Guild Wars 2

Auvili.9501:

Ok i can understand why they did this change to make more people do WvW. However to force people to play a game type they hate just to make a legendary is not good.
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Problem is, I hate PvE, and wish I could only do PvP and WvW. But I have to PvE for almost anything I want in game so, I guess turnabout is fair play?

DeadlySynz.3471:

WvW is not the place for roaming/small fights etc.. Those you encounter by themselves or in 2’s are probably running to their group. Expect them to either run from you or be no contest.

As others have said, EoTM or sPvP is the place for that.

More nonsense. If I can run around solo and intercept that help, those reinforcements, then I am doing a job to help my team.
There you go.
If I run into another skilled player and we duke it out, well, all the more fun then.

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

I roam all the time but that doesn’t mean I’m looking for a fight. I can be far more effective by making making certain no yaks or supply are available to the bad guys, while our zerg opens a can of relentless on a keep.

OK I gotta give my 2 cents about these kind of posts. If you zone into WvW, you are looking for a fight. If you’re killing my servers yaks, you are looking for a fight cause someone will hunt you down, me included. Same with supply camps etc. All of that is looking for a fight.
Stop this “I run around in wvw but don’t want to fight” silliness. Thanks.

Ashandar.2570:

you can only do the achievements on the second run for each character.

Oooooooooooooooh no wonder :/

Hmm interesting. A hint of things to come…

Becka funny you say that, I took a few months off and got 3 ascended drops within a week.

On another note, I just read a thread where half the commenters never bothered to read the OP, rather they just reacted to the title. Is this FB or something?

Huh I got through it with my ranger. It was challenging to be sure but all I did was talk to Canach, then go through and set each bomb/corpse thing, then agro the wolves and drag them into the bombs each time. When I got to Caithe, I hoped up on the rocks out of mob reach and sniped everything dead with my longbow. Caithe and I rezzed all the dead party members.
Made my way up to the lookout, which was the easiest part. Then comes the final attack during which I was downed 3 times but managed to rally off almost dead mobs each time. Then some darth vader head helicopter eventually showed up and saved my rear.
I don’t really have any secrets other than don’t let those mobs hit you much, they hit hard.

My favorite move is when they punt a downed player away from me half way though a spike….

Once upon a time, Mesmer was strong enough that traiting in PU was laughed off the forums as being too kitten . How far we’ve fallen.

Somewhere, somehow, some self proclaimed server leaders decided to buy guilds, to form alliances with enemy servers, and other such nonsense.

This is clearly an artifact of this seasons idea and imo has somewhat ruined wvw for a decent majority of players. These players are the ones who go to work all day, raise a family, then want to just log in at the end of a long day and have some good, fun, competition to enjoy. I bet this is a vast majority of the player base.

What do we get instead?
We log into a map where either we’re dominating or being dominated, that the only thing to do is maybe find a karma train or roam hoping to find a 1v1. Constant yelling in map chat about who to attack or not attack, who we’re in a truce with….

To self proclaimed leaders, your interests don’t reflect most of the player base. To Anet, please, no more seasons until something can be done about putting so much power in the hands of a vocal few.

Thanks Mystic,

Yep I did go through all of those steps. I even went ahead and got a 2nd recipe book, selected Zojja’s, and the resulting recipe says I’ve already learned it.

I do see the ascended recipes for bow, pistol, etc that I’ve learned. I will try that selector thing and report back in a minute.

ETA: I checked the selector, and ascended was selected. In fact I deselected everything but ascended jsut to narrow down my list and still, no Zojja inscription. Like I said, the Zojja bows etc. and other ascended things show up fine.

EDIT: Fixed. Relogging again made it show up. Strange but all good now, thanks!

I’m probably going to /facepalm when I hear the answer but…

I bought a recipe for Zojja’s inscription, then learned it. I got the little “flash” and everything. But now I go to my crafting station and look trough the recipies (production tab) and no where is the inscription listed.

Where did it go, what am I missing?

If megaservers made paying for a transfer obsolete, then I argue that it made transferring obsolete as well.
Eliminate transfers. In fact revert transfers for the last, oh, 6 months, and get rid of the bandwagon problem.
Say NO to transfers!

Don’t worry warriors are getting a nerf in their traits. For a preview they are now reduced to
IX Target mesmer, mesmer dies instantly.
XIII Spam 1, kill everything in a 40 foot radius.
VII Run away from everything with impunity unless you outnumber your opponent 3-1 then actually turn and fight. (oh wait, they already have this one)
Yadda yadda.

Bankai, pretty sick man! That staff is one of my favorites. I’ll give an 8.5 because it’s gruesome but a few color choices aren’t quite there for me.

Here’s mine, going for the New Orleans shaman, witch doctor look.

Sweet. /bump

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Gully.7358:

Oh? Haven’t noticed a single thing. Then again, I’m too busy farming bags infront of the enemy spawn.

As long as you outnumber said enemy 3-1 at least, otherwise you BG run.

Oh brave sir robin.

Don’t forget there are few of us old timers here to remember EC tunnels, trading gear by actually talking to people. No auction houses, no zipping around the map. I remember when it was an adventure just to get to the zone you wanted to be at.
It’s a new generation, and the market has to cater to a new kind of customer. People want things easy these days, just look at the complaints around here and this is one of the easiest games I’ve ever played.
For me, it leads to boredom.

Phoenixfudge.5290:

There are plenty of ways to counter the perma-stealth meta if you know how it works.

Yes perma-stealth is over the top and I’m glad its getting nerfed next patch but don’t act like a d/p theif can just faceroll everyone. There are ways to counter it.

Oh and yes this a l2p issue.

Which is not what the OP was talking about at all. He was discussing the idea that perma stealth gives them a clean getaway from fights 100% of the time. No mention was made of theifs being able to faceroll anyone.

Oh and yes, this is a learn to read issue.

So everyone it talking like this already happened but the dates are next weekend? I’m confused.

DO it! I’m in. /15 char

Sounds like fun!

I started having this problem in a win7 64 bit desktop moderate gaming rig after the last patch also. I mostly wvw and that’s when I have the problem. It might be a half hour in, or 3 hours in but my computer just shuts off, no reboot or anything. Everything else runs fine, even other games. I’ve cleaned everything up and did a fresh install of gw2 and it hasn’t fixed it.

IGN: none
Playstyle: WvW and PvP
Server: Jade Quarry
Role: Any, whatever needs done
Hours: evenings or late nights, pacific time

Yes This ascended garbage is a kick in the kitten to anyone who doesn’t PVE for a living. And those of us who have multiple alts, and multiple builds per alt, are really left out to hang.

All I have to say is thank you TC and FA for being a whole lot classier bunch of people than the other servers we’ve (JQ) been up against the last few months. It’s a fun time out there!

GSSBlunaspike.4153:

Mace is only viable in wvw/pvp against complete noobs that haven’t learned what their dodge key is. Anything will work in pve, but don’t run that crap in pvp/wvw and then complain about it.

Opinionated much? I run mace/shield in WvW on my solo roaming guardian and do just fine. I rely on either GS or Hammer as primary, but when it’s 1vX a swap to mace/sheild gives me the defense I need to take on being outnumbered and win.

If you’re running around WvW trying to use mace as a primary attack, then I agree with GSS….but for defense it’s outstanding, esp with some cleric gear.

I think the perception of necro’s being OP is that there are so many of them running around in WvW and PvP right now. Players get ping-ponged around by numerous fears and get melted by conditions because marks are everywhere.

There are perhaps a few things that were slightly over boosted. But in true anet form (look at rangers) things will likely be changed drastically I fear (pun intended).

Envy.1679:

Terrahero.9358:

Envy.1679:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Stealth_Disruptor_Trap

fixed

Because countering a thief should totally cost 15 badges, 10 supply, exposing yourself for 4 seconds and praying to all the higher powers he actually triggers it.

Just so he then has to run away, and you can pat yourself on the back because there is no way those 15badges and 10 supply couldve been better spend….

the thing is countering a thief is completely voluntary. youre not winning any keeps and towers by roaming alone and fighting thieves. .youre the one who wants to go fight thieves in wvw. if youre off fighting thieves then you have no right to complain about needing to use your supply for something thats actually useful.

Wow way to have no logic at all…you must play a thief.

So you’re saying is that if I just zone in and I want to catch up with my zerg, I just have to deal with three thieves laying in wait, perma stealthed, for my solo self to come running by, insta-gibbing me? I have no right to complain because I am not winning any keeps at that moment?
How about when a full group or two can’t kill one thief? I mean, is your point that thieves are the only ones who should fairly be allowed to run solo and live…with insane survivability and get-away skills?
I could go on but I won’t. Your point is full of holes and self serving.

Thanks guys. Yep the combat log showed exactly 10 pistol whip hits for around 1800 damage per hit. I appreciate the input.

I think there are those situational things with thieves that are just near impossible to counter.

Hey guys, I don’t play a thief, it’s just not my style so I had to come by here and ask this.

I feel like, as time goes on, I’ve gotten a handle a bit on how to fight a thief 1v1 in WvW. But something happened the other day that I haven’t seen before so I wanted to ask here is this even normally possible? If so I need to learn a counter.

My question is, is it usually possible to pistol whip someone 10 times in a row within a second or two? I mean super rapid fire.

Sometimes a thief catches me off guard and I die quickly, as it should be. But I was ready for this fight, all my cooldowns were ready, I set myself up…etc…

He ran up to me and ::ping ping ping ping" hit me with 10 pistol whips in about a second and I was dead.

Doable? It’s new to me. IF this is legit more of you might want to start doing it lol.

Thanks guys, for the help! I know you might not want to offer help to a counter to your class, but this really caught me by surprise.

Norse

Andele.1306:

Robert Hrouda.1327:

We made sure to allow enough achievements so that if folks who didn’t want to do PvP or jump puzzles would still be able to get the full meta achievement completed, and get the backslot items (we did that for the sample collection as well, only requiring 10 of the 11 samples to complete the achievement since one of them is more difficult to get to than others)
Everyone likes different things, so we try to make a little something for everyone. Its okay not to like something, just don’t do it. There’s still plenty of stuff on the island to do, and more to come in the weeks ahead.

Next time remember to throw the crap toss and other pvp minigame achivements that take insanity, achivement whoring and brain damage to finish just to require only 2 (as in like the wintersday pvp that a zombie monkey that is missing half his body could get in half a hour of fuznies pvp) or put them in their own little place that noone cares about like keg brawl. Every kind of pvp achivement has nothing to do with the living story and/or pve, so they shouldnt mix even if the pvp is themed after whats going on in Tyria.

So you quote a dev, who states that they try to put something in for everybody, then you proceed to bash the puppy out of anyone who many enjoy different content than you do. Not to mention your whole argument is full of generalizations and logical fallacies.

/sigh this is the kind of ego filled dogmatic thinking that keeps the world in the sorry state it’s in.

Nice job once again bro. I always enjoy your vids

Ethics.4519:

BioFringe.7945:

So just to get this straight…

Everyone with 1 character has to pretty much do the same amount of work if they want to equip that 1 character to its fullest.

Someone with 4 characters has to do 4x the work and there’s supposed to be something wrong with this?

I’d love to only have to pay for 1 oil change as opposed to 1 for each of my cars. That would be wonderful. Let’s apply this logic to everything else in life and then everyone will be equal and happy.

No, it’s not the amount of the work, it’s the time-gating factor. If I played 12 hours a day and you played 1 hour a day, we would both gear one toon equally assuming we did daily and monthly. The extra 11 hours a day I would play don’t help me get ascended earrings or ammy for my other 3 toons.

In your situation, it would be like saying you can only get 1 oil change every 2 months. That might be fine if you have 1 car, but if you drive all 4 equally, you shouldn’t have to go 6 months without an oil change.

And this is exactly what Anet is trying to avoid, having the guy with nothing better to do than play a game all day be more powerful than the casual player.

GW2 is aimed at the casual player. This is the easiest game I have ever played as far as time to max level and time to get outfitted in good gear and able to compete or keep up. I’m rather surprised that people think that one thing in this game may just take some time, is a problem. Why do so many want things now now now?

Yeah you know, I play a ranger ( really wanted it to be my main) as well as other classes. I can tell you that in WvW or PvP my mesmer never fears a ranger. The other day there was one ranger that owned the heck out of me but he/she was a very skilled player, whereas I view myself somewhere in the middle skill wise.

When I play my ranger in PvP I have to work a LOT harder to get a kill or defend a point than I do when I’m on my mesmer. I really don’t see any ranger build as being anywhere near OP. 19 times out of 20 when I see a ranger I drool, anticipating an easy kill.

I bet all the free players this weekend are super impressed……

Never mind, found them.

Canach and Inspector Ellen Kiel disappeared from Grand Piazza in Lions Arch. I thought phase one was extended to midnight tonight?

Way to be myopic OP.

Somehow dodging theifs or warriors with their 12K plus damage hits and comparing that with dodging my formerly 3K hit (now 1200) from iBerserker is not reasonable. If you want to call it as us “being on par with every other class” then my berserker ought to hit for 12k. Then make it dodgable. Ok ok, drop my berserker damage to 10k to compensate for GS auto attack.

I used to see 3000 damage with iberserker, now I am around 1400, with an occasional hit in the 4000 range. Something changed for sure.

Not to mention that without berserker I can hit nothing on walls, with the GS auto attack never having “line of sight”.

Really people complain about this? Tossing a zerk up on a wall is an annoyance at best. And if people can’t figure out that they should get out of the way or kill the thing during the HUGE delays between attacks, they might want to question their strategy.

When I am the one up on a wall, I’m much more likely to be bugged by all the aoe from Ele’s, Necro’s and ranger volleys. Zerkers are rare but when they show up, I kill it. /shrug.

Probably those burst glass cannon theives complaining about it :P

I find the female Norn voice to be a refreshing change from the wussy anime/asian kind of thing so popular these days. And as pointed out it’s appropriate for the “biology” of a norn.

I’m rather tired of tPvP people thinking the entire game ought to be balanced around their particular kind of play. You happen to play the one area where mesmer does shine a bit. Anet needs to throw something out to the PvE and WvW folks before any more nerfs happen. Reference Ayan’s post above.

Ryuujin stop making sense. Everyone knows that the entire game, and therefore every single players experience, ought to be based around the l33t tPvP side of the game…even thought they are a vast minority of the population.

They are, after all, the best of the best, and deserve extra special consideration.