Guild Wars 2

Shout out to Leora Moon and Basque and the group at Journey’s Edge [EDGE] who kept that guild alive.
Also bump to [LION] – Eternal Loyalty and Leona Pride.
FC has and will always be the best server.
Add to the list:
Don’t Make Me Bring My [MAIN]
Eternal Abyss [Abys]

Also don’t forget that old timers run by different monikers. Almost everyone knows everyone now on NA

briggah.7910:

Not once did I say I want everything handed to me or BDO was a bad game.. Keep putting words in my mouth. I’m fine with the grind in games but to say bdo is a more skill based game is a JOKE. It doesn’t take skills to grind endless hours and upgrade your gear so you can constantly kill under geared players.. That takes NO SKILL AT ALL it just takes TIME. Any nub can do that and be GOOD because of their GEAR. Keep thinking you are actually good when you out gear 90% of the players and the power gap in that game is huge. Simple as that.

BDO PvP right now with out siege and node wars is mostly fighting over PVE grind spots. You kill some players in a grind spot, they change channels and you farm PVE mobs. You can not jump into that game and pvp for hours on end. The 40 vs 40 battlegrounds are a joke. That game has nothing compared to what WvW has.. Nothing at all.

Go find me a BDO streamer that I can watch for hours that is only doing massive PVP fights.. There are none.. They are all grinding mobs, fishing, and everything else PVE has to offer. PVE in that game is GREAT the pvp is bad.

People that think BDO is a skill based game get rekted in games like gw2 where gear doesn’t matter one bit.. AWW you can’t grind for days on end in gw2 and be so OP you basically rekt anyone in lower gear.. Awww poor kiddie.. What will you do???

Go away little bdo fanboi..

You latched onto BDO. I was talking about all grind games in general.

And I don’t need to put anything in your mouth. It’s pretty full already bruv.

As for your vaunted GW2, the reason you are so defensive is:
a)the point made against its unskillfulness gameplay is valid and you know it
b)you are quite aware of the fact that nothing constitutes combat apart from having the op build and op set of runes
c)the open world pvp is set with a lot of power creep and there is very little groups that play for comp-based combat or even try to do anything with several members to make it more interesteing.
After 3 years, the open world pvp scene is dead and turning over in the grave, digging further down.

And instead of trying to enjoy whats left of it, you come on here to PvF with someone who has very little respect and enjoyment with this game, trying to convince me, and ultimately yourself, that its a game worth playing.

But lets rant:
Ranger can run a full healway build that allows them to endlessly regenerate and keep 100% uptime on protection whilst having a constant stream of cele form along with op heals on their pet, then the bristleback along with their doggie to deal all the damage
DH, until recently could 1 shot you, now they 2 shot you. OOOH the difference.
Mesmers now either bunker with commander’s boon based builds or run complete condi aids
Warrior can eviscerate through dodges, or run a condition build that will melt your head off along with op gunflame (even with reduced damage)
Bunker guards
Bunker eles
Necromancers who run perplexity runes.
Thieves running d/p as backstab then laugh as they one shot you when they jump you unaware, coz skill.

When gw2 can introduce a combat mechanic as vibrant and as strong as BDO (not taking into account the power/gear gap), Wildstar skill play, Star citizen scope. Each game has a downside sure. but GW2 doesn’t have one single upside.

And this is coming from someone who has put time in a game and reached an account value that looking back, makes me realise what a waste of time it was.

bumpity bumpity bump

T1 Also appreciates your co-operation in the following matters:

1. If you find duelers – interrupt and kill them. Remember If Its Red, Its Dead
2. Roaming groups now consist of 20-30. Get in line
3. Queues are just an excuse for you not to EotM. We need the supply! Do if for the realm!
4. If you see a Tactivator that is not on cooldown, USE IT! We all want to see amazing airship effects, and the WvW and Chill factor is just too good.
5. You have your own build and comp? We don’t need that. Run the most cancerous builds and don’t use TS. We want skillful play.

Enjoy your stay in T1. If you have any qualms, keep them to yourself.
Any issue will be handled by our staff. They will promptly carry your opinions to the shredder.

Thank you for your cooperation

Thank you for SAB
Thank you for Kaiser
Thank you for TRIB MODE

One minor qualm

This is the current 2 infusions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpTPWLGpXTU

Now notice that the effects mesh nicely and look great… when together!

Individually, its barely noticeable.

AND even together its not as rewarding as other infusions or cosmetic upgrades.

I think that instead of making all cool and nice looking cosmetic upgrades cost money on the TP or have a high rare chance of dropping, we should focus on these account bound 2 infusions.

The achievements (collections of King Toad Weap skins for Red and Storm Wizard Weap Skins for Blue) themselves take an enormous amount of time, effort and balls! Please make the infusion match!!

SUGGESTION: Maybe a similar effect to the weapon skins. The fracted, glimmery shimmery look would be sooooooooo coool :O

Please?!?!?

Setting the Scene

Edge of the Mists.
The clouds roll across and the air seems chilly.
Snowcapped panels of gaming software span the horizon.
Three friends are ‘chilling’. (See what I did there?)
Lady Bliss
Connor
Thorn

[img]http://imgur.com/2587FnU[/img]

When an aching in their hearts stirs. Some great disturbance in the force. It was as if… as if.. a great evil had entered, corrupting all that existed in their beautiful little world.

They stared at each other with unease.
Connor “Do you feel that?”
Thorn “Yes. It’s … this seething evil. I can’t stand it”
Bliss “Oh grow a pair. It’s just some trivial thing. It must be”

Donning their weapons, our Heros prepared for the worst. With a glint of nervous excitement in their eye, they looked at each other, grinned and looked at the path ahead.

Connor “Ready?”

Thorn and Bliss nodded in response.

[img]http://imgur.com/tX6mqFp[/img]

With such imposing (and beautiful looks by the way), they set forth.

They left their sanctuary of snow covered bliss (Bliss “Do we have to leave?”) and the secure lands of Frostreach.

Onwards they journeyed through the many dangerous cliff drops, the confounding levels and the occasional white-out on the screen as the mists covered their faces.

Through the empty deserts of the Badlands, that broiled with cannon fire (which would knock one on one’s kitten so much that our Heros’ cursed the design) and enemies alike.

Through the teeming jungles of Overgrowth, which reeked of uplevels and trolls that would rip off your face (and defiant stance all your attacks).

They trekked onwards. And all the while… the evil was getting closer. And closer. And closer.

They could feel it in their bones. A chill.

Connor “I think we’re back at Frostreach guys”
Bliss “Yes it’s chilly again”

Thorn opened his mouth to reply. But the words never came. He had spied an object. But it was not the object that had caught his attention (even though a catapult on a gate by such a guild would suggest they had failed to understand the mechanics of their own game). It was the tag that was etched along the object’s

Bliss “Catapult. Just say Catapult”
Thorn "Shhh, it’s called the Suspense Factor

Ahem.. … etched along the object’s wooden boards. The Red unmistakeable colosseum icon. The Arenanet employee tag of oppression and tyranny.

[img]http://imgur.com/t9hOMsv[/img]

Thorn gasped and pointed. Connor and Bliss looked on and were also aghast.

Thorn “That’s the disturbance! It’s… It’s one of THEM”

They steeled their resolve. Sharpened their weapons. Prepared their plan.

Bliss “I will cloak you in my shimmering strength. Give you the element of surprise”
Connor “Excellent! I will leap in with Faith and use the Truest of Shots to take down our enemy”
Thorn stares at dagger and grins “This will go in their back. It will be a vengeful victory”

With plan in hand, and weapons in mind

Connor “Mistake there; Weapons in hand and -”
Thorn “It’s my story. I tell it”

With weapons in hand and plan in mind, they stalked their prey.
Which was no easy task. They just looked for the red icon amongst a sea of red.

They circled the enemy force.

Connor “They number at least a thousand. We are but three”
“Remember the story of David and Goliath? This is but a trifle. Remember your training” Thorn valiantly said, inspiring Connor and Bliss

They waited in secret, as the enemy army broached the walls of their beloved tower. They screamed obscenities (“YES, KARMA” or “Finally, I can get my last level”) as they charged in.
The Arenanet Overlord surveyed the scene. Then sauntered in and stood behind, watching the minions do the work. He though all was safe.

Bliss “MASS INVISIBILITY” she screamed
“I INTERVENE WITH JUSTICE AND TRUTH” charged Connor, coming out of the cloak of shimmering butterflies and beauty with fire in his eyes.
“I WILL INFILTRATE HER” yelled Thorn

Bliss “Ewww, really?”
Thorn “Yes. Really”

With strength that they had never felt before coursing through their veins, they etched their battlecries in the Arenanet Overlord’s mind as they bursted her down.

She/He panicked (I haven’t decided on the gender) and tried to use the minions as meat shields.
But our Heros would have none of that. They gave chase and their aim was true.

They felled the evil that had almost taken over their sleep time. And the Overlord’s body was strewn, a testament to the will and strength of our Heros

After killing her/him, they felt a sense of relief. A sense of contentment. And they all realised … This was their Wyld hunt. The hunt that they had yearned for. The hunt their hearts cried out for. They were finally complete.

[img]http://imgur.com/d7ouiU7[/img]

Roll Credits

HEY kittenS.

I’d like to see one YB kittening kittener who doesn’t hump siege like a dead horse.
Today’s fight in SMC, Sekz/EP/CL, we demolished their forces. And what was YB’;s answer?

Use the claoking waters in SMC and chilling fog to come in rez trhe lord and then die to us. Just so they can protect a middle castle that will give them the cannoning edge over a server that knows how to play.

Listen here kittenface/ Once YB can legitimately fight on normal terms, not backcap and run away from fights, we will actually have some good fights.

Go backcap and increase your numbers. Have your siege training nights and hump your lovely shiny towers. You’re the reason this game is stuffed.

And aimed at OnS/TW ‘Invisible’ Alliance. Please go kitten/ yourself

PS. HEY STICKY!! PvF harder plis

no. no middle ground. no one wanted desert bls. no one cared for new mechanics. no one was after air keep and fire keep. no one was after an oasis event. no one wanted the “lets have each server have t3 waypoints on 3 different maps to promote fighting” when it was actually fighting over keeping one’s bl that was the crux of the alpine bls.

Kitten off anet

Bump. I know the struggle Koolgai. And Hadi was raging too xD

Maybe these devs can get their heads out of their kittening kittens

Note: I wonder if their language filters will replace my kittens for the actual colorful language i wanted to post

Title says it all.

Discuss.

What will/should Anet do to keep its playerbase?

Servers back up

EazyPanda.6419:

So, you took the video from this thread in the Thieves forum, ignored all the discussions done on the thread, and went to the General Discussion forum to QQ?
That guy in the vid ain’t even you, and i doubt you’ve actually met one firsthand.
And the thief in the video even admitted to getting lucky with Steal resetting his traps. (Improvisation GM trait)

This build is a trolling build, much like 1HKO killshot warriors, it works on clueless players, but not viable in anything outside of WvW roaming.

… unless you are a troll -which unless you are a total noob at the game, i’d assume you are- L2P, as if thieves haven’t been nerfed enough. =_=

If you do want to blame something, blame the rune, not the thief.

I saw the video on a lovely website called youtube. And much as I have ‘free time’ on my hands to peruse all the forum posts, I decided to pop it as an example.

I have met one firsthand, I’ve tried one first hand. I’ve even dueled one first hand. But all of that is an understatement. Please do not patronize and pretend that you are the only one experienced enough whilst all others around are hard of comprehension or experience.

Addressing the viability issue: As roamer and avid WvW player, most of my log-in time is spent in there. And also untrue as the trap build (without the trapper rune) in SPvP is not something to be taken lightly.

My issue is not with a nerf to the thief (which as all die-hards tend to say, have been ‘nerfed’), my issue is with the mechanic.
I.E, the general viability of PVT-style dire gear that allow for high tankiness while still providing great condition damage boosts.
The second mechanic, is that of the traps: ranger traps reveal them from stealth once triggered. Thief traps are completely void of that.

And in ending this spiel of mine, your comment of “hasn’t been nerfed enough =_=”, draws me to an alarming conclusion about your particular skillset:
- Unload p/p is the strongest it has been in right now,
- S/p is a fun high risk build that with haste and rage sigil can be used twice via starting animation and using steal/infil signet
- S/d is still strong
- P/d condi hasn’t changed and still powerful.

Thus, to enlighten you, the conclusion I reach about you and your ‘nerf’ comment is that you are a very skilless player, with grave attachments to a particulary old and now useless play-style, you cannot change your preset build to suit the changes in the current meta. Or you are simply a ‘troll’ as you so kindly accused me.

I have said my piece. I honestly would not have even re-read this had I not been privately messaged and told my post was moved.

Salutations my my dim-witted colleague

This is ridiculous, a trapper thief can spam traps under my feet that immediately proc and never get revealed out of stealth. Then he’d dodge and drop caltrops.
ALL WHILE STILL INVIS
Rune of the Trapper. Good addition to game.
+Condi on Vuln stacks. Good addition to game.
Spammable stealth with all mechanics preventing them from being revealed.
As an example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_jlkY5KR00

If A-Net ever comes up with a good actual balanced patch for WvW. That’d be the day I sign over life savings to this company.

Gl and Hf

Short and to the point:
I am an Oceanic player who’s major interest is in the WvW aspect of this game
This change is not conducive to my timezone. End point.
Moving forward, over the next week I will be seeking a refund to a double purchase of HoT on two separate accounts.

bump – please keep this going

Just wondering. It seems to me that on all other characters, blink skills do not proc if the new “no valid path to target” message pops up. e.g. thief shortbow 5 & shadow step, mesmer blink, elementalist lightning flash.

Can we get the same thing for guardian’s Judges Intervention. I understand the need to have the no valid path to target patch introduced. But if I’m trying to escape or otherwise gap close and that message comes up, I don’t want to have to wait 36/45 seconds to be able to use the skill again …

^ That. I prefer bomb kit for the control it allows you over nades. Plus incendiary powder isn’t always necessary.
With majority of engineers running either celestial rifle or Grenade/TK double kit condi, IC is around a lot. Thing is people don’t branch out and prefer to run builds that are common and easy to play.

Sylvari Engi best engi

Hi,

Any chance we can get a fix for the stall at the end of “Rocket Boots”? It makes getaways and chaining combos harder when it stalls and you cant move properly. Just putting it out there …

Thorness Tech Inc

Just wanted to mention a really selfish and greedy individual who I accidentally mailed an Infinite Light to, which was intended for a close friend’s 18th birthday as a gift.

After hours of grinding and trying to get enough gold to buy it, things went south pretty quickly when I was ecstatically writing my friend an in-game mail wishing them a great 18th birthday. Whilst clicking my inventory bag and clicking the item, the creative mailing system picked up a random’s name just because I had clicked on them by mistake and changed the recipient of the message to this random. It makes me wonder why it would do such a thing when you can clearly right click on a person’s name and choose the send mail option if you prefer doing it the clicking way.

Anyway, they received a gift intended for someone else, after which the individual subsequently blocked me and refused to communicate or return what was not theirs. They also refused to communicate with any of my friends. I can’t imagine how someone could be so selfish and ignorant of other’s efforts, especially at this time of year.

What I’d envisioned as a cool gift and good way to treat a really close friend who’s been through a lot went up in flames. Whilst I’m not blaming Arenanet, I do wish they would at least find it in their hearts to refund the item, if not to me, then directly to my friend. Unfortunately a support ticket wasn’t useful and neither is 1.5 years of dedication to both the game and their store.

But, as this tactic will most likely not work, if anyone reading this can spare 30 seconds of their game time to just mail my friend, Bliss Belll (cryobattery.6819). I’m asking players to help a player. If I can’t get the sword I slaved to get for him back, I can at least ask those playing the game he loves a lot to wish him a quick happy birthday. He has been through a lot. But he loves to have fun, be proactive, friendly and have a good time. Just like anybody else.

So please, do mail him and wish him a happy birthday (and I hope that that individual will give infinite light back)

Merry Christmas to you all and a Happy New Year

Hi,

The name’s Thorn. I’ll keep it short and punchy:
I started GW2 back in the days when it was amazingly insane (not to say it hasn’t improved, but … you know). I’ve moved around quite a bit, been on a few different servers.
The biggest aspect of this game that appeals to me is the Open World PVP, which GW2 has in plenty! I’m almost always in World vs. World (wub wub) and I like to test out new and unique builds, love my stomps and the occasional skirmish with a few friends to back me up.
I’m looking for an OCX Guild, thats casual but take their WvW seriously when it happens. I prefer small-man groups to overly large zergs, 10-15 is my style. Plus roaming ofc!
I go by:
*Mad Thorness (guardian)
*Necky Thorn (necromancer)
*Lord Thorningtons (warrior)
*Thorness Tech Inc (Engineer)

My preferred class: ENGI (you can do so much).

Feel free to contact me in-game. I am currently on IoJ but I can transfer if need be!

Bump! [LIFE] is an awesome guild filled with fun and skilled players ^-^

Hi,
My name is Thorn, I’m a vet of the game, same old story, been there done that. I’ve been WvWvW ever since I started playing and I can’t seems to do anything else.
I’m Looking for a guild that does small team comp, to organised havoc crews to zerg busting raids and GvG, most importantly Oceanic and residing on an NA server.
I currently reside on SoS and I’ve been on a few other servers before. Experienced and always looking for a challenge, hit me up!
I’ve played almost all the classes, but I’ve enjoyed the Guardian the most, (main class). I’ve also main-ed a Warrior and a PvP Necro.

The thrill of taking a small group and going up against a zerg of many bodies, and wrecking them. That’s not something you can pass up

Hi, name’s Boobette, Thorn a Boobette.
I’m a heavy WvW player, ranging from the roaming and one-on-one battles of glory to pug commanding to running with zerg busting crews. At the moment I live on FC

I’m, overall, nice to get along with, not saying I don’t have my quirks. But you’ll have to wine and dine me before I’ll tell you about those.

I love to be out there and have fun, and at times enjoy the occasional keep taking and busting up a zerg’s balls. That’s not to say I don’t enjoy the occasional dungeon fun run (yes I hosted those for my guild a few times, much money, such fun) or camping the current living story.

Ferguson’s Crossing is a great NA server with a bunch of awesome guilds that do all PvX events. But I feel in need of a change of scenery.

I run my guard mostly, but I do occasionally run around on my Warrior, and Necro too, but I keep my nec for pvp. I’m active mostly during Oceanic times except for reset nights and weekends during which I’m on at NA night time

If you’re a WvW guild in need of a +1, or if you’re just looking for another awesome player, then I’m your man.

Its all in FERG It’s one server you won’t have second thoughts about joining!

MSI GE70-0NC

- i7 3rd gen
- 12 GB RAM
- nVidia GT650M 2GB VRAM
- 500GB HDD with 250 GB SSD (samsung I think)

Wondering if these specs will allow me to get an fps >25-35 and improve the lag that I currently get (fps drops to 5-10 on my current rig when I’m in a high populated zone).

What are your thoughts? worth the buy? (going for AUD1100)

I’ve swapped out the hammer for gs lately, I’ll chuck the hammer on when I’m playing more defense like say trying to hold a tower or camp.
And sorry trait, but I’m more of a selfish warr in wvw :P. I run shout heals in fracts and such, but in wvw i like to take down people off the bat

Olba.5376:

marksman.6453:

I was thinking something along these lines:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIIQNAseCIQQP+CuQANFMClC8wOSFEDA-j0CBYLCh4OQ0yQkGgUBAJQFRjtKqIasKGYqYER1WzER1eDYCBIaLA-w

Well…

• Restorative Strength is useless unless you’re using Healing Surge or Mending. Not worth the points, in my opinion
• Sure-Footed pales in comparison to Dogged March for the adept slot, in my opinion.
• Picking Spiked Armor and Merciless Hammer over Cleansing Ire and Merciless Hammer is going to have a very big effect on your ability to take condition damage
• Leg Specialist only procs on 1 target at most, so it’s not that useful
• I think you’re overloading on Toughness in your gear. Also, you’re not going to be benefitting from all that crit damage with your fairly low crit chance.
• Rune of Lyssa isn’t a good condi cleanse, as our elite has at best a 48s cooldown. And in fact, the boons can be turned against us by a necromancer. I would rather take Rune of Hoelbrak or Rune of Melandru.

Personally, I am running Sword/Shield with a Longbow and I’m a powerbuild. This is what I run with.

For a quick comparison:

• Your build has 1,614 effective Power and 31,321 effective HP
• My build has 1,817 effective Power and 27,206 effective HP.
• Optimizing your build to this results in 1,666 effective Power and 32,286 effective HP

For your traits, the direction that you should take depends on how much of a sidearm the hammer is. If you use it a lot, you might want to go 30 in Discipline for Burst Mastery. That leaves you with 10 or 20 points (as you should have 20 in Defense for Cleansing Ire) to put around and experiment.

I pick up restorative since I’m not using dogged, it helps with the chill particularly when I’m trying to run away. and with reduced signet recharge, I can get it back easy in 16 seconds. And i go with stance duration because I get off with 4 stances (sorry that was supposed to be defy pain rather than sa) and stances give me vigor. I found that with a lot of condition heavy, that extra 2-3 seconds on zerker stance helps quite a bit, plus extra dodges is great

I would mix in more berserker gear, but with 33% crit chance (hammy was supposed to be zerker my bad :P) and the fury being about 33 sec up time (boon duration from vitality tree) I would be sitting around 53% crit chance. Plus with the upcoming patch, the 25 minor line trait will give 10% of toughness to power instead of 5.
Atm with this setup I get 108 extra power from the toughness. After the patch that’ll jump to 216.7 power.

And the reason I went with lyssa runes is for the precision that the build lacks, plus the complete condi removal, compared to melandru or hoelbrak which give -20% condi. Albiet with food that’s -60% at best which is great and all, but most of the condi classes out there carry around +40% condi food and +condi duration gear. so it cancels out.

I could move over da for cleansing ire, would certainly help with more adrenaline, plus the extra condi cleanse. And maybe proc 10 into vitality tree for empowered or more into discipline for burst mastery.

The reason I just go so tanky is because I like to roam a lot, capping camps sentry’s etc. so the extra tough helps when I get jumped by two or three, especially if they’re zerker ranger or warrior.
But i agree I lack somewhat with power

I was thinking something along these lines:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIIQNAseCIQQP+CuQANFMClC8wOSFEDA-j0CBYLCh4OQ0yQkGgUBAJQFRjtKqIasKGYqYER1WzER1eDYCBIaLA-w

Hi, first time posting. Ive been playing the warrior prof for almost 5 montsh now. Played it before the june patch when everything was so awesome and we had our adrenaline based dmg and crit chance in the adept line.
Since then I’e tried other professions, guard, thief, mesmer, ele. But i always end up coming back to my warrior.
I love playing him but recently I haven’t been able to play him the way I like. I want to build a sword warrior, but not a conditions build.

Would love any help or suggestions

Hi, we’re currently having issues with the temple of balthazar meta event in IOJ atm. Not sure if the same on other servers, but north isn’t spawning the next event after capturing Stentor.

Would really appreciate it if you guys looked into it! Thanks