Guild Wars 2

Calvin.5380:

Mubarizun.6435:

Calvin.5380:

Anyone notice that all Mags can talk about are the transfers DB has received… over and over again.

Grumpy cat is jealous

gidorah.4960:

Calvin.5380:

gidorah.4960:

Calvin.5380:

gidorah.4960:

wolf.1895:

gidorah.4960:

StealthSnake.9134:

DB was gonna make it to tier 2 with or without the transfer only because Kaineng was gonna fall regardless. Please don’t say anything if you don’t know what you’re talking about.

yes i have no idea what i am talking about db made it to t2 without transfers i am sooo sorry. I bet the didnt even canibalize the fairweather guilds from kain.

I like how people imply that DB had no skill before the transfer guilds. We were well on our way to T2 before they came.

yes db alone made it up the tiers with skill and not with transfers fixing its covergae gaps in na. plaese teach every other server how to do it.

So Mags are not trying to fix their coverage gaps? I look at the recruitment subforum, and I see a Mags recruitment post. Db doesn’t have any. I wonder if someone’s just being jealous here.

pro tip: Stop crying, and try to enjoy the game.

no one is crying db seems to not understand why they have so many fairweathers. you will of course always be confused by this if you believe you got to where you are with skill alone and not all the transfers coming to db for easy wins.

I don’t see anyone who said DB got to T2 with skill alone. That’d be preposterous. Care to share the link? We had the coverage and numbers to be in T2, which is why we moved there. After that, we received numerous transfers.

The transfers did help us hold our place in T2. They’re awesome, yes, and an integral part of DB now. Nobody is denying that.

Hope you find some peace in life.

like this guy saying it

It’s interesting because DB received all of its transfers when the “easy” wins stopped. Since we moved to T2, we had one week I would consider easy; the rest have all been hard fought, excepting last week when we were soundly trounced.

i’m not angry i’m just really perplexed by how some of db can be so oblivious to the unwritten rule of being a bandwagon server as soon as you stop winning the transfers stop showing up.

Is English your first language? He said that DB received transfers after we moved to T2, which is a fact. he did not say that we won T3 because of skill. We were already too big for T3. Skill is pretty even across servers. Normal curve.

Also, DB moved from #6 to #4 after the transfers. Hardly what one’d call a “bandwagon”. You may, if wish to. Doesn’t affect anybody’s health. Keep crying.

Jealous? You lose to us when we have even numbers and we tick higher for hours. Then you clean up in oceanic and throw numbers at everything. Then you go up a tier against other servers with numbers like yourself and come up dead last and bloodied.

It’s a joke really.

As of this moment, I see mags ticking for 65PPT. This is reset night which is the most even, and supposedly the time Mags have the highest population.

You are the definition of a joke, my friend

No my friend. You have more numbers than us by far. And if you open your eyes and take your head out your rear, you’ll see that FA is attacking us as well. In fact, 8 omega golems took the keep you worked so hard to surround.

Regardless, last week I distinctly remember trouncing you in every one of our prime times and especially on opening night. If you ever hopped on mag for that week, absolutely no one in our server takes your tactics seriously. We simply crush you in even battles.

Calvin.5380:

Anyone notice that all Mags can talk about are the transfers DB has received… over and over again.

Grumpy cat is jealous

gidorah.4960:

Calvin.5380:

gidorah.4960:

Calvin.5380:

gidorah.4960:

wolf.1895:

gidorah.4960:

StealthSnake.9134:

DB was gonna make it to tier 2 with or without the transfer only because Kaineng was gonna fall regardless. Please don’t say anything if you don’t know what you’re talking about.

yes i have no idea what i am talking about db made it to t2 without transfers i am sooo sorry. I bet the didnt even canibalize the fairweather guilds from kain.

I like how people imply that DB had no skill before the transfer guilds. We were well on our way to T2 before they came.

yes db alone made it up the tiers with skill and not with transfers fixing its covergae gaps in na. plaese teach every other server how to do it.

So Mags are not trying to fix their coverage gaps? I look at the recruitment subforum, and I see a Mags recruitment post. Db doesn’t have any. I wonder if someone’s just being jealous here.

pro tip: Stop crying, and try to enjoy the game.

no one is crying db seems to not understand why they have so many fairweathers. you will of course always be confused by this if you believe you got to where you are with skill alone and not all the transfers coming to db for easy wins.

I don’t see anyone who said DB got to T2 with skill alone. That’d be preposterous. Care to share the link? We had the coverage and numbers to be in T2, which is why we moved there. After that, we received numerous transfers.

The transfers did help us hold our place in T2. They’re awesome, yes, and an integral part of DB now. Nobody is denying that.

Hope you find some peace in life.

like this guy saying it

It’s interesting because DB received all of its transfers when the “easy” wins stopped. Since we moved to T2, we had one week I would consider easy; the rest have all been hard fought, excepting last week when we were soundly trounced.

i’m not angry i’m just really perplexed by how some of db can be so oblivious to the unwritten rule of being a bandwagon server as soon as you stop winning the transfers stop showing up.

Is English your first language? He said that DB received transfers after we moved to T2, which is a fact. he did not say that we won T3 because of skill. We were already too big for T3. Skill is pretty even across servers. Normal curve.

Also, DB moved from #6 to #4 after the transfers. Hardly what one’d call a “bandwagon”. You may, if wish to. Doesn’t affect anybody’s health. Keep crying.

Jealous? You lose to us when we have even numbers and we tick higher for hours. Then you clean up in oceanic and throw numbers at everything. Then you go up a tier against other servers with numbers like yourself and come up dead last and bloodied.

It’s a joke really.

You see that. Look carefully. That’s DB on the left side and those orange swords are FA right next to them with ~8 OMEGA GOLEMS. So please stuff it with your absurd justifications that FA and DB are gonna attack each other.

Last one. 15 char

Mubarizun.6435:

Hi I noticed that when pressed forward to move, the wings would shift to looking like they were on backwards and flapping the wrong way. Whenever I stop, it goes back to normal. However, on the move, it constantly looks like the animation is backward. Here are some screens.

Here is another screen.

Hi I noticed that when pressed forward to move, the wings would shift to looking like they were on backwards and flapping the wrong way. Whenever I stop, it goes back to normal. However, on the move, it constantly looks like the animation is backward. Here are some screens.

The title says it all. I crash every 15 minutes now. This hasn’t happened before.

YO! SBI! We magummers were trying to help you at Mendons by trebbing the DB wall down lol. We decided to help you push DB out of Mendons and you just turn and zerg our trebs down on the hill

I played throughout the night on the first day. There seemed to be a general consensus that DB wasn’t performing too hot and that we may have overestimated them. I log in today and lo and behold, most of the map is theirs. This suggests to me that coverage is the single most important thing for a higher tier server. Not skill or coordination.

- from a Maguuma dude

Is it true that now after using bulls charge, its impossible to hit all of HB while using frenzy before they get up?

How deeply did this cut our dps?

P.S. I don’t give a kitten about snarky “adapt” comments. I’m strictly wondering about this combo.

I just had back to back crashes near SM. I never had this before. Others in game confirmed they had the same problem. Thoughts?

Hi starting from sometimes yesterday all my skills take a second or two to activate and my movements are sluggish with people teleporting a tiny bit in WvW. This has not happened before where I played fine at around 40 fps with little to no lag. I’m pretty sure this is on A-Nets end since I haven’t changed anything.

Will this fix thief rendering as well? Or is that a separate issue?

In the Mag/EB/CD match, we Maguuma are generally stomping them. We have SM and about 60% of the map comfortably. SM has full supply as well.

Now we were assaulting Quentin when we realized all of a sudden that EB had made a stealth attempt on SM and was already halfway through our inner gate!

We had to drop our siege on quentin and actually SPLIT UP our forces to protect different parts of the map.

This change offers a huge chance for stealth and unexpected wins now and gj to EB for making that dash.

I really like the changes. It causes us to be more map aware and leaves the chances for stealth wide open. A very welcome change!

Apparently alot of you are less informed than I imagined. This NOT about nerfing them. This is ONLY about a rendering issue that gives them a huge artificially high advantage.

Phoenixfudge.5290:

Okay, an extra 1.5 seconds of stealth TOPS. Anet fixed it for the most part in small scale fights with the new rendering system. I personally don’t have any problems dealing with thieves and their stealth. Backstsab thieves are one trick ponies and are easy to counter even if you aren’t bunker. Stop playing glass cannon yourself and equip some stun breakers instead of all out offense.

You guys are still going to complain about stealth after they fix culling. Culling is just now used as an excuse for bad players who don’t have enough experience dealing with thieves.

You are in your own world. Please stick your head back into the sand.

When thieves disappear they do not reappear for a way longer than they should. Think before you post. This problem has been known for a while.

Please don’t think you are winning your 1v1’s through skill. Most of us could not see you for more than a few seconds and did not have enough aoe to burst you down before you safely disappeared to the other side of the map.

The game engine and your artificially long invisibility are the reason for your wins.

Edit: Apparently alot of you are less informed than I imagined. This NOT about nerfing them. This is ONLY about a rendering issue that gives them a huge artificially high advantage.

Am I misreading the patch notes? I don’t see a timer for last stand appearing at all.

Bakitten291:

First off I have to give massive credit to Amins, as the trait layout is almost a carbon copy of his, however I have added a spin to it to make it my own.

The build:

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/guardian/?3|1.1p.h19|2.1p.h17|1n.7r.1c.7r.1n.7r.1c.7r.1n.7r.1c.7r|1p.61.1n.67.1n.67.1j.67.1g.67.8g.67|u27c.a6.u16c.0.0|e

Weapons, Sigils, Armor, Runes, and Traits are all included in the link.

Utilities:
Signet of judgement
Smite Condition
Judge’s Intervention

Heal:
Shelter

Elite:
Renewed Focus

Food:
Sharpening stones
Bowl of lemongrass poultry soup

How the Build works:
First off this build is very defensively sound, 3k+ armor, signet of judgement reducing all damage by a further 10%, Runes of melandru paired with lemongrass soup gives you -65% condition duration on you and an added -25% stun duration. So not only are you taking very little damage from regular attacks, but conditions fall off you like they were barely there. In case one does stick around for a while there is always the sigil in the GS and smite condition to fall back on.

As far as healing goes, Zealous blade supplies a small but constant amount through attacking, while monk’s focus gives you that added burst healing. The big thing though is that these heals feel very powerful as the damage you will be taking is heavily reduced.

The play style I prefer is a mix of a line breaker or Roamer, and I think this build does both amazingly. The condition negation really helps the mobility as you are not tied down by snares/immobilizes/chills for nearly as long, and you can take a decent beating before you start to feel too much pressure. The Hammer also works amazingly for CC and should keep enemies near you long enough to ruin their day.

Below I have included a picture of my stats as for some reason the weapons are not included into the stats in the build calculator.

Sorry but what is that green dye you’re using??

It boggles my mind how many people have left WvW. How can there be this many players but servers still have a hard time covering both EB and borderlands?

It seems to me that the lack of rewards from WvW are really taking its toll :/

I hope A-net devotes more time into WvW to catch up with it’s sPvP love because right now players like me seem unwanted.

Hey guys, I’m looking for a server whose borderlands are even full most of the time. I’m tired of simply logging into EB all the time and having little to no one on the other maps. I’m specifically hoping for a server that’s matched evenly against other servers with a friendly population.

I’ve leveled to 80 in WvW primarily and have full exotic so I’d be an asset to wherever you suggest.

I knew I should of taken a screenshot of it but I figured someone else was doing it.

Basically, we knocked down the wall near the grub with about 4 catapults. While we were doing that some people attacked the grub. We didn’t think anything of those few that attacked it until after we poured through the breach…

We realized that as we pounded on the EB inner wall, the grub had followed us inside because some people were too dang stupid to leave it alone. So naturally the grub proceeds to saunter up to the wall where we were trying to build rams and totally ruins that plan lol.

So now we’re losing more and more people and decide to back off onto the op of the outer wall and perhaps build siege to attack from afar. EB now starts to wipe against the grub who’s knocking on their door. I didn’t get to see if the grub dug underground through the inner wall but I have a feeling it did since it’s body got obscured. Needless to say we weren’t taking the keep and our commander were really pissed lmao.

All in all.

EB 0
Maguuma 0
Grub 2

So about the Grub who got inside EB keep LOL.

My armor is also transmuted and has just started having this problem with gold dye.

If you buy gold dye and apply it to your armor, half of it, no matter what you do reverts to the dye remover color (grey). I spent almost 1 gold on this popular dye. Why is it like this?

On the battlefield, when I need to take out people from a zerg quickly, my favorite targets are (in order):

1. Engineers: They’re kind of rare so I’m attracted to them like a kid in a zoo and I don’t ever remember being seriously damaged by one. This is target #1.

2. Rangers: You can usually ignore pets since they’re probably attacking some other random person. These guys just seem plain enough that I don’t have to worry about anything irritating popping up and messing up my burst.

3. Tie between Eles and Necros.

Necros deathshroud prevents me from bursting as I like but the conditions they put on me are easily mended away. Eles seem to be running bunker builds so they do terribad damage but take too long to kill. I remember standing in an earthquake one time from a pretentious bunker ele because I thought the animations were kind of cool. If they’re not bunker however, these guys are easier pickings than necros.

Just to head off any accusations, this is not a troll post or meant to insult any professions. When you’re in battle, you go for where you think you’ll make the most difference. I almost never target guardians or thieves because I feel like dropping 2-3 of the above classes than struggling with 1 guardian’s defense or a thief’s culling would be more beneficial for my team.

What are your favorites to pick on?

When my adrenaline goes up, the crit rate shown from my player doesn’t change at all. Am I missing how this trait is supposed to work?

I was looking at my crit chance while gaining adrenaline and I noticed that it wasn’t going up as I gained adrenaline. Is this happening for other people? Or am I wrong about the way it works

Invisible thieves gets my vote. It’d gotten so annoying that I actively target thieves that are visible for revenge.

Tyops.5894:

The title says it all.

I played a ranger for most of GW1. I tried several classes during the beta, and although a lot of them were attractive I went with the ranger for headstart and played my ranger to level 80, map 100% etc. etc.

These days, I just cant bring myself to play a ranger. I’m not bored with the class, neither am I consumed with a desire to run alts. I like the way that the class plays, I wish that there were more viable weapons than the shortbow but I can live with. But every time I run across a bot train of rangers in Orr, or whatever other zone, I just feel shame.

I don’t want to be associated with the soulless army that is continuously and relentlessly reducing the quality of everyone’s gameplay experience. When I see those bots I feel shame for my chosen profession.

This has had a pretty significant effect on my gameplay. For instance, I don’t help downed rangers anymore unless we’re in a dungeon and I know that there is someone there running the character. Where before I was happy to run across people and would gladly help, now I eye everyone running around with the speed and drive of a bot with deep suspicion…. “Is this a bot? Should I report this one?” GW2 was built with a lot of thought and care to ensure that players would be happy to see and help other players. Bots are continuously eating away these foundations that hold the community together.

I know this thread will probably be locked in short order and we’ll be told that the best thing we can do is report bots. Honestly, reporting bots is work, and it’s not my job. When I play GW2 I want to escape that kind of tedium and ANet should be cautious about putting that kind of responsibility on the player base, especially when there is essentially no noticeable effect on the bot population. When you put the responsibility on the player to report a bot you are essentially telling them that you know that bots are an issue and asking the player to stop enjoying the game to take a few moments to do your job for you (it’s never just one bot, it’s 5 or 10 and to report them you have to chase them around and it sucks).

BTW. would it be so hard to send feedback to the players who reported a bot when that bot got banned?

tldr: Bots make me feel ashamed to play a Ranger; Bots are bad; It’s not the player base’s job to deal with the bot problem.

I think this is where we take a step back, go outside for some fresh air, meet up with friends in real life and then come back freshly aware that this is just a GAME. If you’re really this paranoid and hurt about bots sharing a virtual profession with you, then I think you need a break from GW.

It seems like if you don’t bust them down and thieves (along with other classes who use the mechanic) vanish for far longer than the few seconds the skills say. I understand this is a rendering issue but it really ruins combat knowing that the enemy can be gone whenever they please.

…their usefulness is severely compromised when those small raised sections on the edge of the wall block their shots. Arrow carts at least strike from above but ballistae are rendered useless far too often by the weird angle they fire.

Just wondering if there was any good reason at all for this.

Bulls charge has in the last 2 days started going through the enemy you target leaving. Case in point, my bulls charge- hundred blade combo leaves me charging straight through them a few feet away and missing all my strikes. I dont seem to stop at the model but rather a bit away.

Hasek.6807:

Like the titel says, is Bull’s charge bugged?

In the past 2 days i find myself charging through my target and 80% of the time landing far behind them out of melee range, this is at least not how the skill worked in the beginning.

You’re not the only one. This was happening to me all of yesterday. I was just flying through them and missing my combos that followed.

Terrible performance for me as well. I was just smashing autoattack hoping to hit someone

You can see that my previous posts were irritated at the drop rate of these things. I only ever got maybe 4-5 in hours of play. But that was when I was using dual maces and having fun locking people down.

I recently switched to a burst GS build and now I’m positively drowning in the badges. I don’t have any worries about not having enough for the next arrow cart or etc.

This makes me think that the drop rate indeed is related to the damage you do to the enemies (not always though, most of the time).

It also makes me worry about this drop rate punishing people who don’t go straight DPS.

Hey all so I’ve enjoyed this game for over 100 hours with no major problems so far. I found tht my graphics card was overheating when I bought the game so I simply turned up the fan speed and nothing has gone wrong for near 100 hours.

Today I had GW2 minimized when all of a sudden it says theres a hardware failure detected. I start up again to notice some flickering graphics, This lead to a freeze when I opened my map and now when starting again, I get a bsod.

What gives? Any solution?

Granted there are exceptions such as signet of rage, but the vast majority of elites seem extremely situational and impotent. I’m really questioning the design philosophy behind many of the skills when classes such as warriors get trash skills like Juggernaut (short duration, doesn’t even boost damage significantly). Don’t get me started on the specialty elites such as artillery barrage with horrendously long cool downs and terrible damage.

Am I just spoiled by the creativity behind the elite skills in GW1 which actually seemed powerful?

I understand that I need to work up to the big traits but I like the huge numbers on the backstab builds and was wondering if anyone had a lower level equivalent I could follow for this level. Any advice about gear for said build would be appreciated as well!

I was playing WvW today and got many PMs inquiring why I would ever go dual maces or that it was such a rare sight to them that they had to ask me “why bother?”

Now I understand that our adrenal skill is a bit underpowered (3 seconds might be more fair, especially compared to the monster that the hammer equivalent is) but why do you fellow dual mace-ers choose it?

I also understand that burst is the way to go right now in pvp but I like the control that this setup gives me. But I have to admit I do feel inferior sometimes to the damage that dual axes or greatsword can put out.

Ive also noticed that i dont get NEARLY as many badges as i used to. If they nerfed it i want to ask why the hell do they keep making thus more of a grind. Do they NOT like us having fun? Do they keep nerfing anything that makes us think were makkng progress

I see alot of internet generals over here bringing up arguments such as “war isn’t fair!” or did “Napoleon ever do X?” or “Romans blah blah.”

Let’s get something straight. You’re playing a video game and NOT a war simulator. Your character respawns, teleports, regenerates health, can get hit with a bola in the face and keep sprinting, shoots magic spells and can live underwater without ever coming back up, among other things. Balance and fun come before any “realistic” elements in the game because you’re playing an MMO.

I noticed this response from “hardcore” people defending the status quo with regards to imbalances such as night capping. They were often talking down from the winning side.

Let’s just drop this ridiculous line of defense please? It makes me shake my head in embarrassment every time I see it.

I definitely agree with the kicking option. Though prepare for the drama queens coming in and saying “why can’t I play just because there aren’t people on the other side” who prefer to bang on walls their whole night.

Nonsense thread. Nightcappers are killing WvW. No one is saying you can’t play or that NA is the only self entitled timezone. When the map doesnt budge during the day and people wake up the next morning to find it all a single color, there is a problem. Honestly, before making such dramatic statements do you even take the time to find out the facts or not?

runeblade.7514:

Limit time is not an option. I refuse to let the game decide when I play when I have a wonky schedule.

If you are not going to recruit people oversea or players that play at night, then you don’t deserve the overnight army to protect your keeps.

All I see here is qqing.

Read it again please. No one talked about limiting the time. If you’re an American, you play on American servers any time you want. Same goes for any other region.

If you expect that GW2, a game they have tried so hard to make accessible to more gamers, requires that players comb through the internet to find foreigners to their region to save WvW from breaking itself… well I’m not sure what to say.

All I see is someone who hasn’t had his server matched up for days against juggernauts who take the map when no one is there. Just wait until you’re on the other side of the fence

Breros.3567:

ANet nerfed the rewards from WvW so the repair costs should be nerfed too or removed altogether.

Excuse me? Can anyone back this up? I thought that badges were dropping less frequently now but I never thought they actually nerfed it. Is this true?

Problem #1: Overseas guilds carrying servers to victory by nightcapping and player vs wall.

Suggestion: Limit Europeans to European servers. Americans to Americans etc. 98% of people playing have lives outside of the game and like to sleep at night. Waking up to, or coming back from work to find that the server with the most foreigners has taken the whole map and all orbs is single-handedly ruining WvW. Sure people can stay up, but the vast majority wont and they will be in the minority and not make as much of an impact.

“Oh but you should use strategy and recruit overseas too!”

I’m a casual. I don’t have a guild and the vast majority of players are NOT going to bekittento suddenly go hopping around the internet trying to recruit people just so the game mode can actually be FUN in the first place. This is a game. Not a war simulation. The primary aim is to have fun and the current state of things are NOT working.

Or you know if you’re on any server BUT HoD or Vizunah try getting matched with them for 2 weeks or so and see how much you like the game mode then.