Guild Wars 2

I’ve spend a lot of time in the new fractal over the past days and allready finished the 100CM achievement. I will just give my feedback in here.

First Boss:

I think the boss is pretty straightforward and I really enjoyed the “tower” mechanic where you have to kill several bosses to carry on the fight. His attacks are not too rng and overall he is a good introduction into the fractals mechanics. (solar beam/bloom etc.)

Second Boss:

I ******* love this boss. The design is absolutely beautiful. The “ball mechanic” is something new and is fitting the boss rly well. The mechanics are easy to learn and for decent players this boss should be no real threat. I don’t rly have something bad to say on this one.

Third Boss:

Oh god,…where do I start. Maybe, at first,…I enjoyed the fight but I can understand why people will hate him. I was able to kill him once, and got him beyond 10% several times.
I feel like the boss is not finalized,…not ready for the encounter in Tyria yet.

1. The mechanics seem to overlap in a rng way, which isn’t rly a problem with a good group till you hit 40%. But I think for the future it would be better if green circles, skullbomb and anomalie really would appear together or in a strict pattern.

2. The “green circle” mechanic itself seems to be buggy as well. Sometimes the circle makes the dmg at 70-75% of the circle,…sometimes it does no dmg,…sometimes 2 circles spawn in a row on the same player. At most of the times, you just can’t say when the dmg hits. There should be 1 circle, and the dmg should appear at the end of the circle.

3. The destruction of the plattforms seems to be affected by the groupdps. It is pretty much rng if the mechanic appears on -40% or not.

4. When the destruction starts, anomalies can spawn on destructed parts of the arena,…which results in a pretty safe wipe. This should be fixed for sure.

5. Beyond 40% the mechanic stacking is pretty insane and most of the time,…there are very limited “safespots” inside the arena. But till 25% it is still manageable. Maybe you should think about limiting the mechanic stacking to several mechanics that can occur at the same time to make the fight more predictable while keeping the chaos style alive. But ALL mechanics at the same time,..seems a bit too rng. Sometimes it feels like if it is just luck where to stand and if you are able to get beyond 10%.

6. F4 distortion from Mesmers seem to bug in a certain way since signet distortion works just fine for the most mechanics.

7. The Orb mechanic results in a lot on rng wipes at 80/50/25% because the orbs get stuck on the sides of the Arena when getting pushed to far or people getting several orbs while some players get none. I think you should fix it to 1 ORB=1 PLAYER! And you rly need to fix the stuck mechanic on the edge of the arena. The spawning of anomalies at the start of the orb phase is absoultly ok from my point of view.

8. The low gravity jump seems to bug a bit for me, or it isn’t intended to be an evade at all? Maybe you can give us a disclaimer on which mechanics can be evaded and which not by using low gravity jumps?

Thats pretty much it,…I’d love to get a reply and if you need any more info please let me know. I think the fractal is great but the last boss just needs a bit polishing to make it an “organised chaos” and maybe a bit more easy to achieve for Pug Groups because of not so many rng wipes.

Much love, Raj!

Yesterday everything was fine. Downloaded new patch today and keep getting dcs every 2-5min. And the game lags like ****. Southern Germany here.

To be honest, the skill cap in GW2 has decreased a lot and on most of the Raidbosses it is not even necessary to run perfect dps rotations to get a kill in the end. Raiding is knowing all about team compositions, builds and how to use them in a casual way, mechanics from the Raidbosses (which everyone can learn no matter what you gonna say) and about the time you are willing to invest.
I’m a WvW Roamer from the launch and I’ve been never interested in PvE until Anet launched Raids and T4 fractals. Cause now there is something I have to achieve in PvE, and I don’t only have to spam only autoattacks for it.

I you feel under pressure, cause you don’t feel able to get into raids,…look out for a raidguild that is willing to take new ones in their groups (there are a lot of them out there looking for players) and try out classes like Rev and Guard,..cause everyone is able to learn the dps rotations in this classes,…

just my 2 cents.

To be honest, the last nerf was ok. I just adjusted my build and playstyle and still win 80-85% of my duells even against good Roamers/Duellists.

The Trueshot nerf hits hard I know that, but right now we need to live with it.
I don’t see any more nerfs coming in on DH over the next few patches as well as I don’t seen any will to do some important rework on traits and utility skills on Guardians over all.

I will keep playing Meditrapper,…because it is the only usefull build we have.

troll…………………….?

Being able to move while casting Trueshot would be one hell of a buff for Roaming/Duelling Guards. I don’t think it will happen, since guards and DH are on the nerf list of Anet.

Brutaly.6257:

We were a bunch that explored life steal build a long time back and didnt get them to be competitive but the long bow offers a very different playstyle compared to the core guardian and it might be possible that this playstyle can benefit from life steal builds.

Agree on that!

Hey my beloved Guardians.

First of all I want to introduce myself. My name is Rajnesh and I’m a WvW Roamer for the Guild Ultranumb[Numb] on Kodasch[DE]. I’ve played mainly core medi guard before HoT and been playing Dragonhunter since the release of HoT. Most of the time I do Solo/Duoroam or making duells.

When I read the latest patchnotes my first thoughts were: “Darn it Anet,…are you f***ing serious about this? I mean I knew True Shot would be nerfed, but 20%? And then also another nerf to the ONE Trap i use? WoW!”
But since I love the Dragonhunter i kept playing it and thought about how to change my build and my playstyle a bit to fit the new situation.

Before the patch I was running full zerk medi trapper with traveler rune and a soldier backpiece, since the high Dmg output did let me onehsot the most classes with the LB2 + JI + ToF + Spear of Justice + Smite Condition Combo. True Shot + ToF + GS2 have been my biggest Dmg outputs. It was a burst build over all that was based on killing the enemy as fast as possible since the most cooldowns are pretty high on DH to be honest.

My build before patch:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQJATRnsABVDhVdCmDB8DhlEiKb/+vAU+5j+s/aZDgEA-TVCFAByt/gAXAgFOEAMcEAA4BAgkyvCV/BLlgppLgUAmJyC-w

After the nerf on the Trap Dmg, and the Trueshot I thought about changing this build over all to stay viable mainly against Revs, Druids, Scrappers, Cele DD-Ele and new Regen Warriors. Against all other classes i did not had any problems at all before and after the Patch. So i realized I just have to live a bit longer now to make anough dmg over the time, or have another burst availabe to finish of fights.

So lets see what the patch gives us overall:

+ Deflecting Shot: The base damage of this skill has been increased by 17%.
+ Symbol of Energy: The damage of this skill has been increased by 25%.

Ok, thats actually a pretty good buff on the longbow over all. Lets play around these buffs!

So here is my new build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQJATRnsABVDhVdCmDB8DhlEiKb/+vAU+5j+s/aZDgEA-T1CFQBYRJY0MxkGdBFS9Hko8gBHBgFcIAEoSM5s/ABuAAA4BAQKgy1ZB-w

I know have a bit more sustain through the marauder trinkets, the food AND the combination of Sigil of Blood + Omnomberry Pie, which give me a good chance to heal myself on crit. I have the sigil on the longbow because it is the weapon i do most autoattacks in fights. Together with the Medi heal it’s more then enough to stay healthy a bit longer. A nice side effect of the food is the bigger critical dmg over all.
But how do I adept my playstyle to this build?

At first I only started to use Symbol of Energy on myself right before swaping to greatsword to get a sweet burst with sigil of hydromancy + GS1/GS2 + Symbol of Energy + Smite conditions (when I have condi on myself) when an enemy gets into my melee ranger after getting some shots with the longbow before. A nice side effect,…with the energy sigil as second sigil on my greatsword I nearly can get perma vigor if I time the weaponswaps right. It is not the big burst, but most of the people aren’t aware of it and get traped.

At second I started to really focus on hitting Deflecting Shot! I tended to miss a lot of them but right now I’m on 8/10. It’s just perfect to knockback warriors when they’re using their shield to reflect your projectiles. It’s just repeating and trying to hit every Deflecting Shot, thats it.

At third I tended to kite too much on greatsword,…since the patch I was going back to hitting more autos with it and try to find GS3 + smite condition Combos while being under high pressure just to get some dmg done and blind a potential enemy burst.

At last, I try not to hit True Shots with JI port,…cause it just got so predictable. I tend to rather use the port to hit GS5 again like in core guard builds. Of course I still port True Shot when I see the opportunity to finish of a fight.

So what did the patch to me? It made and will make me a better guardian again, a better player over all, since I’m not able to just braindead oneshot people. I still got some problems with Druids and real good Revs,..but the rest of the classes I’m able to kill most of the time.

Thank you for that Anet!

BUT: NO THANKS for still giving us guardians ONE viable build over all in WvW Roaming. And we are still the only class without a passive 25% movement increase, and still bound to 1-2 runes to play. I would love to see a traitrework, and a rework on spirit weapons, just to be able to play more then 1 viable build.

4 Years,…no rework,…i got other classes to play. Thx Anet.

I never was gone, but only roamed on EB. I think it’s great for us solo/smallscale roamer to get Alpine Borders back.

The 25% movement buff on a trait is nothing coming up now,…! I’ve been roaming in smallscale groups and solo with Dragonhunter since HoT and around 2k hours on core guardian before. With HoT and the Dragonhunter coming up I only adjusted my playstyle, but not my core traits, gear and build like other classes. I still play full berserker, rune of the traveler, at least 3 Meditations and I’m still tied to the valor/virtues traitlines. In my opinion a 25% movement buff could change at least the rune, so I could run some more dmg orientated rune. This would maybe end in an dmg nerf of the guardian over all.

BUT: This would not solve the problems guardians have over all, cause we are tied to the meditations.

1. Signets: useless
2. Spirit Weapons: useless
3. Shouts: useless in PvP / Roaming
4. Mace: Useless
5. Conditionbuilds: Useless in WvW due to not having any Coverconditions

I think i will have to wait a looong time for a new legendary longbow,..which from my point of view is the most needed one! Not because I main DH,..but because the old one is ugly as *.

With all those bugs at the moment it only depends on luck if you can defeat him or not.

Yep it seems that only “physical” burst abilitys do trigger the Trait Berserker’s Power.

My condolences to IRON from all of Roaming Squad [RS].

Such things make me think about all the gaming communitys. We talk every day in teamspeak and hang out with each other so much,…but how good do we know or even understand the people we play with??

It makes me sad,..

I want to thank the guilds [NP] and [VK] for the awesome GvGs in the new obsidian sanctum arena tonight. Also i want to thank the guild [INC] for the fun fights on Augury Rock Borderland! Always fun to fight you guys.

The matchup vs Gunnars in one of the best we’ve had over the past months, thank you for this week. Hope to see you guys around soon!

Rajnesh

I was not writing a lot in this forum lately, but tonight I want to thank the guilds [LNM] from Vizunah and [OP] from Pikensquare for running this awesome small roaming groups on Vizunah Borderlands!

Actualy it was so much fun to finaly fight someone in equal numbers, I really appreciate to had this oportunity!

with lot of love,
your Rajnesh!

Thanks for all the good fights on BB-Border tonight!
[EoW], [WdR],..thank you for not blob together! You got **** to fight us alone!

<3 Raj

I can confirm the transfer of Circle of Nine [CoN] to Augury Rock was due to queues on SFR.

I want to thank all guilds and zergs we have encountered yesterday evening.
It was our first raid on Augury Rock and we really enjoyed it!

It’s good to face Baruch Bay again, it’s been a long time since our last matchup.

Hope to see more from you the next few days.

I want to thank everyone for the fun fights on SFR Borderland yesterday.

[ZORN] + [PAIN] and some JS guys,…sry for the supply traps

600 posts,..trolololol

NIce fights on riverside Border yesterday!

Big shoutout to all the guilds of ER and Piken that encountered us tonight in Piken Borderland! We had very much fun fighting you guys!

The [KoA]-Guild

Seuche.4809:

no with sfr i mean ecl and with blob i mean CoN, KoA !

okok enough fun for me, maybe i come back later, bb!

<3 u all

[KoA]? Yeah we blob much these days,…

[GD] is only a scout team compared to us!

Seuche.4809:

KoA want a sparring 20vs20 ?

If i would have 20 people on border,…we do not even have 20 online lol.

Seuche.4809:

and ? you loose in this GvG xD kitten noob

http://www.twitch.tv/baalduran/c/2221788

Oh yeah,..call me noob!

Seuche.4809:

@CoN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScXDLCEnfSo

l2p

@[GD]

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Sylosis.7125:

Rajnesh.4526:

Sylosis.7125:

Facing the hoard of loot hungry Vizu Zombies plus the 3 SFR guilds including the infamous KoA and CoN meant we could not achieve everything one would wish…..however despite the odds we never failed to back down and took the opposition on.

To all the soldiers who died/suicided today, you fought/died bravely….

Yeah, [INVI] did great yesterday!

Best fight of the evening:

http://www.twitch.tv/rajneshtamil/c/2822037

Actualy it was a figth between [INVI] and [KoA],…but Vizunah decided to engage us.

Epic fights indeed….. i kinda preferred this fight………http://www.twitch.tv/rajneshtamil/b/451847463 skip to 32min in. I wonder why lol

See you on the battlefield shortly. :-)

Naah,…this fight in the eastcamp wasn’t good. You outnumbered my 17 KoA a bit
I was screaming like hell in teamspeak “PUSH BACK IN 3,..2,…1,…WAKE THE **** UP!! WHERE ARE MY ****ING WATERFIELDS,…DO YOUR ****ING JOB *******”!

Ah yeah before i forget:
Praetorians [KoA] is recruiting 4-5 exceptional skilled hardcore WvW-Players! If someone is interested,..pm me!

Sylosis.7125:

Facing the hoard of loot hungry Vizu Zombies plus the 3 SFR guilds including the infamous KoA and CoN meant we could not achieve everything one would wish…..however despite the odds we never failed to back down and took the opposition on.

To all the soldiers who died/suicided today, you fought/died bravely….

Yeah, [INVI] did great yesterday!

Best fight of the evening:

http://www.twitch.tv/rajneshtamil/c/2822037

Actualy it was a figth between [INVI] and [KoA],…but Vizunah decided to engage us.

WE ARE RECRUITING 5-10 HARDCORE PLAYING, INTERNATIONAL WvW-PLAYERS WITH AN EXCEPTIONAL SKILL LEVEL!!

Classes:

1-2 Guardians
1-2 Warriors
2-3 Elementarists
1-2 Mesmers
1-2 Necros

Prætorians [KoA]

Prætorians [KoA] is a hardcore WvW-Guild. At the moment we have around 60 Members an we are currently running a 20-25 men roamingsquad!

We are recruiting 5-10 experienced international WvW-Players. Recruiting will be closed after this!

1-2 Guardians
1-2 Warriors
2-3 Elementarists
1-2 Mesmers
1-2 Necros

What we do:

• Roaming with 20-25 Players
• GvG 20vs20
• small scale Roaming with 5-10 Players
• sPvP

Prætorians [KoA] is raiding 5-6 days a week from 18:00 (18:30) to 23:00 (23:30) in gmt+2. Our main raids and training sessions are on monday and thursday.

Requirements for joining [KoA]:

• Teamspeak with microphone is a must!
• Lvl 80, full equiped.
• A lot WvW experience is required.
• You will be asked to play a certain build for your class.
• You are willing to raid at least 2-3 times a week.
• You are willing to improve your own skill and the skill of the whole guild in a process.

Every new recruit will get a 2-3 week trial membership!!!

You are interested??

Contact me ingame or via this Forum!!

Thanks for the fights on Desolation Borderlands tonight.

The [KoA]-Guild.

Ins.7139:

Well finished the 20 hour non stop train, 70 tower flips and 2.6k kills haha After we stopped fighting Zbs and KoA it all got abit boring as we was stuck in a dead bl but things got interesting in EB from about 3am – 8am. See you next time

We all pretty much agreed to just go out and have fun, we could probably hold our own on the weekend but come weekday you guys will take everything :P

Actualy it was fun a few times, we did good with 20 KoA on battlefield.

Good Job Deso for ticking with ~150 points by blobing this much!

VLNt.9862:

Long live the SFR spirit !!!. I’m proud of the ppl who fill our server atm. They successfully won the race of killing the 5 champs cycle in cursed shore 1000 times! In this time all the human stuff was forgotten. No eating, no drinking no f ing, no p ing. Admirable, such a dedication! So be understandable when u receive no answer to a call for a push in the last 100 m of the marathon with Vizunah. I mean what is more challenging for u SFR player, the “Vizunah Square [FR] Veteran” or the “Champion Risen Baron”?

Well, actualy,…the “Champion Risen Baron”!

Thx for the fights on Desolation Borderland.

Thanks to:
[War] for giving us 2-3 very strong and nice fights.
[MOS] for hunting us .
[LEAD] for porting away 3 TIMES when we want to fight you in equal numbers.
[GOD] for the same **** as every evening.

The KoA-Guild.

Steroid.8317:

Monday Epic battle at Ascension Bay Vizunah Borderland.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnwYSH5DDSI

That was true WvW, forces of all three servers clashed. I know for Desolation there was INVI, GT and other guilds. I gues we kinda overblobbed the field

If you call this “true WvW”,….

Steroid.8317:

Sunday GoD event Epicness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXcj-z-7KT0

Enjoy gents!

Actualy this is one of the worst wvw-videos I’ve ever seen in my whole gw2 history.
But hey thx for showing the fight at 5:00 at the easttower where you pretty much get ****** up from [KoA] + Pugs.

Today I had lunch with a very nice thief of the guild [Meta] at Desolation Map Lowlands.

Thx for that

The Crown Pavilion stole SFR players too,….but we are actualy not sad about it.
Having no, or short, queues at 18:00-19:00 gmt+1-2 is very nice.

If you ask me:

“PLEASE GREAT ANET, MAY THIS PVE-FARM-EVENT NEVER ENDS!”

petterikr.4263:

Rajnesh.4526:

Nice Fights on Desolation Border so far.
Greets to [TLA] nice fights at the Easttower.

Actualy our perfect coverage is our worst problem.
When the PvE-Farm-Event ends and people start to play WvW again, queues will be massive. A lot of people trasfering to SFR at the moment, and not everyone is glad about it!

The KoA-Guild

We enjoyed the fights too. Thanks for not covering under AC-fire, but engaging us head on. Also a shout out to [Opt] for more fine open field battles. You guys are really strong!

Thanks for [TEQ] for helping us defend Garri and for doing most of the dirty work at Bay.

In the end my client crashed when almost every player on the kitten server clashed at Bluevale.

We havn’t had a good setup yesterday. We were only 17 guys without any mesmer and with 1-2 eles. We are looking forward to see you guys on battlefield with our full stregnth in some weeks. We are training some new recruits at the moment and increasing our skill and numbers back to our former level!
Thanks for the kind words!

Nice Fights on Desolation Border so far.
Greets to [TLA] nice fights at the Easttower.

Actualy our perfect coverage is our worst problem.
When the PvE-Farm-Event ends and people start to play WvW again, queues will be massive. A lot of people trasfering to SFR at the moment, and not everyone is glad about it!

The KoA-Guild

Deso got one tower left on map,….

[GOD] is farming [KoA],..yeah it’s maybe because you blob 60-25 against us??

Maybe ask [INVI] how it feels like fighting us in same numbers

Btw. we are ticking with 360-400 lol.

qweman.5298:

Victory.2879:

Grats to SPRT (or however you spell that) and GD for being reduced to running guild raids (20-30) against pugs (around 20) in EB- did you lose so badly to the guilds in borderlands that you had to come and play in pugland?

http://ipic.su/img/img7/fs/qweqwe.1375938976.jpg
That’s why SPRT moved to EB yesterday
Any why sfr’s pugland sit in AC and run away from us all time we were in EB?

You guys left because [KoA] + [OSC] was too hard to fight !
I’m just kidding,…
Thanks to [SPRT] and [Mya] for the great fights on SFR Borderland!

PS: [KoA] is not accepting GvGs at this point. We are really sorry, but we lost a lot of members during the summer. I promise everyone, that in 1-2 months we will be back in our full strength!! (Thx for asking [VII] and [GH])

Thx for the intense fights on Seafarer’s Rest Borderlands tonight!

[SPRT] were a bit too many for KoA alone but the fights were very good.

Special thx for [Mya], we have encountered you the first time!

The KoA-Guild!

Prætorians [KoA]

Prætorians [KoA] is a hardcore WvW-Guild. At the moment we have around 60 Members an we are currently running a 20-25 men roamingsquad!

We are recruiting 5-10 experienced international WvW-Players. Recruiting will be closed after this!

1-2 Guardians
1-2 Warriors
2-3 Elementarists
1-2 Mesmers
1-2 Necros

What we do:

• Roaming with 20-25 Players
• GvG 20vs20
• small scale Roaming with 5-10 Players
• sPvP

Prætorians [KoA] is raiding 5-6 days a week from 18:00 (18:30) to 23:00 (23:30) in gmt+2. Our main raids and training sessions are on monday and thursday.

Requirements for joining [KoA]:

• Teamspeak with microphone is a must!
• Lvl 80, full equiped.
• A lot WvW experience is required.
• You will be asked to play a certain build for your class.
• You are willing to raid at least 2-3 times a week.
• You are willing to improve your own skill and the skill of the whole guild in a process.

Every new recruit will get a 2-3 week trial membership!!!

You are interested??

Contact me ingame or via this Forum!!

Prætorians [KoA] is accepting GvG challenges!
Someone on Monday? Someone on Thursday?

kursk.4890:

Seafarer, going to play all week with Megablob? I play baruch bl and ECS, koa and OSC all time blob…. or 10 meters… lag, can not play, are you breaking the reputation of seafarer of server no blob…please separate you from the map.

thx.

Are we in kindergarden or do we play WvW?
[KoA] is playing with 20-25 max,…if you have 40 guys in your Zerg it’s normal that we will sandwich you
[KoA] is accepting GvG challenges, we need some serious training!
SiN, DsD?