Guild Wars 2

I think you need to actually own the lava keep in order to gain the shrine buffs.
Thing is, with this Air Keep, you can simply jump up a ledge you’re not supposed to be able to jump up (as seen in the third picture). They should just slightly alter these rocks, so that you can no longer jump up from that side and effectively skip the outer gates and walls.

I took more screenshots of this desert borderland map, than in the 2 years I’ve been playing GuildWars2 as a whole. I’ve literally been walking around like a scrub and as opposed to my regular WvW mindset (fights, fights, fights), been avoiding roamers and zergs alike to take kittening pictures of the map. The graphical team did an outstanding job, surely. Though as visually appealing as the map is, the practicality of this map is abysmal.

Furienify.5738:

If this map replaced EB or EotM, it would probably see a lot of success. But it doesn’t make sense as an EB replacement, and following EotM’s mechanics would destroy much of its potential. And, really, if it hits all the points of the EB/EotM demographic… it doesn’t seem like it’s made for hardcore WvWers at all.

Don’t touch, EB please. EB is the best WvW map they have designed so far, including the current beta-tested one.

Also, WvW and EotM don’t go hand in hand. EotM is the worst possible design for a WvW map. Literally the only good I have to say about this map so far is that the graphic/art designers deserve a promotion and the WvW team needs to get the ’ole boot.

bump to make sure this doesn’t go unnoticed.

Bagnasty.1687:

Totally unplayable for me – AGAIN. Tremedous rubber-banding and lag with fps and ping sill running like a slot machine dial. Tried it again off-peak. Hardly anyone on the maps. Same thing. Same lag.

This is on Alienware i7 with 8 gigs of ram and a 100 mbps FIOS connection.

Complete and total disappointment.

That’s what this whole test is about. Not to see if this map has been perfected yet. But to prevent this stuff from happening to 100x the number of players when it actually goes live, so instead of complaining about being invited to a closed test, be glad you contributed to the performance improvement of this map. facepalm

Lastly, jump to #1 first, then onto #2. (If you have falling damage reduction trait enabled, you will survive this and have effectively skipped the outer walls/gates)

(Just figured out I can upload multiple pics, whoops)

The second step

Hey guys,

For the sole purpose of getting this fixed, I will post several screenshots here of how this can be done so that ArenaNet can fix this before they launch it.

P.S. Well done on the map, after more playing I will definitely leave more feedback. Haven’t been able to group up large scale, just been walking around admiring the beautiful work your art/graphic designers have done.

veyka.9158:

You can play your “main” client using multi wars 2

http://alessandrogar.io/?page_id=207

upto 75000KB downloaded @ 7KB/s

The double kicker is that if you close it, it resets the download progress O__O

Thanks for that link, MVP of the day for me. Was afraid I couldn’t play at all today, hehe.

Journal entry 29/07/2015:

Running low on food and water. Starvation has started and I’m getting dehydrated. Download is still busy. 154MB downloaded. If I don’t make it before the stress test, tell my wife and children that I love them.

Picture related.

Get on my level. Been downloading since 4AM last night (It’s now 1PM, GMT+2). 132MB downloaded at 3-5kb/s

msalakka.4653:

“Fairness in competitive play is something we believe in very strongly at ArenaNet . . .” – Josh Davis, ArenaNet

/thread

End the event rather sooner than later. Ty.

Off-topic-yet-on-topic: This once again proves how much Arenanet appreciates the WvW community. This bug has been adressed for days now on both the official forums and on reddit. Makes me wonder if they even have any dev dedicated to WvW who is remotely active (and sensible). I guess the devs are too busy karmatraining to read their own community forums. Communication 1/10.

Omie.4519:

WvW is ruined forever! (Tears)
Look at all these guys just chillin here peacefully dueling despite the exploit.. I thought the buff ruined WvW guys? btw this has beeen going on like this all day.
Could you guys be over reacting a bit?

Implying that WvW isn’t dead because 5 braindead roamers who no one cares about are fighting in front of SM. Could you be any more clueless?

I agree. This needs fixing ASAP… Got hit 10,8k by Lightning Rod from Elementalist + 3,7k from the static field. My Ele’s health pool is 16k. Bumping for immediate fix, please.

Zepher.7803:

I have been wondering why Protection is considered a buff with everything being condi…can we get protection to actually protect against condi? or delete it…

Idk if you’ve ever set foot in a WvW map, but warriors have passive decreased effect of 33% movement impeding conditions. Guardians have Purging Flames (-33%). Not to mention the -40% condi duration food and -20% from Hoelbrak runes or -25% from Melandru.

OT: I hate condis too, but condi builds are by any means the LEAST viable in WvW. The only remotely useful condis in WvW are poison to prevent banners succeeding or slowing hardresses, immobilize to keep enemies in a bomb and chill for the increased cooldown + decreased movement speed.

If condition are a pest to you, you are probably a ranged/peripheral class which shouldn’t even be in these red circles in the first place.

Thanks for all the replies, guys.

Let me clarify: I’m looking to play only prime time, probably in EB for some farmfest, possibly borderhop monoblobbing. Just some semi-mindless zerging after my EU guild’s raid. In short – I’m looking for a server with good pug vs. pug fights.

Hey guys,

I’m currently playing on EU and looking for a strong prime time NA server. The tier 1 servers are full, so Blackgate/TC/JQ are not among the list. I’m personally thinking either Fort Aspenwood or Yak’s Bend (Rank 4 and rank 5 respectively). I have no first-hand experience however, and would like you guys to convince me why I should join either of these two servers for a strong prime time.

Additional info: I’m already in a semi-hardcore WvW guild in EU, so I’m not interested in prime time guild raids, just pug base, really. (I wanna have some decent fights)

Please look into ticket 1335384. It’s been 14 days since last reply.

Just did the living story (well done btw) and I’m stuck atm. The last cutscene wouldn’t play for me and I was forced to Alt-F4 out, because the cutscene wouldn’t play and I would’ve been stuck for an eternity waiting. I now have to do the entire quest over. -.-

Anyone else experienced this?

I don’t know the permanent solution, but try this:

‘’Start > search ’’cmd’’ > run as administrator > type ‘’ipconfig /release’’ (without quotation marks) > type ‘’ipconfig /renew’’. This should re-assign a new dynamic IP address that resolves the problem. (This worked for me)

bump for ANet response please ty

Could still do with some clarifications, here. For example, can we expect the gem prices to adjust accordingly with coming Tuesday’s hotpatch?

So, as I was wondering:

Currently, the prices for transferring to certain servers are absolutely horrendous. I would like to know if there is any reason to hold onto my money until the transfer prices go down, or will the prices stay as they are?

Could perhaps any ANet staff member answe this so I can exclude either of the options?

If this already has been answered, could someone please post the source stating what happened?

Cheers!

May I ask Gandara’s particular interest in backing up AM all the time while putting pressure on FSP-side? For over 3 hours now in EB, not a single tower has been capped by Gandara or AM on either side. Both blobs have been on our mapside the entire time. While we were fighting Gandara, AM just stood behind the Gandara buff-up, watching Gandara’s 80man blob roflstomp our 30 man poor ’’blob’’.

Everyone already knows Transfara is going to win this season. I am just curious why they chose to doubleteam with AM over the past days. FSP has given Gandara fair fights and even though we are outnumbered 9 out of 10 times against Gandara, we still fight you guys with honour.

What do we get in return? Both our Keep gates getting rammed 24/7, when Gandara hits Langor, AM goes for Bravost simultaneously. Same with QL and Durios. It’s always a sandwich.

All we want are some good fights, not some clusterkitten of servers blobbing up together against us. In the past 3 hours, not ONCE has Gandara engaged in a fight with AM, while more than a couple of times they have ran into each other.

tl;dr:
AM is too bad to win from FSP alone, so their rallybot server paid Transfara X amount of gold to hold hands and wipe Far Shivercheats.

Opinions please, inb4 OP l2play —-————-

I agree, the current state of the season will be Far Shiverpeaks vs. Gandara vs. Piken/Gunnar, probably for the entirety of this season. Like Sang said, I would like to see an interesting matchup such as FSP/Piken/GH as well. Eventhough I don’t mind fighting against Gandara, their coverage is beyond ridiculous because of free transfers before season. This was possibly the worst thing Anet could do, keeping in mind the launch of Megaservers as well. Oh well, guess we’re gonna be matched up against Transfara for the rest of this ’’tournament’’.

Furthermore, I think the prediction is pretty accurate, ofcourse Gandara will get 7×5 points.

Xoranium.6481:

If all this crying is because your losing the match up, then please think again as to what the reason’s are for this.

Thing is, FSP has nice guild groups during prime time and ’’okay’’ off-time coverage. During primetime we can keep up with you easily and you provide challenging fights. However, after midnight or in the mornings, because your server is currently loaded with people and queues, your coverage persists.

When prime time stops, there’s usually only a small queue on EB and no queues on whatever border. When our guilds stop their events, you continue with your full-map pug blobs. We basically don’t even stand a chance at your tier 3 keeps, because not only do you nuke down with 80man blobs, your server tends to siege EVERYthing.

Furthermore, I’m not complaining about the fights, because they got some serious wandering lootbag pugs, but PPT-wise, their coverage is more OP than Arnold Schwartzenegger.

Being matched up against Gandara atm I can at least say the following about Gandara in Silver league:

- As mentioned before going from rank 16 to 10 in 2 weeks is just ridiculous, this servers belongs in bottom/mid Gold, not top Silver.

- All discounted transfers in EU Silver League were national servers (FR/DE/etc), apart from Gandara – it was the only free international server transfer.

- We experience near perma outmanned buffs on borderlands, let alone the tremendous lagfest against their always full-size blobs in EVERY map.

This proposal is actually a good solution, however I can’t think of a way to settle the seasonal scores if they were to be swapped out.

‘’Hi I’m OP, everything that is remotely useful is overpowered, nerf pls ANet, ty.’’

Look beyond the horizons of your own class and open your eyes. Thief has -GOOD- condition removal, but -DEFINITELY- not OP. Please try out a warrior or a guardian before suggestion that condition cleansing on thieves are OP. Also, as has been mentioned before; Thieves generally have ~15k HP at most when roaming. Inb4 OP has no clue what he’s saying and should revise his own utmost false and invalid arguments.

Yours sincerely,

The Thief-community.

such bumping here

wow many bumps, so appreciated

very bamp, wow so refresh

such bump, so 1st page

Hey all,

We’re a recently created guild, looking for new, active members to join our community.
What we expect of you:

- At least one level 80 character, regardless of class;
- Communicative, and moreover: fun. ^^

What you can expect from us:

- Active players;
- Experienced players, also willing to help each other out;
- We’re a PvX Guild, meaning that we do all content, which includes and not limited to:
- World vs. World
- PvE farming/dungeon runs/etc.
- PvP matches

Post here or send me (I Psycho Pk) or Just Queen a whisper PM in-game and you will be heartily welcomed.

Look forward to seeing you in [DOGE]

Much recruitment thread, very guild.

I’m in FSP EU as well. Though, I disagree, we have a lot of experienced commanders that know what they’re doing. FSP also has its public TeamSpeak, so you can perhaps follow the commander better on TeamSpeak.

Also take into consideration that currently we have massive amounts of people that normally do PvE in the WvWvW servers right now.

Just give it some time.

fab.3298:

http://www.twitch.tv/xsuperxgw2/b/468492270

1hr 07 is where it starts in garrison, seems like a fair fight.

Never stated that the fight itself was unfair. Actually it was the opposite. We outnumbered you probably slightly. The thing that most of us FSP’ers had problems with, though, was the fact that bannering the lord is just too much convenient atm. You just run up invulnerable, get within 600 range, and stall the entire process for 1 hour.

Twinny.9304:

We didn’t mind the numbers i thought it was pretty fair in numbers, it was the banners and wp I see it as no fault of ur own as I would have done the same if i was desperate to save a keep etc, numbers was fine u were queued and we were queued sounds roughly even to me. Anyway glad you enjoyed it, we didn’t, loot was good but the time on that garrison could have been more productive else where (only speaking personally at the time i got there) the other guys had been there a lot longer bless them

Exactly this. There is little to no effort required to banner the lord back up, since the warrior’s priority is to stall the capping process by bannering the lord, it doesn’t matter
if the warrior survives or not. Therefore, making it even more annoying, because warriors would leeroy in with invulnerability & stability, banner the lord, then die and waypoint back in 1-2 minutes anyway.

World vs. Banner, it was, this evening. Even though, in the end we did not manage to cap the Garri, no one would have been able to. GH went to such an extent that I saw upscaled warriors running around, just to get the lord back up all the time. Now, correct me if I’m wrong, but pressing your invulnerability button and placing a banner within 600 range, doesn’t seem like a very tough trick to master, let alone it being done by easily over 20 warriors.

free bump for you

Fade.7658:

Don’t bother with stacking torment duration. Go for pure condition duration. It will increase duration on everything, including torment. Until I went with runes of perplexity, I had +75% condition duration, and +25% bleed duration. So every non-bleed condition lasted 75% longer, and my bleeds had a full 100% increase.

It’s not all that hard to hit 50% condition duration, and 75% isn’t that much harder to hit. Even if you didn’t bother with the last 25% bleed duration, +75% is very respectable.

With nourishments I get +70% condition duration and +35% bleed duration in my build mentioned above. With my gear I’m having ~1400 condition damage, that is:
-25 Corruption Sigil stacks;
- Nourishments.

I personally find the condition damage quite good. My bleeds hit 105 per tick. Usually I shadow refuge inside my opponent, cast Caltrop (utility skill), then dodgeroll through my opponent twice. You’ll find that you’ll be having 15-25 bleeding stacks within a few seconds. After that I spam all my initiative on skill #3 (inflicting torment), whilst still auto-attacking my opponent each time I run towards him. If opponents attempt to run away, I use skill #4 (throwing dagger) and then Steal towards them with my 1500-range-trait on Steal. IMO it gives you the upper edge in mobility.

In conclusion: I find this build to work particularly well in PvE circumstances, especially when there’s a couple of mobs involved. In Heart of the Mists, this build also works very well when applying at the capture points. In WvW I do recommend running along with another player, preferably one that has immobilization or stun skills so that you can keep your foe in the caltrops as long as possible.

Hiya Silver,

I’ve been experimenting with the build you’re mentioning for about a week now. I have 2 Lyssa, 2 Mad King and 2 Centaur runes, (a total of 35% bleed duration & 20% other condition durations) a Giver’s pistol (10% cond. duration) and Carrion Dagger (with Sigil of Corruption for cond. dmg 25 stacks). Furthermore – full Carrion exotic armor & jewellery. Utilities: Shadow Refuge, Caltrops & Shadow Signet. Elite: Either Daggerstorm (if running with Zerg’s in WvW) or Thieves’ Guild (1v1 combat situations).

My traits are:
0
0
30
30
20

I have ~20k hp, incredible survivability and my IRL friend also runs the exact same build, we do devastating AoE damage. It might even work better in PvE than in WvW. I would definitely recommend you to try it, as you probably won’t regret it. Duo with my friend, we managed to get 16 torment and 25 bleed stacks on 1 enemy. ^^

If you need more information, feel free to PM me in-game.