Guild Wars 2

I have ran this dungeon with my level 20 warrior and hardly had any trouble with this dungeon besides being downed once or twice. Only reason why I never could get into a pug group is because they see level 20 and start whining about contribution to party that dungeon isnt made for low levels. Got kicked out of one at the end in the middle of boss because I proved them wrong where they died more than I have.

Real challenge is finding a pug that doesnt run on stats and big heads.

Dont you know? This change (like the no dungeon waypoint during group in combat change a couple of months back) is to make WvW more “FUN” and “CHALLENGING”.
FUN if you have the mental outlook of it like Spongebob and CHALLENGING if you are Monopoly Man Rich in GW2. They probably made this change because mesmers were making too much bank from porting people to the end.

More or less it feels as if they are just trying to give us a reason to not have alts to play with besides roleplaying, boredom, and having more options for dungeon runs to appease meta game morons.

I think they should make the chests daily again since it gives everyone something interesting to do besides zerg facing. If it helps remove badges from the chests completely to make those legendary hunters have to work for it on the battlefield if thats what you were intending the change for in the first place.

Hopefully this change was made due to that rumorous map north of the WvW map thats been floating around reddit.

1 – up!!!
Plus up up down down left right B A Select Start for the 100-up on this.

Because I am a hardcore retro fan and other mmos never had the stones to even go this route. Stats dont affect this thing rather skill is the all around mainstream basis for this update and actually has a pattern memorizing learning curve which pays homage to all classic games like Zelda, mario, Castlevania, Mystical Ninja, etc.

Thank you Anet for reminding me of my roots in gaming again with this whole thing. XD

More of the intelligent talk about a class is on GW2 reddit than on here. I played a ranger since opening of game and I been enjoying it alot even still out of my 6 toons its my third most played next to my mesmer wvw commander and elementalist. I even play it more than my guardian and warrior with thief being in the bottom rung of the barrel. Problem is people want more for ranger but they are asking for the wrong stuff first. Pets need a fix AI and defense wise sure but we dont need to do so much more amounts of ranged DPS damage it would make warriors start crying to Anet for not paying attention to them anymore. Rome wasnt built within a day and they cannot make every class equally overpowered as most Stats > skill styled players want. So I say if you cannot stand playing ranger, noone is holding a asuran raygun towards your head and demanding you to keep playing one, try other classes. Thats why we have 5 character slots with option to buy more.

Rangers have not been killed for me and I have 6 maxxed toons. After QZ became a stun breaker and started using sword/dagger and short bow (usually do sb/lb) I been loving the more evasion + unstopablility during one on ones. Plus been seeing a lot of rangers curb stomping thieves in one on one as of late in WvW. Rangers are far from dead.

Id say remove guesting period. If people complain about not being able to play with their friends tell them they should just transfer to the server. If they complain about costs, tell them should have done it when it was free. In fact allow free transfers for a week so those same people can go to their “Friends Server” that way we can actually be able to do world bosses without a problem of worrying about getting shoved into an overflow because of people guesting to farm rares and gold and not being able to because of too many people to even join your group.

That or kick guesters out as soon as a world boss event starts. Because I have not been able to fight a world boss for over a week now because of this and dont feel like sitting around for 2 hours before the guesters start to pour in just to even fight a stupid dragon.

I am working on maxing my 6th character (by pve and crafting) which happens to be a mesmer and I was wondering besides the Portaling (bombing as well) and haste fielding for golems and and point take overs, are there any specific builds/gear/strategies etc to help me enjoy my mesmer as much as I enjoy my other 5 toons in WvW?

I support this idea. 8U
Make WvW feel more like dynasty warriors.

I dont see much a problem with Ranger since I play her every once in a while in Orr or some dungeon runs. I use a Sb/LB evasive survival build with hardly any need for pet but use the murellow (because they have that poison AoE) and lastail for the poison and bleeding range along with the burrowing evade they have.

Rangers with pets are not hard to play as long as you know which ones to use and can switch them out right before death. I can see how alot of rangers are afraid to use any kind of bear because they were the pets of champions for farming bots.

I know its been a long while any anet has been making promise. Though we do have to remember that Rangers were the most used by botters and they might be trying to take care of the security of the game before buffing up the ranger some because there are still botters out there in the game more than likely farming low tiered populated servers. Until then best most can do is just roll another toon and enjoy the game and cross fingers I already have and been having alot more fun with the variety of playstyle.

Either class (thief/ D/D Ele) are mostly two sides of two coins in which one coin you have those who played the class enough to the point where they can play them extremely well and counter alot of players and those who got their butts kicked to the point where they made the class thinking they can either one shot (Burst thief), or god fight multiple people (D/D Ele) just to get thrashed around. While the second coin represents one side being a player who knows how the class plays out and knows how to take them down easily, and players who dont play well for squat and just get face rolled about. While both coins have their have their chances for ups and downs, (both most common flips being on the negative ends with the players in gaming today) the best way to remedy this is just to hope the negative ended players either get better or find a different class to play that isnt something they got their butts kicked or seen in a fight vid.

I play both thief (Venom and stealth scout) and ele (D/D ofcourse) and have fought both types of matchup where I have had wins and losses on each fight. Where I have taken down poor Eles with my thief and poor thieves with ele in one on one fights. For thieves its all about predictability since most common thieves love to start out with stealthing and playing thief stealth could last from 3-6 seconds depending if they stacked, pretty much you could either time a double dodge, or use an temp invuln skill/block. But the most dangerous thieves I have played against are the unpredictable ones. Ones who dont do the common explode the persons hp in one blow deal.

With D/D eles, venoms with thieves work pretty well unless the ele can use their attunements pretty well. The easiest ones I have fought were ones who just stuck with wind and fire attunements only using water to heal and hardly use earth. A dangerous ele uses all of their attunements and change periodically to cycle the buffs each offered if traited a certain way as well as using certain consumables.

Ending argument, both sides in a fight between the two classes have their strengths and weakness, its all about the player behind them that makes the major difference. You could tell a thief player to use venoms but wouldnt mean that they know how to use them against an experienced d/d ele.

I dont mind running with low levels in a dungeon until I meet few that mentions they dont know how to do part or this is their first time. Then again I would rather have one Twink than three 80s that dont know how to dungeon anyday.

I read first part and was like interesting. Then saw 20g for a run. I luled.
People actually do p4 runs for free and charging people to do a dungeon is pretty dumb. And this also sounds more like a scam than an attempt to help. If you want to make money that bad just sit in the EB jump puzzle with a mesmer and portal them. People usually tip their mesmers.

I pug a lot, I have 5 maxed toons war/ele/guard/ranger/thief, and done a few fractals and have seen this happen a lot of times. This mess was the reason why I quit playing WoW just for that reason. Too many people either a) want to cover their own poor skill, b) want fast runs and go by stupid guides they find on reddit, c) never played the class to the point where they dont understand it. All this causes people to play new classes or think they are forced to roll new toons just so they can actually get the tokens needed for dungeon gear or stuff for their legendary.

I love all my classes and play them well since whenever I play a class I would do my research before rolling dungeons with them. I used to hate running dungeons with thieves until I played one and decided to max him. I rolled through my whole story by my self and only died once out of all 80 levels of it. I even run a dungeon spec ranger that can do really well DPS without sacrificing vitality and can evade about 9 times before waiting 5 secs for endurance or skills to refresh. I even use both bows and can still 10k with longbow because I fully understood how to run it and realize rangers are better damaging from a flanking position with full endurance.

I think before people run around just kicking people, they should try other classes before even bothering to find a poor excuse to kick someone just by class alone.

If you can build your ranger right you can juke attacks like 9 times before waiting 2 secs for a skill/shortbow utility or endurance to regen and dodging again. Though I play four different classes, Ranger is still my top choice in WvW with both bows, runes of mad king, sylvari race take root elite, and traited towards playing flanks as well as knowing when to attack and when to run, I always have a major blast. Plus it puts a smile on my face every time I shoot someone off a cliff with longbows point black shot.

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What I don’t get is, why did so many people insist on “rez-rushing” the bomb room in path 2? It takes just as long to just beat down the mobs and you didn’t have to die that way.

I have sat in bomb room and killed mobs in the bomb the door room plenty of times. A lot of people are mainly just insecure when it comes to fighting a lot of enemies. Its an interesting strategy doing 1/2/2 but got insanely too common when it came to doing runs.

I run a mace/shield/focus guardian and can keep party and myself alive. So guardians are great additions for dungeons as long as they realize that they are close range support/light heal and not trying to be warriors.

Well thank god the poster of this topic isn’t one of the best players in the world. So shouldn’t worry about it.

But in all seriousness thats how dungeons should be. Long and challenging. I mean I think I would kinda bored if I go into a dungeon in which in the games lore has been under the sea for many years and is freaking huge on the outside just to come in and get through it in less than 20 minutes. Kinda makes me feel I just walked through it without dealing with any enemies trying to block my path to my goal at the end.

Only problem I had with dungeon runs after update is gives reason to troll pugs. During the boss fight of a dungeon, everyone would fight the boss while the troll player stays in the way back lines. After party whipes the troll player will already be in a room with weaker enemies he could dodge and stay in combat until either he dies or everyone leaves the group out of frustration. I have had this happen once in SE and a few times in AC dungeon runs in which that happened.
While I find the no waypoints mechanic an ok idea, they really should have worked on the dungeons some or worked out all the scenarios that could have wrecked it for a few peoples fun before making it a mandatory mechanic.

Edit: The troll usually being the one who started the explorable or dungeon so when kicked everyone got kicked out of dungeon.

This must been fanny backwards day because I there is nothing wrong with downscaling in dungeons. While AC is annoying with some pugs, its the simplest dungeon to do. In fact the only challenge in AC is the pugs you play with. Just evade scavengers and DODGE everything else.

If you can build your ranger right, you can evade 6-8 or more times before getting hit with both normal dodging, short bow, and utility (4-5 on normal dodging with endurance trait ability in between bows and utilities). Most people who hate Ranger are those who think this game is stat based more than player skill based and forgot a dodge button exists. Pets are just mostly used for their skill and to just add a tad bit more damage to a rangers damage output. Even though I would like to see the Ranger improve a little more (add a fire attack to the freaking short bow instead that Daze skill), Rangers can still be a fun class to play. I think between my maxed Guardian and Engineer, I use my ranger a tad bit more since I put the most effort on equipment for him.

I log into the game after the update since today marked me being able to go back to Tarnished Coast server with my friends. I log into game in intention to change servers and around 2:30 pm est the list showed 5 high servers, one full server (TC ofcourse) and the rest are very high. I log out and try again an hour later server list still the same with 5 highs, TC full, and the rest very high. I write down all the servers names and their traffic levels.

So I hop off computer to play other games, eat, etc then log back into the game around 7pm to check servers again and showed the exact same servers at the exact same capacities. I did read on forums that the game has been having a lot of bugs since the recent patch update and think that this has affected the servers as well especially since around this time US servers have a good few full servers.

Eu servers have just meds, highs, and very highs and no fulls same numbers as well.

I have hardly had a hard time with my ranger and with this build love playing him even more. X3

Another tin foil hat conspiracy. Just because they have Yaks in their name doesn’t automatically mean they are from server.

Pros on Names: Report Hackers.

Scenario: Player dies Great fight. Game moves on

Cons on Names: People who would wreck it with kitten.

Player Dies
Player who won – Take dat noob I is winars. >:B
Player who Died – OMG THIEF NOOB GO DIE AND LEAVE ME ALONE.
-Winner turned out to not be thief but Ranger with apparent whispers hood and won miraculously with sword-

Scenario 2:

Single player dies to zerg
Dead player – (Insert a lot of swearing and hue hueing about how other server is only winning because of their numbers and can only win with numbers and could take them on in a 1v1)

Same player gets killed again in a one on one vs player waiting for a close range one on one to happen for weeks and turns out to be a respectable commander in server with a lot of pvp skill

Dead player rages in chat again on how warrior cheated blah blah blah

Someone watching posts the whole thing on Reddit for the luls with pictures and we all laugh

So yeah lets add it on. :V
I want luls.

I have nothing against portals since every class has to have something useful on them. Take portal away from Mesmers they will just be running around throwing mirrors at us while whining on the forums on how mad they are about their class is nerfed. High Tiered Server Commanders leaving servers to lower tiered servers does not mean portals are the main thing thats got them wiggin out they might have gotten tired of so many easy wins, the influx of xfers from low tired players wanting more easy wins, or wanting more of a challenge out of WvW, those are more of a possible cause than just a single classes ability.

I really never seen Mesmers do anything outside of the jump puzzles when I was in the low tiered server I was in (not mentioning for prevention of bashing). Then going to my friends higher tiered server have I actually seen Mesmers do the portal bombing and transport stuff and seen both ends of it. Defending against it, not that hard when you have someone notifying everyone and the group directs their AoE over the portal exit. Getting it set up to do it is a little more challenging depending on the server. I have hardly seen any other low tiered servers do it since organizing in most servers around the 4 low tier brackets are like directing a group of broke neck chickens into the pen.

Maybe the portal could be nerfed, or maybe it could just be fixed after every other problem is fixed. Whatever happens there will more or less be more topics about the portal that are all the same dance when it comes to the whole mmo tango in PvP.

Of course thats just my opinion I could be wrong.

I was in a small team taking out a keep during late night hours, we take the walls down, take the door down, then kill the keep lord. Upon getting in and standing in the circle, as soon as the bar fills I see two people level up flash and I look up to see no reward. I shrug it off thinking that its nothing major just a small bug and continue to take an enemy tower, knock down the door, kill tower lord, as soon as its captured, nothing again.

I know I did all the required stuff to even count towards claiming the keep and tower by damaging the door, killing npcs, and even standing inside the circle.

I have been running a 38-39 Guardian at the time of these raids using staff, scepter, and focus.

Has anyone else been having these problems?

Yeah was too busy making my paycheck fatter and after reading about this final event, I think the RL job was more worth it than the chest you could have gotten after being lucky enough to win the non disconnect lottery in a video game. I am just gonna wait for the christmas event line and cross fingers for Kodan playable race since a new race would probably be the best move after half the let downs of these two events as well as class fixes that have ticked everyone off as read in forums. But agreed that one time events = too much negativity and kittening. But gotta have something for jobless people to look forward to on an online video game.

I have never been kicked out of my dungeon groups with my Ranger. Then again I run a critical condition build on her and usually have better survivability than most members in the groups I have been in. I even had moments when I would outlast guardians in major dungeon scraps. What most pugs in this game dont realize is GW2 relies more on movement and skill than how great your stats are. If you want to play a game where a dungeon group based on what classes and gear your group has in order to progress and complete dungeons effectively and quickly is a mandatory factor to your success, then go play some of the non skilled required mmos.

Friday was pretty fun. Just hope that its this fun all week instead of having major morale loss on EBays end by Monday and having a lot give up. Then again that would let the actual serious players on EBays end get in into the battlegrounds and borderlands as well as the more coordinating guilds in. Other than that work all weekend so wont be able to enjoy most of it though.

Elementalists can shoot fireballs out of their nostrils and poot raining fire all over the place.

I got both books with my level 9-13 Necro. First book by myself by metal gearing through everything and help in the mini dungeon. Second book with help from guild hardly died more than probably 7 times whole run because I know how to evade like a baws. B/

Chests are mainly luck based. Maybe if you have more Magic find, it might help your chances. And thats one spoiled and petty reason to rage quit a game.

I don’t mind the loot. Got two greens the first run with the silver and exp. Dont mind 10 slot bag reward. Now if it was a 5 slot bag, then there would be reason for complaining. In my opinion, the fight is fun, I get to jump around epically from platform to platform to kill him, and you can do this run more than once in a day and get multiple chest openings instead of getting it once a day like the labrynth chests. Those who are complaining are just used to getting the good things on a silver platter easily and whine after one run instead of trying it more than once for chances to get better things. Plus you can sell the stuff you get meaning you are actually making some money out of this as well. So this Act is all win and Anet did a great job on it.

While the JP reminds me on what happens when you mix classic mario jumping with sonic speed in an acid pit (fun times chemical plant zone). I would agree with a slight speed nerf but at the same time I enjoy the puzzle because of the nostalgia of old NES titles that had the same “Deal with it” difficulty. But the leetists that finished the puzzle going against the nerf need to remember this is an MMO Rpg and not Major League Gaming. There are other people with a different skill level than most some lower and some higher. The best that most of the “completers” should do is help out the weaker people instead of telling them how much they suck at a game to fill their kittens.

Kitten kitten kitten kitten kitten (just because that is a funny thing to say.)

Did the start of this match and from EBs end Borlis kept coming while Anvil did some opportunity shots on us. Both sides did pretty well during the WvW prime time starting of the game. And even if EB does dominate the map and shoot through first there is always the fight for second and EB are just the casualties in Anvil Rocks and Borlis Passes battle for that position.

And the lower servers don’t need to be taken down when the most interesting fights happen there since most of those guys are on even groundings population wise, no wait times, and most of them are going by strategy instead of sheer numbers like the middle bracket servers mostly have.

Wish I was able to join in this weeks matchup but been busy with my 100% map completion. But problem with EB is after the past three weeks of losing and having members kittening on forums preaching cheating at everything doing well (after the pretend alliance trolling fiasco from another server). Over three lost matches, a lot of EBs either lost interest in it or moved to winning servers. I know last week I went to DHs server when they were steam rolling to do my WvW map completion and never saw anything hacking or cheat worthy on their end. Mostly just people wanting more of a challenge and the fate of most WvW steam rolled matches on the winning end of it just becoming a large chat room with small activities.

Though next weeks WvW will probably be slow for a lot of the non competitive servers due to the major Halloween update next week and everyone either completing the updated map and doing the halloween activities (I know I will with my large work week).

I named mine Plaguey. Best plague bomb ever in WvW. <3<3<3

I prefer with my engnieer to fight near the edge of a cliff and when I am about to die just rocket boot off the edge and tactical suicide off of it to keep from repair costing and prevent credit. Its the more manly way to go than raging off your client as well as actually taking a bit more effort to pull off than just Alt + F4 (also known as Alt+FU to them using it.)
If I am gonna die I will off mah self than wait for a botched execution thank you very much.

What we call that nowadays is kittens rage quitting (GW curse word lul). I was in a 1v1 with an engineer as my ranger, I always stow my pet to hide my rangerness while in WvW as a tactic, it was a pretty even fight after he gets down to about below 25% of his hp me being around 30ish and pet unscathed because bear wolves healing themselves with every hit almost, an extra person on my end gets into the fray and all of a sudden he disappears. Being it my first time seeing this I dumbly said “Engis cannot invis, I know I play one on my alt.”. Just to laugh hard to find out he rage quitted the fight right even before the other guy put in the first hit.

I didn’t get ticked off because people are now logging out upon death. I actually laughed because the guy was such a sore kitten that he thought he would be smart and log out when in actuality, he cannot admit he lost fairly in an OPEN WORLD PVP MATCH WHERE EVERYTHING GOES!

Lesson here? Feel more awesome because you made some nub rage quit just to relog and receive the same beating again if he is a sucker enough to log back into WvW.

Have special Kits from your chosen order that could be bought with money or honor points and give you some benefits. Like if you are in the Order of Whispers you get a disguise kit that makes you the same color of a different faction or as a creature in the immediate area to run some covert ops for your server without having to transfer servers. Or the Vigil gives you specialized siege equipment that costs a little more than normal but not better than mystic forged equipment or banners like the warriors but gives added benefit. The Priory can do field research to find siege blueprints or give camps special bonuses.

There could be more to this little thing just a quick thought for something to have more of the main game involved some with other things.

The game has only been out for nearly two months and SPvP was the least popular between that ,PvE, and WvW. They will add more content to WvW as soon as they fix the many bugs in WvW. Though based on the recent update, that kinda took a step backwards but they will get to it eventually.

I might give Kaineng a checkout for their WvWing this weekend. Sounds like you guys actually have fun and coordinate rather than run onto the forums and hue hue about how much a bully a server is being and just plain giving up when stuff doesn’t go your way.

Might as well while server transfers are free for the time being to see how it is on other servers with lower pop.

I have actually seen some great warriors and guardians in WvW. Your problem is you just made it like you mentioned. Since WvW is based around gear, traits, and skills an early leveled warrior would fair pretty poorly. I would say get your warrior into late 60s to 80 and you should have a great time with playing close combat classes.

Lool copy pasta of last weeks alliance forming scheme just changing EB with Mag. XD

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Maguuma-Tarnished-Coast-Listen-Up/first

Fun fights and close match for second. Grats TC.

I did notice a lot of bot like moving BPs whenever EB fights them like instead of picking a different exit out of the area the would keep heading out the front and fight the nearest player on our end as well as a few encounters where I find some single BPs instead of fighting or just running completely away they just run to the nearest tree or ore vein and just whack at it.

Most people use the sentries as a way to know if someone or someones are on the roads running towards camps or towers. So I don’t see them as completely useless.

Because GW2 is a game for everyone, Euros have friends in other countries they like to play the game with, some of us on our end of the world do the same thing and Oceanics have the same complaints, and Creamed Corn.

Another map? No. Changing the themes of the other maps so they can be the same design but at the same time feel different? Yes.