Guild Wars 2

I completely forget, upon finishing 10 achievements for the WvW Sprint Tournament, did we receive some kind of locked chest or anything, that would become unlocked upon tournament’s completion? If so, I need to look through all my bank tabs/character’s bags…

I’m aware it probably depends on my class/role(small group, zerg, etc.) but are there really any must-haves I should be going for?

Ah, I see. Thank you very much!

I created a bunch of alts on launch day, but with the exception of my ‘main’ character, I’ve done some deleting and restarts on the rest. I’m just interested to know which of my characters will be next to hit their birthday.

(I suppose this leads to a side question – is it one birthday gift per account, or one per character?)

I’m starting to get back into WvW recently, and I’ve got unspent world ability points on several of my characters. I’m thinking of dedicating certain characters to certain ‘builds’, like having a more tanky character invest into Flame Ram Mastery or something.

I’m fairly new to spending these points – are there any particular builds that are more viable than others? I’ve heard having one point into Build Mastery is pretty useful, are there any other must-haves?

MrSilver.5269:

FA Garrison is cozy!

Was it a mesmer we missed, or did you make sure to avoid orange swords until you were inside lord’s room? Yikes…

Ren.6351:

Hello, I’m back once again.

Seems pretty messy in here but I will try to clarify what I can, though not everyone may believe me.

I’m the leader of [Awe], a PvX guild which recently tried to switch into a more WvW inclined guild (still taking some time to get there). We moved from Crystal Desert last week, after about a good 2 weeks of thinking about it. When we chose to move, I wanted us to move as a guild, since we were PvX, there’s hardly any incentive for those who play WvW casually to move with us, but everyone can agree that our guild environment was fun to be in. Thus we wanted to move majority as a guild. However many did not have the gold to fund themselves, be it from WvWing constantly, or spending whatever they had for item progression (legendaries). Thus when i chose to leave CD, I went back to those people who asked us kindly to join their servers. Blackgate, Fort Aspenwood, Tarnished Coast, Maguuma, and I think SOR (this one im not too sure), all asked 2 months ago, when free transfers were going to end. At that time I declined all of them as we were sticking to CD. After declining all of them everyone respectfully stopped pming/mailing me.

I brought up these servers with the guild and after thinking about it among us, TC was the choice most wanted to go to as it had the best reputation on the forums, there were other reasons regarding why some of us didn’t want to move to other servers (please don’t take this as a jab at your server but its just how it was seen), Mag (forum warriors), FA was disliked by many old CD players for obvious reasons (banding up to crush CD etc, not that I cared too much for that, was more upset that CD broke apart so easily after one lost), and as for BG we were T1 had kitten queues so we didnt want to go there.

As a side note those listed servers were the ones that said yes, we would assist helping moving some of our players who lack the gold to move over (FA excluded as I declined the first mail straight and he didn’t pursue the matter).

We wanted to go to a server where we would have allies, and at least several enemies to fight. After making the choice, SOS dropped to T4 and WM suddenly took a break or something but since I already made the choice I decided to stick to it and just go.

We just want to try to get better in WvW, have more fun fighting and not be the only one around at our timezone. We don’t earn anything in terms of gold from moving as most of us are already broke just moving over, and not all of us still have enough to be able to move as of right now.

We moved to a server where we would get to fight guilds like WM, RISE, CO, RE, PRO, (GODS? are they still around???), AVTR etc, and have a group of people (NA side) to take over when we sleep.

GODS is still around, but about 15-20 members left to form ACE, so when we rally, we maybe have 20ish players show up. As such, I’ve seen us do more smaller objective stuff like camps/towers/enemy zerg harassing, but once in a while depending on how many FA has on the map, we can get a moderate-sized zerg going. We still have fun, and some stuff we pull off in wvw has impressed a few people enough to join, so we’ll see where we go from here.

I’ll end my post here – no reason to add to this server transfer bickering nonsense…

Cactus.2710:

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

Google how much AMD opteron/Intel Xeon cost (especially the faster models). Then realize this game doesn’t have subscription. Where do you think they find this amount of money for 50 servers? I’m afraid it won’t happen. The problem is just to small for Arenanet to pay this much money for. (with small i mean, for me i get this skill lag for about 5-10% on a global scale, although some days are really bad, like weekend).

You need to take a math course. ANet has sold 3 million copies of the game at an average price of at least $50. I don’t honestly know how many hardware servers ANet runs to handle all the various realms, but we’re probably talking something on the order of 1% of sales even to totally replace them with top end hardware. The ability lag may indeed be due to insufficient hardware, but I’d bet that the barrier to fixing it has far more to do with the software side … game engine or whatever software they use to merge server capacity for WvW (which they in fact do). Either that or the active WvW population is so low relative to the rest of GW2 that Anet has decided even 1% of sales isn’t worth it to keep us around.

Yeah, because the one-time purchase of hardware is the ONLY cost a company like Anet will incur, right?

Deified.7520:

Staffs look amazing. Greatswords and Staffs have some of the best skins.

Look at rifle, pistol, mace, horn. There are a lot of different weapon types that are a lot more left out than a staff imo.

Just curious, what staff weapons stand out to you? Maybe I’m not familiar with all of them yet.

Really? I think rifle has some pretty awesome skins: Azure Railgun, Super Hyperbeam Alpha, Charzooka, and even the Vigil rifle looks pretty sweet. Maybe some of the 1H weapons are a little underwhelming, but I’d think that 2H weapons being bigger would give designers more room to work with.

Staff weapons in this game leave me feeling a bit disappointed. I mean, there are a few exceptions of course. Final Rest is pretty cool, and I’ve been using the Modniir Quarterstaff because it at least has a particle effect. But other than that, they’re pretty lackluster, especially compared to the greatswords in this game.

Today, I was lucky enough to get a fused weapon ticket, yet I was too excited/stupid to remember that I could check weapon-only views to look at the particle effects before hand. I chose the staff because I play a necro, and I assumed a two-handed weapon would look the coolest, but I’m sort of disappointed at how less “shiny” it is compared to how all the other weapons look. My own fault for being hasty, I know, but still.

Anyway, just curious – anybody else feel similarly?

Tobias Steele.2071:

Josh P.1296:

Tobias Steele.2071:

Magiofdeath.2745:

Crimedawg.8954:

Much respect to both FA and Kain. You all fight hard. SoS will continue to battle until they turn out the lights on us.

/salute

You guys are definitely doing really well against everything that has happened. If you don’t stay in tier 2, I have a feeling you will be back eventually. I’ve come to respect SoS once the fat has been shaved so to speak – the bandwagon fat. Those that stayed are the guilds that are the truly respectable ones. Keep it up guys!

Well we lost another two guilds today, and not small ones either. Bleh, just keeps getting worse.

Which ones?

Oceanix, zero negative.

Ouch. Just curious, where did they transfer to?

In your own server’s borderlands, do your two towers and garrison get full supply upon reset? The borderland we’re attacking tonight has this, which seems weird. I don’t do a lot of defending on reset night, so maybe I’ve missed something.

Warlord Lu Bu.7905:

It’s the same old story: “oh we’re amazing because when I wake up you guys have very few points”.

erm, no? you’re winning because you have more oceanics. um, congrats?

I don’t think anybody in this thread is saying that. We’ve had a ‘:3’ with a score update which somebody oddly interpreted as gloating, and another person basically saying there’s nothing realistic that can be done about oceanic populations in this situation.

Kincaidia.3192:

Scionyde.2704:

Gasoline.2570:

Just to note, there is a hacker in FA’s midst.

Ele using perma stuns with some kind of item, this chase lasted for a kitten long while.

Yeah, that guy’s a guildie. Pretty sure he isn’t a hacker, he just lives for fighting solo against multiple people in WvW. He has a few youtube vids

http://www.youtube.com/user/daphoenix555/videos?view=0&flow=grid

I was there as well. There was absolutely hacking going on. Two elementalists getting back into the same tower and bailing – twice while I was there, and at least another two times while guildies were watching after I left. There were no portals, and we had full presence the whole time.

It was ridiculous.

In this thread, we’ve had two mentions of eles hacking: one using lots of knockdowns in combat, and one glitching into towers. I think you’re confusing the two – I’m referring to the former. He and the guild were in EB last night, and I’m pretty sure we (FA) didn’t ninja any towers there.

Gasoline.2570:

Just to note, there is a hacker in FA’s midst.

Ele using perma stuns with some kind of item, this chase lasted for a kitten long while.

Yeah, that guy’s a guildie. Pretty sure he isn’t a hacker, he just lives for fighting solo against multiple people in WvW. He has a few youtube vids

http://www.youtube.com/user/daphoenix555/videos?view=0&flow=grid

Rhysati.4932:

The helm is definitely cultural 2 for humans. Shoulders seem to be as well.

In the future, this might help you though mate:

http://www.gw2armorgallery.com/

That’s got all the pics of every armor and where it’s from.

Oh, awesome. Thanks!

Soeki.9643:

Helm and shoulders are human cultural tier 2 if I’m not mistaken. Chest is from CoE, and gloves might be from AC

Ah, I see, thanks for the response. It’s a shame I’m a charr on this char, lol.

Sorry if this isn’t the right place to ask this, but what’s the armor set the guardian in this pic wearing? I’m most interested in knowing what helm and pauldrons they are.

SniffyCube.6107:

Scionyde.2704:

Well, something needed to be done. The fact that you could coordinate a bunch of keep defenders on the wall to basically kill everybody on attacking siege in 2-3 seconds was ridiculous. Especially since you can’t reflect back up walls.

There are so many things that I can say to this… it only works on people trying to smash their face on the gate… against rams maybe (which a cat behind the door would to kill the siege as well)… scorp wire people off because you have to stand at the very edge to use them… aoe the walls, marks fearbombs etc… chain block projectiles… any kind of coordination…

But yeah… you could have kept these in WvW and made them even weaker or not do any damage to siege or structures? I really like these to put on golems so they can defend themselves / be a tank.

Anyway, very frustrating… I’m done with this thread

Actually the reason I bring it up is because last night, those golems kept killing us on catapults that we were using to bring down the gate. And really, all they’d need to do is just stack up and on the count of 3, spam golems, and fall back before anybody could hit them. Granted, defenders can use that same tactic with aoe, but at least you get visual cues when it’s happening and can react.

And catapults aren’t that fast at killing rams, and they certainly don’t kill players that easily. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against neat little items being used in wvw, but not when they’re ridiculous like that.

Well, something needed to be done. The fact that you could coordinate a bunch of keep defenders on the wall to basically kill everybody on attacking siege in 2-3 seconds was ridiculous. Especially since you can’t reflect back up walls.