Guild Wars 2

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So I’ve been running this a lot lately and been getting great results. Not much has changed for me since launch but this build has next to unlimited dodges to make up for the lack of vitality or toughness. The faster you are with the stun-breakers and landing Cloak and Dagger the more you will notice just how untouchable you can be.

Cloak and Dagger:
This skill needs way more love. Other than the quick access to stealth this skill provides good damage and a moderate vulnerability debuff on your target. This is the bread and butter of the D/D thief. The five initiative cost is nothing in comparison to what this skill brings and how you can use it. Not to mention if you’re going to miss the hit or pop someones aegis you can always just dodge cancel the skill.

Basic open:
Dagger 5, Steal (Infiltrators or Shadow-step works as well), Dagger 1
This combo is the keystone to what makes Dagger Dagger thief amazing. You can use it to deal insane damage or a quick stealth escape from a overwhelming target. How this combo is applied will be what sets a good D/D thief apart. If you’re feeling extra frisky you can even chain all three of your jumps to cross huge areas instantly for those greed hunts.

Finishing Targets:
Dagger 5, Press F or your finish key. If you’re worried about getting interrupted in any form or fashion use shadow-step during the channel right until the last moment. If you can’t get safely in range to finish with melee swap to short bow and pressure with Cluster Bombs and Chocking Gas. You almost always want to finish with your short bow out anyways to grab stacks of blood lust.

If there is more interest ill post a video of it in action however I feel like the general setup is pretty much in line with what we’ve seen so far just with the adaptation of HoT.

lol buy to win.. I hope this is a joke. Why does everyone expect everything for free? Buy the game then suddenly you can poop out level 2 toons and port right to pvp for endless matches of stat balanced fun. Buy to win, what a joke.

So I’m running with x2 gtx970’s but it doesnt matter anymore. Used to pump out like 100+ on full and now its down to the lower 60s. Flickering all about as well. Also seen some thieves and engies kill me before they even show up on the screen. This started post LA update. If I’ve just got some settings wrong somewhere I would love to be pointed in the right direction otherwise this is really annoying me.

This is only a issue if you’re running alone. A couple rune sets will actually extend it nicely for you and throw in a double dodge and your’e talking perma swift. I personally don’t care for it.

Sagat.3285:

Professor Sensei.2941:

this changes everything…

The sarcasm is strong.

Sad thing is I’m serious. I’m at work so I can’t really toy around and see if this just sounds fun on paper but it at least sparked a few build ideas for me. I’ve been running different variations of pretty much the same D/D spike build for literally years now. It’s nice to see something new floating around.

this changes everything…

I think I would actually go into PvE if I could get obby armor for my thief

Jski.6180:

Professor Sensei.2941:

maxinion.8396:

inb4 lore reasons

holy crap dude good call LOL

But who gives a hoodle about lore. GvG and guild halls made Guild Wars amazing.

Its the true response to what your asking. Name is just a lore thing as in most games.

As a consumer many years go I bought Guild Wars to do pvp with my friends. I was pleased with Alliance battles at the time but I bought the game because the title told me I was going to be at war with other guilds. That excited me. Guild Wars 2 provided WvW, a amazing pvp mode at that, but it was limited due to ballance issues. Sure its fun to go around and destroy other players with a green up arrow by their name but what I enjoy most is a good struggle. The developers stressed over and over about how ballanced sPvP was going to be but it didn’t even come to proving the feel of Guild play that Guild Wars offered. Guilds in this game seem to be more of a methods of narrowing down your search for others doing similar interest to just 4 people.

Kadin.2356:

Interceptor.2653:

^ Those combo trinkets are really good. You drop a few points of the worst damage stat (Precision), and get health in return. I’ll be running the ring/accessory combo for those after the Feature patch.

I wish that I had the foresight to do the same thing on the amulet, but I have zerker’s with an MF infusion, so there’s no helping it now.

Pow > Pre > Ferocity

It’s all about finding a happy middle ground

Pandeh.5248:

Professor Sensei.2941:

maxinion.8396:

inb4 lore reasons

holy crap dude good call LOL

But who gives a hoodle about lore. GvG and guild halls made Guild Wars amazing.

HA and TA made it even better. But here we need to have super strict E sports wannabe PvP!

HA was really exciting. TA is pretty much just Tpvp (I understand that that old RA/TA system was better but this is a different game).

dace.8019:

Dusty Moon.4382:

There have been SO MANY THREADS ON THIS – the Name Guild Wars comes from the lore and history, not that there are Guild Wars NOW.

That’s true – but – there’s a bit more. GW had GvG, it’s easy to assume GW2 would have it too, or would have it later.

But the main thing is the name. Before you get back on that lore horse, consider that it’s a name for a franchise that was chosen by ArenaNet. Why? To inspire thoughts in the public about GvG and Guild competition.

well put.

maxinion.8396:

inb4 lore reasons

holy crap dude good call LOL

But who gives a hoodle about lore. GvG and guild halls made Guild Wars amazing.

so why is there no official GvG? I’m honestly shocked in the time that I’ve played this game the closest the community got was the Obsidian Sanctum. Don’t get me wrong the Obsidian Sanctum was amazing for players who wanted GvG and dueling with PvE gear but being limited to two opposing servers at any given time?

Guild raids, guild versus guild, and guild halls should have been a given for this game. Looking back on Guild Wars it’s hard to see how they missed this.

KCmilam.3476:

WilVidz.3698:

Not only QL, Langor too….
http://imageshack.com/a/img837/4430/kfio.jpg

oh look door full hp
http://imageshack.com/a/img198/7746/pgsc.jpg

Seeing players glitch into towers is one thing, but assuming they glitched because a door has full hp is not enough. Thieves will often wait out an attack on a tower, stealth in, remain until the zerg leaves, and wait out the timer on the keep lord. You’ll see them attacking the lord, but no glitch was involved and it is completely legal.

this is true. done it many times myself. I actually have several videos up showing how it’s done and explaining the process. not a very hard thing to do yet people freak out and report you for it anyways.

WilVidz.3698:

Not only QL, Veloka too….
http://imageshack.com/a/img837/4430/kfio.jpg

oh look door full hp
http://imageshack.com/a/img198/7746/pgsc.jpg

I’m no expert but that doesn’t look like Veloka…

Why is this still the only mode? Is there a real reason to this?

Well if it’s base heal is good and combined with trained venoms you could look at it like this. The heal skill COULD provide the following on top of its base heal. 2 stacks of might, 20% cdr, life steal, and apply all the prior to 4 others around you. Seems legit to me.

Equinox.4195:

[EP] just manmoded Fergie’s House, DB. Where are your gods now?!

In Gw1

Svarty.8019:

While the most obvious issue is
- the concentration of numbers,
the real problem is that
- it’s too easy to move that zerg around the map. It has been stated that the maps are too small, which is effectively the same statement.

You risk nothing by committing your main force to one side of the map because you can too easily get to the other side to stop the enemy (or whatever) there.

Zergs really aren’t an issue in my book. Defending with a handful of arrow carts is easy enough. The issue I see is the population gap causing for clean wins week after week. TC is a perfect example of the power gap between T1 servers and every server below them. We often refer to ourselves as T1.5 just because T1 sweeps us and T2 doesn’t even bother showing up half the time.

Have No Faith In Me.1840:

Even though AB died out, it was a better concept in terms of competition, as were JQ and FA despite the leechers and bots.

I just loved how is was a 12v12 every time. No worries of unbalanced teams. Sure you got bad players and some bots here and there but that happened to either side. But yeah it did die out and so will WvW someday.

I was kittening around with S/P yesterday. The new -delay on PW actually made it really
fun.

Now hear me out. The biggest issue I see with WvW currently is that numbers mean almost everything. Balancing the server population has been almost impossible due to players flocking to the biggest server for “free” weekly wins. But what if instead of your WvW team being based off your server it is instead a choice you make similar to AB back in GW1. There would simply be a list of “teams” to chose from and once chosen your locked in for a week. The teams with the most players are locked until the others gain more members. I know a system like this wouldn’t be an easy task to implement but I can’t really see it failing in terms of balancing the population.

Svarty.8019:

Professor Sensei.2941:

I don’t know anyone who actually wants this to happen on the 18th.

Now you do.

all 2 of them.

Just don’t do it. I don’t know how else to put it. I don’t know anyone who actually wants this to happen on the 18th. The forums might be a minority but I know a majority of the players who aren’t on JQ/SoR/BG/TC (heck even the gap between the top 3 and TC is massive) don’t enjoy Friday night learning that the weeks winner has already been decided. Now weeks and weeks of this is in the feature. It’s just going to ruin what little is left of WvW.

tl;dr
X and Y comes out on the 12th if you need something to do until the leagues are over.

Considering that isnt what they said… It wasn’t meant to be a solution to alts getting exp. honestly people need to stop crying about this

It’s probably going to have infusion slots. Your just previewing some armor the data miners dug up.

Terra Dactyl.2047:

Saying the addition of the option of buying WXP is insulting is like saying a building having an elevator is insulting. If you don’t like it, and/or don’t feel like using it, ignore it and use the stairs. Whining about it existing makes you look silly.

But the elevator isn’t fair to larger families.

New hair colors aren’t free. Neither are the hair styles.

It’s not insulting. I used it last night. Free WXP. Just another option.

You have this wonderful option of not buying it. But complaining about it is just stupid

Commander chat…I would get that for the sole purpose of trolling 4 maps at once…

Can someone please explain to me why people are crying about the ability to buy WXP? It literally hurt nobody. All it did was open doors to players who wanted the option. I’m honestly really annoyed at all this “it hurts the alts” bullkitten. It’s called character progression. Without it this game would grow really stale really fast.

Sure lets have 3 hour matches. Never upgrade towers again. Haul kitten to SM every 3 hours for WXP. Spend over and hour a day in “down time” due to servers matching up. Sounds awesome to me. You should work for Anet.

Sir this is the World Versus World section. Please keep talk of Guild Versus Guild in the correct section.

Feed Me Change.6528:

Professor Sensei.2941:

Feed Me Change.6528:

1 gvg a night, 75 points a round for 7 rounds is 500 points.. that’s 1-3 ticks.. do your math again

Oh that’s true. Well good thing the fights are very quick!

quick? 5 minute fights with 2-3 minute in between, you are talking 1-1.5 hours for 1 match. Even at 525 points total (7*75) over an hour and half that’s equal to a 87.4 PPT over that course which is not even your full quarter of EB.

tldr gvg =/= PPT

Considering only 25 players are doing that much work I would say GvG > Zergs. More gvgs the more PPT.

Feed Me Change.6528:

1 gvg a night, 75 points a round for 7 rounds is 500 points.. that’s 1-3 ticks.. do your math again

Oh that’s true. Well good thing the fights are very quick!

Sigmatics.7056:

I don’t know why you had to make this post so long, it’s pretty obvious that 10v10 is 10 possible points and that doesn’t change for XvX.

And as above poster said, you’re theory falls flat as there’s no time to finish when you’re under heavy pressure in a GvG. Safe finishes excluded.

No your wrong.

10 v 10
1 orb = 10 possible points
2 orbs = 20 possible points
3 orbs = 30 possible points

15 v 15
1 orb = 15 possible points
2 orbs = 30 possible points
3 orbs = 45 possible points

20 v 20
1 orb = 20 possible points
2 orbs = 40 possible points
3 orbs = 60 possible points

25 v 25
1 orb = 25 possible points
2 orbs = 50 possible points
3 orbs = 75 possible points

Keep in mind those are points per round. Idk about y’all but it seems like GvGers are actually better at PPT than the pug lords.

GrandmaFunk.3052:

well now that they’ve split it into 3 leagues for NA it should be a lot better, hopefully with more stable matches and more of a campaign feel.

?!?!?!

Title says it all. I want to see GOOD things that will come about because of leagues. All I see is negative posts left and right. Surely this isn’t a repeat of bloodlust is it?

+1 for you Nuzt. Couldn’t put it better myself.

Honestly I love it. Gives players “rolls” in WvW. If you like to use rams on your guard…ram mastery! Now the only thing I disagree with is the stat bonuses to guard leech/fort. Kind makes everything snowball when you throw in sigil stacks and orb buffs into the mix.

“Hi I’m a PvE kitten and I support this post.”
Given that I almost never leave WvW (with the exception of the last few weeks due to the bloodlust buff) giving me more PvE buffs would be lame.

WvW gives players an actual end game objective. If we all used “balanced” stats with no player progression there would be no real investment in any of your toons. That’s how I see it at least. I love using my jacked stats lol.

aspirine.6852:

Professor Sensei.2941:

do the players have to openly say they don’t want something before Anet actually listens to them? The players said again and again that they didn’t want Bloodlust and now you can see the result of that being released on the forums. Now it’s Leagues? Come on…

The only thing you will hear from players that could e easily improved be Anet is the loot. The loot in wvw is beyond terrible, is just plain stupid. Half an hour in the frostgorge train is more loot and gold than a whole evening of wvw.

I almost never see people cry about the loot. If we wanted loot we wouldn’t be in WvW. It’s about the close fights and pride as a player when you finish off the opposing server. That pride however has vanished with the orb buffs…

GuardianOMS.8067:

Hope this helps

I’ve seen that before but still. You can see it every reset night. The winner of the week is pure luck of the draw now. We know going into it who is going to win and who is going to lose. Now low tier servers get to spend WEEKS getting their booties handed to them over and over again.

do the players have to openly say they don’t want something before Anet actually listens to them? The players said again and again that they didn’t want Bloodlust and now you can see the result of that being released on the forums. Now it’s Leagues? Come on…

My buddy made this…explain why I don’t see all of you running this kitten?!?!

iAmTheDuke.6201:

On a serious note: is there a way to turn the stupid mist off in wvw? It’s making it feel to much like Spvp…

You realize lore wise it all happens in the same area? Not on the same field mind but your in the mists the entire time.

I smell a troll.

#freehabib2013

A guild hall is a gathering place for a guild in the Battle Isles. It is a private area that the guild leader can choose the setting of. It is also used to access Guild versus Guild battles, by clicking “Guild Battle” at the bottom of the Party Formation window. Your guild hall can be accessed from the Guild Menu.

The guild hall can be improved by the addition of various NPCs. These can be bought from the Guild Lord, who is usually located in the central or main area of the guild hall. Each of these service NPCs provide the same exact service as their equivalent found in towns and outposts.

Now doesn’t that just sound nice?
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guild_hall