Guild Wars 2

Jabberwock.9014:

Treborlavok.3504:

Tyler Chapman.1832:

Leuca.5732:

Tyler Chapman.1832:

Not going to dive too far into answering this but the designers moved these traits to the master line because they consider them traits too strong to be adept. Surely you can imagine a bunch of ideas were on the table.

Why are they too strong to be adept? A condition cleanse every 10 seconds (requires maxed Arcana) and some boons on attunement. Stating the obvious here, but wouldn’t a better solution have included identifying factors that make them so strong and then toning those down? For instance, how numerically strong would Cleansing Wave still be if it only affected the Elementalist? I can only guess ideas like this were brought up, but who actually thinks Cleansing Wave would be too strong for the Adept tier if it had no aoe, and what ele wouldn’t still find it useful for the most part?

My issue with many of these changes is that they are unnecessarily counteracting changes that are meant to increase versatility.

It’s the only tier 1 AOE cleanse in the game is the main reason, other factors are that its also an on demand cleanse, and it can be used every 10 seconds.

^^ directly from JP’s mouth just now

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Purity

what? So just like the guardians 5 trait for vigor on crit… its ok for them to have a 10 second single condition cure at adept…? Gotcha

heres the whole list http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Condition_removal#Skills_that_remove_conditions

To be fair that’s not on demand. Which is one of the reasons why cleansing wave is so awesome. It does trigger more often though since you spend more than 0 seconds in water.

I don’t think it’s aoe either actually. Not that I personally care about aoe much.

Adept traits that remove conditions that are on demand similar to Cleansing Wave
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shrouded_Removal
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shadow%27s_Embrace

A fair trade would be to just have it be self removal. Assuming it is unbalanced to begin with.

Tyler Chapman.1832:

Leuca.5732:

Tyler Chapman.1832:

Not going to dive too far into answering this but the designers moved these traits to the master line because they consider them traits too strong to be adept. Surely you can imagine a bunch of ideas were on the table.

Why are they too strong to be adept? A condition cleanse every 10 seconds (requires maxed Arcana) and some boons on attunement. Stating the obvious here, but wouldn’t a better solution have included identifying factors that make them so strong and then toning those down? For instance, how numerically strong would Cleansing Wave still be if it only affected the Elementalist? I can only guess ideas like this were brought up, but who actually thinks Cleansing Wave would be too strong for the Adept tier if it had no aoe, and what ele wouldn’t still find it useful for the most part?

My issue with many of these changes is that they are unnecessarily counteracting changes that are meant to increase versatility.

It’s the only tier 1 AOE cleanse in the game is the main reason, other factors are that its also an on demand cleanse, and it can be used every 10 seconds.

^^ directly from JP’s mouth just now

So in order in increase build diversity and make us move out of water and arcana you are moving adept traits to master so everyone will just go deeper into these trait lines to get those traits. Makes perfect sense.

DiogoSilva.7089:

MrLT.6028:

Broken when paired with 30 in water. Which again kind of forces us to go deep into water as opposed to elsewhere. Now if the new Soothing Wave was moved to Air (which is critical related) as a mater trait, that would be much better.

Soothing Wave is affected by your opponent’s critical hits, so it’s not related to air. :P I did misread the new effect too when I first read it, and used to think it could synergy with the air trait that converts precision to healing.

Oh, well. Not as good as I thought. Still better than what it was.

In that case, i would like to make a suggestion to change the trait and move it to air to work with your crits. Would be nice to get some healing in another line apart from water or arcana.

Tyler Chapman.1832:

DiogoSilva.7089:

Tyler Chapman.1832:

I personally can’t wait for the Soothing Mist + Cleansing Water synergy. I think I will be enough for me to opt out of taking Cleansing Wave.

I’ve already stated my opinion on this matter, but I’m a bit unconvinced by this synergy. Soothing Wave will have a 10s cooldown. That will make Cleansing Water effectively have a 10s cooldown as well.

Yeah well a 3 second cooldown condition cleanse (passive of sort) would be broken as ever

Broken when paired with 30 in water. Which again kind of forces us to go deep into water as opposed to elsewhere. Now if the new Soothing Wave was moved to Air (which is critical related) as a mater trait, that would be much better.

Tyler Chapman.1832:

Zelyhn.8069:

Tyler Chapman.1832:

Lian Olsam.9541:

Evasive arcana on fire-air-earth adept and attunement
Cd range 11-8 on attun swap
elemental attunement on 5 of arcana
renewed stamina on adept

Make those change and u will unlock every kind of builds, sadly to say but imo every one wanna those traits at any cost… it s a must have for any ele build… otherwise this topic is only gossip… u wanna make more viable build just do this modify

I’ve always personally felt as well that Elemental Attunement is a class defining trait. I’ve been arguing to make it baseline or to bring it back down to tier one but the decision we’ve made instead is to bring Renewing Stamina back down to adept instead. This will prevent the dps ele nerf and even though we might all perceive that EA is a “staple” trait we do luckily have options to trait up instead to make up for the loss if you wish to spend points elsewhere. [Elemental Shielding, Zephyr’s Boon, Soothing Mist, etc. etc.] and yes… I know its more than one trait to make up for one but at least they are there and accessible low in other trait lines.

Our hope is not to destroy builds but to make more. Right now the way it looks for Elementalists in PvP is that most builds will still be the same, maybe with a little less AOE condition removal, but there will be more accessible options when going higher in the Fire, Air, and Earth trees.

I personally can’t wait for the Soothing Mist + Cleansing Water synergy. I think I will be enough for me to opt out of taking Cleansing Wave.

Sorry but it is not really like you had a choice: moving renewing stamina to master would simply destroy the ele both in PvP and PvE.

And it is not like we are shining at the moment.

Saying it would destroy Ele is strictly theory crafted hyperbole but I can respect your emotional reaction to that change. A lot of things are changing and from the internal testing I’ve personally done with ele (2000+ tournament games played on live on top teams) ele is looking really strong. I’m beating most everything 1v1 right now with the spec I’ve been running.

Great! Now what about the vast majority of us who play strictly PvE or WvW and don’t give a kitten about sPvP. It always seems like these balance changes are made in the vacuum of sPvP without further regard to the other two game modes. At least this discussion is happening now but it still seems like alot of criticism, most of which has been good and valid, is still falling on deaf ears (I realize you all cannot respond to everything) since their criticism is not strictly related to sPvP.

There needs to be a compelling reason to go into the other trait lines apart from water and arcana. Fresh air was a good change. It gave a unique flavor to air and is a grandmaster trait actually worth taking (even tho it really only works well with scepter). Diamond skin is a change in the right direction but I doubt it’ll be good enough to warrant 30 in earth since ele only has 12000 hp. Immunity from conditions is really nice, but one auto attack from some classes will drop the ele below the 90% threshold.

Fire traits, for lack of a better term, suck. There is no trait in the fire line that would make me want to give up anything else for it. Don’t nerf the other lines into oblivion. Make us want to go into fire, give us a compelling reason to give up evasive arcana (yeah right) or 30 water (maybe). Burning fire is a move in the right direction, but still underwhelming. A 3 condi clear every 40s is just not that good, definitely not for 20 fire.

Maybe consider adding a % bonus of power is given as vitality in the fire line. Then deep into water won’t be as worth it to get that much needed extra vitality (which is the source of nearly every ele issue)

Since we are asking for wishlists in an attempt to make other trees more valuable here is something I have been thinking of for the fire line.

Swap Flame Barrier with Sunspot. Change Flame Barrier to gain fire aura for 3 seconds when attuning to fire.

Sunspot in the Adept Minor mirrors well with the Water Minor. Fire burns, water “soothes.”

Changing flame barrier to a guaranteed “you gain fire aura on fire attunement”which will allows eles to have good access to fire aura and synergies with the other aura traits.

Move conjurer to adept level and combine with burning fire. Conjured weapons just got a huge boost and makes them more accessable. Make a new master level trait that would synergize with auras. Aura’s grant 3s of retaliation.

Now an offensive style D/D build would be more viable. I don’t think such a change would be OP since it would now force a choice between aura traits or evasive arcana.

Some fun fights in TCBL tonight fighting TSYM and GSCH (I think it was) from SoR and TSL and others from TC.

Hoots.9564:

TIMMEH.8106:

Hoots.9564:

TIMMEH.8106:

we screen shotted what we had 21 bt and 7 pugs, looks like 75 to me too now that I look at it

Yeah, I’d agree that you guys had at least the upper 60’s on your first 2 attempts at wiping our GvG. Your blob averaged about 24 Wexp each.

you count 60 in the ss…….is that funny math?

Well, I’m not gonna count the people in that screenshot as most of your guys are blobbed up so tight. But I did however average about 60+ ticks of 24 Wexp as your blob died.

And I was getting about 60+ over 9000 ticks of 0 or 5 wxp from you, you know, since you wiped to us often.

Nakoor.1980:

MrLT.6028:

Kiltor.9362:

a map zerg while we are gvging. yes it must be reality.

28 people is now a map zerg, who knew.
notice all the green names as well (i count 7), you know the ones not in BT.

As opposed to all of SoR, see second pic.

Interesting. You’re people still require a tag to follow around. Hmm…

Yes, you are correct, all of BT follows me, as opposed to, I don’t know, the people who post the videos. Makes total sense. Not like I would turn it on just to get a screen cap of how many people were following, to make a snarky comment about your accusations of our map zergs, because that would NEVER happen.

Kiltor.9362:

a map zerg while we are gvging. yes it must be reality.

28 people is now a map zerg, who knew.
notice all the green names as well (i count 7), you know the ones not in BT.

As opposed to all of SoR. couldnt get a good screen shot since they wouldnt all fit in one shot

Raif.9507:

Even the fact that they think that a 5 second cooldown reduction is a good tradeoff for a removal of a stunbreak just boggles the mind…. Lightning Flash was at a 45 second cooldown with a stunbreak, and now its at a 40 second cooldown without a stunbreak…. WTF….

Compare to the mesmer skill blink. 30s cooldown, stunbreak.
I would rather have that than the kitten damage lightning flash does.

Jet.4795:

To all the BG gloating about last week. Tell us one time you guys made us tick under 200 when we were actually playing besides Thursday night NA. Think about this you guys had us beat during Oceanic/EU no doubt and props but you guys got a lot of you points during NA and SEA off DB… So before you start gloating please realize you never straight dominated us when we were actually on and playing. Thanks keep it classy

http://mos.millenium.org/servers/view/33/77

Well where to start, I don’t really want to list all the times JQ ticked under 200 because, it would take forever.

Conclusion, dominated

I will only comment on the two servers I have been on, FA from headstart until last Friday and BG since last Friday.

FA is FA. You get what you get, it is nothing special and out of the way, it just is. Which is rather nice. There are no large egos, people genuinely care about the server and helping others in WvW (even those of us who left still want FA to do well). There is an active community that posts regularly on their forums and a community teamspeak server for all WvW guilds to use. There is no large over shawdowing guild dictating the terms of the server. It is more of a loose collection of people looking to have fun, PPT be kitten ed. The downside to FA is it lacks good overall coverage and when you take something there is a very good chance that it will be lost as soon as you guys log off. Not for a lack of trying on FAs part, they simply lack the numbers to compete against TC and the Dragonwagon.

It has a unique mindset that comes from repeated weeks of getting stomped by TC and others, yet it is still kicking. You will find some of the fights you are looking for.

BG is also great, downside, server status is full. All of BT (we are not a large guild) have not made it over yet but on occasion it does open to very high for 2-3 minutes every 4 days or so. So far, despite the naysayers, the community has been very welcoming to us and organized in WvW. There are endless hordes of SoR and JQQ (tho this may change this Friday) to kill no matter what time you log in. Qs have been short to non-existant. And every night feels like reset night with the numbers at your side and against your opponents.

In any case, good luck, you fought well in KN when I was on FA.

Also, SoR doesn’t need help, there are just sooooooo many of them

Rackhir Tanelorn.9123:

MrLT.6028:

To good fights and remember, all is fair in love and war.

You’re going to Quaggan Walk with DB instead of doing the Yak Parade with TC aren’t you?

Considering my unrelenting and utter dislike of anything and everything TC, yes, quaggans for all (granted those are the worst thing in game, more so than OP ACs)

To good fights and remember, all is fair in love and war.

So uhh, what happened here? reminds me of tulips
http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/12309

Odinzu.9645:

KEEP PUSHING ON EB FA, OUR FRIENDS!!!!!!!

friends? el oh el, bless your heart TC.

Thank you TC for giving me a precursor. Sadly, it was Venom, the cheapest of the cheap for a trident.

Eviator.9746:

urak.4863:

Scout: DB is sieging up ruins!
Commander: Are they moving towards South Camp?
Scout: Not really..

time passes

Group walks to bay and exit through South to resup at SW Camp

Commander: I had no idea he meant this when he said sieging up ruins..

!http://i.picasion.com/pic68/312304b5b986435dae14e0fc7d1aa7d9.gif!

Sorry for the bad gif. Wanted to re-take but most of it had been destroyed

Gist of it: Some DB dude dropped siege all the way from Sentry near SW camp all the way to Sentry near NW camp, all the way through ruins.

Thanks for the laugh xD

Funny if it’s a joke. Not funny if someone is trying to seige cap DB.

That guy literally laid out a few hundred pieces of seige. It went from our (FA) spawn down into lowlands. Here is 1 pic I took. Didnt take more b/c we tried to build the 8 or so golems he threw on the ground

kittybock.5683:

I would tend to disagree about how many we have gotten, as well as the effect they, and other changes, have had on my beloved TC community. I have lead TCBL almost daily for 5 months…. I salute my Guild, Primal Fury and the TC Militia, with whom I have spent many a 10 hour day….but I am, sadly, looking for another server.

salutes and drops tag

Kitty

You sound like someone who would fit in greatly on FA. Seems like you have done a good job of organizing your militia and upgrading the BL. seems like it will be TC’s loss. Come to FA, the grass really is greener and your efforts will be greatly appreciated by the community. Though the play styles of many of our folks may be a bit unorthodox and far different than TC’s PPT at all costs.

Also, good fights in the FABLs from DB. Always fun fighting you guys. Uhh, you to TC, I guess. I mean, I enjoyed killing you all.

A welcome thread for yourselves, who does that?
For some reason it reminds me of this:

Nirvana.5796:

Match thread.

Nothing below the belt

Edit: Reset is at 5pm CST, 6 EST and 3pm PST. GLHF!

Where did it all go wrong…

This thread in summary…
TC – bow before your theory crafting masters (did anyone actually read that?), l2p the ppt game, points to scoreboard, MrPreciousMetal
FA – thanks for the bagz, GvG?, l2open field fight, stop running away
KN – not sure, has anyone seen them?

I give it until tomorrow before this thread is locked

Sebrent.3625:

Sadly, we’re lacking for active condition removal.

• Healing Spring
• Brown Bear
• Signet of Renewal

Ranger is the only class that has only 1 utility for condition removal, and that is including the classes that have heals that remove conditions. Elementalist kicks our butt with a heal, 4 utilities, and weapon skills that all remove conditions … not to mention traits … geez.

Ele only has two utilities that remove conditions (1 active – cleansing fire, 1 passive signet of water), 5 if traited using two water traits.

But for total skills that remove conditions
Staff – Healing Rain – Water 5
Dagger offhand – Cleansing Wave – Water 5
Focus Offhand – Magnetic Wave – Earth 4

Heals:
Ether Renewal
Glyph of Elemental harmony in water with water trait XI

Utilities
Cleansing Fire
Signet of water
Mist form with water traits III and XI
Lightning Flash with water traits III and XI
Armor of Earth with water Traits III and Xi

With traits
Attune swap to water – Water V – Condition cure when switching to water
Dodge roll in water with Arcana XI

Most of these will also remove multiple conditions with traits.

And I play ranger alot and it could definitely use a little more active condition removal.
But empathic bond is pretty good, so there is that.

aaron.7850:

MrLT.6028:

aaron.7850:

Oresh.4729:

why not going into a spvp map?

3- stat customization possible

This is why I like dueling in wvw. simply more stat combinations possible to get that perfect mix you want. hit me up anytime I am on if you want to duel in T2. I am game, but I must warn you I am bad.

We are at FA BL, Victor’s Lodge right now (by the mill)

I know, I logged back in and dueled a ranger, an engineer and a thieft

Ranger – I won
Engineer – I lost (WvW confusion hurts compared to sPVP)
Thief – was a draw

Good fights all around.

Since it seemed like mostly FA and TC players there maybe KN BL would be more suited to the dueling since the spawns are closer to the windmill.

aaron.7850:

Oresh.4729:

why not going into a spvp map?

3- stat customization possible

This is why I like dueling in wvw. simply more stat combinations possible to get that perfect mix you want. hit me up anytime I am on if you want to duel in T2. I am game, but I must warn you I am bad.

Sunspots.9861:

I think this thread has gone through enough trauma for one day! Lets end the weekend with a little good cheer. Very even fights this weekend and whatever the week holds, its a great way to spend a Sunday.

What has the world come to when sunspots is the voice of reason. And a certain troll who we on FA thought was finally gone, well, seems they have taken to poisoning the official forums too.

Alas, good fights TC and Kn and I thank one of you for dying to me and rewarding me with an exotic.

Attunes: F1-F4
movement: wasd
Skills 1-5: 1,2,3,4,5
heal skill and utility skills: mouse side buttons
elite: mouse middle button
auto run: z
look behind: r
nearest target: x

Mineral Springs was always my favorite in GW1. Just felt so remote compared to the alot of the areas and was beautifully designed.

HermanVanderpoop.6743:

I’m sick of BT in fort aspenwood borderlands. Why don’t you guys play the game like you’re suppose to and stop farming people. You’re missing the spirit of the game. And TC ain’t any better: you wiped Pink wiped and left us all to dry and then shadow legion and dissonent killed all of us TC for like an hour while fa farmed us in their tower and now they left. Just a joke.

This seems appropriate.
Thanks for the loot, btw.

This lag, it is unbearable. I cant use half my skills. Welcome to Lag Wars 2 all.

Only one I would buy is the Orca quaggan backpack. But you can’t get it through any means yet. It is in the game yet. Here are the previews for the new backpacks:
Pink Quaggan: [&AgFGmgAA]
Green Quaggan: [&AgFKmgAA]
Purple Quaggan: [&AgFemgAA]
Orca Quaggan: [&AgFimgAA]

White Charr: [&AgFmmgAA]
Yellow Charr: [&AgFOmgAA]
Orange Charr: [&AgFSmgAA]
Brown Charr: [&AgFWmgAA]
Black Charr: [&AgFamgAA]

Drakh.3128:

How is it possible that a server winning it’s tier by 2x the points of the other 2 servers will loose rating? Sorrow’s Furnace for example from this week is ahead 221-125-120 and despite this they are loosing 51 rating? How are they ever going to move up if winning doesn’t increase their rating?

Because they didn’t win big enough.

MMORPG: Back in January, one of the fixes for culling went into place, and it seemed to help a bit. But how will the changes coming in March eliminate this completely? There are a few skeptics in Bill’s (Murphy) guild that think it can’t be done.

Habib Loew: Hah, yeah we have seen a lot of the skepticism on the Internet. The change we made in January was really just a tweak to the system. It changed the priorities of Culling but did not eliminate it. The change in March will turn off Culling completely. You will now see every character within range of you. There will be several different options for how other players are presented to you, on the client side that you can choose from so you can control how it works for you.

From here http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/feature/7169/Guild-Wars-2-What-Marchs-WvW-Patch-Will-Bring.html

Well, that is good news. Might make the patch wort the extra month wait if true. Except the problem I see is where he says within range of your character. watch they just redefine the range to be within 5 feet of your toon.

IRSyKo.5843:

BT members inject tigers blood into their veins 3 times a day.

Will anybody run dungeons with me, PLEASE

Not sure if serious…the dungeons that is, the tiger blood is obviously for realz

Seriously Maguuma, how many are there of you that just spam gears. My kitten combat log reads…throw, throw, throw, throw, throw

Chaos Archangel.5071:

Sorry for not going into deeper detail, I specifically meant for PvP, and when I mean advantages besides range and combo fields, I mean..

-Does the Staff have better/more CC than D/D?
-Are traits any more flexible for Staff than D/D?
-Can the Staff do better damage in any elemental attunement?

As well as a bit of curiosity as to what kind of builds do staff users make since DPS goes to D/D?

I use either this or this when on staff. I mostly WvW with it, my attributes end up different though since I use the PvE armors and accessories. 1v1 you will likely not ever kill anyone, but luckily, they probably won’t be killing you either.

But to answer your question, I’d say it does have more CC, Water 4, air 4 & 5 and earth 4 & 5. And glyph of storms (if you choose to use it) in water or earth.

Well, traits are not really more flexible simply because most ele traits are utter dreck.

And no, the damage output is not that great. I never see anything over 2k and am happy for 1.5k.

Really, I play staff b/c it offers excellent support, combo fields, and its easy to tag large groups of people in wvw.

Muppet.6485:

… (increased by whatever your +% boon duration is at, mine is currently at 80% so 9 seconds of each from Zephyr’s Boon), plus then having all your D/D auras ready to go is horrendously out of balance…

In WvW I see issues with blocking treb shots via the focus air skill. I haven’t spent too much time in WvW so I can’t say for certain, so correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure that if you successfully block the projectile you aren’t actually put into Combat mode. Again, I’m not 100% sure of this. If this is the case, if the enemy teams portal bombs you, rushes your siege, whatever, you can easily switch to your preferred PvP weapon set with no penalty as long as you’re quick about it, and again with the possibility of prebuffing before they hit you.

How do you get to 80% boon duration, most I can get is 60% from 30 Arcana, and 15% each from runes of water and monk. I can see 80% for a specific boon (I have 80% for protection from arcana, 2x rune of water, 2x rune of the monk and 2x rune of earth), but not overall, am I missing something?

And blocking a treb shot does not put you in combat, if it does, it is for such a short period that I have never noticed it.

IBountyHunterI.4601:

Goodfights today “The Fort Aspenwood Specialists”

Thanks for being my personal Badge of Honor dispensers :P

But serious though gf’s

There were only three of us on yesterday and I was probably your badge dispenser since I was on my lowby, but thanks I guess

Magzergma living up to their name…sending 30 people to take a supply camp. Great job, you rolled three people defending.

It would just be nice if swiftness worked inside of combat

Score update.
Also great fights tonight TC and BG.

This made it worse for me, before i rarely had an issue and that was only for groups of about 50+. now groups of 10 are just appearing on me. But my guildmates said it made it better. Seems to be if you have a high end system its worse, a low end system is better.

Muppet.6485:

Arheundel.6451:

Red Falcon.8257:

and a staff Ele is a free kill…

…..rofl, never played against a good staff ele have you?

No, no I haven’t
And I’m aware that this is pointed at that troll up there, but that doesn’t change it.
I’ve never run across a staff ele in a 1v1 situaton that can have even half a hope of killing me as a D/D
And yes if you want to prove me wrong let me know, I’d even welcome the loss, because that would mean there is something I’ve missed about that weapon set
I truly hope there are some out there that have found a way to make staff work in 1v1s

As it stands right now, once you close the initial gap and cleans the immobilizes the fight is over.

Thats funny because I, as a staff ele, have never run across a D/D ele (or any prefession for that matter) that has a hope of killing me, granted I probably won’t be killing them either… makes for a really boring fight.

What ele needs are better fire and air traits because currently they just suck compared to water and arcana.

Only thing I really would want are new maps on a one week rotation. So in week one there are 3x BL1 and EB1, week two would be different versions of borderlands and EB, etc. And exploits like keep jumping/gate glitching or attacking from under the map.

Character progression, I am not even sure what this is. So not important.
Culling is not that big of an issue for me, but i can see how it would be for people who play on a toaster with a potato for a connection.

Better rewards, I can understand this. While, playing WvW w/ people I like is reward enough, I agree you should get something for upgrading so more people would take the time to do so. Or maybe make it if you take an upgraded fort you get more gold. And add something back in for escorting the dolyaks. Or make something useful in WvW I can spend all that karma I have. Maybe let us buy siege or upgrades with it.

Just experienced the event, we were out manned on the map and by the end of the event had 50 or so ready to push bay. I would say it served its purpose, it brought people into a map where we were wiped off of. Now if our opponent had a ballista and another arrow cart we probably wouldn’t have fared as well. For now, I like it and I am sure it will be tweaked as we all experience it more.

To whoever was the thief and ranger i just fought in CD borderlands at the thunder temple w/ the krait, that was fun, we should do it again. I was the ele.

Jayne.9251:

MrLT.6028:

sadly I missed the yak farm, but you guys are just as bad as the people who complain about fighting in the jumping puzzle. It is WvW, the point of which is to kill your enemies. There are plenty of pve events where you could have went to walk dolyaks without getting attacked.

You’re missing the point entirely. A player from CD wrote something that amused and inspired us all, and players from not just her home server, but other servers, loved what she wrote too. So it was agreed upon that this event would be held. This was about showing honour, being as good as your word, and representing your server. And if your word means nothing, then … well you can connect the dots.

Who agreed, I know my guild didn’t. And I am sure others didn’t. A handful agreed to somethign the vast majority did not. Oh well.

sadly I missed the yak farm, but you guys are just as bad as the people who complain about fighting in the jumping puzzle. It is WvW, the point of which is to kill your enemies. There are plenty of pve events where you could have went to walk dolyaks without getting attacked.

I think camps are fine where they are now with the upgrades. But I would like to see another tier of upgrades for the camps.
Maybe something like your dolyak gains improved move speed and protection and an additional defender for 30s and 250 karma. Then a second strengthen guards for 50s 250 karma (guards get an additional level, supervisor gets 2 levels).

Nothing that would make it much more difficult for a 5 man team, but still challenging enough to buy time for allies to come aid.

kaffaljidhma.1496:

Crater.1625:

kaffaljidhma.1496:

I thought that the official response was that the gear increase was a one time thing and that’s what we were discussing. Why are people getting back to gear treadmill as if there’s going to be another, higher stat item than ascended in the future?

They never said it was a one-time thing. They said that it wouldn’t be “every three months” (so, hey, maybe it’ll be 4, or 6, or 9), and in another interview I’m pretty sure they specifically said that they were not going to say that it was the last tier of equipment.

And a gear treadmill is a gear treadmill whether it happens once, or a hundred times.

I’d like to see that other interview if you know where to find it.

It was on the German forums. Here is the reddit link which has the GW2 forum link in it
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/139a4j/official_post_ascended_items_on_german_forums/

You will have to use google translate to read it. It butchers it, but you can get the gist. Also, I’ve read the german thread and they are just as unhappy about the ascension gear as us english speakers. They have 41 pages of discontent.