Guild Wars 2

Ayrilana.1396:

majessive.8910:

I could make min/maxed build for speedrunning the Troll’s Revenge jumping puzzle, but how would that qualify me, for testing Raids? It seems it could in some eyes, but that’s not the kind of raids I was hoping for.

What do jumping puzzles have to do with group content?

Nothing – and dungeon speed runs have nothing to do with raids (or should not). That’s just my opinion – of course you can have your own.

Evapor.6849:

@majessive maybe u should send anet ur cv of all ur gaming qualifications i did and they promote me to head of kittenpost

Nice try, I nearly forgot about nice people on the official forums. Thanks for reminding me.

It does not matter what I did in other games, as I don’t want to test the raids. I put that part in my post only to show off, I did not only play Hello Kitty Online (which’s raids were awesome btw.). It wasn’t necessary, but I did it anyway.

Grats tho on your job at anet! Have a nice day!

malus.5894:

Vennyhedgie.5369:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Mireles Lore.5942:

bound by NDA? Why even post this? Just to let everyone know they were passed over for something they never had a fair shot at being considered for?

Why? For transparency and as a means of communication, which I think we all agree is a good thing.

Too, I see some concerns about claims of world firsts. ArenaNet doesn’t track, verify, record, or reward world firsts. But making public that certain guilds were involved in testing seems appropriate and relevant in that context, does it not?

I have to say I don’t agree with the last statement. This post essentially sounds like “Neener neener, look what these guys are playing and you aren’t”. As Mireles put it, it’s not like the rest of the community had a shot at it to begin with.

On a personal note, I don’t think these kind of guilds should be the standard to base raid difficulty on. I absolutely DON’T want any content that is only beat by stacking as many damage multipliers as possible, which is what these guilds seem to only be capable of doing. It’s boring, and it only incentivizes more “berserker meta” playstyles.

That’s exactly how I feel. And that’s why I’m so disappointed with ArenaNet’s decision.

Yes, that’s how I feel, too. All I have seen from DnT is absolutly not what I would call challenging or even “hardcore”. And it’s not the type of content I enjoy at all (and I have played a lot of “hard” PvE content in other games.)

I could make min/maxed build for speedrunning the Troll’s Revenge jumping puzzle, but how would that qualify me, for testing Raids? It seems it could in some eyes, but that’s not the kind of raids I was hoping for.

NikeEU.7690:

We will do our best to ensure that everyone has the best experience possible in the raid, which is the whole point of having guilds invited to test these things.

That worries me even more. I have not seen anything from DnT, that would give me hope they are able to to that (And I’m not even talking about the “everyone”).
I’m not really interested in anything they put out tho, so maybe I’m wrong! hopefully!

kittenahe.3108:

How would you feel if anyone said that they were going to give you a snickers on the 10th of march and you were really looking forward to it, then on the same day they told you that the snickers were broken and that they will give you the snickers bar later without estimated time on the matter. Well that would make me disappointed at least.

I am working in the candy industry and I will tell you a well hidden secret. I hope I will not get banned from the forums for spilling the beans on that!

Sometimes you notice a batch of your product has been compromised with an unwanted ingredience just when you want to put the package on it.

In the case of a chocolate bar like snickers these unwanted ingrediences are often chocolate bugs – nasty little critters.
As chocolate bugs have an awefull taste, you don’t want to ship your snickers on your regular batch day. Your customers would may not appreciate that new taste and crispness.

So while your customers won’t be happy about the delay, you better go and fix the problem before you deliver the batch. Now you have to find out how the chocolate bugs could get in the snickers in the first place and then you have to make sure it won’t happen again. You may also want to make sure there is no peanut bug in the batch.

When this is all set and done you can finally ship your batch.
As I told you this is a well hidden secret, so you probably won’t read anything about this in the batch notes.

Wow, It really feels good being a whistleblower

Ok, thank you Lawton!
And Steven +1!

Can somebody clarify on wether “Heart of Maguuma” will be a continent with the ID 3 oder an expansion of Tyria (ID:1), so people can plan accordingly?
Preferable that answer would come from an Anet dev, but of course a player/user would be fine if you can name/link your source.
If you are not allowed to give us that information or it’s just not finalized yet, that’s fine, too.

The missing party system for toypacolypse really disappointed me and my guildies ready to jump in together.
The reason for this change tho given by Gaile Gray in the forum’s bug section really scared me!!!

I am a professional software developer since the days of the the last millenium – I do not work on games, but at the end of the day code is code and software design principles apply to any piece of software.

I really thought about how pug grouping could ever be resposible for the stabilization
of pvp and activities. It just did not make any sense to me …
unless somebody effed up something in the first place and/or you are dealing with a big spaghetti code monster.

It reminds me of the legacy code i had to work on for a client about 10 years ago. You would fix one bug (after hours of digging through spaghetti) and another totally unrelated bug would appear.

Now I refuse to believe that the same guys that created something awesome as the gw2 dual server build system would create a bowl of spaghetti code that behaves that way.

Please, Anet, for the sake of of Martin Fowler’s beard do not tell me when you´d drop premade groups entirely, we´d have no server and client crashes at all anymore.

On the other hand, I´d take hourly client crashes any day, when we could do every activity with premade groups. honestly!

For the record:

I bought the recipe and crafted one Maintenance Oil Station – just to be sure.

Yes, they are one time use – just as food feasts are.
The buff you´ll get lasts for 90min tho. However, that does not make up for the ingredients needed to craft it.

Dee Jay.2460:

3. Necromancers – They get to bake the cake and eat it. 50k EHP, Stability , AoE and frequent CC….what more could a class possibly want? The most overpowered aspect though is undoubtedly the Dhuumfire condition build. A quick Terror followed by a Signet of Spite and it’s game over for almost every class. 3 seconds with your pants down and you’re dead. Great design, right there. So skillful…so fair, so much counter-play. Not even WoW was that bad with its Fear spam.

Well, there is a counter build (or trait) now for condi necros.
With elemetalist´s XI earth trait (“Diamond Skin”) condi necros are just victims, who can do (nearly) nothing against you in a 1v1.
Wether WvW oder sPvP I have killed many necros in the last days without getting any damage from them- Before the last patch most of the time they would have killed me.
Don´t have to say, some necros accused me of “hacking”, because they are not used to be victims with their meta builds and don´t bother reading patch notes either.

nikitnq.7143:

Eles are just plain bad these days IMO. Combo field bots. Much maligned like mesmers. But at least mezes are good in a duel. And eles can’t switch out the staff when ganked. I’ve never understood how a class can be designed with the least HPs and armor but not hit like a freight train or zip around the battle field like Roadrunner on steroids.

I recommend you try a hybrid aura share D/D build, if you have not yet. While the best build for it has been broken by moving Elemetal Attunement to Master, it still works, is fun to play and contributes to a zerg or small group. This kind of a build goes very well with the Superior Rune of the Earth, for it has a bonus “oh sh..” Magntic Aura.

You don´t see aura builds very often – At least I don´t – While they are really powerfull, if you know how to use them.

Also IMO Mesmers are only good in duells, when they are specced to be. A Glamour Mesmer for example is an easy kill for most classes.

btw.:
In beta Eles used to put out an insane amount of damage. That´s why I rolled one as my main – what a rude awakening

Falkynn.3789:

Oh, you complain of the nightcap but you do all that, that’s all.

At least, ER doesn’t cheat…

Well at least we on ER have never done night-capping.
I found an old epic screenshot to prove it
http://s14.directupload.net/images/131204/m55v95t4.jpg

For the non-germans: Elonafels = ER, Ödnis = Desolation, the third one you will have to guess

eremos.8142:

Romek.4201:

i rly feel sry for this matchup – but plz guyz dont forget it is not elona making this matchups its arenanet

AND just ignore this ranking thing from dayra, he loves to talk in forum all day bout crap like this and on elona noone rly care.
We have same ppl like you (only a lot more) feeling good when can stomp easy targets and go home when strong enemy. Nothing wrong about thats the WVW – Playerbase.

have fun – somehow – and ye pve raids atm an option too

Yay, a voice of reason. I think you’re drastically in the minority though.

Attached is our border right now. Still, ER have 30 people on emergency response standby just waiting for something to get contested/flip.

Is this really fun for them? They’re not even getting any world XP for most of the time. If some of them moved to lower tiers they’d have more fun and interesting fights, less lag, shorter queues… but I guess that all pales in the face of the pride of being on a T1 server.

Anyway, well said Lad, there’s still fun to be had during prime time. Just not at any other time.

Oh you can

Two if the three waypoints in your screenshots have been build up in the night by only me (in a “battle” with a server mate who was doing the same on Gandara BLs).
So while our Elona zerg was busy somek*tten else I had some nice 1v1s and battles for supply camps and dolyaks. Met some good players of both of you servers!

Sry for the waypoints tho – I´m too, since they have cost me a lot of gold and you allready have destroyed them.

Have fun and be sure the real elona player base never wanted something like this!
However some of us are trying to make fun out of this rediculous matchup.

Talking stealth traps again.

They can be really efficient and fun used against thieves. I give you an example as I have never killed a thieve that easily.

Last week we where the blue faction and one evening I was constantly getting the hyleks on our side and capped Danelon with their help.
So what I did was I put a stealth trap just in front of the hyleks in the camp. Then I just waited in the middle of the camp where the guards are – not really hiding.

Seconds after I layed down the trap for the first time I saw a “woosh” and a destealthed thieve heavily attacked by the hyleks. The only challenge I had was to finish the thieve (before the hyleks did) so that I got the rewards for the “kill” – Everything else was done by the friendly frogs. Do I have to mention that this thieve did not show up again?

So my point is: In order for the stealth traps to be usefull you have to use them like traps. You have to use a bait as you would not catch a mouse in a trap without a bait.
As regular WvW players I don`t have to tell you what these baits are for thieves.

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One thing to add on how to counter thieves that are attacking (for example) dolyaks – - and this goes out to all dd eles.
I use a vere rarely used build in WvW as I am using the water XII trait – This applies all your auras to (up to 4) nearby allies and (what the description does not say) it also applies all the buffs that go with your auras.
I am using Air I, Earth III + V, Water III + IX + XII and Arcane V, so auras will apply fury, swiftness and protection to me and my allies alongside to the auras` effects.
Additionally I am using “Superior Rune of the earth” so actually I have access to 4 different auras – Shocking and Frost Aura from dagger, Fire Aura from fire field + magnetic leap and a “oh sh..” magnetic aura from the runes.

All theory put beside – The trick is just to apply an aura to a dolyak (for the example) and get the thieve stuned, slowed, burned and the dolyak protected and speeded up (and with a switch to water even regenerated).
So most of the time 2 things happen – The thieves runs away or he is killed by me – rarely are the dolyak or me killed.
(If you never tried Water XII with an dd ele you should give it [thieves put aside] a try as it turns the dd ele in a very effective support class for a lot of situations – applying frost aura to your group in a 5 vs 5 situation for example is a killer)

Also in a 1v1 situation auras are very effective to counter stealth – I will usually put on frost aura (maybe heal me), turn into fire to spam the fire fields, turn into air to be ready to use shocking aura and updraft.
Needless to say that you can trick unexperienced thieves into attacking you out of stealth while you cast churning earth.

I am not saying that I kill thieves everytime (while I often do), but usally they give up after some time and look for a more easy kill.

May it help some of you and sorry for being a little offtopic by explaining my WvW build.

Air.3154:

majessive.8910:

Desolation, do you really want to fight Vizu?
Why did you have to zerg us down together with Vizu when we had trebs and deff setup in Rogue´s Quarry to capture Wildcreek Run?
Next time please use your brains!!!
Something like that never happened in T2 – When one faction was about to put a Tower back to wood – We let them do their thing and don´t attack them – and that goes for Elona, Jade and Kodash.
Well, if you think you have to defend Vizu, it´s your thing. But don´t tell us to focus on them no more. Or it´s just ridiculous!
I know that was only a part of Deso players, but it looked like your main zerg on EB.
Now we have taken Stormmist from you – are you happy now?
Really really makes us wonder.

Usually players with brains speak on forums and try to be reasonable. They have no control over the zerg tho.

Did you mean me to be reasonable? Sorry, I didn´t want to go into length about that.
The players who have been there might know what I meant.
And did not want to be unrespectful – If I have been – here´s my apology!

You might have a commander who can tell people to stand back. If you have not – I never did say something. I don´t know the internal structure of Deso or how you organize your zergs.
Let´s do things better next time guys – You could have had Wildcreek Run after we captured it.
Never mind – things happen!

Desolation, do you really want to fight Vizu?
Why did you have to zerg us down together with Vizu when we had trebs and deff setup in Rogue´s Quarry to capture Wildcreek Run?
Next time please use your brains!!!
Something like that never happened in T2 – When one faction was about to put a Tower back to wood – We let them do their thing and don´t attack them – and that goes for Elona, Jade and Kodash.
Well, if you think you have to defend Vizu, it´s your thing. But don´t tell us to focus on them no more. Or it´s just ridiculous!
I know that was only a part of Deso players, but it looked like your main zerg on EB.
Now we have taken Stormmist from you – are you happy now?
Really really makes us wonder.

silvos.3092:

Sfr made similar answers when talking about deso helping them… But we all saw how the score evolved and the screens of your people defending/attacking objectives hand in hand…

I hope you also have seen the screens where we temporarily and spontaneously “teamed up” with Jade to capture the Kodasch garni on EB. I am sure a lot of Kodash players will remember these events (I personally have no screens of that – but maybe somebody else [Elona/Jade/Kodash] could help out). And yes, the same happened with Kodash to get the jade garni. And to tell you like it was – It was most oft the time us attacking another garni and the third faction was jumping in – So what should we have said? Stop attacking our target? But these things happened occasionally and only lasted untill the goal (garni) was reached or not even that long.
There where also occasions where Jade and Kodash “teamed up” against us. So what?
That´s just natural in fights with 3 factions. Well, everybody could make an agreement at the beginning of a week, that faction A fights B, B fights C and C fights A. But would that make sense or would be fun?

Believe it or not – Elona had to fight very hard to get to T1 again – Every faction in T2 was bored fighting the others – And for us T3 was just not the option – We do not want to dominate, we want challenges even if our kitten gets beat up.
Yes in the last week our focus had been somewhat more on Jade – But that´s just because we could not get much points anymore in fighting Kodash. Our magic is limited to Eles and Necros – it would not help with the stupid ranking system.

And believe it or not, too – Elona has no Agenda! We have weekly commander meetings and “general assemblies” – But in these we most of the time deal with internal things.
Decisions who to attack or focus are made just in time by the commander or the players consulted by the commander. We have commanders with very different styles in fighting and that´s one of our strenghts!
What we do of course is team up with our players on the other maps – So we may or may not focus on a faction among maps – for some time! Allways expect Elona to be one entity – while we may have different opinions or our internal troubles (like every server).

On germans “hating” english – I personally have family in Great Britain and France and like to visit both countries – Nothing in Europe can beat the surf at french atlantic shore – Nothing can beat the nice weather in England .
And if you did not know – Germans are the “World-Champions” in visting other countries – every year after another. No need for old cliches!

Let´s fight ingame, guys! We will see what will happen.

P.S.: Thanks to the Deso Warrior for an incredible (Warri/Ele)1v1 yesterday night while our teams where zerging 100 meters away at Umberglade Woods – I respect you for not finishing me after another Deso player jumped in and I got downed – On the other side the WXP would have been well earned by you
Hopefully we can repeat this one time – Or maybe we build a sPVP team