Guild Wars 2

This has been brought up multiple times Stark, unfortunately the Dev’s (and they have officially responded but you can find it) feel like a buff like this would cause players to harass other players to leave X borderland in order to attain the outmanned buff. I personally don’t see this happening as often as the dev’s seem to fear, but I guess I may just have thicker skin than other players and wouldn’t pay any attention to a player who was trying to harass me to leave.

HoD is frequently outmanned and I would love to have some sort of buff other than not having to pay for repairs after getting stomped by a zerg, but the dev’s said it won’t happen until they can figure out some sort of buff that does not incite harassment, I.E. not gonna happen.

sirflamesword.3896:

Heibi.4251:

This is the typical YB scouting party. Small and quaint. No bigger than a thimble.

That’s called the Choo Choo, and it only runs so we can get that WXP. We were all hoping we would have a pretty even matchup this week on Yaks, but of course stupid RNG had to ruin it for all 3 servers this week.

Some friends and I were just talking about how badly it looks like your servers week was ruined. Must be miserable.

Last night on my server a player called for help to defend a tower. Myself and three others arrived to help defend against about 15 enemy players. We continued to defend and alert the server in map chat that we needed some assistance. One of our commanders leading a zerg of roughly 25 ran up within visual range, killed the nearby sentry, capped the point, and left. When we asked him if he was just flanking and he responded that, “We’re letting them flip the camp so that we can then come re-flip it, we don’t want to fight them we just want the WxP.”

My reason for writing this is not to knock that commander, I understand that this would be the fastest way to earn WxP. I for one do not enjoy the mindless zerg / keep flipping and prefer to roam in small teams, getting into small fights while flipping what we can manage. I also enjoy to defend the towers and keeps that we control. The reward for doing so, however, nets far less rewards, both in WxP and drops than exchanging towers as this commander was doing.

I would love to see some sort of incentive for defending a tower, other than points for our server of course. Our server is currently ~80k+ points ahead of the other two servers, so defense is not much of a priority especially due to the lackluster rewards. Perhaps a shorter timer for defending, or maybe enemy players slain in a certain vicinity of a tower netting more points would help? Again this wasn’t to knock how some people play, to each his own, but would love to see a more diverse game play than simply flipping towers as fast as possible with no concern for what is currently held.

deviller.9135:

WvW use PvE skin (actually using PvE armor), so ?

WvW skin = PvE skin. If you mean WvW need a new set armor skin which obtainable from doing WvW activity (BoH), yes (but it still count as PvE armor).

while sPvP/tPvP does not use PvE skin (note:not the model). You can’t export your PvE armor to PvP armor (unless it is stated otherwise > skin which you buy from gemstore or special merchant). Which is why PvP has its own different set of skin.

I understand how it works, I was more curious as to why there aren’t more options which could be obtainable from WvW rewards. They put in a few, however, the skins they placed in are no where near the detail of PvE or sPvP options. Would be nice if the armor skins from places like CoF were available from WvW awards. It would be even nicer if there were as many WvW exclusive skins as there are for PvE.

sephiroth.4217:

Westpalm.7462:

sephiroth.4217:

Much respect to this necro.

That’s me, Sephiroth, Been having a blast roaming and getting into some good small fights. It’s a very welcome change to last weeks non-stop zerg fights. Kain’s idea of a “small roaming” group was 15+.

you are one epic necro man, keep it up ^.^

TY Sir

sephiroth.4217:

Much respect to this necro.

That’s me, Sephiroth, Been having a blast roaming and getting into some good small fights. It’s a very welcome change to last weeks non-stop zerg fights. Kain’s idea of a “small roaming” group was 15+.

I enjoy all aspects of this game, PvE, sPvP and WvW so this isn’t a post bashing one or the other. I was just curious as to why there isn’t more armor / weapon skins for WvW? There’s quite a few skins for PvE players who do dungeons, most look amazing, and same thing for the sPvP. Has there been any reasoning given for this?

I would love to spend my karma and badges on stuff like skins. I have loads of siege equipment so my badges are just kinda stacking up, mostly just been using them to buy extra gear to try out some wonky specs.

I for one can’t wait for a new match up. Kain, I know that you guys are all about the zerg, which is fine, not knocking it, you guys do it beautifully, but I for one love the small roaming match ups and I’m tired of getting rolled by your 15+ “roaming” parties. (thats really not a knock on you guys although from reading through this I’m sure some angry nerd will release his built up angst on me) Good luck with whoever you guys get next, I hope it’s not us again.

He has it, thanks so much simplesimon, he’s gonna get those noogies tomorrow

Ok cool, he said the message was not grayed out and that he could see the amount. Mind you he’s pretty drunk, and a real life friend so I’m not worried about him lieing to me, he’ll just get one hell of a noogie tomorrow if he has it and doesn’t realize it lol

No idea if this the right place to ask but I recently sent my buddy 6 gold to help him with his crafting. The message had a joke in the title and so he deleted it without looking at the 6gold attached. He can still see the mail but the gold is grayed out, and I have not received the gold back. Is the gold lost or will it be returned eventually?

No idea if this the right place to ask but I recently sent my buddy 6 gold to help him with his crafting. The message had a joke in the title and so he deleted it without looking at the 6gold attached. He can still see the mail but the gold is grayed out, and I have not received the gold back. Is the gold lost or will it be returned eventually?

Thanks for the help guys, going to switch my heal to Healing Spring. Another quick question, should I use guard to get the shout regen at the same time as Healing Spring to add stacks, or should I use it as the Spring stacks are dropping off?

Hey guys, been playing Ranger for a bit but was curious as to how you can keep regen up as long as I see some of you doing. I’m running a regen-condi 0/0/30/30/10 build with full apothecary gear / trinkets / weapons with dwayna and water runes, and have been using the shouts cause regen talent. For heals using Troll U, food is toughness / condi / regen foods.

Anyways in some videos and comments, as well as some Rangers I have fought, I see them with near perma regen, while I only seem to get duration of the troll and the short one from the shouts. Can anyone please be kind enough to explain to me how it works, or direct me to something showing how? Thanks a lot.

I’ve been trying to figure it out also. People always suggest siege since you can trade them now but the market has been so flooded with them that you now just break even or lose money.

Not sure what to spend mine on. I have full exotics, don’t want a legendary, and my bags are already packed with siege. I had high hopes for spending them on ascended but they still require all those luarels, so I easily make enough badges to get the next item as I build up the laurel requirements. Would love to have something to spend my excess badges on in the mean time.

aelflune.8590:

Your way of thinking lacks respect for other people and any kind of higher reasoning. It simply seeks to justify things as correct “because I can do them”.

In real life, such reasoning would be considered anti-social. And I would wager that the way you treat people’s legitimate desires in game is a reflection of your real life character.

This comment is ridiculous simply for the fact that you’re trying to compare a video game to ones real life character. Killing or “griefing” players in a JP is no worse than killing a player who is in EB simply to gather materials. That player may not want to PvP, they may just want to run around and explore, gather, etc. But they take the risk of being there, much like you do in the PvP JP’s.

If someone wants to kill you in the JP then good on them for playing how they want. It doesn’t matter if you don’t want to PvP, this JP was put into the game to allow not only for a JP to complete but also for people to fight each other over. You took the risk of going to a PvP zone.

I get yelled at by my own server for griefing on a daily basis in the Jp. What I don’t understand is, why would you get upset for people PvPing in a PvP zone? Go back to your PvE JP if you don’t want to PvP, this zone is intentionally set up to allow player vs player encounters, if you don’t like it, don’t go.

I will try and find out his exact spec’s. I apologize for my use of the phrase CPU, he bought an entirely new machine, not just the CPU. It was a store bought machine, which I think he got from best buy, and I believe is an Asus. I do know that all the stats are an upgrade from his old machine which never had any issues. I know its extremely difficult to narrow down what the problem is without the intimate details, was just really looking for some off the top of your head type suggestions.

Hello everyone, my friend and I have been playing GW2 since around last November. Neither of us have ever really had any lag issues except for the occasional massive WvW fights. Last week he purchased a new CPU, and ever since he has had around 2 to 5 seconds of delay on all actions he takes, casting, looting, speaking to NPC’s etc.

I do not think it is a graphics issue due to his new machines specs and the fact that it does not do the typical graphics lag type things such as being jumpy or things suddenly appearing in front of him. However, he has still tried to tweak his graphics from the highest all the way to the lowest. Regardless of the settings, and regardless of his location, whether it be in LA or the middle of an empty field, he still has the time delay.

Does anyone know if this problem is occurring to multiple people? Does it sound more like an IS kitten ue? I felt like it was more of an issue with his actions being sent / received with the ANet survers, however I do not know much about this sort of thing. And finally, does anyone have any advice? I suggested to him that he create a thread with his system specs, but he wont be able to do this until tonight, this thread was more out of my curiosity. Thanks to anyone who can help.

What Sigil’s are you using dude? Great video btw.

Hello everyone, I’ve been trying to figure out a spec for WvW. I’m fairly new to the game and have been trying out these different builds in sPvP, which I am well aware, is a different beast from WvW. But, I have been trying to keep this in mind while using these different builds.

Currently I am running with a Trap Build and it is working very well in the sPvP setting, but I really have my doubts about how well it will work in WvW (except for perhaps keep/tower defense). Does anyone know if trap builds work well in WvW? or should I focus on running a more long range type build?