Guild Wars 2

Elthurien.8356:

I’m glad that I’m going to be afk for the week if all this match turns out to be is servers accusing each other of hacks and transfer hate. Anyone have a score update?

Oh the hacking is all one way traffic. Enjoy your 3 orbs I guess.

Bunnehboo.6025:

i hear a lot of SoR has hacked the orb but i didnt get screen shots and blah blah blah

If an orb is hacked on a WvW map that CDS is on and we know it we will happily let you walk into the keep or altar and take it, followign the “good game” mentality that YB showed us, without SS being asked. We can not speak for the other maps so if you see any orb being hacked SS it or fraps it. dont just come on the forums and complain without any evidence. It just makes ppl look bad both ways….

The first time SoS lost an orb to hackers this week was by a CD guy. He bugged it, etc, and SoR took it. So are you going to get it back from SoR for us?

Kurthos.2354:

The SoS NA guilds are not giving up. We have put in 5-12+ hour shifts, myself playing for 24 hours straight. Our oceanic players have not been challenged before, so naturally they collapse underneath the pressure. I’m not saying they don’t have the moxy in WvW, I’m saying they are behind the NA players of most servers in terms of meta game. They will learn as time goes on and we will get better as a server.

You might not have given up, but NA primetime is when we get wasted the most.

SmokeyNYY.7841:

aww don’t give up yet SoS

It is just so demoralising, being unable to hold an orb because of cheaters, and fighting a 3 orb SoR always, and knowing there is nothing we can do about it. People have just stopped bothering until anet actually does something.

Toggles.1783:

Zhaosen.3694:

Avatara.1042, Its not as if we can control the bots….you act like we WANT bots in the kitten game. What with long queue times already.

FWIW, I didn’t get that impression from his post.

Actually I did give that impression. SoR seem to have 2 kinds of bots. The ones in the water farming, and the ones who run around in their identical gear/movement packs and attack supply points, etc.

Each time SoS gets something going, someone with steal the orb, or glitch our altar, or hack a wall. This is absolutely ridiculous.

Oh and what is up with the SoR bots?? Ever been hit by 5 exactly the same geared warriors doing the exact same moves? I have. And if you would like to bi hit by it too, go join the SoS borderland off US peaktime, where they seem to fill their ranks with bots.

I think I might just go kill dragons until anet fixes wuvwuv…

Moaning Marv.2194:

You were hit by 12114 damage by Sanctum of Ral defender using Backstab.
Good thing I am only wearing all toughness/power/vitally gear and have 16k hp as an elementalist, or that might have hurt…

This could of been done by any thief on any server
Also saying you’re using all toughness/power/vitality gear doesn’t mean you’re going survivability, maybe if you had said you were all toughness gear… :P

It was a comment on broken thieves, not against SoR :P Not sure why I put it here…

Also about the gear, I mean every piece I have has power/toughness/vitality on it, i.e is the ‘standard’ PvP gear. Guess I should have made that clearer for the newer players :P

SoS got demoralised when hackers stole our orbs and broke our altars, so that it is now impossible for them to hold orbs.

You were hit by 12114 damage by Sanctum of Ral defender using Backstab.

Good thing I am only wearing all toughness/power/vitally gear and have 16k hp as an elementalist, or that might have hurt…

George Welch.4019:

Mesmer portal bombs/ambushes are fair game

It’s a tactic that has devastating results.

Also If possible, try to report hackers/glitchers to Anet

Having a zillion INVISIBLE guys suddenly spawn on you is not fair at all. As for reporting the hackers…lol.

This match is fun, but is also clearly highlights some of the major issues with WvW. A game so close, is actually won or lost due to the orbs, which means when SoS loses the orbs to someone hacking, things can go downhill fast. SoS are still in the lead, but taking orbs legitimately is very, very hard on this map, and the orb hackers are just not punished properly.

Also the mesmer portal bomb needs to addressed.

Pick it up Crystal Desert! :P

Loosing? They are letting something loose? Loosening something? How would that help anything?

For one of the orbs that got stolen, it was actually a CD guy who magically flew in and reset it, thus giving it to SoR on their borderlands.

Also these forums infract you for saying the h word.

SoS: 20600
SoR: 19300
CD: 15800

SoR have all the orbs, due to a CD guy flying in and resetting them.

Wyrmlimion.1540:

So…SoS…

Since when was most of your servers players in 1 guild [PDX].

Yet another WvW week of migrating guilds, this time SoS drew the golden ticket.

Their guild specialises in EB, so all of them go there while others go to the Borderlands.

They need to change the Arcane bonus, and make the swap cooldown 9 seconds baseline. It is getting stupid.

When did Eredon Terrace get replaced with some guy named Terrence?

You can melee in WvW, but you better be a thief.

1. Mesmer
2. Rest.

Lol, Eredon Terrence…

Play an Elementalist, THEN comment on whether downed state is good or not.

Bottom line: balance downed state or remove it.

Later Maguuma guys. May Kormir be with you, and only you. Always.

As a parting gift for the interesting week, we would like to present you with our most special commander: Daish. May he do for you, what he did for us.

If you use Vapur Form while you are both downed, the Engineer will simply heal, while you will exit Vapour closer to death.

The Elementalist downed number 2 skill is awesome…for killing random critters. I looove it when it randomly targets that rabbit instead of the warrior.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/NEW-Elementalist-bugs-and-glitches-thread

This is the bug list. It is stickied at the top of this very Elementalist forum, so it is very strange that you missed it.

Um, if you go down at the same time as an Engineer, either you will both get up at the same time, or he will get up first because you used Vapour Form.

As for who has the better downed state in PvP, that would be the Engineer. By a few light years.

Richard Nixon.6573:

While I quite enjoyed the battle at DB Garrison today, (40+ kills from flinging people off cliffs is beyond enjoyable :P) I wasn’t impressed to find out the rumors that Maguuma and SoS are double-teaming DB are true. Though I accept that any tactic is a valid tactic, and will accept defeat as graciously as possible, I’ve certainly lost a lot of respect for both of them.

Good luck in your next matches.

Why would SoS ally with anyone this week?

lil baby anime.6834:

Already making excuses for your losses when you have over a 100k point lead. Can’t wait to see what happens when you move up a tier.

What are you talking about? If we wanted we could grind you into dust all day, every day, and have you zombie quarantined in your spawns again. But we are just messing around now, because we are booooorrrrreeeeeeddd.

Ianervan.3415:

Avatara.1042:

Wow, your mesmer’s downed Phantasm skill starts on a cooldown of 20 seconds, while mine starts on a cooldown of only 7! You must be so unlucky!

Dude, why bother lying?

Look, I’m not a psychiatrist, if you have mental issues go elsewhere. I wrote how mesmer downed state works. And that’s exactly how it works. When you’re downed, you can’t just instantly cast a phantasm, but have to wait 20 seconds. Competing whose 20-sec skill is better is just pointless because it’s irrelevant 99% of the time. Ele skill enables one to move for 5sec while mesmer skill causes damage but only if an enemy is in range. If you’re on the ground for 20sec it just deepnds on circumstances whose downed skill is more useful. 5sec movement might be just enough to get out of AoE showering on you and into safe (keep defense for instance).

That is a complete and utter lie, and one that is very easily proven wrong. The Phantasmal Rogue starts on a SEVEN second cooldown, as soon as you are downed. Either you are a flat out liar, or completely ignorant. I am in the mists right now, fighting on my mesmer. Elementalist Vapour Form also starts on a seven second cooldown.

20 seconds is the listed cooldown on the skill, which means after you use the Rogue, it goes on a 20 second cooldown, NOT that it starts on one. I am wondering if your inability to notice this, even when told you are wrong, is somehow indicative of how godmode and easy the mesmer is.

Vukovic.9320:

Wildclaw.6073:

I only spec 10 points arcane >.>
http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mcazM9molvMMolvMM0pVxaoaVcsV

Really bad spec.

• The points in air are wasted on inferior traits.
• You split points between two bad minor traits instead of going for a good major trait
• Wasting the 30 point water trait on cantrip mastery is a sin, especially considering cantrip mastery doesn’t even work with mist form.

It does work for mist form 75-60s cooldown
The reason for the air is because it gets me to 40% crit chance while my gear stacks vit, power and some toughness.
I didn’t go 30 in air because 5 in earth gives 130 toughness instead of 50 any other stat and the 10 in arcane give a really useful team/rotation trait.

My build is all about rotating defensive CD’s to mitigate burst while going through standard dagger offensives/elemental/ Firewall+ Arcane Proj

Not to mention I start in air, from there I either mitigate ranged/thief elite with 4. Open with a 5 CC which is where LW and Lightning Touch come in.
Also lightning whip has longer reach then the fire spammer?

After that is when I decide whether to go Fire for damage, Earth to survive an opponents burst or Water for Chilld/Daze/Heal/Cond remove.

I am sorry, but I have to agree with the other guy. Your spec has wasted points and traits. 5 in earth is pretty much pointless, and you really need to check the huge bug list we have.

Mainly thieves and mesmers, because they are god class in PvP.

Veon.4679:

Avatara

What do you mean by that?

The target that you have selected will get hit by the Surge’s effect even if it’s out of range of Arcane Wave. You can hit with it from as far as you can go while still keeping your target.

In my example video I chill the thief NPC from a pretty long distance, where he is not hit by the actual Wave.

That is interesting. Might have to do it to randomly burn people in wvwvw :P

Come on guys, we can do it! A few more and hit the 100 mark! Push harder!

It is a fantastic buff…for PvE. I think they expect people who are outmanned to go farm the creatures in the WvW zones…

Good luck on your recruitment. Just please stop doing it with our dragon timers :P

This is why our trees need an overhaul. It is ridiculous expecting us to spec Arcane 100% of the time.

That conjured Lightning Axe hits like a truck and spams blind. If only it carried stats over, and did not use up charges so fast

The major problem with the weapons, though, is the complete loss of all our abilities.

Wow, your mesmer’s downed Phantasm skill starts on a cooldown of 20 seconds, while mine starts on a cooldown of only 7! You must be so unlucky!

Dude, why bother lying?

Your post was very “annoying” to read, and if you had actually done your “homework” you would “realise” that “challenging” in this case means “far more work for less results”.

- Elemental Surge + Arcane Wave has infinite range to your target

What do you mean by that?

Earth elemental is the king. He does what we cannot.

Ninein.4782:

I don’t know how SoS can put up with the queue time now. It must suck waiting hours to get in.

Instant queues right now.

Spacedad, we on SoS stopped trying after the first hours of the first day after it became evident this week would be ridiculous. Now we just do random stuff to entertain ourselves. The US players on right now are even letting things be capped so that they can retake them later for fun.

Ignitus.3127:

I spent 400 badges to get my omega golem so im not happy! Hope this can be resolved soon. And to the guys messaging us in game thx for the support.
Crit Nibbler

400 badges…

Zaq.3762:

So Devona is now ranked the lowest in all of Anet? What a treat. Guess theres no where to go but up!

They can always add new servers for you to lose to!

I take it you were meant to quote me there?

So you want me to use the free transfer system you hate so much, to leave the only server I have ever been on, where all the people I know are , where my guild and siblings are, so I can be alone in PvP and PvE due to my timezone?

You are right: talk IS cheap…

Spacedad.2841:

You mean the ‘sore loser’ thing you made up? Also nice work ignoring everything else I have said to you, and ignoring why I said what I did to that guy. In case you missed the not so subtle post of someone earlier: there are NO OCEANIC SERVERS. So telling us rudely to go play on Oceanic servers is going to get some ‘salt’ rubbed in.

You’re being called out for saying the things I quoted, not the content of your argument. Claiming you’ve lost respect for everyone on the server after your server just zoomed up handidly and people on the other servers get desperate and upset; that takes basically no tact whatsoever. As does bragging about keeping the players pinned at spawn because of individuals who say things that irk you in some bizarre reasoning that sounds like you just making excuses for being a butt.

Further – when you insult the members of my server, you will get called on it. My impression of you is that you are very undiplomatic and quick to make excuses retroactively for your own poor tact, so I don’t expect you to take what I’ve said seriously and probably engage in more insults. You are not the kind of person we would want to have here on maguuma, so you are welcome to stay in sos and take part in their hollow win-streak and inevitable collapse from free x-fer joiner-ins making wvw unplayable for many. I would suggest that if and when you are against other servers that aren’t quite in your appropriate bracket yet next week, that you try not to cherry pick for excuses to berate the people you are handidly winning against. Have a nice day.

Yeah, I went a bit overboard. Of course so did you. Sore winners? What is that even about? And you continually insult us, even though all we have done is stay on our server. Also your idea to get back at Anet and us, was to stage a transfer sit-in of our server, and you have the gall to call me out?

For the record, I vastly prefer being the underdog, and defending bases against superior numbers. I always played on the night crew, where 5-10 of us would try to hold an entire zone against 60 of your guys, while our server slept. It was enjoyable in a masochistic way.

As for me not being welcome on your server: oh well. But you should not judge our entire server by me, because I am extremely vocal and aggressive. Just as I do not judge your server by you. I doubt the majority want to ruin SoS to prove a point, or believe that Oceanic players are somehow evil server jumpers.

Anyway, the majority of Maguuma are good guys. I just tend to get a little…vocal…when someone tells us we are ‘sore winners’ or to ‘stop ruining US servers and go play on Oceanic servers’ when Oceanic servers do not even exist.

I agree that this situation is horrible for everyone, and Anet need to do something about it. But please stop blaming us for it, when all we did was struggle for weeks.

Fury.6248:

Maguuma your welcome at bluewater SoS is clueless on how to cap the base hehe

It is 8 am here, 5 am to 2 am in aus. This is usually the time we fall asleep while fighting. Now we have the US and Canadians to handle this, though :P

Oh in case you were wondering, I was one of our ‘night crew’ players. Our job was to hold and stall as much as we could, while our people slept. And yes, I was that Elementalist behind every gate that Mag was sieging in EB, lava fonting spamming your rams.