Guild Wars 2

Quick feedback from playing this weekend.

Echo of Memory – 2 one hit blocks are just bad in a game where a large amount of the moves come at a fast pace and hit multiple times. Definitely needs to be a channeled block since in terms of off-hands it is hard to give up the torch on Mesmer just because the stealth gives you a better defensive option in PvP. You have to make it compete with torch or it won’t see much use. If a channel is to much, then maybe let the Mesmer enter stealth on a successful block. Or maybe some kind of ability to swap places with the iAvenger on block kinda like a reverse sword 3. Speaking of iAvenger it needs to come out faster. I think there are a lot of options here to improve the defensive properties of the skill.

Wells – Calamity and Action are in good spots, don’t think you need to touch these. Precog and Recall need some work. Lots of good suggestions in this thread. Gravity could be bigger, shorter cooldown, or the float could be added back in. One of these needs to be done to truly make it an elite skill where you must take a trait line to use it. I think even the developers forget that you must take a trait line to use this elite and you give up other synergistic traits to use it and thus should be a bit better then other elites.

Traits – I think the traits are in a good spot. I still think the Well trait is lackluster in both beta weekends.

Not working for me either. I approached the level the same way you did and haven’t gotten it yet.

Devon I think your doing a good job but seriously your out of touch with WvW. You and your team need to take the time before this league starts and transfer to every server and play at times your normally wouldn’t i.e. not reset day or NA prime. Your numbers tell you these servers crush people but it’s not until you actually see it in action that it sinks in and you realize skill has nothing to do with it. Do it in the name of research.

Watch as your group while in a T3/4/5 server won’t be able to take anything but camps and maybe a unguarded tower during European/Oceanic/SEA against T1/2 servers that you probably won’t hold for the point tick. Watch the karma train while sitting in a T1 or T2 server against T3/4/5. Watch in the lower tiers the literal ghost town at these times. Then you’ll understand the true gaps between the servers and maybe then it will lead you guys to a solution. As many have stated it’s not skill and never will be skill it’s all coverage and population

I am hoping they fix the Minstrel as well. It seems every time they respond about the fix to legendaries the Minstrel is always left out of the conversation.

All you need to do is run across the Asura platforms to the ship when Horrik is alone. When you try to get the ship it will port you back to the entrance of the fight and count toward the achievement. My friend tested it out and it does work.

Nope I can’t figure it out either. I dodged all his aoes except the in between cannon fire (really hard to dodge all of those if not immposible) and I can’t get it.

Waiting for WvW to go back up this happens when in fractals.

XD you’ll never see this again.

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Impressive Freg Crossing, Impressive.

Except for the fact that the clone doesn’t even come out sometimes when the path is blocked and it just wasted the skill. So annoying the skill should just be the exact opposite of Phase Retreat and be done with it already.

The skill needs to be fixed and should have been priority 1 or 2 on there fix list with izerker.

XD great chase in Bay in TCBL. 15 minute chase with 8 people chasing me. Land or sea you can’t catch me. :P

What about updates to legendary weapons that haven’t been updated yet like the Meteorlogicus and the Minstrel. Both are less then stellar in the legendary factor and need an update. Can we expect them to get updates?

Finished my Minstrel tonight. Took me 1920 Hours of playing mostly in WvW and some very heavy farming in the last 2 weeks(I don’t know how you PvE players do it). I told myself in Novemeber I was aiming toward it after seeing every other legendary on many different players but never the Minstrel. 7 months later I still have never seen anyone with it and and I finally finished it. Love it I feel like I stand out a bit more more now but I hope it gets updated soon to give it musical effects like the Mesmer 1 skill underwater or a better sound to all attacks but until then I’ll stand around the Lion Arch bank and switch weapons over and over again causing everyone to hear to the harp strum over and over again.

Now to start the long haul to get the next one.

I have had this happen to me twice so far although without the verbal abuse. The fishing pole needs to be adjusted to be used only a few times. Both guys never touched the crab after they started this.

Also just because someone is winning doesn’t mean he should leave. The only way I got good at the game was because when I first played it some dude was smoking everyone. I studied what he did for a few rounds, emulated it and then lo and behold I started winning. The people winning the game know something you don’t, instead of griefing them and causing yourself to lose, watch and imitate them.

Any American servers with it open?

I have found a lot of success today splitting my gear between Rabid and Knights today. Adding some power back into the set while keeping some condition damage for Sharper Images, Staff attacks, confusions with Cry and Sigils of Earth and you can find a good balance. I am running Staff with Sword and Torch/Focus.

Try not to get rid of your old equipment maybe one day the strait condition mesmer will be viable again. Doubt it but I am hopeful.

I am ok with nerfing confusion but I think there needs to be a bit of compromise if your going to nerf it this much. Heres some food for thought, some of us don’t have the gold or karma to outright change our gear because our spec was nerfed and not viable anymore. This isn’t sPvP where we can swap out stats without any cost to ourselves or others. So why not compromise with those that like playing a condition mesmer by actually changing the Staff 1 and Scepter 1 skills. For example

Staff: Take away the vulnerability it stacks and exchange it with poison or more reliable bleeds. Vulnerability does not help the condition build which the staff tends to gravitate too.

Scepter: Since scepter has been pretty much a niche weapon for confusion builds(which are getting a big hit) why not change the 1 skill to do something other then create clones(which it does poorly anyway). Why not give back the scepter it’s beta ability to stack confusion again, with the 50% nerf to the condition it shouldn’t be that deadly anymore. Or if you feel it would still be OP let it stack bleeds like the trident with the clones.

These are just very few things I can think of off the top of my head. Just remember ANet everytime you nerf something this hard the players need to grind gold, laurels, karma, commendations, etc just to get new gear to become viable again. In a game where the philosophy is not to grind changes like this really hurt the causal player

Bitz.2896:

Nice Rally DB

/salute to [Krew] and [BP], you guys really fought like beast tonight and it looked like a major improvement from what i saw earlier this week. So whatever you are doing, keep it up! Hopefully tomorrow we will get some more [TSym] on the field so we can really dance.

See you one the field and have fun!

Thanks! Fighting SoS has been the best times in WvW for DB in a long time. Always stuck in the middle of Tier 3 with a Tier 2 server beating up on us it’s nice to fight servers that are evenly matched with us. As I go to bed we are within 3K points. This one is going down to the wire.

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Power came back on in time to ride the NNK/TFV gravytrain. Time to flip the map.

As someone who plays a confusion mesmser it’s actually really simple to beat us. Don’’t attack. Yes its that simple we want you to hit us but we can’t always keep confusion on people and you can easily wait till our confusion skills are on cooldown to attack us. You can accomplish this in 3 ways.

1. Turn your auto-attack off. This can be annoying but if you spam 1 anyway there is no reason to have it on.

2. Turn away from the mesmer. Mesmers have no skills that do much damage when you don’t face them and when you turn away from an enemy you stop attacking them.

3. The weapon sheath button. If you sheath your weapon you stop attacking.

You can also cure a lot of conditions but your better off saving those for high stacks of bleed etc.

Only 2 hours till our SEA presence shows up in full force. Must keep WvWing but body failing me. Goodluck to those in Db for the next two hours.

Kimbald.2697:

Skapocalypse.5236:

I like it. Now you need to keep scouts in towers and maybe 3-4 people in keeps. People just need to adjust(and they will adjust) and not just zerg around and follow commanders.

the same zergers will zerg, and leave the others to do the scouting.
The same people who run dolyaks now, or supplies…

Most zergers will expect ‘others’ to stay behind, never themselves.

The end result will be that most towers and keeps won’t have designated scouts on the lower populated maps.

‘Not making swords’ is a form of organisation. It often fails, true, but that doesn’t mean the system had to adjust.

Look at it this way for your argument: people sometimes adjusted to not making swords, and sometimes they didn’t…
Same will happen with scouting: some will, some won’t.

People ,won’t magically adjust: those that bothered now with being supportive for no reward, will keep doing it.
The karma trainers will still try to train.

The PUGs will PUG that’s what they do. The people that play WvW with WvW guilds will adjust and when they do and PUGs see less and less karma trains and more commanders held up in towers/keeps they will either leave or adjust themselves. All ANet has to do is reward people for scouting and tower sitting. It might be in the works already(doubtful but it is a possibility).

I for one don’t mind sitting in towers and defending and I never will mind. If more people did it you would be surprised how stupid effective it is. One person with at least some siege keeps zergs from going to work on walls/gates early and gives the much needed to time to get the people to the ojective in order to repel them.

I like it. Now you need to keep scouts in towers and maybe 3-4 people in keeps. People just need to adjust(and they will adjust) and not just zerg around and follow commanders.

Golems can’t jump anymore(they used to for short time) and they still can’t jump right now. I am in one right now and testing this. I also see a Arenanet Dev in that video at the start and that video is from Sat night(I know because I am technically in it at the end becasue we snuck in behind them when they were on the lords pad). So basically the ANet dev in that video allowed them to jump for that short amount of time. Now it’s golem jumping but it begs the question what else do the ANet devs let people do?

Loken.9724:

Skapocalypse.5236:

Waking.6052:

Yeah, like NNK and AoN especially TG?

We might be able to work something out when it comes to gold.

ibajiah.5280:

Any Dragonbrand guilds wanting to move up to T2 with us? We’re prepared to swallow our pride if you’re prepared to face the challenge.

Loken.9724:

This post has nothing to do with DB or YB. Read the original post. This is to fill our time coverage gap. Short and simple. We are not happy simply being in T3. We want to move up and stay there. This is how it happens.

Thank you for the bump though.

Loken your post and these two posts are conflicting. So it’s not good enough your face stomping us, you want to try to convince our guilds to move as well? Sounds pretty dirty to me.

Once again, I said this has nothing to do with DB or YB. did you see me mention any guilds in specific or any server in specific? No didn’t think so. Thank you very much. Also its definitly not good enough that we are ‘face stomping’ you. We want nothing to do with your server, we want to move on to better competition in t2. Nothing against DB, you just don’t have the numbers to match us. You know it, we know it. I think it would be best for both DB and FA if we could fill our coverage gap and move on. Now if you do not have anything positive to contribute to the thread could you please refrain from trolling here.

I do appreciate the bumps.

Once again, FA is filled with amazing guilds ready and willing to do whatever it takes to help you guys make the move to FA. Speak with guilds like AVTR or EPX and ask them about their experiences with the move, from what I’ve been told they are greatly enjoying themselves here.

First off I am not trolling I am simply pointing out that your server is trying to recruit people from my server and I don’t like it. If you guys are such a great community then you should let them know not to mention anyone specific when making a topic like this. I want you guys to go to Tier 2 and get out of our hair but not because you steal a lot of our players and cause us to plummet as a result of it. All I am saying is don’t rob Peter to pay Paul, it isn’t right.

P.S. A lot of people don’t like server recruitment topics.

Waking.6052:

Yeah, like NNK and AoN especially TG?

We might be able to work something out when it comes to gold.

ibajiah.5280:

Any Dragonbrand guilds wanting to move up to T2 with us? We’re prepared to swallow our pride if you’re prepared to face the challenge.

Loken.9724:

This post has nothing to do with DB or YB. Read the original post. This is to fill our time coverage gap. Short and simple. We are not happy simply being in T3. We want to move up and stay there. This is how it happens.

Thank you for the bump though.

Loken your post and these two posts are conflicting. So it’s not good enough your face stomping us, you want to try to convince our guilds to move as well? Sounds pretty dirty to me.

Still not thrilled about fighting FA again but kitten is it nice to see Yaks Bend instead of Mag. Even if it’s only for a little while it’s a nice change of pace then the stale FA/DB/Mag battle the last month. Good fights everywhere tonight I had a lot of fun for a change.

Folk.2093:

Skapocalypse.5236:

This matchup has officially run it’s course and has become just plain boring now. I don’t know if I can take another week of this matchup it’s just the same thing every day

- 12AM-5 AM EST FA makes the maps green
- 6AM-12PM EST DB makes the maps blue
- 1PM-7PM EST Mag takes back there stuff and pushes both servers and for a while the battle is even.
- 8-11 PM EST FA wakes up and starts taking the majority of the map while Mag goes to bed and DB starts to trail off.

It’s like clockwork now. Something needs to change.

Lets find a way to spice up our relationship!

Unfortunately the only way it spices up is if FA loses a bunch of people or Mag/DB gain a ton of people. Both equally unlikely to happen with paid transfers. We all have to face facts and realize this will be the matchup for the next 2-4 weeks until one server just plain gives up and tanks the entire week to get out of the tier and then they will be back in the tier after they face roll tier 4. It’s going to be a very boring month of WvW.

This matchup has officially run it’s course and has become just plain boring now. I don’t know if I can take another week of this matchup it’s just the same thing every day

- 12AM-5 AM EST FA makes the maps green
- 6AM-12PM EST DB makes the maps blue
- 1PM-7PM EST Mag takes back there stuff and pushes both servers and for a while the battle is even.
- 8-11 PM EST FA wakes up and starts taking the majority of the map while Mag goes to bed and DB starts to trail off.

It’s like clockwork now. Something needs to change.

GuardianOMS.8067:

Skapocalypse.5236:

How many FA does it take to kill one mesmer in the water?

My path was a lot longer as well since I started getting chased from the back of the keep. Did you really need to send that many to take out one tiny Asura? That’s just mean.

Everyone knows mesmers are gods underwater. Stay alive for that long as an ele underwater and you’ll get a lot more respect.

Bah that’s not an excuse two of those chasing me were mesmers as well I got mesmer sunk and whirlpooled at least 5 times. That was all survivability.

How many FA does it take to kill one mesmer in the water?

This many
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How long did I survive?
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My path was a lot longer as well since I started getting chased from the back of the keep. Did you really need to send that many to take out one tiny Asura? That’s just mean.

Monkish Delights.2591:

You know whats funny mag and db? FA is still winning no matter what you say or how much you complain that we are. So in other words we’re in your keeps taking your ppt and there is nothing you can do to stop us xD

Congrats you have more people in your server then the other two servers especially more kiddies that are still in school since today on a holiday it seemed FA had their entire server at a time where its normally empty. When you go back up to Tier 2 eventually and get stomped again because Kain and BG have more people then you then you’ll understand how it feels. Vicious cycle of WvW.

Superior Arrow Carts+RET+BT=45 badges and a full bag of loot including two yellows.

I watch that DB watergate like a hawk from about 1AM Eastern to 4AM. Second day in a row getting 30+ badges in less then a half an hour at our Garrison. You can try again tomorrow but I am pretty sure I’ll be there.

Sorry FA that’s DBs Garrison not yours. You can try later though but thank you for the 37 badges in about 30 minutes I made.

plasmacutter.2709:

final rest is useless for necro. the scythe effect is already built-in to the profession.

Even though it looks like a scyth in that picture it’s actually got two wings scyths jutting out from it and looks pretty awesome on a necro.

It would be worth a lot and not because you could sell it for 1000 gold but because if you did find it you wouldn’t need to tell anyone where you found it. If it was a rare event chain you could casually farm the event chain and keep collecting them and selling them for like 100-200 gold a pop. And no one would would have a clue.

GW2 needs more stuff like this in the game. Keeps the PvE stuff fun and makes people do events in the game they normally would never do and go places they normally would never go. It actually makes the PvE stuff in the game outside the dungeons fun and exciting.

I say add more cool skins for us to go treasure hunting for.

Burnout can be stopped very easily by shortening the length of the matchups by maybe about a day. Ending on Thursday instead of Friday and giving us 24 hours before the next matchup instead of like 10 minutes can alleviate the constant need for some people to be in WvW at all times. Most of the time by Thursday the match has been decided already anyway and no one plays at that point very seriously. You wouldn’t even need to shut WvW down for that 24 hour period you just need to stop counting points and let people have fun killing each other for 24 hours.

Ok now I am going to bed 5PM to 3AM EST DB Borderlands defense and only lost one tower. EA, Krew, Duel, BP, WE and the rest today just awesome defense and communication on DB BL.

I am watching DB BL like a hawk today FA. Your going to have to be much sneakier with golems attacks to towers to catch me tonight.

Can’t play, must shovel large amounts of snow. After Sandy and now this blizzard I am pretty sure the weather and the seasons are double teaming me to get rid of me.

You guys would have had to face Magumma or Dragonbrand next week anyway which are both Tier 3 servers. Either server would have capped you out in a day and it wouldn’t have changed anything. If you want to WvW hardcore you need to join a server dedicated to it. You can call it bandwagoning or whatever but it’s just the simple truth. There is a world(no pun intended) of difference between almost every tier and the Tier 8 servers just don’t have the population to move up in the ranks. With free transfers gone no large guild is going to pull a Kain and push you guys up.

It sucks but thats the truth of the matter and the flaw in WvW.

style.6173:

Skapocalypse.5236:

Can we at least get some set information on who exactly we will be facing next week. Kinda hard to set up the server for the next match when we have no idea where to send people into which borderlands.

This is an impossible request. The matches are based on this week’s match-up. Those match-ups end at 7pm EST this Friday. Until that time, anything could change. Just guess based on that tracker site.

It’s not immposible they just need to let us know if they are changing the math (if they are at all) and how they will and then the guys over at mos can take care of the rest. Simple request not hard for ANet to do.

Can we at least get some set information on who exactly we will be facing next week. Kinda hard to set up the server for the next match when we have no idea where to send people into which borderlands.

Why is WvW still considered the red headed step child of this game? Why are we always left out of everything and our update keeps getting pushed back. Games been out for 5 months and WvW has seen almost 0 love from the Devs. I hope ESO gets it right.

Saw some OG in Kains BL tonight and you guys are pretty kitten good. A lot of respect to you guys and sorry we had to zerg your 5 man group a few times but we were in a hurry to get supplies back to that east keep. I got a few people that want to fight you guys strait up in around a 5v5. Maybe next time. :P

Also WM is easy to defeat in terms tactics. They tunnel vision one objective at a time and all you need to do is just ninja cap everything they aren’t attacking at the time. It’s actually pretty funny and I understand how they ended up with just SM on reset night. The people in EBG could give them fits all night very easily.

neomccoy.2657:

It’s been more than 24 hours that we lead in ppt. So what is the next excuse?

Wrong. My scoreupdate at the bottom of page 9 had DB at PPT lead at 2AM eastern last night. It’s this picture in case u missed it -http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/7108/gw227y.jpg

Note: That’s the picture form last night, for anyone looking for score update you’ll have to look for another pic.

Tarjaic.5269:

Congratz to kain for getting ur hills back, i would be curious to know how many omegas you have used to accomplish this as i have personally seen 15 go down not counting the assault that won it for you. Hehehe u should thank mag though as they softened us up considerably for you.

But Edgar that’s impossible everyone in Kain still thinks were in a super secret alliance with Mag. Mag couldn’t have possibly attacked us according to them.

Dhampyr.2104:

Skapocalypse.5236:

Except we didn’t just hold on our east Keep in your BL. We flipped your garrison twice that night and your northeast tower twice. So I don’t get this mentality that it’s all we held. There was a reason why you had a wooden garrison most of the night.

Yeah, we used to do that in T8 too. Just couldn’t hold it. Again, just like now. :-)

The question still remains how could you have not defended two attacks that worked when you had the numbers to do so. The answer is simple you guys had 0 supply in your garrison from dumping them into tons of Omegas that were getting wrecked by our full supply and fully sieged Hills and on top of that you guys defend horribly. Try this against a T1 and T2 server and you will never hold on to your garrison.

Dhampyr.2104:

First off, you guys are doing awesome in Kain’s Hills. Keep it up!

That being said, holding a single point on a map, nothing else, and sieging it up to where it’s very difficult to take is straight up T8, last place, moral victory “I can’t do anything else” tactics. Believe me, I know – that’s exactly what we used to do back in T8 when we couldn’t do anything else. We lost everything else on the map, couldn’t hold it, but by golly, we weren’t going to lose everything! Just like you right now.

Welcome to T8.

Except we didn’t just hold on our east Keep in your BL. We flipped your garrison twice that night and your northeast tower twice. So I don’t get this mentality that it’s all we held. There was a reason why you had a wooden garrison most of the night.

Evalana.5480:

I wanna be in the super secret alliance!!!

Do I get a secret decoder ring and a treasure map?

Nope we get the wonder twin rings.

Wonder Twin Powers Activate!! Form of…

Score Update!!!
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ParaldaWind.4523:

I’ve decided I like Dragonbrand. Sorry your oceanics disappeared.

They didn’t disappear there just not as big as Kains. They’ll fight hard and push during the week like they normally do.

Oh Maguuma why did you push against us on FA borderlands. You never push the other invading team on a borderlands that isn’t your own on reset day. It only made it easier for FA to take their east keep back from you guys.

Oh well good fights so far.

Fair enough a man can try. I like fighting RET anyway even if you guys have like a 1000 D/D eles.