Guild Wars 2

Chess is obviously the more competitive PvP game. It’s been around for centuries and it still has a good playerbase.

Every server has hackers.

The best way to combat hackers? Report them and stop arguing amongst yourselves over which server has more hackers.

I find that it’s completely fair to give PvP players the skins they worked their kitten off for.

It takes a lot of time to even begin getting decent skins which I think is on par with the time it takes to grind to buy the armor in PvE.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/PvP_reward#Rank_rewards

Sochan.1573:

I do not want to sound like a hypocrite but I think that everyone should mind their own business. When it comes to me, I can’t even afford a legendary since I’m a poor student. Of course it would be cool to have one.

If by that you mean you can afford neither the time nor the money, then a lot of people are probably in the same boat as you. Including me.

I think the problem lies in the ratio of importance is (for PvE)

50% (DPS)
25% – 33% (Support)
25% – 17% (Control)

DPS is constantly higher priority because the timeframe for errors is decreased as DPS increases.

Support helps relieve unavoidable damage or simply allow for more DPS.

Control is powerful but loses effectiveness against Defiance or enemies with Unshakable.

So you basically wind up with a Damage-orientated character with support and control add-ons. Rarely do you feel that Support and Control is the main focus of a character.

This is, of course, for PvE only.

First, ask yourself, do you play in coordinated groups?

If so, you can comfortably go so deep in DPS that the light of AH fades into complete darkness.

I tried doing giving some amateur thought on how it would be implemented.

The problem I think would be the collision-detection against the armor and actually placing the graphics when a collision is found.

Otherwise, the capes would look like cardboard.

And they’d only be client side probably (at least to other players with low graphics) to lessen hell on other PC’s.

Sorry if this sounds stupid. I don’t have much of any information on this.

I just play PvP when I feel I need some horizontal progression.

Engi Nades Toolkit

To answer OP, I use an A4Tech KBS-720A keyboard, and a Leviathan Gaming mouse. The A-shape of the keyboard is far far more beneficial to me than any gaming keyboard and the mouse’s two added buttons and max 3200 DPI speed makes Gw2 a bit less of a chore.

I also changed the keybind to make skills use specific letters that don’t feel awkward but at the same time allow my hand to not overextend. Ever.

Scoobaniec.9561:

ProxyDamage.9826:

4 – Combat

One of the things I’ve always hated the most about traditional MMOs was the combat. It was boring, uninteresting, un-involving… Even the best of the best had the old feeling of sitting around trading kittenslaps seeing who was wearing the heaviest gloves to begin with. And it’s such an important part of the genre! It’s what you do for most of your gaming time (excluding sitting around idly in towns chatting)! Whenever someone mentions a new MMO to me, that’s always my first question: How’s the combat? Usually bad.

Sorry man but combat inst all that much different from other mmos.
Also like in every mmo, when it comes to pve it is dps the s.. out of it as fast as possible, noob rez system, dodge certain atacks but thats about it. Its still 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 key pressing and the combat for me is so boring that..well when i do world events i tag mob and go afk.

Pvp in this game is a complete mess too, just like in every game, its down to spam conditions, spam cc, spam invis, spam 1, pet zoo stacking and so on.

Try out my game in sig and u get the point of what real active combat means actually. Any party from gw that would want to burst down a boss will get wiped in matter of seconds.

Vindictus and MH combat are different from Gw2 combat, and frankly I prefer the latter.

Try High-level Fractals, Organized tPvP or WvW roaming against Vabbi or other roaming servers and then let’s see your “skill”

I hate you Arborstone mesmer and thief duo. You are both so effective, and yet so annoying. I hope to see you again so we can have another “staff vs dead mesmer and ressing thief” fight!

On a side note, hi to the roaming Guardian who jumped on me and laughed when you beat me with your sentry while I was in my pure zerg build. You really showed how bad you are.

I’m not sure if investing in Zealous Blade is such a good idea.

KaporHabakuk.6219:

Are you serious,BT is mostly boring server we ever faced.Never thought i say it,but am missing FoW.These run in one huge mega blop,no roamers,no funn.Been taking towers/keeps whole day without meeting a any smaller groups of defenders.They either ignore it,or bring trilion ppl

Nice to see you’re missing us.

mPascoal.4258:

Arthos Ravron.3796:

Staff has Line of Warding, you know.

Hammer will better serve you imho with that trait setup.

I know that staff as that but hammer also have Ring of Warding, the effect are similiar except the Ring will only work once I have engaged

Just a tip,

Remember gates?

You can stop an uncoordinated zerg from range with Line of Warding.

Staff has Line of Warding, you know.

Hammer will better serve you imho with that trait setup.

Crimson Magdelana.9024:

I like how people that xferred to t1 servers are whining about stale matches & fighting the same 2-3 servers over and over again. It’s been that way for a while now.

Want to have some fun? Drop down & help salvage a lower ranked server. Simple as that.
Otherwise you’ll all be stuck fighting each other for a long time.

I’d love to be in T1 and have good battles.

For all the whiners, once the new season is out, I hope they transfer to a lower pop server and get rolfstomped everyday by different servers larger than them so then they can see how “stale” a matchup can really be.

Yes, it is.

I’ve seen a well-respected commander who uses Meds.

It’s kinda like those easy-mode bunker builds in PvP.

Try being Vabbi during the season 1 matchups.

Yeah, something like that.

Good to see you’re taking advice.

Keep on testing, see if you can maintain planning while using Cleric’s gear. If you can, great for you! Otherwise, switch. Most would force you into Full Soldiers/Sentinels but I think the healing power is handy for keeping frontline troops alive.

Remember, you lead. You can stick a bit closer to the zerg but be sure to make good use of that survivability to lead, and stay alive.

Let me just tell you what is required of most commanders.

Survivability.

Clerics < Soldiers/Sentinels

Try mixing.

Oh, and standard is usually 0/0/30/30/10 or something close to that.

I do believe it’s entirely possible to command with Healway-esque builds, but, yeah. It’s a bit more ideal to prioritize selfish survivability. (Yes, your selfishness in survivability actually helps the zerg.)

Nuzt.7894:

Mesmer: Dps/Veil kitten, they give us Veils (can live without)

Oh lel.

Portal and Timewarp are what mesmers are known, and cherished for. It’s kinda funny how you say that they’re not really necessary when the three most used classes in standard speedruns are Warr, Guard, and Mes.

Oh, and thieves are great doly killers, scouts, etc. Information and supply mean everything to WvW.

Thieves and Engis can also bring stealth and smoke fields (which leads to more stealth) which is useful when running through trash, hiding a golem rush, sudden zerg sneak attacks, etc.

Am I the only one here who doesn’t think Warriors are better at support and even DPS?

Reflects
High-protection uptime
On-demand party-wide blocks
Area-denial Knockdown (Line of Warding and Ring of Warding continue to knock down foes for as long as their duration)
Etc.

And Guardian sword auto if buffed (which should be in decent parties) has one of the highest, maybe even the highest, damage for an autoattack AFAIK.

Here’s the thing,

Guardians bring group utility. They bring reliable reflects, stability, and blocks.

Warr provides the offensive buffs that a Guard needs to match and even outperform Warrior DPS.

Oh, and staying in range really is a problem. But with certain roatations, you can hit one burst within a short span of time and win. Miss it, and you’ll probably lose. This isn’t a problem in PvE, but in sPvP and WvW, it is.

Fortunately for you, Guards are still loved for their group utility in more defensive-support-esque builds. Guards are nearly irreplacable for the support they bring to a zerg, and Guard bunkers in PvP are one of the best.

Sirendor.1394:

Dopamine.7502:

IIRVII.4567:

http://oi42.tinypic.com/102s7pu.jpg

Good job on the early morning PvDoor! Hope you had fun!

At least they do it with 5 people, while you need a full zerg of 30.

I can’t hear you over the sound of 3 FoW taking a tower.

Stx.4857:

While his reasons are kind of hard to follow, he is correct.

There is a reason why Guardians and Warriors will pretty much never be turned down for a dungeon group, and why those two professions make up most of wvw zergs…

False. There are different reasons why they’re almost never turned down for dungeon groups.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Corpus Christi.2057:

PeterThomas.7243:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Obviously the OP doesn’t play a necro…

This is the second time I’ve responded to someone who assumes this. My main is a necro.

Then, will all due respect, you have no idea of how to play necro. Nothing to discuss here.

The gw2 forum at its finest. The OP likes the new Necro signet, other people don’t.
To each their own. Leave him alone.

It doesn’t have anything to do with likes and dislikes. It is objectively worse in every possible situation in the game compared to our other heals. End of discussion. You can see the numbers, the situations and all possible (viable) builds in the necro forums for proof.

Only the Sith deal in absolutes

I hate you Vabbi Mesmer. I hate you whoever you are.

I think it’s feasible. Although it would take a lot of debate to finally agree on the ratios.

Hybrid D.6085:

LUNA are now a Fissure of Woe guild. If spotted on Vabbi they are spies for FoW. Watch out.

Or maybe…it’s the other way around?!

dun dun duuuuunnn

Royce Melborn.3276:

Yeah we tried your tactics to ninja garrison but we failed
Apparently Vabbi can organize a defense a lot faster than FoW :/

Cookies. They want the cookies. They need the cookies.

Nice to see you again, WSR!

I hope you still have some fight left in ya so we can make the most out of this week!

Sin.4130:

Be aware you little Vabbians and FoW-ers i’m gonna catch you all.

Ahahahahaha. I doubt you can even beat the roaming groups with a zerg less than 30 men.

25 stacks prove so little I can’t even begin to tell you how pathetic that comeback is.

Jathres.7236:

You realize Monkeymonger lead one of the best GvG Guilds in Silver and Gold league?
So he, contrary to you, can actually differenciate between good and bad fights and Zergs.

Sure if you only searching for Zerg v Zerg fights Vabbi won’t provide as much for already told reasons.

Also it is ok if you are to afraid to attack roamers, you need no silly excuses :p

But if you want to prove yourself are you up for a 10v10 GvG against the Gnomes of Vabbi? Or do you not do such stuff because it is not WvW etc? You can hardly argue that you are constantly needed for Points this Week.

This thread is full of suprises.

Sin.4130:

YuGiOh.4906:

OMG dat night cap, everything is wooden, enjoy!

Yes, enjoy both that few hours deep at night when you can play as normal wvw servers. Someone says here you don’t care about score, lol.

I really don’t like your condescending tone.

There is a difference between excelling at CoF p1, WvW blobbing, World Bosses other than Teq, etc.
And excelling at high-level fractals, WvW roaming, PvP, and the like.
People need to play the harder things more.

Oh and, There is no such thing as “objectively fun.”

The main thing I like about this is the fact that I don’t need to waste money on WP’s

This has been a surprisingly okay thread. (Usually it dissolves into toxic)

I love to hear your insights.

I’ve formed friendships simply because I play with them. That and putting up a WoR, or immobilizing a champ when my party member gets downed.

High-level fractals aren’t just a dodge fest. You need utility too. Gw2 is about skill and Oh, and different professions are the best at tackling different fractals.

The main reason why ANet doesn’t allow harder content is because it was catered to casuals, you know.

You only need DPS? It only requires a better AI and mob design
The lack of control and support specialized builds in PvE is probably a result of every profession being able to have control or support with the switch of a utility, despite using zerker gear and offensive traits.

Aen Gelinor.4062:

Have Vabbi resorted to cheating or they have so uber players that can battle for 15 minutes 3 vs 12 and kill most of their opponents without even etting downed. Hmmmmm….

Vabbi is the land of the roamers. Because that’s pretty much the only thing they can do during some matches. Roamers are usually more skilled than zerglings.

(Oh, and if you haven’t seen it, Vabbi, https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en/eu/achievements/world/Vabbi

Dat 17k)

xFireize.6318:

Lucentfir.7430:

xFireize.6318:

A 1v1 fight between 2 guardians should never end. If one dies, he/she is a bad guardian. And no, a bunker guardian shouldn’t be killed by a DPS guardian. Maybe OP should find a different class to fight against and post this thread to his/her current match-up thread instead.

A DPS guardian can indeed win against bunker specced guardians with relative ease. If they’re specced healway it’s just a tad more difficult to get them down. It’s just a little more time consuming is all.

A bunker guardian shouldn’t even die to a thief, why would it die to a DPS guardian? I never played other classes other than guardians, but isn’t thief a better DPS class? With how easy it is for a guardian to mitigate direct damage, I don’t see it happening honestly. I find DPS guardian sacrifices too much tankiness if they really want to deal a lot of damage.

I can easily see a guardian that sacrifices everything for DPS dies to a guardian that prioritizes tanking first, then DPS.

Better burst class, sure.

Not a better DPS class.

This is going nowhere.

sigh

If only I felt a bit madder

Because, when I first bought this game, I didn’t know there was a difference between display name and character name…

Why are people complaining about a lack of trinity?

I don’t see what’s so good about it.

>:c

I don’t like hearing about this supposed “worse community” stuff.

Have you even seen how good a Vabbi defense is? It’s stupidly effective as long as they have decent numbers. It’s like those kids who only have one cookie left and they’ll kill you if dare take it from them.

I’d like not to voice my opinion on BT for as long as my temper can handle. So shush. We already have enough QQ, and it’s 70% about losing levels on the fractured sub-forum.

Psychotic.3560:

It was a fairly decent reset night, I just wish our PuGs would have left us alone to do Guild stuff and not spent the first couple of hours glued to us. We went through 3 EB PuG Commanders in the first 30mins because noone was following them. When we run all the way back to spawn from Quentin to loose them, I don’t expect everyone to follow us >_>

http://i.imgur.com/TavcHKW.jpg

This should teach you a lesson. You shouldn’t be making yourself a well-respected member of the server otherwise we’d have these kinds of situations. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.

Maevlynin.3280:

Ray.2640:

It’s a game, entertainment should be the ultimate goal. There is a reason why mechanics that make things “anti-fun” for 1 party are the first to be purged by developers. As a player I usually make sure my fellow players are enjoying themselves as well.

Well, the first ultimate goal in playing is to have fun yourself, right? Otherwise you wouldn’t play. And if you don’t have fun to roam or do 1vs1, why should you force yourself just to make the other person happy that they’re able to stomp you in 5 seconds? I don’t think this is fun for the opponent, and it sure isn’t for me.
The mechanics of WvW are not really about those fights, too, they are zerg vs. zerg and siege vs. zerg.

1vs1 or GvG are part of it, sure, but they are a small part compared to taking, claiming, building and defending camps, towers and keeps. There is the bonus system for your server if the WvW week went well (although I am not sure how many really fight for these, I sure do not – it’s a nice bonus, nothing more) and there are the leagues which, I guess, everybody would like to finish 1st place. I have been wondering one or two times at the beginning of the week why we were building siege instead of trying to fight you in front of the keep we’re defending but I’m no commander, I’d most likely be a bad one tactics-wise. And… it’s simply no fun to wipe more times than not. If you play together as a guild you may think about it as competition and a good way to increase your skills, which is correct. But if you have small guilds and a high amount of players outside of WvW guilds you can’t practise that much since you’re usually commanding a different bunch of people than you did last time.

It’s either guilds or community, and I for one favour community. WvW is about servers, not guilds. So anyone from said server should get a chance to participate and have fun. Drakkar Lake has tutoring events for WvW newbies and everybody on the map is welcome to TS and the Drakkar Lake public zergs.

Would you want to exclude people of your own server because they aren’t in WvW guilds and/or not the best players who know all the theorycrafting of their class and/or how to fight best in PvP to grant more fun to your opponents? What are you doing to the fun of your own people, if so?

I’d just like more people.

Mace is actually quite better if used offensively.

Remember to use WoR. I am not lying when I say this can change a battle in the seconds it’s up.

Oh and with that health, I don’t think SY! is such a good idea.

I really really don’t recommend investing too much in Boon Duration with gear. (Runes and traits are fine) You could make your health or healing reach superb numbers compared to a few seconds more of might or regen. Though, just my suggestion.

If you’re good at positioning and timing, then you’d feel how powerful they really are.

I don’t know why but someone who knows what his PC components are kinda makes me believe him more.

Usually, for a levelling Guard, it’s

Power > Vit > Prec > Tough > Crit damage

All other stats are usually not that great at these levels.

Oh, 15 in radiance and 5 in virtues is really powerful in PvE