playing a risky squishy build, should be handsomely rewarded as it requires the most skill, and instead it is often outperformed by someone playing a tanky class who makes a ton of mistakes and spams the 1 skill.
Build Wars 2 is good. We noob players have good time too in WvW because of it. Also, the game is rated for 12+ years, and thus GW2 WvW should not be that hard core game.
I find scepter/sword + scepter/torch easier to play than gs + sword. I cap camps in wvw. I play full zerk power and full dire condi with this same set. Shield had longer cooldowns than sword.
Your level scales to 80 in wvw, but you just had bad gear (blue, green?), bad build, and bad combat skill. You will learn that long time wvw players will get ganked easily too, you’re not special in that.
We wvw’ers don’t want upscaled chars to our main zergs. We want lvl 80 with exo/ascended gear, with wvw-meta builds. See ez builds, if still available in web.
Don’t know what is best place to level now, but many have leveled up in EotM.
- Enemy players killed
- Unique enemy players defeated with no allied assistance
- Unique enemy players defeated at 3v1 or worse odds
- Solo keep lord kills
I don’t zerg: I meet 1% of enemies that our zerglings meet and kill.
I also don’t want gank noob players (2v1, 3v1).
I have ganked 1v1 but I call it Build Wars 2.
Do people solo towers at Gold level?
I have skipped tower/keep caps and continued scouting in the map. No pips for me.
I have Acer XC600, Intel HD inside. When disk activity goes up, FPS drops to 4 or lower, and can happen that frame freezes for seconds. I have tried to disable all Windows background processes because they did run at 100% disk activity and freezed Tomb Raider Underworld. Still some mysterious disk activity remains: like disk defragmenter while I was recording music to disk.
GW2 uses disk actively and at 100% speed. I have asked that GW2 could use 50% speed for disk load. Maybe some disk driver can slow down the speed? Dunno.
I have all minimum, and I use standard models. Runs 10-20 FPS with 1900×1080 display. I appreciate view detail over FPS.
When I leave a wvw map, the spot in the map would be reserved for me 60 seconds so that I may return without going to queue. Then I could switch character from thief to a zergling.
Condi is no problem. The problem is that the game is Build Wars 2. Condi builds are top builds, but some power builds are top too: power thief ganks easily because it is excellent build, not because backstab combo requires skill to play. When I started playing power thief, my jaw dropped because it was so easy to make big damage at first days.
I have no interest in checking top tuned builds, so, I’m rarely winner in wvw.
For noob player as me, only option is thief. All other professions are gankable. With thief, when I realize that I’m not winner, I just leave and vanish. So fun, no restart from spawn. And if my thief gets ganked, I don’t feel being a looser.
What happened to Ele as healer in zerg: last I heard they complained about not making damage. No damage, no loot. How many want play defender, or like that?
If anything comes as WvW abilities, add Reset button at the same time.
Edit: Lately I have been guarding ABL NC. My job title “NC Guard”. Nobody else stands there or in any other camps. Only working jobs are those which add more damage abilities. Troll abilities (like reveal) could be fun for brief moment but soon forgotten. If we want more utils, better have them as additional profession skills, and used in builds.
How about this: I have scepter/torch + scepter/sword on mesmer, but scepters share cooldowns; like 1.5 weapon sets. If I would have sc/t + sw/sw, all 10 skills would have independent cooldowns.
Alpine NC must be different. It gets contested if gate guards are attacked. But if enemy does not survive to the camp, objective defender does not trigger.
For keeps with wp I suggest separate “guards are attacked” and “wall/gates are being destroyed” triggers (with 1000 point thing?).
Not another Oasis event. Just no! If DBL would have more players, then the wp shrines would be defended, but I think a new Oasis event attracts 0 players to DBL. You may come to DBL now if you fancy the map that much. Looking toward seeing Spurnshadow, ThomasC, and all roleplayers there.
What choises you have for Audio Host? It is a selector in the toolbar. Enable all toolbars in the menu if the selector is missing. In Windows one has to select “wasapi” but don’t know what is in Mac, or if Mac has an audio router: audio goes to speakers but it also has to go to aux bus (say) from which a recorder can pick it.
GW1 skill manuals can be downloaded from Anet’s ftp site. Youtube has GW1 gameplay videos, and mesmer gameplay looks totally different what we have now.
Visual effects and animations in GW2 looks so much better, but some clever person had to invent them first.
Make HoT skills/traits available for all. WvW vendor with HoT-sigils/runes for all. I don’t have HoT expansion, and I actually need only WvW skills/traits/builds from the expansion.
HoT costs 45 euros. I had to skip recent discount too.
Steam has a lot of user reviews telling about toxic nature of developers. We are all good here with Anet.
But yeah, at some point we were frustated about pew pew rangers; then Anet added ancient seeds to make it even worse. Many other annoying things have been added. Are Anet devs toxic under the hood or not, I don’t know.
Condi mesmer, Chrono/PU, torch + decoy + mass invisibility. Thief is fine too, with shadow refuge and evades.
As a medium skilled player, I have no other roaming options. Invisibility helps to get away. Condi mesmer makes combat more equal.
I have failed to cap camps with power mesmer, but with scepter/torch (only) condi mesmer the camps are easy.
I play vanilla game. I roam nowadays 95% of time because being in a zerg can be tedious and too intense. Home bl always needs roamers to defend and flip things.
Small scale fights raises participation to 100%. If you see 2 to 4 enemy roamers, just go and fight with fellow roamers. Don’t stand on the wall.
I realized one can buy ascended armor from fractal vendors for some gold + this and that. How many fractals must be done for the this and that? Low level fractals, up to lvl 40 maybe.
I stopped crafting ascended time-limited materials because I don’t want PvE grind anymore. Exo armor is ok now (tiers); two asc weapon boxes left for rev after I buy HoT expansion someday.
Target label at upper screen as well obscures the ground targeting. Would be best if ground targeting ignores anything on the screen and only interacts with the 3D world.
Ele with two weapon sets. No attunements. Keys f1-f4 for something else. Weapons skills would be mixed – like what is needed in a pve raid, what is needed in wvw raid. Meteor shower could be f4 because female animation is just beautiful.
Edit: we need new profession because the current ele is awesome for expert players; total garbage for low/medium skilled players – except as meteor shower bot.
Surround sound question: The game sounds clearly surround/directional with 2 speakers. Does 7.1 of headset add anything new or better to the sound? Adds nothing if the game does not actually provide 7.1 channel output?
Health regen in ooc is one of gems in this game. No health potions, lol. So tired to solo games where I have to collect health potions (or ammo for guns).
1. When being asked to defend your tier 3 Keep, you should:
d. Pretend you didn’t see their 75 cries for help and continue to lay siege to a Keep you have no chance of taking.
GH have this kind of commanders. They are from EotM all?!
We defended home hills, we had only 5 vs 20. Did ask help from EB; they had 19+ in zerg. After they capped paper SM, they went directly to try cap T3 Bay in enemy bl; doomed to fail. Could have saved our hills if they had come after SM. As soon as hills had flipped, our zerg came to build catas for recapping hills.
19 of our players were stolen by ignorant commander.
BTW, I have commanded in EotM too. Most people there wants karma train, not to hold a keep like original poster. Know your pugs and what they want – that should be requirement for commander tag. “Me me” commanders are no no. This is team game.
Agree. I have started to learn combat animations, but now I only see static polar bears. Disable ghostly appearances as well; they make harder to see animations.
Shorter name plates should be mandatory. Then players can hide behind pillars and walls without being detected as easily.
Shorter name plate with profession icon and with rank color (silver, gold etc as colors) would be more useful. Many times rank does not tell anything but profession does.
Summary: Team colored dot + guild name + profession icon + rank colored something. Rank color to guild name brackets? (Guild name color unchanged.)
1-Good
2-Destroy all current WvW servers and start fresh
3-Yes
I agree with this. I also would like to select new server for me by examining how many players are finnish players, because when I selected server 2 years ago as a mmo newbie, I had no idea what to select. Luckily the server had few finnish players. German and french players have dedicated servers, but “Gunnar’s Hold”….. I tought it was swedish men server.
The gs pose may be perfect for light female: heavy weapon ready to swing. If you see good pose in other games, please take screenshot. I watched the BD scythe video but it was not clear what was the good pose, or animation.
Character animations in gw2 are so good that they should think twice or more before changing.
This amount of player-work involved, Anet should put up a few achivements related to bot/hacker reporting. And give ascended armor box if you ever succeed to report the underground bot and the teleport bot with their unusable report system.
But you did play thief with 11k single damage to warrior. Most of the players in wvw play something else, and has “problems”.
Damage in wvw is nowadays broadly so high that the “when to revive” is one of the l2p issues. Most of the time reviving is suicide, better continue fighting 1 vs 3 and then die.
