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Precisely! This game fosters more of the play what you like, not what is cookie cutter, as I mentioned. Excluding, of course, sPvP.
I love the “I have a secret build” posts. There’s no such thing. I guarantee dozens of people across the servers ran every build ever posted before it was ever named by the community. What really makes those builds fun is the videos of the skilled players running them.
Engi has a lot of great builds for WvW.
It’s true that everything has been done in some capacity, and yeah what will typically work best will be discovered and labeled cookie cutter. What I think is cool, is that while there might be a cookie cutter “best” spec(s) to run, breaking away from said build won’t necessarily render you useless. Specifically in WvW, IE running HGH p/p ikittenerg is not as effective as kits or gadgets. Other games essentially require you to run whatever is “best” or not even be able to function in casual settings, while in GW2 I can run a build that I find more fun and not be completely useless.
Disclaimer: For obvious reasons, this train of thought does not apply to sPvP. You’ll either want something cookie cutter, or something that fits your group’s comp more than anything else.
Ponder, why Carrion over Rabid?
I like having the power, honestly. Precision would be nice, and I /have/ been toying with the idea of a FT build that relies heavily on precision/crit % + on-crit procs but that is still a work in progress. :S
Plus, I already had a full exotic/ascended carrion set from when I was running Mask’s p/p HGH build, and I’m a broke white boy.
Yeah our bad for making it interesting. Guess we should just hold hands instead. Because wvwvw is all about “respect”.
Respect doesn’t equate to not fighting. You don’t have to be a kitten to be competitive.
JQ had 60+ SoR had 60+ BG ddin’t even have 40 ya perfect sense attack blue that at that time was 40ppt. Then you look at the map JQ was Green, SoR was Red, EBG was all Green/Red perfect sense for 160 players to go after 1 blue keep? Doesn’t matter, but to the players that come here and are saying there isn’t coop going really are amazing me.
JQ these days dominates the #1 position in Tier 1 “last week excluded of course”. Not only did BG beat us last week, many ppl from BG disrespected our server more than normal on the forums and by guesting to our server to troll. JQ as a server has never really been that way to others. We are making sure BG are paid back for the disrespect in these cases. Though it was only a select several that were this way. Their actions represent their server and their server will pay the price for it.
This. I think BG has a bit of a poor reputation because of incidents in the past, and maybe even current behavior. It’s unfortunate that your server’s community as a whole is affected. So when you guys get a little bit of dirt on your face, it makes razzing you all that much sweeter.
JQ had 60+ SoR had 60+ BG ddin’t even have 40 ya perfect sense attack blue that at that time was 40ppt. Then you look at the map JQ was Green, SoR was Red, EBG was all Green/Red perfect sense for 160 players to go after 1 blue keep? Doesn’t matter, but to the players that come here and are saying there isn’t coop going really are amazing me.
It does make perfect sense – stir the hornet’s nest with a huge zerg, or go for the garrison that will likely give us little to no resistance and still reward us with bags, karma, exp, wxp and ppt. Gee, I can’t make up my mind.
In all fairness, we went into that keep expecting one side to wipe the other, and we’d just kill the survivor after claiming a relatively easily taken garrison. We didn’t expect JQ to have so many there though, so it didn’t really work out so well for us. :P
This 2v1 crap is getting old now. It always stems from EB. Well loud vocal minority on BG, you’re blue, and it sucks in EB. You have the worst keep, poorly placed towers and several inroads for the other 2 teams into your side of the map.
On top of all that you beat JQ one week. You think you can poke the giant in the rear and get away clean? So yeah now you’re a threat to them and they’re going to focus you, HARD. SoR is currently in 2nd, we know we don’t have the coverage JQ has, we’ll fight them the whole time, but BG’s going to be the focus from us as well. So there you go, you get 2v1, next month something may happen and JQ is 2v1 from their perspective for 3 weeks. Or SoR feels they are being 2v1 on every map. And you know what? we are all right, every team is being 2v1’d, every match, all the time.
Stop it, you’re making too much sense.
Who denied it? We see BG and JQ fighting at a spot that we’re also interested in capping, and wtf are we supposed to do? Let you kitten honor duel and then /bow before we engage? It was fortuitous for us that JQ had you blocked off at spawn. JQ knew they had you beat with their zerg, and knew they could easily take Garrison back from us – it made perfect sense to both JQ and SoR for JQ to kill you while we cleared up in the lord room.
P/P with Med Kit, Elixir S, Flamethrower, Tool Kit and Reaper of Grenth – 0/30/0/20/20 with full carrion gear. This build has been working beautifully in the zergfest that is T1. So many bags! :O
I think he’s saying that currently, turret engineers are still kind of a joke.
I for one am very much enjoying this patch. The removal of culling has been great. Its nice to see each server adapt to being able to see each other and the new movements that have come along with it.
Spent a little time in EB last night and came across this!
This screenshot is gold.
Now that culling is off.. JQ never fights BG in open field.. lmao
I have fought BG in open field many times this week. That being said. You do know towers and keeps exist to defend from right? Running in open field all day does not win in WvW as I am sure you can see at the moment
I’ve noticed that a few choice BG guilds are pretty impatient when it comes to siege/defense. :P
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How about some medium armor that doesn’t make me look like a ninja? I feel like so much of the medium armor is geared towards thieves – the only engineer like armor I’ve seen so far is the SE set.
I am never paying to gamble wit the Black Lion Chests ever again. I would have payed for gems to just buy the skins outright – the BLCs are awful.
Congrats JQ for maintaining first place by being the lead server in a two server team. I solute you for your individual servers skill in Wv3. Good job manning up to your loss last week by showing such excellent strategy! =) Go “Jade Rall.” Cheer
You seem a little mad you do realize that SoR hit us just as much as you guys. Thing is our stuff wasn’t paper when they hit it. We capitalized on your guys dead periods and you guys struggled to do so this is the result.
So Sor is in the water only attacking our people… JQ is on the hill, only attacking our people… yep sure your point is totally proven. Btw, this is directly outside our spawn.
You forgot to mention that we were emoting back and forth, further proving your theories of a cross server alliance.
Congrats JQ for maintaining first place by being the lead server in a two server team. I solute you for your individual servers skill in Wv3. Good job manning up to your loss last week by showing such excellent strategy! =) Go “Jade Rall.” Cheer
nomnomnom, the feels are so delicious!
For the record, I think “Sanctum of Jade” rolls off of the tongue a little better.
Testing out some things, and I’m noticing that the only turret detonate that will trigger area healing inside of Regenerating Mist’s healing field is Healing Turret’s. Rifle, Net, Thumper and Rocket detonate won’t work for me – anyone else notice this as well?
If I were to try this build in WvW, should I focus on P/T/V gear? Or is missing the zerker’s gear going to nerf my damage too much?
I find it funny that each server accuses the other two of working together. All three servers think that of one another when most of the time, it just behooves one server to let the other two duke it out while they take points or sweep in and after a ZvZ and finish off the survivors.
Also, if you’re in the lead, you can expect to be more of a target for the other two servers. That’s the nature of a 3 faction game – get over it.
What an exciting week it’s been! All three servers played very well, and I look forward to doing it again next week.
It’s unfortunate that the good players/guilds on Blackgate are subjected to the poor reputation that comes from the repeated underhanded tactics we’ve seen. BG would have done well, regardless of the stupid rams in garrison – but I fear that recognition will be overshadowed by cries of unfair play.
haha * blush* Clipboard fail.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqal0pyXX7SrF17IxoCcG0DAX37KSRlbMA;TsAg1Cqocy4kwJrTOnkONw4gx0CA
clicking the link doesn’t work, but if you copy and paste it into your address bar, it works just fine.
I’ve been playing with the flamethrower for a bit in sPvP and it’s working out quite a bit better than I expected. What I have focused on is a steady stream of crits and procs. I’ll be able to amass a set of armor/runes by tonight to try this out in WvW and would love any input from people who have run similar builds or have better ideas on how to put this together.
The Build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqal0pyXX7SrF17IxoCcG0DAX37KSRlbMA;TsAg1Cqocy4kwJrTOnkONw4gx0CA
Goggles and Goggle toolbelt skill allow me to start a fight with fury, and 10 stacks of vuln on the enemy. I’ll hit them with a Static Shot + Blowtorch before switching over to FT. At this point, most classes are burned to a crisp fairly quickly. The aoe damage, and vuln/bleed/burn stacking seems to chew up thieves in particular. So far, warriors have been the biggest challenge, but FT3 and FT5 help significantly in those fights.
Gear: I use p/p, mostly for Glue Shot, Blowtorch and then Poison Volley to mess up healing. This has only been tested in sPvP, I will try this out with the Power/Precision/Cond.Dmg set from CoF (somehow, the graphic feels appropriate).
The sigils I have equipped are Blood, and Fire – proccing Lifesteal and an AOE flamebast respectively. It might work better to run Vuln procs instead of Fire. For runes, I originally played with Strength, and while the extra dmg was nice, I felt like survivability was lacking. I will try Vampirism tonight, as it adds 10 more power, the life steal potential and the mist form on 10% hp. Eagle runes are intriguing as well. Finally, for accessories I am looking at going mostly Rampagers, but a mix with Valkyrie might work better for the extra vitality, and the power/crit damage couldn’t hurt.
After looking at food, I feel like Omnomberry Pie might be a good fit. Unfortunately I’m unable to really test it in sPvP so we’ll have to see how well it works out later. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Omnomberry_Pie
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Also, this time I had definitely used the following skills while the airship was in motion. Elixir H + Toss Elixir H, Elixir B + Toss Elixir B, Elixir U + Toss Elixir U and Toss Elixir S. I typically rotate through my elixirs just to keep my buffs up, and had done so after the cutscene. I can’t remember if I had done this the first time this bugged for me but it might be worth looking into.
Two attempts in a row have resulted in the Chopper stopping halfway to the airship. This bug is pretty agitating, as I’d really like to complete my story, but cannot. :S Events go as follows:
Group spams skill “2” on guns to kill giants.
Commence cutscene. (Note: Both times, some party members have skipped the cutscene).
Chopper slowly moves toward ship and then stops partway and just stays there. Unable to reset the event to attempt to fix.
My thoughts: It’s likely that group members skipping the cutscene might be the cause. I’m unable to test this thoroughly as noone will run Arah Story with me anymore. :P
Confirmed, bug reported w/ screenshot. Evidently, this is a pretty common bug.
I have a hard time believing that you would rather have a +35 tick and trolls on the forums then tick away at +405 and having an opponent that respects your determination.
Or perhaps you’re just roleplaying as a masochist and I’m being trolled, it’s hard to tell with you TC guys…
First of all, I’m on SBI
Second, you do realize killing me and trolling me are the only two things people can do to me in this game right?
For instance:
They can’t take all my loot when I die
They can’t take my gear and leave me wearing nothing but a robe
They can’t take my house key
They can’t kill my horse and eat it in front of me
They can’t cut off my head and sell it on their vendor
They can’t give me murder counts
They can’t keep me from leveling
They can’t keep me from farming gold
They can’t res kill me
They can’t leave me stranded on an island
They can’t even communicate directly with me in gameAll they can do is kill me. I have to actually make a choice to visit this forum to be trash talked so they can’t even troll me without my consent. PvP in this game is very sanitary and nice. So no, I’m not a masochist. I just don’t view a repair bill and a little trash talk as very much of a consequence to losing a fight.
OH MY GOD! IT’S ULTIMA!
You’ve made me homesick.
Since Zhaitan is dead, I think the way to Cantha or Elona should likely be opened in the next expansion. Tengu, or an Undead race would make sense if that were the case. Personally though, I’d love to see Skritt, or Hylek.
As for the next class, I’d really really like to see a Bard class done well. I feel like so many games overlook this type of class entirely.
She has the wings though :/ Ah well.
1) SKRITT!
2) Dredge.
3) Hylekk.
I’d reroll immediately to play as one of those races, but Skritt would be my preferred choice.
The Risen Priestess of Dwayna is a risen Largos, right? Someone here mentioned that Largos can’t be risen, but I’m pretty sure she is one.
The other day, I posted in a thread where a fellow talked about playing the game with his wife and wanted a change made making it easier for him to get into groups with her and stuff. I forget the specifics, but I commented “Aw cute, bumping for justice”, and within no time received an infraction.
Mods can pick through hundreds of posts, and deliver warnings for such arbitrary things, but can’t be bothered to reply to what seems to be a very pertinent topic. Whether you agree or not that Engineers are underpowered, need to be fixed, etc, you have to at least agree that the topic deserves some input from the devs, or at least community management.
I think Badges of Honor suck. Picking up loot isn’t something you think to do in the middle of a fight, and by the time the fight is over, you can’t remember where the bag dropped or it’s forgotten entirely.
The badge system itself is not that bad really – I just dislike the fact that it’s really the only real personal reward for WvW. I’d love to see something akin to Glory, or Realm Points implemented into WvW, and the ability to display your rank or title instead of “Server Name Invader” would be pretty boss. The current gear bought with badges isn’t that bad, but I’d like to see more options. :S
Just my two cents – does anyone else have any input?
After using this build in WvW I can say that it’s amazing and tons of fun. Running solo, the build is nearly perfect as is. When with a zerg, I was going to try dropping HGH for Formula 409.
This build melts face. :P
The reason anything was posted here at all was to raise awareness so that said exploiters guild(s) could do something – and as someone else noted, it’s possible that someone on the exploiter’s server may or may not know who he is which would make dealing with the issue slightly easier.
That said, I think the issue doesn’t need to be discussed anymore. Everyone’s aware, it’s been posted and reported – let’s just move on.
i think u can report your enemy, or not? dont you all think report all the hackers would be more efficient than posting here? or u think 1 man hacker army is powerful enough to cause your lose? are you that useless? just go out there and win the match show everyone they cant win even with hackers isnt that better?
Because he was under the ground, it was very hard to target him and report. We have no other way of knowing who he is or providing proof that this incident occurred.
For some reason, this BG elementalist found a way to get “Under the Map” in BG Bay to take out our trebs. This is an unfair tactic and this should be Addressed. In the screen shot I am posting u can see only their name. More people have taken Screenies of this person as well. This is a Cheating tactic. Can you not beat us Fair? GG BG~
Confirmed, have SS as well. He’s been doing this for hours.
I will say that the voice acting outside of the awful cutscenes is pretty good. At the very least, you can say it’s way better than the stuff in the cutscenes.
Repoooost! I wanna see it
I don’t want bad voice acting – such is my disappointment. GW1 had way better cutscenes, if memory serves. Remember the mission where Hablion honors you and your party for something neato you had done? (I don’t really remember the specifics, I just remember being awed).
How can the story and voice overs be so utterly wretched? How is it that Anet felt comfortable with this upon release? I just flat out won’t do story quests because the writing and voice acting is so painful. I also feel like the dialogue screen (the one with two characters facing each other and talking) seems pretty lazy. The rest of the game is so pretty and polished, so this issue feels really out of place.
I can’t tell if OP is a troll or not.
Are you stuck on using grenades? I’d give some other kits a shot. I enjoy TANKCAT quite a bit.
Let me know what you think, I’m still debating the mask.
I’d skip on the mask.
Weird – I don’t see your build posted.
it’s “quality tuning crystal”, it stacks with food buffs. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Quality_Tuning_Crystal
there’s master tuning crystals as well but they are much more expensive so I normally dont use them. besides, I ended up with a stack of 300 from leveling artificer on an alt.
Good to know! What sort of food do you use? Also, maybe I missed it but what do you do for gear? Would my Pow/Tough/Vit set make the cut, or would I need to consider changing gear out?
Guardian with same effort geared is always better support and better dps.
Then go play a guardian, crybaby.
@OP good write up. I’m glad you mentioned combo fields, because most of the riff raff here seem to overlook them. And I’ll agree, support Engineer in dungeons is pretty fun.
Great video.
Your build looks like a lot of fun, and I can’t wait to give it a shot. What is the wrench icon listed in your buffs? o.O
i dont see this post as whiny at all he actully made alot of valid points and suggestions
This is a great post!
Finally something we can agree on.
This post is very well thought out and put together. I agree on all accounts, and hope that someone with any sort of clout catches wind of this write up (as well as your post on bugs). Kudos!
ANet finaly fixed the pact trader access ^^
Gorgeous – What armor is that? Specifically the chest, shoulders and gloves?
Did you try rifle with static discharge build? It seems to do a lot of damage.