Guild Wars 2

Poison to reduce their healing and a TON of blinds.

dank.3680:

From the pics it looks like a bunch of overkill on moosevdoor.. *yawn

Fixed that for ya.

You really should post more often. That was an enjoyable read.

styx.7294:

Scarecrow.5792:

Has anyone seen my good friend taquito a.k.a the invisible bandit?

That’s it, I’ve had it up to here with his stealthing. I’m sending him to XOXO.

Crow’s just salty because IoJ put up +400 during RISE primetime.

I just checked the live map from work and I’m confused as to which borderlands belongs to NSP.

Darek.1836:

I think Ive taught el taco his lesson for no delay streaming tonight

It’s insanely fun, but this is like playing Dark Souls blind-folded style difficulty level. Especially since I’m pretty squishy and have kitten all for condition removal. Even when I’d drag you halfway across the map to get a 1v1, another 4 or 5 would be hot on the trail and jump in the moment I’d stop to fight you. Good dodging practice, though.

Branden Gee.2150:

Elrey.5472:

Call me crazy, but I do believe some info about the next update, even if it’s just “hey, we’ll give you a potato in 4 weeks” would calm down the people impatience… such is the gw2 community hunger.

While we’d love to give you a time and date of when we’re sending out the potato, remember that during the development process we may discover that a baked potato would be even better. So instead of getting the potato of your dreams you end up with something completely unexpected.

It often happens that a mashed potato with gravy is even better still, unfortunately gravy requires more dev time. So we end up shipping a mashed potato without gravy to meet our promise of ship time or we push back the time and date of when we are shipping again and again. You get your mashed potato with gravy but it is delivered much later than it was expected.

Worst of all that is when we realize that potatoes are way too mainstream and that yams are where it’s at now. And I think we all know how reactions seem to go when we ship yams instead of potatoes.

So in a lot of cases the best we can do is tell you that we are still in the kitchen cooking things up, we’re reading your feedback, and that we’re excited to get the meal out to you soon™.

If you have any extra potatoes left over, please deliver some to the WvW forum at your earliest convenience. We’re a resourceful bunch and can use our ever-growing supply of torches and pitchforks to bake and mash our own potatoes if/when they ever arrive, but unfortunately Mark keeps slapping our hands every time we reach for the plate.

nyckolag.2394:

Nordic Natedog.4360:

As to your best mesmer in NA claim, that just makes me laugh.

i’m glad my comment made you laugh but i’m serious so come on me.

Sign me up for Yaks of Madness. Although, I’d be just as happy on Gates of Rock.

Livestream up at http://www.twitch.tv/teambattleaxe until about 11pm CST.

FC/AR, you’re welcome to come troll us. :P

Flerch.4817:

Tonight, in another episode of XOXO PVDoor (someone should probably buy me a commander tag, I’m really good at it):

ty for the excellent tips on proper treb placement. I can help my team take our towers back from DH now.

In return, please accept this thief instructional video on unarmed combat and use it to guide XOXO to many victories!

http://youtu.be/1z-d9vGO52E

-El Taquito Bandito, Best Fireworks Thief NA

Working as intended. xD

JamboHammer.4397:

what is this sorcery O.O

That is our Gate of Madness. We honor it with dance parties to quell its anger.

http://www.twitch.tv/teambattleaxe/b/450437738?t=7895s

From the wiki:
“Only the projectile portion is unblockable.”

The guardian has been blinded in your screenshot, so it looks like it’s working “properly”.

Edit: Mauge is fast. o_O

Swiftness doesn’t add up. You simply get the effect from the highest value of movement speed. In the case of Signet of Shadows vs. the Swiftness boon, you’d get the 33% from Swiftness and ignore the 25% from SoS.

I’m probably going to have to miss out on the Thursday night rush, so congrats to all three servers in advance for a really close match!

FC has leveraged themselves into the role of king-maker for this week. Depending on their plan of attack, any server could walk away with the win. My prediction: ET by 9k.

Keep those score updates coming for those us following along from work!

We duo’d ET’s bay keep last night, then were in the process of duo’ing ET’s hills keep before one guy showed up and managed to make us reset the lord room. There were no other players from any servers (including ours) running on that map.

This was less than an hour past NA primetime (around 10:30pm CST), by the way.

As much as I’d love to protect the awesome small fights we get in the lower tiers, the time window for any actual gameplay is limited to just about 2-3 hours per night and then just completely shuts off. We NEED mergers at this point.

BlackBeard.2873:

K U T M.4539:

GoM’s in this matchup, so probably not.

Wait that doesn’t make sense, GoM was the only one who showed last night

GoM’s AR’s in this matchup, so probably not.

On AR, when we want to fight, we go to actual pvp where things are closer to balanced (even for 1v1’s). Food, some runes, and even some traits are a bit ridiculous that can be abused in wvw.

There is no pvp in this game. There are only circles and circles with destructible walls. :/

Thedenofsin.7340:

The development and maintenance I have seen is not consistent with any AAA MMO I’ve ever played. It’s not even on par with free-to-play games on the market. For example, I’ve been playing Smite a lot recently. It’s a well-balanced MOBA with lots of skill-based plays. Since April 15th GW2 patch, I believe Smite has released 2 new gods, at least 4 new skins, and released 3-4 balance patches. What has GW2 done in that same time frame?

Smite is a great example of dev/community interaction, as well. If you spend any amount of time on their forums and subreddit, you’ll run into tons of posts and responses by their staff on practically any range of topics. Open discussion of balance is actively encouraged and small changes are implemented on a nearly-weekly basis, usually accompanied by a new character or skin (also usually based on ideas from the community itself). If a change doesn’t work out as well as expected after a couple of days, their devs don’t hesitate to roll it back with a follow-up patch. As a result, the meta shifts pretty rapidly as top players adapt, and the tournaments are very dynamic and fun to watch because of the wide variety of tactics and team comps that can be viable.

Anet could definitely learn a thing or two from that development team, especially since the GW2 community is already providing tons of awesome ideas and suggestions for them to sort through. There’s just so much missed opportunity here.

irishhaf.1692:

All that said, AR has always been a class act in my memory and the rest of us should remember that and not let a few poor winners ruin the reputation of a good server.

Definitely. I always enjoy fighting AR.

AR is playing the PPT game very well this week. The late night pvdoor crew is obviously carrying the score hard for AR, but that doesn’t discredit the efforts of the rest of their players. Even during the primetime-to-midnight hours when we can actually run up the score on them a bit, they do a good job of minimizing the damage until everyone goes to bed.

As soon as the last golem is built.

Sororita.3465:

Debois Guilbert.6413:

So beware of wildlife building siege.

wildlife you say…

Darned furries are on the loose again.

Ynot.8397:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

Also: How do???

1 is the tonic buff I think.

I call hax. That means all of Mooby’s kills are void and I actually went undefeated tonight!

(successkid.jpg)

This is my dream WvW map. Let’s make invasions a real thing.

Rob.7624:

Sororita.3465:

pvdoorin’ on a firday mornin’

I ain’t even mad.
Pretty gentle morning. Woke up to everything green.
Lost our bl. Gained our bl. Lost our EB. Gain our EB.

Looks like DR had the same in the reverse order.
Just walked around and kicked the doors back down.

Keep on truckin’, Rob.

Bllade.1029:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

dolyak finishers are serious business.

Yo mama’s so fat, Arena Net released her as the ultimate Dolyak Finisher.

moutzaheadin.4029:

1 hour of temples today in a mega blob of 80 people = 90 dragonite ore.

That’s only 25 keeps and an Sm cap or 3.

Sure would be nice if a server’s WvW players got a boost (+MF%, +WEXP%, increased T7 mat drops) for each temple their PvErs have open. After all, PvErs get to enjoy the stat bonuses we earn for them by playing in WvW.

Sojourner.6938:

Sorry you don’t like my opinion. Don’t care.

I know what I saw. I was there.

I trust you took screenshots and reported it to ANet. If not, then you’re part of the problem.

Rob.7624:

So yeh.
No hard feelings.
Just try not to mass use a server exploit.

Everything will be amended tomorrow <3

But yeh, we spawn camp the way its meant to be done.
^__^ Why you don’t do it to us. <3

And also please note.
I did not complain about spawn camping.

Because I intended to return the favor

Looks like our doors didn’t put up much a fight for you today, Rob. Maybe tonight when GoM logs in, we’ll build some spikes on ’em or something.

Yeah, Body Shot doesn’t really help the solo gunslinger. I’d rather see it replaced with a short-range cone attack that doesn’t rely on targeting (see: Blunderbuss). Heck, I’d even be happy if it was kept the same as now but if they simply swapped Vulnerability out with Chill or Weakness. Both would contribute far more to my playstyle than what’s currently available.

Banzie.5248:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

Banzie.5248:

kitten GoM.. Where did you all go? I give a shout out to the two GoM guildless upleved that stayed on your BL and valiantly defended your borderlands while you all sat in eb and watched. We literally 1 rammed everything but bay.. That was 2 rams.

I think we’ve all been in the pavilion. We put in some serious overtime to beat Kaineng last week and it seems everyone just kind of took this week off. :/

From map chat just now on GoM BL… “How dare these selfish GoM think they have any ownership of these clearly green borderlands. Down right rude of them chaps.” lol

Meanwhile, in the Pavilion…

This was posted in last week’s thread, but I figured it’s time for a reminder.
This is going down tomorrow night:

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Event: FIGHT CLUB
When: THURSDAY April 18 around 8 P.M. East (8PM EDT, 5PM PDT)
Where: @ GoM Borderlands, behind the south camp (near the Mill).
Duration: Usually lasts for several hours, so no worries if you can only join 1-2hours later, you can probably still enjoy lots of fights.

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What is Fightclub—-
People from the three servers get together in a friendly PvP contest, to do 1v1, 2v2, …, 5v5, Golem V Golem? etc. Sometimes it’s also just fun to watch and chat, not everyone will want to fight. This instills friendly conversation and grouping between all three servers as well as make new friends.

All are invited Solo, entire Guilds, or friends, from all three servers!

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Rules—-
1. No Spiking, only to down state
2. Both challengers bow to each other prior to the fight to tell each other when they are Ready
3. Behave, don’t start fights with spectators, etc. Have fun!

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Help—-
If you’d like to help get this started on April 18, would be appreciated if just prior to the event (around 7:45 PM), some people from ET and FC would do a yell in LA, all the borderlands and EB on their servers.

Hmm, looks like we’re going to see some wildly blown-out matchups unless there’s some provisions in place to modify the Swiss structure.

Just for fun, using this week’s scoring as an example, you could potentially see a Week 2 matchup between Jade Quarry, Eredon Terrace, and Sorrow’s Furnace since all three servers would have a 1-0 record. HOW FUN WOULD THAT BE?

Instructions unclear. Accidentally built arrow cart instead and it solved my problem.

I spend most of my time using Thief (wvw) and Warrior (farming), and my thief always FEELS faster. So, I decided to put some semblance of science behind it and recorded the results.

I chose Caer Shadowfain to Jofast’s Camp as my route and did three runs with each character. The fastest runs were matched head-to-head.

Thief (shortbow + centaur runes)
Skills used: Infiltrator’s Arrow, Withdraw, Shadowstep, Roll for Initiative, and (accidentally) Infiltrator’s Signet
Notable Traits used: Signet Use, Expeditious Dodger, Feline Grace, Quick Recovery, Preparedness, Hastened Replenishment

Warrior (greatsword + sword/warhorn)
Skills used: Whirlwind Attack, Rush, Savage Leap, Charge, Bull’s Charge, Signet of Rage
Notable Traits used: Forceful Greatsword, Quick Breathing, Fast Hands, Signet Mastery

It should be noted that I never use a shortbow on my thief, so my three runs were clunky at best. On the other hand, I use that that loadout on my warrior all the time and was very comfortable with the skill rotations.

Here ya go: http://youtu.be/E-vyzyMjCq0

I think [BUNS] and [RISE] should resolve their differences with violence and youtube videos.

Forum infractions.

Jeknar.6184:

Am I doing this right Almighty Honeybuns?

We’re sorry.
Your Honeybuns is in another castle.

Coults.8492:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

moutzaheadin.4029:

styx.7294:

AKLbow.2463:

Dear [RH],

I guess you’ve figured out you aren’t the cream of the crop on GoM by now, but I figured I’d reiterate it. L2p. Being able to throw siege on someone dead doesn’t mean you’re good.

But, I give you an A for effort for throwing siege after it takes 15 of you to wipe 5 people. Best of luck in your future endeavors. And just remember, I have more siege than you for every time I see you guys dead.

Interesting post. Some immediate thoughts:

-Above anything, I want to hear about how we have 15 RH again. I love fairy tales.
-You’re free to throw siege on me. Go ahead, throw all of it.
-While I like my guildies, hm, the fights speak for themselves and I’m not gonna waste time talking about quality of players here. If we’re not as awesome as you well, we’re not as awesome as you. Maybe one day I will impress XOXO

For every day you stand on that sinking ship of a server I am impressed. It is just a ghost town there. No idea how you do it.

Well, transferring off would further perpetuate the problem and let ArenaNet know that the WvW model they designed is working as intended. I can’t speak for Styx, but the reason I’m still around is that I love the guild I’m in and what’s left of the GoM community. While there’s a couple of other servers out there that I’d really enjoy playing on if I had to transfer, I don’t see any sense of long-term stability anywhere in this entire game mode. I’d rather spend what’s left of my GW2 time playing on GoM and gradually shift my competitive interests to other games.

Manly tears of peace have been shed.

Special shout-out to all my pals in Against All Odds We [XFER]!

Sororita.3465:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

What’s that? We’ve got full supply at garrison and no upgrades or defensive siege?
COMMANDER STARSHINE HONEYBUNS TO THE RESCUE!

Enhance.

Bhawb.7408:

PoembaNL.7530:

Ppl need to stop whining.. i would rather have devs working on content/bugs etc etc.. then to waste their time on the forums answering stupid threads like this one. I dont think your little complaining threads are that important that it needs to be seen by devs, let alone be answered by devs. Stop QQing and start playing !!

The issue is that devs overall seem to not understand at all what is being said in the forums, and that is the easiest way to find out things that are happening. Examples? Multiple times have there been bugs for months that were completely unrecognized by the development team, in fact at least once there was a case of a skill being severely nerfed without a patch note, and the player base had no idea if it was a bug or nerf for 4 months because there was not a single dev post about it.

The reality is that a small team of devs just isn’t enough to understand every single part of the game, and so they need to utilize the forums (and other metrics), and actually show that they are using them when evidence shows otherwise.

You guys have it pretty nice over here. Back home, we’re not even allowed to discuss our potatoes.

Transitioning from PvE to WvW, ditch the berserker gear and slowly add it back as you get better at WvW.

Fortus.6175:

GoM shot itself in the foot, despite warning; we proceeded to try-hard and thus we went up in rank, and thus we felt into a 800 gem category, which nobody would pay 800 gems to go to an already low server. Regardless, the WvW community has restarted to rebuild, we have a [not so recent] return and transfers of new guilds, some of them small but organized. Right now we are just looking for coverag since we are all aware that it is night coverage what wins games.

We don’t tank, even if it means passing on an opportunity for free transfers. There’s plenty of servers in need and trying to skirt the system just wrecks things for everyone.

Rob.7624:

I think Drace sums this picture up pretty well

Your WvW skills continue to impress me. You have more golems than we have total players. If that’s not the very definition of being out-played, then I don’t know what is!

styx.7294:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

Advent.6193:

So, where’s this stream “maybe” being held at? Seems I may wish to gate-crash, with a certain Science-Thieving Asura.

The stream may or may not take place on one of the borderland maps, or even possibly in EB.

:D

Possibly he asked for this http://www.twitch.tv/teambattleaxe =)

Yeah, I suppose that bit of information might be helpful…
IF YOU WANT TO GET US ALL KILLED! >:/

King Amadaeus.8619:

JamboHammer.4397:

King Amadaeus.8619:

JamboHammer.4397:

King Amadaeus.8619:

JamboHammer.4397:

gz to the CoSa baddy that can kill my full zerk shatter mes while useing broken cheese perplexity runes i bet u feel so good when u wanna duel my war or thief let me know cuz ill crush ur little cheese runes.

Gratz on getting trolled hard enough to come here and let the world know of your thin skin.

lmfaoo i came here to point out how baddy players useing perplexity runes actually think they have any skill watsoever and need to laugh spam when they finally get a kill and i enjoyed very much laugh spamming on his little cheese war with my warrior, and the fact that u jumped on my d as soon as u saw this post probably shows u run cheese runes to get kills also. sadly once i changed to my thief after beating him with my war i could not find him anywhere i was roaming all around eb looking for him but i guess he rage quit when he lost to my warrior

Your post makes little sense other than you screaming about rage changing to 3 different toons? (“full zerk shatter mes”, war, and thief)

Lets see if we can recreate the scenario:

1. You being bad running full zerk and expecting other people not to exploit that fact.
2. Other person winning, /laugh /laugh /laugh
3. And you do what now?

first off baddy mesmers are one of the weakest classes against condi and hes running perplexity stun spam against a zerker mes, and 2 yes i swapped cahrs to sit his cheese kitten runes down cuz both my other classes laugh at condi dmg and i want to see utake on a perplexity condi class as a zerker mes calling me bad LOL ur so funny and the fact that ur saying hes exploiting a zerker mes hes useing broken runes that need to be fixed and he thinks hes good by chest thumping if u wanna duel me let me know cuz ill take u down like i did to that cheese warrior

I love perplex peoples when I am running my mesmer, perhaps you should ask around about my mesmer sir before you assume I know nothing about them. Bad mesmers are weak, bad anything is weak?

The key to beating perplex is understanding what is going on before you spam your self to death trying to be a shatter bot. I usually just let them get a ridiculous amount of confusion on me (10 stacks or more hopefully), give it back to them, and burst them down while they’re trying to figure out what is killing them and why I do not have any confusion on me.

I don’t have a problem with people running the runes solo, but if you have ever come across organized small-man groups that know how to keep 25 stacks on you then you are out of luck and that is the problem I have with them. I encourage people to 1v1 me with them on.

Bro, do you even fireworks?

No nerf will ever stop my pew pew.

pixieish.9627:

Also, have a secret screenshot of the DR+GoM alliance.

No worries. Our super secret alliance with NSP is going quite swimmingly. Our bond of trust transcends even clothing.

I’m still here!

GoM: “OMG OMG OMG OMG new PvE content!”