Guild Wars 2

Cool, ty. Why the #6 trait in inspiration?

Says the link is bad

Reserved for possible future use!

Hi, I have been working on this build for the past month or so, and have spent a lot of time tweaking it to get it just right. I even through together a short video really fast that shows a few 1v1 (for the most part) battles that I thought showed off the build well.
http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mcmmzz9cMTGxmMTGxmG0GpVcacmVR08kiH70V7kGc70V8ofy

Weapons:
GS/Sword+Focus

Sigils & Runes:
Superior Sigil of Bloodlust (on both weapons.)
Superior Rune of Vampirism
Note: These fit my playing style well, change to fit your own play style.

Traits:
20 (3/10)
0
20 (3/4)
25 (5/8)
5

Phantasmal Defender:
Takes half of your damage for you, what’s not great about that? Down to a 24 second CD is what really makes this build so solid (5 illusions.) Having the iDefender out 90% of the time is very important, so don’t just run around using every skill that creates an illusion (#3 sword for example.) iDefender should always be one of the first spells cast!

Arcane Thievery:
Down to a 36 CD (10 Chaos) helps a lot, making it usable a couple times a duel. It is very important that this spell hits, so try your best to not mess it up and to use it when it makes sense (3 boons on them, 3 conditions on yourself.)

Signet of Illusions:
Gives a 50% HP boost to all illusions! This is crazy and works amazingly well with the iDefender! However, you never want to pop this signet! This is not a shatter build, and the CD is 90, so casting this could cost you the battle.

Elite:
Moa or Time warp both work so pick your favorite and use it. I use the Moa b/c it is beast. The elite could save your kitten but not a big part of this build in any way seeing that it has a very high CD.

Things to Note:
•#3 Sword and #2 GS both create clones, so keep this in mind and watch your iDefender CD.
•Never use the #3 Sword.
•Use the #2 Sword for defensive purposes over offensive.
•#2 & #4 GS along with your #5 Focus is where a lot of the damage comes from (#2 sword may be used offensively, just be smart with it.)
•Focus skills have reflection, so anytime the #5 is popped, try to stand right on top of him, even if the opponent is using melee. The #5 damage is crazy if you can get a person to sit on it.

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNmDSDYOR54

pagkon.4615:

I believe the sword is more useful in 1v1 situations than scepter.

Well yeah, but that is why it is called a zerg build. Built for zerg battles, but can be used for smaller battles as well, it just won’t be AS effective. Scepter is obviously the better choice for zerging.

looks great, will test and repost

1-UP, no explanation needed, its dope.

My Mesmer up in WvW, looking sharp!

Sir this is GUILD wars, not leech off of other guilds b/c your guild is inactive. Also you can join multiple guilds, so why not just join WM?

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Weeeeeeeellll

Yeah obviously your doing it wrong. I find it funny when people think the golems are used the way they think they should be used. You need a better zerg, and you need to use them with a sneak attack, in which case they do work.

This is the perfect example.

tagnut.8621:

Why is the OP trying to solve ‘zergs’?

Mass WvWvW – thats the entire point of the game. You want to play solo duellist thats what SpvP is for. personally i want to throw 100 ppl at each other with siege engines and kitten.

THIS.

When I saw the title for this thread, I was just like here we go again, someone trying to fix something that is not broken. A big selling point of Anets was the fact that EVERYONE can jump in at an event, and as long as they helped out even a little, they would get rewarded. Sounds like to me you need an entirely different game.

MajorKong.8095:

Jezath.7395:

nice feedback…

One of the main points of contention for me is the outmanned buff…. This buff contrary to popular or unpopular beleif does nothing to help the team that is outmanned in any way… all it does is give a boost to karma xp gain… This needs reworking imo.. At the moment alll this buff is doing is helping botters.

Well, maybe. I’ve been thinking about potential solutions for this and I haven’t come up with anything satisfactory. It’s easy enough to say that outmanned should do something to increase combat effectiveness, such as increasing health or damage, however some may argue that this rewards losing, leads to cheesy victories, and does little to stop the defeatist attitude of people quit upon seeing the buff.

In my opinion the following two criteria need to be satisfied:

1) Encourages players to join and stay.
2) Don’t make undermanned players significantly stronger.

I completely agree with you here, the +karma and +Exp encourage players to join, or at least should imo (but could also encourage players to leave once too many gather, maybe have a timer on it once the population hits a certain number?). Just b/c your undermanned doesn’t mean we need to make them equal with the other two servers. If everything was equal then there would be no reason in the ranking system.

You guys are looking at it all wrong, everyone here thinks they know what Anets plans are for commanders. Everyone seems to think that commanders are very important for leading around pug zergs that do not know what to do. Well you are all wrong. If that was the case, then yes indeed it would need to be earned.

The game is way to young to be developed on the level Anet is expecting. Ever think that maybe the mark is at 100g for a reason? Maybe it is so a guild can have a few of it’s own leaders to follow. Think about it, why when you join a squad can you only see your commander unless you get super close to others? Why is there a squad limit of only 30? Why are the marks only 100g and nothing else? Maybe, just maybe it is so guilds can get them for however many people they need depending on thier guilds size and go to battle organized. Commanders are not for leading pugs, it just happens to be that way atm b/c no enough people have the marks yet.

Eventually gw2 will get to a point where every guild will have 1-15+ commanders depending on how many they need. Stop acting like commanders are the servers leaders and let the game play out like it is supposed to. In a few months commanders will mean nothing to you.

Until then, Deal with it., and try to find an organized wvw guild for yourself and stop crying on the forums.

PART TWO of TWO

Does E-Reputation matter if you are a good leader?

It matters when you are leading a zerg. This IS GUILD Wars 2, just saying. If you have a guild to lead, then reputation will not matter. How do I know this? There are a few guilds on my server that get kitten done even with a bad rep. If you are as good of a leader as you say, you should have started your own guild from the start instead of relying on the zerg. GW2 is still in its child stage, as time goes on MANY things will be changing. EXAMPLE: There will be no pug zerg to lead. Everyone will be part of an organized guild with 1-15 commanders in every guild.

Kaine.3501:

…but Dragonbrand took back most of the map after that so Coacoa logged off out of frustration. So I started leading again and we got the map to 90% completion after 45mins then Coacoa logged back in (probably because he was notified of the progress I had made) to lead his minions and did so poorly Dragonbrand took back 100% of the map and started advancing on other maps.

Kaine.3501:

The next day a “famous” player on that server who wasn’t even in the guild attacked me on the forums…and did I counter with the same fictitious slander he used on me? No.

This right here is slander. You are accusing him of way to much, and you are just assuming. Maybe he was upset, how do you know that he didn’t have RL things to attend? As a commander I have to leave all the time in the middle of a battle for RL issues. I hope no one attacks me like this while I go eat for the first time in 14 hours. Assuming that he came on just b/c the situation got better could have easily been coincidence. Maybe he is a bad leader, but there are MANY things in wvw atm that would easily make it tough for a commander to lead pug zergs. Happens to me all the time, happens to the best of us, alot of pug zergs decide they are going to do what they want in WvW and nothing else. That alone makes it very tough.

Kaine.3501:

Will you change your behavior to fit a guilds mold?

The way I see guilds is like buying a sigil for your weapon. 1st off it all depends on what your build/weapon is. So if you are a hard core player and have been doing MMOs for 10+ years then you would join a hard core pvp guild and follow a decent amount of rules, but gain exactly what you want from it, to do great as a team in pvp. If you are the type of person that casually plays then why the hell would you join a guild like this? You wouldn’t. Guilds are about give and take, but if you are giving something up and getting back nothing that you want, you are doing it wrong. If you are entering a hard core pvp guild then you should be expecting to give up some of your time for practices and other related things.

Kaine.3501:

Not in this life time. I could never stream line my personality to that of a sheep or bow down to a hierarchy that I not only know is wrong…but also have proof that they are wrong. If I think someone is better skilled or more efficient at playing the game I’m not going to drop following that person because someone who wanted to spend 100g on a pretty blue icon above their name logs on.

You call yourself a leader, and you are mad at people discrediting you, and you claim you do not do any of that, yet right here in your post you have. You call yourself a leader, yet you refuse to follow any other leaders. Ever think that someone had payed 100g to be a commander because they have a passion for wvw? Ever think that they had bought it because they have a following of members that respect them? You honestly sound like a cancer to your server to me.

Stop bringing your baggage in here, stop crying about your couple experiences so far in this game, it’s only been out for a month and a half. I know you keep talking about your 8 years of MMOs but GW2 IS different. In fact its the whole reason 90% of us decided to play this game, because it is different. Commanders have their roles atm and so do pugs. You want to help your server, join a server that has what you want and push to make differences in wvw. If no one ever thinks their thoughts, how would we ever progress?

PART ONE of TWO
1st off I just want to say this is an interesting topic, and I would have enjoyed it on it’s own, yet you seem to have brought a long a lot of baggage.

Now just a bit about me:
- I am a commander at Dark Haven, member of [GoF] Getof Fenris.
- I did not start with this guild and am not a guild leader.
- I have gone through too many guilds to count to find the right home for me, and have finally found it, so I do have plenty of experience with guilds and the many reasons I left them.

Kaine.3501:

…and we all know that most MMO’s require you to be in a guild to succeed. However…what sacrifices do you make to be a member in that guild for WvW?

I have only made sacrifices I was already willing and expecting to make. However I have gained way more than I could ever give back, and that is a fact.

Kaine.3501:

I compare being in “most” guilds to the equivalent of running for political office. You want to be everyone’s friend and no one’s enemy. And as long as you have a group think mentality and do not express opinions that might contradict those in leadership roles OR their friends outside the guild…then you will be fine.

I’m not trying to offend you but I fell like this is just some of that baggage I was talking about. You seem to have had a run in with your current guild, and maybe this is just how it was in that guild. I say this b/c I disagree. I never feel like I am running for office. I feel like I am just playing a game and have fun. When I first join any of the guilds and I do my first WvW event with them I try to back seat them just to get an idea of their leading style, however when things start happening that I disagree with I shout my opinion. Many guilds have been sad to see me leave, and [GoF] is still happy to see me.

Kaine.3501:

How does someone succeed once infamous/blacklisted?

Don’t get to this point? I mean there is usually a solid reason for this.

Kaine.3501:

Is E-Reputation more important than skill level?

I’m sorry, I just do not see where you are going with this. These seem to be very personal and very pin point examples, again, some of that baggage.

Kaine.3501:

Can players reputations outside of the guild affect you…once you are in a WvW guild?

Yes they can, I have seen it happen on my server a couple times. I actually do agree with you on this area of your post this sounds pretty bad, and slightly ridiculous, which brings me to believe there is two sides to this story. I’m not saying you are lying or making things up, I just believe there might be some misunderstandings. Everyone has them. But once again, this is just some more of the baggage you have brought with you to this topic.

fellyn.5083:

Bahatsu.4521:

Darkhaven. PvEing there way to victory one keeplord at a time. Naw guys its skill, really. Cant wait to wake up and fight Mag every morning/early evening.

Take out 4-6 hours where DH has no contesting and see how well they do.

Every single keep/fort/whatever we took tonight had defenders in it. Keep on making excuses though.

Some of the sieges went on for a good 20 minutes.

We had a battle that lasted a solid 3 hours with our siege up the entire time. Mag seems to be very well organized, at least what I have seen so far. They had plenty of people too, was a great fight.

(Just agreeing with you)

katniss.6735:

Nightcapping again. Yay (sarcastic).

I wouldn’t call this night capping by any means, its called server reset, correct me if I’m wrong but our server gets very organized for these resets, and I just imagined every other server did too, kinda sets a mood for how the weekend is going to play out.

Also Anet has already posted their position on ‘night capping’ so you should go read that sticky if you haven’t already.

Great job out there guys, have been in a lot of exciting battles!

A pic of how many trebs it freaking took to take outer wall of West keep from Maguuma, was a great fight, hope to see more like these.

Ynot.8397:

They capped everything at night. I’m not trying to take away from the win, but it is true.

Oh don’t worry your not, Anet has already give their stance on night capping, but apparently you haven’t read the sticky?
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Night-Capping-and-YOU/page/19#post364285

DH ‘night caps’ every day, and you know what? We get everything usually taken away from us in the mornings, it’s all about your servers 24/7 presence.

Congratz on the win

It’s a decent plan maybe, but it is too simple. Should probably add in more factors: If they have fortification upgrades on a keep and it is taken then u get a certain % more points than what you would have for a normal keep taking. Should also have a factor of how close each server is in points. The closer they are in overall points the less they gain/lose.

Just a suggestion, but tbh I don’t really see a problem with the current situation. DH is in 1st and we would rather keep 2nd place down than go after the weakling. 3rd place just feels like they are getting tag teamed when really they just do not have the players and wvw support/organization on their server to make the difference. If you take a really good look at it you should see that Ehmry Bay is just in over their heads. A little organization goes a long way.

Quench.7091:

Last match us Northern Shiverpeakers fought, the teams didn’t even reach a 10k point difference between each other from what I remember. A10k difference can be a crazy amount if the enemy is making just as much as you during large parts of the day.

Your right, if every battle was exactly the same as your last one then you would be correct, 10k would be huge. My whole point anyway was the fact that people were giving up too soon b/c who knows what the week days have to bring. 10k may not be all that much with DH’s week day schedule, but hey if you wanna QQ now, server transfers are still free I hear.

TsukasaHiiragi.9730:

lol what you talking about undermine? Blue owns more than green and red combined. I’d really like to see Anet step up and create a better way these match ups work, the bracket system currently is a horrible system and can be exploited by simply transferring servers. At night, ebay server is literally dead, probably less than 50 people in WvW. I really question the population each server has, its not changed in a long time so either, its broken ~ Or Anet is doing something underhanded.

I checked several parsing websites for people playing Guild Wars 2 and its been in a signficant decline since Mid Sept – so I’m pretty sure, alot of servers really have low – medium populations. Ebay after 1am EST definately has a low population.

What are you talking about, DH only has a 10k point lead and the weekend is coming to an end. The real fight hasn’t even begun yet, the week days are going to determine how this fight turns out. Currently even though we have half the map, it is still a close battle, 10k isn’t a crazy amount to catch up to. GL NSP and EBay, it has been a great fight so far!

Sometimes a healthy break is needed from the main wvw event, and as long as there is no Que up I’m not hurting my server, and I also telly people up with Mesmer portals while I camp on the enemy >:O. Today while just chillin haven a bit of fun, 4 people were tryin to get to the chest from the other servers, and I was all alone. I just used my pull ability and kept them off the chest for a solid 10-15 mins. The way I see it, it kept them out of the real fight, and I got Thug Life.

So idk why Ehmry bay is saying they simply can not compete, just like 20 minutes ago they had almost their ENTIRE map back! I unfortunately forgot to get a screeny, but they only had 2 places left to go, a tower and a keep where our orb was. Was pretty kitten good on their part. ([HOT] eventually came in and saved our butts, thx guys!)

GJ Ehmry and way to put up a fight!

Supersun.4603:

ThyOwnage.5736:

Quite frankly I don’t plan on loosing this match up.

We noticed that when your server sent 10 golems at us during the first couple hours of the match.

You guys must have burned like 50 gold in golems alone in just the first few hours of the match :/

For some reason I just don’t see the math of 10 golems adding up to 50gold, but your maths probably close………….

From my understanding [RE] pulled them all together as a guild (meaning jump puzzles and gold donations). In fact, I myself have 3 golems on me right now just from doing EB jump puzzles, so who knows probably not such a loss in gold after all.

EDIT: Oh and there we have it, no gold spent at all (edited after I saw Joshiasi’s post).

Picture update pls?

Quite frankly I don’t plan on loosing this match up. We have lots of great guilds working together atm, lots of communications being made via vent servers, and lots of distribution of players.

It is true that it is not always easy to get people to help build up seige to defend a certain tower for any amount of time b/c the zerg just loves running, and it’s in their blood, but I believe that is where alot of the guilds come into play working together to defend a keep.

My suggestion to DH, join a guild and work together, were doing great.

Can I get an updated picture pls?

boobzooka.3521:

simple solution:

1.Display different colors (or icons) for different functions the commander(s) were running. ie. He was running a guild group, make it red. His group was open for pubs, make icon blue…
2.Add a commander rating for each of the functions, where each player can only rate once per commander per function, and only rate commanders they had joined (different functions = separate ratings)

On a separate note
Commander’s group should be invite only. Clicking decline is becoming VERY annoying! I had to constantly click it off to get away from that, and it doesn’t feel good having to decline people nonstop.

As another commander I have to say I really enjoy this idea, a rating would fix so many issues with most of the commanders on my server at least. Now my one concern would be commanders getting into fights, and having their guilds down vote the other commander.

On a side note, I’m just glad I have the power to turn it off!

It’s not about the gold sink lol, the whole point is that a guild gets together, and everyone in it puts forth some money so they can get their guild leader(s) up into commander ranking and thus earn more respect and take control etc etc…

So me and my team have spent a solid two+ hours on this dungeon, and were only on the 1st chain. We go through LOADS of bullkitten that obviously need fixing (ie the oozes in the picture, freakin OP as kitten.) Then we fiiiiinally make our way around getting closer to the end and whats this the dungeons mission objective breaks, whats new right? So not only have me and my team wasted silver on repairs, but close to getting our tokens and you decide to do us dry and dirty, thank you anet, thank you.

Been trying to make a party for a bit now, and half the party can join while the other half gets sent off in their own instance? Anyone else having this problem, and if so any easy in game fixes? Like logging into different accounts or something?

So I was thinking there has got to be some way to prevent KITTENS who just want the fast cash and for some reason do not just sell to the highest buyer, thus screwing everyone who has been dependent on the price selling for more. It’s getting a bit obnoxious, but who knows, maybe it is just me?

So I was thinking why not make it so people may only under cut a certain % every X amount of time?

We have Joe.
Joe wants to sell his PlayKitten (PK) mag.
Joe sees that the highest buyer for a PlayKitten (PK) is 55c. The lowest seller is at 90c. He says, ‘hmm I want the money now’ and SELECTS the ‘undercut this kitten’ option (This is the new option I think would be a good idea on adding). This would be a selection that automatically undercuts the lowest seller by a certain percentage. Lets go with 5% for kittens and giggles. 5% of 90 is 4.5, so now this option would automatically make the price 86c (yes the option would even round numbers!).

X in this scenario will be 24 hours. Now we need another % this will be the % that decides weather or not to lower the current lowest price down to 86c.
Were going to put this % at 60.
We will also put an ‘Overflow’ % which will be at 80.
And one more, which will be at 100.
Now then, lets say today (at the end of the 24 hour period) there were exactly 100,000 (for easy math) copies of PK sold. lets say 90% of the people that sold them, sold them USING the ‘undercut this kitten’ option or selling to players asking for cheaper. This is above the 80% overflow mark so it would set the lowest sell-able price WITHOUT using the ‘undercut this kitten’ option down two notches. A notch in this scenario will also be at 5%.
The price was at 90, and 5% of 90 is at 4.5, and b/c it hit our 2nd notch (the 60% mark) instead of bringing down the price to 85, the system would bring it down to 81 (4.5 +4.5 = 9, 90-9=81).
NOW the ‘undercut this kitten’ option is at 5% of our lowest seller again, which is now 77c (5% of 81 is ALMOST exactly 4), while the lowest a seller may sell without selecting the option is at 81c.

IF the amount of items sold using the ‘undercut this kitten’ option or selling to players asking for cheaper were at 70% instead then the price would drop only one notch (5% of 90 = 4.5, 90-4.5(rounding)=86). This would have made the new ‘undercut this kitten’ option 82 while the lowest a seller may sell without selecting the option is at 86c.

For 100% of the players using ‘undercut this kitten’ option or selling to players asking for cheaper, then it would bring the price down 3 notches at the end of the 24 hour period.

HOW THE PRICE WOULD GO UP
The price would go up the same way, just opposite.
The marks would be at 40%, 20% and 0%
40% = 1 notch, going up in price by 5%
20% = 2 notches, going up in price by 5%
00% = 3 notches, going up in price by 5%

If 20% of the people sold to players using ‘undercut this kitten’ option or selling to players asking for cheaper, then the price would go up by 2 notches.

Of course 50% would keep the price the same.

Ok well that’s my idea, just thought I would post it and see what happens, please tell me any hole you find in this, and/or comments in general, thanks!

zolinar.5639:

If you attempt to drop an item outside your inventory it should default back into your inventory. what has happen to me twice, i was drag equiped an item saw the blue for ok to drop release and saw what i thought was a message to equip and i deleted it.

I drop items out of my inventory to delete them all the time. What would I do when my bag gets full?

Why not, you know, stop QQ about being too lazy to read, and ACTUALLY READ.

At almost all heart locations it gives you 3+ options on how you want to complete the heart. Don’t want to grind 50 centaurs to complete the heart? Oh wait I can just run up to these spikes on the group and press ‘F’, Or hey bring this bag to this cow and feed it. OMG this heart is taking a bit to grind, whats this, dynamic event? oooh snap, completes heart while completing event gaining money + XP + Gear

One can literally earn XP for just running around the map. I do not understand why you think it is so hard to lvl.

If we didn’t grind dungeons I’m not sure what I would do at lvl 80 besides WvW. At least they give cool gear for like 6 different dungeons.

SyberSmoke.1358:

Uhhhh….wrong type of grass. Well unless your into smoking your lawn clippings.

1st season of weeds brah, should be able to still roll it up and sell it… (may have been 2nd season, I can’t remember)

The spot I grabbed the Bag of Grass from.

So I was wondering why I can’t roll up this bag off grass? Not just that, but it also makes me run faster… in what universe does ‘grass’ make one run faster? I was expecting to be slow and lethargic… Total disappointment…

It’s even in a low level zone so I was thinking around lvl 75 crafting would be enough with some papers to roll this bad boy up and sell off for some dough… Please fix, Thank You!

Oh right, my bad, kinda forgot, was just typing in what I was reading at the time.

Carrion Exalted is the name of this set.

Sounds like the start to the Norn race lol.

The right shoulder lol.

Ok so I went to the PvP Locker and I did find the set. It’s in the 1st box (Armour-Light), and is the 3rd to last set. The set is called Outrider.

And here’s 1 more just in case!

Worth all around to get your crafting up? Well it feels good when you can make all sorts of gear for your 2nd character, but other than that, not at all. Sell all your mats and and just buy gear as you go. Best looking gear isn’t even craftable anyways.

oh and the helmet is NOT part of the set!! The helmet you make with this set actually has no look at all, so I put it with a helmet look I liked.

Pretty sure this is the set, one of my friends just made it for me after I gave her the mats.
It’s not a charr, I know, but it is male. Not sure what it is called in PvP but I will look.

Big Boss.6248:

Crafting needs a huge overhaul. The amount of time and gold that needs to be spent in order to level your crafting skills is ridiculous.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/12521-arenanet-andrew-mcleod-talks-crafting-in-gw2/page__st__450#entry599372 anet post linked to by the gw2wiki. We’re apparently supposed to be able to level crafting as I level my character by making items useful to me without having to craft a bunch of “junk,” I have been doing just the opposite though being forced to craft a bunch of “junk” and forced to go back and farm previous areas I have long since out leveled.

At this point after sinking hours into a crafting system that has returned nothing to me other than raising some level I’m about to say kitten it and just ignore crafting as a whole and only use gathering to get my daily.

So OP I remembered reading about this in the official strategy guide, and so i took the time to look it up again for you: