Guild Wars 2

’Ello frands! Vee Wee over here retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

I’m glad you like my zerg build my frand Forestnator! I think Potent Elixirs was a misclick on my part though! I use Protection Injection or Backpack Regenerator during WvW zergplay! But builds aren’t set in stone! If you like Potent Elixirs, keep on using it! There are definitely upsides to that trait just like you said! In any case, thanks for pointing out the typo in my build list! I have updated it!

Wahooo! Bye frands!

I actually signed into my forum account, and I never do, because I KNEW there would be a forum thread about this. GvGs aren’t the point. The point is that Anet, you are getting increasingly detached from your most loyal playerbase day by day. The proof was in that stream. I could not BELIEVE how you guys just ignored the people crying out for a GvG mode. You act like they don’t exist and even act like they detracted from the stream somehow….that stream was crap, to be honest, (some Q&A…..seriously) and it’s incredibly insulting to the hardcore guilds that make up the core of WvW the way you simply ignore us, in a stream for the very gamemode most of us play exclusively. I can’t believe how blind you guys are to this cash cow right under your noses. You try to push sPvP like the plague as an esport where a set GvG mode really has the potential to blow up. How can you not see this? There are so many people involved in this GvG scene with absolutely zero support from you lot. Imagine if you showed the slightest bit of support.

You keep catering to the lazy PVE crowd, the group of players will be gone to another game the second a new shiny one is out. You don’t cater to the people who can see what WvW really could be. We do our best with what we have, but I don’t think you realize, Anet, how GOOD the pvp in this game really is. There is a reason we started playing this game and still are, the few of us PvP people who are left. Most games don’t have pvp that is as good, as interesting, or as diverse as this game’s, less are MMOs. Even lesser still are still available to play. The siege buffs, especially ACs are completely ruining this aspect of the game. Do you seriously think that all the people trying to get you to stop are all trolls?

Believe it or not, whatever sample of the playerbase you have in your testing IS NOT helping WvW. I am trying to tell you. I am trying to warn you. All of us are. They are not representative of the people who play WvW. That much is obvious. The PvP people play this game to actually play the game and fight other groups of players. All people do anymore is sit in towers with siege, this is NOT the game that we love so much. That is spamming 3 buttons and having them be effective because they hit obscenely more targets than anything else, and do more damage than most player groups. How is that rewarding? How does that encourage actually playing the kitten classes in this game?

I am telling you this, because when both groups of people move from this game, the PvErs because of a new carrot and the PvP crowd because of horrible support from you guys, you will be left with no one. “Splitting the zerg” won’t matter. We have all seen what happens to servers when the core WvW guilds just aren’t there. They die. They have no community. The PvP crowd will leave in whole guilds and it will be sudden. The PvErs will leave slower but it will be steady and pick up as time goes along. You will either fix this now or this game is doomed to fail. I sincerely hope you change before you remember this crossroads when it is far too late. That’s my 2 cents and I think that many of the WvW crowd would agree with what I am saying.

Tachii.3506:

This defensive mentality then lowers the individual reward for others, because suddenly there are now defended keeps and an uncoordinated blob isn’t enough to ktrain, because now it takes longer to secure a keep and success may not even be possible.

You ask me, Why fight?
I’m asking YOU : Why aren’t you fighting ?

Boo hoohoo people are defending and it’s not as easy to ktrain ?

Unless you’re willing to fight for it, and win, you don’t deserve that reward. You don’t deserve that dragonite. In fact, you don’t deserve loots, AT ALL!

This carebear-like “Why are j00 fighting?” bleeting is EXACTLY why I fight. I fight to keep the lot of you away from the dragonite. I fight to farm you and your zergling friends by the 50 when I tag all of you with burning oil. I fight because if the bags on legs walk into my slice, they don’t deserve to walk off unchallenged.

I fight to crush your choochoomander’s spirits and show them that just because you can blow 100g on a blue corn doritos doesn’t mean you have the capacity to fight and lead other players in a pvp environment. No pity for choochoomanders.

I fight…. because that’s what I do. It’s what I’m here for.

Coincidentally, Frostkeep is also an excellent “Maguuma command simulator” since you’re outnumbered all the time. So you have to make it work with what’s available. And believe me when I say this : Your tears empower me.

The only reason deso moved to top 2 this match up is because of the big focus sfr did against barush, sfr made bb tik -100 few hours and this time was enough to make your patetic server able to tik high enough to get the point for the top 2
Your server is the worste populated server i had to fight in 1.5 years, full cry baby runner
You are tiking 300+, your tik with a double focus would be 50
Go pack to your pve stuff and leave the wvw for the real wvw player, thanks

In my opinion anyone can run the build he wants to, PvE is easy enough (I’m partial to heal bombing and so is my very glassy thief friend), but the choice should be done based on facts:

Oswaldzl.3652:

Dank is right about rifle it has a blast finisher!

No it does not, only leap and projectile.

Oswaldzl.3652:

6-8k damage one round of flame channeling that’s times the number it hit….

No it is not – FT damage numbers show the damage summed up. FT #1 takes over 2.5 seconds to channel and has a coefficient of 1.5, so it’s 0.6 per second. It is also limited to 3 targets per tick.
Bomb Kit #1 has a coefficient of 1.25 and fires every 0.92 seconds, resulting in ~1.35 per second or for easier comparison 225% of FT #1. And it hits 5 targets while also covering a much larger area.

dank.3680:

I know right because a weapon that has fire fields, a toolbelt skill that does very nice burn, an aoe low cd blind-though a small radius, and an instant cast cleave knockback on a very low cd is so terrible. Not to mention it does good damage on dps builds.

The thing is, Bomb Kit has a comparable fire field, a stronger blind (3 pulses, much larger radius), does more than double the damage vs. 1-3 targets and more than triple damage vs. 5+ targets and can keep up permanent burning on 5 targets. The knockback is of very limited use in PvE.

Nabarue.3290:

Exactly. A good engi asks "how can I make this work?’ not “this sucks, why bother?”

A good engi will use the right tool for the right task. You can of course try to make a hole in a concrete wall with a screwdriver but you should not do it when you have a power drill available. The FT is not a DPS kit, it is a utility kit:

• The knockback and (very) short range instant blind are great in PvP but of very limited use in PvE.
• Flame Jet deals less damage than rifle #1 on single targets, about half the damage of grenades/bombs on 2-3 targets and less than 1/3 on 5+ targets. It is only useful for fast tagging in large scale events.
• Juggernaut can be nice to get some added toughness e.g. for the dredge fractal but staying in FT for the might stacking will lower your overall dps instead of increasing it because of how bad FT#1 is. There are better ways to stack might. It’s also only stacking might for yourself, while blasting fire fields also benefits your allies.
• Flame Blast does good damage but you don’t need to stay in FT to use it.

All that being said, if you’re having fun with the FT and are not concerned with min-maxing, just stick with it. This is a game and the goal is to enjoy oneself.
If you get kicked from a group because of not running the “meta”, most likely you have been saved from spending time with people you wouldn’t want to play with anyway.

So boring to read an other deson**b whining about an imaginary double focus.

Fortunately for us, there is a new Pve content this 20th May !! Lot of you will go away from WvW

tiebreakers are necessary during the season because every server needs to be put into a specific matchup every week.

but for the end of season rewards, why does it matter? if 2 servers are tied for first place, give them both the first place rewards, then give the third place rewards to the #3 server. since no server came in second place, nobody would get the second place rewards in this example.

-ken

Yes, first and foremost a HUGE thanks for the culling fix, WvW is now so much better!

But I agree, a new problem appears to be screen clutter. Basically, this stems from the long incognito player names, and the titles.

For the latter, the solution is simple. Simply remove titles from the screens, or give an option that allows us to uncheck it.

For the former…regarding long incognito player names [Crystal Desert Invader, ect), the solution would be either to allow an abbreviation option that players can check off—-if they so desire:

Crystal Desert Invader [GUIL] —-> CD Invader [GUIL]

This example here, by simply abbreviating the Crystal Desert to CD, essentially cuts the clutter for this particular name in half. Now multiple this across a zerg, where there are 40 players, and our screens would become so much more easier on the eyes!

Don’t know about NA , but on EU1 gold, if you’re not on TS while following commander, you’re basically a rallybot.

Even in PUG vs. PUG ( or militia ) fights, those not on TS are usually on the losing side.
I’ve seen militia zerg wars in NA, most of them consist of 2 large clusters shooting pew pew lasers at each other. Sure, you don’t need TS for that, the commander has all the time if the world to retype the Webster dictionary in /say

Running with TS in EU gold as a Militia is mandatory, since every engage half-decent commanders call out regroups, water fields, aggressive statics and focus bombs…not to mention dictate movement of the zerg constantly.

Promoting a healthy Team Speak culture not only helps your server win engagements but also brings community cohesion.

Imo stability is right now biggest engi weaknes. In PvE and SPvP its balanced by other abilites but in WvW we suffer a lot because of this.

1. The first secret I’m going to share is the first battle cry I learned doing WvW with a guild. " Uplevels Must Die!" So you’ve got a target on your back. They don’t want you there leveling. It’s a place to go to play while you are in line for the other battle grounds. It’s not a learning farm or leveling ground.

2. The next secret is you are not guaranteed the ability to get achievements. You have to work for it. Hence the word Achievement. Meaning to reach a lofty goal. You have 9 weeks to them for the WvW tourney. It took me 8 days to do 10/10. All you really have to do is follow the Commanders. Then the Achievements will come. The rest of the WvW achievements are long and drawn out and looks to me like they could take many months of playing to get.

3. The last secret is find a guild who like to WvW. Get on mumble so you know what’s going on and can hear them. It’s what I did and I’ve had a wonderful time and made a lot of friends who make me laugh.

Hvaran.6327:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABCya_k0zLA

this is a mesterpiece. U don’t need group to farm there)

awesome!

Thx Desolation for support. cound’t made it without you.

Best regards

applied disbelief.8763:

Pawstruck.9708:

Yep I’m a thief. And this isn’t rock paper scissors, so one class shouldn’t be able to insta-kill another just because of class choice.

Pawstruck.9708:

Yep I’m a thief… one class shouldn’t be able to insta-kill another

Just let that sit for a minute.

Post of the month… on second thought, maybe of the year.

it’s funny, I’ve got nothing but nerfs to my builds last 3 patches, but the hate was never stronger. I’ve had countless players join my group lately to trash talk me for being a fotm engineer with dire and perplexity, because you know, confusion = perplexity, conditions = dire, always.

No offence dude but I’m not sure someone who’s at the level of spamming heartseeker over and over like I saw you doing in hotjoin yesterday has much of relevance/interest to say about class balance. If you really think engys are OP or are struggling with them you should try rolling one and playing it in spvp some to try and get a feel for their weaknesses and learn to counter them, starting a QQ thread on the forum isn’t going to accomplish anything other than getting you laughed at.

Don’t worry guys in 6 months they will rename applied fortitude.

This Vizu guy made my day

I’m on Vizunah Square (EU), and I’ve just saw a guild (I won’t give names here) GvGing in the Borderlands while there are 50+ people queues on all the maps… except on the obsidian sanctum.

Is there a way, any way, to report this kind of behavior? What can we do against this??

PvP happened in PvP environment go figure…If you don’t like it stop going to PvP areas to be ganked.
other than that…grew some kitten balls and stop crying me rivers.

You and I have very different definitions of “amazing” but that is pretty trololol.

What kind of issue are you specifically having that could be related to lag?
Skill lag, rubber-banding, etc.

i am experiencing skill lags in general, and in heavy fights charachters around , sometimes, “teleport” around

What server are you on?
my server is Seafarer Rest

Has there ever been a time when you or a friend are experiencing lag, while others
in your party are not?

usually not, only on rare occasions.

Has there ever been a time where one party in a map is experiencing lag, while other parties in that same map are not?

rarely – usually if i lag, all are lagging

Do you experience the lag at very specific times?
For example, when 1 zerg is facing another zerg.
If so, can you estimate how many players are in each zerg?

when we are like more than 60 players( enemy and us all together) lags seems to start appear. not only in same place tho.
say there is a fight in garrison, and we passing near it… we experience lag , usually skill lags. aka heal skills, utility skills, leaps etc…
in prime time it is usually all the times when map is full it is on a daily basis and really hurts game experience.
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Allie Murdock.8152:

Not only did I not say no, I said this “I’m not saying it’s a bad idea,”

Leveling alts in wvw hurts your server. An upleveled character is just a rally bot and free kill. And its a very slow way to lvling…
Pls remove the normal xp gain (and maybe the random loot) and add more badges + things what we can buy for badges.
I started to play at the betas and i have only 1 legendary because i farmed 1 week at the begining of the pavilon event…
My pve friends have 4-7 legendarys, thousands of golds and ascended panties!
Sometimes i feel 1 badge = 1 gold