Guild Wars 2

[GF] vs [NP] 16 vs 16 gvg:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mqIUDH6U08

[GF] vs [FURY] 17 vs 17 gvg:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TCuc7-11fc

Best of 5 GvG 16vs16 against NP.
Thanks to the NP guys for the fights. Was fun.
/respect

Best of 5 GvG 17vs17 against FURY.
Thanks to the FURY guys for the fights. Good sportmanship and I definetely recommend to other guilds to gvg with them.
/respect

There are some days that it is just unplayable. All zones lag terribly, with delays in skills that go up even to 1 minute. It is not a problem of my pc or my connection because other ppl are having this issue, and they all are italian telecom users. Everything else wroks fine, even doing speed tests the connection is normal.
It is something between GW2 and italian telecom connections. Don’t know if this is happening in other countries.

P.S.: when there is this lag you get frequently disconnected as well with the following error code = 7:11:3:189:101

Did it yesterday. I hope anet doesn’t nerf this boss, it is actually the only boss in the game that gives you a sense of accomplishment once you kill it for the first time. All other bosses in the game are easy.
Once you get the hang of how the sparks behave it is actually pretty easy to put them in their slots. Only hard part is the petrifying and de-petrifying.
Some tips:
-Bringing high dps helps alot, a minimum of 2900 attack and 40% crit damage (with 40-50% crit chance).
-Remember to remove useless skills from your bar before the fight and putting others that help, and changing traits as well.
-The petrifying gaze is dodgeable once it reaches 0-1 seconds, do 2 dodges in a row.
-Equip stability in your skills to use it in key situations like when going to take sparks and in the last part to finish her off.
-Send only 2 men to get the sparks, 1 that gets the 2 bottom and the other that gets the 3 above, the one that gets the 3 above must wait for the other to have delivered the 2 and after he gets out of the way he delivers the 3 remaining. The rest of the party must stay away from the center and sparks
-Last but not least: don’t be cheap, buy food buffs.

There are a few other couple of tricks but I won’t write them, find them out yourself.

will they have better stats than ascended and exotic in the future?
Will expensive weapons crafted in the mystic forge like foefire’s essence and others be upgraded to ascended or will ascended wepaons require even more farm than those?

1) If I have Vigorous Shouts Trait active, and Shrug it off also. When Shake it off from shrug it off is activated, does it heal?

2) If I have Vigorous Shouts Trait active, are shouts considered healing skills to trigger stuff like Restorative Strength or Superior rune of water’s last bonus?