Guild Wars 2

Iason Evan.3806:

Timchee.1237:

The current state of acquiring ascended weapons/armor limited to crafting only, is severely contrary to the core foundation this game was built on… or better put, its simply boring and linear.

Before ascended we all had a goal of doing dungeons to acquire tokens to in turn buy our exotics. This goal was obtainable to the psyche of the typical gamer because one could see the goal on the horizon. To acquire ascended gear on the other hand that very horizon view of gear (carrot on a stick) is fundamentally gone completely. Sure people have gone broke getting ascended weps, but at the cost of what? the cost was no fun and very grindy experiences. Is this the goal of the end game content and gear? This is not what makes me hungry to play more of the game.

I have just one request. At least make it fun to acquire these ascended pieces. I would gladly pay 50+ pristine relics or 8k wvw badges to get 1 piece of ascended.
Making all facets of your game able to acquire ascended only makes the game better and brings in more diverse players. No one wants to stand for hours at a crafting table to get their endgame gear.

So you would trade in what you think is a grind for what you think isn’t a grind? Crafting=Grind to you but 8k Badges or 50 Pristine Relics (per piece) is not?

No, my point is to give us multiple methods of acquiring the ascended items, just like they have done for the ascended trinkets. Crafting is not fun. Period. And the numbers I put out for how many relics/badges was just a random number. They could be more or less I could care less. But at least let me play a FUN game mode(WvWvW/Fractals/PvP/Dungeons) to acquire them. Karma training champions for ascended mats is NOT fun, nor is standing at a crafting station.

The current state of acquiring ascended weapons/armor limited to crafting only, is severely contrary to the core foundation this game was built on… or better put, its simply boring and linear.

Before ascended we all had a goal of doing dungeons to acquire tokens to in turn buy our exotics. This goal was obtainable to the psyche of the typical gamer because one could see the goal on the horizon. To acquire ascended gear on the other hand that very horizon view of gear (carrot on a stick) is fundamentally gone completely. Sure people have gone broke getting ascended weps, but at the cost of what? the cost was no fun and very grindy experiences. Is this the goal of the end game content and gear? This is not what makes me hungry to play more of the game.

I have just one request. At least make it fun to acquire these ascended pieces. I would gladly pay 50+ pristine relics or 8k wvw badges to get 1 piece of ascended.
Making all facets of your game able to acquire ascended only makes the game better and brings in more diverse players. No one wants to stand for hours at a crafting table to get their endgame gear.

The current state of acquiring ascended weapons/armor limited to crafting only, is severely contrary to the core foundation this game was built on… or better put, its simply boring and linear.

Before ascended we all had a goal of doing dungeons to acquire tokens to in turn buy our exotics. This goal was obtainable to the psyche of the typical gamer because one could see the goal on the horizon. To acquire ascended gear on the other hand that very horizon view of gear (carrot on a stick) is fundamentally gone completely. Sure people have gone broke getting ascended weps, but at the cost of what? the cost was no fun and very grindy experiences. Is this the goal of the end game content and gear? This is not what makes me hungry to play more of the game.

I have just one request. At least make it fun to acquire these ascended pieces. I would gladly pay 50+ pristine relics or 8k wvw badges to get 1 piece of ascended.
Making all facets of your game able to acquire ascended only makes the game better and brings in more diverse players. No one wants to stand for hours at a crafting table to get their endgame gear.

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Timchee.1237:

We arent interested in dueling, we like to run as a group. If you want to message us sometime and see what BL we are in, I’ll tell ya and hope to see you just by running around like we do.

Dont get your feelings hurt though if your teabagged

We’ll see who /sit spams whom.

My guild told me it isn’t physically possible for me to teabag other people so I’m not allowed to use that word. I’ll have to look up what that word means sometime.

Haha alrighty, well we hope to see you out there!

Yes, many kudos to Zedd for the great job on the video!

In WvW if your not teabagging, your doing something wrong.

Awesome, hope to see you around then. And thanks!

We arent interested in dueling, we like to run as a group. If you want to message us sometime and see what BL we are in, I’ll tell ya and hope to see you just by running around like we do.

Dont get your feelings hurt though if your teabagged

Hi Chaba

How goes it on FA? Lots of roflstomping?

Just wanted to share the fun battles we have had in bronze. We were originally from FA and joined the gank scene. Before the season started we transferred down to bronze league because of how zergy upper leagues were getting. We have never been happier on our home of Darkhaven.

We usually run with a condi necro, condi thief, and hybrid S/D ele. This group make up synergizes well in small gank/group combat.

Enjoy

http://youtu.be/JZWAEoWLP5s

Just wanted to share the fun battles we have had in bronze. We were originally from FA and joined the gank scene. Before the season started we transferred down to bronze league because of how zergy upper leagues were getting. We have never been happier on our home of Darkhaven.

Enjoy

http://youtu.be/JZWAEoWLP5s

We decided to transfer to NSP, and were able to do so before reset night. Boy were we glad we did. So far we have had a blast… It has been everything that we were hoping it would be. Thanks again for all your input!

See you on the battlefield.

Timchee(VC)

We are from FA and are getting tired of the zergs in the upper servers, and I know it will only get worse in weeks to come because of the new wvw map changes and league system. And I know we cant get away from zergs completely, but we are looking for a server that has less of it and more small group fighting. Does that even exist any more? If anyone has any suggestions of where to go Id love to hear them. We are hoping to move to a mid to low tier server in the “silver league” in hopes that that would mean less super zergs.

Thanks

I dont play a necro so I couldnt tell you much other than I know that conditions do not show up on the combat log. So there is all the condi dmg that happened to you within whatever amount of time you were alive that isnt accounted for.

What builds are you hoping people run with in this guild? Or do you not really care?

Very curious about this guild, keeping an eye on the server you choose. But if it happened to be on Fort Aspenwood, I would deff join.

Jarek.2430:

I havent seen you play so can not give you insight on your build/equipment. I can point out the differences between our builds.

My build 0/10/30/10/20
Your build 0/20/0/30/20

Arcana 20 vs Arcana 20 same

Air 10/water 10 vs Air 20 We both have Bolt to the Heart. You added Quick Glyphs for faster heal cooldown.

Water 10 – we both have vital Striking

Earth 30 vs Water 30 You went 30 for better condition removals and heals. I use my equipment and earth 20 to combat conditions. Melandru superior runes, Earth Geomancer Freedom and Lemongrass soup provide me with -64% condition duration (-98% cripple, chill and immoblize) and -25% stun duration. You get + 1% damage per boon vs my +10% damage at full endurance. You provide better healing and conditioning to those around you. I went with the damage route with 10% more damage while attune to earth (I did this because earth is our main combo finishers so I am in earth more then the other attunements). 5% more damage to foes who are bleeding (my teammates cause the bleeding here).

Heal – we both have Glyph
Utility
glyph of storms = We both use this.
Arcane Wave vs Armor of Earth This was mention in another thread. Another combo finisher needed outside of Earth which provides offense and heals with blast finisher.
Radiation field vs Mist form (Radiation field is a racial utility which provides 15s AoE that is a combo field – acts as another CC since its a deterrent for folks to enter thus separating up the enemies). However I do switch this out while on the move with mist form.

Elite
Tornado vs Elementals (Tornado provides another finisher. Also provides stability and is great on ramps, edges or in confined spaces.) However, I switch this out depending on situation. Small groups I go air elemental pet or conjure GS.

Equpment:
Armor (soldier/knight) vs (knight)
Melandru vs Divinity

Trinkets
Soldier/Bersker/Valkrie vs Valkrie, Celesitial, Cavalier
Ruby vs Ruby

Attributes:
Power/toughness vs Power/precision both 1875ish
Precision/Vitality vs Toughness/Vitality both 1450ish

Crit chance/dmg
35%/39% vs 50%/78%

Possible bonus damage via traits
+45% vs +30%

damage reduction
36% vs 21%

Health
17k vs 17k

Interesting. I will deff save your build for future reference/use. I havent gotten to use my build a ton yet so I want to give that a bit more of a whirl before I switch around. Thank you for sharing your build/equipment.

kirtar.8453:

You should try looking over several of the other recent threads that have basically asked the same thing after the patch on June 25th. I’m still running the old 0/10/0/30/30 build, though 0/20/0/30/20 should be ok though you of course lose a little bit of utility/survivability due to the loss of EA (mainly the water and earth spells). One thing you might consider is Arcane Abatement (master water trait) depending on what you’re doing in WvW.

For utilities I always run arcane wave since blast finishers on elemental fields can help you stack might, heal, or maintain swiftness. I run the same cantrips listed for stunbreak and stability/invulnerability/etc. Your armor looks fine though +boon duration could be useful to compensate for lower arcane (superior monk, superior water). Not sure about the weapon as I’d rather run zerk, valk, knight, or soldier. Either way if you’re using a bloodlust staff, I would recommend having a second one with either force or battle. Sigil of Battle gives you a good amount of damage since you get might stacks every time you switch attunements (in combat)

Thanks, Ive read a few of them, just wanted opinions on my specific build( Not thakittens that special) I forgot to change staff to berserker too, oops.

I generally will be running in groups of 10+, so my goal was to try an support as much as I could, but still be able to lay down the thunder offensively. I will deff play around with the arcane wave, that third utility is the one floating one that I will play around with, not sure exactly what I want to use there yet.

I would like anyones opinion on this build, I am new to the staff builds for Ele. I used to play a D/D but want to try a more ranged/support build in WvW. Any suggestions on any changes are welcome. Just trying to get a better idea of what people use out there.

Here is my build: http://www.smarturl.it/2vyogq

Awesome video man. Great music too. Keep up the good work.

Also, I never realized till now just how good you really were… ;P

This has also happened to me. I did a clean install of my video drivers, did a repair scan on Guild Wars 2 launcher tool and still continue to have this problem. It has also only been happening since Act 3 halloween event. Hope it gets fixed soon cause Im missing out on a lot of WvW action tonight. It is unplayable since I keep getting knocked out almost 10-20 mins intervals.