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“Air Pocket: This skill no longer allows players to shadowstep out of water.”
This was literally all I ever used this skill for. To skip one route of the WvW jumping puizzle. I seriously do not see an other proper use for this skill outside of that. So yay for this utility skill losing its only utility I guess.
This skill can be used to jump over the bay in WvW and combine wit the teleport exploit, you can get into the bay inner gate without attacking any gate.
botting is not allowed. a normal player taking advantage of bot? prolly okay.
HOD is going to drop down to tier 2 and be green if they get last place. Points and rankings do not matter what so ever or else HOD would have been green this match, but it is blue because it finished 2nd place the match before and if it had finished last then would have dropped to tier 2 this current match.
Going up and down tiers are about who wins and loses.
If you finish 2nd, then you will be in the same tier and stay blue, if you finish first then you move up a tier, or if you are the top tier, you stay green.
If you finish last you go down a tier and end up green……Funny how people are still thinking points matter in how the match ups are.
Before HOD lost last match some people on our server said we would be green again if we didn’t get first, but we were blue because we got 2nd. If we had got last then of course we would be down a tier…
Hopefully people understand this now.Points matter only for rankings, not for placing you in matches.
The points are for ranking. If you havn’t notice. HoD is placed 2nd on 12th Oct ranking and thus, they are blue this week. HoD would be green again if they didn’t lose that badly for last week match.
CRS, ND, SYN and NYS (currrently server unknown) have a good WvW presence and AFAIK, they are not on the 3 server mentioned. Then you have FOO on ET and WM, EviL on SBI.
Noooope, that doesn’t working =__=
You can hide your title, but you can’t hide your star.I think mesmers must rage about this especially loud – illusions can’t copy the star. So basically a 80 lvl mesmer with 100% map completion is more easy to kill than 50 mesmer without this star.
A scaled up mesmer would prolly rage too since the illusion can’t copy the scaled up symbol.
The problem is Oceanic guild get better latency on US Server over EU Server. Any international guild choose US server as their home server because US is in between EU and Oceanic and SEA.
every warrior will assure you that kill shot is fine and you just need to avoid the obvious setup appearance that you should easily be able to pick out of 40 players.
If you’re stood still in a zerg of 40 players long enough to be hit by Kill Shot, you deserve to be hit by Kill Shot.
can’t see the enemy a lot of the time, at the moment my only way of even seeing someone before i get stomped is to tab…. a lot.
i play ele, with a fire earth build, not really very good gear as i’ve only been 80 for about 2 hours of game time.
i was just wondering if that was normal, it’s the first time i’ve taken damage of that size before and it just seems at odds with damage i’m capable of dishing out in one hit and my health pool as an ele as well.
given ele has generally lower health it just seemed like a rather large amount of damage for any class to dish out in one go, and with arena net saying trinity isn’t in the game i kinda feel like they have forgotten to check their numbers on a few things.
and if i could have healed it i would have..pretty much wiped me out.
the irony of an ele complaining about burst damage and survivability.
arguably ele has the potential to be one of the tankiest classes AND one with the highest burst damage. not at the same time of course.
i’ve been combo’ed by a glass cannon ele for over 15k easily. and i’ve had an ele survive 3 players chasing him for over ~20 seconds
It depends on the setup of the elementalist to survive but for burst? You are talking about a combo of skill pressed in a short amount of time with the right setup to deal 15K burst damage which couldn’t kill anything but glass cannon and you are comparing to a single skill pressed burst damage.
why are attacks that deal that much damage even possible?
my best attack single target is around 1-2k so how does someone use kill shot to deal that much damage?
i went from max health to near dead in one attack second attack after that just leveled me.
is this kind of thing normal? and should it remain in the game?
Its normal, even my lv 80 in full 80 exotic of Pow/Vit/tough with + 300 though from trait and various other source still get crit (assuming its a crit) with 12k kill shot.
JQ took the lead over the weekend, so all the free riders that were on the HoD band wagon for a free WvW win or better bonuses moved over there. Now HoD has no queue time or at most 5-10 minutes during peak hours.
Either way, there are a few guilds that did very well today in EB on HoD and I hope they are here to stay. I was impressed with the performance of DtD and REAP.
Moral of the story: Make world transfers stop or make it that when you transfer to another world of your WvW tier, you cannot join the WvW until the current match is done.
actually, we closed the gap to at least 1k when i log off @ sea primetime and we have point lead on monday . The weekend is nothing at all. What happened is the 1k point gap widened to 10 – 20 k point gap by tuesday sea primetime.
the 3 keeps and 4 tower is only on borderland. imagine the number of keeps and towers in EB. It will make EB the most chaotic place to fight in.
I don’t think its cheating at all. Most often when we see JQ and ET cross swords, we usually try to take the base instead of joining the swords. its tactics. we often shouted let them fight over it and reinforce our keep. like when ET is attacking a fully upgraded JQ garrison on red map, we said on team chat to attack JQ’s base so that ET can occupied the garrison so that the upgraded garrison will reset. What makes me angry is that when we attack JQ’s tower, our fortified tower suddenly swapped hand in less than a minute. we have people checking the map constantly for sneaky attack and the contested sword didn’t show up at all.
I don’t care if RUIN is aiming for HoD, it’s their right. But us, JQ, are aiming for whoever gets on our way, and whoever looks vulnerable, we’re not purposely attacking HoD. At the moment almost every borderland + EB is aiming for ET.
Explain that ?
As i have said, you would be a fool to not take the chance to win. It is wise for JQ to stall us as long as possible while grabbing w/e they can from ET. This is just common sense.
JQ here. ET is zerging our garrison @green borderland. Outer and Inner gates are down… Why would an ally do that ?!?!?
double teaming is truth. double teaming does not equal to alliance. esp not on the server level with PUGS etc.
Look at the screenshot above you. All you say is non sense…
Its ok..hes special.
I think we all know its not the whole server teaming together but certain large guild on ET have a grudge against HoD for some reason and purposely throwing the match to bring HoD down from 1st.
you’d be an idiot if you didn’t take the chance to push HoD off the maps.
@Proto so lets look at your screen shot.
You think everyone reading this believes that the 2nd and 3rd ranked servers are so good without double teaming during prime time they can keep HOD down to 100 points a tick?
I think you show the biggest proof anyone that is actually not playing needs.
It is ok if you can not win a war on your own get someone to help you that is the way the game is made.
But saying it is not happening is truely funny.
Seeing that it happened both time with ET on the matchup. I would say its only ET/or that one guild bothered to show up doing it alone. And we all know which guild from ET have a crusade against HoD.
the damage (raw and conditional) from this skill is pretty good combined but only on idiot or immobile opponent. Or in the middle of a huge zerg fight where ppl just couldn’t pay attention to it.
You can rebind the key but as you discovered, it will messed up your other skill when weapon swap. There is a way of doing it but it require third party software / hardware.
Which gear scales better in WvW - low rare gear, or high lvl green/blue?
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and the simplest way of checking this would just be to purchase a cheap low-lvl item set and equip it for comparison =)
you don’t need to, just create a low lvl alt and unequip all equipment, then re-equip and un-equip 1 single item and noted down the difference. But im not at home so i couldn’t perform the experiment.
Which gear scales better in WvW - low rare gear, or high lvl green/blue?
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IIRC your gear doesn’t scale up, just your base stats are increased.
I believe nacht has the right of it.
Your base stats are upped, but not gear. Which is why upscaled players have this sort of stigma of being really easy to kill. Because for geared 80’s they are.
I believe gear stat do scale up. the problem is most people don’t update their gear while lvling. like a lv 60 still using lv 40 gear and thus, making the scaled stat worse than they intended. However, the stat scaled from the guild buff is pretty insane on a low lvl character. Also, the quality of the gear is also a problem. Most underleveled player are usually using just blue or green item while most lvl 80 is using exotics.
Im a War but tbh class, equipment, skills,traits doesnt matter.
What i mean is my hp bounce up and down even if i never touch any of those.Its like its 24k now, i log off and go to sleep.
The next day i logged on its 23k plus.
Then i upgrade it back with Upgrade Component to make it back to 24k.
Hours later it either shoot up to 24k plus or drops to below 24k.
(Usually after and event or zoning back to LA unbuffed & out of combat)Thats what i meant.
Weapon swap? underwater? Server wide WvW buff? (can’t remember what buff the WvW gives)
not to mention, a rare encounter with a geared thief,(this was when i decided to get more hp) he did a d/d 5 skill for 3 or 3.5k dmg followed by a 7.5k crit behind me ofcourse. Not sure if it was because there was others on me and might’ve stacked Vulnerbillity but after that i just realised 11-13k hp, just doesnt cut it.
this was during my knights gear period with a few valk (shoulders shoes gloves, hat and a beryl ring) for hp had around close to 1.8k toughness
When you got a 12k damage from a warrior kill shot with full lv 80 exotic with Pow/Vit/Tough gear on, you know that 11k – 13k hp is like a joke.
ANet said they are not going to punish anyone simply because they are playing on a different time than NA due to various reason. But they also stated that some change will be made about it in the very same post.
EDIT: But they also stated that are not against the idea of changing the capping / scoring system. Just they won’t base on it due to ‘offtime’.
This is not saying that we are against any adjustment to scoring, or against developing another mechanic to improve the capping system. This is simply saying that we will not be changing WvW based on some players’ idea of off time hours.
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I have an idea: Why not reward folks who complete objectives/events with a badge of honor or two?
They kind of do. When you take an area and kill the main NPC you need to kill, then the NPC can drop a badge or two. I think the one in stonemist can drop a ton.
im still not sure if its damage, kill shot, or plain luck on the badges drop from the keep lord / camp lord etc.
I think its damage since the chance of me getting badges is higher when the lord doesn’t have any invlun buff on him.
Form what I know, you have to do about 2-3k damage on target (even if the target is in downed state) to get a credit for killing him and also for getting rewards. Professions that have a lot of AoE damage are getting more badges than melee professions simply because they hit more targets.
From my experience. Simply AoE doesn’t even give you a loot bag and just xp reward. Most of the time the loot doesn’t even come with badges too. You have to deal enough damage in order to get badges.
Glad that SBI is still in the game. That one night you speak of is an exceptional case since it happen on a patch night and that nobody on both SBI and ET care to log in to the game after patching the game.
Well just going by the information given by Anet – HoD fields a much larger force than any other server past midnight.
I really can’t argue beyond that without a true population count, but you have to agree that does mean something to have a que at all times in the day.
Larger force? Probably true when its 1 server vs 1 server. But when it is WvWvW, you have ET and SBI players to keep things interesting, we can’t simply won against both server players without having our backdoor knocked on. We focus 1, the other advance, we focus both, we divided our resources.
There is a limit on player from a single server. We cannnot send in all our people into the game.
I don’t want to limit anyone’s fun.
What I’m suggesting is some of the serious pvp overnight crews on HoD transfer elsewhere for an even split.How fun can it really be to just steam roll through keeps and not fight anyone?
If we the players do not fix this, ANet will likely try in a panic maneuver.
And they will likely fail.Much better if the players take proactive measures to ensure a balanced gaming experience for those involved.
But that’s just my opinion.
Then you havn’t played on oceanic prime time then because we still see lots of player on ET and SBI defending their keep on Monday oceanic prime time. If you think no one is defending your keep, then you would see all the keep and camp is being taken by HoD and fully upgraded too on Monday NA prime time like Tuesday.
The reason why we are winning now is because your guys didn’t log back into the game after the server restart while HoD player continue to play.
You have to understand the graph of ANet and do not add your own imagination to the graph.
any queue time > 0 means the map is full. Any queue time = 0 does not mean the map is empty, it just means the map is not full.
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we’ve been outplayed by their ‘double team / mutual enemy’ tactics. The problem is they are using this as a ‘fact’ that HoD is not skillfull because they lost at NA prime time outnumbered 2 vs 1 (all server have queue which means all server map are full) Yet we did not lose hope, we fight and defend and fight again. We did not just go offline or PvE and say screw it.
Reality of so called Oceanic Population Imbalance - Player Driven Solutions
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I never realized how bad the HoD guys really are until this matchup. The server reset happens and you all of a sudden have a full force in SBI and ETI to take advantage of SB logging in and the non-existence of ET at all for the hours leading up to it. Just to compete.
Face it. You aren’t anything without that wee hour ninja crew. In my experience you’ve had tons of people exploiting bugs and glitches in prime-time, and you exploit Oceanic populations in the off-time.
You guys are going to cause reaction from ANet, and it won’t be to HoD’s advantage, but carry on as you will.
WvW goes down 2 min before the first server restart announcement. Any sane person will not wait for the full 3 minutes and restart the client immediately. Your server and SBI have ppl on the SBI BL before the server restart. Is it our problem that you guys didn’t log back into the game right after? So, we are suppose to wait for you guys to come online and send us an okay message? Get real.
Why do i think the OP is being sarcastic? And i see some people in here are blaming 24/hrs coverage servers yet trying to recruit guilds for 24 hrs coverage.
also o one from SBI iss QQing O-o if you look the poster of this thread is standing in between green camps which is HoD colors making this a HoD thread
The photo is 100% from HoD players. But we do not know if the one linking to it, the OP, is from HoD tho.
read the comments above dude, I am not the only person saying this. Get a clue before you post, thanks.
Get a clue or check the graph from ANet, the queue for WvW didn’t get to 0 for ET and SBI until BOTH NA and Oceanic ‘off hours’. Take 17th of September (Monday) for example, the queue for WvW only reach 0 for a short period.
Any value aboue 0 means that, the map is full.
HoD should be put with the Euro servers since all they play is off hours. Its no fun to have no one to fight at prime time and then you wake up and they own everything because everyone on your server is sleeping.
Get peek hours for servers and match them accordingly.
Both ET and SBI have a strong oceanic presence. Maybe you should check your fact first. ET and SBI are servers that play on ‘off hours’ too.
before entering the keep, spam AoE to kill anyone near the breached. Problem solved. Have your man still on siege instead of all rushing in.
Erm, this maybe happen on NA off hour but definitely not ET and SBI offpeak hour. contrary to what ppl beleive, SBI and ET have many oceanic guild and RUIN usually likes to play at HK night time (oceanic prime time, i know since i always see at least 30+ of RUINS in SBI BL) . SBI never outnumbered them on NA and Oceanic prime time.
We were having a 3 way fight before server restart but somehow ET and SBI players didn’t bothered to login after server restart (which WvW downtime is less than 5 min).
you need to hide behind building that cover the tag. Theres no other way around it.
it makes the dye economic more alive since dyes are not a consumable that can be used only once like GW.
Is this skill bugged or something? i jave all elite skills but this one and it showws no sp cost, just wont let me buy it.
That skill is a free skill for those who pre-purchase the deluxe version of the game.
I’m guessing you are either in Ruins of Surmia or Fissure of Woe (is there another server like that ? Ring of fire maybe ?)
We had our biggest guilds leave, most of the WvW oriented then left because the others left, we were left with 2-3 small WvW oriented guilds. (RoS)
Having bought a commander, we now have 3 commanders in total trying to be on all the time and not let them steamroll us.On top of that, Millers Sound and Dzagonur people are abusing the Free transfers. They went together in previous matchup and all went to Millers sound, when Millers sound went up a rank they all went to Dzagonur to steamroll the servers with already very low population.
I find that very frustrating that they are allowed to do so. Let free transfers be allowed but stop them from playing WvW for atleast 4 days, not just 24 or the remainder of the current matchup, because they could just transfer the day before the matchup changes.
This, they should implement the WvW restriction when transferring server now, like not getting the buff from WvW and unable to join WvW.
What has to be done now is lock High/Full servers, lower the cap for those servers to prevent more and more imbalance.
This will force a 1 way traffic out of Full/High servers to medium servers.
I am amazed this hasnt been done yet with 1 week WvW battles…
‘Full’ server is locked as far as i know. However, the pop status are related to the ‘current time’ only so ppl who are so fixated on one server can choose to transfer at a very odd hour.
A free transfer at launch were needed because of the way the server is implemented and the anticipating level of GW2 far exceed their expectation. The server pop cap have been increase from time to time. They want players able to play with their friends or to find a server that are in their timezone. But this kinda backfired when combining it with WvW.
Free server transfer should be disabled when guesting works.
Then is just the cheapness of the servers since, from what I gather reading the forums, DaoC had no problems with huge fights? It’s all just about the lacking servers?
No, as the more complex a game get, the more information sent and received between server and client will be increased ‘per client’ and the information need to be processed will increase tremendously. In Lineage 2, there is no such thing as a tree obstructing an arrow. etc. There are lots of reason why large scale combats work in one game and doesn’t work in another game.
And i think you know why you don’t have the number to take garison even with 5 golems. Because at least half of your active players are spawn camping hoD and attacking Greenlake.
As i have said, i don’t think the whole ET server is having a truce with SBI but certain guild that care to use 5 trebs on GL and spawn camping HoD even though they got pushed back everytime and not helping your server to claim lands is too fishy. they could have harrassing SBI territory to pull stress off your garison troops but what did they do? They attack Greenlake.
Fact #1 Henge has the biggest alliance of guilds and the most amount of oceanic nightcappers. You ask for a fair fight forgetting that the servers you fight dont have the same amount of coordination and numbers. Throughout all of the last few nights, we on ET have had nearly instant queues onto most of the battlegrounds including EB. That shows how undermanned we are and you complain about how we don’t push out of what we have. Give us the numbers, give us the organized guilds before you start asking for us to fight a war on two sides that at the moment isn’t tactically advantageous for us.
Fact#2 Asking us to push the garrison is ridiculous. We’ve taken Woodhaven many times, tried to treb the Garrison from it. However because SBI’s spawn point is right next to it, they take it back fairly easily. So why cant we make a full all-out assault on the garrison? Because you guys from Henge go around taking our supply camps. A good 10-20 of our forces stay back simply because they have to keep recapping our supply camps/protecting dolyaks. Is Henge going to stop their guerilla tactics? No. And because they keep doing it just as the point tally ticks over, it makes it even more important in terms of winning the game that we try take those camps back. So don’t expect us to push when you’re hitting us right behind. Find yourselves other fools to go zerging mindlessly.
Funny how Henge didn’t have as many complaints when they were winning comfortably.
Fact #1 the southern team of ET is not recapping the point but rather, assaulting GL and spawn camping HoD which leads to strike team of HoD guerrilla tactics (our guild and several other guilds) capping champ and redvale and greenwater constantly to get ppl off from seigeing GL.
And we also didn’t just capped them, we defend it for a while so that your other team have to leave their spot and zerg it back instead of spawn camping the scrubs in HoD after telling them not to go out from north gate with no result. You have a full team on the southern part of the map just spawn camping and trebing down GL and you are telling us that you don’t have the manpower to take garrison while having a waypoint at the bay?
Maybe you should talk to this other teams of yours and ask them why are they building 5 treb to get GL instead of helping you guys.
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I’m a bit of a guild wars 2 historian…..and I could be wrong….but isn’t the continent AND planet called Tyria? So shouldn’t the spell be called “Tyria Attunement”….since no one on the planet….or the galaxy….knows what Earth is.
The element earth come before the ‘planet Earth’ and there are no continent on Earth called Earth.
You are mixing up the element earth with the planet Earth.
It just happened in English the name of this planet is the same as the element earth.
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And i think you know why you don’t have the number to take garison even with 5 golems. Because at least half of your active players are spawn camping hoD and attacking Greenlake.
As i have said, i don’t think the whole ET server is having a truce with SBI but certain guild that care to use 5 trebs on GL and spawn camping HoD even though they got pushed back everytime and not helping your server to claim lands is too fishy. they could have harrassing SBI territory to pull stress off your garison troops but what did they do? They attack Greenlake.
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Earth as in one of the elements, not the planet.
I don’t think skirmish between SBI and ET is a lie, there will always be ppl that have sportsmanship and ignore the truce.
However, the overall result is all the major battle is happening on HoD territory and i don’t see why 1 would use 5 trebs to take down GL when they could have taken garrison easily using the resources on building 5 trebs. And they definitely upgraded the bay to have waypoint (as of last night oceanic time) so its easier for them to take garrison too.
There is no alliance between SBI and ET. Never happened, never will.
So long as I’m fighting RUIN? I’ll focus that server first, so will my guild.
The very concept of some sort of inter-server communication is absurd and hilarious.
Sure thing.
ET is very stupid or very smart. In SBI BL they are attacking greenlake instead of pushing SBI and removing points from them.
It is very clear what is happening, its just that its happening to the wrong server. Sure HoD will lose this week because of this, but ET will not win…. so what was the point? For HoD to lose?
I’ve never been so bad at a game or part of a side or server that was more happy making sure another server/side lost instead of my server/side winning. Seems pathetic.
Which I suppose is fine… we are talking about Ruin here. lol
Not to mentioned they wasted 4 trebs on the second assault after we took GL back. Thats 7 trebs they use solely on greenlake within 24 hrs. They must like Greenlake very much. Its a good strategy to get greenlake then AH while holding bay and hitting it on garrison if the other invading party is a pushover. But when the other invading server keep killing your zerg and you have to waste 7 trebs on a single fort and have it taken back. You would have to think shouldn’t we attack the other side?
woah now. lets not turn this into a thread about double teaming. That occurred for LESS THAN 7 HOURS.
There is no longer ANY kind of ceasefire or double teaming. I’ll have to write up the next part quicker than I wanted to. Expect it within the next hour in that case. Please, leave discussion of double teaming OUT OF THIS THREAD. In fact, if anything, the 3rd screenshot shows us double teaming ET in the first couple hours.
Thank you.
Maybe the ceasefire is broken on EB but someone is still honoring it on SBI BL. When you have 3 trebs attacking greenlake from ET and trebs attacking AH from SBI and no skirmish between ET and SBI on garrison or woodhaven. That smells fishy. Or when you have a team of ET zerg just happened to be right next to Dawn and attack HoD zerg while not even trying to take the half sieged Dawn.
Tornado should have projectile reflect or at least immune to projectile.
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