Guild Wars 2

Yes, tested it in pvp and it is really hard to survive against condition build right now. It’s almost not worth going into Berserk mode…..

Ben Phongluangtham.1065:

shakome.7458:

I haven’t played wvw in awhile, popped in for a quick dailies and saw this….
now i wanna make my necro a minion masters

WHERE ARE YOUR MINIONS?

I need her to appear weak to be able to lure people into ambushes

The aura is also unnoticeable on charr compare to any other races.

I would like a glider that transform the player at the same time each time it is used.

example : you produce a burst of flame as you deploy the glider and transform into a winged fire elemental. When you stop using it, you turn back to normal form with the same burst of flame as the beginning with lingering 1-2 sec of smoke aura around your character.

Or “fake” mount glider. Summoning something like a Pegasus, a spirit steed that leave behind ghostly hooves trail or any flying creature that either carry you or you can ride.

He had Ad Infinitum which is the legendary. That one has the animation.

Like the title said, I am looking for experienced people to team up in PvP to advance in league. I have been SoloQ my way to Diamond Tier 5 but can’t seem to progress further mostly because the holidays brings all kind of people in PvP (recently lost 2 tier because of that). My progression was steady at +2-6 per day before the holidays.

My immediate goal is to reach legendary before the end of this season but I am planning to progress as far as I can in every season.

My schedule change often but I can play throughout the day. I play mainly Revenant, Elementalist and Mesmer in that order right now.

I have TS if needed, speak english and french if it can helps for communication.

You can contact me by whisper or send an in-game mail

I play with 700+ms constant latency and I got silver with 5 seconds to spare so it is possible. The trick is just to know on which jump you can save time then improve your own route.

Of course everything would be easier if the glider deployment was client side and we don’t have to wait for server validation before that thing opens…

Taliyahna.3516:

did you ever get past that part of the story, and if so, how? Thanks

Yes i got past that part, with the help of a mesmer’s portal. I discovered later that I could take an alternate way via the eastern pylon. There is a cliff that you can access northeast of the updraft after you completed all the events and the bridge is active. You will need Lean Techniques to be able to catch the updraft in time. If you have a similar latency to me you should barely get it.

To put you in context, I play with a satellite connection meaning that I cannot get less then ~600ms of latency. I have been playing Guild Wars 2 since launch and never had any problem with the content or anything. Most people can’t even tell that I play with such high latency (until I teleport everywhere after you knockback or pull me).

Since HoT, I have to deal with a frustration that is the activation time of the glider. When I try to deploy the glider, it won’t activate until I fall for the value of my latency at that moment. Players with good average ping will not understand how frustrating it is since they can almost instantly deploy it while holding spacebar. Not only that, for some jumps (easy jumps), I have to rely on mesmers to portal me and one of them was for the storyline.

What happen now is :

1- I jump from the cliff while holding the space bar still
2-I stay in the air long enough to deploy the glider (in my screen)
3-I cannot deploy the glider because my character isn’t really there in reality(this is the version of my character affected by latency) so I fall for approximately 600ms
4-My glider deploy but I lost too much altitude and cannot reach the updraft or the ledge

What I would like to happen is:

1- I jump from the cliff while holding the space bar still
2-I deploy the glider almost instantly (in my screen)
3-The version of me that everyone else see (the one affected by latency) mimic what happened to me at the second step
4-I get into the updraft in my screen or the ledge
5-In the case of the updraft I get propel in the air 600ms later or everyone see me reach the ledge after that time.

I know this is possible because they did almost the same thing with daredevil’s grandmaster dodges. In the beta, the dodges were affected by the latency meaning that I have to wait almost 1 second before I see my character dodge in my screen. Since launch I tried daredevil not hoping for much difference from the beta but it was quite the opposite. Now I can dodge and see it instantly in my screen then the effect of the dodge kicks in after the value of my latency which is what I was expecting at first before the beta.

Knowing that they can make such change, I wonder why they did not apply that logic to the activation of glider. It would make gliding a much better experience. I think it is an improvement that will benefit us all, not only those with high latency. Just think at times where you get lag spike during an important jump and miss it because somehow your ping increased for few seconds.

Yes, Crystal Desert is NA. I added the information in the post

[SUP] is a PvX guild based on Crystal Desert(North America) focusing mostly on Fractals, Dungeons, Raids (soon), WvW and sPvP and currently looking to build our core of players for every aspects of the game.

We do Guild Missions each week depending on the schedule of the players so the time may change each week.

Our prime time, where most our players are online, is also in the same area starting from server reset time every day of the week.

Our Guild Hall is Gilded Hollow. We are currently working to upgrade everything.

Everyone is welcome to join. No special requirement is needed but we do expect respect among members and ask to represent while doing any kind of guild activities. We have members that will be happy to take some time answering all your questions and assist new players in their progression and hope you will help spread that mentality.

Join us today and see if we are the right guild for you!

Contact Vekaiel.8493 or Shakome.7458 via in-game mail or whisper for an invitation or more specific information.

Ohoni.6057:

The Shiro upkeep gives Super Speed, I wonder how much uptime you can get on that out of combat. .

If they did not change anything from the last beta you can spam your energy out of combat and it will regen to 50% almost instantly. I remember spamming ventari’s skills #6.#8 and #9 all at the same time and never ran out of energy in the 5 min it took me to get bored of mashing those keys.

I would like to see the invocation line focus a little more on energy management. Traits like “Gain X energy on (condition requirement)”.

example:
-on weapon swap
-when affected by stun
-on legend swap (instead of starting at 50% at something like 75%)
-on successful dodge
-when you go under X%, gain X energy (with an internal cooldown)
-on crit, gain a buff that reduce the energy cost of the next skill by X%
-etc..

They could put an option for those who don’t want to open the glider when holding spacebar. For me it’s a lifesaver since I play with constant 700+ ms ping. The deployement of the glider when you hold spacebar gave me the opportunity to trigger it right at the moment it is available even during lag spikes (2-3k ms).

At least read the whole thing before replying. What I was asking for is that the deployment of the glider would not be affected by latency.

If I fall and it takes 1 second for the game to tell me that I can deploy the glider and another second before I can trigger it because of my latency it will be a total of 2 seconds where I cannot do anything but fall…

I am playing this game with a satellite connection so it’s impossible for me to get less then 600-700ms of latency. In general I don’t have much problem in jumping puzzles because all my action are instant for me (in reality every movements take 1 second to be register). In combat, I have to predict 1 second in advance what the enemy will do. Most of the time it is luck who will decide of my faith and especially in pvp. It is not possible for me to get a better connection because I live too far from the areas where cable connection is provided.

I saw in some demo videos that you need to press a button to deploy the glider. If it work like jumping or moving it won’t be a problem. If not, I surely hope that the contents they will give us will be forgiving.

Somehow I think they will do some cool things like mix bouncing mushrooms and gliding to reach hard-to-reach areas. Mushrooms will also be I problem for me since when I use any kind of leaping skills or those steam pads in aetherblade JP, I teleport everywhere (in z axis) and get stuck in the air sometime for a small moment.

I am just asking/hoping that my connection won’t keep me from achieving everything in the expansion (contents and achievements).