues happen more often -> people move to a different bl
3. Stacked servers complain that there are way to many Queues
5. Make transferring free for a limited time
4. Stacked servers have guilds move to lower populated servers to avoid Queues
5. Now there is less of stacked servers and servers struggling with outmanned have a chance to get people.
Bonus: People complain about server loyalty being an issue and don’t see the picture of a more competitive WvW.
Bonus 2: Now that half the people are on the map you avoid half the skill lag.
Bonus 3: No more blowout 500-600 ppt games.

Since all I ever play is guardian I guess I’ll provide suggestions:

1. Please PLEASE make zeal something to consider. Why is kindled zeal even in the grandmaster trait, wait why is condition damage even in a guardian’s trait line? I understand fire is the hardest hitting condition but at the rate we apply blinds, vulnerability (if traited), and fire it is not enough to make any difference to classes that can cleanse conditions. Right now it is just not worth it making a condition guardian because it just can’t have the results a guardian wearing knights or zerker could. We have a whole trait line and half of it is dedicated to 1 condition that lasts only 1-4 seconds and can be cleansed easily.

2. My second problem is I cannot live without pure of voice. I know you have changes coming to help better combat this condition meta but please spread out condition cleansing among the other trait lines so I am not punished for not going into the valor tree.

3. It is either defense and critical damage or more critical hits that still output similar damage at the cost of defense. All I play is guardian and what I have learned is going into honor still gives me decent damage because it is paired with critical damage. It can be a win for someone who wants to be tanky and do damage but its a loss for someone who wants to go offensive because they can’t have some form of tanky unless they give up condition cleansing. Why is there no balance like this to honor? Picking honor is superior in the long run because i get 300 toughness, 30% critical damage, boon healing every boon if I go altruistic healing, might per block if I put 25 into it AND I can go 30 in valor and have my condition cleansing. Now if I go into radiance its more precision, vulnerability (if traited), 5% more dmg (if traited) to swords and spears, 10% to people with conditions (if 25 is put in), and 15% more crit chance. Now this is extremely powerful but that 5% damage + the 10% from conditions is inferior than 30% critical damage (I could just beserker or something to make up the critical chance) and to add to that now I have to choose between being glassy and having condition cleansing or being tanky but weak to conditions. It is much easier to make up lost precision than it is to make up lost toughness AND critical damage.

4. Weapon skills. The first one I want to mention is sword skill 2. It is a nice gap closer and it blinds a person but it hits for nothing. That damage should be buffed just a little bit or add some condition to it like bleeding (I am stabbing someone). Sword 3 is also extremely situational. It just is not as accurate you can run to the side or just dodge backwards once to get out of range. I am not asking for big change but if it roots me I want those projectiles to hit fast and miss less or not be rooted and be slow projectiles. Please fix shield it needs help. Skill 4 should have a knockdown effect with its current effect while shield 5 should be a mini dome that you can’t enter. Right now barely any decent guard runs shield because it is inferior to a focus (which is great as is). Torch 5 needs some help. Sure it hits for a lot but getting all those hits can be tricky. While I use torch 5 I am just as prone as when I use sword 3 because if I want to dodge then it cancels the skill out and I need to be a short distance for the flames to hit. If you don’t want to change how it looks then please let it cleanse it’s wielder of conditions like it cleanses your teammates. Ring of warding needs some help as well. It is so easy to bypass such a long cd skill. The ring of warding should do damage and knockdown someone when you first use it sort of like the warrior hammer spin.

So to sum it all up, we have a trait line where half of it is useless, we get more punished not going into honor, valor, and sometimes virtues compared to not going into radiance or zeal. Some weapon skills are underwhelming for their cd/ user vulnerability and shield needs some love the most. Some of this may have been repeated in the thread but I am not going to read 26 pages just to see. Also, these ideas I posted must be carefully considered because I assume I may have asked to overpower a weapon or trait line; I mainly want you to see where I am coming from and why.

Been Dazed and Confused for so long it’s not true.
Wanted a dev reponse, never bargained for you.

Aww I can’t see myself in the second pic :/ oh well fun times

So how bored is SoR?

it is true i’d say where but then that would cause people to abuse it more so than they are now

CuddleStrike.8215:

Zikory.6871:

Moh Jay.7240:

Still can’t figure out exactly why you post score updates. I assume it’s a reason to show of your screencaps.

Don’t look at it as chest thumping, CuddleStrike and other [LOVE] post screen shots for inter-server fun all the time. The score update is just to keep the post on topic.

Exactly what they just said. I couldn’t care less about the score tbh. I post them whenever something fun is happening and for my cross server friends to be in them (or I get random PM from people wanting to be in one as well).
It is hardly my fault that I’m an Aussie and unfort. during this match up we have such a high PPT.

I’m sorry for that, but I guess there isn’t enough oceanic/sea/whatever the hell time it is here coverage to go around. Regardless, stop reading into my screenshots so much, and just ignore them or lol at them like others!
Also, make sure you snuggle everyone fiercely! The enemy loves snuggling me… but it hurts sometimes….. <3

Also, I don’t think FA has met [LOVE] but you’ll see us soon enough :P Just ignore the cross server tags frolicking around together

But whenever I try to snuggle someone to death in this matchup they runaway. Then again, I think T1 focuses on group hugs; Solo roaming problems right?

Still can’t figure out exactly why you post score updates. I assume it’s a reason to show of your screencaps.

Keep it classy SADS outnumber us in Blackgate bl and you still build an arrow cart because you guys couldnt win the first time lololol

Alilinke.7690:

Usagi.4835:

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

We should go to the armory. That’s where Zadorojny is likely to be.

Aphro 99% of the people in this thread won’t get the reference

For any duelists out there checkout Eternal Battleground jump puzzle to see if we are there.

I’ll leave this here…

Lets make EB jp a thing again. Come if you want duels and tell your friends.

That was fun SoS at CD bay. Took 15 of you guys 3 times to wipe a 5 man group lol.

Toxic.4320:

Moh Jay.7240:

Bored again and this thread is looking dead soooooooooooo… How about that new Breaking Bad episode?

Bored? Maybe if you guys didn’t roll out in such big zergs vs 10 people or havok groups we’d have more on our maps.

The really sad thing is that even though we have virtually no presence on the maps CD is gaining points on the MOS site.

You’re not the only one who hates the blob, in fact, that’s what is making me slowly get bored of WvW. The blob makes servers not even want to try which in turn makes roaming boring as hell because it’s a wasteland.

Bored again and this thread is looking dead soooooooooooo… How about that new Breaking Bad episode?

Night Hawk Ix.7360:

Bored bored bored, hoping the new changes coming to wvw soon make things a little less /yawn

Hey I was just about to type something similar

Yes… let the kitten flow through you…

Yes… let the kitten flow through you…

Thanks FFW for the duels, better luck next time :P

Just so some of you can sleep a little easier tonight (look at chat).

I find myself doing things solo when I can (exploration and achievement hunting mainly and sometimes solo roaming in wvw) but I do like how this game has elements of both. Doing dungeons with PUGs can be a pain but they are really fun with friends or guild members and that synergy you have when group roaming is great in WvW.

I was wondering about this also.

junglizm.5843:

Fighting TC on a casual Monday night. Pretty much how 90% of roaming in small groups with TC in your matchup will go.

http://youtu.be/_NXfJMj-dwI

Lmfao beautiful video

JaNordy.6149:

Sometimes I think today will be different but it never is. Mygumma clearly has most talented population of players in entire game on their server, its been proved in this matchup.

http://i.imgur.com/7WPdRjW.jpg

Where are these talented players? I want to meet them.

I would say to stick with clerics. Personally, toughness takes a higher priority than vitality in that damage reduction will always be there where as the 3-4k health you added goes away in 1-2 hits. I don’t use any vitality at all (only trait 30 into Honor) and I can last for an extremely long time. The thing you need to keep in mind with toughness is that you don’t want to go over 3k armor because you start to hit a diminishing return in damage reduction. For boon duration I only increase it through runes and the 10 I put into virtues to gain vengeful.

Escthiil.3210:

Is this the TS you are talking about? Looks like they have more than one negative characteristic.

How much skill does it take to be an Edge warrior?