Guild Wars 2

I also have this proble now since a couple of days back. I get horrible warps, ping drop and the occasional dc. Never had a problem before, in fact I was impressed at how absent latency issues have been. Now there’s issues galore and it’s just killing my will to play.

Convenient, yes, but hardly in line with the class I think.

Power/precision/toughness armor and weapon, with Beryl accessories to go. Gives fairly even stats and serves me well. I run a shout build with altruistic healing. I would say crit dmg and crit% does make a big difference, but it all depends on the role you want to go for.

I salvaged my greatsword from CoF, which put it to more use than I made of it. Levelled up with gs, switched to hammer and never looked backed. I use a 0/15/30/20/5, which I believe has become something of a cookie-cutter build now. It’s the crit-and-heal build as I like to call it. Hits hard and amazing survivability. Altruistic healing and Empowering might is so good I have no idea how else to play my guardian now :/

If that’s with full berserker gear, I’m shelving my ranger indefinately. Fudging atrocious how bad rangers are with no viable weapon except SB, which isn’t even that good anymore.

SLOTH.7842:

They have to put some kind of “farming” into the gamemode, or else it will just be boring in the end. Why do WvW if you can’t get anything cool from it?

Because it’s fun? :o

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I look forward to see what Arborstone can do. I was in fact not at all privvy to their rise in the ranks. =)

I can’t seriously be the only one that have no issue at all with the guardian’s current role in WvWvW, can I? In offense we’re brilliant, there’s nothing more to say about that. On defense, we’re also good.

Buff up, slap on some retaliation (you don’t even have to trait for it…) and just hammer or swing (in case you got that greatsword) away at the gate from the inside. I can’t count how many I’ve killed that way because they’re all too eager to break down the gate. And with all the aoe spam going on, retaliation will take care of that. You have all the tools to be sturdy and able to remain where the hurt is a plenty, use them. Give that gate a beating from inside.

I believe that whatever peace agreement you seem to think is in place between Vizunah and Far Shiverpeaks is nothing but perception playing tricks on you. No one, and I mean no one, on FS (that attend WvWvW at any rate) have warm feelings for the enemy. In fact, we share the same belief towards Riverside, as it from time to time looks like you have a peace agreement with Vizunah.

It’s all a matter of skewed perception when under immense pressure and being backed up into a corner.

I don’t fault anyone for having that belief. It’s one way of coping with the frustration of not being able to do squat to sway the tide.

Eyfie.7304:

Greetings from VS,

In fact, even Europe have a large scale of different GMT so picking the score at a certain point of the day (like a lot of players like to do) is pointless because some other can be eating/sleeping/spending time at something else when you have free time to play.

Actually VS is the server that can cover a large scale of GMT but I seriously doubt that the Canadians one make a huge difference as everybody from other servers says. It’s just people taking time on their sleeping/eating/etc… time to play and give their server an advantage and guess what ? It works.

Precisely this. It seems that many have this notion stuck in their head that ALL of Europe is GMT+0 and everyone is slaving to what would be percieved as a “normal sleep schedule”. It’s strange and not how the world works :p

Xanthian.3025:

Canadians should play on US servers.
End of.

The Yanks would be going apesquat if 500 Euros moved to an American server and ruined WvW night after night.

Why this unreasonable demand for segregation? Countries and timezones be kitten I thought we all were gamers and your location in the world is important only in the case of latency and language barriers (and even then we tend to overcome that quite well in my opinion).

Also, be respectful enough to at least call them Americans, such as they are. You can only ruin WvWvW by hacks and other exploits, the rest is fair game, thus not ruining anything. Recruit off-hour people, or why don’t you move yourself then?

Mmm, Empowering might, Altruistic healing, HAMMER TIME! I’m a very happy guardian.

MagnusLL.8473:

My contribution to their game has already been done the moment I forked the money to buy the box.

I’m not paid to fix their game. If they cannot provide me a fun experience, I stop playing their game and find a better one. Simple as that.

Case in point.

Arenanet has put a fairly solid foundation in place for WvWvW. There are always room for improvement and despite our best wishes, those won’t come over night. Until such a time, you’ll just have to find what makes it fun for you, instead of demanding Arenanet to make fun for you.

I absolutely doesn’t mean any disrespect, but people need to be more pro-active in the game. I will give you a shovel and a bucket, then it’s up to you on how to use it.

MagnusLL.8473:

Unfortunately the problem is a bit bigger than “sense of entitlement”.
As things currently stand, unopposed capping is not a viable tactic or even the strongest tactic.

It’s the ONLY tactic.

This means my actions (and those of thousands of other players) have no discernible impact on the final outcome. It also means all those awesome coordinated attacks, mesmer portal bombings, communication, flankings etc. etc. etc. are all ultimately futile. If my server has more people online during the hours of minimal presence, we win. If another server has more, they win. What I, my group, my guild, or my whole server did or didn’t do while I was playing never enters the equation.

What’s the point of playing a game in which your actions do not ever matter?

If by winning you mean having the highest score, yes you’re quite right. However, the term winning means something else for me. I feel that I (or we, as a server rather) have won when we continiously, throughout the week, each day push back the night-capping advantage and equalized, or surpassed the opposing side(s) territory. That to me is WINNING. There’s obviously much resolve, and I think too many put too much stock in the EU rankings.

If I got into the olympics and tripped and fell on the finish line, placing last, I for sure would’ve won regardless. I got to the kitten olympics!

If there ever was a 100% idiot proof way of dying in a dungeon, 1h sword would be it. It’s just hands down the dumbest weapon to ever use where you might need to dodge.

Hello everyone!

So I understand that “nightcapping” has become a deterrent from WvWvW. I’m not offering a solution or a mind-set of knowing how to deal with this. I see a lot of blame being shifted back and forth against various nationalities and religions. To me, and this is from someone who plays a lot of late nights on Far Shiverpeaks, it’s obviously just a matter of FS not being able to field a good and organized night team. It sucks, I know, but how is that in any way, shape or form the fault of Vizunah Square?

Yes, they’re French and have always been the target of much prejudice and stereotype, but why can’t we just rise above that? They’re not cheating, and there’s likely not an over-arching French-Canadian conspiracy at work either. Truth be told, I haven’t seen them slander [us] as much as we them. I think that should stop, because it’s getting ridiculous.

Imagine how hard it is to balance out the server population, and with parts of the world being in a different time zone but still sharing a native language with another, it just becomes that much harder. Just for the sake of argument I will assume it to be true that a majority of the Vizu night force is gmt-8(ish). If I wasn’t allowed to play, or in some other way socialise, with people with whom I share a language I would be pretty upset. Simply because it wouldn’t be fair (i.e equality between human beings). As it stands the game is free of region locks, and I for one think that’s amazing.

No one likes being locked out of a region. Who likes their consoles to be region locked? Or dvd players or what have you. If you truly believe region locks are good, please explain to me why.

So the problem as it stands is that Far Shiverpeaks, Riverside[DE] and Desolation (the three who are constantly at the top trading places fighting Vizu) apparently can’t get that night team in order. Too bad for us! I see people who brashly poses the solution of recruiting from other timezones, and while that might seem like something that shouldn’t be necessary, remember, this is a region free game and all bets are off.

WvWvW, in a sense, tries to emulate war with more than just two factions. It’s a constant on-going battle, where everything goes. Cheats and hacks being the exception of course. Let’s power through and just deal with it. If by upgrading a keep means you’ll hold on to it just a bit longer, perhaps it’s worth it? Yes, when the Night-time brigade arrives they’ll start to fight our lovely keep doors and have so much “fun” having to fend of the “gigantic” zerg of 15 people.

I realize I started off with a clear train of thought but it deteriorated into something less comprehensible. All in all, what I want to say is this, please stop being so entitled, and if you don’t want to offer some sportsmanship or other incentive to have FUN and memorable fights, why not just stay off the forum and go out and talk a walk? Cool your heads.

TL;DR: The current situation on the EU server is not “unfair”, it’s just unfortunate for those who can’t field a proper night team. Get over it. Don’t be entitled and stop inflaming the situation by being a massive troll.

Power/prec/toughness on the entire armor and weapons with beryl accessories gives me what I feel is a good balance in HP, Armor and facemelting.

edit: About runes I haven’t a clue. Seems a lot of the good ones are bugged or I’m clueless. Divinity I like, or Soldier. Maybe Dolyak even.

It barely even occured to me I could use this weapon to hit stuff. I only use it to stop people from running the hell away from me. The immobilize is at least very good… >_<

I’m running a slight variation on this build with 34%+5% (superior sigil of accuracy) crit and 17k~ hp. Running a full Knight set with all Beryl accessories. I don’t have exact figures on hand, but it’s a good build and it revived my guardian for sure. Only thing I’m missing is a gap closer, unless I want to lose the only crap ranged alternative I have. Can’t chase people worth a kitten since Zealot’s embrace is so easy to evade.

Other than asking your group whether or not they percieve your support as good, I think you just have to decide for yourself in what areas you could’ve done better. It’s indeed harder to discern than in other games.

The real question though is: Do you enjoy it?