Guild Wars 2

You should still be able to run around the left side to get back in.

If you have a lot of aoe damage, group them all up and nuke. Camps usually have spots where you can pull all of them to easily. You can also usually pull just a couple of npcs first if you can’t handle all of them at once. Generally you want to kill the scouts first since they’re ranged and have the blinds. Then you can kite easily.

Amybubbles.1039:

That’s funny. So you can spend all your time in WvW doing your PvP and being a brat and get everything you need, you aren’t forced to do PvE. But we want something where we aren’t forced to do PvP and that’s unreasonable? Hmm. That’s kinda cute. Take a moment and consider that some of us don’t enjoy PvP/WvW or even consider it to be interesting. It’d be fine if it was optional, like to take a Legendary into WvW you had to do WvW completion or something. But forcing people who don’t like it at all to do it is asinine.

Wait… so you are saying that WvW players get everything handed to us? And that we don’t have to PvE for legendaries?

Please tell me this is a troll.

Dwolf.4358:

Actually, it is reasonable when you think about it.

There is a full week to WvW save when they do updates to the game, the same being for PvE, furthermore, you have wait times when it comes to normal reset plus map ques where you may or may not be competing with some individual who maybe is just trying to just get in a map, which would eliminate them as a spot taken on a map people want to get in on. Alongside that you as WvW players can step into PvE with freedom to move and map which PvE’s don’t get in reverse.

I don’t think shutting down an entire game mode is reasonable, unless perhaps there’s some other way to play WvW during that time period.
How about we trade: a couple hours of PvE in WvW maps for a couple hours of WvW in all of the PvE maps.

Just a guess, but they might base it on NA reset time for everyone. Try it again in 6 hours.

From the numbers I got testing in sPvP, the formula is:
214 + 0.15(Condition Damage) instead of 198.45 + 0.075(Power)

This trait is really in an awkward spot, since you will want to make more of a condi bunker build with this trait, but have to give up one of the other trait lines that actually make bunkers good. You also will have to give up some traits or weapons that give you retal or burning. You will need about 1000 Condition Damage just to break even with retal damage you would get from an average Power build. If you go for a massive amount of Condi Damage (2000), your retal will hit for over 500 though.

I don’t think it’s really worth a build.

Ahmrill.7512:

GoodWithGravy.8019:

Don’t worry guys in 6 months they will rename applied fortitude.

That would that be considered a Major WvW patch?

No, that’s pretty minor. A Major WvW patch would be something like adding a new PvE map.

style.6173:

Boonprot.6274:

style.6173:

@OP: Wow…

You should go tell GF and others not to use 30 points in virtues. They probably don’t know how to play guardian yet.

Also, I think you’ll see a number of people running the +300 vit in WvW. With the boon duration nerf, I think you’ll see people switching over to rune of the soldier. So +300 vit and still keep the condi clears from the soldier rune.

Rune of the Soldier (now Trooper) was meta pre-patch. Funnily enough, meta may be shifting away from Soldier runes in the near future.

Edit: If you’re not taking PoV with Runes of the Soldier you’re doing many things wrong. If you drop PoV in favour of +300 Vit, then you may as well drop the Runes of the Soldier.

Not really. Why would you purposely remove 2 condi clear? 1 is better than none.

What you need to remember is that a lot of people ran PoV and with a boon duration spec. My comment is targeted towards them. It really depends what you want from your guardians…. longer stability really was OP prior to the nerf.

The way we ran was that shout heal warriors were more responsible for condi heal and guardians were more responsible for protection and stability.

With all the junk conditions flying around, going from 2 to 1 cleanse per skill is a much bigger change than going from 1 to 0.

If you are dropping cleanses off your Guardians, presumably it’s because you are taking care of conditions with passive effects like food, melandru, and purging flames, in which case you may not need to build for much active removal.

eleshazar.6902:

Dayra.7405:

They said 9 rounds, we are in round 3, still 6 more rounds to go.
Most of them for most servers completely irrelevant.
Ranks 2-8 will be completely decided in the last 2 rounds, every result before doesn’t matter et al.

Not quite sure how you came to that conclusion…. Seeing as the points accumulate week to week, and it is the accumulation of win points (5,3,1) that decide whether you win not the last two rounds.

EDIT: In all actuality for the most part the ranks will be decided long before the last round. That’s kind of how the Swiss style tournament works… You will remain in static match ups towards the end since it will be where you belong rank wise. It is only chaotic and decisive at the beginning which we are drawing to a close of, and the rank alignment is getting pretty clear in most leagues.

What happens is servers that win get 5 points, and get bumped up a tier. Then they lose the next week to get 1 point, and go back down. The servers getting second place in their match get 3 points and stay there. So, with the exception of the top and bottom servers, every server is getting an average of 3 points per match. All of these server will be clumped up with similar scores for the duration of the tournament. Thus, whichever servers from 2-8 can perform better in the last couple weeks than they did the rest of the tournament will be able to pass the other servers.

Andrew Clear.1750:

melodey.4652:

Andrew Clear.1750:

Well, last night HoD had about 30 people in a fight with about 15 of SBI people at a camp. I rushed in to get supply before they took it as an ele. They killed me and almost half of them followed me to get the stomp while the other 14 of us came in behind them and took out some of them before the numbers won.

Zergs might be big, but that doesn’t mean they have intelligence. So, I understand exactly what the OP is talking about.

HoD is squirreling hardcore for particular members of your server with particular guild tags. Sorry/not sorry if you got caught in the crossfire.

Doubt most of them would care about Abyss tags. I do know that Bags is going for DDLG, and DDLG on our server is gunning for Bags.

There are quite a few former DH players on HoD now.

Also, your new characters after the 15th will not start off at rank 1. There wouldn’t be any “combining” to do.

As much as I like reading all this speculation, I think it has so far missed a very large factor. With the swiss setup this time around, the servers from 2-8 will all be very close the entire league. Therefore, current server strength is not necessarily relevant for determining placement within that range. It will be more dependent on which servers perform the best in the last few weeks, after most of the achievement hunters are gone.

In other words, the servers that can keep improving during leagues, and keep their morale up, have a much better chance. This is obviously bad news for whoever is the second strongest server currently, since they will be stuck facing the strongest server every week and lose morale.

Definitely will be taking lots of screenshots/videos tomorrow.

Charr win this time.

Johje Holan.4607:

I’ll bet a good matchup would be HoD/SBI/Yaks or IoJ/SBI/Yaks or HoD/SBI/IoJ.

Do we get to at least fight every server in this season or is swiss style strictly matched up by placement in previous match? Cause that would be a shame if those matchups never happened.

They will not happen because 2 of those 4 servers will be against FA every week from here on out.

Here’s how I think it should be:
1. Weekly achievement for contributing in your match-up
2. You get some number of tickets each week you complete it

This way people on all servers can get the same number of tickets, and it (sort of ) scales with how much you participated. This also would help spread the population out over the nine weeks, instead of people just playing for 1 or 2 weeks and then not playing anymore.

You have 3 sets so that you don’t have to move gear through your bank every time you switch characters.

Zulika Mi Nam.1092:

Karizee.8076:

We hit queues on our Borderlands tonight and next week we will be in T4. The worst is over for our WvW, rebuilding has begun on SoR.

In the meantime we still have one of the best PvE populations, still hitting overflows daily and still killing Tequatl every day.

What is Tequatl? Is it on a Borderlands or the EB map?

Pretty sure it’s the name of the grub.

March 27th announcing account bound… skill points! Yay!

If you have a graphics card that supports it (the newer Nvidia ones), Shadowplay is really good for this. It uses the hardware to do the encoding instead of software so there is very little drop in performance. The file sizes also seem to be considerably smaller than fraps. It is still in beta though so there are not many configuration options, and it only works if you’re playing in full screen right now.

I’m actually not so sure.
I think only T1 will have people that are forced into there from queues (and only during some hours), so for the other tiers EotM participation will be voluntary. This could mean that people losing matches want to go in there, while people that are winning go into main WvW.

And when leagues happen and we get queues everywhere, who the hell knows what will happen.

Vol.7601:

Im predicting that there will either be

1.) A PvE EOTM instance and a WvW EOTM instance

or

2.) a PvE only EOTM instance for the next 2-4 weeks, and a WvW EOTM release later in March.

Although I would love to see WvW hammer trains hitting LS zergs, I agree that it will probably be something like this.

Nike.2631:

Zinrae.3769:

The pick gives you extra sprockets, which do not make you stronger in any way…

Wrong. It gives me gear options – fairly advantageous gear options at that – without bowing before the almighty Trading Post.

I just bought 3,000 sprockets to build a suit of armor. The tool could make a significant difference in how many I have to buy to gear my next character or advance to Asceneded gear on that one. I’ll get some from my personal node, but the rest is cutting into coin that could have been going to other things. Buying flame rams maybe, or making sure I’m stocked up on pies.

So as I was saying, the only advantage there is gold. If you take that 1000 gems and convert it to gold (61.1g currently), you can instead buy 15,275 sprockets at 40c. Remember, because people have these picks, the price of the sprockets will stay lower so that it is also cheaper for you to buy your 3,000 sprockets.

It looks like I’m in the minority here, but I don’t see this as pay to win, and I’ll explain why.

The pick gives you extra sprockets, which do not make you stronger in any way, it’s just a crafting material that you can trade for Gold. Gold in this game is largely for cosmetics/convenience itself, and does not give you a power advantage over others. You could argue this isn’t true anymore because of ascended gear, but that’s a problem with ascended crafting and not the pick.
In fact, people buying these picks with their money will help keep the sprocket prices lower for everybody else.

And if you do consider getting extra gold to be pay to win, the Gem system is already inherently pay to win. After all, people have been buying Gems and selling them for Gold since day 1, and it’s not uncommon to hear about people buying enough Gold to buy legendaries.

You can still get to it. The entry is in one of the lanes near an NPC, there’s a couple rocks you jump up.

Not everything is giftable, so your best bet is buying gem cards and giving him the codes.

Zaxares.5419:

Not really. I just go to WvW Borderlands which has all the crafting stations, a BL trader, and a Laurel merchant. The one thing that’s missing is a Guild Bank NPC, but I hardly ever use that thanks to my pimped out Bank storage anyway.

There is Guild Bank access through the Guild Registrar. You can also access your personal bank through the guild bank (i.e. if you’re in the other bls where there aren’t crafting stations).

On topic: The ore nodes are in no way worth the financial investment, which is justifiable for convenience items (such as the mining picks). The problem here is that the nodes are actually very inconvenient, so there is no upside at all.

Yeah, that is one of the things that break a Guardian duel in your favor. Experienced players will never use their heal while it’s on them though, so it’s more of a method for delaying their heal while you dps in that case.

As for dodging, you can’t prevent yourself from getting cc’d, but if you dodge at the right time you will actually not get pulled to the guardian, you will basically just be knocked down. So if the distance between you and the guardian is important, it can still be worth a dodge.

johnnymiller.5968:

Is it an exploit or are they using the ‘noclip’ hack to get through the wall?

Speaking of odd things, take a look at the screen shot & advise me if you are able to climb to the top of the structure (Valley Keep). Never seen this before in the months I’ve been playing.

Yeah you can climb up there.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

melodey.4652:

At the very least players shouldn’t be able to damage reinforced gates without seige. Its’s pretty dumb that all their seige is down and a zerg can pew pew a t3 keep gate down with their tiny fists. So so so many times out defenses would have been successful if it weren’t for that fact. But anet has given more and more rewards to the zergball so I have zero expectation for them to change this.

Yes it totally doesn’t make sense that a storm of lasers, bombs, bullets, fireballs and lightning can take down a wooden gate.

Whether it makes sense from a lore standpoint or not is completely irrelevant.

The important thing is that removing the ability of players to damage gates without siege could improve gameplay. Since this would greatly affect tagging keeps, I think the change might have to also coincide with some kind of change to the WP system.

Best overall is probably Warrior. You can build them for just about anything.

efk.3427:

Ben K.7329:

The in-game function that doesn’t exist or the e-mails they don’t read?

The problem here is not fixing bugs, it’s outright ignoring people who are exploiting the game or hacking it. If they were manipulating gold that way they’d be banned by lunchtime.

Press Escape or click the game menu option in the top left -> click support -> submit a bug report. I am sure it ends going to the same place as if you sent an email, but it automatically includes a screenshot (from what I can tell).

Also, as per the “fact” that these people are exploiting: The video shows three SoS thieves (who are green) being in a wooden Wildcreek (in the green third of EB) and someone shooting an AC at one of the few places inside WC that you can’t C&D or hide a black powder field effectively. I was not there, so I can’t speak as to whether he shot it other places or if he ran around staff cleaving everything, but thieves can hide inside a tower for quite a long time. The automatic jump to “they must be exploiting.” is, I believe, a mistake.

Again, I am functioning on only what I can see from the video.

Did you also watch the start of the video where he shows the same 3 thieves (Crit, WISH, and Love) outside of the tower? You can also see one of them inside the wall partway through. This is clearly exploiting, and I’m not sure how anyone could say otherwise after watching this video.

Johje Holan.4607:

A combination of less gold and some Badges would be good. I’m richer in badges than gold.

I think that adding a badge cost to upgrades will just make the problem worse. Here’s why:
1. It does nothing to spread out the burden of upgrading, it will still just be the same people upgrading
2. The upgraders spend more time sieging/sentrying/upgrading than other people and therefore have a much lower badge income rate. They would then have to use their relatively scarce badges on upgrades. While people generally don’t care about having badges, you can get armor sets with them, and Anet can still add more things at any time.
3. Badges are not tradeable, making it impossible for server or guild communities to donate to people that are upgrading.

Le Rooster.8715:

Yak’s bend is the most pathetic excuse of a server i’ve seen, seriously all you do is play for second why don’t you man up and start attacking no.1 for once and actually go for that no.1 spot instead of playing for second.

You mean “why are we attacking the top rated server in the matchup (who won this same match last week) instead of letting them coast to victory?” Sorry for the inconvenience.

And as for going for the #1 spot… It’s only Monday and anyone can still win this. Example: http://mos.millenium.org/servers/view/40/129

Miss Firesss.3704:

Anyone pick any onions while running from a group this afternoon? I always go past the onions when I am being chased, totally not worth it.

Onions not worth, but I always stop for the root vegetables.

Nikkinella.8254:

Chris.3290:

Maguuma is Maguuma. If they are close they’ll push kitten Monday-Wednesday and call it done.

I’m just surprised that YB could do so well. I don’t know about stomps, but I know I saw hellaciously high PPT the last 36 hours.

Oh well, keep it to yourselves then. Keep this up and we’ll probably find out in the next few weeks.

I honestly don’t know what happened either. I thought we were boned when LA was full almost 24/7 with the majority of our people doing wintersday stuff when we were behind. But we somehow pulled ahead.

Well, here’s my take on it, could be right or wrong, or somewhere inbetween.

As always, it’s the cause of a combination of things. The main fight for the win this between us and SBI. First, SBI pushed us down to third on the weekend. Then, the numbers turned more to our advantage during the week. Some of our commanders played more and rallied more people for us, and the patch reducing SBI numbers were probably the largest factors (but who knows, really). We got a foothold in SBI bl which further decreased SBI’s numbers/morale. Since we were too busy fighting SBI, Mag basically just moved into first place for free, even though they were just all over the place and never focused on anything. Then once we established a lead on SBI, we finally could spare to send significant numbers to Mag bl for an extended period for the first time since Friday.

Anyway, great week everyone, it’s been a lot of fun.

Slomo.1029:

Bots shooting the NE/NW camps from the respective towers as soon as the API ticks that camps flip. Why dont you bring up that argument?

Do people really have those? Seems questionable to me.
If it’s a bot, why wouldn’t it just keep firing any time RI was down? If it only fires after it’s flipped, there’s plenty of time to grab supply and leave before a cow gets there.

RyuDragnier.9476:

Shonuff.2354:

I call hax! ONE ranger is killing 15-20 of us for an hour. 90% of the time she takes no damage at all.Constant heals. She has yet to die.
No way this is legit.
Really??? ranger machine gun arrow for 22k?
Really??? ranger rain AOE for 2500x 12?
Really? you take less damage the our war with 4300 armor and 600 regen
Really? /sleep with 20 of us on you ?
Can rangers have 100 000 hit points now?
I am ready to quit this game.
I am sick of YB and DAOC

“Im sooo cute” Yaks Bend

Where were you trying to kill her, what builds were you guys using, etc. Your answers can determine my response to this. Also, did you report her in-game or send an e-mail to exploits@arena.net ?

The dude’s just a troll, and he’s talking about himself. Thanks for trying to be helpful though.

Nokaru.7831:

WhiteAndMilky.2514:

Repair, Merchant, Trait respec. PLEASE.

I’m pretty sure they removed the convenience items from the waypoints because they do not want PvE’ers to clog up the WvW queue by zoning into WvW to repair, retrait, etc.

Except all of these things are available on the maps that actually affect the matchup, but not on the one that doesn’t.

Oozo.7856:

C Hunter.5390:

So who still thinks there is not something going on with Ebay and Yaks? It is happening again this week and in my opinion it is not right or the way the game should be played. I hope some one takes action on this because it has altered the landscape of season and has teams placing in spots they have not fairly earned. Again that is my opinion.

Nobody earns any of their “wins” in this screwed up system.

Sure they do, it’s just a different kind of effort than how you earn wins in your skirmishes.

Well, I guess they’ve figured us out. May as well admit that our recent “fight” in Ebay’s bay was actually just a Zerg vs Zerg dance-off in celebration of our alliance. #yaksbay

Xsorus.2507:

Lokan Tores.8736:

WE DID IT EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!! 30 PAGES OF QQ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We?

More like me…You should all be thanking me.

I did this with no one elses help…

Oh please, you should be thanking Ebay. Obviously wouldn’t be 30 pages without some unsportsmanlike 2v1 in the forums.

Oh kitten, an end of the week <3<3<3 push!
Coverage OP.

Galdr Stormsinger.1368:

The terrible thing for EBay is that Yak’s Bend is shamelessly using you to secure victory for themselves. It’s kind of pathetic that you’re willing to let them do that.

I don’t really understand why people are thinking this. If you told anyone before the matchup that Ebay would be fighting for 2nd place on Thursday, they would have called you crazy. Ebay can take care of themselves just fine, and it’s not like we can force them to help us or something.

Eh… only have a week to wait now anyway.

Johje Holan.4607:

I was thinking, is this the first actual upset that WvW has ever seen?

Nope, it happens occasionally. Here’s a few examples I can think of from when we were on DH, and I’m sure there are many more:
http://mos.millenium.org/servers/view/46/81
http://mos.millenium.org/servers/view/46/85
http://mos.millenium.org/servers/view/46/87
http://mos.millenium.org/servers/view/46/99

Kos Luftar.9214:

Need to learn from YB and put siege everywhere we take if you want to have chance against them, whenever we face them next.

Need to get some people who have lots of free time to just sit on hills and bay trebs and spam #1 on camps/towers all day all night.

I recommend using #2 on the trebs, but maybe it’s just personal preference.
The best part of this is actually only available if you have the ranks to drop traited cows on the depot to mess with their supply pickup.

I have actually noticed some SBI starting to use more of the things we love so much, like supply traps and defensive omegas.

grifflyman.8102:

Week 44 02-09 November

1st Stormbluff Isle 382 027
2nd Yak’s Bend 188 054
3rd Isle of Janthir 116 595

Indeed! Thank you for reminding everyone of how different this week is from our last match a mere 3 weeks ago. After losing by 200k, we got our feet back under us, and worked on improving ourselves and strategizing for the rematch. I hope you will forgive us for being a little happy with what we’ve accomplished.

This match has also been far more fun and intense than the previous one, easily the best we’ve had in leagues. It has been very defensive, which is a refreshing break from the usual karma trains in unbalanced matches. I am definitely looking forward to seeing both servers again.

sephiroth.4217:

TehFoe.6527:

sephiroth.4217:

Oooooo the zoom trick from YB, does this mean we can do it to them too or use mesmers to portal people into their fortified towers?

This SS doesn’t show kitten. It shows red marks. For all I know the AC is built in the lords room behind you and your stupid enough not to know it. Get kitten it vid of where it is and show me his screens aspect ratio and I’ll believe you mate. <3

yer makes perfect sense that you guys have an AC built in the lords room of our tower while we are defending against you, can’t believe I didn’t think of that. You’re right though, I’m stupid enough not to notice the tower is ours and those red circles are obviously our own arrowcarts hurting us, Anet please turn friendly fire off in WvW.

I think his point was that your screens didn’t show where the arrow carts were (looks like at least 2). The rings on the ground hitting your ac down there can be legit because of the gap above the gate. As for the ones on the supply hut, I don’t know. I’m not familiar enough with EGB to say for sure, but it might be possible to target the underside of the hut through the gap in the gate, and I think there’s also a hill or something to the South that might give vision up there. That’s why it helps to know exactly where the acs are.

UHD.2634:

This may come off as a shock to you, but Iron Hide only works on people on rams. Kill the rams and it won’t take 1 minute and is extended from 1 minute to 30 minutes or even an hour.

They also already cut AC damage to siege (which includes rams) in half. This was before ram mastery was out, and I kinda wish they would change that part back if ram mastery is going to stay.

AKLbow.2463:

I don’t see enough drama about XOXO. Please share your stories about us 5v1’ing and sit spamming you.

Here, I’ll start.

XOXO killed me with 50 people and then threw siege and sat on me for 10 minutes.

Clearly you guys need to step up your game and come up with some new ways to bm people. Simple teabagging just doesn’t cut it these days.