Guild Wars 2

Saiyan.1704:

kiritsugu emeya.3962:

Xanctus The Dragonslayer.2318:

ok I see so the build does generally decent in 1 v 1’s with a few counters here and there. focus on sustaning damage is blocks as i tought. alright thanx for clearing that up.But yeah fun buiild overall. I wanted a bit more info. have u tried rune of the guardian by chance? it stacks another burn during a block.

I’m definately entertained by your vids, when will u make another druid vid?

Unfortunatly I havent tried guardian runes mainly because i already make a good amount of dps with balthazar runes and good amount of stacks. Using guardian rune would decrease my condi dps. And i dont want that even tho the stacks might be more. Its all about bursting the enemy faster before he toys with me. And i get alot of CDs
And yes druid roaming vol 5 is coming soon. Glad that u are enjoing my vids man

Guard runes is best on Core while Bal runes are best on DH.

If you go Permeating Wrath then you’re losing out on a lot of dps by not using Bal runes on DH. Condi duration + condi damage increases your burn burst exponentially.

Trav runes are still just QoL, especially on a big map like WvW. In a pure 1v1, dps runes are simply better.

The only thing guard runes are better at is standing under siege fire and burning out AC’s. You only can proc those 2 stacks once a second and can’t get to +100% burn duration so those burn ticks are much shorter lived. Balth runes are far far superior in every way to guard or traveler runes.

Very very bad setup for a burn guard. Mace shield is great for sitting under arrow carts in WvW but as a roaming or spvp setup it is basically useless. Burn guard simply isn’t that viable in spvp largely because you can’t get to +100% burn duration since food isn’t available. But if you want to, you can try either as a viper guard setup like this or run a trailblazer amulet (although your dmg would be greatly reduced).

There are so many ways to counter condi and you want a base way where players can simply ignore condi against them? Learn to play.

Contiguous.1345:

insanemaniac.2456:

Contiguous.1345:

The guard defence stuff is just garbage – what really matters is the final cherry on top – Applied Fortitude.

you have that backwards…

How so? Guard attacks are pathetic and they go down in seconds anyway. OTOH 2.5 k extra health against a player is almost godlike, especially if you’re playing one of the low vitality classes.

Obviously you don’t do much roaming on your own. It is quite vital to a solo roamer, especially when tackling an upgraded camp or tower (which I solo all the time).

sephiroth.4217:

SuicideByTaco.5408:

Well it’s not like they cant beat us in open field fighting so I don’t blame them for using exploits also ty to the norn Mend commander staked him and got an abyss dye for like the first time ever in wvw u made my day!

Hi, I am one of the leaders of RUN, would like to say a few things.

1. It’s not an exploit or anything else other people think it is, just a matter of siege placement. No one ever complains that the same rams can hit outer and inner gate of blue keep in EB if they are placed right but they can’t do that at any other keep, it just comes down to siege placement and the way the game was designed and how the maps were created.

2. Fight open field? We are not a zergy guild, we are a guild compiled of solo roamers and PvP people with a roster of 30 people that are on IOJ with maybe 6 at the most we can get online at the same time on the same server, so please forgive us if we choose not to fight 5ish v zerg. So you’re right, we won’t and know we won’t beat you open field when you hug tripple to more the numbers in safety

I myself have been trying out PVT mesmer roaming, straying from my normal ranger and so far I have found some good fights, but trust me buddy, out of all of HoD there have been maybe 4 people at most I have seen with the balls to solo roam and actually be anything worth of a thought, I have called out 1 of them here already. Oddly enough they were [MU] for the most part.

As an ex-GoM member who was there last year in the never ending match ups with you guys against DH when they would own all maps all day, back then you guys were nothing short of respectful and always looking for fun, but looking at HoD as a whole now all I have personally seen is you guys trash 1 guild after another and in game zerg 3 people then /laugh and /sit/sit/sit.

Please get back to having fun, I know moderators and devs have annoyed us all and turned us towards other games but don’t be apart of the reason why we see less and less people play everyday, especially if you realize the only thing that is keeping this game alive is communities.

I’m also a solo roamer and former GoM. In fact, the reason I came to IoJ was my previous dealings with the server, my roaming buddies of RUN, and the honeybuns. None asked me to join, it was simply my experiences and being tired of defending a BL by myself (which was the case constantly in GoM). I agree that solo roamers are much harder to come by these days. Seems I run into a few now and then but most ended up looking for backup the minute they are in trouble. I always get a blast out of a player /sit /sit /sit on me when I’m trying to prevent their group (often 4+) from taking a camp. It’s even more satisfying when I run into them in the open field and take them apart since I can actually use my stealth and the evasive nature of the memser without worrying about losing the capping circle.

Plains of Ashes.5941:

Hamster.4861:

/Salute to HoD from IoJ

This is the closest matchup we’ve had in a long time.

and we have been having a blast!

MOAR in the future.

Yes this match has been loads of fun, it must have been 6 months since we fought IoJ last and its been worth the wait. The 3-way over your SM this morning was fun (more of those!), and last night us running thru the hole in WC and ninjaing it right in front of CD after they broke the wall down had me chuckling in my sleep all night.

I give the forum a D, but the match is an A. /Cheers to all!

Also I saw some of our friends in [Yarr] running around as well, /cheers guys!

Hamster.4861:

P.S. we will make goreknock rage quit.

Idunno, we try to make him ragequit all the time to free up a queue slot. All we seem to do is just send him off into a rage-filled killing spree …maybe you’ll have better luck.

Well, when I logged on this morning, we had only a small force (15 or so) roaming EB. Saw HoD working to take SMC from CD and figured I’d try my luck at getting in and hiding. Next thing I know, HoD left and I let my commander know. Certainly was fun ninjaing SMC right out from HoD’s nose and then the siege. Oh the glorious siege that was built up in there. You’d swear that everyone came out of the woodwork to build siege once SMC was taken.

Gassy pope.6934:

IOJ. GoM is one tier behind you, Hope to see you next week………… need to kill some old GoMers :0 MUHAHAHA

I’d be happy to have a chance to rumble against some old GoM buddies, including you Saxguy. My son has continued to enjoy his time on GoM though.

Jesse.4631:

bokkieskitten.8023:

BUNS <3’s Angelic

Lol.. Silent.. that thief..

Silent, always touching my buns as he runs by…love tap stabs >:3 Dirty little thief.

Best part is i’m in stealth so theres no proof ;D

I hope he’s not looking it as love taps when he does it to me. My wife my get jealous and hunt him down (and she doesn’t even play GW2).

bokkieskitten.8023:

Nordic Natedog.4360:

Ynot, you know my mesmer (from when I was on GoM) and you know I roam alone. Several of Yarr know me as well, especially Silent who I talk to all the time. I can speak from first hand experience that there are plenty of roamers on IoJ and many of them can hold their own quite well.

I also share the sentiment of the BUNS and look forward to a match up with GoM. I don’t have the loathing that they share but would like to fight several of my former roamers there.

Man,you know those roamers don’t stand a chance against Angelic… holy heck they don’t. Glad you are on this side, I was terrified to face you. xD

No worries, I’ve always been kind to the BUNS crew, even if it would be on the other side.

I still get a kick out of this pink sylvari thief from Yarr who jumps me from time to time. After that initial hit, he realizes he hasn’t downed me and notices my guild tag. Then it’s PMing back and forth until it’s time to log off. For some reason, Silent can always find me in a crowd. Either that or he’s just blindly targeting mesmers.

Ynot, you know my mesmer (from when I was on GoM) and you know I roam alone. Several of Yarr know me as well, especially Silent who I talk to all the time. I can speak from first hand experience that there are plenty of roamers on IoJ and many of them can hold their own quite well.

I also share the sentiment of the BUNS and look forward to a match up with GoM. I don’t have the loathing that they share but would like to fight several of my former roamers there.

How am I going to deal with all these hordes of DB I come across? I guess I’m going to need a bigger gun.

ActionCat.4162:

Nordic Natedog.4360:

ActionCat.4162:

Banzie.5248:

ActionCat.4162:

spiel.5149:

good fights in Eb TB ING and Os and a few others I am sure.

Indeed, was some great fights. Prior to EBG we were in NSP borderlands caping everything in sight… we didnt have any resistance for the most part and after we took a keep we had a ton of supply so we started building golems… and we took more towers and had more supply…. so we built MOAR GOLEMS!!!! We had so many it was kinda stupid.

Alas.. this is us in Bay, chilling with our golem army.

Frands at ING we love fightin you but pls chill on the numbers some. There were like 25 of us then a bunch of pug rally bait. We weren’t even tagged and they were able to follow us!

Also EA love you guys even if we didn’t run into you solo last night. Admire your choice to continually run on against us regardless If you’ve wiped to us a bunch or are outnumbered.

TB. Thank you for insulting us. We’ve now made you out play things. Good luck.

For the most part in the last 7 weeks we have fought nothing but massive zergs outnumbered 90% of the time. We had a good showing last night, but were so used to fighting outnumbered and having to really kick kitten and work together, when we smash with similar numbered zergs or smaller… they tend to die.. very fast.

kitten you heavily populated servers for making us better players!!! heheh.. Im sure next week well be back to going oh kitten 60+ man zerg… good fights though, a lot of fun!

I like when a fight is good and even, anything could happen and its more fun than lagging to death from a blob of red death… lol

I have to call some BS on this one. 90% of the time in that 7 weeks? You guys were against us twice out of those 7 weeks and we certainly don’t come close to putting up numbers to out number DB. On top of that, one of those weeks was with NSP who has very similar numbers to us, so for the better part of that entire week, you we not ever outmanned. 1/7th is 14% right there.

It also seems that many of your guys can’t/won’t do small fights (15 or less) at all (not talking about your guild). Take today for an example. I spent several hours on your BL while only seeing a few DB. It then took 8 to over power me out of Vale (which was fully upgraded so I have a little sympathy there). Those 8 then went after Briar, which we had done some upgrading (wall, door, and oil) and sieging. They ran away within seconds. It was 3 of us IoJ, nothing more. Next up came a zerg of 40+ (including an omega) led by a charr NNK commander. What a serious waste of man power when it takes 40+ to capture one tower from 3 people.

All is fair in love and war, if you want to take a banhammer and smash a fly with it, why not? When you realize that when it comes to a fight to use any means possible to win and that rules or what you think is right or wrong doesnt matter. People will use any means to win.

Now i cant speak for our entire server but generally when we do a guild run in wvw we go lookin for zergs to fight. Outnumbered or not.

Nothing is fair in life, instead of trying to defend a tower that is doomed, fall back to a secondary tower that they might attack afterwards and prepare it in the time you have to fight back. Win some, lose some, you cannot win every fight, but you can choose which fights to win. Just have to be smart about it!

:)

First, I was on your BL and happened to have 2 other IoJ show up at the tower. There is no place for us to fall back to except our waypoint. Are you saying that it would be best if we just sing songs at our waypoint then? And no you cannot choose which fights to win, you only choose which ones you will participate in. I understand the notion of doing what ever it takes to win, but bringing a bazooka to kill a fly every time is still a complete waste of your resources.

Yes, I love the challenge of fighting out numbered odds. I do it all the time. When it’s not 40 v 3 but closer to a 3-5 times disadvantage (1v4, 2v9, 3v16 kind of thing), you will find me causing havoc in the fight and not hiding in some keep/tower. I view it that if I can get them to turn their focus towards me and off my allies, we have a stronger likelihood of winning the engagement. Obs knows I don’t back down from a fight even when the odds are against me (just as he and many other guys I respect do). I will try to spread out my pursuers, but that’s to make the numbers a little more manageable.

ActionCat.4162:

Banzie.5248:

ActionCat.4162:

spiel.5149:

good fights in Eb TB ING and Os and a few others I am sure.

Indeed, was some great fights. Prior to EBG we were in NSP borderlands caping everything in sight… we didnt have any resistance for the most part and after we took a keep we had a ton of supply so we started building golems… and we took more towers and had more supply…. so we built MOAR GOLEMS!!!! We had so many it was kinda stupid.

Alas.. this is us in Bay, chilling with our golem army.

Frands at ING we love fightin you but pls chill on the numbers some. There were like 25 of us then a bunch of pug rally bait. We weren’t even tagged and they were able to follow us!

Also EA love you guys even if we didn’t run into you solo last night. Admire your choice to continually run on against us regardless If you’ve wiped to us a bunch or are outnumbered.

TB. Thank you for insulting us. We’ve now made you out play things. Good luck.

For the most part in the last 7 weeks we have fought nothing but massive zergs outnumbered 90% of the time. We had a good showing last night, but were so used to fighting outnumbered and having to really kick kitten and work together, when we smash with similar numbered zergs or smaller… they tend to die.. very fast.

kitten you heavily populated servers for making us better players!!! heheh.. Im sure next week well be back to going oh kitten 60+ man zerg… good fights though, a lot of fun!

I like when a fight is good and even, anything could happen and its more fun than lagging to death from a blob of red death… lol

I have to call some BS on this one. 90% of the time in that 7 weeks? You guys were against us twice out of those 7 weeks and we certainly don’t come close to putting up numbers to out number DB. On top of that, one of those weeks was with NSP who has very similar numbers to us, so for the better part of that entire week, you we not ever outmanned. 1/7th is 14% right there.

It also seems that many of your guys can’t/won’t do small fights (15 or less) at all (not talking about your guild). Take today for an example. I spent several hours on your BL while only seeing a few DB. It then took 8 to over power me out of Vale (which was fully upgraded so I have a little sympathy there). Those 8 then went after Briar, which we had done some upgrading (wall, door, and oil) and sieging. They ran away within seconds. It was 3 of us IoJ, nothing more. Next up came a zerg of 40+ (including an omega) led by a charr NNK commander. What a serious waste of man power when it takes 40+ to capture one tower from 3 people.

Laiboch.4380:

Some of us on DB are going to see if we can organize a under 20 upscale zerg to flip all the maps one of these nights.. Should be some fun stuff

We (IoJ) saw something like this earlier today on our BL. 15-20 (mostly uplevels) DB were trying to take our Bay. At first it was me and another mesmer trying to hold our ground. He jumped on the cannon and I ran around causing havoc and getting them in range. Later we had a nice 15 or so vs 6 of us IoJ inside bay after the wall upgrade finished and pinned them in. I had such a blast.

BirdSong.2541:

Sororita.3465:

Devanuze.8734:

Anet heard my cries for moose themed armour.

Now all i need is my moose finisher

TY ANET

what a neat site, Moments from BUNS history go!

Hello old friend

Who invited this guy back.

spiel.5149:

Someone say Beetle Geist ? It’s to early for that ugh and my rank is 570 for no confusion.

but for your four man take of the keep gj guys I approve. I love doing that kinda stuff myself, love it almost as much as i hate Ice wurms. . . . . . .

Ice wurmz you guys hate em right ?

My name isn’t chuck and you can not have my daughter. I hope that dust shrinks both heads.

unknownchaos.1425:

Well , we all know XOXO is a zerg guild. there is no denying it.

since i havent been recording over the last week or so, i did some recording this morning.

I make you my typical zerg morning video.

please enjoy the

Obs song of the day!

you have the XOXO pve queen fee to thank for this. some people actually miss the videos lol.

the 2nd song is one of my favorite. if you have a sub or nice system bang that one out!

Nice to run into you the other day, obsession. I didn’t make the cut into the video though. I still need to remember to change my food when fight you but always a blast when I get the chance.

Got to love waving at a guild group (WP) from FA just looking to gank guys coming to our Astral camp. I wave at them and one tries to pull me over while another looks to stealth gank me. Finally they grow a pair and start to engage (5v1). I dance around them for a while. I even go stealth near the cliff and one takes it upon himself (an Asuran Corporal Engineer) to laugh all the while I’m standing right next to him. Guess he thought I was running.

No roamers? I am often doing nothing more but roaming solo around. Danced around with a engineer earlier today. He was no fun at all. Went like this, I chase to catch up, he tries to dump some quick conditions on me. When that obviously did nothing to me, its back to running for his life, rinse and repeat. I did a few laughs, shrugs, and even went to sleep hoping he’d finally actually do more. He finally just WPed.

If you are going to roam, at least have the guts to play it out. If it goes against you, learn from the experience and try again later.

ToaLux.6478:

Nordic Natedog.4360:

I have to give some props to the WZ char mes commander. You certainly are an annoying bunker mes. I was the asuran pistol thief with Obon tag following in SM (and just outside there) yesterday. My primary is a mesmer too, so I didn’t have that much trouble following you. I’ve been running my newly leveled thief lately since it is fun to do the whole gunslinger thing while giving me a break from mes. Still have to give you the props for being extremely annoying to us GoM.

Yep, that’s Bobo. He’s a definitely one of the best mesmers I know, if not the best
He also has a youtube channel which is well worth a quick look!
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj8Y8XgL9ngYXCh-j_6DHQw/videos

Yeah, I’ve gone toe to toe with him in the past on my mesmer. Probably during our last meeting a few weeks back. We ended up bowing out since neither of us were making much head way. I had forgotten that until you mentioned his name.

I have to give some props to the WZ char mes commander. You certainly are an annoying bunker mes. I was the asuran pistol thief with Obon tag following in SM (and just outside there) yesterday. My primary is a mesmer too, so I didn’t have that much trouble following you. I’ve been running my newly leveled thief lately since it is fun to do the whole gunslinger thing while giving me a break from mes. Still have to give you the props for being extremely annoying to us GoM.

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

Nordic Natedog.4360:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

JKFlipFlop.7123:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

JKFlipFlop.7123:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

JKFlipFlop.7123:

It has been a fun week GoM and ET. I was waiting for this match-up for so long after I switched to NSP, but by the time it came so many of the guilds I had grown with on GoM had left. It was nice to finally test my mettle against ASH/RH/FGJ and of course BS again. Sometimes I wish I was in more coordinated small man groups, but I still had my fair share of good and fun fights.

Now I’ve got my eyes set on fighting either IoJ or SBI. You’re not getting away that easily RISE =p

I don’t think I got to fight you this week.

You fought my necro next to SE camp in your BL. Where all the fireflies are next to the drop down from my spawn.

I’ve fought a few people there over the course of the week.
What does your necro look like?

Also, you might have fought Raithien instead of me. He runs double-pistol and is dressed exactly the same, except he’s an engi.

I def fought a thief with quip. I am dressed in all black human female. Arah legs and shoulders with a hood.

Sounds like me. Sorry I don’t remember that fight.
Send me a party invite next time!

I have to say that I’m loving the gunslinger setup, Taquito. I’ve tweaked it of course. I’m using some celestial armor (chest and pants) as well as the soldiers. I have found it to give me similar survivability but a good deal more punch through crit and crit dmg.

I’ve been thinking about that as well. I started with the Soldier armor and never really strayed from it, but now that I’m a much better player than I was when I first chose my gear, I should probably edge a little more towards damage. I’m also slowly replacing my weapons with the new Assassin stat set.

And with condi being the new flavor of the month, I’m thinking about picking up sword just because of the overwhelming lack of cleanse options available for thieves that don’t stealth. As it stands, I’ve got no shot against condi-spam necros/engis even if I outplay them.

Yeah, I already made my weapon sets both assassins instead of zerkers. I’m currently at near 2.2k armor, 16.5k hp, 67% crit, 105% crit damage with 3.2k attack as my base with food.

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

JKFlipFlop.7123:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

JKFlipFlop.7123:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

JKFlipFlop.7123:

It has been a fun week GoM and ET. I was waiting for this match-up for so long after I switched to NSP, but by the time it came so many of the guilds I had grown with on GoM had left. It was nice to finally test my mettle against ASH/RH/FGJ and of course BS again. Sometimes I wish I was in more coordinated small man groups, but I still had my fair share of good and fun fights.

Now I’ve got my eyes set on fighting either IoJ or SBI. You’re not getting away that easily RISE =p

I don’t think I got to fight you this week.

You fought my necro next to SE camp in your BL. Where all the fireflies are next to the drop down from my spawn.

I’ve fought a few people there over the course of the week.
What does your necro look like?

Also, you might have fought Raithien instead of me. He runs double-pistol and is dressed exactly the same, except he’s an engi.

I def fought a thief with quip. I am dressed in all black human female. Arah legs and shoulders with a hood.

Sounds like me. Sorry I don’t remember that fight.
Send me a party invite next time!

I have to say that I’m loving the gunslinger setup, Taquito. I’ve tweaked it of course. I’m using some celestial armor (chest and pants) as well as the soldiers. I have found it to give me similar survivability but a good deal more punch through crit and crit dmg.

Also, I’m bumbed that I can’t get on for some fight club action this evening. My new laptop finally arrived and am working to get it loaded up with my stuff. I finished most of it but GW2 is still downloading.

moutzaheadin.4029:

This week has been a snoozefest. Can’t wait for a change. Hell ill even take hax bend at this point.

I will say this, the players from gom/et atleast push more then 113113. Which is a step in the right direction.

Bye bye short handed gom.
Bye bye Urinal cake et.

Hope to not see either of you soon.

Sry its just been to slow for me

At least I got in some duels with you though and I hope your thief guildy got enough work against a condition mesmer.

BlazeQ.1095:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

Rob.7624:

Avatar of Belle.9623:

Rob, do you sleep? I see you posting all hours!

Let me see.
Go to work. Play GW2. Shower. Eat. Go to work..

Nope.
Its the nightcrew somewhere in the world.

Go get some sleep, Rob. Those evil doors will return soon and we need our hero to be at full strength when that moment arrives. We’ll take care of fighting actual players for you.

You mean perma-stealth back stab players for him?
Sorry don’t mean to be mean, Just seems like the majority of roamers I have found this week were perma-stealth thieves. I’m sure you don’t main one personally

Taquito doesn’t run stealth. I don’t blame those who are doing the perma-stealth this week. Seems when I’m roaming, I run into a camp and within a few minutes I’m being overrun by one zerg or another.

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

Flerch.4817:

Dear Taquito Bandito,
Let’s do this thing, I ready to die.

Here’s a video recap of our duel:
http://youtu.be/LqQJOr4Rx5k

For serious, though. Gunslinger duels are the most fun thing ever in GW2.

Perhaps I’ll show up to fight club tonight with my level 80 gunslinger too. I’m still working on his gear but I certainly could use the practice on him.

Hukundu.7628:

Colt.9051:

Next match you could be pitted against AR and DR, kick their kitten and STILL lose rank, where we could face DH and IoJ, get our butts kicked, and STILL gain rank, and overtake u in rank. I lol at that logic.

Very true. But given our recent luck, I’m guessing a BG/JQ/ET matchup is in the offing.

And don’t worry too much about PUG morale. A couple of months back, ET basically lost what meager WvW capability we had when most of our commanders decided to move to HoD or elsewhere. It was a low point, but even then we still had some die-hards who held on until we had an infusion of new blood.

Like I said, it all comes around. If GoM is free-falling, it won’t last forever.

I am sure I can speak for Colt, pita spoon, and several others in that I will continue to roll out there to defend and take things as long as I’m in GW. We understand that things aren’t going well for us now but we’ll bite, scratch, and kick even when out numbered greatly.

You use shatters often, but look to pull NPC’s individually. This doesn’t make much sense to me since shatters are our best source of AoE. Also, ether feast builds in strength from our illusions so it would be much better to use your heal first then to shatter rather than the other way around. Just some food for thought.

Varconi.1804:

Jeknar.6184:

Varconi.1804:

titanlectro.5029:

Varconi.1804:

ASH worst guild NA. Not up for discussion at this point just really really bad players all running same tag. I think they must use some system to weed out any good players.

XOXO worst forum warriors NA. Not up for discussion at this point just really really bad trolls all running the same sig. I think they must use some system to weed out any good posters.

Well not sure why I am bothering to respond to this since everyone knows XOXO is elite forum warrior guild with strict recruitment policy.

What about PAXA?

Apparently you missed our last matchup where I demolished PAXA both in game and on forums.

You can’t demolish anything besides a burrito and even then I might have to give the edge to the burrito. :P

Natar.3671:

Brahmus.5180:

Dank did not take part in this cap of bay.

after that capping, this happened

Not really surprising. We already told you we don’t have a morning crew. Congrats I suppose.

We have been asking to have stakitten proc of vulnerability removed and replaced with poison for quite some time. As a condition spec mesmer, I would be thrilled to death if that were to happen. I’d still probably carry one Doom sigil on my secondary set, but it would free up a sigil for my staff (once I have a stack of corruption).

THE Dentist.5960:

Sorry about Bay and Garrison ET, those WP’s had to go, but I felt really bad as I knew we had the numbers on you guys. It was overkill with the 7 omegas but we didn’t have that many when we started, then more came when we got your garrison. Granted it was a completely ninja job but i was glad you guys responded. Was a lot of fun and very, very nice job at Hills no way we were gonna break through that with golems, props to you guys. I guess your entire EB force came to help out in your BL so good job to you guys. Btw, don’t accidentally drop a treb at the gates instead of an AC. My huge embarrassment for the day. GJ to you guys!

You guys messed up my 5-man group fun. We had 4 golems and me porting them around taking all kinds of things on ET bl. We even took advantage of the paper Bay you made. Unfortunately ET took out their anger on us with a full out zerg when we started on Wood tower with those golems.

Of course we just let things die down and came back with an omega and an alpha but ET’s zerg showed back up just after we got inside Dawn Tower. I almost got our Omega out of there but our driver was new to WvW and didn’t get WPed back in time. Oh well, great fun anyways and hopefully a great learning experience for that new player.

dank.3680:

Natronix.9827:

Rob is back at forum warring.

This is lovely

Since when does Os have 75 man zergs.

Why am I on this thread.

Since when does NSP in general have 75 man zergs, or anything close to that – ever..

Quite entertaining hearing GOM complain about NSP having too many people, first for everything I guess.

There have been 2 comments referencing anything close to a complaint on size coming from GoM. One referencing not missing the blobs of NSP. And the other being Pita stating Rod is pointing to 75 killing 30 as an accomplishment. Nice how people continue to fail miserably when it comes to truth on this forum.

In the past we had much greater numbers (and especially coverage) than we currently are fielding. At least as it related to our opponent. HoD plowed over us with constant much greater numbers as well as greater coverage. NSP looks to be doing the same. This isn’t to say that NSP doesn’t have great players and great coordination because they certainly do.

Rob.7624:

Nordic Natedog.4360:

Ok, so you call us out saying we had a 30 man zerg going. Then you are saying it wasn’t a literal 30 guys.

No what I said was that the picture doesnt need to contain your entire maps worth of players. Both razers where set off remember.
Whats really going on here is you say you lost because you had no people.
As shown, you have people.
I say you lost because you bad.

You realize that a single group of players can start both razers? My 4-man roaming party came to Craig after taking back our camps and found razer sitting there working on it solo with his yak. We started up the siege and as soon as we got inside were joined by the group which you had encountered at Sunny. It is possible there were a few other roamers around on the BL, but that was the bulk of all the GoM that were there (the 15 or so at Sunny you took a picture of and my 4 man unit). But hey, let’s not let facts get in the way.

You aren’t seen much of the vets since a lot of us have been rolling alts lately. Especially after rolling last week and needing something to do. With wvw rank being tied to a character, it’s pretty hard to tell whether the one in front of you is a vet or not.

Yes, we have been losing because of lack of people. Our numbers have been down greatly the last few weeks with many of the fair weathers jumping ship after a rough patch. It’s sad really.

Rob.7624:

JamboHammer.4397:

idk but i must be blind cuz i dont see 30 gom there

Colt.9051:

I count around 15-17 ppl in that screenie, barring a few maybe being pets.

Nordic Natedog.4360:

You show a pictures with 15 guys (at most) in it and call it a 30 man zerg?  I was on this morning and we had no where near 30 guys.  

Look at all the literalists.
Next time GoM please all stand in my screenshot and stop running around. k.
Problem solved.

Did you look at our numbers compared to yours?
Seems legit. Outmanned, Yeeeeeeh sure.
-looks at orange swords-

Ok, so you call us out saying we had a 30 man zerg going. Then you are saying it wasn’t a literal 30 guys. Then talk about being outmanned when we were playing the morning with the outmanned buff. Plus your photo clearly shows only about 15 (including the Siege commander and his yak) and you have 5+ (hard to tell when dead guys are on top of each other in the radar) in/around the tower with 4 guys (including you) going to the tower. The rest of your party isn’t there either.

Rob.7624:

Colt.9051:

Rob.7624:

WRECK THE PLACE

Because hitting us with our near-non existent morning crew is an achievement, as the guy in map chat pointed out.

You have a 30man zerg in your bl.

You show a pictures with 15 guys (at most) in it and call it a 30 man zerg? I was on this morning and we had no where near 30 guys.

On a side note, I was part of a 4 man (2 Obon and 2 RISE) roaming group who was retaking our southern border. We decide to hit Lake Tower and at least 20 (more like 30) of you NSP show up. Nice of you to show that much respect for us.

Jesse.4631:

Nordic Natedog.4360:

Jesse, why are you picking on me when I’m running my uplevel thief? Don’t make me get my mesmer next time you Yarr guys decide to farm in our north camp. Was fun trying to poke my nose in there several times.

-.-how was i suppose to know that was you, regardless you headshot spammed me :S it sucked

I kept waving. And if you are going to jump me, yes I am going to headshot you until the cows come home. I’m still learning the ropes of the thief but getting pretty good at it now. It’s going to take quite a bit more practice but hopefully some fight clubs will get me up to speed to where I can hold my own.

Jesse, why are you picking on me when I’m running my uplevel thief? Don’t make me get my mesmer next time you Yarr guys decide to farm in our north camp. Was fun trying to poke my nose in there several times.

Overlord.7394:

Nordic Natedog.4360:

Overlord.7394:

Is it just me or is that warrior Condi build wayyyy OP. For real. SOO much Condi and soooo much survivability. 1vX it does fine as long as there isn’t too many other conditions he has to handle.

I haven’t run across any condition warrior who have done anything more than tickle me. I have run into guys using the new confusion runes, put some stacks on me (plus bleeds), just to have me place them on them and laugh. If you are worried about other heavy condition builds, carry arcane thievery (plus the 20% reduction on manipulations) and a traited torch. At that point, the only condition setups that are much of a problem are massive condition necros who can throw them back at you just as easily and a few engineer setups. For those, you just need to time things right and make sure to utilize your stealth.

You lose so much to do that though. Ya feel?

No, I don’t feel I lose that much. Speccing out to 20/20/30/0/0 is pretty normal setup for a condition mesmer build. This means you would only be losing the traited torch for something else (not much in dom I’m really hurting myself by taking it) and the CD reduction on manipulations (over a few decently helpful traits). I change my 3rd utility on the fly all the time (usually between feedback for large engagements, arcane thievery if I see heavy cond builds being run, and signet of dom for more punch). My other utilities are decoy and blink.

With condition damage at 1500-1850 (depending on my corruption stacks and sig of dom being equipped), I don’t have a terrible time taking down foes outside of some bunker builds and arcane thievery can help greatly there too.

I very rarely carry it myself. I will say it’s pretty annoying when I’m fighting a 1vX situation and one of those guys decides to pop me into moa form. I mean, come on you have a distinct numbers advantage and you make me a bird.

I think he was mad when we were taking AR Garrison at the same time as an AR force was. We (GoM) got inside first and were just finishing capping it when the AR group broke through the inner. At which point AR’s force was split in two (since the gate closed on them) and got wiped fairly quickly. BTW, we had around 15-20 guys plus 5 golems. Your force wasn’t that much smaller but being split made it completely one sided.

colesy.8490:

Nordic Natedog.4360:

colesy.8490:

Right, so the warrior takes 4k, then 2/3-shots the phantasm (so no second burst) while I get a few hits in with the abysmal sword DPS, I can then use off-hand sword block or magic bullet to take some pressure off (block does nice damage too), and then it’s pretty much kite until phantasms come off cooldown since engaging in combat with a warrior chaining stuns is suicidal.

Plus since phantasms are so easy to anticipate, they can block with shield or pop endure pain, completely blanking the burst.

Now I’ve never claimed to be a good player, but against a half-decent warrior (as in, not one of the QQing scrubs on the forum who are too lazy to learn mesmer animations), the odds seem kind of against us. If they see your clones running at them to shatter, they can use a pseudo-invuln, if they see a phantasm begin its burst they can pop another pseudo-invuln. Now I say pseudo, because obviously things like endure pain and shield don’t work on conditions.

There are very very few warriors I have run into who can take me down and those matchups usually have me winning at least 60% of the time and I don’t even run a phantasm build. If you run a solid phantasm build, very few things (especially warriors) even have prayer.

Phantasm builds aren’t even overpowered, they just prey on people who dont pay attention. A warrior who actually pays attention to what you’re doing and is running a stun build makes for one hell of a long fight.

I run a condition build and warriors fights don’t end up lasting that long one way or another for me. Running a phantasm build in a 1v1 situation is like hitting the easy button. You are acting like it takes a 20+ seconds to take out more than 1 phantasm.

One other thing to consider. If you are having trouble against a setup/profession, find some roamers in wvw and ask them for some duels. Most will be happy to do so and they can provide for some great learning experiences.

What I learned long ago (back in the GW1 days) is to know you build inside and out. This includes the most important thing about it, knowing it’s weaknesses. As long as you know what the weaknesses are, you can adjust your play when you are against it or change up your build to help compensate. Sometimes just a tweak in a trinket or two can mean all the difference.

colesy.8490:

Right, so the warrior takes 4k, then 2/3-shots the phantasm (so no second burst) while I get a few hits in with the abysmal sword DPS, I can then use off-hand sword block or magic bullet to take some pressure off (block does nice damage too), and then it’s pretty much kite until phantasms come off cooldown since engaging in combat with a warrior chaining stuns is suicidal.

Plus since phantasms are so easy to anticipate, they can block with shield or pop endure pain, completely blanking the burst.

Now I’ve never claimed to be a good player, but against a half-decent warrior (as in, not one of the QQing scrubs on the forum who are too lazy to learn mesmer animations), the odds seem kind of against us. If they see your clones running at them to shatter, they can use a pseudo-invuln, if they see a phantasm begin its burst they can pop another pseudo-invuln. Now I say pseudo, because obviously things like endure pain and shield don’t work on conditions.

There are very very few warriors I have run into who can take me down and those matchups usually have me winning at least 60% of the time and I don’t even run a phantasm build. If you run a solid phantasm build, very few things (especially warriors) even have prayer.

Overlord.7394:

Is it just me or is that warrior Condi build wayyyy OP. For real. SOO much Condi and soooo much survivability. 1vX it does fine as long as there isn’t too many other conditions he has to handle.

I haven’t run across any condition warrior who have done anything more than tickle me. I have run into guys using the new confusion runes, put some stacks on me (plus bleeds), just to have me place them on them and laugh. If you are worried about other heavy condition builds, carry arcane thievery (plus the 20% reduction on manipulations) and a traited torch. At that point, the only condition setups that are much of a problem are massive condition necros who can throw them back at you just as easily and a few engineer setups. For those, you just need to time things right and make sure to utilize your stealth.

Senjun.8149:

DavyMcB.1603:

It’s kind of ridiculous that I have to go entirely defensive just to counter a skill that has like what 7-8 second CD? Thx for the feedback anyway, I’ll try those strategies.

Not only that but also more than likely the war is healing 400 hp per second. You need to keep your damage output higher than he is healing, while also being sure to avoid his stun and probable 100b burst.

Because for every second your stunned, his health just keeps going up

I have only met about 2 different warriors who could take me down and those are usually ones I win 60+% of the time. They are simply very good warriors. There are a few warriors who spec well in which I end up in a stalemate (seeing as I’m a condition spec and they are running anti-cond foods, runes, etc). We’ve got so many ways to deal with stuns and even use them to our advantage. Only issues I get is when it’s 3+ foes using stuns that I have trouble dealing with them. In fact I have soloed 2 hammer warriors and it wasn’t even a match (albeit that was before some of the new changes).

The issue you will find is that every (and I mean every) build/profession has it’s weaknesses. If you have a setup you really like, I’d suggest just trying to avoid those you are weakest against. The other option is to change your setup/gear and do things like bring null field, arcane thievery, or add runes of melandru and run -cond duration food.

Animus.6453:

Dovgan.8605:

Darek.1836:

HatSimulator.9362:

Darek.1836:

deth needs to get their kitten together and gvg TFH already

who is deth

YOUR kitten WHOOPERS

That would maintain that they get a GvG. Until then, opinions are what they are.

I see you have an Asuran Guardian in SS, wouldn’t happen to be the one that enjoys glitching through tower walls to take towers with his necromancer buddy would it?

Well that’s disappointing to see. C’mon Reich, play fairly. No server wants the negative attention that glitching/cheating brings.

HoD had a few guys doing it on our EB keep constantly. Some were doing it out of fun but others were doing it to destroy siege and/or bring that blasted grub inside our keep making it constantly under attack.