Guild Wars 2

Toumai.4812:

I hope that Arena will change quickly this major issue …

They will observer for sure in the reset today

naphack.9346:

Aeolus.3615:

Midnightjade.3520:

Honestly, retal and confuse were not hard to deal with before the patch and are very easy to handle now, but DPS are still complaining? Wow.

People probably used to spam skills on pve, and they dont understand they need to observe what the enemy is doing.

Its the same, when 2 or 3 guys try to KD my guardian while i have stability, they will not complain that i had stability so they coulndt KD,its just playing clever.

So I observe the enemy running into my zerg. now I:
-attack and die or
-do nothing and get killed
Observing doesn’t kill stuff. How are you supposed to observe, if the average zerg clash is decided within 10 seconds?

The only thing that’s clever is: You see enemy zerg approaching with retal up.
-f10 -> character select
-delete that engineer and that ranger and the ele, too, for good measure
-new character
-mesmer or necromancer

That’s what 90% of the guys in here are saying, isn’t it?

1st, you need to take action in those 10seconds before your skills get locked in combat, change utilities if needed.

2nd try to lock in a key target (if possible), traps anything that stuns criple,for sure you have some necro boon hating nearby see where he is using the marks/wells.

3rd, if you dont know the movements of the other groups well you will have a bad time, gain advantage in choke points build siege to spike area etc etc….

you just cant stay there just spamming skills :/

Ive seen some great archers on wvw, shooting from cliif’s doing 3k-6k on my character, and almost downning with 1 shot light armor users, and this is also what i think it is the role of the archer in wvw.

P.S i dont know if bows damage is the same as in GW1, if it is damage is increased from high and distance on longbows (i think it works like this but not sure).

Midnightjade.3520:

Honestly, retal and confuse were not hard to deal with before the patch and are very easy to handle now, but DPS are still complaining? Wow.

People probably used to spam skills on pve, and they dont understand they need to observe what the enemy is doing.

Its the same, when 2 or 3 guys try to KD my guardian while i have stability, they will not complain that i had stability so they coulndt KD,its just playing clever.

Make a 0-30-20-20-0 build and swing your sword over 3k hit, use meditations and you have now 2 or more teleport.

Golems could resit much better AC, altough if theres an OIl it will melt the golems, and to destroy the oil players need to avoid AC, atm wvw lacks on rules, this AC could work fine on a real
large map, not this fast deahmatch map.

i cant wait for tonight reset, lets see what kind of new moviments will be there

here are some examples:

Alekty.8706:

Arenanet did try to prevent zerging due to people whining on the forum. With Arenanet immunesystem running amock they tried change arrowcart mechanic to be a counter to zergs. However with these changes there will quickly only be 1 commander on the four maps… so counter productive to say the least.

New content to prevent zerging won’t be put in until some other major mmo releases.. ze typical developer way of dealing with things; fixing things until they break.

Why do you think there will be only 1 commander in wvw?
-I would say now, some of the random pve commanders will want to have their personal AC show.

Well wvw got a bit harder to take tower/castles i kinda like it(got no problem to say it, altough i think is to much), but wonder if they could do it w/o buffing the AC like 80% of the damage.

ArcTheFallen.7682:

ArcTheFallen.7682:

Aeolus.3615:

ArcTheFallen.7682:

Wait, I thought invulnerable meant you literally can’t be touched. The warrior signet can bypass renewed focus?

There were already several skills could ignore the invunerable effect…

Are you sure about this? List 2 skill that bypasses it.

I still want proof of this. I’ve never noticed this at all in any of my fights. Unless you are referring to stun skills which apparently can bypass it as Cloud said — I still have to test it after work today.

yes condition/stun skills, maybe a bit of lag on the skill activation and common skills apearing on damage chat window.

This is on large scale wvw, that sometimes i die on the first second of the skill, on small combat as spvp or wvw roaming dont have that problem.

Edit, cant remmember if wells or traps can damage while on RF.

still no movable siege, wheels guys but square..

I do not mind with a small buff on AC, but this is to muchrather have larger map, stronger castles, movable siege….

ArcTheFallen.7682:

Wait, I thought invulnerable meant you literally can’t be touched. The warrior signet can bypass renewed focus?

There were already several skills could ignore the invunerable effect…

yes guardians are eveywhere!
thats why im running atm on thief and necro

If player and target have speed buff both will run faster than the orbs from scepter, the orbs will be always behind the caster.

They could buff AC, but this is crazy…. map is to small for this kind of update, i cant compreend how they dont notice this!!

If they want castles\towers to flip less and be harder to conquest this is one of the worse options they could take(due wvw actual design).

Low Hp??, you have already healin power, isnt that the reason of the low health pool, ah and boons ?

P.S once again Anet proved (IMO)that guardian are bad designed, and all they can introduce are more ways to what already have many ways to conter.

Crunkmagnet.3908:

As an engineer, I find this to be a buff.

I guess its the only positive update for guardian also! we get another tick, just becouse of that i feel op!

Magical Sky Daddy.7540:

You should go to either GoM or NSP, I heard they are looking for more people.

Well in my opinon i would not mind to have fresh blood in the server and a well organized guild is always welcome,

sorry to hijack a bit the thread but once in the while server that stay on t8 for quite some time, the transfer should be cheap or the price should be droped.

frostshade.3617:

Nsp could always use more people for our community we have cookie tacos here but that’s all I’ll say

well they would be a nice had to NSP wvw population, about quee, sometimes can happen in EB map at reset night, otherwise is a free to join.

• on last reset took about 2-3h after, to have a que in EB(other maps could have a group of 30-50 per map if all got together).

*server with good commanders and good organized guilds(yet very few ones as large as yours)

@frostshade, you forgot the bacon cookies

Only do wvw and litle spvp, started game with the pre order, and world still at ~52%, not using ascended itens, started to make the dailys and stoped, if i make the daily or month is pure coincidence.

I like scepter to atack players on walls, since player tend to be still and dont moove much, its nice for spike calls.

Tumbero.3945:

So a guardian vs 3 with boon hate , what will do now? at least for me.

The only think i want they to change if that the shield dont have block , nothing more.

i will try my boomer as always on wvw when they add the hate mode. and compare.

anyway i never saw a update that buff guardians , i fell from beta that they keep nerfing it nothing all compared with all the others class.

A guardian with conditions and boons is a certain death now!

Guardian, is not that good as people think it have way to many ways to be countered compared with other classes.

If guardian cast Sanctuary (range 120), there are melee skills with far range than 120, and those player still not be needed to get stability to kill /hit on the target a 130 range skills is eneugh to penetrate the shield due range and being melee, and this is only a small exemple of the guardian skill problems.

P.S:what would happen if Anet givemore damage to elementalist that could hit on stealthed targets ( 3% more damage for each second that target steath lasts) .

and sorry about any bad english.

Thesilentflute.8761:

Make it so the enemy factions cannot see outmanned buff It is a green light to rush as much as you can as fast as you can.

No info should ne displayed as boon/foods/ upscaled lvl, etc etc.

only guild and server should be observable.

lLobo.7960:

Jinks.2057:

I kill guardians all the time.

I kill bad guardians all the time.
The good ones are too hard to crack open, its a waste of time. He probably will just dance around block, invul, heal, keep you busy until his backup team arrives.

A good thief or necro can kill w/o effort a good guardian.

Tallis.5607:

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Also… anyone… feel free to show me a rotation where a warrior does 25k damage in 1.5 seconds.

Just asking how much a good speced W for 100B can do?

I can confirm it does ~14k trough 3.2k armor since i felt that death (no chance of evade on root), i wish zealot defense could do a similiar damage at least for the 14k.

ski.4927:

Apologies to PvErs. I only WvW with lots of small skirmish roaming.

Thief tears make me so happy I could giggle.

Keep those “nerfs” coming.

I play a thief….

/hugs

^this, but i dont play thief as main for now.

Amins.3710:

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Guardians will be the first to go down and we have nothing to counter the focus fire…. oh wait, we now have to run Focus, cast Shield of Wraith to protect us from an interrupt on our Shelter / Renewed Focus…

All we can hope for is their “unblockable” ability does not effect “Invulnerable”.. if it does, our Elite just went to kitten.

When im not playing my main char (guardian), i pick guardians as main targets to kill, theres already many ways to counter, a guardian with shouts or concecrations recharging is a dead one, if you know how to avoid their melee.

SmudgerUK.4715:

Pretty much anything by Two Steps From Hell fits in pretty well.

pretty much this or Manowar

Lalnuir.4957:

Aeolus.3615:

While not playing on my guardian, playing thief as example guardian are the 1st i choose to kill due some pseudo-bulky and low health, no matter how much boons or healing power it has i can easily burst with 3k-8k per hit, with rage sigil, when it happens even i continue atacking while target is already dead :/.

Guardians are good in pack, or in the midle of the zerg.

If your killing guardians 1v1 with a thief then to be blunt they are terrible guardians.

i would say if “you” cant kill guardians with “your” thief then “you” are playing bad, or maybe im biased becouse i can counter the class that is my main, and noticed to many faults or ways to counter them overtime, imo guardians are the most easy class to kill in wvw, the damage diference isnt that much on this game between medium and high armor, there are no tanks and they are easy to burst dow, other thing are the RC compared with conditions aplyers no matter how many conditions you remove you will have always conditions on.

ps: and if i have a mesmer or necro assisting (X vs X) its dammn fast.

is not ment to do damage but an excuse to guardian mobility.
But is a cool skill unless:
-teleports you under the map
-Teleports you inside a garrison while the target is entering castle
-Teleports you into a non selected mob/ enemy, this is mostly anoying in wvw.

who cares about damage if is a suicide skill? :P
- when you try to teleport with flash blade, and your teleported into the same place becouse target is highter or lower than your position (stairs as exemple).

:and sorry about the bad english.

Just dont run straight to them, or pop up stability, or teleport and destroy them and many many alternatives.

While not playing on my guardian, playing thief as example guardian are the 1st i choose to kill due some pseudo-bulky and low health, no matter how much boons or healing power it has i can easily burst with 3k-8k per hit, with rage sigil, when it happens even i continue atacking while target is already dead :/.

Guardians are good in pack, or in the midle of the zerg.

So a huge zerg with loads of mass invisible could pass into the spawn and make a picknic?

“What traits you hate ?”

every trait in honor…

i would ask to update all castle to be hard! and really hard to take!!!

Creativity beats the game!

yanoch.7051:

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Score Update

SF : 284 134 +400
PSN : 180 164 +210
HoD : 116 072 +70

PSN? Peakshiver Northen?

ty for update!

Yup gw2 got nothing to due with sandbox, or even openbox, gw2 is common mmo that dev’s introduce some minor content to the world calling it Living Story, even some of the ones that are in beta and being sandbox games already got a really nice graphism.

The next gen of mmo’s(end 2k13/2k14) will give the option for guilds to change the world, cant you guys imagine what if guilds could build castles from pre-selected models, movable siege? on a huge batlefied add towers, but with the actual WvW doesnt have its own shifts, since fights are not ment to last or even castle conquest are not ment to last due server reset or massive golem rushes, what you do got no credit at the end with the actual concept becouse you will loose it on the next minutes.
WvW got to much impact than Anet expectec as they sayd it would be the casual PVP to spend some minutes and leave.

Even on PvE, guilds could improve the main citties, bough a guild home( on Divinity Reach as example improve the resources of the city) …well this is just a openbox world, sandbox would be to complex for the sytem do deal with it, as it would be need more €/$ for a development like that and i believe NCsoft would not want to put some money on this, thats the same to imagine gw2 with some rules of Archage as in exemple of a sandbox mmo and being developed by a ex-ncsoft if i remmeber well .

P.S, IMO GW2 with openbox concept would be a overkill in USA and EU to other games, and sorry to the bad english.

btw isnt anet itended to nerf(balance) boons? XD

I dont knwo if is a rummor or not, didnt listened the interview on youtube.
Any 1 care to post a link?

low health pool only work on pve.

Poor guardians that relly on boon duration lol!

if they take that out from guardians roles, they need to give at least a litle more health??

Another bad class design as example, they relly way to much on pet, pet makes damage pet revives, pet goes shoping, pet makes food!

The only ranger i saw playing it well on WvW was on the high cliff at the right side of overlook and north of ogrewatch with a full traited longbow, it could hit some targets near veloka as well (hitting 5k-8k on my guardian with 3.5k armor at that time).

Inverted.7439:

Rakanarshi.5892:

I concur with Tommyknocker. While it is cool to see a new dungeon and some more Guild and WvW stuff, I am more interested in class balance. Engineer, Necro and Rangers need a little loving :P

i assume you’re talking about in WvW right? because in PvP those are probably the top classes. Though yes i wouldnt mind a little bit of a touch up on d/d heal ele

They can be madness in wvw!
well Engi is just turret spike gank, but when it its its a insta death lol.

CMF.5461:

@Isslair:
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To that end, the mechanics of the game defeat the stated mechanics of guardians…we are supposed to have lower health because we heal well, but we struggle against the “there are no healers” paradigm, so it puts us in a tough spot sometimes.

Thats when i feel guardian forces all to use very similiar build and that imo is a bad design, if you wont have healing power your vit will stay low and wont heal.

edit2: guardian is the worse class concept, the way that sacrifices health for a stat that you might not be using as healing power or event boon duration.

is it wrong to play guardian w/o these two components while your health pool also low?

Guardian can have 2 teleports 1 leap several CC, its fine overall, problem is for people that dont want to relly in boons it get a bit limited.

PS. as for roaming, i prefer necro removing boons on guardians (most used build and class i find o wvw) that relly on them to much, aplly poison when they try to heal (-33% effect).

KyoHanakaze.8145:

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EDIT: Also, we feel straight from the #1 spot to where we are now. Moving down one tier isn’t going to kill us, so I’m sure we’ll be fine. If there’s one thing HoD is good for, it’s its resilience.

Maybe you guys might get some influx, arent transfers for t8 free?

IF we have that on t7, i cant imagine how many times it happens on t5 and upper tiers…..

For PvE anything works on guardian, just try to get the exotic gear.

Preview the build here http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/

“call to boon hating”

Vet.3726:

well thats good to hear cuz i love my stats
3622 Armor
38% Crit Chance
63% Crit Damage
16407 HP
and i believe Attk is about 31##
with Shield and Mace

used to have similiar stats until i started to fight packs of boon haters , a good necro outruns that easily doesnt matter how much RC you have

Guardian weapons might be the most bugged so far, ive been reporting some errors with sword also, blinding flash triggered a guy inside the tower while i tryed to teleport to other player near gate, 2 days ago(pve map) i was teleported under the map, where i could even atack mobs ( looks a nice place to solo jormag :P).

Funny becouse the weapons i use on guardian are sword and scepter, and its a pain playing with stuff that is broken, but the bugs sometimes can produce funny momments also.

Rump Buffalo.2594:

dont expect it to get fixed anytime soon…. or ever.

The patching for this game is pretty terrible

They were working on culling issues, maybe now they are working on this game bugs, i imagine this being in top priority becouse it brokens a game class and weapon.

After this being fixed Anet should add spears to warriors annd sword offhand to guardians, something like that they need to make guardians/warriors happy! lol

:soz any bad english