Guild Wars 2

Website sub-domain changed to http://Nightfall.enjin.com

If you are interested in a NA prime time guild, check out Nightfall on Isle of Janthir. We’re an active WvW and PvE guild, but we have some people doing sPvP as well if that fancies you.

Our recruitment thread: http://tinyurl.com/guildrec
Our website: http://nightfalltheguild.enjin.com

We are always looking for more active people interested in WvW

Ieyasu long time no see! How attached are you guys to tarnished coast? :P We could def. use more good people on IoJ for NA primetime…

But anyways, it def. will be fun going against you guys if our servers ever get matched up

Hello fellow Janthirians and anyone else interested in the guild. We are a PvE and WvW focused semi-hardcore guild that moved to GW2 from TOR. We had a full hardcore roster back then but decided to turn it down a notch for GW2, so both hardcores and casuals are welcome, as long as they are interested in what we do and enjoy spending time with other guildmates doing whatever it is that interests you in the world of Tyria.

Recruitment is open to everyone, and over the course of a week we will see if you mesh well with others or not,and what your playstyle is. We have zero drama tolerance, and anyone who causes it is not welcome in our guild, and will be removed if they somehow decide to cause it while they are already a member.

Starting this friday, we will be heavily focusing on WvW to help progress our server forward, but that is not to say that we won’t do anything else. We have a lot of people doing anything the game has to offer, and if you ever need something done, there are always guildies online that will help you do whatever it is.

Come give us a try! Every person that has joined our guild has stayed here for the long run!

Our Website apply on our forum or (better version) speak to me in game, or any of our members, (whom you can always find a few of in either L.A or in WvW), and they will refer you to an officer.

If you’re rez-spamming to finish a dungeon, it isn’t the dungeon’s fault, it is on you. Learn the moves of the bosses/trash that you’re dying on and learn how to avoid their attacks.

We run with 5 dps specced people and do just fine in every explorable… I don’t see where this support/control/dps thing fits in. I sure as hell don’t need it to finish a dungeon. The only “support” we have is 1-2 utility skills each person brings that help other members of the group. But you don’t need to spec support to finish any dungeon in this game, story or explorable.

I think you should play the class a little more and perhaps read up on some guides of people who understand it better than you do before making statements like this.

p/d is our condition build / outlasting build for pvp. It has a very good source of melee condition spam (stealth attack) as well as an auto attack that also applies the bleeds. It is a very safe weapon combination. I’ve played this combination with 12k health in WvW and would die less than anyone in my squad due to range+stealth in melee+ being able to outlast enemies.

S/D – this set is meh because of the #3 skill. I don’t even want to comment on it, its nice to look at while its in combat, that’s about it. If you ever want to “tank” , this is the set for you.

S/P is our melee cleave set. It is what I currently run in WvW. Shadowstep and haste are basically a must (SS can be replaced by infiltrator’s signet, risk vs reward). No shadowstep effect breaks casting so you can start up your pistol whip animation andn shadowstep to the target, stunning them into a 2x hasted pistol whip. It will kill 90% of your opponents (Assuming you are in full oranges). This set does not compare with shortbow at all, and fulfills a different role. The cleave comes in handy in WvW when there are multiple enemies together, it hits WAY harder than the shortbow (the only way to beat S/P’s burst with shortbow is to shotgun, and you will run out of ini way fast with that spam). You also get an extra gap closer / condition removal built into the set as well as an interrupt and an anti-melee and anti-chaos storm skill. All in all a great pvp set up if you run with a group. Solo? Not so much,but can still (and does) work.

D/P is a set that no enemy can get away from. Infinite gap closer with a blind on top of it is a good set up, and a lot of people prefer it in structured. Haven’t seen many thieves running it in WvW though. It can be fairly expensive to stealth with this set up for backstabs though.

D/D is a decently balanced set up (well,depending on the way you build the rest of your character) but it is far from our best. The only thing that stands out on a thief, that makes other classes jelly, and makes the weapon a must equip for us, is the short bow. Infiltrator’s arrow is too good to pass up, and shortbow is basically responsible for the lack of use that you see from p/p. If it wasn’t so good, I bet a lot more people would use the other ranged option. (Unless you want to become some pseudo hunter thief with 2 ranged weapons, which would really only be good in dungeons and pve).

Thieves counter you pretty hard, simple as that. Best blind class. All you have is physical attacks. What do you expect? They could sit there with a 1 damage dagger and poke you to death if they have any blind set up in their build.

As far as backstab damage goes…those numbers are not even high, due to your toughness of course. ***You won’t ever outlast a thief, you have to outdamage them. If you can’t do that, you already lost.

But of course if the thief screws up you can just two shot them and keep going laughing at how easy it is to kill us if we make mistakes.

Applicable to warriors only. Other classes can do that just fine.

Raging Bull.5048:

One thing that has always been bothering me in GW2 – condition removals.

Bleeds shouldn’t be removable. Not sure about poisons and burning, but bleeds should definitely stay on target until the time runs out.

Yes, lets make the damage that is unmitigated, also be immune to removals. Sounds perfectly balanced.

Arena Net, hire this man!!

If you can’t see the use of an ability that gives you 2 adrenaline bars on single target (and re-fills your bar completely on 2+ targets), then there is no hope for you. Better swap over to the greatsword, less complicated, all you need to do is press 2 every 8 seconds.

1200 on shortbow with its current bounce would be a little ridiculous. I think 900 is a good spot for it. However pistols could use a buff, there is not much incentive to be using them right now over other weapon set ups.

I find it hilarious that people say S/P is bad in WvW. It is, by far, one of our best skirmish weapon sets. The only bad thing about it is, to be efficient with it, you require haste and (this is preference) shadowstep. The cleave alone have let me to double/tripple assassinates on the squishies in the back (If you’re trying to fight front line as a thief in WvW you’re suicidal). They just don’t expect a 1200 leap in their face. My PW hasted with mug can kill a squishy/semi squishy in a double tap. And the fact that you can either use your sword’s #2 , or shadowstep’s shadow return for safety means you’re never out of position.

And of course, shortbow is a must as an offhand. It is too good not to take, no matter the circumstance.

In fact, the only bad set up in WvW for us IS p/p. Because there are much better 1v1 options out there, and for more than 1v1 your shortbow is flat out better. There is ZERO reason to go full ranged in WvW. Want to be more useful at range on defense? Go sit in an arrow cart or spam cluster bombs on the gate attackers.

The only difference in weapon set ups is up to you.
Chaser? d/p
Sub-par ranger? p/p
Any-secondary-weapon-slashs-aoe? Shortbow
Stealth? d/d (or d/p if you want some more mobility)
Cleave/ PBAoE spike? S/D (Or if you’re feeling lucky,shortbow)
Conditions? p/d (or if you like sitting at 0 initiative and have slow conditions, d/d)

All have their roles, and all perform well in teams. But if you play solo, I’d suggest sticking with a stealth build, you’ll live longer.

Personally I’ve used p/d and s/d in WvW and have done well with both. P/D was good disruption and conditions do seem to cause quite a panic on your opponents (p/d conditions especially because even if they remove them, they have a new stack on them in the next 2 seconds). And sword cleave is just amazing for 5v5+ skirmishes , assuming you know how to keep yourself alive and unnoticed until it’s too late for your enemies.

Wow some of you guys have no idea about this game’s mechanics, it is quite sad really.

Shadow stepping to a target while casting is not an exploit, it is the way instant spells work in GW2. You can use them while stunned,knocked down, casting, whatever. They’re instant for a reason. No CnD into steal is not an exploit,its a tactic that thieves are (finally)starting to realize.

While I dislike the damage of the glasscannon backstab build (And think it is too much) saying that it is an exploit is just plain stupid,sorry. And to have the (lack of) brains to follow that up with saying that bullsrush into hasted 100b is an exploit… Loss of words here.

I don’t say this often, but L2P.

Shameless bump, needs to be fixed.

Basically, wall dies in one hit of a trebuchet. And it gets repaired to full in one supply of repairs. Impossible to hold the outer part of the keep (West Bay Keep of the borderlands map). Seems like the wall only has 1 health. Also seems to only work on the reinforced (1st upgrade) wall, not the normal wall or the max upgrade wall. It is also not just a health display glitch because after one repair, it won’t let you repair it any more. Someone forgot to add some zero’s somewhere.

I won’t bother saying what server or what guild is abusing this since I doubt it will matter, and after this post I’m sure a lot more people will abuse this, unfortunately, but I’d rather ANet sees this and fixes it than it goes around unnoticed.

Here’s a link to the video demonstrating the 1 hp wall and me targeting the health bar the entire time, mute sound if you don’t want to hear music/stupid teamspeak comments.

Mostly obsidian shards, unless you like the temple armor. Also there are plenty of items you can buy for karma to get the skins, not necessarily the stats. (For example, every race sells a unique skin set of weapons that anyone can buy).

Oh, and salvage kits. Lots and lots of salvage kits and gathering tools for karma.

I 400ed both of my professions as soon as I hit 80,without using the trading post (Mostly because it didn’t work before I was in full orange gear).

You’re doing something wrong if you’re having a hard time with leveling crafting.