Guild Wars 2

Most of you folks are just being silly, there is absolutely no reason a Guardian focused on defensive stats should ever take a 9k hit. I don’t care what the player sacrificed for that damage. Certainly not in conjunction with the thief class who already slides on survivability due to stealth. There seems to be an issue with defensive stats scaling against crit, perhaps it’s intended but it certainly isn’t mitigating the damage that prioritizing those stats should. We’ll see what Anet does to address this in the next balance passes.

Agrees with the OP.
IMHO that amount of damage shoud not be possible on that much armor or a heavy class with protection up. Power tougness vit + protection should not let u die in 3-10 seconds. Fights should be longer if you spec that way. I’v had 3500 armor + protection up and still died in 3-5 seconds if i was on CD’s.

Maybe crit dmg and food and 25stacks shud be nerfed? or increase tougness values?

I don’t know, you ever fight those Risen chickens? They could use a nerf.

dunno which server will have you,but i know for sure it will be a lucky server^^

it was a pleasure to play with you^^

Oh dear, I must say these news really made me sad.

NP are not only disciplined and coordinated force, but also bunch of really nice people I always liked to play with.

I hope you will eventually change your minds as it would be great loss for RoF.

If you decide to transfer, I wish you good luck finding new home

Give it time. The status of legendaries is plummeting now they’re on the TP and so many people have them (especially the greatswords) so people are going to look elsewhere. A skin that is no longer available, requires no lodestones, has unique sound effects, and was available only in the second month of the game being released? Sounds pretty appealing to me.

buy something to eat with your $100 or donate to the poor. not wasting it on GW2

I’ve had almost no luck in flipping on the TP. I’ve certainly tried, but I can’t find items that move fast enough to make any decent profit. I’m just starting though. I make far more profit from crafting. With 60g capital I am making 4g/day only logging in 5 minutes a day, not very much, but not very hard either.

This game isn’t about adverture, jorneys and epic battle anymore, it just full of gold market players and whats worst is that legendarys are 90% market required.

Well I for one want to apologise to our current opponents. I know how tedious it is to get roflstomped all week in hopelessly imbalanced matchups – we have had enough of those over the past couple of months. I’m sorry if this, and the other moves, make this week no fun for you. Not much fun for me either tbh, logging in to find very little to do.

That being said – if guilds want to join, or leave, the server there is not much we can do about it other than engage with them and manage it as well as possible. Our community elders have done a good job explaining what we are about and what our hopes are – expectations is too strong a word, it’s not as if we can police it. Xaoc is welcome to our server as long as they don’t kitten it up for those of us that have stuck it out through the tough times.

The guilty party here is the free transfer policy – this means that guilds can move around as they like and cause imbalances like this. Thank kitten this will shortly be stopped.

I don’t care what tier we fight in just as long as the fights are balanced and fair. WSR and RoF, I’ve had a few fantastic weeks against you all – kudos and respect to you. If we are to walk this week I hope we can leave you to a better fight next week.

Growl

ANet needs to be competitive with Gold Prices; 3rd party is crushing them.
Currently, for $1 you can get 0.95g through the Gem Store – Currency Exchange, direct from ANet.
3rd party offers 3.61g for each $1.

I really, REALLY dislike gold sellers and never intend to buy through them; it’s just disappointing to realize that I’m effectively being punished by doing things honestly/according to the rules.
If ever I wanted to buy Gold, it would effectively be at a severe loss to me to buy it through ANet’s Gem Store – Currency Exchange when compared with a 3rd party alternative.

What is there that can be done to address this and make it more worthwhile to buy Gold through ANet?

Having great fun fighting NP in our BL

Fiat money systems are bad, guild wars needs a better system

I couldn’t agree more. FotM doesn’t any extra reasons to run.

Make daily requirements a choice of 4/5 with specific dungeons as an added option. The dungeon would change on each day.

I believe that the daily / monthly achievement should be something that push people to where less players, so include WvW / JP is reasonable. But FOTM? Everyone in LA look for group to FOTM, it should already the hottest content in GW2!

FOTM already being included in the monthly for continuous 2 months, stop it! People already do too much FOTM to some sense that its hardly to form party for other topics!

Ok, it’s a fair cop, we have secretly recruited several mega guilds to stomp our opposition and steamroll our way to tier 1. Oh wait, it was only a bad dream.

The simple facts of the matter are this, over the last 2 weeks we have had 2 guilds join is consisting of, at most, 60 WvW players, in that same time period we have had 4 guilds leave us, in terms of numbers, we have lost close to twice the number we recruited.

We have seen an increase in numbers coming from PvE as would any server when they are being successful. We have been able to put out large numbers at reset because we plan for it and ensure the PvE side of the community are both aware of it and are welcome to join in regardless of previous experience. Again nothing different to any other server.

The whole question of numbers is relative to time of day , location, current server activity etc and as such fluctuates constantly.

Ironically, the one server which can justifiably claim to be the underdog in this match-up carry on quietly doing the best they can with the limited resources at their disposal and doing it well.

Imho, I would prefer to do whatever possible to keep WSR in this group simply due to their fighting spirit and if that means targetting RoF, then so be it.

Fortunately, many RoF people seem to share that fighting spirit and ‘get on with the job’ making this an enjoyable match-up regardless of the pointless discussion about numbers.

Since the weekly matches began GH faced months of continually getting kicked into 2nd or 3rd place by servers that massively outnumbered us, even though many (with honourable exceptions) of them weren’t much good in an even numbers fight.

We’re well aware of what it means to fight numerically superior opponents which is why we’ve had to try and get more organised, and we know very well what the higher tiers look like.

Good fights on GH BL tonight. ICON gave us a bit of a scare early on and i had to call in some backup to get them dislodged. Whilst we were fighting them, some sneaky WSR players nearly ninja’d our hills.

As for numbers, I think we probably outnumber ROF quite substantially, but not because we’ve had a large influx of players from other servers. It’s because we’re winning and have a lot of backup from our PVE players, and because you’re losing they’re staying away. Sure, we have organised very well in recent weeks, but that can’t be the only reason behind our 600pt tick this morning.

Unfortunately your actions during the first week (alliance with ROS) left a sour taste , especially with me. And as a result, I tend to focus on ROF more than i do WSR, i imagine other commanders and guilds are doing the same.

I’m a little kittened at the numbers posts – we’ve worked kitten hard on strategy, communication and planning for months now to stop the downward spiral of our server. Can’t you just say “yeah, well played Gunnar’s”? We can acknowledge that we’ve been outplayed by lower population servers in the past but I firmly believe we’ve learned and have improved.

Nothing that we did tonight was by chance or luck – we planned our reset and we executed flawlessly across multiple guilds and multiple borderlands. I’m kitten proud of the effort put in and the thought that went into this reset and even if we lose this week tonight was the most fun I’ve had for blooming ages – not because we kicked kitten – but because we planned, schemed and executed in a unified and determined way.

I’ll say it – well played Gunnar’s, you did yourselves proud. We set goals, we stuck to them. I’m proud to be part of this community.

Growl

Looking at the night so far, and last week, I would say that GH certainly have more numbers when we reach our full prime-time, whereas Ring of Fire seem to have smaller but more constant numbers.

At reset Gunnars comes out all guns blazing then die off about 2 hours later, on a general nights play our numbers are mostly gone by 1-2am. Ring of Fire seems (certainly this week) to have been active until 4am~ and back online around 7am for a solid push in EB.

It looks like you have people who want different things and are going in different directions. This sort of thing happens often in life and is natural.

Let the losers who switch enjoy their 10 hour que’s, I don’t care. And if you have good commanders who know their tactics you don’t need a big zerg. (it will always help though :-p)

Boy am I glad there was no mass transfers or recruiting before they put the paid transfers into place …. oh wait ….

Its about kitten time imo.

I’m with Columba on this. At the very least it’ll cost people to spy. Perhaps that will curtail it a tiny bit if they have to cough out real money each time to do so.

they will go up the ranking, get to the point where they suck again, and drop back down for easy mode. still i guess easy mode farming is what they want from wvw lol.

Thanks!

Now I must find a way to hit 50 people with a ram.

I was there for this action and it was in the lord’s room at Hills. We were outnumbered 3/4-1 and we knew we wouldn’t hold the inner walls. So we set up ballistae covering the tunnel, arrow carts round the edge and people in the cap circle. Despite being prepared and CCing the chokepoint and covering the approach with AOE they still got a mesmer through and the enemy were spreading out on the cap circle stairs and it was game over. I main a staff ele and know all about uses of AOE, but by the time they’d rendered it was all over.

Portals have great tactical uses but it’s a shame that they render chokepoints and prepared defences almost worthless and then it’s back to larger numbers == win.

How about a mesmer? Portals are always useful… No need to shout around looking for mesmers when you need them.

Here’s one that’s been bugging me for a while. Are the mesmer hiding spot on the south cliffs of bay, and in the north east of hills intended? I’m pretty sure the hills one is an exploit/bug because you can see the water through the ground, but the one in bay has a pretty obvious path to it.

Lol we had a thief spend an hour making our wp contested …. He kept invising, and given how tough this class is to kill, changing the timer on the wp to make it contested longer will only be abused/exploited. At least with the way it is now, players get a millisecond to port in and help when this kind if thing us being done. Its a very very narrow window. We finally got the thief, but it took four of us (slippery bugger) …. And he only wound up coming back again. If you’re going to extend the timer on contested, it’s only fair you make a thief lose invis if he takes damage