Guild Wars 2

There are new kids on the block. I hope to fight them step by step

Chaos Archangel.5071:

.. Some new gamemodes. Right now OP and UP are mostly judged on the build’s performance in Conquest. Even in WvW you can build for different types of gameplay: solo roaming, small groups, or zerging. An “op” group build may not work in solo. A solo build usually cant zerg, ect. Makes for much more diversity.

Fighting on-point is fun and all, but is there anything coming down the line that’ll switch things up? No, I don’t mean stronghold. I mean PvP without the overreliance on NPCs.

Capture the flag, 3v3 arenas, 1v1 arenas… anything?

The same builds that are op in pvp are more op in wvw.

Roaming groups at the moment are compositions of pu mesmer with perplexity runes and d/d ele (sometimes they carry a warrior or thief around, but mesmers and ele have multiplied)

And still people run kittened things like ranger or warrior in marauder gear, right?

Sick of thieves when roaming.

I don’t see people leaving. My waiting times for rated are still the same like… forever.

Evilek.5690:

Heibi.4251:

Also, if they happen to be in the way of direct fire weapon or attack, it SHOULD hit them. They aren’t vapor.

First time go on gw2 wiki and learn mechanisms of this game, because all attacks hurt Thief in stealth and you say there’s only mystification

You forget to things. Regeneration in stealth keeps going, maybe with purging conditions on the thief and you can still have blind active.
So, you can even aoe down the place where the thief should be without any effect.
I had a lot of 1v1 on my necro with good and bad thieves and even the bad ones can win by using 3 of their skills while i have to play on limit and without doing any small error.
That’s one reason I stopped playing my thief, because its absolutely boring going even 1v2, because you won’t lose and if you find some really good opponents which play a build that really counters you, you can still out run them before they even know where you’re gone and pick other fights.

As I said before, the whole build needs a serious rework. Healing in stealth, getting rid of conditions, shadowstepping, blinding and really good damage while staying invisible most of the time isn’t balanced at all.
As a necro I can’t even use a finisher or rezz while in death shroud, while thieves can do it from being stealthed.

That AMA is about 12 month late. That horse is dead and decaying.

Celebratty.1632:

Oh wow.
I did it a couple of times for proof on the forums and to see if it worked, hope I won’t get in trouble now.

Then again, half of NSP and sPVP right now are spamming this code.. It’d be a lot to ban a whole server.

I hope for perma bans for everyone “trying” this out.

Vena.8436:

KISS should have gone to JQ if anything.

No, please.

Harper.4173:

That sound like a great idea! Let’s ban paying customers because they’ve hurt someone’s feelings.

How about people just toughen up – realize that words don’t actually hurt if you choose to ignore them and maybe we can just go back to normal.

Don’t know where you come from. But in civilised communities it’s common sense that you be nice to each other. If your parents missed to teach you the basics of human interaction that’s bad for you, but you still may learn, right?

And you agreed to these terms by installing Guild Wars 2.

While playing Guild Wars 2, you must respect the rights of others and their rights to play and enjoy the Game. To this end, you may not defraud, harass, threaten, embarrass or cause distress and/or unwanted attention to other players. This includes posting insulting, offensive, or abusive comments about players, repeatedly sending unwanted messages, reporting players maliciously, attacking a player based on race, sexual orientation, religion, heritage, etc. Hate speech is not tolerated.

We have the same problem with the super adventure box. We tried to get in there with a two man party and end up in separate instances.
We tried making a new party, relogging our characters, changing characters, switching from Rata Sum to Lion’s Arch and back.

Hahahahahahaahahah our “better” EU coverage. This guy.

Maybe your EU is full of fat people, so they cover a lot of space.

Yeah, possible. The patch made warriors even stronger 1v1 and all those perma stealth thieves can reroll now.

Wow, so many BG players already sharing their feelings with the world? Maybe you could open up a facebook group – my name proposal would be “All this money for being 3rd”.
I’d prefer fighting BG and SoR every week as I did when BG was the fotm. Yeah, we have a stupid schedule, but most of don’t care if we are 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th, we played even after BG and SoR absorbed some of our NA and OCX guild and as we were the only T1 server without any EU presence.
It’s not our fault when you joined BG for getting #1 easy and now you have to work for it.

I really like this matchup. We are still totally outnumbered in EU time, but no one zoomhacks his way into towers or fortresses.
And the open field fights are really great.

It’s always the same as it was in WoW and rogues constantly complaining how bad their class is.
Two organized thief players will always kill something – even in a group of 5 or 6 and escape, because the whole mechanic give huge advantages to the thieves. The jumping puzzle stairs are completely dark and favors classes with high mobility and escape abilities.
The only skill you really need to kill someone there is to pick the same target as your partner and find your smokefield to escape.
Stealth still needs a rework. It’s just annoying and dumb gameplay, to be able to constantly restealth and escape.
If one of those thieves would have died, he really would have earned a “l2p”.

Don’t know what you know, but how does it feel to be the “Vizunah PvD crew” from NA T1?
I love the irony in this whole thing.

Did I join a game of thrones forum accidently? So many wolf tears.

The guys tapping the keeps mostly run builds with healing gear and adventurer runes. They’ll never kill a guard.

This game needs a big rework on so many levels. Especially thieves.

I guess Anet expecting this problem solves by waiting for the players stop playing.

Obsessed? I just don’t like big mouthed people and your server is #1 NA in that category.

They are back. Had much fun with them the last 2 hours.
And rumors say there is an EU guild on JQ. But I guess that’s only rumors.

Thanks for kicking the wvw players in the face again. It’s not just we have to wait for that new matchups, but what about that ac changes or the ability to switch wvw traits.
And if you are working on that matchup thing, keep working on your server performance. It’s gotten worse with every patch you had in the last two weeks.

Orion.9075:

SFShinigami.2015:

Wotah.2975:

LetoII.3782:

Poorly composed, my apologies. I responded to the whole discussion with half my mind on a tasty Reuben. My point was SoR has watched it’s holdings be fought over during this time for months. It’s hard to keep a straight face seeing the leaders in the coverage war arms race crying foul. Much less respond with anything but “up your game, son”

Was it a New York Reuben? Huh huh… ?

Reubens are best served from Omaha, where they were created, tyvm.

I thought reubens were German…

We may have invented a lot of things, but it’s not popular in Germany. You will have trouble finding enough people who even know the word.
But Wotah seems to be right, there are two people who claim to invented it and one came from Germany.
We are not sandwich people we eat Stullen, Butterbrote or Spießbratenbrötchen.

Funny thing, I first thought Reuben meant the prussian officer who helped you guys in your war of independence, but his name was von Steuben.

I’m kitten hungry now.

Onlysaneman.9612:

Those of you sympathizing with the necro on this one are the single largest reason pvp in this game has done poorly. You are a toxic part of the community who would rather have a game filled with self-centered, inconsiderate tryhards than give less experienced players a break. Aside from perhaps crippling technical difficulties or other outside interruptions, there are almost no acceptable reasons to afk at the start of a match.

If you have a problem with the people you’re queued with by the game, find a team of like-minded people and party with them. Don’t clog solo-q with your gigantic egos.

Right on spot.

Last night we had a good sized group of about 65 people break through the outer and inner wall of a mostly upgraded keep without even a hint of real resistance.

I stopped reading after this. Your night capping of poorly defended keeps failed? Nice. I like to read that

martin.1653:

I really hope this is a good troll to make Anet wake up.
Smite looks like a bad joke.

Smite is a fantastic game. End of story. The only reason I stopped playing it wasn’t anything balance or gameplay related but a problem with their launcher and patching system.
It’s one of the better MOBA out there – imho the best one.

Why should you secure your home borderland when 15 minutes after ATM logs the whole EU force of SoR comes for knocking on doors?

And please tell me where is your problem when Waha attacks you? The last thing I heard is that SoR doesn’t care about ppt and they care about the fights. I remember reading that for the last 10 threads one to two times per page.

Will be totally fun with the actual server population balance. I’m sure. /sarcasm

scootshoot.6583:

fade.8603:

I wonder what happens when JQ meets DB…

One way to find out! SOR and JQ needs to double team BG for the next couple weeks to get DB to replace them! ;D

I prefer having BG in T1 instead of Dragonbandwagon. BG earned being up there and all DB does is talking right now.

Gilgamesh.7364:

jojojoon.8607:

Gilgamesh.7364:

Great fights everyone, this is the most even match I’ve seen in a while

Except in EU time zone when pvd happens..

EU timezone wasn’t a problem when JQ took the lead… Now it seems to be the main problem :/

Sure it is. But I know it is hard to look on a world map and watch for timezones.
JQ SEA has 7-8 hours until EU comes online (doable with much dedication on a weekend. I log in on EU (central) prime time at 8pm which is 2-3am for our SEA.
JQ NA starts at 1am for me.
BG SEA has 4-5 hours until ZDs comes online, they are 3-4 hours before EU prime and BG EU has two or three times our numbers.
So yes, it’s a huge problem if you need to stay up until 2am every day and get up at 5 or 6.
There are guys on JQ that pull these numbers but they don’t have to, I’m happy when they do, but we can’t compete with BG at this numbers game. We could if our EU force would have at least equal numbers OR if SoR is keeping your EU busy, what SoS can’t do.
So the problem here is that you have better 24 hour coverage and we have SoS in the matchup.
SoS can’t hold their one bl over the day. They fight very good in the timezones they have people online, but at the rest of the day their bl means points for BG because JQ doesn’t have the forces to get there too without losing a garrison on JQ or hills on BG bl.

Yesterday was a good example for that.
BG attacked JQ bl garrison with huge numbers (ZDs+BG zerg) and BG bl hills was attacked by the map zerg (ND and other guilds)
We were able to hold hills for over an hour against golem rushes, had no supply, because we couldn’t split our 30 man force without losing hills against your 50+ (while you had at least 2 havocs going).
JQ bl kept garrison until our SEA commander had to log off (2am for him) and our commander on BG hills had to leave and took some people with them. JQ bl had no queue at this time.
We lost hills in the end with having 12 people on the new commander and 6 people on siege against your map blob.
So yes, it’s a pure numbers game and we are still lacking numbers in at least one timeslot

DeWolfe.2174:

Or, JQ has accumulated the most alt/spy accounts? That enemy players have placed their numerous extra accounts on JQ to the point of it diluting JQ’s WvW population. It’s easy to run an alt into WvW for the daily and be counted as a “wvw player”. I bet if Anet looks, JQ has the highest population of low activity players. Those players are most likely not loyal to JQ and their main account is on an enemy server.

This is imho a big problem too. I have never seen so many people that have never been in wvw before and just there for trolling and talking kitten on the borderlands.
At the moment they mostly troll TW with fake siege or flames on the team chat.
I wish we could get some attention from Anet with that problem.

Finally working on a good ticket and ban system could help a lot.

Wow, 4,5 hour in S1 and already kitten so much?
I couldnt leave my computer for 4 hours because JQ bl was so full with people and the garrison lord was like the kaaba – and had as many people trying to touch it errr him.

Forestgreen.7981:

I think EU guilds in general tends to think themselves as superior in every way since every EU guilds that came over to NA had massive superiority complex. I remember when the “best” WvW (Sarcx guild) guild came over while they were good in GvG, they got completely destroyed in actual WvW by every single SoR guild every single time. SoR guilds didn’t map blob them, they had guild commanders tell each other to back off and only let 1 guild engage them one at a time while others watched.

They are no different then NA players except the fact that EU guilds tends to be more tryhard than anything else, but no better imo.

I remember that. And that GvG between the SoR flag ship TW vs. RG and how TW totally dominated that with a 1:11 loss.
You could be a great newsreader for Fox News.

Xinthai.6175:

gebrechen.5643:

Wait, SoR has another EU guild? That’s almost as funny as BG talking about they have no EU coverage.
I hate winning team joiners.

BG only has a small group of MERC that stay awake (10-15), RK (10-20), and then HB on a night or two. (15-30 themselves, but Smokee and Orc draw tons of pugs to their tags).

It’s really not that large of coverage in comparison to what SoR has.

Really? Don’t forget all those people that pull overtimes. I see them every evening on EU time and I see what happens when I lead a havoc. You have more people available for guarding a yak as we can put into a borderland.
Without our Asian or Sea pulling massive overtimes, we can’t even get a treb built.
So, I really don’t care if it’s “only” 60 people we face.
Sure, SoR is the new fotm server and they can send more numbers than you, but it’s not a great difference if you meet 50 people on the field or 100 when your own group is about 15-20.

Good luck to the new kid in town. All your yaks are belong to us. CU in 10 hours, hope you bring the bags.

You can’t let Pickachu die. That’s mean.

To make roaming great again, you need to get rid of the current stealth mechanics and tone the damage down to pvp standards.
We all know that won’t happen, so it would be wise to improve wvw and let roaming die.

What they did to this map is a shame. It’s complete bs now.

Hey Anet, if you don’t want solo queues can you at least stop giving groups pips when fighting solo queue players?
It’s not fun at all, when you have 3 solo queue players, a 2 people group and a full group on the opposing team and you lose 1 pip while getting farmed.
And while you are at it reward a whole tier for beating a full group with randoms.

The bandwagon was strong. Playing this game since beta and I’m on JQ since then. I still don’t understand why people transfer to the new fotm server. Especially when you pretend to “leave for fights”.

Wonder who TC fights in their matchup against FA and JQ. Both servers aren’t known (or ever were) for their huge NA or EU forces.

The good old times fighting SoR and BG will never come back. Thanks to the server hopping “flight guilds”.

The Game Slayer.7632:

Besides, there have been multiple threads with reasonable nerfs to epidemic that would make it more balanced. Such nerfs sound like this: making it blockable, reducing radius, increasing cooldown, adding a condition cap.

Reasonable, because people can’t deal with it?
Blockable = makes epidemic completely useless because of the stupid amount of classes that have passive blocks
Reducing the radius is stupid until you lower the radius of boon share at the same percentage. If you take away the radius from epidemic it will be useless because rev+guard have great boonshare, light fields and heals.
Increasing cooldown – look above.
Adding a condition cap. Ok, I can live with that IF we get a damage cap too. If conditions are capped again, there should be a cap on crit/ferocity or we end up in the stupid melee power stun meta – been there, done that.

And to be honest. I think it’s pretty funny that a guy who plays thief wants skills nerfed! Let’s talk about your class for a second.
Can we talk about dodge and block on daredevil, ghost thief, d/p and instagibs from your class before we touch necros? Just an idea.

Demannu.2805:

Wiping ZDs oh oh oh so that is how you call being farmed inside your Lord Room in Garri for 2 hours non stop …. its like IRON said LOL WE FARMZED ZDs IN OUR RESPAWN TOWER 11111

Have you finally taken our garrison after 5 days trying so hard against pugs?

Fuzzion.2504:

I wish TKG all the best in BG.
Fuzzion will always remain JQ, till the day GW3 comes.
I have removed the TKG guest sig from my logo.

I can understand when guilds leave to push a smaller server or join a T2 to T7 because of various gameplay or organisation reasons, but to join a direct competitor and make that strong timeslot even stronger and weaken the former community is far beyond me.

Wait, the lag is even worse tonight? I think I watch football before I go into wvw. The slight hope it’s getting better on late EU time.

Thief was always top dog in wvw and since HoT they have 3-4 top builds one more stupid than the others.

Problem is that most of those thief players still think it’s skill why the win.

A possible way to fix guardians. Remove boons.
A possibe fix for stealth. Delete thieves.

Epi isn’t a problem, deal with it.

Wait.. yes, you earn your perma ban for “testing” it, even if you do it once. Why? Because there is no logical reason why someone would want to test an exploit like this.
If someone tells you “Hey, I found a code to crash your client” why would you want to use it? If you want to end your client, press alt-f4
If someone tells you “If you put this in chat you crash the server”.. no way anyone would want to test this
If someone tells you anything beneficial this code would do, search the internet before you do. If it it’s coming from a friend, get rid of that friend, because you don’t need idiots as friends.
If you really had to test it, I hope you mailed that to Anet at once if not, you earn a ban.
I wonder how many of the people testing it are trying things like putting light bulbs into microwaves or spraying water on their motherboards for cooling.
You should really try that, trust me, it’s fun!
(please don’t be stupid, thank you)

This went better than expected.

Changes on mechanics

- make it harder to contest a keep. It’s a stupid mechanic that a single player can contest a waypoint by doing marginal damage. Let it be at least a ram, a cat or a treb that contest

About the loot problem. I would improve the loot over reward tracks that a) depend on ranks (like prestige in fps ie) and a realm/server loyalty bonus.
So, it’s rewarding for players that show up and in the best case stick to their server.

MaLeVoLenT.8129:

Breaking the Tier 1 ceiling does not equate to the destruction of ones community. A server falling out of Tier 1 does not equate to that servers destruction.

I remember you saying that you hope JQ going down to tier 2 would lead to transfers from JQ SEA to another server. (somewhere on cancer forums) So basically the statement above is a lie or you have real trouble with your memory.
Meanwhile OnS never transfered somewhere alone, you always took guilds with you or players from other servers.

And the statement about TW saving JQ is stupid. Yes, they brought Commanders to NA, but they made a lot of people quit wvw with their stupid behaviour. TW was one of the reasons some NA guilds didn’t show up again. There was a lot of kitten talking on TS when TW was online. I don’t blame Indo, because I think he is an “ok” guy, but he isn’t TW. TW never cared for a server. They left JQ in the beginning and went to SoR, they left SoR while blaming the random players not being good enough. TW has no home, they go where they think it’s best for their guild. That’s totally ok with me, but that’s not the same as “saving a server”, this statement gets even more stupid when you recruit on JQ and leave to the new bandwagon TC a week later.

If JQ goes down, it’s ok, we don’t need someone who decides to “save our server” because he thinks it’s best for us.

tldr: You are not my president or my mom. So play your politic games elsewhere and take your head out of your kitten and start breathing again.

LetoII.3782:

gebrechen.5643:

Yeah, all kids think it’s cool to be the bad guy. That’s so 1980 and “can I be Darth Vader, mom”?
And today they see Darth Vader complaining about sand in his boots.

Did you see padme in the white outfit?
I saw padme in the white outfit

It’s a sad story really. She is definitely hot, but this kid put a baby in her on first date and never got laid after that because of that lava accident. I prefer seeing Leia on that slave outfit.
Almost as sad: Eir has a son from an oger and he looks like the father.