Guild Wars 2

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check us out at NSP

bump for solid t4-t5 matchups. btw DH you might see your old best pals SF soon. But not many of the old CoSA are there, some are on HoD. So you’ll def meet them again.

By the way dark, go to the northernshiverpeaks.org website, register, get verified and introduce yourself

bump for all T4/T5 matchups.

see you in-game brotha!

Dark, NSP has a solid NA community in T4 which I think you’ll find very pleasant.

bumped by Richter~ Moved into NSP few months ago. It’s the first time in my 3 years in-game that I moved servers. It was worth it! everything is great here. come join us.

Kiliope.2364:

morrolan.9608:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

As the TC representative of the powerful Dull Egotistical Raiding Party [DERP] guild, I’ll attend, and hopefully convince you to re-populate T1.

How given that all 3 are locked?

This ^^^^^^^^^^

Kitta.3657:

basically what albinjason and talia said. T4 is a good place right now, if you wish to move off NA over here, please be mindful and make your research so to not unbalance it. I like it here and I don’t wanna wake up to ktrains (from my server as well as my opponents)

yanoch.7051:

Yeah T4 is really balanced and very fun right now on most wvw aspect. If you guys wanna get into T4 just be sure to spread evenly. I know for sure that NSP as very little if none OCX/Sea.

If everything goes to plan we plan to spread out and not PPT. We want fights, we also don’t want NA constantly hassling us to PPT lol. Don’t worry we aren’t like this stupid tier 1 alliance we won’t wreck your tier like they did tier 2. The tier we are moving to is still undecided. Remember we wan’t to keep that tier stable, so we want to create the least amount of impact possible when moving. To all the people that are asking me about the meeting, please read the original post its happening this Sunday.

There are a lot of people saying that they are coming to this meeting on here. But still haven’t pm’ed me yet. Please PM me so I can grab your name and so I can pull you into the TS channel for the meeting. Thanks.

No one’s gonna force you to ppt in t4. I believe all three servers here have healthy communities.

If you’re thinking T4, I’m a SEA player currently in NSP T4. The tier right now is balanced as it is with HoD having a slight advantage in coverage with the occasional big SEA/EU zergs (sometimes blobs) of AIR, TIME, BP. Personally, I would suggest disseminating yourselves more to Ebay and NSP, and a few in HoD if you go here. This tier is the sweet spot for roaming and small skirmishes.

If it gets either too blobby, dead, or imbalanced again I will consider quitting this game.

Raven.9603:

Guilds from T1 dropped to YB to push YB to T1 and give themselves a variety in enemies to fight. Nevermind that if YB is made up T1 players, they are still just fighting the same old people.

T2 was a GvG tier. GvG guilds from T2 left all 3 servers to come to T3 because YB was overwhelming everything with their recipe for fail (win?).

T3, which was a perfectly balanced fight tier, now have a bunch of GvG guilds running around. For the most part they tried to split up to avoid stacking, and a lot of the fights happen in OS to avoid confusion, but during the week a lot of them roam the BL’s and confuse everyone because many of them don’t tag up, dont want to be followed by pugs, and dont help take or defend objectives.

T3 will ultimately be ruined very soon, because YB is sucking the glicko dry out of FA and SOS (doesnt help that all their defenders left their servers), forcing 2 of the 3 otherwise happy T3 servers into T2 for a groundhogs day of farming hell.

Hopefully Anet has something up there sleeve because its already ruined 2 servers and its going to ruin at least 2 more. You want to be safe? T4 is the next best bet, but who knows how long that will last.

Please don’t bring that terminal T1 disease to T4.

bwahahahaha i wouldn’t take self-entitled trolls srsly.

btw, does anyone in the guild know an anet dev who we could ask to join us?

top 3 tiers is ultra blobfest. and top 2 tiers is siege spamming and blobfests. Don’t people ever get burned out or tired of being in a blob or fighting blobs??

John, I remember you running with us on DR last year. I believe you were with some of my old pals in that [DmD] guild.

WVW: So old meta used to be Valk armor+all Zerks which will give you between 15k-16k hp and around 47-50% crit chance. Running the same will give you a whopping 38% crit chance now.

Think this will work? D/D CS+TR+SA

mix of assassins, zerks, valks, celestials. It will give you 15k hp and 210% crit damage on around 45% chance on base with 2.3k armor and 2226 power.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZAQJAoYl0MhKnYpTw7Jw/EH7E1OAqt2kfCjQH4nit4KA-TVCFABHqijc7PMp6BA8AAuSJoAnAAkUiZlyj00DEA4AQnf+5nfOCBEaLA-w

asking for opinions thieves~

If on SA the crit damage/crit chance goes up so i’d recommend it over DA.

me too, i just got DC’d and can’t log in. is this another DDOS?

If you guys need an extra pvp token I got one from somewhere I can’t remember, you can pm me about in in-game later.

Holland.9351:

The power stats on Traveller runes are quite a bit worse. I don’t need the condition duration. The boon duration is nice, but don’t really need it either.

So it comes down to:

• 1 utility slot (Traveller)
• more passive damage (Scholar)
• permanent protection + reflect proc (Earth)

If Rangers had a Signet that gave us a passive 100 power + 10% damage, would I pick it as my 3rd utility? That’s basically what I’m doing with Signet of the Hunt + Scholar.

Traveller runes give more freedom, but we have no utility skill that gives more sustained damage, so you’d give that up as a choice.

It feels close to the choice between Brutish Seals, Steady Focus or Moment of Clarity. I’m partial to Steady Focus.

To be honest, there is only 1 utility skill that I might prefer over Scholar Runes, which is what makes it tempting to switch.

I replaced my travelers runes a week ago and went with scholars and hunt signet. Since I gain swiftness alot, it’s pretty redundant on my current pewpew build. Also, signet of the hunt is used alot for burst attacks.

Full dire+Krait runes. Entangle, Torch 5, torch 4, burn trap, poison trap, spike trap is a death sentence. however, I like running trapper runes more for mobility and stealth.

So at first I thought it’s dead, but after some guildmates and friends experimented on some builds, I tried and found It’s kittening op and too ez sometimes you can even melee. Remorseless is stupid op. Running on pure zerk, scholars rune, clarion bond, swiftness and might on petswap, full stacks of bloodlust and guard stacks, and signet of the hunt active with opening strike hits for 6.7k LB auto attack. And I’ve seen the dog’s crippling proc for 7k crit. Do the same on maul and you get 9-12k if you hit. Only CC’s spam and condis can screw you.

Most thieves can be 1-2-3 shotted these days before they can reset. Just run from a mesmer, they’ll rarely catch you if you do.

Random.4691:

alvinjason.3109:

we’re having a blast busting and trolling these golem groups on foot lolol

Well ya, DR/ET the grps of golems are maybe 4 ppl big.

around 7 -10 actually. it can get 15-20 on some hours.

Actually having a blast this week and the last against IoJ and ET as opposed to SF’s too familiar faces and ppt’ing focused groups. But I still can’t deny that it’s really half dead on weekdays in the offhours. There are some times where I think that I am literally the only person for all three servers in EB or BL.

we’re having a blast busting and trolling these golem groups on foot lolol

also for a server that has reliable defense in off-hours?

Personally I’m basing it now on server history since I just came back for a month now. HoD was BW’d hard in S2 and had lots of guilds come and go. Ebay collapsed before S2 but recovered since. NSP been stable in that spot for years. Was considering DH but it seems like it’s going down quick and I wouldn’t want to go to T5 and below. Our alts have found out that the offhours in T5 is not much the different to T6, T7, or T8 they’re only bigger in NA. T3 and above is too blobby with SBI there. T4 seems to be the sweet spot now.

And from what I noticed after coming back,T2 is heavily stacked and the lower tiers have lost significant amount of players, and from what I can surmise GW2 is probably lost alot wvw players. Bronze used to be a hotbed for fights and blobbing.

We’ll be deciding in a week. down to NSP and Ebay.

Used to run Valks armor zerk everything else pre-patch. crit % is down now if you’re running valks unless you trait CA. Eitherway, if you’re on valk or zerks you’re still gonna get 1-3 shotted by warrs, necs, mesmers. And die quicker than ever when bothering zergs.

I like the builds I saw but do you think we can swap out pack runes for ferocity runes such as ogres or scholars? to compensate for the lack of crit damage? so say scholars + rampagers for armors and weapons and zerks trinks. I’ll try them all out after we get the xfers done in a week.

Hi,

Wanted to see if the OC SEA and EU time activity in T4 is ideal for us to transfer to. Probable servers are looking like: NSP, HoD, and EBay. How’s the action during these times? are there lots of people? are there blobs? Zergs? roaming? Havoc? Looking to transfer from living dead T8 as there is almost literally nothing to do during those times.

Theory crafting:

Has anybody tried this? Wanted to see if a hybrid glass thief is possible in this patch as celestials is not as effective as before. Would a hybrid of direct damage and condition damage work? A mixture of maybe sinister’s, rampager’s and zerk’s equipment we can add CA to a core spec for ferocity and D/D P/D as weapon sets. I’ll probably work on this after I get the funds to transfer servers.

It’s been a funnish week against IoJ and ET in NA T8. Seems alot of DR started coming out after weeks of fighting boring ppt fights vs SF. Lots of clashes instead of trying to guess where to chase a group playing ppting in one of the four maps. And also good to see some less familiar faces as we have been too familiar and buddies with SF. Still, T8 isnt as live as before. At some point of the day, It’s possible that I’m literally the only one on map.

I am churning out the same amount of damage pre-patch if I am on DA, SA, TR. if I’m on CA, SA, and TR, traited no quarter and the new “practiced tolerance” (which isn’t appropriately named now) it has a higher output. If CA DA TR yeah you’re a one burst machine with really low survivability. Hell even if you are on SA, survivability is nerfed greatly when every other class like necros and mesmers can 1-3 shot you easy even if you are on valks. And btw, can’t run much on valks armors now cause it greatly reduces crit chance to below 40%.

DOWNED STATE SHADOWSTEP IN WVW:

Eles can mistform into tower portals, and we can use shadow step utility and shortbow 5 to enter portals but in the downed state, we can’t shadowstep inside towers.

DiscoJacen.1590:

Here in Underworld we’re kind of beyond sadness atm^^
Now with my guild we just pick a keep in Blactide borderlands and try to defend it as long as possible agaisnt the giant BT blob until they rage enough to rely on golems to flush us out.
It’s fun in a way.

Oh and ofc meanwhile their hacker is is insta-capping our borderland, EB and Fow’s bl ; )

yeah we do this sometimes, camp a keep and wait for their K training golems. We need to be up against a more massive server like BP perhaps to make this fun.

Happyangrycatfish.1725:

darkwarder.3645:

Happyangrycatfish.1725:

Tell that to the inactive guys in EB that never move.

I would tell them, but they were AFK. We have AFK people too, even during peak times. Maybe you’re big into conspiracy theories, but there weren’t any spies. That’s just nuts. You might want to check out how we’re doing in T7. Do we have spies in BP and FC, too?

You seem to act like I’m hating on all of SF. Let’s face the facts they may not be well known or ‘with it’ people on SF. But stray people do get the idea to try to be important and go spy. Its not a conspiracy theory but I’m not blaming you or all of SF. It’s just a fact.

you’re crazy. SF doesn’t need to spy on ET to beat ET. hell there aren’t even people on ET to spy on. What’s the point of this thread again? it’s about T8 being dead.

ET and DR both dead except weekends in NA. Occassionally, I do see ET has an OC guild TAL running around for a few hours so it’s kind of welcoming. DR gets pretty puggy onn NA weekends and OC is dead. IoJ is puggy too and can get 20+ pugs running in OC. Otherwise compare T8 early 2014 to T8 now, it’s definitely dead. Fun times fighting IoJ and ET, a bit refreshing since Im tired of fighting SF to the point where we are too familiar with the people we are fighting.

Spying? Nope never happens in bronze as per my exp. It did happen alot in the high silver tiers.

Oh btw IoJ, it’s been an interesting rivalry in the old days (and s3) bet IoJ and DR. Never thought both would meet again in the gutters.) GF

As per our observation being on DR, T8 wasn’t as dead as a year or two ago. There have been lots of action going on in in T8 during late 2013, early 2014 when DR was in T8 vs KN, ET, AR or whoever. What caused this? Guilds moving to stack high tiers after S3. DR’s old big guilds moved to stack T2 and T1 servers. And those two tiers are probably even more stacked than ever with the more recent movements.

A year ago or a year and a half ago I will dispute people from higher tiers calling T8, T7, T6 as dead servers as they’re not. But now, if people from higher tiers says it’s dead, I would agree that it’s definitely dead especially in the off hours of NA where I play.

This is probably due to these reasons:

1. GW2 losing wvw players.

2. Guilds moving to stack higher tiers for more competitive environments which is creating a huge imbalance of population in the NA servers. Think a bell curve swinging way too much on one side.

3. Megaservers. We could recruit PVE players before in home servers.

4. servers not having a high number of pve and new players alike.

From those, we can then map a chain of events leading to the hole we have in the Bronze tiers. Pug/fight Guild moves to another tier to find more competition or action, then the people in the other server doesn’t have decent competition and then they also move to a higher tier for competition creating this situation. We try to recover the losses but the inflow of new players becomes slower due to the server (or the game itself) probably not having as much new players as before. Recruiting PVE players also becomes harder due to Megaservers and guilds will not move to a server with no fights. We’ve had a guild move to DR for a week and then move out due to the lack of fights.

DR never had a big PVE population after certain PVx guilds of old either left/disbanded/quit. Of course there are servers with naturally high PVE population who will appear strong from time to time like AR, DH, GoM as per my experience and what my old pals from those servers told me, they might have a easier time rebuilding a community. Guilds used to move from here long ago because they were looking for less toxic communities to play in. Now, it’s different Bronze guilds move because we can’t find anymore reason to stay in a living dead tier. As of now, DR and ET are losing more players and will be even more dead. I will be on the move soon after 3 years of fun memories on DR.

How’s the T8, T7, T6 situation in EU compared to NA?

practice? we talkin about practice?

Had this yesterday, it was fun while it lasted. I felt like the flash!

So i logged in and everything was in fast forward and hyperlapse. I felt like the flash or someone fron another dimension who can manipulate time running in LA/wvw. I was the only one experienceing this. It stopped after i fought some npc guards in wvw.

Jayne.9251:

A little off-topic, but as an NA player, I actually find the lag/ping better in EU than I do on my NA account. It’s puzzling. But someone suggested because I’m East Coast has something to do with it.

majority of our NA guildees are EST. so this is good info

Fuzzion.2504:

About 70ms difference between NA and EU servers while connecting from a SEA source. NA was better overall. Never tested with wtfast

Looking for this for myself specifically, thanks. I’m a SEA player too and have some NA and OC guild mates.

1. Avoid them and starve them of fights 1v1. It’s cheese pre-patch and just ridiculous post-patch. If they know what they’re doing with their rotations which is usually the case, they hit pretty hard and smother you with many stacks of condi that you can’t clear in time. That confusing images not only gives stacks of confusion, it hits really hard too even if they are condi built. They have alot of defensive skills to mitigate your burst when they come out of stealth and also escape with mobility when they have to.

2. Bring another thief friend and pressure him to eventually blow all CDs and rotations.

I have been curious about this for years now. Also, the useless “outnumbered” buff what player to player ratio will make that appear?

Thanks for your responses! Would love yo hear more.

Hi IoJ! We meet again. Welcome to the living dead tier
-DR

Hi,

Anyone from OC SEA and NA can confirm the pings they are getting in EU?

I Also want to know what EU tiers do you think are active at most hours without getting too blobby. I’m considering trying to move to a “goldilocks zone” in EU because NA tiers these days are either too stacked or dead outside NA prime.

Is this working as intended? When you apply basilisk venom then pull with scorpion wire, the target gets stunned or stoned (hehe) but doesn’t get pulled.

Well 1v1 is still great if you play aggressively. You can pretty much burst almost anything into oblivion but the current dd has alot less sustain and survivability than it used to have so roamers who bait zergs and zerg tails will have a hard time surviving with all the damage buffs everywhere. I find it alot easier to survive when I tried running condi/dires.

Haven’t been playing my zerk LB ranger on Travelers rune much because of this. Imagine hitting a kittening drake mob in wvw for only 1.7k at 1500 range. I think this is attributed to big losses in ferocity. Can anyone here running scholars rune confirm the damage they are doing?