Guild Wars 2

SniffyCube.6107:

Might seem weird to say, but I enjoy the lack of a thread because it shows a lack of trash talk. Scanning the match threads for a few weeks now I have to say this tier’s is my favorite forum-wise.

But that’s what makes these threads entertaining.

Account bound…

All my characters are now 80. What do I do with these now when I get randomly given as a reward? Trash them?

Less than a hour before reset and here are the scores.

SoS still holding onto a fully upgraded Stone Mist by weeks end.

Gabriel.8905:

any chances that it will be improve ? some players are waiting for it including me

You play a necromancer don’t you?

The whole system is a poorly veiled carrot on the stick to keep you playing WvW.

Because the absurdly impossible WvW titles were a bad motivation in itself. Thinking people are going to play Guild Wars 2 – let alone WvW – 10 years straight is down right arrogant in assumption.

Wish they would design the rewards for WvW to be fun as well as being reasonably obtainable and not simply an artificially lengthy grind.

Daily score update!

Wirldwide.8046:

Azure Prower.8701:

1 vs 5. Yes that one player is going to die no matter the situation.

But why should one person have the power of 5 players at their disposal?

Here’s an example of multiboxing getting out of hand:

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

Let’s stay with this topic for a bit. Because this is a very good example. Thank you for posting a video of me playing WoW with 15 accounts….

You were in one battleground with me and in the video, your side lost. Right? How many Alterac Valley battles have I had? I’ll give you the answer: Thousands. More than anyone that I know of. My side has lost more Alterac Valley battles than won. Check the stats for any of the characters if you don’t believe me or I can provide you the links on request for the stats.

Losing more battles than won in a game that has a /follow command and allows a single key press to go to all clients. The point here is that with these two in place, the win/loss ratio is roughly about 50/50. You just happened to be in a game where your side lost. But you make it huge deal and give everyone the impression that you will lose 100% of the time only because you met me once in battle and lost. Your 50% loss was during that video. That battleground has many factors to it that determine who wins and who loses. The most important being where player numbers meet on the battleground. I was playing 15 in that battle. If all 40 of the opponents met me, I would have been wiped out easily. That didn’t happen. I met numbers of 5 to 10 or 12 in combat. Watch the video closely and you’ll see that’s true. Our side won only because the combat luck was on our side during that battle. Your side lost because of “luck” of a coin where heads fell and you called tails.

Imagine if that battle of my 15 characters had no /follow command and I couldn’t press one key to go to all 15 characters. Your side would win 90% of the time. I’d have no chance meeting 15 players and probably would have no chance if I met 5 to 10 players in the battle.

Playing 15 characters with no /follow command and no ability to press one key to go to all 15 characters would still defeat one player almost all of the time, unless the one player were using siege and there was no way to take out the siege because of positioning.

Oh. So you’re Prepared?

If you enjoy insta-killing people with one key stroke like you did in WoW. Then Guild Wars 2 isn’t for you.

1 vs 5. Yes that one player is going to die no matter the situation.

But why should one person have the power of 5 players at their disposal?

Here’s an example of multiboxing getting out of hand:

Last score update from me tonight.

I’m seeing a direct correlation between SBI getting a new addition to their ranks and their lack of performance lately.

Also score update.

Invoker.5462:

Guild wars 2 as a whole is a fantastic game, not as good as it was at launch “nostalgia” :’(

I really feel like it has the ability to last, i have a char statue right next to me, and the collectors edition painting in my kitchen, but i cant seem to get into the dern game for very long..

Let me start by saying that i play a Char Engineer, at first, i enjoyed the new race, it was different, i liked running on all 4’s and i liked wacking things with me ol wrench and throwing nades.

In the long term however, i began to realize that i picked perhaps the WORST combo of all time. Let me number reasons to make it clear

1) Char looks like a dog with a muzzle in engineer clothes

2) The shield protrudes so far from the actual body of the char, that its an immediate immersion breaker, unless the char is controlling the shield by some magnetic force, its a real goof.

3) The best way to kill things in Spve is with bombs. Bombs kill things so fast that it makes no sense to try any other toolkit in pve, i can kill a group of 20 mobs my level in about 8 seconds with bombs, not possible with any other toolkit

4) I dislike the rifle animation, it looks so unrealistic, each time i shoot my char looks the same and i feel like im playing a robot the moment i start shooting rifles

5) as an engineer, i cant see any weapons when im toolkiting

6) sometimes i just wana get on and kill stuff, but with the engi its so dull. I walk up, plant 5 bombs, kill, repeat. bombs would have a more lasting, immersive effect if ragdolls were more prevalent

7) The morter has no polish to its funtions at all, my char clips into the morter and sometimes the shells lag and then suddenly all come out at once, its a nightmare

8) Its EXTREMLEY hard to role play and engi char, i really wish i had some cooler gear options, leather just looks so drab and i dont think anyone could tell im an engineer at first glance

9) Coming back after a long break is hard with the engie, as each time i have a different motive, weather its a hack and slash feel or a explosion feel, i have to go respec each time and its a real pain each time

10) engineer just doesnt feel like its meant to be played in 3rd person sometimes, its the only class that has a terrible time trying to make the camera work (especially with grenades)

Solution: Just let us change our race and class, i know you will do it one day, can you just do it now?

Your gear is awful.

Here is my Charr Engineer. Far from “a dog with a muzzle” as you put it.

Also rocking flamethrower and hidden pistols. It’s a blast playing Engineer.

But if you don’t like it. That’s fine. There’s plenty of other race/profession combos to choose from. Nothing stopping you from making another.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen.

Time for another score update!

Q: How many trebs does it take SoS to take overlook?
A: It’s in the picture.

Last update for me tonight!

Score update! ! !

There is an option in game to report them labelled ‘botting’. But whether you have enough time to report them or whether it works is debatable.

Another way is to manually screenshot them and send it to exploits@arena.net

Though one thing for certain is. In before thread lock.

Why not the legendaries?

Grieve.1432:

Hey SoS!

Took you long enough to get NE Tower back on your Borderland. We loved all of those tasty badges. I heard one our guys made almost 100 badges and like 4-5g from you tonight.

Still great back and forth fights. You definitely earned the wxp & loot from our dead bodies.

I was passing through saw that with all those arrow carts set up there. I was like ‘haha… no’ and went back to what I was doing.

Some one really wanted to keep the Ogres.

Is there a… Problem?

SoS showing dominance upon the other servers as they give in to their superior might.

Heijincks.9267:

grifflyman.8102:

Azure Prower.8701:

grifflyman.8102:

Customers or not, the fact that World vs. World is balanced around a server having a full population at all times of the day and night is an absolute joke.

It’s not fun, and it end up being repetitive.

Did you know it is always day some where in the world?

Did you know it is always night somewhere in the word? What’s your point?

I don’t think you get it. When we (the North American players) play, we’re technically night capping the Eurasian players.

Indeed. And don’t forget oceanics/aussies.

Also WvW is not meant to be fair. It is a persistent 24/7 open zone battle ground. People put too much emphasis on the points when the points are pretty meaningless. Just have fun whether you’re the underdog defending or the zerg rolling over objectives for karma/exp.

If you’re not having fun. WvW is not for you then.

grifflyman.8102:

Customers or not, the fact that World vs. World is balanced around a server having a full population at all times of the day and night is an absolute joke.

It’s not fun, and it end up being repetitive.

Did you know it is always day some where in the world?

This isn’t a pre-set battleground where you have an objective that must be achieved in a very short time limit.

This is an open zone where every one can do as they please. If that means dueling. Then so be it. sPvP is there if you want to have focused objective based PvP.

If you’re one of those single minded ‘red is dead’ advocates. Then I guess you don’t mind being dead instead in WvW and thus no need for this thread.

Flissy.4093:

Morfedel.4165:

Ok, so the idea of the living story is fun, but it hardly feels like an entire expansion worth off content., look of the size of Eye of the North.

That’s because it’s not an expansion. Strange isn’t it?

Yet, that is what was promised.

This thread will probably be moved to the dead suggestion forum for having ‘suggestion’ in the title.

Ryuujin.8236:

The WvW exploration component is VERY VERY controversial. Almost nobody approves of it

Pure PvE players like me hate that we have to walk into a PvP warzone and get shot at, in order to recieve a PvE item

Stopped reading there. It is not a PVE item. It is a reward for playing all aspects of GW2.

SoS is completely dominating on the battlefield from pure skill and determination. Keep up the good work SoS, you are clearly the superior server!

This dungeon hates Aussies and thus I do not like it. Was a pain getting to the end of it with so many ‘you must dodge and only dodge this’ attacks. Then ‘oh here’s more stuff to dodge after your endurance is empty.’

Fun times.

Boss mechanics = fun.
The only mechanic being dodge = not fun.

animalmom.1062:

“This problem is ubiquitous with a number of the scepter auto-attacks. The guardian’s scepter is probably the worst of them all atm.
Welcome to the club guys!!!!!”

Scepter is not the worst because

a) it does more damage on ST which is what you care about usually
b) it’s 1200 range vs 900 so you can blast NP{Cs on keep walls much better than Thieves

SB 1 is much worse

/guardian and thief Mains.

At least Guardian scepter’s 2 other skills have instant travel time.

eithinan.9841:

It is amazing, Anet actually made spamming 2 on short bow the only thing to do. when it was already the only good thing about short bow(not counting the atrocious travel time on the attack)…

Makes me think they want every thief to be a stealth abusing thief.

zenleto.6179:

WvW or pve? I’m running my thief right now and not having an issue.

Trick Shot skill: First arrow is no longer heat-seeking.

It is broken. It cannot hit moving targets with its auto attack now. A lot of thieves who used short-bow weapon as their main weapon are quite upset. Please fix this.

This nerf is totally unfounded and just killed thief’s only viable range attack. Is Anet trying to funnel every thief is being a stealth abusing D/P?

Turkashi.4502:

I don’t see why there will be exception for the backpack…so yes it will dissapear too like the wapon skins

Being that there is no rare skin drop of them maybe?

It’s not like you guys are even trying any more…

Josh Foreman.8250:

I may have to add the 50 jumps in one place secret now.

Darn it people. This is why we can’t have nice things. You’re giving Josh evil ideas.

The grand finale will be the server is shutting down in 3 minutes. Then once we return there will be that vacant spot in that little corner of Rata Sum and sadness will pour out upon the world.

Griefing and Trolling are two different things.

In-game trolling can be tongue and cheek fun.

In-game griefing is rather more malicious.

So having a ton of bauble baubles. If for example we have 500 bauble baubles and want to spend them on obsidian shards.

Do we really have to manually click ‘yes’ every time we want to purchase one at a time?

KICKER.3874:

I will transmute a full Magic Find set with the exact looks of my Berserker set.

I will wear the MF and ping you the Zerk from inventory.

Did u even consider how useless gear pinging is ? Just annoying really.

If you go to all that trouble to make 2 berserker sets and a magic find set. Then my hat is off to you sir.

But you’re still leeching on the efforts of the group.

Another score update.

The last thing you see before I claim your loot bag… Which I’ve been doing a lot tonight.

No skill lag here on SoS.

Ghedoriah.4290:

I almost thought no-one had bothered to make the match-up post. Then I looked on page two.

You can really tell how fierce and aggressive a match it is, can’t you?

How dare you! Time to get my keyboard warrior skills out!

…nah too lazy.

No. Just glows in the dark. No one can miss you in the dark room with it.

Colour is also spelt with a ‘U’.
Wrath is pronounced ‘rof’.
etc.

Every one does things differently. Deal with it.

I was about to ask this question. I either thought the boss was slurping them up or the shop keeper was being rebellious upon your arrival; throwing a bauble at the boss.

Curo.2483:

Yeah nice vid, thanks Azure! Also thanks for the bomb tip.

There is an even better vid showing a lot of shortcuts you don’t use, but I can’t find it at the moment. Yours is good for digs spots though, although you do miss a few that I get, and you do some I think are out of the way. A strategy I use that I haven’t seen in any vids is completing the entire final area of zone 3 on the upper level. You can use the large horizontal log to traverse the entire area up to the boss.

Edit: your bomb strat isn’t working 100% for me. Used about 40 bombs and hardly did any dmg. I must be doing it wrong though because I killed him quickly the first time I tried using bombs. Oh well…

You have to be standing middle of the middle lily pad. Facing him directly when you throw them. You can only damage him when he’s not in the amulet stage or else the amulet blocks the shots. You can still take out half his life with bombs before he uses his first attack.