Guild Wars 2

It is an issue, but just make the best out of it by summoning the Outnumbered buff.

What you do is set-up some throwaway siege in any of their waypointed keeps that can’t be harassed by the cannons and/or mortars. Some of them will eventually try to get to you but since most of BG can’t fight, they will fail so they will call for a lot of reinforcements.

Presto! Outnumbered buff on the next tick! Go on your merry ways doing other stuff and just repeat when the buff is gone.

Oh I remember the OP. He’s the same guy who hi-jacked another thread discussing about commanders kicking some classes. He basically said the same things he did here and cried “bullying” but was BTFO by his own servermates because of the tirade of insults he said on mapchat which lasted for hours.

Deja Vu.

Should rename the armors to not be Legendary so the PVErs who complain about prestige would stop.
Let’s call these Stat-sWappable Ascended Gear or SWAG for short.

Can you please at least add a Utility Consumable converter in the game when the patch hits? Royally screwed with the streamlining of the Maintenance Oils being the support consumable since I made a lot of Furious Maintenance Oils for Ferocity and Health and now according to the table, they will be completely different from their initial, intended use…

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

The reset times are as follows:
• Killing a Player – 10 minutes
• Killing a Caravan – 2 minutes
• Destroying a fortification – 5 minutes
• Killing a Guard – 2 minutes
• Killing a Lord – 5 minutes
• Killing or reviving a merc npc – 1 minute
• Repairing – 5 minutes
• Siege Damage Wall/Gate/Player – 1 minute
• Destroying Siege – 5 minute
• Killing a Veteran Creature – 5 minutes

These happen on event completion:
• Defending a Caravan – 2 minutes
• Completing a Merc Event – 5 minutes
• Completing a Defend Event – 10 minutes
• Capturing an objective – 10 minutes
• Capturing a Ruin or Shrine – 2 minutes
• Capturing a Sentry – 5 minutes

Oh good. I thought it was much lower than that. Not much has changed from the looks of it.

It isn’t unfair because the title was based on the short tale. Just like “Killer Queen” won’t have the alternate because it’s based on a song title.

As you yourself have stated, it’s an ability. Abilities don’t work when a player is dead.

Jumpin Lumpix.6108:

You guys are acting like she’s complaining about being deaf and your missing the point. She’s talking about how disgusting she was treated because she was deaf, and also pointing out how nonsensical it is that commanders kick people who aren’t in ts, when there isn’t any reason to do so. She also articulated many good reasons why it actually hurts the squad when they do this in a zerg vs zerg.

Yeah… No.
I’ll give her that bad treatment she got when she won’t go to TS. However, she also disgustingly retaliated in map chat for hours, if recall what I read correctly. If she had acted in a more civil way and took the high road, I would’ve sided with her on this. But she did not.

Clearly, you don’t know what you are talking about with regards to squad WvW play. Boons and Stunbreaker prioritization – research it. I’d rather have my boons and other support skills prioritize those who are in voice comms and therefore in the squad and therefore knows what the commander is trying to achieve during the mayhem of fighting than someone who is in the squad but not on voice comms that could very well be a liability and get my support skills wasted.

Your participation level drops when you’re not doing anything WvW-related, like staying at spawn. When it drops below Tier 3, you don’t get pips. So it’s useless to “bot to not get autologged”.

The worst they’re doing – if they’re actually botting, is taking a player slot but they’re gaining nothing from it but a waste of electricity.

To all the naysayers in this thread:

Being a commander in WvW is one of the most nerve-wracking, stressful, downright holy-hell hard thing to do. It requires a lot of knowledge of the game – from cool downs of abilities to class mechanics to map politics and not to mention some charisma to get other people to follow their lead again and again, every time they show that icon above their head. The commander technically holds the faith and performance of every player that decides to follow them in battle.

Voice Communications is a god-send to them – as it expedites what they want and plan to do in order to achieve victories, informs them instantaneously of the status of their force and therefore react in time(hopefully) to the situation at hand.

Yes, it is not required to have Voice Comms playing WvW, but it became a standard due to its usefulness and any commander worth a salt will require anyone following them to use it.

Since the dawn of this game mode, servers have been asking all active players of WvW to join whatever voice communications program their server has. The “new to WvW” player guides that popped up all over reddit and the forums recently all highly suggested joining them. It has become part of the game mode. Get over it.

If you cannot use it for whatever reasons and the commander is requiring you to, don’t take it personally if you get kicked out of the squad. There are other ways to play WvW without following a commander – roam or be one yourself . Try being on their shoes and see how far you can go.

I’m all for shouts being unblockable/un-evadable since it’s “heard”. but when I mute the game of its sounds, I should be immune to it.

Nah. If anything they should raise it even more. To around where Mithril rank starts, perhaps? Prestige and all.

Use Blast Finishers on any Smoke combo field.

Aristos.8026:

So please if any Dev is reading this please add other alternative ways (not saying easy) to gain the gift of battle in other ways not just zerging in wvw and give pvers a chance for it.

Yeah, something like a Mystic Forge recipe that requires:
250 Hardened Leather Squares
250 Mystic Coins
250 Mystic Clovers
2 Gifts of Exploration

I’m sure the PVE’rs won’t mind more farming than go through 8~ hours of WvW.

But aren’t all Asura bald and those with hair are just wearing wigs?

Yeah, remake it so we could pve farm Obsidian Shards in the Obsidian Santcum.

Consume Plasma plus Improvisation.

Use/Hotkey “Nearest Target/Enemy” or whatever its called.

Shylock.4653:

I like the weapon but I don’t like the name. Praising two tigers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuka_man-eating_tiger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champawat_Tiger

who have killed hundreds of people, including childs, is questionable.

But it’s a weapon made for killing… Totally deserves the name.

Yeah, increase the cap to 30k, and call it “Veteran Daily Achievements” that gives 3 AP and only consists of stupidly hard activities such as:

PVE:
Cleanse all OrrTemples
Kill all the 3 Worms in Triple Trouble
Ember Bay Jumping Puzzle
Silverwastes Jumping Puzzle
Sorrow’s Embrace All Paths
Honor of the Waves All Paths
Arah All Paths
Verdant Brink – Kill All Night Champions/Do a Camp meta from Start to Finish
Auric Basin – 50 Veteran Bristleback/Smokescale Kills
Tangled Depths – Chak Gerent 3 Lanes Kills
Dragon’s Stand – Kill All 3 End Champions

PVP:
Rank 1st with 9 Classes
Win 5 games consecutively in Ranked
Score at least 500 points and Win 5 times
Stomp 25 Players
Capture 30 nodes
Deliver 20 Finishing Blows with <Insert> Class

WvW:
Capture 2 Enemy Home Garrisons
Defend 20 Camps
Escort 20 Yaks
Defend SMkittenil Fortified
Fortify Enemy EB Keep
Kill 100 Players

Now the veteran players would be busy and have reasons to play for long times.

They can steal stuff and sometimes get away with it!

Ah yes, good ol’ noob pwner build.

PROTIP: You can even “stow-cancel” your heal and the trait would still proc the trap. So you could still have your heal after 3 seconds if you don’t need the stealth from it.

Also a good contender for elite if you’re a human is Reaper of Grenth. Poison and Chill for more fun!

Now it will even be easier to see people that stow-cancel their skills! Thanks, Anet!

Whitehawk.5398:

borgs.6103:

I think you were not playing yet when Map Completion requires all three borderland maps and Eternal Battlegrounds to get. That was worse than grinding a reward track.

I have been playing since launch and yes i had to map comp all 3 plus Eb.

Lucky for you, I played 2 months after launch and took me like 3 months to get mine because the colors won’t even rotate weeks straight. I had to play real WvW, which was good since it made me like the game mode and is now my favorite. Compare that to finishing a reward track.

I think you were not playing yet when Map Completion requires all three borderland maps and Eternal Battlegrounds to get. That was worse than grinding a reward track.

Invigorating Precision will solve your problem.

IIRC, you can still use them for crafting tenebrous/shimmering weapons by putting it in your bank since the crafting interface checks your bank for materials as well.

Boons you steal from it have a fixed duration.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/Priority-Stealing-Resistance/first#post5174817

Conspiracy Theory: Anet added the 1 second ICD because of how shortbow stealth attacks will behave with Rending Shade.

I also inquired about this I think about 2 months or so ago and someone replied that Anet knew the issue and is a known bug. I don’t if he was telling the truth because until now, this issue has not been fixed.

OneEightHundred.5689:

There are 3 problems with just corrupt-spamming the mesmers: One is that the best class for doing that (necro) is also the easiest one for a melee boon blob to train down. One is that the mesmers don’t have to expose themselves to do their job. One is that even if you strip the mesmers, the rest of the blob still has 30-60 seconds of quickness, resistance, and protection, and you have to kill that before they regroup and their continuum splits recharge. Good luck doing that unless you’re either massively better than them, or are also running boonshare.

Then don’t use necros. Use the counter to mesmers – thieves. Precast Larcenous Strike + Steal = 5 boons stolen. Then Shadow Step away/back. Thieves are plenty on WvW. Maybe it’s time they join the zerg.

I think you guys should use your corrupts and conversions at the source or have a dedicated gank team for their dedicated share team.

Thelgar.7214:

Known bug, being investigated…

Oh, okay. Thanks!

Is this a bug or an oversight? I thought all ascended armors and weapons can be switched in the Mystic Forge.

They should add a WvW reward track that gives ascended backpiece recipes for HoT stats. I don’t care if it has no skin nor if it’s as expensive as doing Mawdrey or other previous ascended backpiece iterations, as long as I can get a backpiece with HoT stats without making me do raids.

Man, I used to run this pre-HoT. The “hacking” salty PMs are gold. Does the “heal+stow” trick still work?

They should make confusion like a reverse Retaliation, the way Blind is like a reverse Aegis. It will add more skill play to both giver and receiver.

Just a couple of questions:
Where will you base a server’s “Prime Time”? Will it be location-based or will it be based on a server’s player activity?

If it’s based on location, wouldn’t that be kind of unfair?

With all these queues, I guess EOTM will now be used as intended. :P

Yeah, change it to erotic moans of ecstasy!

Yep, the lag is definitely real. Been real for 3 days now, at least for me.

Around 14~ hours ago, I was bored so I decided to buy 4 exotic daggers with my dungeon tokens. I put them in the MF, said a little prayer to RNGesus, and Spark came out.

They should make a karma/badge salvage kit:
0% chance to recover any materials, 100% to recover rune/sigil but makes it account bound.

Bring siege disablers.

Tarkan.5609:

borgs.6103:

Kageseigi.2150:

So are we talking very high-level interrupt skills required?

What professions have insta-cast interrupts?

Thieves’ pistol 4. :P

0.25s cast time is insta now? nope.

Thieves: Traited Steal
Mesmer: Mantra
(dont know whether mesmers trait that copies the stun effect on you to your target also counts/would help you in this situation)

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Headshot

Kageseigi.2150:

So are we talking very high-level interrupt skills required?

What professions have insta-cast interrupts?

Thieves’ pistol 4. :P

ColinJohanson.2394:

Just want to clarify since I saw this come up a couple of times in this thread and we haven’t actually released our full official patch notes for 6/23 yet….

Ascended Gear will be staying 5% better than Exotic Gear. Gear beyond the tiers we already have are not going to be added and our existing tiers won’t change, they won’t be our main end-game form of progression for your characters/account for all the reasons we’ve covered before – it isn’t what we think Gw2 is about.

Masteries is being added to PvE to help provide this system as our form of progression for PvE moving forward, and the WvW ability system exists for WvW and will be what we use to expand WvW in the future.

To more directly answer some of your point….We are adding a system that lets you change the stats for your ascended gear next Tuesday – which will cost a combination of 10 spirit shards, piece you don’t want anymore, 5 ectos, and an exotic insignia of the stats you want to convert to. Legendary Gear will remain the gear that can freely change stats any time.

-CJ

Will the infusion within the said equipment remain? A lot of these infusion are very very expensive. Also, will trinkets be included too?

How about:

Shield of Judgement: Remove Bleeding, Poison, and Torment from you and create a burning wave in front of you that burns foes. Gives 1 Burning Stack per condition removed.

Shield of Absorption: Create a dome that reflects projectiles and gives Resistance to up to five allies (including you) inside the dome. Lasts 4 seconds.

I’ve got a valid question:
Are these changes the fruit from the ideas of the WvW CDI months ago?

In my opinion, it’s because of the “No one left behind” and “Everyone should be equal” mentality everyone seems to abide into.

If they give great WvW rewards, casual players would complain about unfairness and that they would have to go play a mode they don’t like or it’s too hard for them, or just about any sort of valid excuse they could give to bring everyone down to their level.

Not that it’s wrong, it’s just that pandering to the most common denominator will give out a mediocre product – hence the state of WVW now.