Guild Wars 2

Yak’s Bend has defeated Tequatl!

• Server: YB
• League: Silver
• Enjoyed Season 1: Yes
• Should we have season 2?: Yes, but with changes to the format

What I liked

• Matchup variety
• Rivalries with servers that are close in rating (at least at the beginning of the season) with EB/BP
• The competitive spirit of our hard-core YBers that rallied the troops even in our down weeks
• Rallying from 6th seed at the beginning of the season to finish in the top 2-3

What I didn’t like

• Too many blowout PPT scores (We didn’t finish closer than +/-59k points to another server in a single match, and the 1st to 2nd place score differences in our matches varied from 86k to 259k)
• 1st place in all the leagues was not highly contested
• The season meta achievements did not encourage team play
• Imbalances in the schedules (example – Dragonbrand had to play Stormbluff Isle and Fort Aspenwood 3 times each, but Stormbluff Isle and Fort Aspenwood only played each other 2 times)

It was disabled for now due to an exploit.

Proof of Heroics come from http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Chest_of_the_Mists_ which come from http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/World_Experience#Rewards (World Rank Chests) when you rank up in WvW.

STAY SEXY.4360:

You guys had the lead with a 400+ ppt (40 mag) thursday at 6am est

From http://mos.millenium.org/servers/view/40/
6 AM on Dec 12:

Maguuma: 186.050
Yak’s Bend: 175,570
Stormbluff Isle: 162,030

Maguuma was still in the lead.

When you make a loud falling noise walking down a flight of stairs

You do get a small amount of wxp for killing the random mobs that attack supply dolyaks.

Love the game so far! Just have request for tweaks for usability:

1. It would be great if items that can’t be used by the current character be greyed out just as items in the discovery panel in crafting are greyed out if they are about the crafter’s current ability. This greying out would be in inventory, collectibles and bank, and the effects would be displayed on items restricted due to level, class or soulbound status of the item.

2. When mousing-over renown NPC’s currently you see their task if it is active, or a brief description of the task if it is completed. When it is completed, it would be nice if the mouse-over displayed the items for sale by the NPC, and the rewards received in XP and coppers.

3. When doing a personal story with someone else, please let everyone else stay when the instance owner leaves, instead of booting them automatically.

MarzAttakz.9608:

Like Gro said Peanuuts, practise it in day to day life.

Take a simple example like making a cup of coffee and do this speaking out loud.

“making some coffee because caffeine is so good”.
“walking to the kitchen on the east side of the house, turning right into the kitchen”.
“stack on coffee maker”.
“buffing with beans”.
“hold until I press the button”.
“flanking right (west) to grab the sugar”.
“dropping sugar into the cup”.
“four turns clockwise to stir the sugar”.
“hold, hold, hold”.
“stability up, take a mouthful”.
“loot”.

Pretty bad example but you get the idea, it’s about vocalising your internal dialogue so that others know and understand what you’re doing.

Personally I often forget to breath.

Now, whenever I make coffee, I’ll think “fire field” (microwave) and “blast finisher” (stirrer)

Sin.5732:

It’s really sad that this matchup has come down to a 2v1 situation. YB and ebay get stomped in all even encounters and 2v1s inside stonemist and are still so delusional to think that they aren’t being massacred. Other than the points game, which is a hell of a lot easier teamed up… you have nothing going for you.

Enjoy your cinderella story for now kids, keep holding eachother’s hands.

Don’t be sad, it’s gonna be ok. Here, have some baby cats:

If they do make them into audio books, it would be even better to use the GW2 voice actors for the reading!

If you are planning to PUG speedclears of dungeons and fractals, then you should roll a warrior or a guardian.

However, if you are doing dungeons/fractals/etc with friends who don’t discriminate by what the fotm build is, play what you have fun with.

Personally, I main a ranger with Kudzu, and find the play-style a lot more fun than that of other professions (I have level 80 toons on every profession, and multiples of some). Rangers have good survivability with access to endurance regen, ability to attack at very long range, access to an extra tank/meat shield, access to many different (pet) utilities, though this is offset by bad pet AI and pathing which causes problems against high damage foes like dungeon bosses that one-shot or aoe damage the pet, and by problems with the 1-hand sword’s attack chain animations. They can hold their own in sPvP and PvE, and while they aren’t desired in zerg busting guilds in WvW, they can help in large scale battles with water fields and piercing arrows, or in other ways as scouts and camp capturers. I haven’t player Mesmer enough to really comment on how fun they are, but they seem to do fairly well in sPvP and they have some very useful and unique abilities (portal, time warp).

Mainly, make up your own mind by playing Ranger and seeing if you like it. If you just go by the posts on the forums, you probably wouldn’t even try out the profession.

(Also, there is a patch coming out tomorrow that has some small enhancements for Rangers along with a major nerf to endurance regen :/).

Thieves as mentioned above, and Rangers with barrage/traps can tag many mobs easily, and move quickly with speed-boosting signets.

I also found that the Asura skill Radiation Field is useful as well.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/DR-Diminished-Returns/first#post1384649

This may answer your question … I think you may have to just not park a toon at the dragon, or maybe not kill the same dragon twice in a row using the same toon.

Every time I go to farm an ancient sapling near the Slough of Despond Waypoint, a Quaggan runs up wailing that the Icebrood are attacking Moshpoipoi, please help! in a very high pitched, drawn out manner. Ugh! I like the Quaggans but it is just too much, especially since ancient nodes are so profitable now to run all my alts to them.

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

Just a quick note—I said the odds of it dropping was closer to .005 than the 1 in a million or so that was tossed out. Those aren’t the exact odds, but if my math is correct, 10 players running the event every day might expect one staff to drop after about 7 months. (And we haven’t been out that long.)

Jeff didn’t say the odds are .5% or 1/200. He said they were closer to that than 1/1,000,000.

Assuming that he is referring to level 80 players to get the best possible chest loot also, not underlevelled, and assuming the use of the word “might” indicates basically a coin-toss/50% chance in his above time frame and 10 players/1 attempt per day to avoid DR/213 days, 2130 attempts gives a 50% chance, so the odds would be 1/4260 for a level 80 player to obtain this item if his math is correct.

Straegen.2938:

I know it has been brought up before but players purposefully burning massive amounts of keep supply on useless siege creates a lot of animosity. It stings quite a bit since there is nothing current players can do about it. We just had a guy drain over 2k supply building rams and trebs in SM for the express purpose of killing all the supply in the keep. The placement made them completely useless.

Any thoughts on how to handle this? Do you fellows consider this to be a problem?

Send in reports to A-net, my server has had issues with siege trollers and they have vanished after we reported them many times.

notebene.3190:

The hero panel idea isn’t horrible, thanks Ex and Kari. Though it would only be useful if I knew where they were used, as you can’t search on them specifically.

The alt-bank idea isn’t horrible either, but I’d have to write some things down or start keeping a spreadsheet and try to remember to keep it up to date, or something.

Thanks again.

There is a search bar at the top of the crafting window that you can input ingredients to find what recipes (that you have discovered or have available) they are used in.

Try hanging outside the Black Citadel next to the Village of Smokestead – you have Flame Legion attacking the armory and junkyard and hanging out in a cave and stealing BBQ and causing mayhem at the lake (5 events that happen fairly often from what I have seen).

ArrDee.2573:

lol all these “QQ people are mean” threads! How long have you been on the internet!

• Get thicker skin! There is no internet police!
• Raging players are hilarious! Stop taking everything so seriously!
• There is a block function!
• It’s PvP! In a competitive (lol) scenario, there’s always going to be bm!
• http://www.twitter.com/gw2drama

Wahoo! Bye frands!

PS Also blame Anet for having just THE WORST matchmaking in the history of games with matchmaking! If they’re going to put beginners and veterans on the same team… No vet wants to play with/against beginners and vice versa! Also blame Anet for not trying to get new players to play their game! One of the reasons why matchmaking is so bad is because of the lack of players!

• This is a pastime, a game, a place to compete but also make friends, and the toxicity that is rampant just makes it impossible to enjoy sometimes, win or lose.
• See above point, its about having fun, NOT being serious.
• I’d rather populate my contacts, rather than my ignores, and maybe have some friendly banter with my teammates or foes before each match, which the blocking function hinders.
• That isn’t a valid excuse for personal attacks on other players. It is just a weak way to justify this lowest common denominator form of despicable behavior.

PS: Yes, the matchmaking is frustrating, but raging at new players isn’t going to encourage them to get better and increase the PvP community population. Making reasoned posts like OP’s is a much better option, IMO.