Guild Wars 2

msalakka.4653:

Are you sure you have enough boons? There’s still some screen estate left.

He’s a guardian. He’ll need more screen when he gets into combat. Dem shouts.

Such boons.

I don’t know if this is the right place to put this, but while travelling in the Field of Ruins, I came upon the “The Founding: Vol III” book upstairs in the tavern. King Adelbern’s name is spelled wrong. In the passage, it is spelled “Adlebern”.

Arius.7031:

Jaxs.5830:

The only way to do that is through PvDoor. The fact that you had a blast while doing PvDoor makes you the poster child for what is wrong in this game.

Actually, my guild group had to hold off NSP at north camp that outnumbered us 3-1 at least. The fun wasn’t in PvD, it was in the scramble to whack-a-mole, so to speak, as they were constantly flipping camps and we were constantly trying to retake/defend camps.

We also fielded a yak zerg in EB. Now THAT was fun.

Yes the score of that match indicates strongly that there is a lot of 3-1 going on, just not Darkhaven being the 1. You massively outnumber the other servers in your matchup, bragging about it makes you kitten.

Yeh there is a 50+ AM zerg exploiting the kitten out of this right now. They are literally tearing down wooden gates in around 20 seconds without any siege using this exploit (Gunnar’s Hold aren’t really doing it that much and we’ve been stopping people from doing it on gandara). Their rate of Wxp gain is going to be much higher than normal. It was a ban-able offence to use an exploit to farm linen scraps, but it’s not a ban-able offence to use an exploit to farm Wxp? Double standards much? The Mesmer full damage trait bug was patched remarkably quickly, why was this exploit not also patched as quickly? This is quite unacceptable.

thaooo.5320:

NA players have been using this since the new healing skills came out, and it has not been a problem here.

It’s not even a big deal, no one in NA goes out of their way to spam it. We don’t have necro blobs running around, we just play like we always have, if there happens to be a necro in your group then sure it might be used once or twice but it isn’t game breaking.

EU are last to learn of this, and first to abuse it, it seems. I seriously forgot all about this skill until reading these late-to-the-party EU threads. This ‘issue’ frankly ranks at the bottom of the list of things that need fixing in WvW.

If the enemy is running a bunch of necros just go out there and vaporize them with your hammer train, they won’t be able to defend themselves. Then throw ballista’s on their corpses.

I’d like to ask you to come to Gunnars Hold and see this blob server we have in match up using this exploit to the fullest, see if you still say its not game breaking, this issue should be hotfixed right away and not on 4feb.

Right now the AM necro blob is going through GH borderlands. Why you are trying to defend these cheap kitten tactics is beyond me.
Gandara would be ahead of you if your server was not cheating big time. I kinda feel sorry for the few good and well known guilds on AM, their name is tainted even though they did not cheat.

thaooo.5320:

aspirine.6852:

It’s a big deal, that you or your server doesnt understand it makes no difference.

Be as abusive and aggressive as you want (lol, sad), but it isn’t abused in NA and no one here even cares about it, or actively thinks about it. It is just one of those things in the background no one cares about.

Ps I never said it makes no difference, I simply said we don’t abuse it, or care for its existence, read word for word.

Ah another lucky soul that hasn’t met Blobbadon ^^

Immagine 25 necro’s spamming the skill with another 25 dps on your reinforced gate and not bothering to build siege or golems becaust the gate melts in seconds.

Everyone, literally everyone in EU knows the way Blobbadon plays..

corwen.5798:

Cant wait for the mimimi of Gandara today… btw there was as good as no defense in all of the keeps AM took yesterday AND your zergs fights were pittyfull. It doesn’t matter, rams or necros, in both cases Gandara loses. FYI we just took GH’s first WP with nobody there defending it.
Also, our Commander quoted repetedly in TS the mod saying he does not recommend using the signet.

blobadons still exploiting, 30+ zerg just run through gandara border, 30 sec’s a keep.
You wonder why no one defending? because there no point, siege does nothing to massive blobs getting through anything in less than 30 seconds. stack on door, heals thrown down and through door happy days for skill less exploiters

corwen.5798:

AND your zergs fights were pittyfull.

when have zerg fights not been pitiful? oh yeah! when they are boring.

who cares about the stupid points it just ranks servers by coverage. Fight don’t farm.

Ljiona.9142:

I am not sure what is worse, people using it to get ppt or people crying over it. WWWWWWHHHHHHAAAAAAA

I couldn’t care less about ppt or lack of it. but do go and try to find a decent fight when all your enemies are together in one megablob flipping keeps in 30 seconds and porting away after they do it. fun stuff huh?

Its gonna get the same repercussions skyhammer exploiters got in spvp. Guess what that was

So typical to see zero acknowledgement from AM players that it it’s simply wrong to abuse exploits like this. Fits right in with a play-for-loot, no respect for opponents, anti-PvP mentality.

thaooo.5320:

NA players have been using this since the new healing skills came out, and it has not been a problem here.

It’s not even a big deal, no one in NA goes out of their way to spam it. We don’t have necro blobs running around, we just play like we always have, if there happens to be a necro in your group then sure it might be used once or twice but it isn’t game breaking.

EU are last to learn of this, and first to abuse it, it seems.

It’s a big deal, that you or your server doesnt understand it makes no difference.

If you look at Abaddons Mouth’s tick you will see that they didnt get the message, in fact they have a lot of underlevveled Necro’s running around lol. Typical of a ppt regional server.

Josh Davis.6015:

Hey all,

There will be a fix for this coming in the February 4th release next Tuesday. In the meantime, I would avoid using Signet of Vampirism in the manner outlined in this thread.

Thanks for the reports!

While you are at it, how about buffing the skill to actually make somebody use it outside of this exploit.

And to be honest, I dont think such a critical error can wait untill the 4th.

Do you speak German Josh? Noone posted it on the DE forums…

Ban that server already, they all know about it and large groups are still using it. They should be removed from the server list and banned for life.

I have not seen gandara using it, nor our own server. I would report them myself if someone is using it. Testing fine, but these AM need to be banned for exploiting the skill.

BREAKING NEWS!!!

Siege master’s across Tyria reporting record low sales. Some have gone out of business, other are having to make major cut-backs

On other news… Record amounts of necro’s poping up all over Tyria.
Necro conspiracy?

So AM found a nice bug.

Using Signet of Vampirism on doors, melts them so fast, they dont even need any siege.
All they have is a group of necros that spam the Signet of Vamprism on the gate and it just melts. Defending has become obsolete until this is fixed since they can just PvD everything down in seconds. Please fix this Anet.

I smell people trying to sell runes.
P.S. They’re selling like hotcakes now!

Don’t really need to say much more

Seems Gunnar’s Hold also forgot to report it, melted through our overlook, this is shocking, hope there is a fix for this in patch on the 4th

Suppose it saves WvW player’s some gold, who needs siege when you have necro’s

Belenwyn.8674:

I smell a hard punishment for exploiting servers/players.

It’s not PvE so it doesn’t matter in anet’s eyes.

it is bugged, 60 man abbadon blob exploiting it to the max, every single necro in their zerg running it.
not that they are the only ones, gandara guys were already talking about logging their alts to do it too.

my question is why? how can you possibly have fun running around in 60+ groups at 11 am, beating down doors in seconds with a bugged skill? :s you’d be better off champ farming in pve. oh well.

this needs an hotfix, but Im sure anet will wait for the next living story patch, because this isn’t gamebreaking or anything <.<
inb4 deleted thread btw

Nicely put RedCobra, and I agree it’s disingenuous to call something cheese that was basically the whole intent of the changes that led to the PU build becoming popular. They buffed the bajeebus out of both Scepter and PU across 2 patches, and then wonder why everyone is flocking to it? Very odd.

I know, I know, their focus is on the clone-death traits now, but we’ve had those verbatim for a LONG time, and only now they discovered they’re “cheese” and OPd?

Please! Everyone considered them quite under-powered until PU/Condie builds came along, which again was hardly a coincidence based on the buffs it received.

I will say though that you’re wrong about whiny kids not complaining if you beat them with a different build. I’ve been playing a tanky mantra/shatter build that I posted in another thread, and I’ve gotten plenty of kids complaining about losing. Usually thieves of course. /boggle

People just hate Mesmers in general and most of all they hate to lose, and are always quick to assume it’s not a skill issue, but a balance issue! ;-)

Ross Biddle.2367:

Jaydos.4751:

I have been running a shatter Mesmer for sometime now. Don’t get me wrong I really Enjoy the build it would be one of my favorite Mesmer builds. However I do have some complaints about it. Especially about the Skill Illusionary Leap. A shatter Mesmer Relies On this skill in order for Their Shatter to hit, but the skill is way to buggy and will miss 70% on a moving target, and if you are lucky enough to hit. There is a short window of time when the player is immobilized they are able to still dodge roll being immobilized just out of range. I find it really annoying that the only non Cheese/OP mesmer build is severely Unreliable. Making it even more difficult to run.

You know, for a while there everyone was calling shatter cheese, for it’s raw high burst dps one button auto win.

People who talk about things as ‘cheese’ reflect a degree of ignorance, and make themselves appear silly and childish (ala the Devs in the livestream), no offense intended. Your argument would be stronger without it.

exactly its just the whatever the latest build to insult is or blame their own lack of skill, its a little unfair against the Power PU mesmers that have been running it since start, recently ive been receiving that much grief that ive pulled more into defence in zergs as opposed to PU just to show that all those (You beat me because your using an OP build) people can be beaten with a different build, people who are used to Power PU id recommend trying out your exact same build but replace your GS with Sceptre/offhand sword, the defence allows for more face to face combat and your guaranteed not to get whiny kids complaining, apart from one i got last night explaining that i was hacking by getting too many blocks from sceptre/sword +mimic xD

Jaydos.4751:

I have been running a shatter Mesmer for sometime now. Don’t get me wrong I really Enjoy the build it would be one of my favorite Mesmer builds. However I do have some complaints about it. Especially about the Skill Illusionary Leap. A shatter Mesmer Relies On this skill in order for Their Shatter to hit, but the skill is way to buggy and will miss 70% on a moving target, and if you are lucky enough to hit. There is a short window of time when the player is immobilized they are able to still dodge roll being immobilized just out of range. I find it really annoying that the only non Cheese/OP mesmer build is severely Unreliable. Making it even more difficult to run.

You know, for a while there everyone was calling shatter cheese, for it’s raw high burst dps one button auto win.

People who talk about things as ‘cheese’ reflect a degree of ignorance, and make themselves appear silly and childish (ala the Devs in the livestream), no offense intended. Your argument would be stronger without it.