Someone soloing a yak or a camp is far more useful than a zergling.
WvW condi warrior : 32k hp, 3.4k armor, 2000 condi damage, 400 hps.
But it’s not op.
Personally, knowing what I know now. I would go outside and do something else, waiting for certain other titles to be released.
Funniest thing I’ve ever heard in PvP?
Hard to say. Map chat in Anvil Rock’s Heart of the Mists at launch was like the wild west. I’m sure we could fill a few pages of quotes.
^^^
Recently I was in a TSS solo arena match and before the match started there was this warrior communicating with the team.. but in his own secret language known only to himself. From this we knew he was confident in his own abilities. Anyways once the match started he successfully captured home point and held it until the 8:30 mark. He valiantly defended the point as our team lost Tranquility. At this point in time he stated in team chat, “NME GOT OP BUFF”. After successfully communicating this to our team and before recapping the node he just lost from the buff, he immediately jetted for the ice cave. He was friendly enough at this point to also communicate to us that he would now defend the ice cave area as if he thought the buff would be respawning shortly. He had banners popped and he was now roaming the ice cave. Despite our desperate attempts from our team to get him out of the ice cave, we were unsuccessful. As the game ended he left us with “where buff?”
His noteworthy accomplishments and communication were remembered from that day. The experience was logged and recommendations on improving the learning experience for that map was forwarded along
Skills and Balance/PvP Team Principal QA
Former active member of Team PZ
Funniest thing I’ve ever heard in PvP?
Hard to say. Map chat in Anvil Rock’s Heart of the Mists at launch was like the wild west. I’m sure we could fill a few pages of quotes.
Careful; if you posted a few pages of competitive banter, this forum would probably get deleted too.
Maguuma
There was a thread a few months ago like this one, it was called “Famous Last Words” or something. Anyways, my quote for this thread is still the same one as the one that I used for that thread:
While I was stealth stomping a player once…
“The coward is strong in you”Lolllll…
3days ago soloQ me and a thief 2v2 with a pu mesmer and staff ele on a point,we downed the ele and the mesmer didnt even try to res then killed the mes and had the point.
then we see in /mapchat “why didnt you res ?”from the ele asking the mes
mes:“i dont res staff ele’s”
they lost 500/40
“It won’t happen.”
- ArenaNet during BWE.
Fix’d
You are not optimizing.
If you took the new healing skill you’d be able to die at least 5 seconds faster.
Lmfao +1 to this.
Warlord Sikari (80 Scrapper)
They should also introduce another skill for warriors: “Rising tide – Enemies around you drown in their own tears”
Don’t worry guys, I have figured it out. This post is merely a subtle plan of his.
Phase 1: He plays, and falls in love with, an Engi.
Phase 2: He complains about how OP Engis are.
Phase 2: In response at such an outrageous suggestion, we instead list how they rather aren’t.
Phase 3: The devs, seeing such an overwhelming list, buff Engis.
Phase 4: ???
Phase 5: Profit.
A most cunning and vile plan, to be sure! But fear not, we have caught him before any damage was done.
/signed for removing Living Story from WvW.
You’re asking why a glass cannon can hit you like a truck when you can turn around and do the same thing to them. As a guardian you can directly counter a thief with proper use of Blind, Aegis, Focus Shield, Invulnerability, Retaliation, Counter Pressure (Burst), Crowd Control (Pull, Immobilize), Large amounts of burning, AoE, etc. If I had to choose the most direct counter to my class it would be a DPS Guardian.
As for other classes such as Elementalists, Mesmers, etc. They put out more damage more often, along with providing more team utility.
If you’re complaining about backstab you’re playing poorly and deserve to die.
Cheers,
Caed
Thank you all for making the first CDI topic discussions such a good start. The next phase as mentioned at the start of the initiative is for us to discuss how we could better evolve the process around CDI. The key areas for me personally are as follows and based on my interactions on the PVE thread:
1: More focused Topics.
2: Summaries of discussion/direction every three pages.
3: More time to post.
Please know the expectation isn’t for you to list your top three, this is just how I did it. This is a discussion primarily and next Monday I will post the actions so we can evolve the CDI best working practices immediately.
Thanks again for your involvement,
Chris
Like Gro said Peanuuts, practise it in day to day life.
Take a simple example like making a cup of coffee and do this speaking out loud.
“making some coffee because caffeine is so good”.
“walking to the kitchen on the east side of the house, turning right into the kitchen”.
“stack on coffee maker”.
“buffing with beans”.
“hold until I press the button”.
“flanking right (west) to grab the sugar”.
“dropping sugar into the cup”.
“four turns clockwise to stir the sugar”.
“hold, hold, hold”.
“stability up, take a mouthful”.
“loot”.
Pretty bad example but you get the idea, it’s about vocalising your internal dialogue so that others know and understand what you’re doing.
Personally I often forget to breath.
Once proud member of Extraordinary Gentlemen [EXG]{DESO4LIFE}
Have fun all of you!!
Lets hope we all get alot of precursors!!
I need the Zap. So if any of you Deso or GH guys could drop that one for me. That would be lovely!
Cheers!
“Beautiful, talented and unique.”
Velocity [VcY] – Somewhere roaming on Far Shiverpeaks
(edited by Xerion.8014)
When your sister decides to bring her 4 children to your house for a visit, and you have to tell your buddies on Teamspeak you have to go because the zerg has just arrived at your house.
I really wish I had a real life Line of Warding sometimes.
It will not be 250g or 3 ascended armor/weapons. I am betting that it will contain among others things at least 1 jug of liquid wxp.
My moves are fresh, like my groceries.
#TeamEvonforever
Gracious thanks to Abaddon and Underworld for a great evening fight at a Hero camp on AM Borderland. It is not often to have a relatively even numbers three way fight where each side is below 10 people (seemed to be 4 vs 8 vs 5, but I am famous from my lack of ability to count; there were mesmers and necros involved).
I remember [GuM], [CC], [RUM] from Underworld and [nOrD], [Cats], [CL], [DSG] tags from Abaddon.
Thank you very much for the most interesting fight in 5 weeks :-). I respawned 3 times before the fate of a Hero camp was sealed.
https://www.youtube.com/user/IrxallisGaming/videos
How about you go back to your pve land of friendship and courtesy?
when did warriors start using trait points.
Twitch – Aussie Streamer
New evidence of WBC cheating…
The GH forum attitude differs from when I was on Dzagonur.
Shout out to the guilds that try and actually manage to get the best out of this.
Shame on you Vizu, you really should tell 70% of your players to go PvE because ANet is not able of matching servers according to their WvW population. ;-)
Thanks to the MM guys and girls that invited me to a little 1v1 session yesterday on our BL. Great/unique builds and neat gameplay!
Btw where is <3Troma<3?
Legendary counter: Twilight, Bolt, Incinerator, Incinerator Nr. 2, Meteorlogicus, The Dreamer
This matchup is very fun, at least for me :-).
I am very glad that I could face Viz and Kodash before the leagues started.
Since the first time we met, Kodash is one of my favourite servers to face. And Viz indeed has skilled smallscale players; I met them.
Imagine this, our force of 3-5 even managed to outman some of those we met!
Flavour of this matchup: thieves working together, calling target and executing a poor, poor mesmer in the most inappropriate moments. This is something I have never encountered before, will definitely train my reactions and timing /salute.
Kodash, skill of your roamers is astonishingly high. Those fights in the ruins, simply delicious.
Viz, I have never seen such well coordinated server. I don’t know why, but playing against you gives me that nice feeling “that’s how the game should be played”. We simply COULDN’T pry those ruins from you in our small squad. Response times and coordination – even with no waypoints – wow :-). I am simply amazed.
And it is ‘normal players’, not guild groups, for once! :D.
From my side, I vow to protect Water and Hero camps (from time to time) in Viz borderland, using 2-3 players and 5 ballistae! Because, as a wise (yet criminally insane) man said, “if you have a problem, throw MOAR ballistae on it”.
Good luck, have fun and slay me as mercilessly as I would slay you if I could :-).
https://www.youtube.com/user/IrxallisGaming/videos
HT 5th Omega Division send their regards
[HT] officer , commander & Spiritual leader.
Gollems Hold
No. That is not a possibility at this time. The point of the buff is to affect the WvW game mode as a whole disabling it on your character would lessen the value of the buff to a server and completely invalidate the whole point.
Devon, it’s become quite resoundingly clear that the WvW ANET team do NOT understand the jewel in their crown, that is WvW open combat. By hook or crook you guys actually made an amazing fast paced, free flowing combat system – that you ARENT even aware of.
Open field combat is frankly amazing (when your servers aren’t lacking like kitten). You do nothing but shun this type of gameplay, revolving every single aspect/update about siege wars. You are either blind to what you have or just plain ignorant, obsessed with your vision of the game, when in reality what you gave the players is far superior to what you intend do deliver. Yet you keep making mind boggling changes that hinder any sort of balance, making everything revolve around zerging and siege. Hell you call coverage SKILL << congratulations.
You really should watch some videos of guilds in action, I am not even suggesting GvG videos (you can’t even bring yourself to say it) I’m talking guilds taking on the masses. Rewarding skill and teamwork taking on superior numbers. Now though, you want to give the servers with the most coverage 150 to each stat.
Please Devon Clarify what “vision” what “insight” there is to rewarding skill less easy moders stacking on the top servers, running in their giant blobs with even more stat bonuses?
Or in English, how about a statement on what is your vision of WvW. Please say sitting on an AC is still one of the most exciting things you’ve ever done, please.
Yours sincerely, one avid WvW open field combat loving Guild Leader.
Aurora Glade EU
http://theunlikelyplangw2.guildlaunch.com