Guild Wars 2

Strider Pj.2193:

I main necro. Meeting up with a Druid is death for me. Likely it’s L2P for me,

Pets were always a crutch until the last several months. Don’t nerf them. They help make Druid a valid and effective roaming class.

Leave it alone.

Yeah, when I played druid I always considered necros easy bags. As long as the druid keeps his distance, there is not much a necro can do.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity

Jumpin Lumpix.6108:

Osu.6307:

I love these "I’m a great wvw player so why oh why do I get kicked for playing a roaming class (ranger, thief, engi, mesmer). You are playing a roaming class. Go ROAM! If you really wanted to zerg, you would play a zerg class. Good commanders will allow crappy guardians into squad and kick amazing rangers, WHICH SHOULD TELL YOU SOMETHING!!!

so much for play the game your way. I will rebut this by saying that I think its funny that anyone would take wvw seriously in 2017 when there are no rewards or anything gained really by getting rank 1 server at the end of the week.

Your rebuttal is meaningless. Most of us who play wvw have been playing since launch, when the “rewards” were 1% of what they are now. We play because we enjoy the game mode. The reward is fun. If you want rewards like loot and gold, go run around in circles in silverwastes with the other zombies.

You say you can’t play the game your way, but what you really want is everyone else to play your way. Zerging is a team sport. Either play by the rules or get cut from the team.

I love these "I’m a great wvw player so why oh why do I get kicked for playing a roaming class (ranger, thief, engi, mesmer). You are playing a roaming class. Go ROAM! If you really wanted to zerg, you would play a zerg class. Good commanders will allow crappy guardians into squad and kick amazing rangers, WHICH SHOULD TELL YOU SOMETHING!!!

It’s not worth using in wvw, yet is still quite effective in pve, so from anet’s perspective I’d say mission accomplished. I stopped using it after the last nerf. I don’t know why anet thought it needed another nerf.

Does that rev in their party not know what pain absorption does?

I would have been nice to see a slight reduction to epi cast time with this change. Now I’ll just have to be a bit more cautious with my epis. Oh well…

Ironically, pve elitism is the strongest of them all.

gebrechen.5643:

Necro gets a buff and the forum drowns in tears.

Can you imagine if rangers got buffed. There would be riots.

ProDecius.2609:

epi is only op when people act like idiots?!?!? kitten you just kitten you

I’m not saying you are an idiot, but whoever was ground zero for that epi that killed you might be. If that idiot was a keep lord, well, then, I am saying you are an idiot.

You are only seeing this from the perspective of someone who took a couple bad epis. Play a condi necro and see for yourself. If you a spend a week as a necro I am pretty confident your opinion about epi changes. Epi is really the only weapon in the game that has a wide range of outcomes. Sure, it is devastating when it is used perfectly under optimal conditions, but it is more than balanced out by all the times it fails completely. Honestly, the only one who should be complaining about epi is that poor Captain Ashym in the urban battleground fractal.

Omg, seriously l2p. Epi is only OP when people act like idiots. The ONLY situations in which an epi is going to really hurt are as follows.

1) You unwisely run to help rez your condi-loaded buddy in down state and get epi’d.
2) Warrior who loves to show off his double endure pain and resistance jumps into the enemy zerg, gets condi-loaded, runs back to the friendly zerg and… splat!
3) Rev spamming pain absorption doesn’t notice how many condis he’s carrying and… splat.

Epi’s are negligible against opponents with half a brain, but awesome against idiots. Don’t be an idiot yourself and stay away from idiots and you’ll be fine.

If conditions are so OP in wvw, why do most people run power builds?

These “pls nerf X because it killed me once” threads would be a lot less frequent and annoying if people actually tried playing the build/class BEFORE complaining on the forums.

Haven’t we explained how rare big epi’s are enough yet.? I often play condi necro and am lucky to get a halfway decent epi off in a battle.
1) condi’s get cleansed often in any zerg that has a rational comp
2) condi’s get resisted most of the time due to the revs spamming resistance
3) necros have almost no stability by themselves so that long-cast time epi gets interrupted more often than not

So, if you are getting hit by huge epis, you are not cleansing, your revs are not giving you resistance, and you are not bothering to interrupt the vulnerable necros. In short, l2p issue.

Has anyone here complaining about condi ever actually played a full condi build on a reaper? Why don’t you try it and come back and tell us all how OP it is. Man, if i had a dollar for every, “I got epi’ed and died so condi needs a nerf” post….

Oh my, I guess I have to respond now since I was attacked in such a pathetic, passive aggressive manner.

I’ve actually pretty much come full circle on the subject of pin-sniping. Continue to run mesmers and rangers and snipe away. Nobody can stop you. Besides, everybody has to find something in this game that they enjoy doing. I understand all you pin-snipers love wvw, but need to find something that is a good fit for your skill set. I’m sure you tried zerging but for various reasons couldn’t make the cut. Maybe you didn’t want to play a front line class, or maybe you got kicked for running full zerk or not staying on tag. I know, all that listening and following orders is HARD! Then maybe you tried your hand at roaming, and lost every 1v1 encounter and said to yourself, “screw this, I didn’t want to roam anyway. Stupid thieves and their stupid stealth!” So now you are left with the omni blob and following whoever on your server tags up. Again, running a frontline class means you will get hit from time to time, and playing a necro is scary because they are slow and can’t run away, and ele requires you to push SO MANY BUTTONS!!!!. so what can you do? Hooray you can pin snipe! Its the perfect playstyle. Stay at maximum range from the enemy, never die because you are the first to run if the battle starts to look bad, and every time you down a commander, you get that warm feeling that you contributed to the team. Way to go! Here’s your participation trophy.

DevilishLyx.2340:

But why should players have to try to negate the obviously unbalaned condis when anet could just balance it out properly! It’s their job to fix it, not ours to try an live with it!

Ever heard of resistance? It blocks ALL condi damage. Condi is more than balanced, unless you are a poor, innocent npc who never bothered anyone.

OMG, imagine the humiliation of attacking someone because you thought they would be an easy kill and then ending up LOSING!

Baldrick.8967:

Your derision of pugs shows your elitist attitude, but you fail to combat one of the easiest tactics to counter. As a guild you should practice full ts without a driver and without a comm badge up, then you don’t have an issue. As this seems too hard for you to grasp, perhaps wvw isn’t for you. Here’s a clue: clear voice comms. Second clue: armor colours or type of backpack. Train to follow one, if first driver dies switch to second driver, then third, etc. Clear chain of command. It’s not hard.

I used to command 60 people in 9 groups in 9 different parts of a map in another game and was built to draw fire and survive whilst commanding via ts, and having seconds that seemlessly took over in the event I was downed.

We do all that and more. Seems like you don’t really know what you are talking about. Changing appearance helps the driver for maybe the first minute of the first fight. After that, enough enemy players have found the commander based on his rank and target him exclusively.

Why am I even responding to you. By your own admission you are a ppt commander who only cares about controlling the map. What do you even know about commanding in a fight? I assume you just run from every fight unless you have a 2 to 1 advantage. After all, that’s the best way to manage your ppt, right. If you really want to contribute, let us know all the best places to put arrow carts.

What the kitten is wrong with you people? Don’t you even want a long, epic battle? Why do you even play this game? You consider it a win if you kill a commander and the enemy zerg retreats? One bag! That’s what you get for killing a commander. Anyone in my guild gets yelled at for sniping because when you driver snipe, the enemy zerg just scatters and nobody gets any bags. How is that a win? That’s boring. And you backline, full zerk puggers with your selfish builds wonder why you get kicked from squad and the commander runs tagless to hide from you. It boggles the mind. If you haven’t yet learned the joy of winning a hard-fought battle without resorting to dirty tricks then you never will. I feel sorry for you that even in a video game with unlimited lives, you still consider a death to equal a loss.

NewAccountWhoThis.6489:

I myself am a pinsniper. I’m not in any pinsnipe guild (I’m not even in a guild).

kinda says it all right there. Assume because you got kicked out of every one you joined.

So since your favorite way to play is gone, you’ve decided to devote your time to ruining everyone else’s experience. Good job.

If wvw needs anything, its a way to keep runes and sigils if players change the stats on their gear. I would love a reward track that gives as a reward a rune frame or holder or something that allows you to detach the rune. Even a single use rune remover like the infusion remover you can buy in fotm would be nice.

Better yet, give an option to be anonymous that cuts both ways. If you choose to disguise your rank and run as simply ____ Server Invader, all enemy players would be anonymous too and appear as _ Server Invader to you. Anyone who wants to advertise their rank would still have the option, but only to those who also want to advertise. It just makes sense, really. How can you tell someone’s rank just by looking at them. It’s not like we wear uniforms with ranks sewn on our collars.

As an added bonus, not showing rank should improve lag a little. I recall elder scrolls online did not feature enemy nameplates at launch as a way to improve lag. After all, its just another piece of information that needs to be processed.

I know you can never completely do away with pin-sniping. The driver is always in front, and usually a guard, so it is pretty easy to figure it out by deductive reasoning. I’m just trying to make it less obvious.

Anet created this problem by changing stability. Least they can do is try to mitigate the damage.

Your post is a little confusing so could you please clarify. Are you talking about only being able to move from NA to EU servers and vice versa? I hope so. If not, think how badly this would be abused. Free accounts were bad enough. Now you are making it even easier for someone to jump on his toon on the enemy server and report back to his primary server what is happening. Didn’t the neckbeards who log on alts and waste supply in enemy keeps teach us anything.

Anet, can you let give players the option to run anonymous in wvw to avoid this annoying tactic that is destroying the game mode. Driver sniping has gotten completely out of hand. Wvw is no longer zerg v zerg. It’s become zerg v driver. As soon a driver gets in range of the enemy, he gets corrupted, CC’ed, pulled, etc. by every one in range. So, what could have been a fun battle, turns into a commander getting killed and his zerg scatters and waits for him to run back. Basically no fun, and no bags, for anyone.

Wouldn’t it make much more sense for wvw players to run anonymous? By anonymous, I mean when you target an enemy player, instead of a detailed headshot and rank, you see no facial detail and a rankless label like “Maguuma Invader.” At least give us the option to toggle on or off what information we want displayed to the enemy.

Aeolus.3615:

I would love to see more structure claimed by Anet, and preferable if they stay defending them :}.

I can see why they don’t run with the anet tag up. They probably get sick of having their corpse buried in siege.

Trajan.4953:

I suggest make the oasis a completely flat surface. No funky terrain, no trees, no cliffs or Ewok homes, just a flat open plain.

Flame away:)

I’ve been saying this from day 1. The whole oasis is a beautiful waste. Without that skyhammer or whatever event that was removed due to lag issues, the entire purpose of the area is gone. I’d love to see it replaced with a lake of glass (y’know, cuz it got reeeeeeally hot one day and melted the sand) or gently rolling sand dunes.
#Pavetheoasis

There is nothing OP about epi. The only time you will be killed by an epi is if you stand too close to a condi-loaded cannon or npc. If you get 100 bleed stacks from the smc lord and insta-down, frankly it is your own fault for getting too close to him. Due to its long cast time, the majority of my epi’s either get interrupted or miss because the target moved out of range. Of those that due hit, probably half hit a target that got cleansed while I was casting, so nothing gets actually gets spread. Sure, epi is great in pve, but in wvw it is mediocre at best.

Dawdler.8521:

Did I miss any? I am somewhat unsure of the reach from top of SM. This would be great fun I’m sure.

ABL SE tower (from hills south treb spot)
ABL SW tower (possibly, from the arena to the north)
ABL NE and NW tower (easily, from Citadel)

I don’t know. I guess when anet sees 75% of the players in wvw are on guards, they feel a nerf is in order.

Not another “anything that killed me is OP” rant…

RodOfDeath.5247:

I was against this till I experienced it today. 20 reapers in JQ’s zerg all using epidemic utility. Hits like a mac truck and is very effective when used right. I can see why players are disliking it.

Well, you can always say some skill or ability is OP when 20 enemies spam the same thing. If 20 eles hit you with meteor storm at the same time, would that be OP? Granted this example shows how a large, coordinated group can skillfully use an ability that has the potential for damage going parabolic, but its still kind of a gimic, and is therefore easily countered. There are usually enough revs that can spam pain absorption that this kind of uber epi bomb would only work once.

If you are zerging, tell your revs to spam pain absorption if you are dying to epi bombs.

I agree that epi is OP, but in pve, not wvw.

Poison trails is by far a more painful instability than social awkwardness. I suggest you avoid level 80 – 90 fractals.

Without any detail, it’s really difficult for me to understand the OP’s problem. I haven’t noticed any real difference in fractal difficulty. Other than the lich form nerf adding a minute to every fractal, its pretty much business as usual.

Agree with you on #2. Sure would be nice to sell or swap potions. I would love the option to sell ascended rings and salvage tools for fractal relics. The more you do fractals, the more worthless these rewards become.

My frac RNG is still crap, but anet made up for it by giving me a Phospholuminescent Infusion in a ToT bag. Selling for 1850g on the TP. Think I’ll leave that in my bank for a while.

Finally! Ascended chest on my 3rd daily frac on the 67th day.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

People who fractal all the time have far too many research pages.

Incorrect in my case. I do fractals daily and never get a single page because I only do T4. Now that research pages are actually valuable in that they are needed to buy ascended chests, pages should be awarded for the same fractal in each tier. Even though I could use a couple more pages to be able to buy a chest, no way am I going to go do a T1. Screw that!

I main a warr in fractals, and this boss is primarily the reason I stopped doing the Saturday Night Fever Frac (so named because the final boss fight looks like it is fought on a 70’s disco dance floor). The mechanics really force you to go ranged to survive, and as a warr, I hate dusting off my ranged weapons. Seriously though, one minor change would make this frac much more enjoyable – make the frequency between the dance floor change longer. Currently, the squares go from safe to deadly every 2 seconds (or at least it feels like 2 seconds). Changing the interval to 5 seconds or greater would allow us to enjoy the fight more and spend less time staring at our feet.

I don’t really need the ascended chests to drop. I have spares in my bank if I need them. I am more just shocked and amazed that my luck is this bad. Btw, I haven’t ever had a precursor drop either.

Statistically speaking, as far as ascended chest drop frequency is concerned, I have got to be the biggest outlier there is. Currently going on 2 months without an ascended chest. That must be at least 3 standard deviations from the mean. Tbh, in despair I now usually only do the “fast” fractals like aquatic, molten boss, volcanic, solid ocean, etc. which means I probably average a little over 1 fractal per day. But still, 60 fractals without a drop? Whatever I did to anger anet, I am deeply sorry, and hope that some day I can be removed from the naughty list.

Regards,
Osu, worst RNG NA

I wish anet had kept the search and rescue druid shout at 1200, instead of nerfing it to 600(?). That ability alone made a druid or 2 invaluable to a zerg.

Rudeness in pvp? Inconceivable!

Necros are most dangerous when they are not pressured. If you are not focusing enemy necros early and often, you will regret it.

I’ve suggested before to remove all the jungle from the center of the map and fill it in with rolling desert dunes with minimal vegetation. It would make it an ideal place for GvG fights. Also, create a world boss like the fire elemental, karka queen, etc. that spawns there on a set schedule. That will bring in lots of pve players (for us to kill, hehe).

I do less fractals these days, probably average about 1 per day. I haven’t gotten an ascended chest in over a month. However, I got 3 golden skins. RNG is a kitten.

Thelgar.7214:

None of that has anything to with comps. Nice job lining up three strawmen in the open field. Maybe you can knock them down with your open field ACs…

Enjoy t4.

Being able to get 60 puggers on your tag does not make you a good commander. Being able to roll over 30-man guild groups with your 60 puggers, also does not make you a good commander. Would you consider dropping open field ACs when the enemy comes in view to be “good commanding.”

Tifa.6473:

alain.1659:

Tifa.6473:

Osu.6307:

Anyone who mains ranger in wvw and considers themselves “good” at zerging, should try playing a real wvw class (GREN) and see what they have been missing. If you are good on a ranger, you’ll probably be great on an ele or necro.

I’m guessing you play warrior or guardian. Spam 111111. Alot of skill needed lol.

But as a ranger player this guy is right. I have switched to ele after ranger/druid became something dislikeable. And now there are zergs and comms inviting me to their guilds, havocs offering to hang together. My life became so much easier. Now I will try a revenant and see if it becomes better.

You shouldn’t have to change your class that you love to play for a pug commander. The only reason why you would run g,r,e or n is if your in a gvg group. It sounds like you need to change to a better server where the pug commaders let you run whatever class you want. It’s only guild group commanders that ask you to run certain classes. Rangers also give shared precision so bonus.

You don’t have to switch classes for anyone. Play your stupid ranger for all I care. Any fool with a tag can lead an angry mob. Just don’t whine when decent commanders who care about composition kick you for not playing a real class.

I’ll see your 150 precision and raise you spammable rite of the great dwarf and resistance.