Guild Wars 2

IDK, Bard was my favorite specialization in Rift, it was pure support, and its rotation had it cycling through songs or anthems for the party, it didn’t have a cap on affected targets just all within earshot which was some actual range number. I’d be interested in seeing how anet would do it, I doubt they will but, it could be cool.

Yeah for real, why do we lose our weapons swap and over half of our legends when we go underwater? I’ve not checked on Kalla but, I would have put money on being able to use Kalla underwater. :-/

What makes You Raiding Co. Material?

You are willing to raid, we host training raids almost every night (See the schedule below).

You like having a tight knit group of like minded individuals to enjoy joking around with (we tend to give Azi crap — ask him ^.^)

You really want to be a part of RDs – You get what you put in. This is true of any guild you join. If you join a guild and refuse socialize with them you will never be apart of them. If you never join in guild activities then you end up feeling left out, we want to get to know you but if you don’t let us then you may always feel alienated, and we don’t want that so, again you get what you put into it.

Who We Are:

Relaxed – The only place we care what build you’re running is raids, otherwise, feel free to play how you want. Our members are very open to sharing their knowledge to help you with anything you may be having trouble with. It’s not uncommon to have build training in the aerodrome just to get the hang of things like rotations and specs.

Friendly – This goes without saying. If you are toxic, we don’t need you. We are looking to grow a community of players who hopes to have static raids throughout the week. We want to have regular groups of players who show up to our training raids, these in turn create static groups. Static groups get clears. That being said we also run fractal farm, and guild misions twice a week.

Helpful – We try to help whenever and wherever we can. Like stated above, if you are having trouble with rotations, ask in guild chat or discord, we are not against helping those who want to better themselves.

Hardy – We don’t give up too easily, this is why we have our raid trainings. So what if it hours to down VG, the goal is progress, the clears will come, we as a group need to be willing to take our defeats, learn from our mistakes, and adapt to avoid those mistakes in the future.

LGBT Friendly – We expect everyone to treat everyone as you would want to be treated. At least a handful of our members are part of this community, if you cannot or will not respect others and their life decisions, again, we don’t need you.

PvX Guild – We have some in all modes of play in the game. We have PvEers, WvWers, Raiders and even some sPVPers. This is a Raiding guild, yes. However we cant be raiding 24/7. That leads to burnout, and it is naive to believe that raiding is the sole purpose you play the game. We all have different facets of the game we enjoy, what’s a community if we don’t do things together?

NA/EU – We have members from all over the world. Moreover, that means we have members active at all times of the day.

No Server Restrictions – We do have players who WvW on DB, FA, etc. There doesn’t seem to be a strong majority on one server in the guild so feel free to contact us regardless.

Discord – We are always on discord. Our important notices regarding schedules, or cancellations, ad hoc group activities, you name it, it’s posted on the discord. Even if you don’t have a working microphone we ask that participants join the discord at the very minimum during organized activities, even if only just to listen.

Quite Regular Schedule – updates again, are posted on our discord, so don’t be shy, join up.

SCHEDULE

• Sunday – 3pm EST Raid.
  8pm EST Raid.
• Monday – 12am EST Raid.
• Tuesday – 11am/12pm EST Raid.
  3pm EST/7pm GMT Raid.
• Wednesday – 11am/12pm EST Raid.
  8pm EST Guild Missions.
• Thursday – 8pm EST Raid.
• Friday – 8pm EST (Raid Leader Training Night)
• Saturday – 8pm EST Guild Missions with Static Raid (Closed Group) after Guild Missions.

Contact:

Kitty – AmberMarie.6593
Abby -AbbyPizza.9576
Azi – Aziago.4638
Kara – kara.7238
Mythic – Ryuu DSO.4893
Ira – Irashia.4625
Twinkie – Eliezer.7849

I have almost 1000 hours logged with a controller, currently using Xpadder in compatibility mode for XP SP3 on an xbox one controller. PM me and I can get you some screenshots of my setup ^.^

EDIT: Also, the only thing I ever need my mouse for is UI elements, not because I cant map it, I just choose to use the mouse for UI elements.

Tanner Blackfeather.6509:

What I’d really live is some way to get the commander tools (like markers), and preferably the tag, to use in a squad whitout showing a tag for the entire map.
Make it possible to hide the tag for non squadmates, and it can be used in Open Worls guild stuff without confusing outside people.

I want to +1 this like forever

ok, I’ll ask, wtf is a harvesting Rev?

Vennyhedgie.5369:

Funny enough, this patch made power rev quite strong when paired with Guardians, or maybe Mesmers. Basically any class that can output retaliation reliably.

New 10% buff to impossible odds, plus new 10% when you have retaliation on retribution.
So basically, I can still go about not running herald, yay

I’m interested in seeing new PvE non-herald Power builds I dropped Glint and only lost a couple 1000 dps on the 4mil golem. I want to try and figure out a way to build for Retaliation to proc those traits as often as possible.

Not sure on food anymore, with the changes to utilities I am flirting with the idea of Precision/Ferocity food like Butternut Curry but idk. I’m hardly a theorycrafting min-maxer but I am happy with the changes. Just waiting to see updated builds hit the web to see what I am doing right or wrong.

See, this is why I posted this, tyvm ^.^, I’ve got some revisions to do.

I was afraid of overkill on crit but, I thought I wasn’t near that but you are right, I am WAY over cap.

I like the idea of self sufficiency when it come to might generation, so decimate defenses is prolly going to go, and I’ll be picking up you all are weaklings. I went for the shouts instead of wells because I have a horrible habit of missing the wells unless I open the fight with them, plus more CC breaks is always good.

I originally wanted to go with Strength runes but good lawd those we outta my price range, but hey I’ve got something to work for ^.^ Do you think that Rage runes would suffice as a cheaper alternative in the mean time?

For sigils, I honestly wasn’t sure what to go with besides force so i just snagged more vuln, I’ll have to weigh my options.

I’ll update this thread with my revisions here in a bit, thanks again for your time and insight into my build ^.^

~Weegs

This build is what I have come up with since finishing Reaper last night. It isn’t too unlike Power Revenant, which is how I play my Revenant…

Focusing around building up crit chance to 100%, stacking as much vulnerability as possible as well as Reaper shroud Auto attacking for generating personal might.

I’m currently running this with full exotics, however I chose to build it with full ascended so the numbers on the right should be as “final” as possible.

Please let me know what you think, any constructive criticism is much appreciated. Thanks!

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBHhF6kZTzmUtpaT720tJO2YsB6N1bapWwoaDzhqV8WsMuGh6aBgZAA-ThRBABXt/o8DP9NmpEEgnUAlq/UxpU4bgAwISIJ5//vJJJSBExyI-e

~Weegs

Roderick.5089:

Chronos.8421:

@Roderick.5089
Didn’t you read? They already said they are aware and working on it o.0

Not fast enough!. 1 hour is too much for me, it ruined my daily schedule!, by now i would have already done my daily, Tequatl, and daily ascended crafting material!!

Well, sorry that your whole day is messed up over a game man. Try the workaround quoted above.

Healix.5819:

As a workaround, try launching with:

Gw2.exe -assetsrv 64.25.41.2

This worked for me!

Roderick.5089:

wtf Arena Net!, 1 hour waiting to play. Please fix it’s freaking frustrating as hell!!!!, jesus christ!

They’re trying man, im frustrated too, but being upset isnt going to solve the problem any faster.

DoctorDing.5890:

Relax folks. They are on it.

In the meantime this is a great opportunity to step away from that chair and explore the rest of your house/apartment to catch up on family news and to see if you are still married.

but…but… everyone is asleep, i work 2nd shift. I know, Ill talk to my wall and see how it has been. ^.^

finkle.9513:

Im having this issue, first time since launch that i cant connect :P

I did recently port forward, this wouldn’t be a issue would it?

quite doubtful, this isnt an issue on your end, it is a server malfunction for authentication. Once we get a solution from the tech team im sure youll be fine

I play behind a VPN almost exclusively, other than identifying yourself for account security issues I dont see why you couldnt

Roderick.5089:

Im having the same issue, been trying to connect for 30 mins, so frustrating!

lol me too, at least im watching my youtube subscriptions ive been behind on xP

whats this about -repair? putting that at the end of the target line doesnt do anything for me

Well shoot, me too, looks like the US Authentication Server #3 is down… and I was ready to come home from work and finish off Herald too…. T.T

Yeah that is what I figured as well. Definitely looking for an invite if you’ll have me

I would assume yes, I mean the particular fall I referenced is quite far indeed and I make it every time :P Now, I have never tried using the spectral walk trick, although I am willing to try it. You know, a Necro shouldn’t ever fear death :P

Is this going to be an international guild or an EU only or a US only? If US is able to join, I’d love to be a part of an all necro guild, just to learn from other necro mains, I am the only real necro in my guild so experience by immersion could really help me learn more about necro. Shoot me an invite if you guys are willing, otherwise I hope you all have loads of fun necrotizing the world around you

Rennoko, Unless they fixed that overnight I have to say that you are incorrect. The damage taken while in death shroud never splashes over into your actual HP. I use this all the time to jump off of the bridge at Hills. So long as you can pop DS prior to taking the falling dmg, it will just remove all of your life force not doing any additional damage.

I use this occasionally when I am outnumbered in a fight to jump off of a ledge that normally would kill someone, then I watch as the lemmings whom are fighting me jump over to chase, waiting for them to splat so i can get my loot is awesome

Anyhow I just wanted to point that out, any damage from a single hit (like Falling damage) will reduce your life force pool, however if you run out of life force, the damage does not splash over into your health pool.

Thank you for all of the responses, I have opened a ticket and hope that either tha mail arrives or I hear back from support.

:-/ Kinda sucks having to play the waiting game sometimes.

So, my wife and I just got our Tax return and decided to go buy some gem cards for various reasons, the primary being my wife was tired of farming for her exotics and wanted to finish outfitting her Thief. She ran out of money with 3 trinkets shy, I purchase the Berserker Trinkets for her, equaling roughly 13-14 gold. I mailed her the items via right clicking her portrait in the party, selecting send mail, dropped in the 3 items and clicked send. It has now been roughly 15 minutes, and she has 0/10 in her mailbox. The items are lost in limbo, and me out of some gold, albeit not hard earned gold but gold nonetheless.

Now, my question to you is has this happened to you before? Do you eventually receive the items, is there some proper way to contact support regarding because, I’m sorry but I feel I should be entitled to a refund or a replacement of the items.

I wasn’t trying to for the record. I was calling out a group of 10-15 players who wasted 30 minutes plus of their time trying to kill 4-5 of us. I’ll admit the trash talk at the end of one of my previous posts was a bit uncalled for. Don’t worry I don’t frequent these forums, nor do I make a habit of trolling. So you prolly wont hear from me for a while. I’m done trolling here.

Kardiamond.6952:

Not to sound negative,

But Kaineng is no longer a low population server. Kaineng got 2 competitve team transfer (one of them being WM) lately. Just take your Vent numbers as an example, those aren’t low tier numbers.

Kaineng deserve to be in tier5. Mass transfer broke the match up system.

You are correct our population has grown since our higher tier transfers came in. I know a lot of people who frequent WvW have been taking breaks this week since it is basically a repeat of last week’s massacre, this has made a few people take on different activities until we reach a higher tier with a more balanced matchup. I am not one of these people I am just letting you know that while my guild is a part of NEO, and happily so, we do have a few people native to Kaineng who sympathize with HoD and GoM. I said it earlier in a different thread, there are three things these servers can do: wait it out and band together the numbers you do have, transfer servers, or quit. It’s sad but true, we are too big for our current tier, although with the Alliance formed and a server wide WvW community growing we are just farming our way up to the higher, more appropriate tiers.

Good luck and no hard feelings to anyone, we Kaineng natives have been there, done that, some of our bigger guilds have left us during those times, some of us have stuck it out. Choose what is best for you and pick a route, remember if you aren’t having fun you are doing something wrong.

NastyPiggy.2046:

hoschi.8693:

They can’t be on all maps all the time. So go where they are not, if it’s a problem. See how they play and what their style is, read their movements and counteract them. That’s how it works, that what makes this all fun.

You still still need enough people to make an attack. This is the problem, the lower tier servers don’t have the population to make up for when the non diehards get tired of dying and just quit logging into WvW. That’s the point where GOM is at, no it’s not a great WvW server, hence being in the 2nd to the bottom tier of WvW servers.

I’ll still log on and fight, there are others who will also log in and fight when heavily out manned, but there’s only so much you can do when you don’t even see 15 allies on the same battlefield with you.

I just think the imbalance is going to slowly kill the population of GW2’s WvW, once the bottom servers are deserted, slowly the new smallest servers will start thining out even more… it’s just something that will keep on happening till we’re down to a handful or less of servers.

Are you aware that we dealt with the same for 4-5 weeks? If you are tired of having low population you have 3 choices:

1. Start reaching out to other guilds in PvE looking for more WvW players. Remember the buffs that are accrued in WvW are server wide so it benefits everyone, not just WvW players.

2. Transfer servers with your guild/friends who are also tired of having low population. Since it bothers you so much this is a viable option even though you would then be considered a hypocritical scumbag, you know like you are calling WM and RE, and DE, and any other transfers we have had come in.

3. Quit, like someone pointed out before me, Forum QQ is not going to help your server. In fact frequent forum QQ just makes the servers in this matchup look like crap and potentially gets our thread closed.

And before you throw out any accusations I have been on Kaineng this entire time, I’m not a transfer, and even if I was — QQ harder, I’ve been there, Done that. and got the T-Shirt just like the rest of our natives.

I play with SB and S/P running full venoms with all of the traited venom bounses including venom share. I also took a Trickery Trait making steal more useful for the group where it gives fury might and swiftness. wearing full soldiers set for as much resiliance as possible. I have considered using clerics instead of full soldiers but have yet to try it.

^This

MasterGeese.4756:

Playing Venom SB right now, and I gotta say the conditions/utility I’m putting out is just insane… Once people discover this it’s going to be the new Flavor of the Month build.

30/10/30/0/0
Deadly Arts: IV / VIII / XII
Critical Strikes: III, could probably swap out these 10 points somewhere else, but I feel like I need the damage.
Shadow Arts: II / VII / XII. Feel like every bonus in this branch except for VII and XII are wasted, but sharing venoms is just that good.

Weapon Rune: Gain might on Crit
Armor Runes: Lyssa, because I run withdraw/Basilisk Venom, both of which have unusually low cooldowns. The Precision is also nice.

Knight Amulet+Knight Gem.

The only issue I’ve seen with this build is how easy it is to get locked down and killed if you get hit with even a single disable. Also has no way of removing conditions, but you have the capability to run from a fight against a heavy condition user.

Thus why I was right to expect naysayers, I haven’t tried that specific setup although I am willing to give it a shot I went with -10 to CS and +10 to Trickery for Thrill of the Crime because I often use it without a target near my allies to give them a boost, which is something I personally feel is essential to group support. I feel this makes Steal feel more purposeful since it really doesnt have a purpose in a support build. I also am using the Soldier’s Set, hadn’t pinned down a weapon sigil choice yet but I wont go for anything on crit since I am not gearing or traiting for it. I chose to kinda play toward my strength and accepted that being disabled is going to happen so hopefully survivability will keep me up. Also playing into that is my traited Slowed Pulse in SA, it might be overkill and maybe worth while to see how much 5% SB dmg will benefit me even though I am not focusing on dmg. Thanks for your constructive input!

scooby treat.8420:

Skarloc.2569:

The real reason we’re leaving is that FC is about to be on the other side of population imbalance, and this time for the better. I’m sorry, but we’re no longer the underpopulated server, that already goes to ET, and HoD is probably worse. None of us want to stick around and beat up on the small kid, that’s just not fun for us.

Oh, and if a 6’1" 300 lb. guy is trying to fight you, you probably should run. Coward or not, you just sound like an idiot wanting to fight that guy. Have fun cleaning up your teeth.

Really we have the numbers? Not only is that news to me it seems to be news to some of your own guild members posting. My “opinion” is that you guys didn’t want to lose to kain so both NP and you bounced.

So you like to fight outmanned but you would run if you had to fight someone bigger than you… I see… FC now has the numbers.. I see….

Anyhow don’t let the door hit you on the way out..

Not saying I agree with your dispute betwix Envy/NP and yourself; but; I must say that FC has more numbers than ET but still they do not have the numbers they need so I can see where the feelings of betrayal come from. Ultimately though it is up the their guild leaders and members to decide what is most enjoyable for them, nothing else should matter. Sorry FC, you guys lost two great guilds.

Man, why is it that near the end of every matchup we have complete BS making our tier look like drama queens? SoS does their part, get off of Chaster’s peen. Sorry to see Envy go, they were one of the few guilds on FC that I respected for their skill, I hope EBay treats you guys well! Kaineng we got ahead during the weekend and sustained it, let’s do it again next week!

Chaster is right though, Kaineng has been ultimately defined by the smaller guilds, we don’t strive for forum recognition, we just do our part in Wv3 and people will recognize us, even if they don’t we don’t care, I am just proud to be a part of Kaineng’s second win of all time.

Kinda forgot where I was going with this message now, but… GO KAINENG!!!!

reikken.4961:

ZombiiDuud.1428:

Honestly condition removal is fine imho, I mean so what people can remove the conditions, they can’t remove them as fast as I can reapply them.

I’m not talking about opponents removing conditions, I’m talking about removing conditions opponents apply

Oh now I see what you mean.

Malvagite.3254:

ZombiiDuud.1428:

Honestly condition removal is fine imho, I mean so what people can remove the conditions, they can’t remove them as fast as I can reapply them.

every 36 seconds when traited……

You assume my only conditions come from venoms? Hah, bad troll is bad.

Honestly condition removal is fine imho, I mean so what people can remove the conditions, they can’t remove them as fast as I can reapply them.

You know rather than using an anti-cheat protection, maybe setup some form of process checking that if anything attaches itself to the process it force closes the game.

I really don’t have any idea on how to better identify the exploiters. Open to suggestions here :-/

While it certainly is not malicious in any way, I feel I have discovered a bug while waiting for WvWvW to open back up during last night’s down time.

Perhaps adding some form of branching logic to the code that controls these popups to check for an existing popup before creating one would resolve this issue. Again, nothing game breaking I just thought I should bring it to your attention. Thanks for listening.

To be completely honest I have used GW Camera Tool months ago. Simply because of the fact that I hate how little we can zoom out our cameras. I never thought of using it as an exploit for non LoS skills but that makes sense. I have deleted it from my PC after ANet decided to attempt to address FoV, although they still didn’t allow an ample amount of zooming, I have since gotten used to it and, especially now that I can see how it can negatively impact the game, will begin reporting players who are OBVIOUSLY exploiting in this fashion.

I think that perhaps removing the non-LoS capabilities of skills might be a viable fix, maybe then ANet will allow us to zoom out farther to keep people from using this mod.

Like I said, I am formally coming forward to state that I have (months ago when I was still getting used to GW2) used this tool. Yet I haven’t used it in a long time. If it helps the developers to figure out a way to stop it, GW Camera tool attaches itself to the running process of GW2 locally. Perhaps adding some form of anti-cheat protection might resolve this issue. I wish everyone luck and happy reporting.

P.S. I am going to look and see if I can find the website that these two mod/exploits are hosted and email them to the devs for further scrutiny.

P.P.S. I sincerely hope that my honesty doesn’t bite me in the kitten as I have ceased to use this forever ago.

Sadly your link is broken but I have swapped to 30/0/30/0/10 so I can utilize the venom traits in Shadow Arts. I dislike the adept choices in shadow arts simply because I use withdraw over hide in shadows but I might have to change that.

My reasoning is that withdraw gives a free evade as well as an increase in total HPS when CD is considered. any thoughts?

You know what I had completely overlooked Venomous Aura, thanks

Kinda curious if anyone else is giving this play style a shot. Going 30/0/0/20/20 with a SB and P/D offhand for more condies. Of course all Venom skills for utilities as well as Elite. My only question here is if anyone would swap out spider, skale, or devourer venom for ice drake venom. I mean Chill is pretty nasty but with such a short duration I can’t seem to find a good place for it, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

P.S. I mainly play WvWvW.

Here’s the score when I got off, don’t mind the current tally, we are fairly dead right now, though I think SoS is going to be doing their rounds this morning.