Guild Wars 2

Most players don’t like it when classes have specific advantages on maps. Rangers and/or Engis can run orbs faster than anyone else atm I think.

They should allow warriors to chain combos more often like in fighting games. They could be the masters of cc.

Okay, let’s not be elitists here. Also, getting into top tier requires great teamwork and/or luck with the solo-q. Most solo-quers don’t have that ability to work with other great players who mesh with them well enough to produce great results. You say top tier, but you can also say some people get carried by their team or together they are great but on smaller scale fights they aren’t so great. There’s also a bad leaderboard system. I mean, let’s not forget the ‘top1000’ who has less than 50 games played. But anyways, I think it’s always good to consider any kind of suggestion->try it yourself->then criticize it.

I’d say just make it into bull’s rush cept no kd. The uppercut would then become a quite slash like the bull’s rush physical hit.

Do you play a class more because you like the class or do you play the class because it’s effective? If the latter, then you’ll never really enjoy the class because changes happen all the time. Better save them hair strands and just re-roll smoothly without having to stress about it too much. On that note, I do agree with sorrow on this.

edit: Reworded to make my note more clear. If you originally play thief to be effective because of a certain specific build, then you won’t enjoy it as someone who plays thief for thief and is flexible enough to theorycraft into something viable and effective when unforeseen buffs/nerfs come your way.

I think carrion is better than rabid for condition necros.

Just PM’d two people and for each I had the same issue. They replied, I responded, they replied with the same exact message. I thought this was just a mis-send on the recipient, but it happened with two people now so I’m thinking there is some bad code that does not signal a successful message and a re-send is issued causing a delayed 2nd PM with the same exact message as the first one (that made it successfully). Just an FYI.

Yo, can someone lend me a build—I tried making it work yesterday but had some issues, but then again…I did neglect 30 in both water and arcane..haha but are eles still stuck to the x/x/x/30/30 foundation?

Break Cleansing Ire into to traits!

1: Remove conditions every 10s equal to the amount of adrenaline you have.
2: Remove conditions equal to the amount of adrenaline you spend.

:O

Matty.1953:

ensoriki.5789:

Condition removal.

There really isn’t enough condi removal now though… I went on a necro (never played it before, may I add) and 1v1ed an experienced bunker guardian and he simply didn’t have the removal to survive more than 30s. That really isn’t acceptable imo.

Bunker guards aren’t 1v1ers. They shine better with team support (all of those shouts + virtues going to waste).

Time to go staff

Hm, for PvE, yeah that’s a shame. For PvP though, Rangers were pretty much indestructible with BM builds. Not sure why they didn’t separate the updates.

Scoobaniec.9561:

I wonder why mace 2 don’t have that ability too heh

I was thinking the same thing. That’d be funny against ranged spammers. Use sword offhand + mace main hand then shield. Reflect all the pew pew!

Too lazy to check back, but I do at least remember it being in the leaked notes. So it’s most likely intended. Plus, all other riposte skills (mesmer/ranger) work the same way.

Yo, gonna get me some of that signet of spite action. Gonna drop signet of undeath for a bit and see if two condition epidemic nukes (corrupt boon + signet of spite) could do some serious work in battles.

Leroy Brown.6419:

Purging Flames also got buffed and is not listed in the patch notes. The cool down was dropped from 40 to 35 seconds.

Yay! My conscreation build did get some buffs :O

I think I’m going to stick with the offensive build I’m using right now, with a few minor tweaks. Since we didn’t get sustain, might as well just improve whatever zerker builds we have.

20/20/0/10/20 => 10/20/0/20/20

- Adrenaline power
- GS gains might and reduce skill cds
- Vulnerability on crits
- Immbo on cripple
- Shouts cd reduced
- Signet recharge reduction
- Movement skills break immob

Weapons: GS/Axe/Shield
Sigils: Bloodlust/Intelligence/Energy
Runes: Rune of the Scholar
Amulet: Zerk

Utilities: Healing Surge, Bull’s Rush, Fear Me, Dolyak Signet, Signet of Rage

Idea is to Bull’s Rush (typical) -> 100b -> Spin2win -> Fear Me -> Eviscerate -> auto auto auto to win. Dolyak signet for stomping. Done! Might die a lot in team fights still, but definitely should wreck people 1v1.

Fear Me on 60s cd? heck yes

You might want to go to the Players Helping Players section. This section doesn’t cover PvE related things. If you need a team to PvP though; then you are in the right place—but it seems like you just need a guild..o_o

\o/ yay can finally get a CA

Rennoko.5731:

I actually have been meaning to try and test this, but haven’t had a moment. I will try and find some friends in SPVP to try.

My feeling with 90% certainty is that you cannot avoid the spread if the target hit by epidemic is successfully hit and you are in range. Unless you are INVULNERABLE (going into downed state).

Will get back with you

Thanks! I’m sorry for being too lazy to test this myself. ><

If you land an epidemic on a target, can non-targets within range dodge it?

Interpret Interrupt.3824:

Oh cool, welcome to the club.

If you want to start a team up K-Pop, I have a really good engineer that you might like to have on a team. Of course it’d come with the whole meet n’ greet to see if your personas are a good match and if there is team synergy. Just putting that out there! Gl with finding a team though. And guys, K Pop is one of the best warriors I’ve witnessed play!

I think it’d be nice to have an optional window to show internal cds for our runes/sigils/traits so we can time things better. I was thinking about something along the lines of a custimizable time window bar on the bottom of the HUD of which you can add any object that contains an ICD.

What a weird way to prevent a double immob on GS #4. If they go with this, they should show ICDs instead of making us keep up with all the ICDs for every trait, sigil, etc.

Orb speed buff \o/

Stealth.9324:

ArcTheFallen.7682:

Stealth.9324:

This Sunday, at 11 am AEST, (9 pm EST Sat Night) team X Phantom Lord X will have a scrimmage with team AOTM..

kirito.4138:

I played tPVP a few times before and can come play.

Something doesn’t seem right here… XD.

@kirito: LoL you no need to try acting newbie-ish). You are more than welcomed to join us if you are available.

@sky : The team is Academy of the Mist right??Hope I did not mistake the name.

Haha, he’s in our guild; I just thought it was funny, but he can definitely play for either :P

What happened to the dymanic duo with Defektive? :o

Stealth.9324:

This Sunday, at 11 am AEST, (9 pm EST Sat Night) team X Phantom Lord X will have a scrimmage with team AOTM..

kirito.4138:

I played tPVP a few times before and can come play.

Something doesn’t seem right here… XD.

Why hello thur free commendations! Yep, that’s what you’ll get tonight if you join us on our guild mission starting at 9pm EST! Afterwards we are going to have some chill time and venture into either WvW or the dungeon realm while toasting pina coloadas over TS. If you see a tag with VZ roaming about the lands of Tyria, bless your face. If you sneeze during the time we roam about killing fugitives, bless you. Click on the link below & join VZ if you want to win some free commendations!

I think this may be the wrong section :x, but good luck finding members!

Asura mesmers and their sneaky shatters in team fights smh

What happened to Robert Hrouda?

HeroxZ.7196:

kirito.4138:

I want to join Howtobasic and then be part of both [Yolo] and [yolo] tags.

Don’t Know if serious or what

Pretty sure he’s serious.

Saxon.1908:

Thank you Arc, it’s reassuring to know that small no-min-rep guilds can survive. I’m going to try and do what you suggest and see how it goes.

I wish you the best of luck. It may be a rough road though depending on how distant they are at this point so it may be better to ‘restart’ like someone suggested before. The hardest part is if you feel alone and lose the drive; never let that happen! If you ever need +1 for any content, feel free to shoot me a whisper.

kirito.4138:

me me me me

Haha, of course kirito! I always thought you were in the guild already :P

I’ll add you right now!

Er, I think your idea of evade hate destroys the idea of evade.

Hey spellbell!

I represent [VZ] Valor Zeal on SBI. We are a medium-sized casual guild. Since you are interested in PvP and WvW, we definitely have a lot to offer you.

WvW-wise, our guild leader Rising Dusk is a commander for SBI, so he will lead both armies or small groups to skirmish depending on who all wants to get involved. Tactically speaking, he’s on top of his game. Combat-wise, he’s definitely someone you want to be in the front-lines.

If you are interested in PvP, I will be the head guy for that. I lead an initiative called Academy of the Mists which partners with VZ and is a no-rep guild, but all members there including VZ members who have joined are willing to pvp. I also set up a lot of scrim nights where you get to meet most of the AOTM members and we duke it out 5v5 style (if 10+ people show up we rotate).

At the end of the day, you will have PvE/WvW for VZ and access to all members of the Academy of the Mists which I will introduce you to if you ever want to spvp/tpvp. We are all friends here, so no pressure on formalities . We will get you familiar with everyone if you decide to roll with us.

Please contact me in-game via mail or whisper or reply to this post (or even PM me via forums) if you have any questions or if you would like to give us a trial run. We welcome both text communication or voice communication via TeamSpeak3.

Cheers. (And feel free to click on the signature links for more guild information)

I lead a guild from a different realm (PvP) that is also a no-rep guild (100% no-rep with some exceptions such as tournaments), and I have actually made it work out for the most part with a drop-out of maybe 5 people out of 50-60. I find that the key to getting people involved, is to just invite people to do things—and do it often. Just because someone doesn’t rep you, doesn’t mean they don’t like you. They are still in the guild, and somewhat expect something out of it. Whispering them, inviting them to events or dungeons will let them know ‘Hey, I’m active and want to do fun things with you and others!’ which then normally triggers a base relationship between you and the non-rep member. If you continually keep up the connection with them, they will more than likely respond with more guild activity.

People will represent you if they like the guild and have people to talk to in the guild. The more you try to get your members involved, the more they feel like they are a part of the guild.

I don’t believe in forcing people to rep. You can establish a title system or a ‘rule’ per say, but I feel like that won’t set up the atmosphere you intended at first. I would just get in the habit of getting some activities going on and then getting people together for them often.

As for guild missions, I’d work with a larger guild or hire mercnaries to help you finish them. Once you establish firm relationships with your current roster, you can expand and probably handle guild missions yourself afterwards.

Remember that people keep guilds for a reason; they also rep other guilds for a reason. Give your members a reason to rep your guild not a rule. Show them that you are fun guy who does fun things that they’d like. You should see better results and better relationships form.

They just need to fix the rally system. 1 rally per person. 1 death shouldn’t give an entired downed team a revive.

I will send you an invite and see if I can introduce you to the members today! Otherwise feel free to take the initiative to put a team together and get to know them via chat or TS.

Hiya! I hope I’m not overextending myself this week with invites—but why not ha. AOTM is recruiting and it would be awesome to have you on the team, we are more chill and relaxed, but there are always (most of the time) enough members on to put a pre-made team together. All of our members have the mindset to get better but we aren’t hardcore. Let me know if you are interested and I can send you and invite (I’m in NC too btw lol)

Stealth.9324:

Is that EU server???Our team is on NA.

It’s NA, so basically he’s ranged at the same time we are on Stealth. :\ (mornings for you ><)

If any EU members are having trouble getting people to play with, let me know and I can notify Emon from AOTM to get you guys more involved. AOTM and GW2 Subreddit are partners and we share the same resources and utilities. Also, rest assured, our EU members are a lot more serious than NA AOTM atm (XD) so if you still want to be super competitive, they can definitely help you out. Again, you can stay in both guilds if you have space or stay in GW2 Reddit and send emon.1863 a message to see what he has to offer you guys.

Still looking for team members and some more active leaders that can organize our AOTM BrawlFest (unofficial name for scrimmages with only aotm members + friends) and our pug teams for tpvp! Anyone can become a member, but if you want to become a leader, I am going to put you some case study scenarios to see if you are best fit for the job (Basically behavioral questions)! I encourage everyone who joins AOTM to bear with me if I fail to get everyone involved at the moment, I had a harsh week last week with a huge deadline, but I should be free and ready to meet the new members starting today. Happy Monday guys!

Er…I think it’s best to leave it as is guys, drama isn’t good for them hair strands!

Anyways, I’ve seen some yolo members dish out some pretty good stuff in tpvp. They are a competent team as far as I can objectively tell. Bump!

bump for WM! Hope you guys get some more recruits

If you want a more relaxed setting that’s competitive, please feel free to contact me for Academy of the Mists. We usually put a team together with any member who’s interested for tournies but the teams rotates often. We also hold super fun scrims with members if we have a good day turnout with people online (so far we’ve done it 4 times!) Then afterwards we break up into tpvp groups and just play—it’s a good way of meeting new people and finding people you’d like to party with. Most of our members don’t have a dedicated team, so you may be able to form one from this as well. Also, most of our members are primetime EST, but we do have members in AEST and EU as well (it’s an NA/EU guild)

Best way is go to the leaderboards and then filter by guild. Then you’ll see yourself on the list. The percentage or number you see will be your overall rating compared to everyone, but it will only list your guildies.