Guild Wars 2

“Reason why not in spvp” blah blah… Because they come with new rune in 5min as an addition to some pve event and then throw it into the pve/wvw for “testing period” to see what people think about it, then few months later they try rebalancing it

The more interrupts your class has the bigger difference you will feel if you use these I think. Not much change for me.

Like someone said above, other runes might get nice boosts to make them worth using again.

Versus good enemy you might be in trouble. I would take 1 stunbreaker at least, Lightning flash helps to keep the distance but not for long most of the times. I tried scepter but it’s not working well against thieves/mesmers who can stealth a lot and for scepter you need the target.

Yep and reflect on top of that. Engi confusion, poisons, burns and bleeds back to him xd

Looking alright, quite balanced. Generosity and water traits solve condi problems and always can switch to Ether if needed I guess, with might stacking also a bit of raw dmg pressure besides condi dmg. Let’s hope they won’t start nerfing condi eles even before they get popular

Focus vs engis and they die or suicide :P With d/d it is troublesome since most engis spam condis fast and try to kite you around with all the cripples and chills, only coming close when they wanna use pry bar…

For now Perplexity rune really seems to be only viable thing (even if lot of ppl cry about it – but if they are good then should be able to pay attention to that confusion I guess) for condi ele or any class that has low access to condi types. Let’s see what the patch brings. That Baelfire (or w/e the name) from stream looked promising.

30 in fire for blind every 5sec trait seems ok too, but not sure if it will be worth to go there probably at cost of survivability (or just sacrificing earth traits for me), some 30 0 0 20 20 or like that – we will see.

A mechanism that would allow us to take out rune from the item would be really nice, even if it would cost a small fee.

Right now we have 3 options:
1 – Salvage the item to get back the rune
2 – Put in a different rune at the cost of loosing the previous one
3 – Get a new item and put the new rune there and then put old item to bank (thats what I do usually for new tests of gear but it costs a lot of space, especially if one has more than 1 character and likes to experiment with it)

Allowing us to take out old sigil/rune and leave an empty slot in the item would be the best solution imo.

As above, I think it’s a good thing it’s getting fixed – not nerfed imo
Rush against the wall as well. How would you call an ability that allows you to 1 hit someone/apply insane dmg to bosses etc?

My guilds are:
Rallybot Guild [RG]
Guild To Kill Mr [Hoof]

:)

Condi build is fun to play but I think true strenght lies in some kind of mix with might stacking – sigil of battle, a bit boon duration maybe…
Let’s see what the sigil/rune patch brings to the game, for now perplexity seems to be the best if not only good option, burns and bleeds can be longer with other runes but it doesn’t help much if enemy cleans them fast.
I use d/f in mine, stats similiar to other posted above, mix of dire/apothecary/giver’s. Fun to play for sure, much difference than the old d/d or staff setups. Traits 0 0 30 20 20, no diamond skin though cause certain people cry about it (like if perplexity crying wasn’t enough arleady with my 2 (!) interrupts on quite long cd). Other trait setups seems nice too like 0 0 20 20 30 etc.. Tried 20 in fire for extra long burns but the long condis only work on ppl who have 0 cleanse or such, but at the same time you have to sacrifice some of your own points from other lines.

How about leave it like it is? Use chill/immobilize/knockdown and it usually lands, if not the 1st time then it should in the next.

New look after the patch

New look after the patch

Since there is patch coming in near future that is supposed to bring a lot of changes to runes and sigils, I’d like to report a bug about this rune (in hope it will get fixed/or the rune is changed or whatever).

Basicly if I use full set of perplexity and get interrupted by thief Basilisk Venom then I get the confusion (if the “interrupt” effect is not on cooldown). The same effect happens if the user uses Box of Fun petrify effect and then use a skill.

Here is the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bxx9m3qgE8

Couldn’t find any helpful thief at the time of making this post to make vid with Basilisk Venom, but the effect is the same.

I have an Asura, but taking human female could be interesting too (the chest and the elite)

I think someone at anet noticed that WvW is slowly going down since the release… Way to “attract” ppl to it.
On the other hand, it’s The Legendary weapon, so I think it’s not just a pve legendary but overall game achievements legendary that shows that you have played every aspect of the game. Those 30 ranks is nothing compared to how much some have to farm to get gold for other materials…

I can confirm that condi dmg affects skills like Arrowcart Bleeding skill or Mortar burning skill, same goes for Treb poison (even though it doesn’t do that much dmg). Seeing 700 ticks from mortar on enemy blob is a funny thing though

First matchup 2014 “Deso-Viz-Sfr” old times xD

You can name JS as Empty Sea, just as their home map at reset :s

All is vain

You know that there might be random kids playing games right? How can you expect 12-14 yrs old to have a sense of judgement and know that he is doing something wrong. He just found a new way to have fun

Since town clothes have been disabled in WvW I have used them… not even once. Why did I buy them for then? I have no idea of any exploits and if there is any then it should be fixed, instead punishing everyone for few ppl who abuse it.
Just like many other not fixed things – sigils, some runes, skills or traits – I don’t know where it’s all going, but I have a feeling I know where me and friends might go, if continues :s

MarzAttakz.9608:

Atoss.1056:

MarzAttakz.9608:

This is purely a PVE build?

Mine? Plan to test/run in WvW roaming also. My last one had much too less HP to be any competetive but this is 3 times better Will just take some time to get all that Dire stuff…

Sorry, no, the original build. Gonna take a peek at yours now though.

Edit: Why waste the time and material for a fully ascended setup when you could build something way better as a Mesmer, Warrior or Guard?

I honestly don’t see the point, the only people not running decent amounts of conditional removal in WvW are scrubs, which you should be able to obliterate without fully ascended.

Granted the numbers on your condition ticks look fairly insane, if you go ahead and build this I’d be interested to hear how it works out.

Oh, I was sure it’s exotic Didn’t notice the new tab, anyway that’s how it looks

MarzAttakz.9608:

This is purely a PVE build?

Mine? Plan to test/run in WvW roaming also. My last one had much too less HP to be any competetive but this is 3 times better Will just take some time to get all that Dire stuff…

I was planning to make something like this as my “top sikret” project :P

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAodhEmYbvR0wjEIkCwQowBMeoBfQHWUkDzAA-jkCB4iBEbBhCAkWAh6AITtIasVTFRjVJjIqWfEzYuIa1SBAz0I-w

Still not sure if 30 in earth will be neccessary, might use 20 earth 20 water or 20 earth 30 arcane for more survivability.
Also the utilites, probably I would be switching from time to time depending on situation. Ice Bow, GoEP, Cleansing Fire, Blink comes to my mind in 1st place. Also could switch Earth IV to Earth II for more spam of Signet of Fire (like if Drakes Breath isn’t enough :P ) and the Signet of Earth (connected with Earth 3) to help you kite if there is need for it…
Also if you’re sure that target has no condi cleanse ready you can always pop Fire GS and use skill 2 with Signet of Earth immobilize…

Just was checking out traits and noticed this:

If you pick cantrip mastery it reduces cooldown on trait Burning Fire (tooltip says its sort of cantrip trait). Ele has another trait like that, Earth Embrace – here the cooldown doesn’t get reduced even though its also a cantrip.

My guess is – it should reduce cooldowns on each of them or only on utility (not traits) ?

Ask the devs to give you immunity to direct damage at over 90% hp. If that will stop cries I’m totally fine with it.

PS. I have a necro too.

So I heard Viz tanking it to silver league for next season

And on serious note: sad to see spirit broken like this, but seeing the rewards (for any place in leagues) was even sadder, so no surprise. Lot of ppl must be already burned out anyway, even from before the league times (like I am myself a bit). Anet and their reward-carrot, can be a 2 sided sword that hits back…

Have fun Sfr and Pikeners

You just made my day

alanis.6094:

Atoss.1056:

I guess necro is allowed to spam all condi buttons on the keyboard but when little (10% hp) problem shows up all these buttons are used to make qq threads ^^

Happen to actually watch the video?

Happen. And it looks stupid trying to attack someone with condis when he is immune to condis above certain hp. Try some physical attacks?

Ppl making problem out of it. Take other weapon isntead staff and use your brain. Lower hp below those 90% and then keep spamming your 11112511 condis, its your job that he stays below those 90%.

I guess necro is allowed to spam all condi buttons on the keyboard but when little (10% hp) problem shows up all these buttons are used to make qq threads ^^

Nice tears thread.

Looks like no dueling on arena this week, only RS gankers found there

Nice fights in arena

We got an idea with fellow Miller’s asura to organize a little event – Asura Golem Battle
Only 1 rule: jump in your suit and spread the mayhem!
Thursday, 21:00 GMT (if no gvg at that time) at Obsidian Sanctum arena – spread the word among your friends and guildies and of course – BRING YOUR ASURA! :P

Looks like SFR not doing well atm, but I guess they don’t have to bother either – all places are set already. Gratz to Viz on winning Season 1 gold league. And Piken, well, looking at the site makes me think they just try to keep their ppt and avoid any big conflict with Viz. :P

Was jumping servers a bit in search for new home and on my journeys visited both Sfr and Viz.
Sfr at start had some long queues but it wasn’t terrible, only long was for eb, for borderlands around 10-20m the longest I had – no problem with playing here.
Good impressions – lot of ppl willing to command and lot of ppl joining team speak. Some good commanders (like KLM or other one that I forget name right now – he was drinking lot of wine :P) who – if had good ppl around wipe 2-3 times bigger zerg of Viz, cheers to them.
Bad impressions – at some point one of commanders (not the above ones) was asking his spy on Viz about locations of sieges and such and how many ppl are there on the map, pretty low but I guess all is allowed on the war. Also at some point quite a lot of afkers at spawn, 10-20 at times – thats quite significant amount that could make the difference, especially while facing server like Viz.

Viz – didn’t know what to expect here, mixed impressions also. Queue time – at least 2 times longer than on Sfr, and crazy long to eb, I managed to get into eb only 3-4 times during week and it was past midnight when I had to go sleep already ^^
Good impressions – really nice organization, ppl willing to scout without being asked, refreshing siege, know where to place and how to use siege and ofc some places were crazy sieged up Second thing was that there is almost no afkers at spawn taking place, most ppl were on commander and just few doing scouting and roaming. The golem rushes are nicely organized (10-15 omega usually at least) and the zerg commanders trying to teach ppl what to do step by step (I don’t know french language but the commanding seemed so simple that even a baby could follow). Also ton of commanders, one goes off – other tag up with no breaks.
Bad impressions – hmm, well the language barrier is problem, there are some english speaking ppl, but most (the ones I talked to) seemed to know only french and only french is used on TS. Queues – if you want to play and not wait then it’s bad place for you (will change with EoTM I guess). Also weird thing when I got asked to join TS (didn’t undertand anything, except maybe combo air explosion :P ) was that the flags showing the country you’re connecting from. So far everytime I join TS it was showing my own country, but on Viz TS it was sometimes France and sometimes Austria (changing randomly). Also all users connected had only 3 possible flags, Fr, Austria or Romania. Weird stuff.

Overall, Viz still seems better organized server than Sfr and I guess they deserve the victory ^^

Ice bow is always fun – lot of numbers, unless enemy has stacked ton of retaliation, then it’s just suicide

Also would be nice if ppl standing on starting platforms couldn’t use their skills. Atm it’s pretty annyoing to fight someone and being nuked from above. If you’re chicken and scared to fight why coming to pvp zone in the first place? … Come down and fight like a man (or woman)

KayOz.3750:

Looks like Aurora is blobbing more than Vizunah and Abaddon together.

At least on AG BL.

Could say the same about Millers, at least on GH bl.

iorlas.6721:

ich.7086:

We heard some TUP were harvesting it and then rolling over our PUG with upleveled while high so we shutdown weed production

Else good matchup for small scale.

Yea can’t beat small scale fights

Chat log made me laugh:
STACK -> INC -> Dodge right -> Well them (?) -> Daaamn -> steamrolled
xD

Simonoly.4352:

Thanks for the fun matchup AG and AM. Unfortunately Gandara now has two more weeks of Desolation (kittening matchup system, why must Gandara face them the most?!) and who knows what will happen then. So expect to see a rather blooded and bruised (probably drunk) Gandara by the time this league is over.

Praise Bessie.

You can always try to go 1st, noone said Deso is invincible just like some think Vizunah is FSP might be more on your side than their, who knows.

Quite fine week. Nice fights at times, as well while roaming and while zerging.
Last night we had some more ppl awake to make sure we finish 2nd this week. Some guys playing “Bob the builder” in EB
Little vid of midnight runners event from AG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpxMveBs5TY

Gl in next 2 weeks.

That’s a good idea, was thinking to suggest it myself.
Some other spells could have a little different colouring too (Line of Warding, Ring of Warding etc). In small fight it’s no problem but in big battles the colour difference would be really helpful. It wouldn’t even have to be like totally red or totally green, just a little bit of shading towards “team colours” and done (if possible ofc).

Been bothering me (and probably not only me) since some time. I started lvling up another character because of getting a little bored and want to try out something new. The WvW queues are pretty long/random at evenings. Here comes the thing: I would prefer to play on my 80lvl character in WvW, but sitting 1-2 hr in queue while not doing anything else (let’s say not really interested in pve/spvp) is frustrating and not productive, so I go to lvl up my alt in the meantime, but then I’m kinda forced to play the low lvl in WvW (rallybot).

Could we possibly have an option in the future when the queue window pops: “On which character would you like to join?” and then we can just pick 1 from the list and play on it? That way players could enjoy doing whatever they want on alt and play WvW on main.

I know the new map Edge of The Mists is coming to give us something to do while in queue, but just thought that many ppl would appreciate to have that kind of choice.

This reminds me the old Deso – Viz – Sfr threads, just that now the roles have changed.

Being on AG feels like being on the old good Deso, which used to be proud of winning in the evenings and claiming that noone cares about offtimes, now its the other way around
There are still 3-4 guilds running who can give some resistance, the newcomers could learn a bit from them and maybe form up some new guilds for the future, you will need them for sure cause after leagues, if offtime coverage keeps up, it leads to 1 thing – going up in the ranking and facing servers with more ppl. Who knows, maybe the 1st randomized matchup after league will be Viz/Deso/Sfr :P

And for now just enjoy the fights versus whatever you like, ppl or doors ^^

Looks like deso still the same, some resistance and the numbers disappear quickly, just to show up again when the resistance is gone

Looks like now it’s more like other servers accepting Viz victory and fighting between themselves to get 2nd place, instead of even teaming up to beat the crap out of the strongest one :P
Viz has rly high numbers, at every time of the day there is queue to any map, the shortest for me was maybe 20m yesterday, prolly cuz of pve patch and Viz thinking they already won it so slacking a bit. Other times there is usually over 1hr queue to borderlands and to EB – well I managed to get into EB only 2 or 3 times this week and was around 2 am after several hours of queue, but it was time to sleep already so yeah, EB is out of reach during normal hours (unless you maybe queue in the morning )…
Don’t think any server can solo handle them right now with the amount of ppl playing at every time of day (and night).

Made a little vid of how Viz does their infamous morning golem rush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoYWq2TAqaE

Mesmers always seem well organized porting golems smoothly.

I don’t always use them ^^ Only in certain situations like defending camp or checking captured keep (bay in this and previous matchups – I know you guys like to hide there) for thieves inside. On 1v1 no need any traps though.

Meanwhile on borderlands… greetings to all thieves, especially OdS :P
Always good fun chasing around with you

Just all transfer to viz, get in the map and sit at spawn, refresh every 5m to get not kicked out = win xD

I think Gandara still has their players, but the moment they find out running in that pve labirynth gives nothing they all will be back in WvW. As for Deso, most of the times it’s the same old story repeating over and over: comander goes off → ppl change map etc and /care about loosing T3 towers or refreshing siege. Asking for any scouts or sniper team is just funny at times, and getting any reply about “whats at durios?” often ends up with tower changing colour. Too many ppl care about only lootbags and when the season starts it will be their precious AP, even now they ask every few min how to activate them…

It won’t be hard for servers like Gandara or AM/AG to fight Deso in silver league. Guilds play mostly only during evenings and not many players organize themselves during the day to reset any enemy stuff or at least prevent it from upgrading if it was flipped at night. Look even right now at the score – Gandara pressed a bit more and we go to +190 from over +300 in quite short time. Even though there might be a bit more of our guys staying for the nights I don’t see an easy matches in the future.