Guild Wars 2

Dahkeus.8243:

Yea, the dodge of choice is kind of a tough spot for S/P. On one hand, bound is one of the few ways you can get stealth with this weapon set. On the other, dash helps with soft CC, which is harder to overcome when you don’t have Shadow Shot.

I’ve been trying out s/p too, tbh I’ve found Dash far more useful, especially to get out of bad situations, rather than have stealth access, especially when black powder and pistol whip, uses up quite a bit of Init.

Basically, you use dash and infiltrators return to keep moving, away from AOE and heavy melee attacks. I don’t usually use Black Powder, because it uses so much Init and the dark field nowadays, doesn’t pulse enough, as a defensive utility it’s a bit weak now.

Evades are better at damage mitigation than stealth from my own experience.
I do not run SA though and even with the Feline Grace change, S/d still has plenty of evades – including Signet of Agility, Withdraw, #3 and HoC. I don’t believe Evades are exactly a skilled means to avoid damage though, if there’s so many accessible ways to do regen endurance.

Personally I didn’t suffer from a loss from vitality, but I guess it depends if you go up into groups or players who stack alot of condis.

Acro should at least have better condi removal and heal (Pain Response, Guarded initiation and Assassins Reward), even though it is mostly an active defensive traitline, it still pales in comparison to Shadow Arts; considering that has Shadow’s embrace and Rejuvenation, which are far more reliable.

To be honest, you can’t expect most Guilds to move at this point of the games lifespan, just because players are stacking on a single Server, as most of the top Guilds left are in among Top Tiers now. Otherwise variety is good, only if people stop thinking WvW as a balanced Competition – to focus on the fights instead, for the WvW scene for Guilds will at least strive and stay active in terms of Competitiveness, to a certain extent, it needs to happen.

I don’t know how many gems it costs, but can’t they just increase the cost of transfer manually and reduce the cost to transfer to Servers who need the player boost?
The cost > Population isn’t even accurate anymore, thanks to Megaservers, Server Pride is like having two cats in some ways..

It’s been a weird day/night even though I’ve only been on during the evening, but we could all notice the little resistance today, and then we had that new build with mesmers doing insane damage just by jumping off stuff, which I’m sure everyone has been doing so we shouldn’t be pointing fingers towards each other.

It turns out we’ve been running Karma trains for most of the day apart from the early evening, which is by no means something we enjoy nor want to do every day/night. Hopefully the leagues there will be a more ‘competitive’ matchups that last the week even with influx of pugs..

I don’t think Anet intends to Gate people after all this time, or in other words stop people playing at times that they can play. wvw has never been a Fair and Balanced 24 hour war, if you don’t have the coverage or dedicated players as it is over here in the EU then you will have imbalanced match-ups with blowouts – even before the weekend is over.

There’s no point in worrying about about the Score/PPT, defending or upgrading structures unless you have the numbers to do that unfortunately.
Match-Ups are so skewed by Coverage and Population that it’s best to focus on when you can play up against Equal numbers. It really is best for your own sanity to do something better than watch as things get run over until the Train Stops.

You could look at wvw as Open World PvP Warfare with a touch of PVE, which has a rather ‘Casual’ Scoring system rather than a Competitive Scoring system which takes into account Coordination, Organization and Strategy rather than PvD.
I wouldn’t just blame EoTM by the way, it has it’s own issues and the novelty will wear off quickly!

Sanduskel.1850:

ANET – I love the thief changes. HOwever, please consider improving ability to create better non stealth builds by thinking through how we can support groups in wvw. thank you.

Which is where Bountiful Theft comes in handy as a support, only the boons you strip are pretty useless, so the drastic drop towards the Vigor uptime would be counter-productive to the idea of them giving us more build diversity.

If you still think it’s a good idea to add a cast time to Shadow Return/Infiltrator’s Return, I still insist that you should consider making it a Stun breaker once again, which would compensate for the nerf.
I agree that Kleptomaniac should be kept as it is since we are putting points into Trickery instead of elsewhere, we get to steal every 29-35s so there shouldn’t be a nerf for the sake of nerfing, you should be making these traits viable at the same time.

Clearly there’s no way that all these servers are “Full”, wvw outside Prime is mostly empty and the most dominating servers are just left to fight doors.
I don’t see a point in logging on to wvw, outside of prime time like many others, people just end up playing for fights and follow a pug zerg, GvG or Roam (or PVE instead).

Anet clearly doesn’t care that much about competitive balance, it’s not like there’s anything worth the time and effort anyway, till they give WvW more than a new map and gimmicks, which only makes wvw more meaningless to wvwers; who want to play for that PPT.

+1 Guild Arenas right now are too small.

This is like all those threads complained about stealth 4 years ago, especially before they fixed culling and nerfed mug, in wvw nonetheless. Instead of stealth, it’s mobility, does anyone complain about passives in this game, as much, as about thieves mobility?

Thieves got nerfed constantly over the years, you still have threads like these, when all they are good for is scouting, ganking or blast finishing, there are far superior professions and elite specs these days.

Loggers >>Abusers/QQers

“After all i wonder whats the name of game again?. Shame ANET seemed to forget that.”

Stop quoting that when the name of the Game has nothing to do with the fact it has little to do with it supposedly being Catered towards in-game Guilds and GvG, it would need some major changes for people to make GvG more than some community based game-style that is as legitimate as anything within the WvW Sandbox. This game ain’t esports like alot of GvGers seem to act like with their attitudes.

As flawed as the PPT/Scoring system is or how badly balanced Populations are, which ends up making a mockery of the Point system; people can play WvW as they want because it is not limited to people who just want to play WvW in a way they prefer.

I concur that anything goes in WvW, some worse than others like the Hackers and Spies/Saboteurs nevermind GvG trolls really.

More manpower means the faster you’ll flip stuff if you have little resistance still and so you’ll still see the higher ticks, esp at night when several maps get flipped, from the more populated server anyway.

The bunkering inside the keeps with tons of siege, is by far worse on the alpines, but by night you can ktrain it in less than an hour, if you outnumber the others greatly.
As a pvp map though it’s much better, as for objectives it depends.

Narkodx.1472:

Best part of the video is how you consistently land FS
Which was claimed to be “impossible to land”
Seems like S/D is not dead

Against players who know how to counter, you can imagine being stuck evading instead of proccing LS; which is very likely these days.

I can do Infiltrator’s Signet> Heartseeker > Steal> auto attack in quick succession, I don’t use Macros, but I have a Mechanical Keyboard – the rest is quick reflexes.

Withdraw isn’t too hard, you just need to control the camera in the right direction and position your character, it helps to have a steady framerate aswell.

From what I’ve seen of the upcoming changes, I think it shows that Anet isn’t going to fix that side of WvW – to make it more competitively balanced.

They have never bothered with things such as night capping or population imbalance.
It seems like they think adding more gimmicks is the answer, they do not take WvW seriously, so we shouldn’t.

Don’t transfer to a linked server, relinking should be this or next friday.

I love fighting against the odds in WvW, you have to pick your fights as a Guild, Roamer or even as a Zerg against the best Guilds. It’s one the best times you can have in wvw.

Defending a Keep or tower while outnumbered is not impossible if you Siege up properly – I know many people dislike defensive Siege, but it’s the only way we can defend our own Structures without a Zerg and it does feel more rewarding compared to just joining the zerg.

You don’t need a commander though, more people need to learn to take the initiative rather than follow the dorito, not that its bad to do that now and again for some social zerging. YOLO.

2/6/6/0/0 CS XII – Hidden Killer, you can go full Valkyrie Armor with Pack runes and Zerker trinkets, but using 2/6/0/0/6 you might want to have a decent balance of Vitality and everything else- I trait for Executioner instead though, so I have run some gear with at least a 50% crit chance.