Guild Wars 2

Dark Aidget.3879:

Just spoke with the mesmer from [Arr] in question. Wasn’t hard to narrow it down, we are small and only have two. He wasn’t hacking a wall, he was embedded in a bridge after being thrown by a hit and had been since before the garrison fell. He couldn’t get out, and couldn’t break agro to WP.

I understand why you would assume it was an attempted exploit, we’e seen our share. However, he asks that you stop and think about where it was you saw him and understand that it would have been a useless location for a hack anyway.

We are a family guild and we take sportsmanship seriously.

Apologies. But perhaps we could work on not getting thrown into walls/brigades? =)

I would reroll a warrior. We will continue to get nerfs because anet has no idea what they are doing. Do yourself a favor and play a profession that won’t be nerfed → the warrior who can do everything a guardian can and more.

I killed a guy from darkhaven and he dropped me an exotic, was awesome.

Also, there was a mesmer wall hacking after we took over Borlis’ garrsion eariler from guild, [ARR] Clan Ni Mhaille. which isn’t cool. Keep up the fight though, I would hate to PvE all week :/

DreamOfACure.4382:

Xabrin.1749:

Thanks, I’m annoyed now that there’s no option for Power/Precision/Vitality gear now : /

It’s not just you. I’m pretty sure a good portion of GW2 has gone a little mad over it.

I believe ANet has intentionally excluded any appealing combinations of precision/vitality on gear in order to make us more selective in our stat-investments. Which is kind of cool / uncool at the same time, because I WANT THAT STAT-COMBO, but it all the other choices more viable by the lack of comparison.

Some may disagree, but I do think Pow/Prec/Vit is the simplest stat combo, and if it existed, would be the go-to combo for the majority of the population.

The Knight’s trinket in sPvP gives this combo, and it is VERY popular in sPvP.
It just does too well to cover all your bases. Power+Crit is the most reliable damage-source, while Vitality is a fundamentally more reliable stat then Toughness.
The only combination that exists is known as “Magi’s” which is Healing Power/Prec/Vit, with HP being the major stat. Hardly appealing for your typical PvE player.

Archer.1658:

I disagree. Conditions are the least of worries of guardians considering we can cure them in either AH or Monks, therefore stacking vitality isn’t really needed.

You’re not really disagreeing with me, Archer.

Guardians don’t need to stack defenses at all because of their inherent survivability from Virtue of Resolve and Courage.

But it seems to me like you’re not really concerned with the condition-spammed scenarios of PvE. First memorable example of the game: Necros from AC Path 2. They spam Poison AoE everywhere, and that stuff melts you like butter.
Having vitality vs not having vitality is the difference between living for 5 seconds and living for 10 seconds against condition-spammy mobs, condition-curing or not.

Further more…

What your stats should look like depend on your build.

I forgo toughness because my build affords me that luxury.

• Focus triple-block shield. Amazing utility to start your fights with.
• I’m a Hammer Main. Symbol of Protection (plus runes and the occasional shout/trait-bonus) gives me regular protection boons.
• Signet of Judgment. In my opinion, best signet passive in the game. 10% damage reduced against either direct or condition damage so…
  Who needs toughness when you have high uptime on -43% damage-reduction? lol

As a result, I get to enjoy as much vitality as you AND about 40% crit-chance and over 60% crit damage without investing much into either Radiance or Valor.
(The only trait that cures stuff from AH-build is Purity, which only asks for 10 points. lols)

Of course, some people prefer to be beefier so they don’t need to dodge as much.
Like I said, it depends on your build.

Conclusively:

Vitality can be stacked and be made to work in a build whereas stacking toughness has dire consequences.

So, there is totally a point to stacking vitality compared to toughness.

And this is coming from a guy who puts 30 points into Virtues. ;P

Your right for PvE ONLY this works fine.

zastari.1730:

You seem to be pretty evenly populated with Mag…

During our peak hours*, sure, heck sometimes we even field more, however we dont have a consistent amount of players as does mag and yak.

DreamOfACure.4382:

Toughness raises your Armor, which raises your defense against direct-damage.
Armor will not protect you against condition-damage, where only a high health-pool is beneficial.

So, as a Rule of Thumb:

Vitality > Toughness when it comes to gear.

In PvE, it’s the long fights against elites, champs, and legendary mobs you have to worry about. Most will usually have some sort of condition; and against conditions, having low vitality will get you killed.

Vitality is an umbrella stat that works against everything. In my opinion, Toughness exists for those who wish to invest in bunker-builds (all-out-defense, usually for PvP) or full-support (specialties in the toughness trait-line).

I’m currently mixing Berserker gear with Valkyrie trinkets.
I’m liking it so far (although I went a little mad, hoping to find a combination that was more like my theory-build with the trinket in Heart of the Mists).

I disagree. Conditions are the least of worries of guardians considering we can cure them in either AH or Monks, therefore stacking vitality isn’t really needed. However that doesn’t mean u should be rocking anything lower than 15k. As for armor u’ll want a minimum of 2.8k. Theres no point in stacking vitality without toughness, and there no point stacking toughness without vitality, you have to find the medium point that works for you.

As a reference.
My HP/Armor:
16815
3150

Cygni.2790:

As a result of the two Keeps that were taken using exploits on Yaks Bend Borderlands we are going to focus Ehmry Bay. I have made this agreement with a majority of the Commanders on Yaks Bend, this will be until server reset.

Given the current scores and calculating in SPT (score per tick) Ehmry Bay will only be 10 points above Dragonbrand in ranking upon reset. I’d like to see Ehmry Bay dropped this week into Div. 5.

Factors that affect this:
Ehmry Bay’s SPT
Dragonbrand’s SPT

As we have no influence over Dragonbrand’s SPT, we will focus on keeping Ehmry Bay’s SPT as low as possible over the next 24 hour period.

I’m not a advocating a double team. This is what we are doing and that is why, do what you want with this information.

Your tears are delicious, Nom nom nom.
You can’t even push into our borders unless we are asleep or it’s non-prime time, funny though.

As for the whole where is Ebay, well listen here, we just don’t have the population that Mag and yak has, simple as that. Our WvW guilds have a large portion of PvE players who rarely come to WvW.

Subtle.4596:

Soooo … wonder how you Ebay just got into our garrison keep on YBBL?

We LITTERALLY JUST watched it happen… Care to explain?

Flow Drive.5094:

Probably the same way they are getting in hills

Hmm as a member of Ehmry Bay, I’d like to know what you are insinuating good sirs.

Reroll to a warrior

Oh awesome, another crappy glass cannon warrior. If u weren’t hiding behind the zerg, you probably would have died from the wind slapping you.

ITT: Everyone sucks but me. Yak would love to believe they are a well organized server, where as in reality, they really do just outnumber Maguuma and Ehmry Bay significantly sorry to say. Oh and don’t play the “your server just isn’t as organized as ours” please, people need to admit when their servers out man others.

The problem with sPvP is there isn’t much flexiblity in stats. This especially applies to Guardian who really can do 3 things only. 1. Full Support, No AH or Monks Focus. 2. Ah or 3. Monks focus. I can’t replicate my stats at all in sPvP, so i end up with 20k+ hp, but kitten for crit damage/crit rate. I feel the only effective sPvP guardian build is just pure Bunker, i.e just standing in place and taking damage until your friends come to kill/take point.

I liked it. Unfortunately all the crybabies in this thread will probably get it removed.

I’m very disappointed with the skins..especially the sword skin, which looks like garbage.

..any bunker d/d ele can do what this person is doing.

So i finally fixed the memory client crash errors..and now i get this. Please explain

—> Crash <—
Assertion: !m_agentFlags.TestBits(AGENT_FLAG_REVEALED)
File: ..\..\..\Engine\Agent\AgBase.cpp(761)
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 3888
Cmdline:
BaseAddr: 00400000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 16272
When: 2012-12-14T01:50:30Z 2012-12-13T17:50:30-08:00
Uptime: 0 days 1:20:57
Flags: 0

Either they limit portal or they remove the limit on aoe’s. Pick.

He has 25 stacks of bloodlust, orb, and food and is probably running beserkers. Not even that high.

A good engineer is more annoying than any thief or guardian or mesmer.

Lol no. Portal is game breaking, simple as that. The ability to bypass walls/gates is not right. Portal bombing 20+ people into 1 spot when there is the issue of culling and aoe limit to 5 is not right. Everything listed there is not OP in the slightest bit, except for the Warriors Killshot which is ridiculous. =)

Yes portal bombing can be countered, yes portaling into keeps can be countered.

new Crash Error for me.

activeBlock == MEM_BLOCK_NEXT(activeBlock→prevPhysicalBlock)

Vsing p/d thief, I use gs + scepter/focus with either Bane Signet (For the knock down) or Signet of Wrath (for the immoblize). I bring lots of condition removal for their bleeds, and poisons.

key is basically to immoblize them and be aggressive, stay on them and be fast. Get in their face with that scepter, it will actually do a lot.

All depends on your play style. I’d say the majority of guardians I see are AH with the hammer.

I personally run GS + sword/shield (scepter/focus on swap for ranging + catching thieves) with a mediation build 90% of the time.

I Use AH when I:
-When doing harder dungeons, (High Fractals, Arah etc)
-Fighting Warriors/Other Guardians 1v1 (with a party around i.e Fight Clubs)

When I use Monks Focus (Meditation Build)
-PvP
-WvW
-Easier Dungeons (AC, CoF etc)

Notes: I am easily just as tanky with either build, I personally prefer monks focus. AH relies on your party for more healing, I.E having a lot of crit chance for more healing at the loss of other stats.

You’ve got some skill, and a great build, however.

Cons:
- You are mostly fighting noobs, kind of surprising for such high tier servers, they are slow and don’t aoe/cc at all.
- The majority of your fights, the enemy doesn’t remove conditions set by you, leaving them to pretty much die on their own

Pros:
- Cool build, looks fun, pew pew
- Awesome trolling with the stealth/repositioning
- You know how to play thief well

Glad to see people not raging so hard anymore. Coming to the end of this week, I have a new found respect for CD, they proved to me that they aren’t just a zerg server. Even had a few fight clubs with them, was pretty sweet. As for Maguuma, you guys are meh, not even fun and not very nice Dx. Was also fun spawn camping AoN for a while, eat it traitors ^^.

Sounds like it’s your teams fault that you can’t escape because they leave you behind? I have no problem escaping, but I rather fight till the end because it is funner. If you’ve spent so much on different types of gear, a repair bill isn’t your biggest issue. If you fail to get away using snow-leopard then that is your fault for being bad.

So, it appears im not the only one. Lately the game client has been crashing and giving the me the "File: .. \..\..\Game\Mai\MainCli.cpp " etc is corrupted. Sometimes the game runs fine though and I wont crash for a day, but today I can’t even get into Lions Arch without this error occurring.

Things I’ve Done:
Lowered all settings on GW2
Updated my Graphics Driver to 306.97 as recommended by you, Anet.
Ran Windows Memory Diagnostics (everything was fine)
Ran Memtest86 (everything was fine)
Reinstalled game (about two times now)
Ran the client with the “-repair” (does nothing)

I’m out of options, this is the first game that has crashed on me like this, and I am very upset. Now I’m wondering if there is a solution?

waeren.9743:

Following problems:

• ranger?
• toughness?
• it’s been doing that much damage for a while, it’s nothing new

• He Shouldn’t have to switch professions
• Toughness doesn’t migitate it that much, I have 3k+ armor and still get kill shotted for 8-9k
  *its OP.

saiyr.3071:

What does changing servers have to do with skill?

Nothing, I find it comical one of the “skilled” guilds on Maguuma is only a transfer (who will probably leave IF you start losing a lot), and coincidentally originally from Ehmry Bay.

Bunzy.8674:

Guilds to watch out for:

AoN and OG on Maguuma
N/A on Crystal Desert (I have yet to find a challenging guild)
LzSG on Ehmry Bay

If you manage to kill any of these guilds with equal or similar numbers you have done a great job.

Funny thing about AoN, they constantly switch servers because they can’t stand losing. They began on Ehmry. I wouldn’t regard them as a challenge.

I only use scepter for two reasons.
1. Kiting Lupicus in Arah Exp
2. Taking down Oil in Wvw

Other than that, it is useless. Staff is not a ranged weapon.

Ambrosiaa.6054:

Archer.1658:

Ambrosiaa.6054:

Archer.1658:

I Lol @ CD being anything other than a zerg server:

Higher population than both servers? Check.
Never upgrade anything, and spawn camp at any given chance? Check.
PvDoor because uber population? Check.
Numbers winning because skill can’t? Check.

Thanks for playing

I lol @ sore losers. Yes CD has a higher population that’s for sure. But from what i’m seeing from the other 2 servers, you would still get stomped if the numbers were equal. Just like how you guys just got stomped in NA prime time.

[Edit]

Yes really. I’m not even joking. You guys need to improve your organization and strategy if you even want to think of fighting on par with cd

Strategy and organization? two things CD know nothing of. Your only strategy is zerg everything because higher numbers. Now i now why you guys are in tier 4, can’t compete with the tier 3 zergs. Lol

Ambrosiaa.6054:

Archer.1658:

I Lol @ CD being anything other than a zerg server:

Higher population than both servers? Check.
Never upgrade anything, and spawn camp at any given chance? Check.
PvDoor because uber population? Check.
Numbers winning because skill can’t? Check.

Thanks for playing

I lol @ sore losers. Yes CD has a higher population that’s for sure. But from what i’m seeing from the other 2 servers, you would still get stomped if the numbers were equal. Just like how you guys just got stomped in NA prime time.

[Edit] you wipe every time when its equal numbers, don’t kid yourself. Lol

[Edited by CC: Provocation]

I Lol @ CD being anything other than a zerg server:

Higher population than both servers? Check.
Never upgrade anything, and spawn camp at any given chance? Check.
PvDoor because uber population? Check.
Numbers winning because skill can’t? Check.

Thanks for playing

I wouldn’t go glass cannon let alone use berserkers gear. Our base Hp just isn’t high enough, nor do we have escape moves like thiefs(no im not saying thieves are op, their escape moves make them a thief) that allow them to go glass cannon/full dps.

Pve: Fail
sPvP: Depends
WvW: Fail

Thieves aren’t Op at all. Take stealth away from them, and they are not a thief.

The real problem is the rendering issue which Anet fails to address and “fix” (can it even be fixed?). Anyways, nerfing thieves into the ground isn’t a good solution.

InSomNiaC.6315:

lawl….if only we had 30…. our group was 3 parties and 2 outs strong. That was 17 guys your whole border could not kill. nice try though. I am loving the loot, and so are my guildies. xD We might just come back again tomorrow.

Thats funny, I recall downing and finishing more than half of you everytime I went in. Feel free to come back, i could always use more badges.

That is Foefires Essence Gs. Overall rather bland 3/10.

Got to love Maguumas immense kittenyness. Let me know when you step outside your fully fortified keeps/towers and I’ll glady accept free badges.

3.1k Attk
25% Crit Chance
69% Crit Damage
2853 Armor
18125 Health