Guild Wars 2

For those that didn’t get to test or watch any streams.

These are some pretty significant nerfs.

Inc Powder is now Master tier. Meaning it competes with Enh. Performance, Short fuse and explosive powder. So you can pick your Burn, but then you wont get 3xmight on heal or 20% cd reduction on bombs+grenades.
That alone is a pretty heavy nerf, it also leaves Adept tier pretty light on usefull traits if youre not running bombkit.

The nerf to Speedy Kits, because it is kitten well a nerf, also hurts a lot. We lose out on perma-vigor which was really a big deal to help stay alive. Guess ill just drop those 10 points and put em elsewhere.
The 10sec cd/10sec duration is a minor convenience at this point for people who by now swap every 5sec anyway as its hardwired into all of us by now. However, losing that Swiftness to a corrupt/steal is going to hurt a lot more till the next one is available.

And at the same time, none of the real issues have even been touched. The massive bloat on Turret traits, the utter lack of Gadget traits and so on.
Its funny how they talk about maintaining the engineer core-role, even tough they never even defined what that is. And they want to increase build diversity, but from the looks of things this is going to decrease build diversity.

Stealth.8150:

Brutus.5732:

KumaTazZ.8054:

Score not from tick.
SoR = 29%
JQ = 30%
BG = 34%

So BG is the worst server to capture towers and play for PPT.

http://www.gw2score.com/index.php?action=currentscore&sort=hidden_points_percent&ad=desc

You are the best yak\sentry killers by far.

you guys give us no options. all you do is run into keep/tower and hide behind the ac’s

You have my sincerest apologies. We get so many bags from your server on a daily basis and it seems impossible to sell fast enough. But you’ll be happy to know we’re working to improve on that. Were starting donation funds to make sure our entire server is outfitted with full 20 slot bags and encouraging everyone to try and buy an endless salvage kit. We’ll make it and get to the point that we dont need a sell break from farming your zergs and can keep giving you guys the attention you so richly deserve. : )

Ultimaistanza.4793:

Stealth.8150:

Brutus.5732:

KumaTazZ.8054:

Score not from tick.
SoR = 29%
JQ = 30%
BG = 34%

So BG is the worst server to capture towers and play for PPT.

http://www.gw2score.com/index.php?action=currentscore&sort=hidden_points_percent&ad=desc

You are the best yak\sentry killers by far.

you guys give us no options. all you do is run into keep/tower and hide behind the ac’s

You have my sincerest apologies. We get so many bags from your server on a daily basis and it seems impossible to sell fast enough. But you’ll be happy to know we’re working to improve on that. Were starting donation funds to make sure our entire server is outfitted with full 20 slot bags and encouraging everyone to try and buy an endless salvage kit. We’ll make it and get to the point that we dont need a sell break from farming your zergs and can keep giving you guys the attention you so richly deserve. : )

I like this guy…

As Sacrx pointed out in his longer than needed rant, Arenanet sees WvW as nothing more than a funnel for casuals to somehow get sold on going into spvp which is the only thing that is a priority there.

These changes in WvW are designed to decrease WvW participation with the misguided idea that spvp will become the only choice left to players wanting something else other than PVE.

The ‘league’ is simply fancy PR spin of what already exists and a justification for even worse matchups, that and it’s a really lame excuse for not working on any WvW balance or other issues.

Instead of trying to find a solution to the problem players agree is the biggest drawback to WvW, that of lousy match ups, this BL thing pours gasoline on a burning house by rewarding steamrolling. It is clear that if a side has the resources to smother the map, they need a performance buff like a hole in the head.

It is laughable that any devs think that small groups will be able to make a difference in this proposed scenario. They obviously have never played a solid week on a bottom tier world against a world 8 to 12 tiers above them.

This is like watching a train wreck in slow motion.

I say no to the league and the buff, and yes to moving WvW up in status from tepid introduction for casuals to pvp with the intent of funneling them into spvp, to an end in itself that deserves more resources than it gets now.

Man, Myth, Legend? You tell me.

I have known indo for the past 10 years off and on and as someone that creates so much buzz around him, i just have to scratch my head sometimes. Years of having better players carrying him..DAoC (arhenis,lori?) WAR (too many to count) and in GW2 the melee in his guild fall victims to this.

Is he one of the best players to play a game? Or is he one of the greatest Trolls to grace our interweb. The man takes more afks for water breaks then some people have seen water in 3rd world countries. He has shorts made of silk so that while he sometimes sits at his pc gaming he is always soft and sensual for the lady at home.

The story is still being written for Indo. its our job to finish it for him. But on his way to 250k kills the man has made many enemies (most notable anet forum mods for not unbanning him) and many friends. So to you Indo and from SoR

Congrats on 250k kills my man.

LilMcGinley.3890:

hammer.9721:

LilMcGinley.3890:

ohhh 2v1 talk.. that’s TWO drinks for those of you playing at home!!

Thought i was safe to say since i quoted someone saying it.Im not a drinker so i will have 2 glasses of chocolate milk instead.

covenn said the magic word as well… Make it Choco Soy Milk and I’m in!

Afraid not you have to drink wawa chocolate milk because its the best out there.

I have a theory some people will use the drinking game you guys made to get people drunk before they log in.Well i guess some guilds(wont mention any names ) already are before they play.

Kaimick.5109:

Jahn.7019:

We accept your apology and don’t blame you either for always being wrong.

Personally I would rather hear form Ascii or Lettol ( again sorry for the wrong spelling ) As of right now you have provided nothing to prove me wrong or better yet lets hear from the KISS guild leader ;-)

As Grand Poobah, his Eminence, Keeper of the Sanctum…
I find myself at an empasse.
Truly, this momentous occasion requires the most delicate of diplomatic action.
What response would be discourse befitting of holders of such high office on our respective empires?
Hmmm….

I guess, something along the lines of…

OMG DID RUIN GM REALLY JUST WHINE ABOUT ZERGING??!!!!!

Srsly yo, I’ve been tapdancing on top of your guild’s people piles for 5 games now. Over a decade of being astounded at the sheer multitude! I mean, how can the mother of all zerg guilds muster the gall to comment about numbers?
I mean, literally ANYONE else.

Sincerely,
High Muckymuck
Sanctum of Rall (who Jahn is more an influence in)
Not even an officer of Tempest Wolves
Leto the Second

P.S.

Greetings everyone! seeing as I have set myself on a project to create as many fun WvW (at least for me) build’s as I can, while creating some movie’s! Have I decided that I’m gonna create this one single topic where I will keep re posting every time I create a new build with a movie to it!

An introduction to who I am and what I do: I play an Asura Engineer named Drakeco Dustslinger, I play on Gunnar’s Hold [EU] now, and focus close to 80% of my time on doing WvW stuff with my guild: No Names Forever [NNF]. I’m not gonna waste my time arguring about Engineer situation in PvE nor tPvP, cause I simply don’t care about it, all my fun comes from WvW, which is what matters to me!

My movie’s will be a mix of my solo play, and some of my footage with Markus Valadir (an IRL m8 playing a Theif). I focus my movies on great 1vs1 duels, but try to get some good 1vs2 and 1vs3. In general I will try show footage of the setup vs as many different classes, but it’s quite hard to create good enough footage, where you actually can see what’s going on!

- Drakeco Dustslinger

UPDATE: NewRoaming Video!
The Condition Apothecary – Build being used

http://youtu.be/NSs0PlKm-mY

Link The Condition Apothecary build here:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.1m.h1m.a.1m.hf|0.0.0.0.0.0|1f.7p.1f.7p.1f.7p.1f.7p.1f.7p.1f.7p|1f.66.1f.66.1f.66.1f.66.1f.66.1b.63|a5.k68.a1.k16.a6|30.d|2c.2v.2w.2o.0|e

“The Confusion Bomb” 100% condition duration setup:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.1m.h2.a.1m.h19|0.0.0.0.0.0|1b.7i.1b.7i.1h.7v.1b.7v.1b.7v.1b.7v|2w.0.2w.0.3w.0.2w.0.1h.62.1b.62|k53.k64.0.a1.k68|30.d|2d.2e.2x.2j.0|e

“The Confusion Bomb” – Full Conidition damage Setup:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.1b.h2.a.1h.h19|0.0.0.0.0.0|1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719|2w.0.2w.0.3w.0.2w.0.1h.62.1b.62|k53.k64.0.a1.k68|30.d|2d.2e.2x.2j.0|e

“The Condition Grenadier build”
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.1m.h2.a.1m.h19|0.0.0.0.0.0|1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719|2w.0.2w.0.3w.0.2w.0.1h.62.1b.62|u58b.a6.0.a1.k68|30.d|2d.2f.2x.2m.0|e

“The Troll Build”:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.1m.h1l.e.1m.ha|0.0.0.0.0.0|1c.713.1c.713.1c.713.1c.713.1c.713.1c.713|1c.64.1c.64.1c.64.1n.64.1n.64.1c.64|a3.0.a1.u16c.k68|30.1|2d.2e.2x.2j.0|e

“The Napalm Specialist” (Toolkit can be swapped for FlameThrower with some minor adjustments)
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.1m.hf.a.1m.h19|0.0.0.0.0.0|1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719|2w.0.2w.0.3w.0.2w.0.1h.62.1b.62|a5.u647.0.a1.k68|30.d|2d.2m.2x.2j.0|e

“The Explosive Alchemist”
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|4.1g.h1h|0.0.0.0.0.0|1g.71i.1g.71i.1g.71i.1g.71i.1g.71g.1g.71g|21j.0.1n.64.1n.64.1n.64.1n.64.1i.64|u5ab.a6.0.u2ab.0|39.7|2b.2g.2j.2f.30|e

“The Explosive Alchemist – Condition”
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.1m.h1h.a.1m.h2|0.0.0.0.0.0|1b.71h.1b.71h.1b.7i.1b.7i.1b.71g.1b.71g|2w.0.3w.0.2w.0.2w.0.1h.62.1b.62|u5ab.a6.0.u2ab.0|30.d|2b.2g.2j.2f.30|e

“The Explosive Toolkit”
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|4.1g.h14|0.0.0.0.0.0|1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7|1g.67.21j.0.1n.64.1n.64.1n.64.1i.61|u57b.a6.0.a1.k

Edit: Video list for the lazy! (Only Build videos)
The Napalm Specialist build:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKaXSZ8y0D0

The Troll build:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clii3sP86zk

The explosive Alchemist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y5QkrOh6oY

The Condition Grenadier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGWimaL9s-I

The Explosive Toolkit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYK0s_zT2zE&feature=youtu.be

The Confusion Bomb:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoReMSCI0js&feature=youtu.be

Check out my Channel here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/MrAmadeuson
For many more WvW roaming videos and “How to: Videos!”

Check out my Podcast Work for Sitting on a Couch – Engenious, your Engineer focused podcast here:
http://sittingonacouch.com/category/gaming/

some sor shenanigans with help from sos

kaltastic.3146:

Raven Paradox.1860:

Tarkus.4109:

Raven Paradox.1860:

Tarkus.4109:

wtb tactical nuke to kill AC’s though

Why would you want that when you’re in MERC?

We only use carts when we’re outnumbered 2:1 or if we’re not on the map. Everyone uses carts, get over it – its just a disappointing change in the meta.

Eh yesterday morning you outnumbered a small zerg which you considered an Iron zerg because the commander was an Iron commander (despite the zerg being mostly us PuGs) and used ACs to defend multiple choke points while outnumbering that zerg 2:1.

But you do have a point. Everyone does use ACs. It’s just a dang shame that ArenaNet thinks they’re helping WvW. All they do is give baddies a chance. It doesn’t seem all that bad, but it doesn’t encourage people to defend objectives with tactics besides the placement of a siege weapon. The game should encourage you to get better, not reward you by sitting in a safe area on a wall shooting down on a big amount of players with an overpowered, easy to obtain piece of garbage.

To balance this new overpowered AC crap, ArenaNet should make those things have a limited amount of ammunition, or require much more supply than 30/40.

Is this what you mean by AC’s give baddies a chance????

How rude of us to drop ac’s like that, please forgive us we did not realize you guys were still upset over losing your T3 fully supplied garrison to 10 people today while you were playing in bay.

Dear Fellows, Thank you for keeping us in mind in the natural disaster happened in Taiwan, Most of our members in ATM, and our real life friends and families are safe and fine! We can’t be more thankful knowing you guys are thinking of us in such tragedy. We really appreciate it

The only effect would be our internet connection being slightly affected. but no worries, we will still be fighting with you guys! and against some of you!
Hope you see u guys in game!

by
a rep from ATM

I don’t understand why WvW players don’t have laurels. WvW is pretty much all I do and I had all my ascended gear except for one accessory which I just bought today from the WvW laurel vendor. The daily laurel quest has always been easy and is even more easy now. If you have made the choice in the past not to gear up by doing this ridiculously easy quest everyday during the course of playing WvW then you need to live with that choice now and stop complaining. You messed up by not taking advantage of the opportunities available, shut up and live with the consequences.

oxide.8324:

I wish Indo was on my server.

Fixed for ya.

Jet.4795:

Hoots.9564:

Jet.4795:

Hoots.9564:

Jet.4795:

SoR you cant say you have been through all of this yes you logged on to 400+ and T3, however we did not have 30-40 people waiting on every border. Not taking away your credit don’t think I am please. I am just saying if you want fights your not going to find them that often if those people cant make progress on a map.

Your right, we had it much worse. We logged in for 7 weeks of 0 ppt and fully sieged T3 keeps in T2 with BG’s zergs waiting, and yet we managed to pull the lead back every single night. Resilence is the word I’m thinking of.

Didn’t think this was T2 sorry

Makes it even worse then, your guilds should have the resilence to take fully sieged keeps then, after all JQ has been in T1 the longest.

We don’t field 30 people for every guild or have militia to get that many on each map. And yes JQ has been in T1 the longest, but we do it with everything we have.

I’m sure once SoR is gone those militia will appear again, all I was saying is some servers are more resilent in the face of adversity then others.

pot.6805:

hex.3218:

SoR! The new overpopulated bandwagon server of bads and try hards!

“We only care about the fights!”

Yeah, that 500 PPT and 30 arrow cart assault on JQ Garri after capping the known universe is all about the fights!

“We don’t care about winning.”

Yeah, so instead of resting folks, run 24 hour zerg-athons with no chance of losing a battle because you have 70 players dry humping each other.

I liked you guys a LOT better when you actually DID have to fight.

I hope next week you draw TC and DB and are bored stiff in 3 of 4 time slots and realize that the only thing that kept you guys fighting for so long was having to earn it. Now? Enjoy the slow, painful bleed out as folks get tired of killing gates and NPCs.

BG? Still love ya. Hope to see you soon.

So true.

I would like to congratulate Sanctum of Rall on their first tier 1 victory!

I remember back in October, after HoD collapsed, 2 super servers were brewing in the lower tiers. One was Sea of Sorrows, the other was Sanctum of Rall. They met in tier 3 for the first time, with both sides putting in amazing fights and the momentum of the match up constantly swinging with the other server trying to punch harder than the other. The best thing about this match up was not the scores, but the fights had on the field. A lot of people who were on SoS agree that SoR NA gave the best fights, were the most skilled and organized Americans of any server SoS ever faced. SoR were better than the servers in tier 1.

Sanctum of Rall has had to be consecutive runners up over a very long period of time. Yet their guilds have stayed loyal to the server, and stayed strong. Many of the guilds I saw all those months ago, are still on SoR today.

But it is not only the old guilds that have made SoR server, the new arrivals that have moved to SoR, have had the guts to join the underdog in order to balance the competition. These guilds must also be congratulated and have contributed just as much as anyone else on SoR!

Sanctum of Rall has a lot of skill and organization, WvW is based around coverage,. But SoR has not won tier 1 through coverage, they’ve won it through courage!

Congratulations to Sanctum of Rall!

You have my full respect for what you have achieved on the battlefield,

/salute and well done!

Enjoy the moment! :D

There once was a place called black gate
Who thought the green slot was their fate
But along came teedubya
With skills far above ya
And that dream did they surely abate

JQ now has their picture on a milk carton

Engie and nothing else in the world.

Our guild hasn’t had this much fun in months! More of our members are active again and we’re excited for what the rest of the week will bring. Thanks again to the fantastic SoR community and it was definitely the best decision IRON could have ever made

Hello all, IRON is officially moving to SoR! We are very much looking forward to being part of T1 NA and hope to make a difference during EU timezone. Clashing against the skilled guilds of JQ and BG will be an exciting new experience which I believe will bring fresh fun to our guildies and we will be out looking for challenging fights

It was a very difficult decision under time constraints during a power shift in T1, but we decided on SoR mainly for the sake of balancing T1 competition with more equal opposition. Perhaps this will also encourage more guilds to move to SoR to even out their coverage further. I’m sure that we’ll have a great time here and its community seems as friendly and organised as we could wish for.

I have utmost respect for the other servers and my apologies for not joining, I hope there are no hard feelings. Many thanks to the various leaders, I appreciated all your time for queries and looking after our scouts.

Congrats to BG for winning two weeks in a roll and I sincerely hope that JQ comes back hungry next week for a close three-way even match up – see you all on the battlefield, new friends and enemies

Never forget Langor pass….renamed butcher pass in honor of the bags bg gave us.

Reslinal.2359:

nay, i believe more BG want to push SoR out instead, hehe. We win our fights with JQ:)

ficksed

Let’s be honest, here’s what happened. WM/MEOW/etc transferred to BG and started fighting NA/OC/AZ timezone and got wrecked. Jang and co seeing they couldn’t compete changed their schedules and started logging in en masse for EU TZ which was dead for the other 2 servers.

Whatever may come out of Jang’s mouth, 2 things are clear: 1. WM isn’t in it for the “challenge”. and 2. They don’t have the chops for T1 combat.

White Knight.3925:

I joined RUIN

On purpose?

JQ is begging for more SEA players, we are horrendously outmanned!!!! Please see illustration below that will back up and prove my point with screenshots!