Guild Wars 2

Not sure why you got that error, and hope you get it fixed soon; however, you might want to save your money gambling on the rich coffers. If you roam about the forums, the rate at which it drops tickets (it’s not guranteed btw) seems terribad so you might be better off holding the gems or money for something better.

I don’t really have a concrete team since we rotate a lot, but you are always welcome to join the Academy if you just want to be able to play tpvp with an organized group often!

Hm, the ranger forum may be better for this.

If you are only going to communicate between the two of you, I’d consider a roamer dps group which will be thieves, eles, and/or mesmers. If you want to work with your teammates, go for ele and guard combo—The boon upkeep will be very good for the both of you together.

Aw man! Found yourself a new niche :’). I wanted to chime in and say Aiden is a great ele. Anyone reading this post should definitely give [LOST] a try.

Kwll.1468:

Geniekid.2645:

Balkanwarrior.5132:

If you can’t handle trash talk over the internet, I suggest you log off, ask your mum to make you your lunch and get ready for school.

Oh and people who report for ‘’verbal abuse’’ please don’t ever go outside. It’s a very mean world out there. We wouldn’t want you getting hurt. There’s no /report function irl

You should be happy getting reported is the worst thing that could happen to you in-game. Go ahead and tell your co-worker or teammate to “go die in a fire” next time they make a mistake and you’ll see just how much worse real life consequences can be.

What if some big scary man on the street in the U.S. (no clue about more poilitically correct countires with extensive speech codes) told you off hand to go die in a fire and thats all he did. Do you really think there would be some kind of recourse for that besides maybe you deciding you were going to tell him off or engage in physical confrontation or to just ignore it? Do you think a police officer would get involved? Or even playing a pick up game of basketball and you miss every shot and some guy says hey man you suck. I’m not condoning that kind of behavior but it is true that it is not always a pleasant world. If you haven’t experienced it good for you I’m glad. I could tell you tons of stories about rl stuff happening. The work place is a very limited example. Most times in rl if somebody says something to you offensive outside of anything but work the best thing to do 9 times out of 10 is to just ignore them because there is very little you can do about it. I think it applies just as much in game. Just ignore and move on.

I agree with you in that having self-control and ignoring is the best way to do things; however, reporting wouldn’t hurt. I don’t these cases are about a one-liner ‘you suck’—pretty sure they are about people who are over the top trying to insult you.

I can’t say I can think of an instance where someone would call you names or insult you in real-life without a stimulus; At least from my experience venturing in the real world; you don’t come across blantant trash talkers at all—unless you provoke them, but that’d be your own problem. Also, this situation is more related to you doing something with other people—not walking on the street bumping into sketchy guys who insult others. I like the basketball example used earlier. Let’s say you go to the gym and play pick-up basketball—your teams loses and one of the guys on the team say you are terrible, never play again nor come to these courts again—Yes, first thing is to ignore them, but if you see that guy again and again, and he calls other people out constantly; it’s best just to report him or tell the gym about the verbal abuse.

Playing online is different than real-life because not only do you have the anonymous factor, but you also have a small chance from running into the same guy again. So you can say what you want and get away with it due to both. I’d say first thing to do though is always respond first as maturely as you can to these types of insults, but if they continue, I don’t see why you can’t report them. Just as they can get away with trash talking, victims should be able to report—it’s a good in-game capability.

If you ever come across real-life experiences where someone threatening insults you though, yes, it’s better to ignore them to minimalize casualities. However, although a policeman won’t take your seriously if you 9yearold kid is insulting you. If someone grown up is verbally harassing you repeatedly, I believe good cops should respond to that. It’s super annoying that people nowadays don’t hold themselves accountable to what they say. #internethabits #smh

Jax.5261:

uberkingkong.8041:

You have to be careful, the rank 1 could be a rank 200 in WvW which makes him comparable to people on leaderboard.

So that makes him REALLY good at zerging?

Or #foodbuffs #ascendedgear

Bottom left? It’s where your level is if you were in pve

When I did smash tournies, each team got to ban one map and losers get to pick the map after each game. You also get 2nd character pick, but that wouldn’t work so well due to hard counters in this game. If we had more maps, we could probably specialize in them and then have varying teams play a random map at first, then the losing team chooses next map from then on out.

I would like to make monies somehow, even in the form of 1 copper from the pvp realm. Although I do enjoy PvEing time to time—sometimes it bothers me how behind I am in money generation due to my higher interest in pvp.

Eliandal.8735:

ArcTheFallen.7682:

They should make the mobs veterans.

Yeah – sure…and screw over those of us who are actually trying to do this in a level appropriate area. It’s hard enough trying to get kills in vs the 80’s roaming in Metrica.

There’s no real answer to solve this ‘problem’ except that it’s a boneheaded ‘mechanic’ that should never have been introduced in the first place.

It’d encourage team play, but it wouldn’t be worth it unless they increased rewards for them being veterans. And veterans are scaled for each map, they don’t equate to lvl80 content.

Maybe provide a chest/daily for re-doing the harder ones.

RNG Wars 2 (15 char edition)

They should make the mobs veterans.

Arheundel.6451:

@Powerbottom

so many lectures that you’re trying to give…and you don’t know you can immobilize ele before he uses vapor form?..so what high level you’re playing again?
Between a profession that can potentially kill you while downed and another that may only waste your time for 1s to roflstomp him..the latter is the hardest?…nice logic but I’ll stick to my logic

If my team is capping..nobody care if the enemy team waste time try to ress the ele far away, an ele is nowhere near the level of threat of a generic mesmer…once in a while you get that serious super skilled ele who may possibly pose a threat…but that it’s extremely rare

A mesmer can still deal over 10k dmg while downed, thief can aoe cripple on top of constant 1.5k dmg, guardian can push off entire team from point, ranger can aoe fear with dog, engy can aoe knockback whole team from point…and ele can waste your time for vapor form 1s …omfg ele is the hardest to stomp..

I’m talking about actual team fights, not solo 1s. If you are talking about a 1v1 scenario, no downed state is good at all actually. But in a team fight, the person who can avoid getting stomped the longest for a rally or a res, is the winner. If I down your non-ele teammate and you down my ele teammate, and I do a mist-form stomp or distortion stomp on your teammate, wanna guess what’s gonna happen? Let’s even say you start your stomp first on my downed ele ally; you still aren’t gonna finish them in time. He/or she is going to mist form until rally and then you are gonna have a bad time. This occurs a lot more often than you’d think sir. So yes, eles are really annoying to stomp in team fights when it counts. I’m glad you have a good time 1v1ing eles though.

edit: are you really just normal stomping people? lol

Dabrixmgp.4758:

Are eles hard to play with all the elemental swapping you have to do?

They aren’t hard to play, but it takes a bit to understand all your skills since you have 20 weapon skills per weapon set. Once you get over that short hump, everything should eventually become a straight forward. Fire for damage, water to heal, earth to for defense, and air for cc and speed. They are harder to be effective in killing than mesmer, but they are easier to play imo.

AriaSilverfyre.8702:

I am also a female gamer, and have quite a few fellow women, and couples, in my guild as well. I think some of us are just good at being ninjas so the guys don’t notice and try to treat us differently. Or maybe that’s just me >_>

It isn’t you lol, some gamer guys are weird, even weirder if they know you are a girl.

sPvP
Eles can spec into support bunkers or support dps. They have access to good ccs and when traited can give your entire team boons every element swap. They also have one of the best skills in the game — mist form; which can allow you to do safe stomps and/or safe rezzing.

Mesmers are the best class for 1v1s, especially if you go phantasm. They have the best arguably the best elite in game—Moa Morph which basically makes the enemy completely useless and vulnerable to everything. Shatter builds are great for support dps and can burst entire teams down if they don’t spread out or pay attention. Portal is one of the best mobility mechanics.

Elementalists are more upfront while mesmers tend to stay afar summoning phantasms or waiting for a shatter burst.

If you play2win, you would want to choose asura for spvp/wvw to have a slight animation obscurity advantage since you can’t really tell what those lil rascals are doing if it gets chaotic. I can’t recall a site with armors for each race, you may have to make each race and just preview on tp and/or vendors such as the tiered armor vendors in Divinity’s Reach for humans. 1v1 Bunker elementalists are really hard to take down and DPS elementalists do fairly well as well. Warriors, you really need to time all your bursts otherwise it may be a lost cause if your opponent is good enough. However, if you carry GS, warriors are really good at disengaging. This is for spvp though, I think they have a better time in open world wvw.

Arheundel.6451:

ArcTheFallen.7682:

PowerBottom.5796:

ManCaptain.3154:

PowerBottom.5796:

10) Strong downed-mode, which is getting incresingly important nowadays. I see full teamfight-comps built around the fact that their Players are hard to stomp (1 Mes, 2 Ele, 1 Thief + Tankguard).

Ahahahahahaha. And you expect to be taken seriously? Mesmer hard to stomp? Maybe for kittened people.

Easy Stomps are stability/blindstmps, cuz they are basically free stomps
Hard Stomps are those with 1 getaway from any kind of Stomp (Ele and Mesmer) and then theres the Thief with 2.

Whats so hard to understand?

Mesmers can be handled, but it’s super chancy. You can fake out the stomp and re-stomp to force their cloak skill prematurely and then hope they re-appear near you but that’s about it. Ele is the hardest to stomp. Thief is annoying to stomp as well but you can at least dps him or blink to him if you have a blink skill (autotarget blinks are even better). Personally I enjoy seeing them get Moa’d when they are downed :P

HAHA..ele the hardest to stomp….it must be hard to walk for 1s to stomp a free kill target while every other profession can still kill you while downed, professions like engy and ranger can have 2-3 interrupts, engy can self-ress, mesmer can crit for 4-5k dmg while downed, thief hit you for 1.5k and cripple you while teleporting and stealthing away….and in all this ele is the hardest to stomp..my god really

This is just going by the concept of ‘safe’ stomps. You have one on every class except those 3. Thief is limited to blink skills and mesmer is limited to frenzy stomps (? maybe) and/or fake out stomps. The hardest to pull a 100% stomp on is the ele. So if you had a stomp showdown between two teams, a downed ranger can be stomped with stability while the ele cannot. The ranger would then die and the ele would rally. Similary, res skills can be used while the ele is invulnerable, so a ‘late to the fight’ necro, mesmer could get a skill res in to possibly change the tides of the fight. On a side note, don’t jump the gun unless you know what I’m talking about lol.

PowerBottom.5796:

ManCaptain.3154:

PowerBottom.5796:

10) Strong downed-mode, which is getting incresingly important nowadays. I see full teamfight-comps built around the fact that their Players are hard to stomp (1 Mes, 2 Ele, 1 Thief + Tankguard).

Ahahahahahaha. And you expect to be taken seriously? Mesmer hard to stomp? Maybe for kittened people.

Easy Stomps are stability/blindstmps, cuz they are basically free stomps
Hard Stomps are those with 1 getaway from any kind of Stomp (Ele and Mesmer) and then theres the Thief with 2.

Whats so hard to understand?

Mesmers can be handled, but it’s super chancy. You can fake out the stomp and re-stomp to force their cloak skill prematurely and then hope they re-appear near you but that’s about it. Ele is the hardest to stomp. Thief is annoying to stomp as well but you can at least dps him or blink to him if you have a blink skill (autotarget blinks are even better). Personally I enjoy seeing them get Moa’d when they are downed :P

UrMom.4205:

i got a ticket on my like 25th dragon coffer during an event near the shatterer spawn. At the time I had 109% mf, that event all the enemies seemed to be dropping the coffers. Snagged like 9 or 10 during that one event, then opened them all right then, boom ticket…rng is rng lol. Does anyone know if mf affects the contents of the coffers?

Although lost in the abyss of threads, it has been confirmed that MF only affects the rate of which things drop when you kill something. Opening a coffer with MF does you no better than having no MF.

Warriors are the best class for PvE content due to their damage output. Team-wise, warriors don’t bring a lot to the table, they just help speed up boss-fights a ton. In sPvP, warriors are viable up until pro-level (top 1000 leaderboards and/or well-known premades) but they are definitely the lowest tier. If you don’t have a premade team aiming to join in tournaments, you should be able to do pretty well as a casual tpvper.

Kali.8095:

DEKeyzToChaos.7381:

There are lots of female gamers in my guild – and I’m one of them. I tend to play during NA primetime, but I have friends that are on EU time but NA servers. Ping me in-game if you’d like to hang out.

I’m In Crystal Desert Server..

Well it depends on how you want to ‘hang out’, if it’s general PvE stuff, you can always guest and if you like a guild, you can save up or usually the guild will help you afford a transfer (I would hope!). If you want to WvW though, that would be kind of hard. Operation Union though is cross-server though so you should be fine where you are. On a side note, if you ever want to spvp, I have a quite a few female gamers who play often in the Academy of the Mists.

If you aren’t looking for a serious team (and by serious I mean leaderboard serious because I wouldn’t want to be a possible cause of you dropping from the top 1000), feel free to join the Academy with our daily tpvp. We play to win, but also for fun and like to try any and all team comps that aren’t ridiculous. We have a good close group of like 10-15 members and form teams with whoever’s free and online. Occasionally we try to reserve a custom server and do some scrims against each other! Most of our players flux between the 60% and 90% range if that means anything :P

Sounds legit. Although I don’t think this can be considered ‘sPvP’ from Anet’s terms

You need a target in order to interact with it, thus the result of the ‘fix’ everyone requested. Left click + F isn’t so bad imo. I didn’t even know you could use the right click to specifically interact with something…

Yeah, I want to pvp, but I don’t want to miss out on the wings. x.x

Added! I’ll talk to you later today if I can snipe you online Stealth. Abraxius, feel free to hop onto TS and join any of the players online. I also have a decently sized consisntent group that you can join—you can find them in the AOTM channel on TS and they are super chill & super awesome. We definitely need more guards accessible for tpvp!

I think they are releasing unranked matches when they fix the soloq. If that is the case, that would be a good alternative to your problem.

We should have a public ‘timeout’ jail cell for 10 minutes of shame in the HOTM!

Warlord.9074:

There is a fine line between trash talk and verbal abuse. It is possible to trash talk without verbally abusing the other player. EG: “You couldn’t tackle me in a phone booth” “I’m so fast you couldn’t see me with a telescope” etc.

So anyone that says trash talk and verbal abuse are one in the same, are people who don’t know how to trash talk without verbal-ling abusing others. Or they have absolutely no idea what they are talking about and giving un expert opinions that have no factual information to them. Ignore these people and there comments. They are not the same. I could list names of every single person in this thread that has no idea what they are talking about but I wont I don’t care enough. Guys go learn something no excuse for ignorance in the digital age. That is trash talk I just trash talked you all without verbally abusing you.

However like I said there is a fine line Trash talk that goes to far then becomes verbal abuse. But the two are two different things in there purest form.

For example if I say to you wow your so bad ditch the zerker build. That is not verbal abuse that is trash talk. If i then continue to h arras you and start calling you names then it becomes verbal abuse. That is the fine line.

There is also a fine line between name calling and verbal abuse. Just calling someone a name one time is not verbal abuse. If u call someone a dodo head or something that is name calling. But if it continues to multiple names and becomes harassment that is verbal abuse.

verbal abuse typically involves harrasment and name calling. Trash talk doesnt necessary involve name calling or harassment therefore they are different.

Nah man, you throw a punch, or you beat someone up, that’s abuse. Doesn’t matter. How you would measure the intensity of an abuse, that’s a different story.

Balkanwarrior.5132:

Geniekid.2645:

Balkanwarrior.5132:

If you can’t handle trash talk over the internet, I suggest you log off, ask your mum to make you your lunch and get ready for school.

Oh and people who report for ‘’verbal abuse’’ please don’t ever go outside. It’s a very mean world out there. We wouldn’t want you getting hurt. There’s no /report function irl

You should be happy getting reported is the worst thing that could happen to you in-game. Go ahead and tell your co-worker or teammate to “go die in a fire” next time they make a mistake and you’ll see just how much worse real life consequences can be.

Wow we go from discussing trash talking on an online game to threatening co workers. Are you just unable to come up with a compelling/relevant argument, or is this the height of your intelligence.

Seriously, think about it for a second. Verbally abusing coworkers with death threats linked to trash talk on an online game. How can you remotely try and relate those in an argument.

U mad brah? Think about it for a second, online people are people too—you just have an easy get out of jail card cause they don’t know who you are in RL. But seriously, I think trash talking is just really immature. The only thing you could hope to get across is a small reality check if you were even right (which most aren’t). Otherwise, it’s just demoralizing and rude—let alone offensive. It’s always best to respect players for trying. The only time I even get mad are the people who just straight up leave and/or become idle. If you don’t want baddies in yo group, just don’t solo-q. Getting less mad and trash talking could save you some strands of hair.

Hello fellow players!

My name is Sky Avalon, and I lead the NA region of the guild Academy of the Mists.

INTRO
Academy of the Mists is an initiative to gather players who are interested in becoming competitive in tpvp from all servers and regions into one central location.

ABOUT US
We are a no-rep guild, so you get to keep the benefits of your primary guilds while joining. Everyone in the guild acknowledges the beauty of a organized, consistent group. Even if our team synergy is a bit off at first, our members will always stay strong. We learn and get better. We compete. And we have fun.

REQUIREMENTS
Academy of the Mists has a home for anyone, both casual and competitive. If you are looking for a super serious team, I can refer you to the GW2 Esports Subreddit Guild which I also admin. But if you want to hop into a tpvp match and have some good competitive games and learn to become a better gamer without having to deal with too much commitment, AOTM will be a better option.

HOW AOTM WORKS
The system we currently have in place is a pick-up group style, but you will begin to recognize the names and playstyles the more you play with them. If you see someone online, shoot them a whisper or put your status to LFG so the guild members see it.

We have also a TS3 server as well with rooms for NA and EU and we collaborate directly with the GW2Esports Subreddit Guild so they’ll be also available to party with. Feel free to join open channels to party up/meet people.

NA AND EU
As mentioned above, this invite is for both NA and EU players. Emon leads the EU region, but I will always take up more leaders in either region to keep things organized.

CONTACT
If you are interested, please post below, PM me via forums, send me in-game mail, or whisper me in-game.

Emon – Emon.1863 – EU
Cero – Cero.5132 – EU
Sky – ArcTheFallen.7682 – NA

I look forward to meeting Tyria’s finest soon!

It happens to me most of the time when I’m immobolized. I am speculating that it’s due to a lag between the location before a blink and the current location—causing you to not attack because they are not in LOS. Not exactly sure though—I just hate standing doing nothing when I’m using skills that don’t require any target.

No class has that powerful of a instant-cast aoe cc. The CD makes sense—but to make it more viable, I’d say lower the fear duration and the cool-down.

IMO, red circles should appear to show where the nades will land. I just see explosions come out of nowhere and can’t tell if they are friendly or not. If there are already red circles and I just can’t seem to see them (which is possible) then nevermind.

Interpret Interrupt.3824:

Glyph is much stronger then the other rez skills and therefore they have treated it as such.
You can pre cast it and always just cancel cast it.

-shrug- I would still say make it more defined. Right now, it’s only useful for premades who communicate when they are about to go down. I think all res skills should always cast faster than a stomp animation. It would be cool to have different cast times for different attunments—and I still would like ground-targetting so you can choose someone to revive specifically in case your earth attunment is on CD and you have to choose.

Anet could also provide a ‘pvp block list’ which will not match you with the person again.

Agreed with the ridiculous cast time of the glyph of renewal—it should be similar to the signet of undeath. Increase the cd on it but make it ground-targetable instead of having some sort of range and decrease cast time to 3.5 seconds. ATM, someone can stomp an ally before you can manage to pull it off, even if you react immediately as they go down.

Would like to add that stun breakers don’t remove immobolize (aka cannot be stun broken out of) which is what sword #3 equates to. The only other thing that would keep you rooted would be stun from magic bullet. Stun breakers aren’t even the solution here, there needs to be some sort of revision on this oppressive combo. 1v1 I would think is much easier than organized team fights. Good shatter mesmers can pick off opponents easily with team aid by using this combo once—Let alone the pocket Moa elite if you become too tenacious.

chris the concerer.2974:

wait you have to be lower then level 35? or age 35

sPvP Rank 35

Hey guys, I’ll update the spreadsheet once I return from vacation. Please seek Android to be added to the group during this time.

Should’ve listed this title as “[BUG] Right click targets enemy”! But seriously, an option would be nice or maybe just separate the controls for players versus spectators? I know as a developer it’s nice to reuse code, but…-shrug-

Vieteriukko.6075:

These very low rank players beat several 20-30 ranking players and are exceptionally hard to kill. Ofthen they feel like even 30+ and It is surprising to see after match that he/she was 2 or so. I am not good in pvp but with my experience I can pretty reliably recognize at least decade of rank : 1, 10, 20, 30 ….

Rank is a measure of experience, not skill. Some people are just talented to begin with or some do their homework before playing, or some just have really good ganking builds which can get some people, even good players in uncoordinated hotjoins. It’s really up in the air. It could be second accounts as well—who knows.

Agreed with Myrmidian, I can send you an invite if you are interested, otherwise get in the habit of saving names of good players on your team when you do solo-q (and win). Most people don’t mind partying with competent players. It’s always better to have some coordination than none!

Not sure if they’ll actually make a duel system soon, but at least once custom arenas come out, you should be able to set something similar up. Maybe they can give an option to turn off cap points like how they are before a match starts and be able to set time to indefinite. They should also provide us a small arena as a map option too; maybe something as big as graveyard on foefire.

If you want to learn some collective information on sPvP tips, here is a nice thread to checkout: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/sPvP-Tips/page/2#post2085040

Arganthium.5638:

Still looking for a team guys (it feels like it’s been forever at this point)… Nobody wants this thief?

Or…you can start looking for members for team Arganthium! haha just a thought, but if I know any teams recruiting I’ll send them your info.

Hm, so sPvP encapsulates both hotjoins and tpvp. tPvP equates to tournament PvP, where you actually go to the NPC to queue up for a match. Hotjoins are the servers you can easily hop on to play.

The only game mode is capture point. There will always be 3 points on a map you can claim. When you claim the point, you get +1 point per second for each capped point. You play to 500.

Hotjoins include 8v8 and 5v5. tPvP is only 5v5 and it uses a hidden rating system to match you up. Ideally this pairs you up with similar skilled players.

Playing Hotjoins does not affect your leaderboard rank. I’ll let someone else cover builds for now. :X