Guild Wars 2

AOE is a mesmers bane, especially one that cripples. Disappearing does nothing, and if he doesnt have condition removal slotted, he is hating life.

Its a funny post because I find it SO much easier to stay alive with my mesmer.

The thing to remember is that a mesmer is a mobile class, if you stop moving you die. If you want to plant yourself, yeah, go guardian, but my mesmer lives through a lot of things that would kill my guardian.

Decoy is pretty much the one skill that never leaves my hotbar though. If it got nerfed/reduced somehow, id probably be hating life, but its well balanced as is and an excellent skill

Also, creating clones on dodge just lets you do wonders.

This whining is too kitten funny

I didnt even know about this bug and love my mesmer, only used the warden on occasion cause I didnt think he did much and seldom used the focus.

Hopefully the footprints and glow effect vanish if you do, heh

It use to be I was getting a new key from a chest when I open it about 3 out of 5 times it felt like. Recently opened 10 and got 0 new keys. So not sure they nerfed the chest key return when they added the new permanent rare drops.

I love it. Utility skills work, the weapons work. Its different and you have to adapt.

Or perhaps all CC if necessary.

I love the Dev Tracker, it lets me easily find what devs have responded to.

I hate all the CC Eva finds though, because all CC Eva does is moderate the forums by closing threads. In fact, a TON fo threads. I am not commenting on the justification of the closures, just the fact that “CC Eva” is a Dev Tracker spammer

But an organized zerg vs and organized, ambush placed, artillary support, small unit, the small unit will lose under our current mechanics.

I am not saying things need to change, just that this is the reason that zergs work so well, and hence, why they will keep occuring.

One side probably will outnumber the other, but tactics and self sacrifice are made meaningless by the health mechanics in play in modern MMO.

Look how popular BF3 is. You get shot in it, you dont just keep going. A small squad can easily take out an entire platoon with tactics, ambush, mortor/grenades and air support.

In our modern MMOs, if a small squad (say 5-10 people) attack a 40 person zerg, all that will happen is the zerg turns to engage the squad because even with 100% surprise and best tactics, the zerg is at most down 1-2 people if the 10 focus fired em down.

This is what people have asked for, so it must be what they want, but it does support and encourage the zerg mentality and mechanic.

Just saying other forms of gaming combat has been shown to be popular and fun as well.

But if it was “real life” and you had a small party of 10 on cliffsides above a group of 100 and your small party had element of surprise and ranged weapons, when you hit people, they would not keep coming.

They would go down, and now its 10 v 90. And those 90 have to go over or around the 10 of their buddies down. And the second volley looses, etc. And that assuming no AoE weapons like machine guns or mortor/grenades.

When you implement a system that support mass groups because it takes so long to take someone out WITHOUT a mass group, then you support the zerg and all the tactics that come with it.

People do not want pvp fights to be over in 5 seconds when it is 1v1, so we get this insane mechanics where mortal blows are not mortal blows, and fights last 30 seconds or more. With the zerg, they still mow you down in 5 seconds, but you cannot take out even 1 member of the zerg in the same time.

It makes your life pointless.

Zerging isnt a new phenominon but it also isnt that old in the world of MMO’s.

In the real world, armies use to Zerg.

They would line up across from each other and just open fire and whoever had more people won. Or they would roam in large warbands and decimate any smaller force they encountered unprepared.

This all stopped the first time the smaller force said, “You know what, lining up is stupid. Roaming about till we encounter someone with more numbers than us is stupid”

Then they made ambushes. They hid in trees, held choke points, and decimated larger forces with a small organized band.

And it worked because when you shot someone with a bow/rifle, or stuck them with a sword/bayonet, it was over.

They didnt slow down for 15 seconds. They didnt rush back to the battle because their spawn point was close.

Till the nature of injuries in MMO change, the zerg will always be, because it is the best way to win once more.

A number of people enjoy the zerg. And more importantly, many people hate more realistic combat, saying it is not fun.

So till you are ready to accept realistic injuries, zerging will continue, its just the nature of the beast.

Seriously,

Could you imagine how bad it would be if you got achievements for winning WvWvW?

Would be nice to have achievements, but yeah, suddenly HoD would be burping people off the server duing off prime too

Hashi,

A great question, but the answer probably is because SF and SoR were getting steamrolled anytime FA put their attention to either, so why go up against the bully where they feel they cannot win when they can go against the other losing team and at least get some tokens.

If there was 1 Full pvp server, it would be packed

I dont know they could carry 3 for wvwvw, but maybe you wouldnt need it

I concur with some of that, especially the part about lords going down so fast, and more so, the 10 sec it takes to change ownership

Should be like someone has to remain for 3-5 min so you can rally and take back.

Yeah,

Bouncing between servers to look at the deltas, it really looks like only the tier 1 (1-3) are even close. The rest looks like people gave up after the delta got too large.

To be fair, the mismatch between Deveron’s Rest, Kainaing and Northern Shiverpeaks is works (like 580k to < 100k each in Nothern Shivs favor)

Lubricaton is right in that during primetime, its been a lot of fun and a nicely matched contest, with the scores being 200’s a tick for each server and shifting around during the evening who was in the lead.

But then you come back the next day and FA is 600+ per tick and the other two < 50 a tick.

Thats the problem that needs to be solved somehow.

And again….

There is no melee class in GW2.

My mesmer can be ranged with staff/GS, or I can switch to sword/torch and sword/sword and be up close and personal.

Its all about how you are set up.

I agree with you there Monte,

But I think it still shows many times when they have server queues and we do not, across all BG. They have two gaps when they have noone queued for any BG, we have 4.

+1 to Chalky.

Really eye opening…

You figure you are outnumbered and thats why you are getting rolled so hard, but Mike’s charts really illustrate it so well.

While on some world v world fights the numbers are close (JQ vs HoD, etc) on Sanctum of Rall we are getting rolled by Fort Aspenwood.

If you compare FA’s queue chart with SoR’s queue chart it provides a really clear picture of the imbalance in the matches right now.

I know they are working on it, and I love WvWvW, but a 1 week match where you are so outclasses in zerg numbers just makes it not fun to jump into WvWvW.

For analysis’ sake: FA frequently peaks over 200 in Eternal Battlegrounds, and almost never lacks a queue for that zone. SoR hits a peak of 160 at its highest, and frequently lacks a queue for that zone.

Compare the images for your WvWvW battle from Mikes post and see what you can gleen.

I am able to get it running and playing on the below. Its about 12-15 fps, so doable for TP and small fights.

MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009)
Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,5
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.26 GHz
Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
Type: GPU
Bus: PCI
VRAM (Total): 256 MB

I just installed it on my Macbook Pro 2.2GH Intel Core Duo with 2G memory and it runs and I was able to fight. How cool.

Travelling this weekend for work, now I can stay entertained

Thanks from me too

I was doign hoping trying to finish the zone tonight, skill point not working on at least 8 servers.

I fluxate wildly between 30s and 3g, but never more than that. The thought of a cost of full armor is depressing.

GW1 suffered population wise the same reason GW2 will now.

If you do not enjoy PvP, either WvWvW or sPvP, then once you hit 80, the game isnt fun anymore. There is little reward and a lot of grind at 80.

They did accomplish removing the grind 1-80 though, its a fantastic journey up, and luckily I like PvP, but for those who love the PvE in the game and stay out of WvWvW and sPvP, at 80 there isnt much for them

This is not about American economy, but rather the Guild Wars economy.

A few people, maybe more than 1% but I am guessing less than 10% are very rich in game.

They got on the market prior to values being at the point you can only make 1 copper per unit if that.

They ran the CoF easy path ad nauseum till it was nerfed.

They found other gold “exploits” that are never rolled back.

The rest of us, not so well off. Sure I can make 20s relatively quickly by going to cursed shore and just vendoring loot and selling off oric ore, but that goes very quickly with waypointing (if I am pressed for time) or more so with constant repairs in WvWvW.

So, are you part of the 99% that always feel broke?

Or have you found some method to stay “Middle Income” ?

Or are you the 1%

Nod, trait respec costs 1-3 silver depending on how many points you have (max 70).

If you are buying the book again to retrait, you are being silly

If you notice, EVERYONE who is griping about the dungeon change is only griping about CoF.

Thats the one people speed ran for money and marks.

Maybe they should have fixed it instead.

My HD 5770 has served me well the past 2 years.

yeah, torn about having the powersupply to throw in another 7970 GHZ later. Seems smarter to have 750-800W now.

Ill look at the 2TB Seagate. Really want my first SDD experience though, so looking forward to that.

Thought about just upgrading my current system, but would require a new power supply and graphic card, and im not sure that a i7 860 even measures up to a i5 3570k

I wanted to keep it under 1500. Considering dropping to the i5 3570k

The GTX 670 is considered good enough, but for 30 more can get that 7970 GHZ right now so hard to pass up

Outstanding post. Not inflamatory, informative, helpful, and posed problems with solutions.

Are you sure you belong on internet forums?

Been a while since I built a system from scratch, anything wrong with this list?

I do not see a prebuilt anywhere that comes close, and my Dell XPS 8100 (HD 5770, 8G, i7 860 @ 2.8) is getting to its last legs.

PCPartPicker says everything is compatable, but its been about a decade since I last did a self-build.

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What build would be best for a thief that wants to be able to survive/escape an unpleasant situation?

I.E. with my mesmer, I can have about 3-4 invis loaded, along with clones, and by the time they figure out which one is me, im hiding around a hill and moving on if i come upon a situation I cant handle. Also good for roaming through Orr and avoiding fights you dont want to have to deal with.

I know thieves are good at this too, but what build works best for this purpose?

100% you coulda wiped out every single arrow cart with a skilled catapault or treb operator.

Trigr,

Can you post your spec using gw2skills.net?

The 100% rock. If you put them out and then need a second to recharge abilities or heal, pop Decoy and vanish, they become primary targets then. Even when you reappear till you reengage.

I love my clones.

I accidently logged off in the Risen Fortifications section of The Catherdral of Eternal Radiance.

When I logged back in, the “bars” were back up, and 4 flying level 78 Risen Knights were all over me.

Lasted over 10 min, finally leaving with a full pack. What a blast, most fun I have had.

My Build|

This is my current look.

Its the Carrion Masquerade set dyed Midnight Teal.

I dont want to farm glory, sometimes we use it with 1v1 or 2v2 for dueling/practice purposes, to test strategies and whatnot. If others join, oh well, we either fight it our or move on.

Please make a seperate forum for suggestions.

Lumping all suggestions into one thread makes it impossible to discuss individual topics.

Just because Fred suggests that warriors need an ability that lets them sprint full time, perhaps others do not feel that way, etc.

You can also get the undying super easy by crafting.

The trailer looked like it was for TSW. Not a good trailer, I cant see it making people want to join the game, and thats a shame cause the game is fantastic.

The big problem is the vendors price is an artifical floor price. They need to get rid of that now that the TP is working.

You realize that every class can ranged right? Guardians get hit the worst at ranged since their primary ranged stuff is support.

Mesmers need a LOT of micromanagement if they are to be played well. When played well, they are currently being called OP because noone traits/skills condition removers or notices when conditions being applied.

A mesmer is one of the most complex classes in game right now.

This also doesnt work because you cannot convert gems → usd

So right now your best path is USD→Gems<→Gold

Also, the trading post as a day trading option or commodities market has sorta stabilized as well since people have rapidly figured out you need to buy for 15% less than you sell. So only harvested items can make a profit. The vendor value sets an artificial floor.

Yeah, the Wiki is the only place I found an answer. I hope its up to date.