Guild Wars 2

EDIT:

• Updated Agony Resistance from 88 to 106
• Updated Rings to be Attuned and Infused

EDIT:

• Updated Agony Resistance from 65 to 88
• Updated Highest fractal Achieved from 38 to 47
• Updated interest from just raid guild to general PvE Guild for Raids, Fractals and Open World Meta’s

witcher.3197:

+1 to that

Normally I’m not one to care about such trivial changes but what the hell Anet. You keep changing the division icons for no reason and they are just getting worse.

Revert them please.

I agree, I still love the first ones more.
The second (last ones) were.. meh, not that bad.
But now.. Oh god

Do they need to have access to multiple accounts? #TooSoon?

I never done raids but I’m looking for a raid guild :>
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/lookingfor/EU-LF-RAID-GUILD-5/first#post6685725

Hi all,

I am a fairly experienced player in this game except for raids.
I’m primarily a PvP-player but want to get back into PvE for a change.

Some information about me:

• Hours: 8.700 in 1207 days
• Achievement Points: 14 690 (low due being PvP-player)
• PvP Rank: 236
• PvP matches: 5 950 matches
• Main Class(es): Thief (Warrior)
• Legendaries Crafted: 9
• Map Completion: 4 times (9th Legendary was Eternity so didn’t need 5th Completion)
• Armor: Ascended Berserker with Agony Resistance
• Weapons: Legendary Berserkers with Agony Resistance
• Trinkets: Ascended Berserker with Agony Resistance and Attuned/Infused Rings
• Backpack: Legendary Berserker with Agony Resistance
• Agony Resistance: 106
• Highest Accomplished Fractal: 47 (just started again and done 47 with ease)
• Done Dungeons: All
• Done Dungeon Paths: All

I am quite communicative, ready for both TeamSpeak and Discord.
I have been in multiple hardcore WvW-guilds where dedication, mechanical knowledge and focus were prime subjects to get in. So communication and mechanical skills/knowledge do not lack.

I happen to be a Guild master of an EU PvP Guild called Tough Muffins [YuM] aswel, which exists for nearly 3 years now. (previously known as [ZeuS])

But as I said, I’m totally new to raids. I tried doing raids yesterday for the first time but it seems impossible as a lone player to get into a raid-party so I’ve never even saw a single thing of a raid, ever. (insert sad violin)

I am someone who can follow commands without issues. I’m also someone who can accept feedback of any kind, whatsoever. Hence I am a quick learner.

Times I’m looking to raid; CEST in the evening between 19:00 – 23:00.
Weekends have mostly no limits.

Not only am I looking for raids; I’m also looking for a guild to do Fractals and Open World Metas with on reguraly basis.

So, TL;DR, who’s up for taking this lonely cat into his/her guild and learn me raids?
Contact through ingame mail @ Terrorsquad.2349
You teach me and I teach you?

Kind regards,
Denied

Hey boys,

As a main PvP player, I have little to no knowledge about +30 fractals and haven’t done a single raid.

What do you suggest doing for Tyrian Mastery levels?
I’ve got 65 AR for Fractals on my DareDevil Staff thief.

What is the fastest way for Maguuma Mastery levels?

My goal is to reach max before PoF comes out (Im at lv 67 now, is that even possible?)

Kind regards,
Denied

Chaith.8256:

Ryan.9387:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Impaling_Lotus
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Vault
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bounding_Dodger

There is no counter play to an evade.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shocking_Aura
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Slick_Shoes
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Static_Shield
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sanctuary
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Rune_of_Surging

There are counters, any warding effect and abilities that stun through evades

You beat me to it.
So yes, it has many counters.

+1

Kadj.6725:

I really don’t want to hear some parent with a crying child in the background yell at me for not simultaneously being on all three points at once. Nor do I need to hear any number of inappropriate comments the moment a female voice comes through the comm. Nor do I really need to be subjected to any comments I might just find disturbing or disgusting. Nor do I need to hear some 12 year old blow up at me for not ressing them in a poison field/heavy cleave situation, or making one arguably poor play.

I get this enough in text as it is, and if you reduce the ability for players to say what’s on their mind to a single key press, the amount of abuse will skyrocket and you’ll realize you never really wanted to communicate with those super quiet people.

And why does Overwatch get away with it?

They started with the feature. Their community is built around it from the start.

And finally, because of the nature of this game, coherent team comms are reduced to inane babble like “waterwaterwaterwaterwater bombbombomb”. It’s too fast, too indecipherable, and too overwhelming.

(If voice comms were purely for premades, whether it be duoq or ATs, I’d be open to that. But not soloq.)

I introduce you.. The one.. The only.. MUTE BUTTON!
fireworks clap invention of the century

nothelseth.4621:

https://youtu.be/6Nqa23Rz9jg?t=748

ill just leave this here

“Video not available”

Scourge will sell so doesn’t matter. Same powercreep over and over.

+1, revert this please.

Any pictures of that Legendary Armor?

Was there 1 class you didn’t play?
Multi-classing too broad won’t get you anywhere, been there myself.

Try playing few games on Scrapper and see how that turns out.

Next testing 18th of July!

- lack of diversity in builds
- lack of Team Queue
- lack of Solo Queue (as in, 100% Solo only)
- lack of balance patches
- lack of events (Seasons are not really events to me)
- lack of Build-Templates per character (up to 3 or 4 slots per character would be nice)

RedCobra.7693:

Terrorsquad.2349:

Cynz.9437:

videoboy.4162:

That amount of Dishonor essentially bans them for the entire season. I doubt they’d care if they were banned from the main game or WvW.

I would IP ban them all together, permanently, at least those who abused account sharing. Adding dishonor won’t do anything.

You can’t IP-ban knowing most clients in the world are using the same IPv4-address behind a NAT from their provider, to save money.
Thought you would know this.

Banning the IPv4 address could result in banning hundreds of people carelessly.
IPv6 isn’t really a thing in providers their NAT’ing, just so people know here.

Just blacklist the layer 2 address instead

Just so you know; that’s only possible in a network. (eg a LAN since the switch(es) and data contains the MAC of the sender)
Going from PC 1 in America going to PC 2 in Europe through many servers, switches and routers; it does not contain the layer 2 information of the original sender.

However; this is being kept by the first switch and router from PC1’s side.
You can’t impossible demand a provider to show this information as its classified.

Cynz.9437:

Terrorsquad.2349:

Cynz.9437:

videoboy.4162:

That amount of Dishonor essentially bans them for the entire season. I doubt they’d care if they were banned from the main game or WvW.

I would IP ban them all together, permanently, at least those who abused account sharing. Adding dishonor won’t do anything.

You can’t IP-ban knowing most clients in the world are using the same IPv4-address behind a NAT from their provider, to save money.
Thought you would know this.

Banning the IPv4 address could result in banning hundreds of people carelessly.
IPv6 isn’t really a thing in providers their NAT’ing, just so people know here.

There is such thing as blacklist and there is such thing as customer support ticket if by some chance “innocent” player got affected.

Customer Support? The very thing you are questioning yourself in many threads?
Punishing hundreds of innocent players for the sake of yourself?
Logic over 9000.

As I said, IP-banning is not possible in current networksystem.

Faux Play.6104:

Terrorsquad.2349:

Stand The Wall.6987:

Faux Play.6104:

Make it like wvw where names are not known.

anonymity would only serve the rule breakers.

I agree; it would only motivate the griefers to grief more..

Not sure I understand your logic. If you don’t’ know who is on your team or the enemy team, the high level players can’t throw matches on their alts and know who they are screwing over.

I think it is because we are talking about 2 different things;
I am talking about people who throw matches just because they can, which is also match manipulation.

You are talking about controlled manipulation with a goal. Which, in this case, helps indeed if you make everyone unknown.

But they’ll find a way to counter it, by gesturing certain gestures or some sort of other lango, eventually

Tutorial has been asked for quite a long time.
I vote for AI matches like DOTA2, even if the bots are stupid, you can atleast explain that Conquest is prior to killing.

Cynz.9437:

videoboy.4162:

That amount of Dishonor essentially bans them for the entire season. I doubt they’d care if they were banned from the main game or WvW.

I would IP ban them all together, permanently, at least those who abused account sharing. Adding dishonor won’t do anything.

You can’t IP-ban knowing most clients in the world are using the same IPv4-address behind a NAT from their provider, to save money.
Thought you would know this.

Banning the IPv4 address could result in banning hundreds of people carelessly.
IPv6 isn’t really a thing in providers their NAT’ing, just so people know here.

Stand The Wall.6987:

Faux Play.6104:

Make it like wvw where names are not known.

anonymity would only serve the rule breakers.

I agree; it would only motivate the griefers to grief more..

Hey all, my name’s Denied and I’m the guildleader of ‘Tough Muffins [YuM]’.

Info:

[YuM] is a friendly and social PvP Guild based on the EU Region, made by me in Fall of 2013. Our aim is to create an environment with qualified Guild Members to play with eachother, enhancing their skills in teamwork, communication, rotation and mechanical aspects further. We aim that one day you can join/start a fixed team with a decent base of experience!

Steps to follow:

• Read and agreed to our Guild Rules @ http://muffinspvp.shivtr.com/pages/rules
• Apply @ http://muffinspvp.shivtr.com/site_applications/new
• Wait for an Ingame mail (usually 1-24hours after your application), we’ll decide if your application/experience is satisfying enough to test you
• If we send you an ingame mail acknowledging your Application, it means you proceed to our Testing
• 5v5 Conquest test is only available on Tuesdays @ 20:00CEST/GMT+1. No other time!
• Apply the week you can be tested

We Offer In PvP:

• Discussions/forum on Website (for Absence, Sharing, Introducing, ..)
• Representation only in PvP (you can represent any other guild when not PvP’ing)
• Friendly, Active and Social Guild
• Experienced Environment
• Class Officers and other active PvP veterans
• TeamSpeak 3 Server
• Testing of Applicants every Tuesdays, which you can join once you get into [YuM]
• Private Arena
• Guild Halls w/ Arena and PvP Buffs (Track EXP Increase)

We Offer Outside PvP:

• Guild Level 29
• Guild Bank + Deep Cave
• Guild Hall with Arena

What We Expect:

• Must have account on EU Region
• Friendly, Social and Active
• Experienced & Motivated (Minimum 750 RANKED GAMES and motivated Application)
• Team Player
• Must have a working mic to speak
• Able to respect and follow our Guild Rules (http://muffinspvp.shivtr.com/pages/rules)
• Able to receive & give criticism

If any questions, feel free to contact:

• Caphalor.5768 (Officer)
• liliph.6528 (Officer)
• Terrorsquad.2349 (Leader)

Sincerely, Denied

Huskyboy.1053:

Hot Boy.7138:

i don’t think i’ve faced a bunker rev yet. And i really don’t know much about rev’s in general. How are they surviving?

They’re able to decap and eventually fullcap against a 1v2. 1v3 maybe not..

LOL, bronze laif iz hart man

I’m not certain but don’t Necros have highest amount of Unblockables, considering this meta?

phokus.8934:

Keep the same disconnect rule for whomever disconnects but can you cancel the match and have everyone go back to where they queued from?

Seems only fair if someone disconnects within the first 1-2 minutes to trash the match and not have it count as a loss/win.

+1, absolutely.
I prefer this and having a troll constantly leaving matches to throw us out but keep our rating than current system.

Alek Seven.2374:

+1 , or why not add /gg for pvp too ? If red team /gg , it won’t count as a loss but not as a win for blue team. For the afk’ers, ha vingt the possibility to kick them from the match and take some one else from the queue ( same for dc’s).

Why would /gg not count as a win for the opponents? Isn’t that the whole idea of having /gg so you can quickly move on to the next match?

Would like to see an AI/bot match(es) like DOTA2.
Even if the bots are stupid, atleast that way you can explain conquest in GW2.

Tomiyou.3790:

Google translate? Hello?

This is Google Translate :p

All of this happens in every competitive game.
However, the reason why it is devastating in Guild Wars and not that much elsewhere is the small PvP population.

In other words; it’s easier to encounter those issues as the PvP-pool is far smaller than any other competitive game.

They can’t fix this issue unless;
- seperate Solo/5 Men Team Queue (or a minimum of 2 players in a party)
- drastically increase of PvP-pool (which is only a temp solution as the problem will increase with it)

Hi, Im Denied, guildleader of YuM.

We currently are less active than before due lack of PvP coverage from Anet.
However, depending on the changes in June, we will open up recruitment again.

If so, I’ll make a post on the forum with the message we are open.

Our website: http://muffinspvp.shivtr.com/

Kind regards

Obvious troll is obvious

Killthehealersffs.8940:

Cynz.9437:

Killthehealersffs.8940:

You have lost your credibility to me, over this year :p
So some pictures or videos would be wonderfull
/sigh

i couldn’t care less what you think about me

why don’t you go try yourself /sigh

Why dont you show us some videos ?
You can replicate too easily
i am just a casual that stopped pvp since octomber of 2014 :P
(i want to see that Dragon Maw (3500 damage) to do x4
*Ah yeah … /sigh

I fail to see the point in arguing with someone who stopped PvP’ing in 2014?

But 138 damage could mean the death of your opponent!

Ramoth.9064:

crunchyraisin.6054:

Ramoth.9064:

This is a god awful solution. Rewards in PvP should have no monetary value at all. Let people unlock skins and minis.

Nothing about my suggestion would allow players to make money by pvping…

So you believe we should make pvpers pay large amounts of money and do heavy crafting to redeem their rewards…..but not give them a way to make money?

This thread is about how pvp player population is suffering as a result of poor rewards. If there were exclusive skins that were good enough to motivate more players to play more often that would solve the problem equally as well.

PvP players don’t need ascended items. They’d probably like it more if you let them unlock skins like you do in DotA more frequently than you can do it now

That’s your opinion.
Alot of good PvPérs still play WvW aswel, where ascended might help them out.

Lots of trolls know their armor is going down but just want to bait all of you.
I see those every season.

Faux Play.6104:

Terrorsquad.2349:

Faux Play.6104:

Terrorsquad.2349:

Mutaatti.2789:

Allow teamqueue. End of discussion. Then there will form teams, PvP guilds and competitive gameplay on itself.

I agree on this one. Ever since SoloQ/DuoQ only my PvP guilds activity is dropping.
This is a shame considering we excist since 2014.

There are hot join servers. Is your guild organizing scrimmages for 5v5 for others to participate in?

We don’t feel we should farm hotjoin players by farming up a 5-menraid team in hotjoin.
And we previously had 5v5 scrimmages but as I said; the activity dropped alot since S6 so even that’s not possible atm.

Wasn’t suggesting farming hot join players. That is no better than farming people in unranked. You can use your own hot-join server to challenge other guilds or host scrimmages.

There are no other PvP guilds we currently know of.. They all quit seasons ago.. That’s the issue.. There is no incentive to play anymore

Faux Play.6104:

Terrorsquad.2349:

Mutaatti.2789:

Allow teamqueue. End of discussion. Then there will form teams, PvP guilds and competitive gameplay on itself.

I agree on this one. Ever since SoloQ/DuoQ only my PvP guilds activity is dropping.
This is a shame considering we excist since 2014.

There are hot join servers. Is your guild organizing scrimmages for 5v5 for others to participate in?

We don’t feel we should farm hotjoin players by farming up a 5-menraid team in hotjoin.
And we previously had 5v5 scrimmages but as I said; the activity dropped alot since S6 so even that’s not possible atm.

Mutaatti.2789:

Allow teamqueue. End of discussion. Then there will form teams, PvP guilds and competitive gameplay on itself.

I agree on this one. Ever since SoloQ/DuoQ only my PvP guilds activity is dropping.
This is a shame considering we excist since 2014.

choovanski.5462:

Terrorsquad.2349:

Best solutions in the short AND long run:
Either make PvP Free to Play as whole, including HoT and any other specs coming out
OR have ppl unlock all expac-specs with 1 gem price ingame.

I think first options is going to be more useful.
This will eventually convince more F2P players to buy the full game to get awesome skins etc in the long run, so it’s nothing bad anyway.

Everyone can see Season 6 is dead and it’s only going to get worse from here.
Make this happen and we’ll all benefit.

im a cynic, so here’s my theory:
anet is letting the game fall into a lull because they expect the expansion, & pre expansion hype to bring people back to the game, & get new players interested.

that would indicate that the expansion is going to come out relatively soon.

also, as connected point this could be a reason why the balance is so half hearted. anet might be choosing to not put effort into balance, because they know they will need to balance w the new expansion.

alternatively anet are just incompetent.

That’s what Im thinking aswel; incoming new expac soon’ish.
HoT released October 2015. So announcement should be “soon”

OriOri.8724:

@Terrorsquad that would be horrible. Anet would be better off just balancing elite specs to be in line with core specs, so you don’t need HoT to be competitive on most classes.

It’s been over a year.
Never going to happen.

.. make GW2 PvP Free to Play, including HoT and all incoming specializations in the future.

I believe this will create a bigger playerbase and as such, stimulate the matchmaking in a good way. (bigger pool = better matchmaking)

Vote here yes/no http://www.strawpoll.me/12584116

Just curious.

Best solutions in the short AND long run:
Either make PvP Free to Play as whole, including HoT and any other specs coming out
OR have ppl unlock all expac-specs with 1 gem price ingame.

I think first options is going to be more useful.
This will eventually convince more F2P players to buy the full game to get awesome skins etc in the long run, so it’s nothing bad anyway.

Everyone can see Season 6 is dead and it’s only going to get worse from here.
Make this happen and we’ll all benefit.

Looking at weekend’s matchmaking.. It’s even worse while in other good games weekends are the most played times.

After 1 match today I decided never again to play Ranked PvP in the weekends (aslong it remains like this) and I think that’s the snowball everyone sane is getting caught by in this game.

Matchmaking is horrible aslong the pool is low.

I think Devs are paying too much time on expac 2 than the game the players are playing right now.

RIP what players want :<

Feirlista Xv.1425:

For those of you that don’t understand how internet security works high ping and packet loss at the NCSoft servers are the servers rejecting the ping request for security reason not because The game is having an issue. It’s there Firewall, ping request are not normal game data so it gets rejected and you get high packet loss! As others have pointed out most all of you that posted ping plots have issues elsewhere!

Their servers do allow pinging otherwise we would not see the Ping in Options..
If they would reject ICMP in their Firewall, would not see any Ping ingame. Think about it.

Anet has also confirmed/acknowledged to me they are investigating this issue.

I know you’re trying to be the White Knight with basic network knowledge but from my experience in the IT for years, I kind of know (sarcasm) where the issue is located.

Results of a small poll I did concerning Season 6 Ranked matches showed that only 29% of the players want SoloQ only for Season 6.

Whereas 67% of the people want SoloQ AND TeamQ in Season 6.

Eventhough the poll has only 300 votes, with this big of a % difference, I think it’s quite clear what the majority of the community wants..

Results: http://www.strawpoll.me/12343163/r

KrHome.1920:

The funny thing about Rev is, that all the class needed after season 2 was the Sword2 und Staff5 nerf it got after season 4. If ANet would not have touched Shiro skills (energy costs, cooldowns and endurance gain), Power/Shiro would be in a very good spot. But now it is overnerfed.

Revenant is a good example for a clueless nerfing strategy. And unfortunately ANet usually does not revert nerfs but tries to fix the situation by buffing other things – what results in a complete mess.

Describes my last 3-4 years on Thief in PvP

Phineas Poe.3018:

wwDefuser.2056:

Well… i just look at that options u create and … face palm.

5. is not possible , cause (2-5) team queue… you cant create teams out of duo-queues only and you definitely cant do it out of 4 !

A mix of 4. and 6. would be the best imo. SoloQ (1player) and a seperate teamQ (1-5). That system already existed within the last 2 years.
Regarding the low player numbers it’s probably better to have a soloQ only and a teamQ in form of automated tournaments once or twice a week.

I imagine 2-5 meant groups of 2, 3, and 5.

That was exactly what it meant, I did a poor job showing it :/