Guild Wars 2

BG is a server that needs to be challenged to play PPT. Fighting to get to and stay in T1 3 years ago, all of the seasons, and last Summer/Fall when the T1/T2 shakeup happened. That’s when BG plays PPT, and plays it very well. But it’s a game mechanic that a lot of people don’t necessarily care a lot about.

The problem with PPT is how easy it is to manipulate. If PPT were purely based on how well you play in even circumstances, things would be a lot different. But because the easy answer to higher PPT is just more people and not more skill, the ones who want to win at any cost will always take that option. And some people won’t play that way. I won’t ktrain an empty BL when I know the enemy has no force that could respond to me.

I haven’t commanded much lately, but I’m getting back into it. And I plan on doing whatever I can to find fun fights that aren’t accompanied by massive amounts of siege. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t come with PPT, it just means I don’t have fun fighting under 3 ACs with 6 ballistas primed on my head.

If any YB (or JQ) sees a group led by someone with a [UD] tag, feel free to come out and fight me away from your siege. I’ll fight outnumbered and I’ll fight commanders/groups better than me. Open invitation.

Even though I can’t do reset much anymore, this makes Saturday afternoon WvW much more important. It would be great to change it back.

You can’t let that range naturally put Emeralds in matches against Diamonds and Legendaries. Probably even Sapphires shouldn’t be there. If they want to queue with friends in a higher tier, whatever. But solo queue, that shouldn’t happen. I’d take no game over a frustrating game like the few I’ve had this morning.

Guild: Unbreakable Dynasty [UD]
Type: PvX – We have weekly events in every game mode, including 4 WvW raids, a SW night, a dungeon night, and training for all 3 game modes. We also have an active RP group, and in general we hang out in TS a lot.
Server: Blackgate – Only important if you want to WvW.
Prime Times: 3:00 PM-Midnight Pacific – We do have members on throughout all hours of the day, but that is generally our most active time and when the majority of our events happen.
Guild Leaders: Princess Butterball (TehMagster.9530) and Suilean Gorm (footballisgod.4075)
Links: Application – You must have/create an Enjin account and be signed into Enjin before using the application.
Video – Just a small taste of [UD] and how we play.

Additional Info: Unbreakable Dynasty was founded in November 2013 on the basis of creating a community of friendly players. We’ve grown quite a bit since then, but we hold the same ideals. We’re looking for people who want to be a part of our community, not just another name on a guild list. We’ve had a few successful (and fun!) real life meetups, and are planning even more for 2016. We have members who might not play GW2 as much anymore, but they hang out and play other games with us just to keep in contact. [UD] is not looking to be a giant guild where you get lost in the crowd. We are not 100% rep and do not have any rep requirements, but the more put into this guild, the more you will get out of it.

We have very strict rules against any kind of hate speech in our community (and you can read all of the rules here, if you’d like.) We want to provide an accepting and safe community for people of all backgrounds. If that’s not something you can do, than this guild might not be the place for you. We like to keep our guild chat and general TS channels relatively clear of more sensitive topics, but we provide spaces for you to discuss that, should that interest you. No matter where you’re talking, though, everyone is expected to remain respectful when interacting with other members of [UD] (and a certain amount of respect should be shown from anyone you interact with while wearing the [UD] tag).

We are all very much looking forward to Heart of Thorns, and we will be very active in the expansion. We’ll have active raid and PvP teams, a (very nicely decorated) Guild Hall as soon as possible, and lots of people exploring the new world. We have members of all experience, from very hardcore to brand new. Feel free to PM myself or Princess Butterball with more questions, or just fill out the application if you are interested in joining.

These are the issues BG finds key. Game breaking, even.

This is a problem that’s happened to me multiple times. Previously, either flushing my DNS or switching my DNS to Google’s public DNS fixed the problem. No such luck with the latest patch. However, using:

-assetsrv 62.154.232.187:80

worked. I’m in Minneapolis, US, with Comcast.

I don’t know of any tutorials for countering professions. A lot of that is going to come from lots and lots of practice. You can browse a lot of the current meta builds at MetaBattle, and that might help you learning some other classes. They also have video links for most or all the builds, so you can watch other people play and hopefully help you out that way. As non-structured as they are, I would join Hotjoins (Practice button in PvP menu) until you feel very comfortable with your build and with rotations.

Because all but 1 of the pvp maps are Conquest maps, rotating between points and knowing when to go to a point and when not to go to a point are just as important, if not more so, than fighting skill. I think the best way to learn how to rotate is to watch tournament matches that are streamed on twitch, and look how the best players do it. Try and spend some matches focusing on the minimap, and trying to figure out why players did what. If you’re watching a livestream, you can also be brave and ask questions in twitch chat.

Lastly, I’d find a guild to join. Having reliable allies on your team is a huge, huge bonus, so finding a guild that will PvP with you can make your life a lot better in PvP.

Run notepad as administrator and then open the file. You can then edit it and it’ll save as that file. However, I did this, and it did not fix the issue for me. I flushed my DNS cache, too. Anyone have any other suggestions?

Edit: I had tried the proxy DNS before, and tried again using google’s. Still no go.

Edit2: Should’ve read your post more carefully, Healix. I undid the hosts file edit, and then it worked. Thanks for the help.

This is a really big deal for me. I realize the hope is that queues will be quicker, but I really don’t want to have to change the map that I’m in to queue up for an arena. I thought that was one of the best changes when it came out, and I’m not sure why it needed to be changed back.

Just a reminder that these events are still totally going on! The Tequatl event will be in 2 hours and 45 minutes, with the others after that. If you’re interested in joining us, whisper me (Suilean Gorm) in game, or look for our in-game LFG ads for the Tequatl summon.

You’ve likely not heard of us, but Unbreakable Dynasty is a Blackgate PvX guild that’s been around for the past year, and we’re having a big celebration. Most of our events are going to be just for the guild, but I’m here to invite everyone to a couple public events next Sunday, the 16th.

At 1PM PST/21:00 server time, we’ll be summoning Tequatl and inviting everyone to join us. We’ll open up our TS to get things nice and coordinated, as well. We’ll of course provide you with some a Heroes Banner and Karma Bonfire so you can get the most out of it.

At 1:30PM PST/21:30 server time, we’ll host an extreme trivia contest. Teams of 2 will compete to show off your Tyrian knowledge. While one member of the team gets to roam the world and look for the answers, the other member has to stay to give their answers. Wrong guess or when someone else gets it right? Take a step back. What’s behind you? Oh, naturally, a cliff. Last one living wins! We’ll be giving away 2 Whisperblades to the winning team, along with smaller prizes for all the participants. All of the answers will come from in-game content, and you won’t be allowed to use the internet to get them. There is an entrance fee of 50s a person (so 1g a team).

After the trivia, we’ll be hosting a guild feast for everyone to take part in. Complete with a keg, a table full of a food, and lots of desserts. We’ll also have medics on hand for those who need some help recovering from the extreme trivia.

At 3:00PM PST/23:00 server time, we’ll have a hide and seek for everyone to play. Some of our sneakier guild officers will find hiding spots throughout a zone, and everyone that finds an officer will get a prize!

We’re looking forward to sharing our celebration with everyone, and we hope you all have lots of fun playing with us next Sunday! If you have any questions about anything, feel free to ask me in here or send me an in-game mail at Suilean Gorm.

Also, for a little info on our guild, feel free to watch this video

Johje Holan.4607:

MaLeVoLenT.8129:

Guild Wars 1 was so successful because of the varying types of PvP. GvG, Heroes Ascent, Team PvP, Random Arenas, Alliance Battles. The variety created balance and not over population.

Back to your point and another posters – I don’t see how an official GvG is going to help with WvW population imbalance?

Well, I don’t know that it solves the issue by itself, but I think it’d help get more people involved in the WvW scene in general. Instead of trying to stuff everyone in one tier, GvG guilds could spread out. There is no guarantee they would do it or do it quickly, but it would be a way to invigorate WvW. I think without a doubt it’d bring some people back to the game, and it would keep some people who are still here but maybe bored, playing. Having more people to play, and it not being super important which tier they were one, would help balance things out a little bit because people would be more willing (and with T1’s constant full status, more inclined) to go to different servers.

Like I said at first, GvG wouldn’t solve everything by itself, but it’d be a big step towards keeping existing players/bringing back some old players, as well as making it a lot easier to be on servers other than the top few tiers and still play how you want to play.

Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.

Really, really hoping for SAB 3 to come out with red skins some day.

oxtred.7658:

Shield backpiece+ actual shield= a char with 2 shields in his back. Nope, won’t work.

When you ‘sheathe’ a shield, it already removes the back piece. So having a shield as a back piece wouldn’t add any extra clipping.

Depending on my mood, I’ll do either casual runs or speedier runs. If I don’t see a group listed that fits what I want, I make my own. It works out the vast majority of the time. Occasionally people ignore the ‘experienced’ part that I add in the lfg, but I don’t run into elitist jerks if I add ‘anyone welcome’ to the description.

I came to post this exact same bug. 186 from Luck, 9 from achievements, 10% from guild boost, but only 196% showing up on the Hero page. Guild mates have the same issue.

I think it depends a lot on the content you’re likely to do. If you think you’ll be mostly in PvE, I’d get the Howler because you’ll probably be using that more. But if you PvP/WvW a lot, Rodgort will be very useful to you. Personally, I made the Howler first ankitten ow working towards Rodgort (although mostly for my Mesmer, and not Ranger).

I haven’t bought many gem store items aside from a few skins, but ANet’s past couple toys have been really awesome. My guild and I decided to have a little fun on the beach today.

I’ve farmed Halmi with both my ranger and warrior. They both have full ascended/zerker gear with Scholar’s runes, so best DPS options for me. With warrior I can kill him twice in a little under a minute, including resetting the fight and what not. Ranger is a little slower, at about 40s per kill and reset. Ranger skills are slightly longer cooldowns, and that’s a big part of it. I don’t have the most expensive sigils possible, so the time could be cut down a little bit. I do it with 4 gambits, so 5 chances per run.

That backpiece can’t be infused. So you get the ascended version and then no extra slot.

Chrispy.5641:

• I have changes in the Wilderness Survival Traitline to where Survival Skill deal damage, and another trait that increases that damage by 100%. If that enough to make it worth taking a full set of Survival utility skills?
• Same question for Shouts. I changed around traits in Beastmastery so that shouts, switching pets, and pet F2’s deal damage, and I also changed Nature’s Voice to be much more powerful if you have a downed pet. It might not be enough, but is it worth taking a full set of Shout utility skills with this change?
• What if Heal as One and Rampage as One were Shouts?!

I’m not sure that giving Survival skills damage is what they need to be useful. They are defensive traits, so they make sense as either a compliment to an offensive build, or for a defensive-based build. I think adding boons that compliment the skills would be a better trait. Protection to go along with vigor for Lightning Reflexes and fury to go with Quickening Zephyr (that might be too strong). Just reducing the cooldown is enough for the adept trait, and then adding the boons for the master trait? I don’t know, it would definitely make them more attractive for me.

As they are now, no amount of buffing to shouts is worth a grandmaster trait. The skills themselves needs to be reworked. However, if Heal as One and Rampage as One were shouts, I think a trait affecting shouts might be worth it. I still think grandmaster is a bit too high, but it would make the trait (and the healing skill) a lot more worth it.

Ragnar.1546:

9. Remove the damage decrease at close range on Longbow; no other class has to deal with this.

Mesmer greatsword auto attack is the same deal. As is Warrior harpoon gun. Ranger #2 harpoon gun also does more bleeding the farther away you are. So there are other examples of this occurring.

I like the direction that you’re going with the signets, but I think they are a little too strong. 50% reduced damage can be balanced, but 12 seconds is too long to give for your allies, even for just the ranger. I think 10 seconds for the ranger and 5 seconds for allies would be good.

I also think Signet of Renewal needs to have a cap on the number of conditions it can clear. I’d say give it condition removal for your next 6 attacks, and then 6 attacks for allies. If it’s a 5 second thing, I also think the stun break is a little too strong to give it to allies, but guardians have a grandmaster trait that does it as well. So maybe it works. I also think that signets need to have a limit on how many allies they can affect. Balancing against other skills, I think 5 is probably appropriate.

Maybe instead of moving the trapper traits to WS, they could be moved to Marksmanship? I think it’d make more sense to have them be there than with the prec/crit stuff, anyway. I think swapping Predator’s Instinct, the now master trait Beastmaster’s Bond, and Remorseless would for the three trap-related traits would be a good change. And now the traps will benefit from increased condition duration.

That’s if you want to keep WS for only defensive stuff. Considering what they do, it could be argued that traps are semi-defensive anyway.

My last thought for now is that Two Handed Training needs to be moved out of Nature Magic, but I’m not sure to which other trait line.