Guild Wars 2

System updates are always a good thing, it doesnt have to be in game content.

I work in the IT profession and things like this are a regular thing.
Nothing to get worked up about or anything like that.

I would love it if it was some form of y’know… optimization.. cough cough wink wink nudge nudge say no more

if i put a kickstarter fund together to go protest about changes to thief…
Who would join?

#justwantdeveloperinput

Soooo

You mean like the old trait system?

Oh wow,
I am so, so sorry for your loss.

dragonhunter traps.

Just saying.

and as for sPvP – your elite spec is automatically unlocked, its just pve/wvw that you need to actually do things to unlock.

Jsyk.

EDIT: Grammar fix

each rank up gives between 4-10 PoH, wxp boosters and exp boosters will help massively.

I got my scrapper from nowt to done in about 5 hours of play using my main (thief)

And that was just from roaming – i imagine if you roll guard, tag along with the blob and just hoard PoH, you’ll be able to max everything out.

Just start with the classes you actually play – for me it was DD then herald – that took me about 16 hours.

DBLEXIT confirmed

Josh XT.6053:

Rather remove all together than make them white. Thieves and revs teleporting to PvE in fights is annoying. It doesn’t belong in WvW.

Not gonna lie, thats just poor target management, you tried having the target assists turned off?

Freaking life saver that feature is.

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

babazhook.6805:

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Low on health it nice to be able to stealth off one of them Minotaurs

That is exactly one of the problems with them, lol. It’s just another free get away for Thieves which they already have enough of.

qq moar,
plus they’re great for rallying allies.

if you get rid of mobs, you get rid of my stacks.

So no.

I want Vabbi and Deso back together.
I miss Vabbi.

there was a thread ages ago, its actually massively complicated to move from the current dx9(?) up to dx12/vulcan – essentially they would be building the engine from the ground up – considering its a modified gw1 engine. This would massively hamper the dev teams in regards to comparability and pushing out content, yes this sucks – but its been asked loads before.

I had a nightmare migrating versions in just android so i couldnt even begin to understand the headache that this would be for such a small team

block, note the account name, unblock, add account to friends, /w = profit.

We only just got 64bit – one step at a time friend.

steve the dragon lives!

I take back all previous arguments about people sabotaging.

We had a few people qqing about it in mapchat.

I ended up picking up 3 other people, we stood around, chatted for a bit, did a bit of roaming, followed the commander, afk’d for like 20 mins and then repeated.

was fun.

They are now very casual wvw players and new guildies.

if you dont like the idea of going into EB or the borders, just go EOTM where you can leech to your hearts content.

heavy armoured bunker ele?

No thanks.

Lift restrictions on skins? maybe, there are some light armour skins i want for my thief..

i would hope if a 3rd iteration is indeed in the works, it wouldnt be for at least 2 years, 1 expansion in 3 years for gw2 with most of the map pretty much locked away, 2 elder dragon fights down…

Far from a sequel.

http://vigamusmagazine.com/e3-2016-guild-wars-2-heart-of-thorns-season-3-lanteprima-vmag/

So im happy i can speak/read italian as the google translate is very much broken -
New pvp maps and fractals were mentioned for season 3, whenever that is.

so…. what did/are you/have been/ are ACTUALLY doing/have done/was going to/ there?

Just a small booth showing off gw2 or like… is there some super secret thing thats under NDA there?

apharma.3741:

Example: Stealth in PvP is balanced by its lack of point capture and holding, however this is not true in WvW and stealth is one of the strongest escape and engagement tools there is.

poor example, stealth is one of the strongest escapes/engages in WvW too, id like to see someone cap a camp or tower in stealth in WvW – it just doesn’t work like that.

PvP is balanced because of how you are built, armour, weapons and food have 0 effect in pvp where as in WvW they are the only variables that makes it different.

While i get it, people want to show off their work, it shouldn’t have been a thing since the beginning imo.

The icon next to the name plate rarely shows skill in a WvW setting.

Dawdler.8521:

So not only will more dollys have been slaughtered to players than there where total deaths in WW2 (since the last stats released by Anet it’s probably up to double that count) we will also strap bombs to them and send to suicide bomb keeps?

You people disgust me!

Unless of course the dolly explode with a fireworks display of red ribbons and dancing baby quaggans on a rainbow.

That’s OK.

This now has to be a thing.

EDIT: Make it halo ‘grunt birthday party’ style. I want a cheer with party strings every time it makes an amusing ‘pop’ sound.

we’ve been asking for this over on the WvW side of things for ages now, they DID talk about it in a POI show last year about how it could be done.

It would be super helpful.

That actually looks pretty good, ive been rolling with s/d+d/p

all i would ask for with s/d is a speed up of the auto attack and i mean just slightly so the animations actually look like im using a rapier (love bonetti’s skin)

And D/D really needs some tlc – i miss roaming in wvw as a d/d power thief.

The DBL’s were good, i liked them.

But not the amount of multi-tiered terrrain.

If it was almost a copy of alpine, updated graphics, same sort of layout – just scaled to the same size as the DBL, it would have been perfect.

The keeps on the ABL’s are perfect imo, it should have been a re-skined(?) for a desertish theme.

/my2pence.

replace greatsword with off-hand sword – have a kendo-style stance skill set to go with the physicals.. that could work.

fishball.7204:

And I’ve seen plenty of good WvW guilds with players in sPvP so what’s your point?

I’ve seen GS, BOO, KnT, ND, QQ and many other notable WvW guilds with multiple members in legendary.

The PPT orientated or siege orientated guilds generally don’t make it very far in sPvP and mirror the types of responses that are all over this thread such as ‘lol pvp is for noobzzzz’ etc.

Also lol @ the guy here commenting about running thieves guild on a roaming thief, you are hilarious. Probably run dire perplexity as a roamer and think you’re good at this game too.

My guild is AD, there are 4 of us that play thief. Ergo: thieves guild.

s/d power build ty.

mavric.7051:

I’m quitting the game until this is restored.

Can i have your stuff?

On loan…

I could look after it?

BlkPrince.2854:

Deli.1302:

Shanks R Us.2489:

The whole point is that doing this essentially robs those of us who used to play WvW avidly but no longer do so. I’m rank 141 in WvW, but that means NOTHING as far as anet is concerned when it comes to getting a legendary.

Your wvw rank is NOT supposed to have anything to do with badges.

Also, rank 141 is barely any play time.

Dannyus.2518:

I really dont want to go 10 hrs in a big zerg pressing one skill…

I just finished the reward track. Took about 4-5 hours. Woulda been shorter with 100% participation the whole time (which is easy to do).

It takes several times longer to finish map completion which wvw players are forced to do. Stop complaining…

I call bullkitten if you say u finished it in 4-5 hours cause that would be impossible unless u used some xp boost

Whats wrong with using xp boosts? food has boost, MF has boost… rank 2300 in wvw, ( 200 ranks from eotm alt leveling) agreed, 141 is absolutely nothing.

I had to grind for ages to make spark and bolt – i had to endure your pve, get over it, and if all you do in a blob is press 1, youre not on teamspeak, and probs not getting in on the loot fest you zerglings seem to love so much.

shrek.1046:

I disagree with OP they are relevant in spvp only and were an eyesore in wvw.

this.
Another thread already has this too.

PvP league badges mean jack in wvw, amber or legendary, doesnt mean the player is skilled, fact ive noticed (with my thieves guild especially) makes you more of a target.

dude….
s/d power thief vs Bunker guard – guard dies quick
vs Bunker war – slightly more annoying due to blocks but easy enough when you know their cooldowns

vs bunker necro (normally MM) – again, easy if you dodge their marks and constantly apply pressure – abuse their cooldowns
vs bunkerish ele – constant pressure seeing as they dont hurt you at all and you just wear them down (takes forever imo)
vs rev – pressue, when they pop shield, dont go ham, when you see the heal signet pop, dont go ham, when they switch legend – go ham
vs engi – get inside of them, like proper up close and constant pressure and go ham if you want
vs mes – everything is telegraphed, practice against other mesmers and just follow the one that has the most buffs
vs ranger – takes forever – based on enemy skill – feel free to disengage alot and annoy them, the will fall eventually
vs thief? 2 shot them

etc…

See the pattern, everything will die if you apply pressure.

learn to thief.
/rant

I would rather have the wvw ranks as a plate and a toggle for pvp/wvw rank.

But this doesnt bother me at all, i will go for anyone regardless of what rank they are.

Just because you have a black dot, doesnt mean your a good player in wvw.

#thieftakesall

we are alone [lnly] is now recruiting.

If you own HOT, try using dash as your ‘elite’ trait, evades remove condi and use withdraw, i play s/d thief and rarely die to condi damage – but thats in pvp and wvw, i rarely play open world content.

Sinmir.6504:

I’m meaning after getting all the guards dead, just about to finish capturing it, see an ambush approaching but should have just enough time, next thing a Dolyak spawns and stops the progress.

Its sods law, just nuke the thing and run if you cant fight, or kite the dolly and kill the player, kill the yak and profit.

As a thief main, i have 0 problem doing this.

What can i spend the other 680 wvw points that i have?… give me moar masteries darnit

sorry for being better at the game than you <3

really really fast

have you tried pressing ‘w’

ANET is currently having issues, i play on an mpls line provided through my job, nothing on their end can sort it, just gotta wait for anet to approach the provider and get them to fix it before SLA breaches.

Likewise, i moved house – got a new isp, perfect for a few days the when they brought back alpine, almost every gamemode has been nigh unplayable for me.

At first i thought it was because of the horrific equipment sky provide so i went out and got some epic network kit (£140 well spent, its all so pretty <3) but i still spike from ping:30 all the way up to 4,750… which is NOT right at all – and thats standing in LA, followed by a d/c

I now play on a wired connection, everything else is fine – except GW2… the one game i want to freaking play…

RoseofGilead.8907:

Can I have your stuff?

OI.

that’s my line.

As i said, jump into a map and join the Piken community guild, they have an active forum and are very helpful and nice players, piken scout squad or stomp for piken would be the best guilds to join if youre thinking of dipping your toes into the grand clustermuck that is WvW large scale pvp.

Piken Square is a good server to be on, its fairly active all round.

EB
SMC – Stone Mist Castle, is the main objective.
You want the towers and keeps for your team – as they are what generate points every 15/20 mins (PPT – points per tick)

Borders
Garrison – again, main objective that is owned and claimed by the enemy server – you want that for your server to make more points, the towers provide more of a strategic option for you.

I would suggest joining SCS (piken scout squad) as they are a pretty friendly guild and dont seem to require 100% rep – i had a nice time in that guild, they will be more than happy to show you the ropes.

Im on desolation, mained thief and hunt the scs guys now… so im sorry if i spike you.

ive been having the same thing since i went with sky in the uk, really annoying random ping spikes on a wired connection, only happens in wvw though.

well, theyre bring it back. so…..