Guild Wars 2

Seeing nothing but huge numbers now. 3k is the lowest I’ve seen, with 7k being the highest. <3 <3 <3

vapour.2916:

This is going to be nice seeing all of the fair weather Mesmers loudly taking their bandwagon boat home.

Agreed. Hopefully I see less of us around now.

SirusDibley.3716:

despite everyone saying we dont want these awful mechanics in dungeons , well here we go again.

did they learn nothing from mf ?

I love these, and MF’s mechanics. No HP blobs with 1 shot abilitys. We finally get some fun mechanics that challenge the one of the most important combat mechanics in GW2: movement.

I fail to understand all the tears. Kite the golems, jump on the crates for the little laser fields, keep moving to avoid the big fields (or teleport/blink through them) use reflection on the golems to stop their pulls, or interrupt them, and viola. I love love love AR.

Embolism.8106:

The nerf to Blurred Frenzy and SoI are reasonable. I would’ve handled IC differently but it definitely needed something done. Vengeful Images is a bit uncalled for but possibly is required with the Phantasm HP buff.

My thoughts exactly. They were decently heavy nerfs, but I could see them being worse. I would have done BF differently, but IC nerf is definitely valid. The trait was required in like 85% of all builds. I have 3 specs I play, and they all are affected by these changes. It’s harder to do things, but it’s still manageable, and mesmer is still a great class. If people relied so heavily on a few certain abilities to make or break the class for them, perhaps it’s better that they take some time off to figure things out.

I don’t like the Vengeful Images nerf though. Hope they revert that one.

Thanks for Zerker/Bouncing mechanics though.

lordkrall.7241:

Kain Francois.4328:

This isn’t GW1, where you stand still and soak up damage.

Indeed, and situation where you can just stand still is those that reward zerkers the most.
So if these bosses makes it more or less impossible to stand still at all zerkers would most likely be at a disadvantage.

How so? Maybe for melee zerkers, but ranged DPS will still be able to pump out the big numbers. I do it all the time as a mesmer.

Drakh.3128:

All Phantasms damage is based on power, why in the world would ANET bury [Illusionists Celerity] at the top of the condition line? That makes absolutely no sense! I thought the whole purpose of the reworking of the trees is so they would make more sense, not less! Might as well just remove that trait completely, I’d never spend 25 points in condition damage for a mesmer with our nerfed confusion.

How about just swap [Illusionists Celerity] for [Confusing Enchantments] since it has no place in the power tree?

…Because IC is a illusion benefiting trait, and not a power trait? Builds that use CND Damage or support also use IC. It belongs in the illusions tree, in my opinion. Also this nerf is justified, as much as I don’t like it. I run a Phantasm Build, & we did have it a bit too good. However, I think a 10% shave off of non IC cooldowns is in order to balance it out. Then, IC could give the other 10, thus giving illusion tree specced mesmers the old cooldown times that they were used to anyways, while easing things a bit for non IC mesmer builds.

I feel this nerf is justified, simply because IC is a very powerful minor trait, one of the most powerful & build changing in the game in my opinion. As a 25 point trait, it feels justified there. However, I also agree that a 10% adjustment to all illusion cooldowns would help non illusion based mesmers out. Similarly, if such a change did happen, IC would be brought down to 10% as well. That way, non IC mesmers are slower but not as slow as before, while mesmers who have put the hard points into illusions will still have the same cooldowns as they do currently.

I’m going to wait and see how this plays out. A second or two more on some skills wont be the end of the world to me, just means I need to manage cooldowns better.

This makes me wonder though, if this change is true, which trait goes in IC’s place? I’d hope it’s the might stacking Shattered Strength.

PadmaN.7820:

They nerfed iBerserker even more by moving Illusionists Celerity to Grandmaster.
Let the QQ begin. Source: http://overpower3d.com/Patch%20Updates/guild-wars-2-sky-pirates-of-tyria-complete-trait-list-1/

My Phantasm build is crying, but it doesn’t change my Shatter Build any.

I want Kasmeer’s hair moreso then her armor, to be honest. As far as I can tell, you can’t get that hairstyle in game currently. :o

Vespirisa.1497:

Cover Girl.2580:

warsock.7830:

Hey guys, stopped in for some reads and noticed some dragonbrand confusion. CO did join rB making a really solid WvW guild. RE/FIRE merged making another. Our server is not dying. Getting more and more motivated and coordinated everyday. Coming from Blackgate this is the most fun I have ever had. I can’t wait to get matched up with you guys again. Win or loose my guild learns something new every time and we will be here for fights not matter what.

On a side note, it would be nice if people stopped trying to recruit us from all the other solid servers. Let us grow and give you more competition. The more you stack into these top 3/4 servers the less fun it is for you. Anyone looking for a real challenge in a peaceful great community. HMU! <3 much love.

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Warsock, Leader of Reckless Bravery [rB]

Please do NOT let CO leave that server. Keep them there.. Worst case scenario send them anywhere but SoR. Thanks in advance.

CO really fell apart after Mayoken’s vacation. From another source I learned that after he moved to TC to be with RE, many members split off and moved to various servers like BG and SoR like me. The remainder I believe are now in rB. The guild was in its prime in Kaineng but after our move to DB activity dropped,

Weird. He talked & trolled TC a lot during DB’s initial foray into T2. I would be genuinely shocked if he came to TC. :/

Maybe if we got Gellor, then it would even out.

Race: Human
Gender: Female
Class: Mesmer
Ascalonian Clergy Vestments (Chestpiece)

I’ve had this armor awhile, and I love it but while zooming out I’ve found a few issues with it. First, color issues. In the screenshots below, my armor has abyss and gray dye applied to it. No red. When I zoom out though, the front and back center circles become noticeably red.

Also, I noticed while zooming in that there is a gap at the very bottom of the vestments if worn with the matching leggings from Ascalonian Catacombs. It’s fairly intrusive to an otherwise fully functional outfit. Could the next stitch on the outfit be sewn up to fix that gap?

I’ve had this armor awhile, and I love it but while zooming out I’ve found a few issues with it. First, color issues. In the screenshots below, my armor has abyss and gray dye applied to it. No red. When I zoom out though, the front and back center circles become noticeably red.

Also, I noticed while zooming in that there is a gap at the very bottom of the vestments if worn with the matching leggings from Ascalonian Catacombs. It’s fairly intrusive to an otherwise fully functional outfit. Could the next stitch on the outfit be sewn up to fix that gap?

Hamfast.8719:

Arale.4207:

Where the air is darkest.

Batgirl?

It sounds nice.

Where the air is darkest.

Karizee.8076:

http://www.guildwarsinsider.com/in-game-character-heights/

Does that mean that a human female at max height is 6’3?

Levitas.1953:

Zelulose.8695:

Was playing around with my mesmer and seeing my izerker ht for a 4k finish on heavy armor. No glitches. However, I tried it with a different spec and the izereker missed sometimes. I identified the problem. Yes an untraited izerker is glitched but the great sword training trait stops it from failing and drastically increases damage. Hope this helps all. Now I’m enjoying my izerker XD

Hi. No.
Sometimes you see big numbers, sometimes you do 500 damage with full zerker gear, sometimes you dont do damage. Trait or not trait.
Three attempts doesnt mean much and well, if you tried more than three times you were really lucky.

I’ll have to try his suggestion, as I only run traited. However, I have yet to get the below 1000 damage scenario. The lowest I’ve gotten is like 1800 on a crit, or 1400 normally. My PB hits for reasonable damage now, 3-4k consistently, sometimes more.

Full Berserker.

Nretep.2564:

As I see the “complete”-“leaked” patchnotes, I’m really disappointed. The interrupt changes are nice and were necessary. The rest is rather nerfing than buffing. (Almost) all other classes received a long list of buffs, mesmer several bug-/exploit-fixes and several nerfs.

Scepter now deals a new condition with a single skill. This skill’s damage has been lowered to a QUARTER, so the new condition just compensates the direct damage with removable DoT …

Getting 400 toughness while casting mantras doesn’t help when some mobs continuously knock you down … Necro has a “gain 400 toughness while channeling” trait …

I am disappoint!

We must be playing a different class, because I only see a few nerfs. ITV, Sirens Call, and Sword 1 being the ones I can see. Everything else is a buff/bug fix, which is really nice.

TC here, I usually see 5-10 people in the worst zones (Harathi comes to mind, Dredgehaunt too) but I usually find people in each zone talking or asking for help.

Brom Malochson.9306:

To the TCers currently spawncamping SoS on EBG…I detest you. Here’s what you can be doing instead:

-Upgrading towers/keeps we already hold
-Completing ebg dynamic events/killing champions (they drop good loot too!)
-Actually defending the towers you hold (Veloka comes to mind)

grumbles off into the abyss

From what I’m told, EB is just a farmfest nowadays, and nothing really gets done there. Did you get the names of the people doing it? I have an earfull I want to give them. It’s pretty bad that our server is doing this.

Chaos Archangel.5071:

My guesses…

• It’ll either be on Winds of Chaos(Staff1), Chaos Storm (Staff5), Ether Chain(Scepter 1), or Phantasmal Mage(Torch 5) if not a Shatter/Clone-Death trait.

• Stacks Intensity: A bit problematic since most of our conditions tend to be random. I’d assume the base damage will probably be a little better than poison, but worse than bleeding. If the target’s moving, the damage’ll be similar to burning.

• I doubt it’ll affect teleports, but it’ll be interesting if it does more damage the further away you are from the target.

Another leaked statement said it would be 75% of bleeding damage while not moving, but 150% while moving.

Jeremiah Lee.2764:

We are aware of this issue and have a team looking into it.

Thank you to all that have posted!

Any ETA? This is a major bug for a number of classes.

Hexxen.7216:

Arale.4207:

Still no bounce/pzerker fixes though. :/

They did actually say there had a team looking into the bounce bug on the bug forums. ^^

I am happy about most of these but would really kind of like to see maybe Torment added to iMage as well. Maybe do a double condition hit of confusion and torment making it a shut down move kind of since the enemy wouldn’t be able to do anything but maybe breath without taking more damage.

Hmm, I hope theyve been looking into it rather then just finding out. I can accept my pb damage for now, but not getting might from mirror blade absolutely blows. Same thing with fury from winds of chaos. x.x

Good to know though.

Still no bounce/pzerker fixes though. :/

Ision.3207:

Let’s wait and see folks —-

For example, Torment, I really doubt they are just going to add this new condition to certain Mesmer and Thief skills/utilities without a trade-off of them losing out on other skills they have. (Now if they do indeed add Torment, without a trade-off, then they are totally NUTS – lol).

I call BS here, at least for mesmer. We have been hit hard with the condition nerf bat. We NEED a new condition to help encourage condition builds, since we are very poor at them currently. No other changes to mesmer need to happen if we get 1 new condition out of our weak few we already have.

Richard Nixon.6573:

Benji.9203:

I just read the new domination trait and died

I thought eles had it good in terms of dps now but if this is real ANET has just opened up the possibilities of a one shot….

A 500% increase only puts the damage at 2k-3k. What are you going to be one-shotting, ambients?

Is that before or after 100% crit damage and 3400 power? Imagine iWave smacking 5 people for 9-10k on a crit. xD

In other games, the rate increases until it becomes quite a heafy sum to retrait/respec. We have it kitten good.

stinkypants.8419:

Dontcare Aboutnames.9284:

I think this describes how SoS and CD are feeling pretty well…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0

That’s funny cuz this is what I hear anytime TC says anything in this thread:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B0CyOAO8y0

Fun fun fun weekend!

Thanks to the [TS] Thief for the good fights. You do a lott of burst damage. I barely won both fights! Sorry about that person jumping in the first time, I didn’t see them but I stopped the second person who happened by on our fight.

Razeor.6271:

So what new minigame are we going to get, let me guess, battleship?

If it involves 5v5 Arial combat in airships, hell yes.

Yes. They show up on my clones, and sometimes on my phantasms to great hilarity.

Can it be Friday yet? I think it would be best if everyone went their separate ways.

Trinity? No thanks.

My PB hits for 2500-4000 or so now, sometimes 5-6 on a good day. I still wish it was fixed. I won’t ever drop GS though. Now, the bounce nerf bothers me even more then this one does…poor GS. :/

I can’t ever give up my Avenger though.

Make Mind Stab from GS a blast finisher.

Mind Stab is awesome, but underrated. It does more then a full GS auto attack in most cases, is instant, 1200 range, has aoe (not much, but it’s something) also removes a boon (really useful in a few places) and has a decent cooldown. I combine it with mindwrack for even more burst. (F1 then mindstab on the group, screen shakes and damage everywhere.)

Excalibur.9748:

Arale.4207:

Toxic.4320:

Venton, scroll up. It was openly admitted that TC was spawn camping because they were bored last night.

The three other exits argument is not valid. Why? Because TC got equally frustrated when SoR spawncamped. I was there.

This saddens me. I don’t know whats going on in WvW, as I’ve taken this week off, but if that’s true, shame on those people. Spawn camping is lame. When it happened to us, we hated it. I don’t see how anyone on TC, unless they’re new transfers or bads, would condone that kind of behavior even if they are that bored. :/

Truly sad.

Well, it’s not deliberate it’s just that we push them all the way back to the spawn. We move back a bit and then push again etc etc. There is nothing we can do if they don’t want to push.

Doesn’t make it right though. If spawn camping indeed happened in the sense that we hung out at their spawn and built siege/camped the gate, then that’s just bad form. I hope we get SoR or BG this friday, so those people can get their faces steamrolled and see how it feels. It appears that in order to understand why it’s bad, you need to be on the other end of it; you need to feel that level of frustration. Tough love TC.

Toxic.4320:

Venton, scroll up. It was openly admitted that TC was spawn camping because they were bored last night.

The three other exits argument is not valid. Why? Because TC got equally frustrated when SoR spawncamped. I was there.

This saddens me. I don’t know whats going on in WvW, as I’ve taken this week off, but if that’s true, shame on those people. Spawn camping is lame. When it happened to us, we hated it. I don’t see how anyone on TC, unless they’re new transfers or bads, would condone that kind of behavior even if they are that bored. :/

Truly sad.

By far the most attractive NPC I’ve seen from this game yet. I want her hairstyle. However, is it just me or does she remind anyone else of Amanda Seyfried with the facial structure and lips? :O

JakobGW.5730:

ykyk.2740:

Oh yes definitely, that’s a natural consequence of having more players (of which a large proportion are from PvE).

I’ve noticed that you guys say this a lot: that you have a large amount of PvE’ers. It certainly seems like you’re implying that this is the reason you have bad players. . . .

That’s all and well, but I can tell you that we don’t even consider guesting on TC anymore when we (God forbid!) have to PvE karma train in Orr. We never see anyone there. Hell, just yesterday we tried to guest on TC to run a few quick CoFs and, of course, the dungeon was contested and no one was anywhere on the map to un-contest it.

In my experience, you have no more PvE’ers than any other T4 server and above.

Lol, checks once, contested, assumes population numbers. You have some convincing data there mister.

glittergirl.4162:

Fact of the matter is that both Tarnished Coast and Dragonbrand are far from perfect and for us to move to either we would have to be reassured they still have a passion for the game and are willing to change a few of their current bad behavious.

No server you choose will be perfect anyways. Also, what bad behavior are you talking about exactly? Both TC and DB are very good servers. We both recent got our butts kicked by T1 Servers, so we know that we have a lot to learn if we wanted to compete in that environment. Still, with that attitude, I’m not sure you would fit on honestly.

No. Mesmer is the most unique profession in GW2, maybe tied with Engineer. The rest are fairly generic. I very much like doing all the colorful awesome things that I’m able to do as a mesmer.

Altie.4571:

Family

Obviously I can’t speak about CD, but TC is like a big family. A lot of people and guilds are very close, and while things don’t always work as people would want them to, we still try our best like a family would. Perhaps that was the difference?

Fuzzion.2504:

pot.6805:

Imaginary medals, cool!

MOS stopped updating so i created one

Medals don’t mean anything anymore due to the volatility of the matches these days. Stomping a lower coverage server 6 times will give you 6 medals, but that doesn’t mean you are a top server in the slightest.

Lol, still no response to this. Maybe it’s a floater issue guys.

JJBigs.8456:

Dont be tricked by people trying to recruit you .

WvW= SoR.

PvE= JQ.

If your looking for EU, no idea. Those are real and without influence.

TC IS NOT WHAT YOUR LOOKING FOR .

TC has a equal if not higher PvE population then JQ in my opinion. This is after guesting to JQ for several weeks in comparison to my home server, Tarnished Coast.

Iruwen.3164:

Arale.4207:

So, basically what you are saying is, it takes 7 months to fix a floater issue?

We do not know why this floater is sometimes not appearing but because it is a visual bug only we have prioritized other fixes over it while we try to figure out the root cause of this issue.

What he’s basically saying is that they’re not even trying. If you have an issue tracker full of outstanding issues that are sorted by priority, you’ll always be working on the high priority ones and not go through them chronologically. And if nobody ever tells you to fix an old bug with a lower priority or escalates it to a higher priority, you won’t fix it. Because your work will be audited by other departments and/or a superior, and usually every step (commit) is documented in the issue tracker as well as in the code repository. So unless you’re doing those low priority fixes in your spare time because you have a personal interest in fixing that specific bug, you’re not working on them at all. That’s how it has been in all companies I’ve been working for. And while it’s logical and totally makes sense, there should normally be somebody monitoring customer feedback and escalating those old bugs that always slip through when people get too vocal.

Whats funny is this was a high priority bug fix at one point!

Hilarious. They haven’t even commented on the bouncing bug yet either.

pullnointer.1476:

Balkanwarrior.5132:

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their business model won’t be so excellent in a year when everybody’s forgotten about gw2 and they need to go f2p. but yh I agree with you, just annoys the hell outta me.

Lol, aside from a one time purchase, you do not nee to spend anymore money on this game. Any additional money you spend is on you brah.

I’ve gotten 1 rare out of 30 chests. Ectos are still at SB gais.

Do want.

15chachas