Guild Wars 2

So yea IoJ, the ONLY reason you got Jerrifer’s back was you glitched in. Congrats.

Hey kitten

nock knock.

apparently FC then K… on a separate line = kitten…

Parktou.4263:

Thought I was in the twilight zone….

This led to the failed attempt to capture ET hill. Sadly we eventually realized there was no gate to use the golems on…

Well obastable, I guess your fall from T7 to T8 had nothing to do with us and others leaving, nor did GoM’s recent rise have anything to do with us either…I guess these events are merely coinsidences?

“HoD since beta”, yea your EXACTLY the kind of people I’m talking about.

Unfortunatly HoD has outed many of the recent “hardcore” WvW guilds including my own. While there are good people on HoD a select few are still riding the elitist train from T1 despite falling to T8 and create a hostile atmosphere for anyone who doesnt do it their way.

Mauser,

We attempted to contact you in Team and Map chat, then attempted to do it over Teamspeak. There was SEVERAL warning messages posted in the Teamspeak channel you were in over a 30 minute period before you were kicked (not banned).

It was a security issue as we suspected (and found) a spy after playing in the borderlands and being met by the enemy force at every turn. If you feel like airing your grievences in public rather then contact the appropriate people in private then thats fine.

I do not believe that Wabbit acted in any way disrespectful or unjust. He simply was tasked to eliminate possible spys from Teamspeak and kick them which he did successfully.

And yes, when your on OUR Teamspeak you do answer to us. You may not be aware of it but the Teamspeak is provided by one of the leaders of the WVW guild for public GoM server use (free of charge). I see no reason for you to take any sort of hostile stance in the issue.

Sincerely,

Thyrian Forte – Zombieland [WVW] Leader

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

playard.6035:

Aeneasx.1589:

Btw… Where has everyone gone this week?

“Trouble is brewing on the tropical island of Southsun Cove…” and Devona’s Rest Luxury Resorts!

I’m sorry that our resorts are fully (or almost) booked everywhere. May I suggest somewhere else for you, our honourable guests? They said through the Gate of Madness, you’ll find a paradise, a heaven, called Darkhaven.

Why do you keep blurring out your skills? Everyone already knows you’re a ranger and can pretty much figure out what you’re running. :P

Hes obviously worried he might be targeted. I mean who doesnt want to kill a shortbow ranger with signet of the hunt, search and rescue, and quickening zepher?

Thing is we dont target, we just kill them all. So unless your sitting on your hill/citadel your pretty much screwed. Though I see youve figured that out already.

Hey DR!

All your base are belong to us.

Built AC, Treb, and Cata on your tower.
Got bored, built Victory Golem.
Threw Victory Golem off cliff.

Honestly warrior is one of the sounder choices in the game. Its a well rounded class thats useful in every situation. Extremely easy to level and very profitable PVEwise. Its one class that should be in everyones toolbox.

Both apply might independant of each other. One thing to note is while the sigil is only 30% of the time the durration is 10 seconds rather then 5.

I really like having the 3 shouts. The shout heal is much better then banner regen as It stackw ith evrything and can be used for emegencies. I usually run FGJ, SIO and OMM, but lately ive been finding more uses for the fear. Its great in some of the dungeons for getting revives off or pushing mobs into corners. A well placed and timed fear can leave an entire pack of mobs running into a single corner ripe for the picking with your 100 blades.

I do swap to the elite banner on occasion where I know teammates are going to be downed in hard spots to revive them. The grawl fractal is bad this way.

If played right both can be hard to kill. Too many warriors run around with glass cannon specs and gear and then kitten that they die all the time. Im not sure what it is about the guardian class but more people tend to not build glass cannnon.

A well balanced warrior will out DPS any guardian and provide offensive boons to a group while still eating a sensible amount of damage. Guardians on the other hand bring defensive boons to the table and focus more on survivability and healing.

A good shout warrior brings atleast 6 100% uptime stacks of might to the group, 50%+ fury uptime, and 180 hp/sec party healing as well as 80% of the damage a glass cannon can do (while its still up).

I do 100% agree that having a guardian in group in higher fractals is a major bonus, even in regular dungeons they help a lot. The 2 classes work together extremely well. I play a warrior and the GF plays a guardian, this provides the backbone of any dungeon group.

In fact I think the fastest CM group I have ever had was 3 GS shout warriors, and 2 guardians, one healing, the other running a control build. I dont think I’ve seen stuff die so fast, and nobody even went close to being downed, let alone defeated.

Artaz.3819:

Thelic.1847:

And of course if you want “max crit damage” your going to run full zerker, my GFs longbow ranger has over +100% crit damage in zerker everything, but shes a ranger and sits at 1500 range, compared to myself who needs to be in their face eating hits, and dishing them back without taking a floor nap.

Why are you in melee range 100% of the time? Why are you eating hits?

You can learn to be full berserker if you want to pay attention and dodge (build for endurance regain, utlity/sigil/vigor buff/F1), and then know when to leave melee range and swap to range, kite, and heal up and do it all without eating dirt.

I’ve been doing it for months… The right gear is as customizable as the play-style you want to play. Berserker is just a higher risk for higher reward style.

I seriously doubt that your surviving high level fractals (30+) with a zerker build. The minimal damage increase isn’t worth the loss of survivability as the OP stated as his primary concern.

peter.9024:

Thelic.1847:

Definalty mismatch armor, berserkers helm/chest/pants are HORRIBLE wastes of stats for the +% crit dmg.

Yes and no, if you want to maximize crit damage, there is currently no way around not using berserker helm, chest and pants.

May I refer you to this.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Item_nomenclature#Comparison_of_numeric_vs._percentage_attributes

We can actually see the head, legs, rings, and back have a 1:16 ratio of numeric to percentage stats while weapons fall in a 1:14 for 2H and 1:13 for 1H. compare this to 1:12 for boots, glove, shoulder and an amazing 1:5 ratio for jewels.

Some classes should not be using full zerker in dungeons, warrior is one of them. Its very irritating when a full zerker signet warrior sits on the floor in my dungeon group, or worse drags one of the contributing members to revive him. This chart simply outlines where its best to trade off your +% crit damage for toughness or other stats.

Basically all classes that run some sort of precision build should be running zerker jewels to make use of that awesome ratio.

And of course if you want “max crit damage” your going to run full zerker, my GFs longbow ranger has over +100% crit damage in zerker everything, but shes a ranger and sits at 1500 range, compared to myself who needs to be in their face eating hits, and dishing them back without taking a floor nap.

I disagree with the chest spawn. As a new player I had little idea of how the loot system worked as it is quite different from most other MMO’s. For all I know that chest could have been similar to how the standard world chests work.

So yea, if I found a world chest (such as the one in beggars burrow) yea, id farm it with all my characters as I played them. Is this an exploit?

A hard and fast ban because ANet is too lazy/busy/cheap to beta test their code properly doesn’t sound like its fair what so ever. While I do agree with banning offenders who go out of their way with 3rd party programs etc to get ahead, I don’t think that anything we can do with a legitimate client should be worthy of a permaban on the first offense, especially borderline ones such as heightened chances in the mystic forge or chest spawning.

[sarcasim]
Last month people got both the monthly chests from pvp and pve, CLEARLY they are exploiting, lets ban them all too.[/sarcasim]

If your gunna play rifle you NEED that volley to hit hard. I’d use straight zerker. The bleed damage isnt gunna get you anywhere compared to a powerfull volley.

Use zerker Gems! this is the BEST place to pick up +% crit damage without sacrivicing stats!!

Definalty mismatch armor, berserkers helm/chest/pants are HORRIBLE wastes of stats for the +% crit dmg.

For both PVE and WvW I highly recomend using the bow. Im running more or less the Sonic Boon build with a zerker bow/rune of fire. Combustive Shot/Arcing Arrow combo is just too good to pass up.

This is comming from a warrior who used the rifle for a long time always thinking the bow sucked, until I bought one for farming cursed shore, now I use it more then the Twilight it helped farm.

Its great for farming, does a ton of damage to packs of mobs or enemys in WvW (much better then the rifle) and has an awesome ranged immobalize. Dual shot makes up for its low rate of fire by providing 2 chances to crit per shot, helping you get that rune to proc.

I don’t bother playing it as a cond damage weapon as your #1 and #3 are where all your damage really come from, as opposed to the rifle where your #1 is cond dmg based.

In dungeons the bow quickly eliminates packs of weaker enemies from range, spiders in AC? No problem. HotW boss has adds? No problem.

Ive run around defending in WvW with a full zerker set and hit 5K aoe crits from the top of the wall plus some significant burn damage. Very fun to shoot the combo at downed people as there is always someone trying to res them. Just watch the loot bags come rolling in.

As for gear, half knight half zerker is a good starting point.

I primarily run zerker with the exception of knights helm/chest/pants (bad %crit dmg modifiers per stats lost) and then I run the all stat (celestial?) trinkets. My weapon is PTV, but thats not going to change. This gives a good balance of vitality from spec, toughness from gear and some + healing from the trinkets without sacrificing your +%crit damage or precision.

Having a PTV weapon actually is nice because I swap out to a zerker ranged weapon where im likely not going to need that toughness and vitality.

Anyhow heres the build, much better site for PVE builds.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/warrior/?8.0|1.1c.h1b|3.1g.h17|1n.77.1g.77.1n.71g.1g.71g.1n.71h.1g.71h|411.0.211.0.311.0.211.0.311.0.2s.0|a5.k5a.0.u48c.a5|1.7|5x.69.6a.6b.6m|e

Problem, when adding/removing party members the graphics for the party members flicker from one party member to the other.

I believe this is caused by Nvidia SLI. GW2 is not updating one of the cards so whenever it draws a frame it draws the old party member.

Is there any solution to this that doesnt involve turning off SLI? (My PC needs all the help it can get)

Sammet.6542:

Just speaking to my guildie about this right now and we’re both feeling very uncomfortable with this situation. Not knowing what’s going on and why people were banned in the first place just leaves the rest of us in the dark leading to the point where you don’t know what you can and can’t do. For now, we’re thinking to just stick with dailies and dungeon runs.

Would farming a very profitable place be considered an exploit? Or grinding the same area for hours just because you CAN be considered “botting”? I am personally putting down a lot of time grinding for my first legendary, so how am I now supposed to feel safe about doing just what the game offers me?

People will gravitate towards the current hotspot for farming. Why farm anywhere else when there is somewhere better?

My view is if its “too good to be true” then you should consider viewing it an exploit. There are several points on the map that you can easily earn 5-8 gold an hour with decent MF. Certainly this level of income must be safe considering I can make this during properly working event chains like “The Gates of Arah” and “Temple of Grenth”.

I think if your siginicantly over this you should take a look at what your doing.

In know its difficult for admins to comment on this without giving up their power, but it would be nice for some guidelines as to what is acceptable. What level of income is qualifies as “gaining a gameplay advantage over other players”?