Guild Wars 2

serialkicker.5274:

Bright.9160:

Yeah, you go ahead and smash your face against your keyboard for money and feel good about it.

In the meantime, I’ll be in Arah, being broke.

Why do people hate so much on poeple farming cof? I agree there are quite some idiots you can meet there, but there are nice people farming too. If you want to farm gold the hard way, fine, no one forces you to do cof if you don’t like it.

Because the notion of farming gold in a game where it has no real value, is ridiculous at best.

Ragnar.4257:

KrisHQ.4719:

What this match-up is actually like:

OMG group of 20 players. TWENTY!!!!

Gandarblob. Blobdara. Ganblobra. srsly, a whole twenty people in the same place? ridiculous.

I mean, I know [NR] had a group of 40 last night, but thats a community event, so its different. And AG players only count as 1/4 of a gandaran anyway.

(trollin, with love)

You missed the point of his image. It wasn’t to show that people group up in the twenties (which is not a lot mind you), but the fact that any large group, be it 20 or 80, will spend time and effort chasing 1 guy across the map, in the hopes of WXP and loot bags.

Also, please don’t confuse The New Reality [NR], with Necro Raiders [NR]. We never run more than 5 players at a time.

There are two NR guilds… Yesterday (and Monday by the Longview) it was Necro Raiders. KrisHQ is from New Reality. They wasn’t running with us.

If we knew there is already wvw guild with NR tag, we would picked different one. Now it’s just confusing… Well, maybe not. Necro Raiders was GW1 guild so old players wouldn’t give up this tag…

Yeah, it’s unfortunate. As far as I remember, you guys transfered to AG as well, so there’s not really much either of us could’ve done to prevent the confusion.

Zappenduster.2398:

KrisHQ.4719:

Why are we consantly getting matched with germans!?
Constant zerging.
Looks like this will be another tPvP week!
Please match us with Ruins Of Surmia and Far Shiverpeaks.

Nefes.8567:

jakub.6857:

The whole wvw system is a bad joke. How we can win if two DE servers are cooperating all the time. 2 vs 1 is just unfair :-/

Drakkar Lake never cooperates with other server. Keep that in your mind.

Who are you trying to fool? I think it’s pretty kitten obvious that the germans teamed up a few times last week, or was it mere coincidence that we lost two towers to one server while defending our third against the other?

Well spotted, you are so clever…

Especially in the early morning the two German servers had a perfect teamwork.

Have a look at the screenshot. Any more questions?

Last week. Last week. Last week. Last week. Last week. Get it? Last week. Stop posting screenshots of this week – it merely proves you’re not paying attention.

Daecollo.9578:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Defense-Grandmaster-Trait-Indomitable/page/2#post2092358

Destruction of the Empowered
Deal 5% bonus damage per unique boon on your target.
Each time you hit the target, heal yourself for each boon he has.
(At level 80, the amount healed per boon is 49 + 0.01 * Healing Power.)

Example:
If your target has 3 unique boons, each hit will heal you for 150.
This would allow warriors to have an Anti-Bunker Role in SPVP/PVP, but not overpower them in PvE, because most mobs do not have boons except bosses.

Most mobs, trash mobs don’t even have boons, so in PvE they would not gain a bunker increase.

100Blades on an activated Lyssa Rune; 3600 instant heal and 45% extra damage. In the same trait. Woop woop.

bhagwad.4281:

Adian.8756:

bhagwad.4281:

Am I missing something here?

Yes. You’re missing the fact that no one gives a flying kitten about rewards in PvP.

Without rewards, why would anyone play? And how else would you determine what is the “end game”?

You may say that people play “just for fun”, but that’s not true. Take away any and all rewards including drops, armor etc from an MMO and see what happens.

People will play to improve, to test their skill or to have fun. This is not PvE, so rewards are not needed. What are the rewards for winning a Dota game? What are the rewards for winning a Counter Strike game? Right, there is none.

Players who materialize PvP in any game, are either playing the wrong game, or playing the game wrong.

Well done necroing a 6-month old thread.

bhagwad.4281:

Am I missing something here?

Yes. You’re missing the fact that no one gives a flying kitten about rewards in PvP.

Standard Meta-build with bad runes & sigils. gg

Hey everybody.

Even though it’s been a while since this thread has been updated, we’re still looking for friendly members to expand our guild. We’ve currently unlocked the Guild Bounty, and we’re just 10k Influence off Guild Trek (so, it’ll be unlocked in the next few days).

Best regards,
Adian

Also, custom arenas are coming tomorrow, so we’ll undoubtfully start seeing dueling-servers pop up. Dueling in the open world - No thanks.

LordByron.8369:

yeah people who search for specific profession are bad…

Try with fotm

I go with 2 guard and 2 dps wars
You go without… i think it will need me half the time MINIMUM.

GL to kill vet grawls at 38+ have fun…

Its not a 10% difference its 2-3 or even 5X diffenrence of SUSTAINED DAMAGE.
Is so clear that is the SHAME of the game…

PvE is easy is not an excuse….most PvP players are horribad at PvE (the same is true also).

Did you completely miss the part where I mentioned that I’m already level 33 in FotM? I’ve ran higher levels than that too, and if you think that Full Zerkers are any good at that level, you’ve been horribly misinformed. Whenever I run with a Full Zerk Warrior, I spend more time ressing him, than actually killing stuff.

All I want, is Olympiad from Lineage 2.

http://www.lineage2.com/en/game/the-library/pvp-activities/olympiad-and-heroes.php

I always find it hilarious when people are searching for a specific profession with specific gear. Just yesterday, I did CoF P1 with 2 guild members - I used gw2lfg.com to find the remaining 2 players, having no preference of what profession they played. Meanwhile, some dude was shouting "LF3M Zerk Warriors" in map chat, to get that "perfect run". 10 minutes later, when my party was done with the dungeon, the same guy was still shouting "LF2M Zerk Warriors".

People who search for a specific profession, are clueless baddies. I’m currently level 33 in FotM, and my best runs have been with random profession-setups. I avoid people who search for anything specific (Profession, Skill, AR, Achievements, etc) like the pest, because these people are usually the most clueless ones.

Top 200 sPvP NA, and you use your mouse to click every single skill? You’ve got to be kidding me ._.

Condition damage starts having huge diminishing returns at about a 1000. If I were you, I’d switch some of the Carrion Armor with Knights, to bring Condition damage down a bit, and get some more toughness/Crit Chance and Power for Shatter.

Just my 2 cents

Clone on dodge is definitely useless if your main source of damage is from the Illusionary Duelist. Also, I find it weird how you don’t have a single trait that boosts your Phantasmal damage, while still "relying" on it. If I were you, I’d get Phantasmal Fury, and Empowered Illusions.

Please bind your utilities and your elite to keys. It hurts deep inside when someone uses their mouse to click skills.

Also, I could’ve killed this guy by slamming my face on my keyboard - he was that terrible.

Ruinwolf.5137:

An appropriate reward for a pvp’r would be an item or abiltiy that gives them an edge when fighting other players

Hahahahahaha. No.

Catisa.6507:

two zergs running into each other wiping back and forth = a bunch of people who have not been alive very long = low wxp per kill.

Two soloists roaming for half an hour trying to find another soloist to fight = enemies alive longer = more wxp per kill.

A guy roaming for half an hour, gets run over by the zerg = Lots of wxp for the zerg.

I’m almost sure that all it means is there’s a DR to prevent people exploiting mechanics by dueling to increase their XP.
You know “hey, pssst, come here, there’s no one, I kill you, you come back, you kill me etc …”.
Probably when you get killed, you’ll have some invisible buff lowering reward for killing you.

And that’s fine. Otherwise, we would definitely see guilds abusing this to farm WXP. However, every sheep in the zerg getting full credit for every kill? Pretty much game-breaking.

Parktou.4263:

P.S. you win a 2v1 because your a mesmer and most people fear you and your one army build with 3 stealths.... XD haha can’t wait til mine is leveled.

My only invis is Mass Invis. I don’t rely on Invisiblity to win my fights, I rely on skill and strategy. I win 2v1’s on my Engineer all the time as well. If you can’t win 2v1’s, your skill-level is the problem, not your class.

Also, you’re an Ele ._.

Well said - I definitely share your concerns. I’m a roamer, I enjoy the small fights, and truly hate zerging. How anyone can find zerging enjoyable is beyond me. With this update, us roamers will get severely punished for doing what we enjoy. Winning a hard fought 2v1, will yield a total of 200 XP (if a kill is worth a 100 XP), while 20 players zerging and tagging me, will yield a total of 2000 XP (in a matter of seconds). How am I ever supposed to compete with that? This update is the worst one yet in favor of zergs. Skillless lemmings will quickly rise in rank and abilities, while us roamers are left behind.

Anet needs to realize this.

No, of course not. If I can’t pop stability to finish an enemy, how am I ever supposed to win a 2v1?

http://www.youtube.com/user/hQrup

Excellent videos of small scale roaming.

I can easily do +20 Fractals without AR as well. You’ll most likely die twice at Jade Maw, but other than that, it’s fairly simple.

For PvE, try using Phantasms rather than clones. Clones die instantly, and are really only useful in PvP, or if you’re using shatter.

Bump of justice with his latest video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOrOt4O_nYA

graverr.6473:

Removing the buff is unrealistical since it will only cause karma camping and farming the event.

Implementing diminishing returns on the camps (if the same player captures the same camp multiple times in a row, in a given timeframe), shouldn’t be much of a problem. At least, it’s a solution.

graverr.6473:

Making the camp completely immune to captures for entirely 5 minutes after the cap will be more than gamebreaking

Please enlighten me. How is it gamebreaking?

graverr.6473:

Making the camps and bosses completely immune to damage for 5 minutes will only promote griefing and hacking like the orbs used too.I would rather see the buff removed completely and imo that wilol be a far better ideea than what you guys are suggesting.

We suggested that the buff should be removed as well. Please do read the thread before replying. Thanks.

Terrahero.9358:

Exegerate much? So what do you want? Supplycamps flipping side every minute or less? yah that will be perfectly fine. Im sure there wont be teams camping the same supplycamp, capping it over and over for insane karma/exp.

I kinda already answered this earlier in the thread. There’s 2 options here;
1. If RI is removed, smaller groups will have to defend the camps as well. That way, the camps won’t flip sides every minute, and an extra layer of strategy is added to WvW.
2. As I mentioned earlier, the most reasonable change would be to make the Superviser completely invulnerable to damage, when RI is active.

Terrahero.9358:

RI is there to stop exactly THAT kind of behavior. But why does it bother you that a zerg can bypass it? How many zergs are running around a map exactly? And when they are busting down a camp, who’s wtching the keep?

Who’s watching the keep? For starters, the guards and the ‘gate’ is. How exactly do you want my smaller group to invade a tower, in the time it takes for the zerg to kill a superviser with RI? We’ve tried this numerous times, and each time, the zerg runs us over before we can cap the tower – even with 2 – 3 rams. That bothers me.

I guess I struck a nerve when I said that you favored zerging. If that’s not the case, kindly explain the negatives of RI protecting from all kinds of damage.

graverr.6473:

The current state works perfectly and i cannot see a bunch of ppl that cannot get a bigger group together should ruin it for everyone.A hge change like that will affect WvW in all aspects and will encourage griefing,wich from what i understant yoy guys are trying to do by tricking Anet in removing it under the false assumption that this is not intended.

I almost can’t understand a word you’re saying, but I’ll try to respond anyways.

The current problem of WvW is, that running around in a huge group, circling the map, capping everything on the path, is by far the most effective strategy if you want to win. This takes no skill, no coordination, and attracts bots (there’s a reason people named it “The Karma Express”). Meanwhile, small, organised groups are almost completely useless, and are being forced to join up with the zerg, if they want to have any impact on the outcome.

If we wanted to gather a large group of people, we could fairly easily do so. This is not a problem. The problem is being forced to do so, in order to achieve anything. Would it ruin your idea of ‘fun’, if you weren’t able to follow a giant zerg, and earn easy karma points that way? Running in a giant lag-fest is not my definition of fun, and by the looks of this thread, I’m not alone in that opinion.

Also, I’m interested in hearing what types of griefing you assume would happen, if they changed the way RI works, or removed it completely.

Gab Superstar.4059:

RI actually exists to prevent groups on opposing servers from XP farming objectives in WvW, i.e 2 groups of players systematically letting the opposing team stay inside Lord’s room in a keep for example, and flipping it back and forth for massive XP gain. The XP gain on camps however, is so miniscu that IMO it’s not needed.

That’s a legit reason. However, making the Supervisor completely invulnerable with RI active, would solve this issue.

Terrahero.9358:

RI is fine. It stops small or single man teams from recapping supply camps immediatly, as per same rules applied to towers and keeps. But it doesnt stall an entire zerg for minutes on end.

You’re advocating the zerg-mentality. You’re basically saying “RI is fine, because zerging is fine, and I like zerging”.
I won’t try and change your opinion, but you have to understand, that not everybody enjoys running in a laggy, no-skilled zerg-fest. I don’t, and thus, I approve of all changes that will swing the metagame away from zerging.

DivineBeing.2086:

And I don’t think it should be removed because than you will have a group of 5 players just hanging out at a supply camp you just capped waiting for your zerg to leave to cap it right back.

Exactly. People will be forced to defend the camp, if they want supply for a tower/keep. That’s the entire point. Instead of mindlessly following the zerg, capping camps because it’s a sure 5 mins of supply, people will be forced to split up tactically and defend key points on the map (ie. Supply Camps). This will minimize the incentive to create zergs, and force people to think on their own. Oh the horror.

Dark Aidget.3879:

Honestly, RI is necessary. First, it gives a team a chance to at least get 5 min worth of supply before a camp is rolled. Secondly, it actually forces coordinated play. Yeah, zergs can be mindless beasts, but when your server is full of small groups running different objectives, that can be just as ineffective. Sometimes grouping back up to take back camps is a positive thing.

Running in a zerg is not considered “coordinated play”. Not even close. And no one said you shouldn’t group up and attack larger structures. Of course you should! But without RI, smaller groups will also have an impact on WvW – unlike now.
Also, if removing RI would cause your server to split up in hundreds of small groups, then the problem lies within your server.

I would much rather prefer ninja-capping of camps, than being forced to run in a giant zerg. That being said, I honestly think that making RI neglect ALL damage, would be the prefered solution.

This is going to be a good one =)