Guild Wars 2

Berengar.6951:

Sepsis.1564:

Azaruil.3406:

Sepsis.1564:

We still have one yet to transfer, I met KoM tonight … good first impression!

I just saw your username. You wouldn’t happened to have been a defiler, eh?

Nah, never played StarCraft.. just a bunch of DAoC (2003 to 2012)

Defiler is from LOTRO, which is where most of KoM met (we picked up some here in GW2 of course).

All of OINK have a DAOC background, however only we all did not play Dark Age together… as a guild. I primarly played in a guild called Caustic

Azaruil.3406:

Sepsis.1564:

We still have one yet to transfer, I met KoM tonight … good first impression!

I just saw your username. You wouldn’t happened to have been a defiler, eh?

Nah, never played StarCraft.. just a bunch of DAoC (2003 to 2012)

We still have one yet to transfer, I met KoM tonight … good first impression!

Gab Superstar.4059:

Did BOSS x-fer from T1 or something? Why are they trying to blob up so much?

They are holding absolutely nothing in the map while doing so.

111111111111111111111 = skill

If your not there to compete, then we will never know if you could.

Edit: we will decide soon

Nerf RLT in sPvP (where Elementalist are over represented, and your developers see as a parity issue), but please don’t give us a 40 second cool down in WvW (in WvW there are less dagger off hand Elementalist).

The Nerf bat is swing too hard, on this upcoming patch for Eleys…. so consider splitting sPvP and WvW cool downs for RTL?

Must have drama….

Chaosky.5276:

Azunai.1065:

im not talking about removing conditions, im talking about less heal
or actualy the change that you cant channel renewal in mistform anymore, thus getting interrupted within the first tick
i’m not playing sPvP but WvW and if your running with your guildies vs a bigger number of enemys you do need the mobility and save cond remove or your just plain dead as light armor melee

Believe me, I know your pain – I run Ether Renewal with a fairly glassy build, and this change is gonna sting. I’m not even sure if scepter/dagger will be worth using for damage with the RtL change, and if it isn’t I’m gonna have to go staff because I HATE being restricted to melee range, which means I’m not really going to be able to kill anyone…

agree

I predict the patch will lead to a number of unintended consequences.

PistolWhip.2697:

Something to point out is, Ele’s were never meant to be the masters or one of the best at mobility, survivable etc. They are meant to be kinda good at it all, which they can still be. it just means they can’t be really good at particular things as per Anet’s design philosophy.

Thief best mobility, definitively not eleys

I can understand the nerf to rtl in sPvP, but in WvWvW when your kiting zergs, ANET do we really need that hard of a nerf?

Who is giving these developers game advice?

Most Nerf and balances are references are to sPvP, not WvW …

Who f*^%#$ cares about holding a point in sPvP, now looks like i have to bunker up more in WvW

So much love for thieves (even tho Mug has been nerfed), where is that coming from?

[GRIM] nice fights tonight! [Absy] Commander better luck next time…

Gazden.5479:

@MoW Warrior, don’t be upset bro, there is literally nothing you can do to win. Just out comped.

Someone got OiNk’ed?

Krelkain.5418:

last episide guild of our lifes: in the summer camp derk haven and debona’s rest earn tie knot merit badge but only one to have. in struggle to sharing, camp chairman [OINK] intervene with peace offering of marshmellow campfire and ghost frightstory in heroic cameo of good feel hug to campers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTieaH-U2LQ

pixieish.9627:

Bah! I keep dying in your videos. (In my defense, I figured it was either jump down and die with friendlies, or stay up there and get pummelled by red names.)

Could have happened to any one of us, considering the situation. It was awesome. Leg hugs.

So glad Bane and I got a little cameo .. in this most excellent clip!

Solo Elementalist … on DR

BTW, did not know that Sword/Ax and Long Bow was such a popular warrior spec

Short D/D Elementalist WvWvW Clip while running: 30 Air 30 Water 10 Arcane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-nXzq_LqD7Q

Acelerion.6820:

People that follow us without being in ventrilo, especially up levels, are little more than rally bait. I’ve been burned too many times. So if you want to hug someone’s nuts its polite to ask first.

Rally bait, lol

Elric.2730:

For the record, that scenario played out as you described with one pretty major flaw, once we wiped the 6-7 people that followed us, you were immediately on us. Now, that means as we were finishing off the last of this group that followed us, from my perspective, you two come racing in knowing what we just fought, hoping you could get a win. If you want respect, you give respect, waving at my group so we don’t roll you is not respect.

Trying to vulture us just makes me roll you whenever I see you (not you so much, but that horrible Sylvari mesmer you run with, insists on adding on everything), you’re only as good as the company you keep, maybe you need to find better company?

Note, just an OINK engineer and eley duo

Oozo.7856:

Yeah, sometimes you get kitten for helping. Sometimes you get kitten for not helping. The life of a roamer can be very confusing. :P

It really is not that confusing… there are players and guilds whom show and deserve respect and there is everyone else …. that multitude are all kill on sight and if necessary troll…

Acelerion.6820:

Oozo.7856:

Gazden.5479:

Oozo.7856:

Acelerion.6820:

Hah I love Gaz just sitting there with his arms crossed

Yeah, first fight with Xsorus I was winning pretty easily (I made a few mistakes in the fight in the movie which allowed him to get away so he could kite and heal) but Gaz backstabbed him when he was low health so I had to ditch that clip.

After that we were letting him 1v1. Gaz beat him at least once.

Sorry about that, sometimes I’m a real scumbag!

Ah, NP. :P

It’s hard to know whether to help or not sometimes. I’ve not engaged because someone was 1v1ing but then spent the next few minutes getting rage tells for not helping after they lost.

You should ask sepsis about that. I thought he was actually going to report the guy. He followed us around for hours spamming map chat with all sorts of profanity.

Must have more drama….

Short video on small man action..

http://youtu.be/-nXzq_LqD7Q

MoW engineer … Nice Fight at the Ruins … OinK OinK (Asura Eley)

@Fizzlepip. Props to SNFU for being competitive and not running away from equal numbers!

Let’s have some good small man action tonight… sPvP is nearly not as much fun as open world PvP

[GRIM] Oink Oink

Acelerion.6820:

go zergs get that wexp

Oink Oink

Why do a majority of players run in groups of 20+?

Please explain…

Davrollen.8935:

Gazden.5479:

SNFU Mesmer, SUP BRO

<3 Gaz

Hey man. You guys are way too effective in your guild groups. Pain in the asz.

Gaz termed the phase “Oinked”

Acelerion.6820:

Attic.1562:

Bloody hell these threads are so boring now. Where did all the amusing drama go?

Don’t tell me BP, Maguuma, and SBI have a monopoly on hardheaded idiots & attention kittens.

I keep trying but Im not getting anywhere

More drama please…

Like Forty Seven Ninjas.6982:

Acelerion.6820:

PD is supposed to be a roaming guild right?

We take objectives and get points for DH just like any other guild out there. We help where we’re needed be it walkin yaks or wiping zergs (I’d like to think I’m pretty boss at the former).

If you define roaming as walking around with the sole purpose of fighting other small groups, then no, we’re not a roaming guild. If you define it as a guild that does all sorts of WvW things not with the main force for the benefit of the server, then yes, we’re a roaming guild.

So PD is playing for the “Greater Good” of DH?

Emerge.9640:

It’s getting boring people, come feed us some badges

Spike …..

Ninja midget Asura flips.. lol

Well done, Oink Oink … it’s a shame that we did not get fraps of taking that 5 man who added on the end of that last last fight…

The resurrector cannot be in combat… therefore combat interrupts revive for x period of time

Catisa.6507:

hard revives should be out of combat only (WvW only).

This is a reasonable compromise….

Acelerion.6820:

I hate fighting up north. No open ground and people run into keeps too easy:/

Only on Bane island right?

Emerge.9640:

I’m off work in about 15 minutes. Who is looking forward to getting blown up by the Bush Hog? I’m excited. Oink.

111111111111111111111111111111111 —- emulating the “Bush Hog” —- John Deere style

Edit: insure that I am in huge zerg ball in EB

Straegen.2938:

This again? Players dropping 200k or more damage with one ability is ridiculous. AoE is already broken and dominates the game why make it more so? If it is under the assumption that it will stop zerging, that will never happen with this change.

Imagine two big zergs fighting and dropping AoE… everything would be dead in a second with almost no chance to avoid the damage.

Imagine two big zergs fighting and dropping AoE… everything would be dead in a second with almost no chance to avoid the damage.[/quote]

That’s the point to removing/reducing the AoE cap to limit BIG ZERG play…

Now a few defenders truely get an advantage defending keep —- AoE the choke point, really hurts (OMG… you just can’t run mindlessly though the door)

Of course, the cap does not have to be completely removed, this can be done in an iterative fashion.

Acelerion.6820:

Killed a lot of SE last night. Im sure none of them were The Swindler because we made it out alive.

Word

Commander Icon doesn’t designate a leader, WvW rank doesn’t equate to your PvP skill level, and pigs don’t fly.

As expected an expansions worth of content… Just think of what this MMO could have been.
We all been looking for DAoC 2 and we are delivered PvD 2.0

Less than six days away for the WvW patch, that has been delayed since February.

Habib when can we expect a Blog post?

Samhayn.2385:

Vena.8436:

Samhayn.2385:

I understand this and I also think its a bad idea that’s why I’m giving suggestions.

Stiv.1820:

Allowing zergs to tag people for full XP is a terrible design decision that will make this entire system meaningless.

And yet, no one bothers to address “what is a zerg”.

Are 30 well trained, fluid guild members all working in tandem a zerg? Or are they an army? How bout 50 of them? Is that a zerg yet? Is 30 vs. 30 GvG a ZvZ?

Might as well just go with the sandpile paradox in reverse:

• Are X guild members a zerg or are they a well coordinated?
  +1 to infinity where X is <1 than your definition of how many #s it takes to make a zerg a zerg.

Who would and how does one draw the line on “X is too many teammates, you’re a zerg”. I don’t consider the likes of my servers big, organized guilds running in groups (20, 30, even some 40+) zergs, I consider them a guild and a team. Yet, because we’re to assign some arbitrary distinction of “the zerg”… they suddenly aren’t going to be rewarded as if they were a team. How is such a thing fair? Why do two X0 vs X0 guilds going at it head to head suddenly being rewarded less for their efforts? Did the fight somehow become a lot easier when it was X*10 vs. X*10 people rather than just X vs X?

If you want to break up the zerg, add more incentives for scouting (or, as the sword change did, more punishment for not scouting). However this is a difficult balance because its often times impossible to discern a scout at a keep from an afk at said keep.

I would rather see this game be something we all (wvw community) can enjoy and not the rest stop on people’s way to TESO or CU.
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edit: Seriously Anet, reconsider this. It’s going to be a big make or break it point vs this game and TES.

Stop this already, you cannot compare a game that exists as bullet points and in a mystical ether called your imagination to a game that actually exists in purchasable media.

I see your point but here is your mistake, when 30 v 30 happens and your side wins you will split the total amount of xp from 30 kills amoungst 30 people meaning you will get the same amount of xp as if 1 v 1 happened. You would make out even better if your 30 took out 50. What Anet is doing is makeing it so if the same battle happens you will receive xp as if it was 1v30 and if those same 30 run over a guy solo and all tag him (unlikely but still) they all get xp as if it was a 1v1. That’s not right. At best this system encorages nothing but Zerg play and at worst you will get spawn camping and outmanned teams just not showing up to fight since why should they give wxp to the other team when they have no chance? This does nothing to bring more people out to wvw and does nothing to spread the fighting out over the whole map and not focus it in two to three areas.

Please don’t tell me what to compare and not to compare I have been around long enough to know that poor decisions made to a live game will and does drive people to become more interested on what’s on the horizon.

Well spoken, guess we wait for the live patch..

Fxncy.2398:

Not all WvW zergs are bad! I lead my guild (a decent sized zerg) with strategy not just a 2v20 or something. A lot of guild leaders and commanders enjoy zerg v zerg startegy and fighting. But I do agree, don’t make zergs the only way to play!

But what about everyone else?

Only select zerg leaders have all the fun?

That does not sound very inclusive.

Matt Witter.6982:

We will have much more info on World Ranks very soon! In the mean time:

1. Everyone that helped with the kill will get full credit for the kill.
2. NPC’s are not worth World Experience
3. I can’t give all the goods away just yet!
4. Yes.

Thus the zerging continues… full credit is just a incentive to clump and aoe… sounds like a work around a coding issue.

Let’s hope there is other something postive for small maning in this patch.

Rally, the ultimate PvP crutch. The singular WvW mechanic which gets the care-bears out into the WvW, but aids in the zerg fest.

This is the most broken issue now WvW (well other than culling, AOE caps, etc., we all know the litany by now), I digress.

Jinks.2057:

Did some eternal for once today.

Good times and found out OINK houses prolly the worst DAoC pally of all time :P

Oh so true…

Look for a few more to small man with on DR… pm me in game or here …

Especially if you played DAoC..

Acelerion.6820:

We transfered from maguuma to avoid the zergyness. They are getting stomped by tc for the same reason they will stomp sbi…population.

The population gradient in this 3,4,5 tier range is extreme.

IMO they need more Crypt Keepers over these tiers …. that Hundred Blades will Keep Ya Downed…