Guild Wars 2

Last night in Nsp BL, [DARK] 7 v nsp 20 was fun. Thanks for playing, not sure how you killed our guardian from 100% rally to instant death on 3s late stomp when his health was full inside the tower but we had fun farming you guys for those intense 3 minutes.

If our two up levels were 80 and as seasoned as the rest of us we might have succeeded in taking the tower! Good response and defense!

I also disagree with this idea, however… both in the personal story and ghosts of ascalon, the orders are time and time again infiltrated by double agents or others who want to start wars amongst the orders or certain groups. So it wouldn’t be that far fetched for something like that to happen.

conditions still go thru endure pain dont they? knockbacks/knockdowns still work against a EP’d war.

and kite the war?

i see no logical explanation that EP should get changed aside from you must have gotten 100b by a war that EP’d on you.

nope, just bring back IWAY and let me charm a lvl 3 wolf!

i havent faced one since the patch, lol. and i just 3v1’d some other server wars last night in wvw, and of the 4 of us, i was the only one that used a mace… in my offhand lol.

other things not yet mentioned:

- up to 8 player groups like gw1 with each member visible in party window

- Show your own names over your own character, visible wvw rank titles to friendly players

- Guild Halls

- Show how long its been since a member of a Guild has logged in for easy guild management

- Functional Xunlai Chests in HOM

- GW1 Xunlai Tournament Betting House lol

- sell junk button in merchant windows is awesome, but maybe a way to classify loot in your inventory, on your own, so you can throw things like whites/blues/greens you know you dont want or wont make a profit on the TP into a “junk category” to expedite clearing out ones inventory.

- HARDMODE settings for dungeons?

- Underworld/FoW

- and just because its a big one, movable UI, doesn’t have to be customizable to make our own skins or whatever, but to be able to just move the windows that are currently there around would be nice.

to the [Vikr] wars in nsp:

i killed both of you 2v1 in the water, then i killed both of you 1 v 1 as i tried to make my way north, killed the colonel a 3rd time, and then a THIRD kittening warrior comes and its a 3v1 with me at 25% hp at the beginning of the fight, obviously you are going to kill me when all of my utilities are on cool down after killing you bad wars multiple times.

and then you laugh?

classy.

JamboHammer.4397:

i enjoyed our time together EK mesmer but u or ur cannon just couldnt deal enough dmg to move my hp (: and man that warrior that chased me from ogres turns out u ran away when u couldnt beat me 1v1 and i didnt even have my banner with me (: did my bleeds and torment taste good

your key binds hurt my brain

Natar.3671:

Assassin X.8573:

fun times in sbi bl earlier, holding camps and towers from sbi with 2-4 then [Os] multiple times. then [Os] ninjaing my tower after defending it against wave after wave of sbi.

i lost a littel respect for [Os] after they ninja’d my keep and then didnt stick around to even attempt to defend it. you hada solid roaming group against a good [DARK] war, necro and mes, another [DARK] mes and 5 random pugs.

wish you would have stayed to fight it would have been a good one.

I guess I would be one of those Os members u fought earlier. I was the warrior with champion rank. Well when we see a tower that’s openly inviting us, can’t expect us to reject the invitation eh? I don’t remember ninjaing a keep though

oh i dont blame ya for doing it, i would have too! lol

sbi, nice defense rally at NW keep in your bl

fun times in sbi bl earlier, holding camps and towers from sbi with 2-4 then [Os] multiple times. then [Os] ninjaing my tower after defending it against wave after wave of sbi.

i lost a littel respect for [Os] after they ninja’d my keep and then didnt stick around to even attempt to defend it. you hada solid roaming group against a good [DARK] war, necro and mes, another [DARK] mes and 5 random pugs.

wish you would have stayed to fight it would have been a good one.

you aren’t running any consumables with your builds?

just spitballing more ideas at you, here is a pretty tanky and decent dmg concept build

Tank & Spank

build highlights are: 3.7k toughness, 52% crit chance / 56% crit dmg, and just under 2.5k power/3.5k attack, with just under 19k hp

in theory, you have a lot of CC with this build, throw in whatever utility skills you may wish to put in there.

Fafnir.5124:

How good would it be if they create a more stable bizerker bleed build(aka Gutz). 60%bleed on critics with sigil of earth rocks when combined with bleed duration. Make it rain blood.

Precision/Crit damage/Condition damage

I personally run this build:

My Meta Build

For my play style (mainly WvW), I find it to be extremely survivable with high damage capability.

Eosphoros.4987:

Thank you NSP (from XOXO and an another guild) for helping us killing those two omegas at bay of DH BL ! That was fun ! But still I had to destroy your cata on the ship.

You may have killed the first two omegas with the help of xoxo but we rolled them with the next two and reclaimed DH bay. It was frustrating but it was fun. Good fight xoxo. Your two guardians were pretty good.

Look into Knight’s gear or PVT gear. Theoretically, you could go full 30 defense 30 tactics and be relatively survivable, however this is offset by lack of power and precision. So if you like seeing those big numbers, you might want to try a glass build.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQJASTjcOxwtQqQMxBE0DNsK4iTBlI9QMODzA-jkxAYsARICUCsIas1uioxqtx0wER1SBYxYA-w

Threw that together quick for just an idea

I’ll try to go more in depth when I get off work and in a computer not my smartphone

this is as close as i can find that might fit your description

Stalwart Shoulder [&AgEGFgAA]
Duelist Coat [&AgH7AAAA]
Duelist Gloves [&AgE5AwAA]
Rogues Leggings [&AgEiEAAA]
Dualist Boots [&AgF+AQAA]

Whisper Blade

copy those codes in game to preview them on your character

Yes it has an icon when its active

Not entirely sure why you would want celestial, but I also would use divinity. I’m assuming you ate going for all celestial accessories too. The thing is though you don’t have good stats anywhere. Only about 2400-2600 tough and 1450s everywhere last time i checked… which isn’t good. But to each their own I guess

Zerk or pit fighter chest? Heavy shoulders? Not sire on gloves and pants, maybe vigil gloves pants and boots?

Didn’t he use a staff or mace/shield in the book? Anyone verify this?

Maybe its time to transfer servers eh?

Varconi.1804:

By far 2 worst servers I have faced for actually pvping. Chase with 30 people realize its only 5v1 turn and run away like kittens. Maybe I will try some pve this week while you 2 kitten servers zerg some doors and run from players.

I can’t speak for other guilds or players, but in situations like this, when i run a 5-10man group, we are 100% objective based. So if it was mg group, sorry we didn’t overrun you?

Use a stealth removal trap?

Again I say, you are bad at timing and positioning.

When the factions and nightfall equivalent expansions/content come out I’m sure some form will reappear. As it stands now in the lore of the game, cantha borders are closed from all trade due to the emperor and he sos dragon. And joko is deal I g with his domain against the krlakatrorik and his crystal desert corrupted minions (I think).

Range them. LoL. Its like people don’t think. Those new champs get zergd anyways. So my only conclusion is that you are just very bad at your timing and positioning. Try taking other immobilization skills like bolas or flurry sword f1 burst and Practice practice practice.

Sounds like you 3 were terrible players. If you make the war burn his utilities properly you could have bursted him down quite easily.

To the groups of DR yesterday morning that kept taking all the stuff in ioj that I was soloing/duoing. You kittens are welcome for the 5 towers I took walls down for you.

IoJ Bronze Invader Mesmer from [HARD] just now at SE camp in ioj bl. nice fight too bad we couldn’t finish it.

- DH Veteran Warrior from [DARK]

No. Just no.

Is this a troll fail?

If Anet wanted to change how the siege weapons work. They would set you to first person POV, instead of letting you zoom back out of relatively close to first person pov. Until they do, then all your arguments are moot points.

Since there has been no official response as to how the ac is supposed to be operated, then we have to assume that it is working as intended. And with that in mind, then how one is able to operate any siege weapon within the confines of the determined environment, is how it has been designed to be used.

totalpwnage.6534:

Assassin X.8573:

Deamhan.9538:

I use 1680×1050 which is both the native and max resolution for my monitor. If I were to hook up to my TV or get a bigger monitor, I would certainly go for a larger resolution. I don’t need my icons to be any larger than what they are and to go with the same resolution on a larger screen would do just that.

The problem is how ACs target. They use line of sight from the player’s perspective instead of from the character’s in game. Since not everyone will have the same fov and since fov is too easily manipulated, there will always be a problem. ANet needs to change the way ACs target so that resolution doesn’t make a difference.

After work today, I’ll be going through and flagging all the ‘name and shame’ posts in the thread for admin review.

So.. essentially… you are saying that if someone has a better system set up than you do, then they are cheating.

Sounds logical.

Nah mate he’s saying if you are cheating then you are cheating. If you gain an extremely unfair advantage over other players (getting a view field they can’t and are able to exploit this to destroy defense siege) then that is the exact definition of cheating.

Umm. Pretty sure if you want to achieve a similar field of view, one could buy a larger monitor device, be it a monitor, TV or projector.

So now essentially you are saying having money is cheating?

Deamhan.9538:

I use 1680×1050 which is both the native and max resolution for my monitor. If I were to hook up to my TV or get a bigger monitor, I would certainly go for a larger resolution. I don’t need my icons to be any larger than what they are and to go with the same resolution on a larger screen would do just that.

The problem is how ACs target. They use line of sight from the player’s perspective instead of from the character’s in game. Since not everyone will have the same fov and since fov is too easily manipulated, there will always be a problem. ANet needs to change the way ACs target so that resolution doesn’t make a difference.

After work today, I’ll be going through and flagging all the ‘name and shame’ posts in the thread for admin review.

So.. essentially… you are saying that if someone has a better system set up than you do, then they are cheating.

Sounds logical.

melodey.4652:

Solstice.1097:

DH I hope you get to experience your equivalent of this matchup and face Maguuma next. I will be extremely interested to see how that goes.

Spoiler alert: DH will escape to PvE.

yup, new bi-weekly living story bs is about to happen next tuesday, so whoever we are up against next week, have fun dominating us die hard wvwers while pve gets zerged by 90% of our wvw population =/

KinkyGiraffe.4123:

Are there any DH left that care about morals, or playing fair?

How is this commander still not banned?

Congrats on having to cheat your way through our defenses

We cant report him as easily, its up to DH to do it.

Its all the more funny because thats what you have to resort too :\

Way to ruin the game

you must not have any AC abilities, 1 that is well within range prior to having ac range buff. 2, you just need to get the circle on the edge, the radius is pretty big. if you play with your fast cast ground targeting on, then you wont see the radius (assuming you have actually used an arrowcart) of the arrow cart.

stop whining and build a ballista on the lord room, thats an easy counter to the ac.

Signets.

Now this message isn’t too short :p

I’m an old school DAoC vet. Before you say this isn’t daoc, I’m just throwing an idea out there to see if people like it or not.

I was feeling a bit bored with PvDoor, get shot by ACs, run back , clear walls, take tower/keep or fail. So I was remembering the days I played my nightshade and warrior in DAOC; two classes of 3 which could scale walls during a keep fight.

This added some diversity to the keep battles. And made things way more fun for me.

But, herein lies the kicker: the ability to scale walls brings up the possibility for ninjazerging. In daoc the keeps had an outer gate and an inner gate, both of which also had to be broken down. Before the keep lord could be killed in the tower.

So if this ability were to someday be added to WvW. Keeps and towers would have to be redesigned as well to prevent ninja teams/zergs from capturing enemy fortifications faster than a defensive response from opposing servers could happen.

My proposal is for only the outtermost walls of a fortification have walls that can be scaled. adding gates to openings in towers could be done through upgrades. But I would still say keeps and SM inner walls be unclimbable.

This would spice things up in WvW without completely disrupting WvW in its current form.

What is everyone else’s opinion?

All these would be awesome. Loved dhuum bannings . But the A.R.E.N.A.N.E.T commandos taking someone from the sky would be kittening awesome as well!

I’m an old school DAoC vet. Before you say this isn’t daoc, I’m just throwing an idea out there to see if people like it or not.

I was feeling a bit bored with PvDoor, get shot by ACs, run back , clear walls, take tower/keep or fail. So I was remembering the days I played my nightshade and warrior in DAOC; two classes of 3 which could scale walls during a keep fight.

This added some diversity to the keep battles. And made things way more fun for me.

But, herein lies the kicker: the ability to scale walls brings up the possibility for ninjazerging. In daoc the keeps had an outer gate and an inner gate, both of which also had to be broken down. Before the keep lord could be killed in the tower.

So if this ability were to someday be added to WvW. Keeps and towers would have to be redesigned as well to prevent ninja teams/zergs from capturing enemy fortifications faster than a defensive response from opposing servers could happen.

My proposal is for only the outtermost walls of a fortification have walls that can be scaled. adding gates to openings in towers could be done through upgrades. But I would still say keeps and SM inner walls be unclimbable.

This would spice things up in WvW without completely disrupting WvW in its current form.

What is everyone else’s opinion?

MrFluffy.9307:

HippoLogic.2519:

Lol again we faced higher tier severs they never cried zoom hack just quit it already.

just because other servers didn’t cry foul doesn’t mean it’s not true. These claims aren’t baseless as you’ve seen there are plenty of screenshots showing DH commanders using the zoom exploit. You can deny it all you want but with so much evidence out there we can and will continue to label you Zoomhaven

EDIT: Oh yeah and here’s a fun little conversation I had with ol’ edgy from Abys a while back, apparently siege should not be allowed in keeps because “small groups should not be capable to defend against zergs”

That kind of surprises me about edge. Has he never seen 300 or Troy or lord of the rings 2 battle of helms deep scene, or really any historic battles/wars of similar type?

Structures of fortification are specifically designed with the intent of being defensible by a few against a larger number.

EATtheDEAD.4768:

I never played gw1 but the pvp in this game is a cluster kitten. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a game with more cc spam in my life, and it seems Anet is completely satisfied with it.

Every spvp match i played tonight was literally who had the most cc chainers on their team won. I quit playing pvp because it was just zero fun. I hate not actually getting to play my character while every fear chainer, stun locker, evasion spammer can enjoy theirs.

Was hoping Anet would of fixed this problem since launch but I guess not, I’ll probably just stop playing permanently.

You must not have played DAOC.

why can’t we add 4 duplicate skins of items we already have in our “collection” into the mystic forge in spvp and get random spvp skins back?

aside from taking up space, there is no real use other than breaking them down into ingredients for skins of the current tier you are locked into, which for the most part are also terrible skins.

or maybe let us sell skins back to the glory merchant for say 50 glory per item, that way its not breaking the system nor unreasonable, thus allowing us to gain more boxes for skins we might actually want, instead of getting the same skin, over and over and over and over and over… etc…

others’ thoughts?

fantastic figths tonight. i witnessed an amazing guild synergy earlier outside of SM about 30 mins to an hour after reset when [deth] hit DH side. you guys forced me to pull out of IoJ territory and help out the other commanders. FC, nice response on your keep defense, if it hadnt been for the pugs tossing huge animations we would have gotten to inner gates >.<

ioj bl, had lots of fun there, taking the lower half of the map. bouncing back and forth between your keeps and gari was fun. while i hoped we would take both gari and bay simultaneously, you guys made it in time to save gari after the other commander took bay.

looking forward to this week.

I fail to see the difference. In spvp you have a normalized version of gear so that everyone is on equal footing. And there are no consumables. This would take away any excuses. You can get 5v1’d in spvp and you can get 5+v1’d in WvW. Thus bring us back to player ability vs player ability as per the “I’m better than you” origination of this banter.

Care to enlighten me on what the difference would be?

Torrid and Reiko. Duel once in spvp and once in WVW behind a windmill. Problem solved for both of you.

Loren Michael.7891:

SHAKA ZULU.3128:

It is surprising to me that DH drops off more due to PvE updates than SBI. I had figured SBI had the greater PvE population somehow.

We have that reputation, yes, but we also have a strong core of passionate and dedicated soldiers who continue to bring the fight to the battlefield regardless of other content.

DH doesnt really have that accept for a handful of the rag tag few that wvw as close to 24/7 as we possibly can.

Radioactive.1248:

It really seems to me Darkhaven just lost all of their moxie that they had last week. Granted they got away with a lot of 2v1ing sbi with kaineng, and kaineng with SBI, and now that they can’t do this their PPT evaported. We also got confused and found ourselves owning Darkhaven borderlands on more than one occasion.:

not sure if you realized that DH doesnt wvw when new pve content releases. thats why you have a 20k lead this week. its been a very well known fact since the announcement of the bi-weekly content updates for living story bs.

so, gg?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Does-Heightened-Focus-even-work/first#post2428942

i duno if this would help us or not but maybe a trait in defense in the grandmaster line caleld Testudo (unfortunately, this would screw up my build) that offered dmg reduction based on level of adrenaline 5%/10%/15%.

just throwing kitten out there lol