Guild Wars 2

Guild Fang from SoS who attacked Hills on DB BL and got wiped.
Do you check your map before you attack a structure?

We, Yaks, held Hills on Db’s BL and you seriously want to take Hills from us instead of attacking the X other targets on this map? Or how about EB?

You just now helped DB take back Hills, because we couldn’t repair fast enough after you wiped at hills.
*sigh

I didnt go toughness on my ranger but I still manage to kill thieves.

I win like 50% of my thief fights vs melee thieves. Versus good pistol thieves I nearly always lose because they simply get out of range to regen when they lose and come back to kite you again: Unload pistol skill, stealth, unload pistol skill, stealth, … till you dead.

For this reason even on my warrior I simply ignore ranged thieves.

These points might help you against thieves

• vs pistol thieves, ignore them; speed skills and move
• You need HP to survive their damage bursts, therefor imo for rangers first invest in vitality then toughness
• Battle awareness: Always be on the lookout for thieves and prepare when they go invis; only then you ll have a chance. If caught unprepared the first burst will nearly kill you.
• Traps are the only way I found to survive vs thieves; fire traps + spikes = a must!
• Run in line abit, lay a trap behind you and as soon as you see it triggered, barrage on yourself; helps alot if you combine it with QZ. Traps dmg plus QZ + Barrage enough to kill normal thieves
• Extend you bleeding time and invest in condition damage (dont go all out but you need to increase these values)
• Dodge is your friend; especially the first burst you have to dodge
• Dodge timing is very important and you need practise for this. Play sPvP and fight thieves to train your dodging. You have to learn to dodge their skills and not simply dodge.
• Use shortbow to also apply bleeds and stun, snare the thief when he unstealths. Dont forget to poison ….
• Pets: I use the dog and wolf for their KD and fear. If you get lucky your pet will land a knockdown on the thief giving you time to either unload bleeds on him or to run according on how the fight went.
• Critical: Must have: Trait which applies bleeds on crit, can add the same on weapon. Crit value must be at least around 45%

It is tough to play against thieves as ranger but it is doable. Don’t lose hope and just keep on practising with a set build. Don’t change your build too much, because you ’ll need to know your skills by heart.

Summary:

• Applying bleeds is your main weapon against thieves
• Having movement skills to survive until your dmg applied kicks in(therefor sPvP)

Homework:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uq8BJrmrUaU#

Strippling.3524:

As far as hacking or exploits, I’m yet to see any of this from either server. Both Ehmry Bay and Maguuma players should be proud of their servers.

Unfortunately the exploiting has already taken place. The following event lead to that 3 way fight in SM we had during last sunday.

YBend was defending SM and we were under heavy fire from EB Trebs in Overlook. The northern wall was constantly down but we kept on defending it and Ehmry never managed to get inside. During these periods where the outer wall was down a mesmer from the guild “Player Killerz” http://i.imgur.com/ADgM9.jpg would get pass the outer wall ,which was down, but then he would somehow magically be running on top of our inner wall which was never breached. We chased him all over the keep and managed to kill him each time. This happened like 4+ times. In the mean time we started to damage their trebs so they pulled back.

About half an hour later this same mesmer returned again and was killed. By this time many of our members logged and couldnt watch out for the mesmer anymore. Well while we were defending the keep on the outer wall with everything inside intact, SM all of a sudden got turned! The whole server was like “WT heck just happened?” because no one managed to breach the inner wall. (We were fighting still at the gap of the outer wall) Mad as hell we all gathered and stormed to take the keep back , which was taken by Ehmry by using an exploit to get pass walls. This ended in the huge three way fight since Ehmry knew what was coming and Maguuma saw the chance to also mix in the soup.

The three way fight was epic, yes (which we won btw even with the horrible lag and fighting both servers in the lord’s room) BUT Ehmry should be ashamed of their members for cheating. The mesmer who cheated and the group he portaled in because everyone knew that the inner wall was never breached.

@Maguuma – thx for the awesome challenging fights we had so far /salute.
@Ehmry – Look into this guild because Im sure not everyone on your server would have approved these actions.

Scarto [SoF]