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Game worked fine before i downloaded the patch. Since the download I cant login or download the most recent patch released as of today. I reset my router to start with but havent done anything else. However, before anyone claims this is an issue on my end please consider I had ZERO issues before the patch. Is anyone else experiencing this as well?
-Frustrated
I feel like cc should have a place in wvw and that an all out get out of jail free as some would claim it was was a bit too overpowered. However, I feel like in its current state, it needs some tweaking; some adjusting if you will. I envision some extreme cc spam that, if that is the case could end up turning the tables the other way. Now I usually raid with a guild group and last night we wrecked both frontline and the back line of blobs. Be weary…..this affects casters too. With that being said stab feels a bit lack luster but perhaps that could be my jaded experience that I knew as stab once was. Hopefully some adjustments overall will come that might balance everyone’s experience but I like the changes thus far. Dem poor pug blobs lol…..
The only time I get lag is when there is an 80 man jq blob holding the hands of an 80 man bg blob, both skipping around tcbl in jolly cooperation. Hint?
I want to thank everyone who has contributed to this topic either publicly or privately. I’ve ready every post thus far and I have to say, this is almost like a book. Pretty kitten fascinating from my point of view. Not necessarily the consequences of a swift rise to tier one but more the overall process (both good and bad) the went in to achieving it. Topic isn’t closed, just wanted to thank everyone for putting in the time to respond.
I am actually not a member of SoR, I’m just curious. i do know the back story as to how the server got it’s name which is in itself a great story.
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Hi,
My intention is not to create any hostility with the topic but to simply gain an understanding of this server’s rise and decline among the tiers in WvW. I have read a few topics among the forums but haven’t yet been able to gain a full understanding of it’s fall from Tier 1. Frankly, this occured before my time on GW2 and controversial (if it is) topics of this sort regarding server tactics, politics, rise and fall, interest me. I have some guild mates whom used to be on SOR that I could ask but if someone can perhaps give me an unbiased (hopefully) and objective history as to why this server rose and fell It’d be greatly appreciated.
Mind you, I have nothing against the server. It was before my time. I just want to hear perspectives. And please, lets keep this peaceful in the name of curiosity.
Thank you.
In mutha Russia you don’t play MMO, MMO plays you!!!!!!!
That guy’s in lions arch lol…..
Been getting a lot of lag on TC but its usually when someone in the house is streaming Amazon prime.
You know, up to the point that I have played the character story I have felt a little confused myself. It seemed like I some how became this all important “commander” that knew exactly what to do in every situation. It was like I was given a bottle of liquid confidence that allowed me to make flawless decisions for a very serious situation.
I also felt like I honestly didnt deserve the role of commander. It does feel like I was never wrong and my decisions really didnt carry any weight because I could make no mistake. Honestly that is what really made me not enjoy the story that much. I didnt feel that much tension.
Thank you everyone for the information, really appreciate the responses!
Curious if anyone knows whether or not the tax for selling goods is cheaper if you sell in bulk or whether the 15% tax is the same amount if you sell 3 out of 15 items 5 separate times or just sell all 15 at once.
Thanks in advance
If i was you, I would kill every animal you see. Extinction is a powerful ally.
It’s BG, you’ll have to forgive them, they can’t win an open field fight without cheeseball tactics, sort of like how TC needs 3x your numbers or a superior arrow cart for every 5 players coming at them.
That said, I notice when I counter pin snipe BG (I never start it, but I always end it when Im on) they fall to pieces immediately and their zerg disappears off the map. It’s pretty hilarious.
Switch to a low sodium diet. You’re comments will be less salty.
I see this happen a lot when one or two particular commanders lose too frequently and the salt flows like Fabios hair in that sweet spring wind. I won’t meantion any of those guilds names but the sodium uptake spikes and so does the sniping…….
I probably didnt mention that I’m a somewhat new player and this was not a build I created. However, I do agree with you that 3700 armor is a bit on the high side which perhaps could mean I could swap out some toughness items for a bit more dps?
Thank you for the reply, but if you could help me out with a bit more insight or suggestions it would be appreciated.
Personally I think for a frontline build you lack the “supportive” skillz a guardian could potentially bring to the fight, the hammer GS guardian is good control but works better for small roaming groups and not frontline zergs…
That link is what you’ll find a lot of guards use in pug zergs….
Quick points:
-The hydromancy sigil in hammer is handy as hydromancy chills, does damage and is also a blast finisher on weapon swap… (so use purging flames before swapping to hammer for extra might blast)
- The clerics gear on just armor should be enough for a full health heal from your staff might when using Altruistic healing
- High uptime on stability (very important especially if you’re frontline with the driver)A lot of people will have different builds to what works for them so you will have to work out a build that works for you aswell, what I posted I feel is just a standard meta of what guards should be using in pugzergs
Thank you for the response. I actually haven’t been using hammer at all but that was in the build link. I have been using GS/Staff. I might give altruistic healing a shot and maybe adjust some trait points. I suppose the important thing is to remain flexible and I’ve really been trying to adhere to the build link I posted.
I may also find myself switching out some armor pieces to clerics at some point in the future. However, I recently just crafted a full set of knights gear and somewhat dread the whole ascended time gated crafting process.
Thank you to everyone who posted a response to my topic. It’s given me a lot of insight towards adjusting/tweaking my build here and there. If anyone else has anything to add, feel free to do so.
Curious to hear ppls. opinions on this build. I realize the video may not be up to date with current “Metas” but none the less im still trying to figure out the best set up for a front line guard. I currently use this build and would like to know if there are any better armor, trinket, and weapon variants that anyone can suggest for me. No, i did not create this build btw. Thank you all.
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Curious to hear ppls. opinions on this build. I realize the video may not be up to date with current “Metas” but none the less im still trying to figure out the best set up for a front line guard. I currently use this build and would like to know if there are any better armor, trinket, and weapon variants that anyone can suggest for me. Thank you all.
This build does just fine for me in PVE. Frankly, i could run naked and do well in PVE. But, i run this build because I like it and it has performed just fine. Keep up the good work Nhymz!
Hello everyone,
I recently crafted a full set of ascended knights gear specifically for WvW (I use exotics for PVE). I run frontline guard in WvW and am kind of concerned about the continued viability of Knights gear as power is a secondary stat and thus might stacks now will give you less. Or, is this balance change really going to even affect WvW in a dramatic way? Also, does anyone know or run full knights but is still able to find that balance between dealing damage and survival and how do you go about doing so (trinkets, traits, etc.)
Basically, my concern revolves around the fact that it took me over 20 days to craft the full set of knights and it would be pretty frustrating if I had to go back to crafting another set of ascended gear because of a pvp related balance change.
I understand that overall survivability for all classes will technically increase with this balance. Am I overreacting? Anyways, if anyone has any suggestions or insight on how this new balance change might affect someone like me with power as a secondary stat, I’d love to hear your responses. Or if you’d like me to clarify my concerns please let me know.
This all seems to me to be an attempt at prolonging game play. I recently just crafted a full set of knights ascended gear. Took me 25 days. Sure I could have spent the 16 gold to buy some of the mats but wtf? Why reduce might? What sort of consequences has it created? It hasnt been game breaking by any means. Although the base might stats of my knights gear isnt getting a nerf, overall anything with a might stat attached to it is getting a nerf. People will adapt but overall this seems like a rather sad attempt and increasing game play duration by 15% rather than a might nerf. Seriously, you want me to run the same dungeon ive done over a 100 times over for fun? Get real. I do it for the easy gold. Not to mention fractals! basically saying kitten you.
They don’t care about your solo dungeon runs taking 15 seconds longer
I don’t care about that either.
Now, would you mind not posting unless you actually have anything relevant to contribute to the discussion?
Thanks in advance.
Seeing as that’s the only real reason to be dealing more damage and stacking 25 might in PvE… how is that not relevant?
It shouldn’t really matter in all honesty. Nothing about the meta changes, and dungeons were/are being cleared too quickly. It may also just be about general PvE allowing for might to be too rewarding. It certainly is in the open world.
Yea, they could have not nerfed might, but they could have also just increased boss HP by say, 25% to compensate.
What…?
So you don’t find there to be any reason to stack might in groups? I’m hoping that’s not what you meant but based off of what you said that’s kind of all I can really infer.
Also the time in which dungeons can be completed isn’t really changing by much in order for the nerf to might being tied to dungeons.
If Arenanet was focused on improving dungeons, they would put forth effort into fixing long-standing bugs.
Cough…..NPCs…..Cough…..Mag
In terms of ‘making other builds’ relatively ‘better’ that may be the case for PvP, but as you have also detailed it does not apply for PvE, as survivability is irrelevant once you are never downed (if downed, by all means add survivability stats to the build), and not being downed isn’t exactly difficult for a lot of PvE content – especially for hardier classes like the warrior.
Rather, the PvE effect is not ‘relative to other builds’ or increasing build diversity, but a flat effect of reducing the rate at which content can be completed, which increases the total timeframe of the grind-treadmill – which may increase the amount of time the more hardcore players would spend on the game before ‘maxing out’ on skins, ascended gear and whatnot.
The ascended patch in itself already did this, since prior to its inception players were essentially ‘maxed’ with a full set of berserker exotic scholar – which was not anywhere as time-consuming to achieve as a current full set of berserker ascended scholar/strength. The ninja nerf to the strength rune a while back that converted its initial 7% damage boost to 5% is in the same direction as all of these.
This isnt sarcasm but a genuine question: Are you saying that they are trying to increase play time with a nerf to damage? If thats the case, i could run around with a broom and spank monsters on the butt till they die if thats Anets goal lol.
They don’t care about your solo dungeon runs taking 15 seconds longer
Ya but now my solo tequatil runs will take me 7 hrs. WTF brah?
Hi everyone,
I’ve joined a few guilds here and there, left a few guilds here and there. Overall, I’ve yet to find a guild (that isnt full. Here’s looking at you CERN ;P) that seems to have a consistent amount of players WvWing. I’ve been militia most of the time and havent felt much if any attachment/bond to any of the previous guilds I’ve joined. I dont just want the name of a guild over my head. I want to REPRESENT the guild and be proud to do so. Perhaps my expectations are too high or perhaps I havent found the right guild. Is this a LFGuild or a LFGirlfriend? lol. Anyhow, I’ve really come to enjoy larger scale engagements but find the smaller scale engagements just as fun. My 1v1 isnt great, but I’d dead set on improvement over time. My main is a guardian, currently geared for front line but i can be flexible with my gear/stats. I’ve got a family at home, just not one in game. So if anyone can throw out some names, suggestions of some Guilds as passionate about WvW as I am it’d be much appreciated. I’m on Tarnished Coast and would like to keep the Guild selection to TC since I spend most of my time WvWing. Thanks all.
Is the OP trolling here? So let me get this straight: You and your guildies play as a team and in effect promote team play but frown upon others doing just the same. This must be a joke.
Funny thing is I got exotic shoulders, lvl 78, that magically disappeared from my inventory shortly there after. I’d say the new “Exotic Chest” is pretty kitten buggy.
Boy this game looks epic! Not. Who plays FB games lol. such trash.
I’ve come to notice WvW rank often doesn’t tell much of the person’s skill in PvP or WvW. Merely their endurance in running with the zerg (in EotM).
I’ve stomped many Gold ranked players who were absolutely terrible in PvP and I’ve been stomped by even sub-100 ranks without them breaking a sweat.
I can attest to this. Not from stomping other players, but from getting stomped. Hint to new players. Don’t level you WvW rank in EotM. I’m labeled veteran and get my kitten kicked by lower ranked players all the time. I’d love to relevel my wvw rank the right way. Hell, I’d even pay for that sh……
I can haz yur stuffs then?
Hi,
Just curious if anyone is having this issue as well. I recently opened 8657 winters day gifts. Yes, spent all day doing this, I am completionist….gg. Took me a while but I haz red bull in teh mini fridge so no biggies…..right? Anyhoo. So I opens all teh gifts after about 18 hours of clicking like FASTCAR and now my pointer won’t stop moving! When I hold teh red bull can my pointer finger constantly taps it. Tap tap! Tapa rata tap tap! Tap tapa tap dat. Tap dat, smack dat, on the flo. K? You get the idea tho. Meh pointer has teh nervous twitch now kinda like my neck from all 9 of teh red bulls I drank! Does anyone know if there is a red bull hotline? FFS!!!!!!
Question 1: You can use exotic gear until fractal level 40. If you craft 1 ecto refinement a day you should have a full set of ascended armor when you hit level 40.
Question 2: Try to join the dungeon mentor guild [Noob] (thread stickied at the top of this forum) and see if anyone is willing to teach FotM.
What do you mean by ecto refinement? As in ascended material?
Lol, i thought this might be a serious thread for a second. Good stuff!
Hi,
Fairly new player here. About 3 months in to the game and I have a few questions about fractals.
My first question is this: At what point does exotic gear just not cut it any more in fractals? I ask this because I dont have any ascended armor yet and I’m curious how many levels of fractals I can complete with just exotics. I realize there is an element of skill that comes in to play where some players may actually be able to progress farther than others even with less than optimal gear.
Secondly, Is there anyone who might be interested and has the patience to help a player who is new to fractals learn how to run through some of them. I did one the other day and it was a blast, however I didnt quite know what to do on certain parts. This was a level one fractal. I know I’m a little behind the curve but I dont want to miss out on this portion of the game. Also, i will watch you tube videos on fractals to at least give me an idea.
So, if youve got some patience and enjoy helping other players, contact me or respond to this thread and lets do some runs. I want to learn so take me under your wing. Also, any strong PVE oriented guilds that run fractals frequently that anyone know of?
Thanks in advance.
It is so funny to see people complain about how ’’easy’’ and ‘’dps-focused’’ the game is.
You should have been here during beta when the first 10 pages were filled with complaints that the game is too hard and Anet lied about it being casual.GW2 wasn’t always easy, it used to be challenging. But thanks to tens of threads to tune the game down, Anet decided to take the casual path and believe it or not, if the content was to be tuned up again, there would be thousends of complaints to tune it down again.
You know, to be honest, I’d like to see the difficulty raised a bit. I think it would force people, myself included to really be in tune with there classes. Although I love my guard there are times when i can literally just tank damage. Although my rotations are important, a bit more strategy would be refreshing. Not to say there isnt any but it seems to me with Tequatil for example strategy always outwins DPS. I’ve only done tequatil about 10 times but each of those times, organization by commanders almost always equals killing Teq.
I love the game, but champs trains are a perfect example of how the game somewhat lacks diversity within its strategic boss encounters. I’m not saying we need Dark souls 1 difficulty but raise it up a bit for the sake of challenge seekers like myself.
I would be ok with a mystic coin nerf.
They were an interesting reward, that GW2 never explored or did anything with. The things you can do with mystic coins today are the same things as launch.
As for the laurel nerf, I think we’re getting a laurel nerf because in that one screenshot, the players have to choose between laurels and other rewards. (not all players will choose laurels).
Problem lies exactly there. If they value laurels by adding a bunch of recipes and stuff later on, you’re doomed to grind again. Depending on rewards I’ll stick to laurels, unless it’s something VERY significant.
I would most deffenitely chose laurels. Frankly because they are a requirement for aquiring certain in game items. I can understand maybe alternative rewards to laurels as some players might have ammassed a ton but Im still fairly new and prices on ascended trinkets isnt cheap laurelwise. I’ll probably kitten myself if theyre nerfed
I just read further. It doesnt seem like laurels will be affected too much (I hope) but it does slightly concern me if there is any rng to getting them for rewards. If anything remains constant it should be those as they are hard to come by otherwise. However, with that said, I really like them spicing things up like this. Changes, even if small and subtle are good. And frankly I actually enjoyed the daily and monthlies so this might take that enjoyment a step or two further.
Is this going to affect laurels? I need those things to make my ascended gear and to buy ascended trinkets. I think i need to read deeper in to this but I GOTTA HAVE’m!!!
You mean like the ones I have posted on friend fi………….um, nevermind.
Have a good Day!!!!!
This seems like something easy to do that wouldn’t have an impact on the game overall. I’ve recognized this was needed in the first few days of playing my ranger. If I stow my god kitten pet, I decide when it comes out kitten . (How I really feel)
It boils down to just an overall quality of life and could make the ranger more enjoyable to play. I don’t need my pet to come out when I step on a frog. Making stow and unstow pet only activated by the player is just common sense. I for one think this should be in a quality of life patch.
K, I’m done.
Above. But isn’t it the fact that its just a game? I mean why not just die honorably? You almost ruin all chances at improving if the only thing you learn from a fight is “ok, time to hit esc………again.” No offense, just seems counterproductive to improving overall skill.
But he be like “click click click” and owned dem chineze nub cakes den he was like “oh yeah, well you row wit dat chineze surver little kid”. And I be like “yo fastcar, your epik leetz build is epic and i never seen it b4”. And he be like well I nevar seen da female body parts before so ya." And I be like "WUT?!!!!!)
Ok so I realize this thread is a bit old but I just could not resist the urge to spark it a bit further. Firstly I just want to know if anyone knows what the hell kind of advantage clicking can give anyone? I literally had to attempt to try it and it does nothing for you. Can anyone (shonuff aka fastcar) give the community insight as to the edge you get from this? Personally I think it boils down to never learning how to use a mouse and keyboard correctly while playing a game. Has he ever heard of a razor naga?
Secondly I think we are all aware that shonuff is fastcar or is promoting him to ignite community hype so that he can feel validated as an individual. These posts probably follow his yearly bouts of depression.
And lastly I would like to say that fastcar, from watching his vids, reading his post and comments is a very toxic player. Racist comments, constant insults, and a complete lack of transparency when divulging his build.
All I can say is that none of this is in the slightest impressive.
What are the benefits of making Ascended armor/weapons?
It probly comes off a as noob question but yes I consider myself one regardless of how long I’ve played
To get to the point, What are the benefits to making ascended armor/weapons? What can it do exactly?
I usually just use exotic armor/weapons but I’ve started wondering how much better Ascended actually is. I heard its real hard to craft, and time consuming, but is it worth it in the end?
Im just curious is all.
I was also curious about this. My overall first impression was that ascended gear was a necessity. It is nice to hear that I dont have to race to get ascended gear but it is still something that i am very interested in. legendaries, not so much.
Dat jungle outfit…….LOL
Play at home and read the forums while at work while “working.”
If a thief killed me and six others single handedly I would immediately uninstall the game or just reroll.
So it was stated by a player in another thread that “a dev” said basically that there wasn’t a way to monetize WvW and for that reason, there is almost no resources devoted to it. Does anyone actually have any real proof that this is the case? just curious.
I truly don’t see the logic behind the “there is no way to monetize it”. Plenty continue to play GW2 BECAUSE of end game content like WvW. These people DO buy gems for the exact same reasons ppl that only do PVE buy them. Do you only see trade post skins only in PVE? I sure don’t. I also see a lot of legendaries that more than likely made more than on buy quite a few gems to accelerate the process etc.
WvW is a way to retain players in the game and therefore as potential clients on the trading post. Not investing in your end game is the one sure way to kill your gem market. Long story short, I don’t buy the “there is no way to monetize it” logic one second. It is plain idiotic.
Either this just wasnt stated by a dev because it is such a ridiculous statement. “Dont know how to monetize it”. Gimme a break, people monetize human fecal matter kitten .
I’m just a little confused. If there is no monetization for WvW how is there any money going to PVE? I mean, same game. Its not like GW2 WvW was advertised as “sold separately”. If I spend money on gems, I would expect that money to go to the games OVERALL improvement and future development. I can understand the need for money to make improvements. But youre telling me that there is no way to allocate part of those funds that I spend to WvW? I was born at night but not last night kitten . Put some of my money towards WvW Anet, I give you permission.
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