Guild Wars 2

Race: Norn
Armor: Adventurer’s Mantle (have not tested Scarf)
Issue: crazy clipping

Clips like mad through facial hair.

Khisanth.2948:

Aren’t the aspect crystals we are using basically made from Glint’s bones?

Crystallized blood, I believe. Glint was a champion of Kralkatorrik, whose blood would dry into solid crystal.

MithranArkanere.8957:

So, maybe they should have waited a bit longer to put back the newest ones, but all of them should come back in some way eventually. It doesn’t have to be in the laurel vendor, it could be when they re-release season 1 in the journal, as rewards for additional harder achievements.

I agree with this sentiment a bit, though I remember how we weren’t given access to the old Halloween hats in GW1 until…when, 2012? I can’t honestly remember. For about 5 straight years the witch hat was an exclusivity item. I’m harping on the Gas Mask Skin here because it’s honestly my favorite piece of kit from Living World Season 1, but I’ve had it for…seven or eight months. That’s ridiculous IMO.

Bluee.1425:

3 words: Deal with it. You can’t always have it your way. Otherwise, what’s the point.

Sure they can. Enough people griped and complained and look – we can now buy the Gas Mask Skin for 25 laurels and 15 gold. Permanently. No effort involved, except for doing dailies for 25 days. You tell me how I’m supposed to now feel like my effort during The Nightmare Begins is worth anything at this point?

Or the effort put in to getting my Toxic Hybrid Mini? Not hard if you have a good group, but I did it with pugs.

Or the effort put into getting my Fused Gauntlets?

Season One has now been rendered a joke because of complaining about limited content. That burns me and the plethora others who actually put in the effort to complete their metas during the times when those events were live.

Gripes about crappy hitboxes on a jumping puzzle are not illegitimate complaints, and neither are gripes about the ridiculously stupid timers imposed on Zephyr Aspect skills. We were already given a limited use, now we have a timer on those limited uses? Give me a kitten break.

Shademehr.1397:

Tristam Green.9178:

Taking a survey about an experience at a Disney World vacation doesn’t usually end up with you getting a free ticket to Disney World, though.

I’ve taken a survey IN Disney World in which I got a free meal. “Paying” people for the completion of a survey (their time) is not unprecedented. In fact, there are entire web sites and companies built around this premise.

Mikuchan.7261:

It’s not “entitlement”. It’s the fact that some people were given an advantage in the game while others had no chance to get it.

What advantage did they get over other players? $5? A Quaggan backpack? 22gold? I’d hardly consider that an advantage over other players.

It’s entitlement, pure and simple.

A free meal at Disney World while inside the park is not transferrable into real usable money.

400 Gems is transferrable into Gold. Gold can be spent on gear, crafting, anything. There is a clear advantage. This is not entitlement.

Shademehr.1397:

geeze the entitlement…

Perhaps Anet is looking for a group of people based on specific criteria. For example, if all you use is Tide detergent, why in the world do you think someone would send you a survey asking what you think about Gain detergent?

Here’s another example: if you’ve never been to Disney World, why should you receive a survey (and compensation for taking the survey) about your experience during a Disney World vacation?

Taking a survey about an experience at a Disney World vacation doesn’t usually end up with you getting a free ticket to Disney World, though.

Fill.8234:

i don’t have anything against MERC leaving they can do what they want with their time.

what i do have a problem with is with how deep one servers’ pockets are to just buy an entire tier 1 population worth of guilds. an unconfirmed number i heard being thrown around was in the neighborhood of 30k gold.

i can understand everyones desire to win and be competitive in t1, and all the tier 1 servers can point fingers at each other for “stacking”, but this is beyond absurd now.

season 1 should be earned, not bought.

Tell that to the 1997 Florida Marlins.

*note – I do not agree with server-stacking for any reason. It’s only going to hurt the entire WvW experience in the long run.

saiyr.3071:

InWhySee.2097:

saiyr.3071:

Hexin.5603:

Everyone moving to JQ, and will not be able to WvW anymore … that is funny. Let’s see, WvW + MERC + RISE + MEOW who ever the hell other scrubs jump ship … Chuu chuu and his 10 men … all enjoy waiting in queue.

Why go? just to get a golden yak, you never actually contributed for? … ya cool bro, you want a golden cookie too? Maybe a golden shower?

I think its time to pop over to EU where real players play. Watch the hiroshima bomb of US go off. This has been quite the funny week.

Back up a second, where did mister Chuu Chuu go?

Well his name does sound like a train… cough. Perhaps wagon would be more appropriate.

If he really left then he’ll probably change his name again (may I suggest Puu Puu?). Though the last post I saw from him, he had a CERN tag. Would be surprised if they left.

Far as I know, there hasn’t been any talk of CERN going anywhere. Chuu Chuu and some other former CERN folk left for JQ, one of which got pretty huffy about it, which is regrettable.

MaLeVoLenT.8129:

AS THE T1NA TURN[ER]S.

Who runs Bartertown?

Oh, I’m feeling all sorts “at home” already.

GL JQ and BG!

Poplolita.2638:

hmmm… I’m not sure why I have the impression that casual players are acting more and more like a hardcore player but in the reverse side. Aka, hardcore casual players. Players who plays a lot, but ask for easy mode or nerf in pve with AMAZING reward content instead of hardmode content in world pve.

This phenomen seems to only exist in gw2, I have never seen any other mmo where casual players cry to nerf a “hardmode” pve boss, either it’s in a instanced raid or in open world pve. They usually ask for an easier more with a lower reward (You got plenty of them in gw2) but no. It seems you have to have the same exact progression as the player who plays 12hours a day.

I’m a pvper, and rarely pve. But this kind of mentality is really fascinating.
I

Want to know why?

These words:

So if you love MMORPGs, you should check out Guild Wars 2. But if you hate traditional MMORPGs, then you should really check out Guild Wars 2. Because, like Guild Wars before it, GW2 doesn’t fall into the traps of traditional MMORPGs. It doesn’t suck your life away and force you onto a grinding treadmill; it doesn’t make you spend hours preparing to have fun rather than just having fun; and of course, it doesn’t have a monthly fee.

Mike O’Brien, the ArenaNet Guild Wars 2 Design Manifesto

Emphasis mine.

Thus far, we’ve seen absolutely the opposite in regards to the new Tequatl fight. People spending 10, 12 hours in overflows to get on their home server, hours of preparation to get a defeat on the part of guilds, etc. for open-world content is madness.

If it were an instanced version of the lower-tier Tequatl boss, that’s one thing, and I’d support it wholeheartedly. But this way? Making it an effective roll of the dice? No kitten way.

(but then again, we already threw out the “no grinding treadmill” with the introduction of Ascended items, didn’t we?)

Geshque.1326:

Personaly my guild iddQd from Seafarer’s killed him 3 times in a row, but I understand that this is impossible for less organized and smaller communities.

Your guild, or your guild plus a bunch of other people in the server?

Dagraan.2854:

im pretty sure baby dragons are about the size of drake broodmothers, and i think its more embarrassing for zhaitan since his own lieutenant is stronger than him by miles.

Nah, Baby Dragons are quite bigger than a Broodmother Drake.

Look at this reference picture from Glint’s Challenge to see the size of a Glint offspring:

http://wiki.guildwars.com/images/4/48/Glint%27s_Challenge_map.jpg

Those six small figures to the left and right of it are the Player Characters.

I assume that Tequatl is just the name given to one of many champions of Zhaitan, much like the Claw of Jormag is a Claw of Jormag and The Shatterer is just one of many Shatterers.

timidobserver.7925:

Tequatl is giving an assist to FA and DB lol.

TC’s Garrison is standing after 4 days, you might need to petition Tequatl to come help claim it.

That is, if TC doesn’t just kill it too.

Glitchboy.5794:

Or work as team and do the mechanics right. Servers are already beating him on the first night. Would’ve liked it to be a bit harder honestly.

Source?

“My server sucks at Tequatl but X server is good at it, I’m going to guest/transfer there”

Tequatl the Sunless – infomercial for World Transfers, now on sale in your Black Lion Gem Store!

redhand.7168:

Granted, the Champion of Balthazar was pretty well up there. My problem with the boss fights is that with a decent player turnout, you could always kill the boss in just a few short minutes.

Content that cannot be beaten the first try is fantastic. Content that requires a little cooperation is more fantastic. Content that can’t simply be DPS’d to hell is even more fantastic than the last.

I don’t care if most of you can’t get him below 90%. This is one boss that you’ll be able to brag about once you finally beat him.

And I can’t wait until we do bring him down.

Thanks A-Net.

As long as they don’t pull a Square Enix and make a Pandemonium Warden or Absolute Virtue scenario, I agree with you. Thus far it doesn’t seem that’s the case. The time limit seems the biggest obstacle, and I am certain that by the end of the day we’ll collectively figure it out.

The fight should be decently difficult enough to keep the players busy but should also be enjoyable. I get that the fight right now is uncomfortable seeing as we’ve effectively been handed everything on a silver platter since launch (the Fire Elemental pre-nerf being a notable exception), it’s going to be good to get this down.

DarkSnowman.8527:

Actually there already are people with Sunless weapons, already saw claymore.

Pictures?

Lucky.9421:

Would be cool if he suddenly stomped that safe spot and one-hit KO’ed everybody there….and stole their shoes.

One swift sideways kick, BAM, dead people everywhere.

Reminds me of FFXI dragons. They would kick no matter where you stood, and they’d flail their tails around you too.

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

Noodle.5974:

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

FenrirSlakt.3692:

I believe he’s going to spawn more often during this week.

So, he’ll spawn more often when I’m not online.

And what exactly do you want? To get the meta achievement even though you aren’t playing? If you play less than average, I understand, you miss Tequatl. But these 2 weeks he will be appearing more often. If you can’t catch him at least few times, you don’t even deserve to get an achievement…

Once. Yes. But there are 5 achievements and the other 4 must come from the dailies. I’ll have 9 chances. Today is out already. I won’t see him rising today. That’s 8 left. I play between 1 1/2 hours to 2 hours a day. How large is the chance that you can actually see a dragon rising in that time? Catching him twice on a weekend doesn’t count.

So, I don’t deserve the achievement because I’m unlucky in my play time.

You win some, you lose some. I get to play around 2 hours a day and somehow, I’m able to make about 80% of the Living World meta-achievements.

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

FenrirSlakt.3692:

I believe he’s going to spawn more often during this week.

So, he’ll spawn more often when I’m not online.

No pleasing some people.

Stormcrow.7513:

Dont worry Anet will make it so that you can kill him 10000 times and never get an exotic.
Tequatl the lootless still lives!

I have gotten a Shard of the Deep from Tequatl before….so idk where you’re getting your data from:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shard_of_the_Deep

WyldKat.4712:

Karmik.2641:

This match up is shockingly, refreshing …Thanks for the ability to learn and have some fun TC and DB enjoy the rest of the week.

Are you sure you’re the “unofficial” nicest FA dude?

That FA’s a Spy!

phaneo.4597:

Greens Daily Ritual.9025:

I’ve seen many posts from both TC and FA claiming they’re not interested in PPT and like the open field fighting, yet when you’re facing even numbers, you get wiped or mostly run away. I saw it repeatedly tonight. So to quote Jack Nicholson “Go sell crazy somewhere else, we’re all stocked up here”.

Yup and I just saw Madonna perform Haka while standing in the middle of the sea singin something like “No Jimmies yet rustled, try harder try harder”.

I’d pay good money to see that.

escobert.9024:

If you were referring to [HAMR] (as we did do this a few times last night) it would be because, we all run hammers. Can’t do much against ACs with hammers. We’re a guild made of several FA guilds meant to be fun, buold the community and hammer smash everything in our way. So come down from the towers and get plowed by our giant hammers plz thx.

You and yours did send my scrawny downed Asura rump flying over NE cliffs north of Cliffside on TCBL last night once. You know, after the rest of your 25+man group stampeded little old me.

Cliffside became home to Trapaholics Anonymous last night.

FA in TCBL last night:

1. Wipe out NE Camp.
2. Stack up, roll on NE Tower.
3. WHERE DID THE SUPPLY GO?!?!
4. RUN AWAY! WE NEED MORE SUPPLY!
5. NORTH CAMP GOGOGO
6. Circle around to NW tower, try to invade Garrison from SW gate, get stomped.
7. Repeat steps 1-6 in a glorious exercise in futility.

By the time we laid out cookies, numerous banners, banquet tables, fireworks and Boxes o’Fun, nobody wanted to come to the Party at Cliffside

Kitten glad to have the old team together. Feels like home.

Omaris Mortuus Est.2738:

It also happens on walls where you can fall through and find yourself trapped inside a wall.

Yeesh, I was not aware of this glitch. The only wall issues I’ve ever experienced were being repaired into the outer wall at SMC. Not fun at all.

Here’s a form letter for anyone who wishes to replicate a Korbaal post in a Matchup thread:

Korbaal.6402:

[Insert smacktalk here]

Attachment:
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Fannwong.3059:

Hello Tristam,

I believe that most of the Rallians have nothing but the deepest respect for TC. Your SEA guilds (like WvW) bring the fights. Show no fear, no running. /salute. We have learned much from TC too.

FW

Tristam Green.9178:

electriette.8952:

I’m not on SoS buuut…

I believe the reason why SoR is so much more organised in general is because they are constantly fighting servers of the same (or similar) population and calibre. For weeks the three ‘Titans’ as some may call it fight each other, while the other servers (SoS included) faces a eiiide variety of servers with a wiiide variety of population numbers. As a result there is a constant shift in the attitude/atmosphere/even skill of a server because of the variety of opposition they face.

That’s much the same reason we on TC have issues facing SoR every time we do.

We get months of (FA/DB/Mag) on one side (sometimes on both) and another on the other side, and we’re used to squaring off against that type of opponent.

SoR is a different animal altogether. It’s just how it is.

I’m fairly certain if we had four weeks solid against SoR, we would fare a lot better against them.

Overall, the fights I attended against SoR this time were way better than some of the other times I’ve seen SoR zerg fights. Fewer emote spam events etc. Exceptions stood out as always, but I know every server has their kittens.

The only thing that consistently bothered me at all about facing some of you versus facing some other servers was being straight-up ganged-upon. And I’m not talking 2v1, I’m talking in nearly every case, being facerolled 4-1 or more, and you’d be foolish to believe I wouldn’t run from those odds. It’s just poor form.

electriette.8952:

I’m not on SoS buuut…

I believe the reason why SoR is so much more organised in general is because they are constantly fighting servers of the same (or similar) population and calibre. For weeks the three ‘Titans’ as some may call it fight each other, while the other servers (SoS included) faces a eiiide variety of servers with a wiiide variety of population numbers. As a result there is a constant shift in the attitude/atmosphere/even skill of a server because of the variety of opposition they face.

That’s much the same reason we on TC have issues facing SoR every time we do.

We get months of (FA/DB/Mag) on one side (sometimes on both) and another on the other side, and we’re used to squaring off against that type of opponent.

SoR is a different animal altogether. It’s just how it is.

I’m fairly certain if we had four weeks solid against SoR, we would fare a lot better against them.

Korbaal.6402:

I’ve had so much fun squishing TC like a bug this week.

such pro

Cheers to FA and CD, had fun stealing land back from you (repeatedly) between Water Camp and SE Tower on TCBL. Here’s to seeing you next time, FA.

kRAVen.4195:

ykyk.2740:

kRAVen.4195:

I think TC’s reputation as recruiting to push into T1 is totally uncalled for. TC’s recruiting push to me was more about never losing. Yes, those type of people/guilds transfered to TC. People that want to win but rarely have to matchup with somebody higher ranked with themselves. Those looking for an easier wvw experience.

The tears coming from this type of post used to be delicious awhile ago – now they are just stale…

If I wanted to bite, I would say that whatever server your kind self is from is certainly giving us an “easier” wvw experience… but that would be too easy, eh.

Every server below you gives you an easier wvw experience. That’s what the recruiting was for. When matched up with servers closer to your population and coverage (T1 servers are closer than T2 servers) those T1 servers get an easier wvw as well.

That’s just patently false. I’ve seen lower-tier servers put up some surprisingly good fights. It’s all about coverage and commitment to the objective.

Mr Whodey.6591:

Buzzcrave.6197:

Twinbros.5372:

Mr Whodey.6591:

Rama.6439:

Twinbros.5372:

Nerds calling Nerds Nerds lmao I’m lovin it

What do you expect? FA has to get their self esteem up somehow…

Maybe next reset they will get a rank 12 and rank 15 server or something, maybe they can handle that, maybe, I don’t want to give them to much credit here…

Lmao TC’s fairweathers make that server look even worse on the forums then they do in game. Good job man maybe next week you will be in T1 and you can pve for the week.

Fairweathers are a bad thing? shrug And if we are in T1 with SoR/BG your right I will be playing PVE for the week. And then the week after, when were not in Tier 1 I’ll be back in WvW…whats your point?

I believe his point is if you keep on running when the real deal is in front of you, then you are nothing but a bunch of spineless scrub. No pun intended, no offense intended.

^^^This

Given you’re agreeing with this, I’m assuming you only see T1 as “the real deal”.

That’s like saying that AAA Minors isn’t real baseball, or ECHL isn’t real hockey.

Tuomir.1830:

Zayd Akira.1942:

Tuomir.1830:

Zayd Akira.1942:

VitalSuit.1980:

The thing about Glint is that the Forgotten used a special ritual to cleanse her corruption (which is proven in Arah path 3 when you cleanse an undead chicken’s corruption from Zhaitan and it becomes friendly). Ventari’s tablet was just sitting there. It’s not like the Sylvari woke up, read it and said “wow I’m not working for Modremoth anymore”. There would have to be a hell of a lore more than that to break a dragon’s corruption.

I’d say, think of it much in the way animals can be raised. On one hand you have the dog that gets plopped down in a great home with loving owners that treat it kindly, and are kindly to each other. That dog has better chances of also being a kindly dog, where as a different dog that was left all alone while it was growing up would be more wary of people, more feral, and possibly dangerous.

The pale tree able to sit and watch humans and centaurs getting along with each other and was shown that peace between long fought enemies could exist may have been enough to turn the pale tree from Mordremoth’s side. Glynt was branded, thus could have been directly controlled or influenced by Kralkatorrik, while the pale tree was just a mere creation, and might have a bit more free will, but that might not be the case, seeing as primordius’s creations all seem one-track-minded on destruction so you do have a point but that’s just one unanswerable question in a bundle of dots that all seem to connect without any counter-issues what-so-ever.

The Sylvari like to believe that the pale tree was created by Tyria (the planet) its self as a defense mechanism against the dragons, but i feel like this is kind of a crappy explanation for the appearance of an entire race of peoples, and them having come from the nature-themed elder dragon makes a ton more sense than the planet itself creating its own races.

It just doesn’t work like that. The Great Destroyer was hell bent on clearing out everything under Tyria’s surface in preparation for Primordus to wake, and Svanir went feral the moment he was corrupted.

Tai Kratos.3247:

Another interesting thing to note is that the other trees that Modremoth creates might give birth to minions that are nothing like the Sylvari, seeing as the Sylvari were shaped by the mind of the Pale Tree to appear like humans, both male and female. So chances are, other minions of Modremoth will not be humanoid.

See Malyck.

Ventari’s Tablet itself could be the source of the Pale Trees cleansing and what frees it from Mordremoths control/corruption, much in the fashion of the ritual that was done to free glynt from Kralkkie. It kinda does just work like that. We already know that the true belief and goal of the Nightmare Court is to remove/destroy the tablet, believing that suddenly this will make the pale tree start doing more nightmare court approved activities.

Also, Malyk doesn’t know where he came from, And as he said before, he doesn’t remember being birthed from a pod, he simply remembers waking up under a bridge by a river bank. It’s proven he doesn’t come from the pale tree, but that’s about it. He could still have been from a mordremoth influenced tree and just fell and hit his head which gave him amnesia. This is what trahearne first thought had happened to Malyk in the first place!

Oh please. You think growing next to the philosophical scriptures of an old centaur outcast equals an ancient cleansing ritual by the forgotten?

And did you even read what I was answering to with Malyck? Tai Kratos was suggesting that other pale trees would make minions that wouldn’t be humanoid, because the Pale Tree shaped sylvari after humans. The existence of Malyck disproves this outright. Also, the Pale Tree also makes the fern hounds, further invalidating that theory.

A theory with nothing to back is not a theory. It’s the same as if you seriously presented a theory that there is a kitten base on the dark side of the moon.

Growing next to the tablet? Not necessarily. Didn’t Ventari die at the site of the Pale Tree? I assumed it was possible that the Tree absorbed him, and as such, (magic, folks) absorbed either muscle memory, or Ventari’s “essence”, and that this is what has influenced the Sylvari inherently.

Drakkon.4782:

Did you hear about the Iron Legion Engineer who was looking for a better energy source? He bolted a piece of buttered toast to the back of his warbandmate and threw him off the side of the Black Citadel. The results were quite effective.

…when the reactor blew…

The inscriptions are not craftable. They were only obtainable during the Flame and Frost update.

Same with Azurite Crystals.

You’re probably better off tweaking your build to go with Soldier’s gear with adjustments, sad to say.

It’s almost like we don’t already have a thread for this matchup.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/matchups/8-23-TC-CD-FA/

Phizixx, my newly-forged Elementalist.

Dyes are Starry Night+Lemonade+Chocolate

The reason I assume we can’t weapon swap is because our attunements are technically our weapons.

No lie, that one does look neat. Sadly, I want to stick with a plant theme for my Guardian (I’m a salad). I despise the Warden and Verdant maces, so as of lately, I don’t use Mace as a crappy, crappy compromise.

Baladir.2736:

Tristam Green.9178:

I’m relatively new to Elementalist. I have been playing it for about a month, and I am going to hit 80 tonight.

That said, I’ve leveled it exclusively betweeen WvW and Queen’s Jubilee zerging.

It doesn’t bother me that I can’t solo camps in WvW. I can disrupt trade routes with almost no effort with my staff, CC skills (Earth Magic is godlike) and a fire elemental to wreck a Veteran Guard’s day. To me, disrupting trade routes and preventing Yaks from leaving camps is just as important as capping those camps.

It is very important. Also, as you become more familiar with the class everything will fall more and more into place. With Staff for example, if you are going to lay down an Eruption for damage on the Yak, put a Lava Font, Frozen Ground, or Geyser on top of it at just the right time to stack Might, Frost Armor, or Mass Healing. The delay in the blast finisher of Eruption will allow you to lay a combo field down on top so they combo when the blast goes off. There’s a thread in here somewhere of elementalist tricks. Not everything is obvious at all.

After I got the hang of flipping attunements, I cycle through every single one at least once per fight. No matter what.

Usually, it’s (Static field + stun)/(Frozen Ground)/(Unsteady Ground) —> Unload unholy hell while cycling.

It works wonders, it really does. I am so glad that I’m not a one-trick pony Ele like I was in GW1.

I picked guardian first because, traditionally, I always went with a mage character, followed by a straight heavy DD.

I picked what I figured would be a departure from that role. Mostly, I’ve been right and have been pleased with that.

I picked a sylvari because I had a feeling Sylvari Guardians wouldn’t be too prevalent. Sylvaris seemed tailor-made for Rangers, Thieves and Necromancers. I’ve been pleasantly happy with that too.

Aeolus.3615:

More non flashy neon maces and shields skins would be nice.

As mace guardian we dont have much to choose.

Agreed. It’s silly that one of the best looking maces we have to pick from is the Krytan Mace.

I’m relatively new to Elementalist. I have been playing it for about a month, and I am going to hit 80 tonight.

That said, I’ve leveled it exclusively betweeen WvW and Queen’s Jubilee zerging.

It doesn’t bother me that I can’t solo camps in WvW. I can disrupt trade routes with almost no effort with my staff, CC skills (Earth Magic is godlike) and a fire elemental to wreck a Veteran Guard’s day. To me, disrupting trade routes and preventing Yaks from leaving camps is just as important as capping those camps.

So….is SMC still swiss cheese after last night? The outer walls were ridiculous last night.

Sovereign.1093:

What I’m saying is thanks for the fights. Our TC server has been lax and is need of a good spanking. So, mag and db, please hit us hard and constant. I want to wake up TC bl. And if she remains asleep, then it means we’re not worth of being the wall. ^.^

TY again.

At the risk of sounding masochistic, this is what I want too. I grow weary of seeing people being apathetic in our BL and EBG because “yawn we’re so far ahead, we have more points than [x] had the last two weeks combined”.

That’s not even an argument worth making.

8/10 great stuff.

Mine is named Phizixx.

I’ve noticed this a lot since the Sky Pirates patch. Not going to add anything really, except my voice to the mix – ISP is TimeWarner Cable in the Charleston, SC area, and the skill lag I get in instanced PvE even is as bad as or worse than the skill lag we used to have at world bosses right after Guesting was introduced.

It’s aggravating because I can’t even hope to compete in WvW this way, and that’s the thing I look forward to the most in this game.