Guild Wars 2

Got to admit, if you duel in front of a cannon and I happen to be near it, I’m firing on the enemy.

Plenty of other places to 1v1 without being in the firing line.

As for 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, would be great to have a hotjoin for it as well as matchups, etc as it could be fun.

It’s like that one in LA- but my guess is it’s just lazy programmers can’t be bothered to fix it, after all it’s near the entrances for wvw…

What a blinkered view of WOW you have Tigaseye.

Wow comes with instant level 90 characters with gears, and it has been possible for YEARS to buy a ready made fully kitted out max level toon, farmed by people who make a living doing such things.

If you love WoW so much, go back to it?

It’s very easy to start your own group, there is no ‘need’ to pay for clearing a dungeon, and you’ll be surprised at how quickly the group forms up. Other people prefer to pay for the certainty that the group will finish the path by buying into it, rather than spend time with a group of clueless pugs who bring rubbish to the group and repeatedly fail.

I don’t see anything wrong with selling paths if you want to spend the time getting to the end boss as a solo or duo and making some gold from your time. Equally, i see nothing wrong with paying for the service to collect the tokens or end reward and save yourself some time and effort in completing it in a pug group.

What happened to the OP is griefing and abuse of the LFG tool and should be punished.

Maybe if Anet ever notice they will advertise for a new one, as clearly this one has both broken the rules (having someone else play on his account) and disappeared from view (for whatever reason).

Perhaps our white knights can step into the breach and help us all out by applying for the job- they seem to be able to defend everything so well they would make excellent candidates, and I’m sure they would be diligent in drafting up completely unbiased reports as to what the majority of wvw players who post on forums think of whatever topic is raised.

Maybe a way to determine whether a build is OP or not for random is to check out the top 500 players, see what they play most to win the most random non-premade matchups, then adjust those builds….although the only one I don’t like is the one that relies on AI, the others at least I get to play against a human (even if it’s a cheesy human).

SB can be amazingly effective on a thief when played right- poison, damage, bounces, etc in a team fight. Positioning is key.

Don’t run for far unless you have communication with your team, tell them you are doing it, and make sure they can hold while you’re wondering around. If they can fight over mid while you cap far then arrive to swing the battle, then the match is certainly moved in your favour.

Stick at it and don’t be tempted to grab a cheese build (medi guard, turret engi, shoutbow war, d/d ele) just to press the ‘i win’ button, it’s much more fun when you win with a less than perfect team- that’s the fun of playing in unranked solo q. If you feel the need to swap classes before the start then I suggest you form a team if getting your win %age up matters that much to you.

Oh, and learn to call targets and encourage others on the team to do so too- focusing down that pesky healing ele/necro/ranger or whatever can work wonders in fights.

Shadow Dragon Bob.7160:

snip.

I read this as ‘take forever to try and remove one engi from one point while he has ownership and clocks up points for the win’.

My issue with the turret build is it occupies a cap point with AI. Maybe they could change it so you can deploy your turrets but to fire them you have to ‘use’ them like a piece of siege, so it’s not just AI firing them while you round around like a chicken hiding from damage.

The other problems are turrets not taking condi damage, crits, etc which just makes them too strong to take down, while the engo feeds off them with piles of boons permanently up.

Maybe all turret engis should be auto placed in Courtyard matches:-)

Josh Davis.6015:

Zietlogik.6208:

Josh Davis.6015:

silvermember.8941:

Baldrick.8967:

Josh Davis.6015:

Hi all,

Trying to achieve the Lavish Llama at the current rate would be, as someone aptly noted, madness! The good news is, next week will bring some concrete details on how you can start earning them at a much more rapid pace through participating in select tournaments.

-Josh

And the reward for winning wvw week after week is …drumroll….6 greens after you make 3 more wvw levels.

Maybe Josh can take a look at the wvw achievements and fix those too…

you can blame Josh for a LOT of things, but don’t blame him for WvW or the rewards.

With that said, Weeks of busting your butts for rewards you can easily get by spending 5mins in Silverwaste.

Awww, thanks fo…..

Wait…

All shall be forgiven if you can pass that WvW achievement nudge onto the right people though? right….right?! 1,000,000 objectives is probably even more madness than 27 llamas :/

Hmmm, the Lavish Llama will now require 1,000,000 Mini Llamas.

Much more in keeping with the smooth flow and feel of the wvw achievements;-) Yep, the sarcasm is strong in this one:-)

I know they aren’t your fault Josh, but a gentle bomb under whoever’s seat it is would be much appreciated- I’ll even start a whip round for the legal fees!

Yay jump puzzles, my favourite…

And poison everywhere- not a problem for your typical warrior (heal sig, what poison?) or guardian, but a real problem for classes with less healing and less passive condi wipes.

Sounds completely wonderful and another reason to lock away my squishies and just play ‘spam1’

Josh Davis.6015:

Hi all,

Trying to achieve the Lavish Llama at the current rate would be, as someone aptly noted, madness! The good news is, next week will bring some concrete details on how you can start earning them at a much more rapid pace through participating in select tournaments.

-Josh

And the reward for winning wvw week after week is …drumroll….6 greens after you make 3 more wvw levels.

Maybe Josh can take a look at the wvw achievements and fix those too…

I don’t use TS (for RL reasons), but have yet to be turned away by any closed raid – but then again, I don’t join them that often, and obviously don’t join if they are gvging or facing off against what is obviously another guild group.

It also helps to play a support class (I’m mostly on ele or mesmer or necro), and to demonstrate that you are both helpful, know what you are doing, and don’t die easily.

On SFR it’s quite easy to find a tag to follow, or a small raid group of pugs, and everyone pretty much knows the commander colours and is encouraged to use TS.

Best thing for you to do is get on ts, get chatting, then join a guild that suits your style. Problem solved.

Here’s what I notice about lag:

As an ele, necro or mesmer, any lag results in you being less effective, strong lag makes it impossible to play in or survive any fight, as you are more dependent on your skills to damage/stay alive.

In the same battle, staff guardian won’t even notice the lag as they can spam 1 all day long, and regen will keep them alive.

Warrior just laughs as heal sig and regen outheals the incoming damage and chops up all the squishies.

When the lag gets bad, I switch off my ele and log into my guard called ‘Boredom Tanking’, and suddenly I no longer notice the lag.

Well I saw a mes do it in a match tonight- picked up orb , and used his portal to turn up at mid with the orb in hand.

Then again, he had portal available all match, ready to trigger, seemed a little ‘strange’.

Got to admit, pretty sure I tried this and entering the portal made me drop the orb- did this change or is it just a bit of a ‘broken’ mechanic?

First time I’ve seen a mes use portals so much in a match- either had one between two points (mid and close) or where orb spawns and mid.

What’s the current cooldown once the skill is used?

Took me a while to realise you were talking about EoTM, not wvw…stop soloing champs on a zerk ele, simple.

Didn’t really enjoy it- too many NPC’s coming down the lane, not enough players with any sense – in one match I even stopped to type ‘two in our base at inner’ and still no one bothered coming back until the lord was almost dead- whilst our ‘offensive’ team had just about opened outer and were busy playing ‘wave at the other team’.

Feels more like pve with a couple players randomly around the place at the moment.

Saw a few MM necros….and a turret engi defending, and a turret engi and friend camping supply..

When does it start? Want to get my daily unranked visits in before it starts!

Turrets should suffer from all conditions, have a long cool down, and a lot less HP.

I’m not a fan of turret engis, for me personally it’s a cheese build that needs to be wiped. That’s not because I can’t deal with it (eventually, takes a long time to remove them though), I just don’t like the mechanic.

My favourite part of reela’s story is the fact that they didn’t ban his account, they just removed the offending gold.

Poetic justice has been served:-)

Gates shouldn’t melt to 5/6 rams so fast to give players a chance to defend and rally to defend something that’s being attacked…

There are so many changes that could be made to wvw to make it better, and so many already raised and discussed.

But almost nothing ever changes.

I keep looking for this fabled megablob on SFR’s servers but apart from Saturday and Sunday afternoons for a couple hours when the world and it’s dog join wvw, it’s proving quite hard to find.

I did manage to join one 30 man ‘megablob’ last night at 10.30pm….

Last time I checked deso’s queues for wvw were bigger than ours, and they didn’t have 20-30 people afk at spawn in EB or SFR with no guild tag (checked with my deso account).

Every server will claim the same thing ‘the other server blobs’ ‘we have to blob because they do’etc, so choose one and try it for a while.

Better yet, buy 3 or 4 accounts while they cheap and join different servers, try them out, then play the one that suits you best- but make sure you play during the week, weekends are very different to the rest of the week.

My suggestion is to turn them into a kit, where you can only have one active at a time…

Ok, for a serious suggestion, just make them only spawn for 20 seconds on a 40 second cooldown, and greatly reduce the base HP so killing them isn’t twice as hard as killing a player.

coglin.1867:

Ins.7139:

No lag Deso BL during reset, had alot of fun 60vs60 fights. Just a +1 something is working post

We had no lad on BGBL last night or today at all either. I heard several of the varies channels on our TS, last night in particular, speaking ecstatically about how lag less it was.

It is unfortunate to see some other still suggesting that they are having problems. Odd at times how it is worse for one map or server then it is on another.

Might also have something to do with where players are, who their ISP, whether they are playing at peak times in their region, and how good or otherwise the servers are for that region.

Just because one region is lag free doesn’t mean the other will be, due to various factors.

Didn’t run into any major three ways tonight so can’t say I hit any major lag issues (one fight lagged a bit but nor game breaking), last night the lag was so bad I logged off my caster and got out my guard (for some reason Guardian’s skills seem to work better, might be a priority thing), who can survive not being able to cast anything.

I’d suggest playing an ele, necro or mes and then seeing whether you’re hitting lag, it’s a lot less noticable on guard or warrior (for me, anyway).

SFR match up has been lagging in EB for the last two hours+, playing on a mesmer is just a joke. Dieing because can’t cast a single skill, watching warriors and guards waving pressing 1 and healing by heal signet…

It’s awful.

Maybe some magazines should do an article or two on which MMO features the worst lag in large battles.

Worst part is want to switch toons? Tough, now you’re back of the very large queue for EB…

coglin.1867:

Neuroticgrim.8769:

ANET,

How about reading the thread and acting upon or providing feedback on the communities complaints instead of deleting or infracting the posts?

Thanks……

What does a mod, tending to post that violates the rules, have to do with a dev respose?

Do you ask your accountant to stop accounting and pump your gas?

Sadly here it seems that the gas attendant is already doing the accounting, hence the lag issues:-)

Turret engineers are fun to kill as a thief- just take a shortbow and wipe those turrets, shout warriors just tend to die, fear necro is harder to kill .

Thiefs have it easy if you adapt your play style to the map and team and don’t give up in 5 seconds- oh, and try asking nicely in team chat for people to do things, you’ll be amazed the difference it makes.

I’m not a fan of Courtyard and yes, sometimes you can get a really terribad team there, but it’s not unwinnable if you make an effort.

Lols popped over to that forums, that’s some frustrated kittens over there…maybe they need to crawl out of their basements once a month!

As for double teaming, we’re used to it, just makes it easier to find the bag trains:-)

I find my engi is useful for getting in the back lines (away from the retal) and attacking their necros and eles, or chasing off any thiefs playing around in our backlines.

Nades are a death sentence against any organised zerg with the current broken retal mechanic- you get back more in damage than you cause to the average guard..

Sagramor.7395:

Nuzt.7894:

There is also food that reduces duration by 40% you can use to combat the +40%.

While the food is available it costs more the double that of +40% cond duration food.

+40/30min Rare Veggie Pizza: 17.65 s
+40/20min Koi Cake: 7.kitten (not sure why forty-five gets a kitten)
-40/30min Bowl of Lemongrass Poultry Soup: 36.97 s

Costs nothing if you can make the effort to make it yourself- moaning about a price difference on buff foods makes you look needy….

Can you remove yourself from wvw already OP- I for one happen to like the MUCH greater build diversity that wvw allows over the ‘choose one set of stats’ tired build choices in spvp.

Nothing is overpowered about food buffs- learn to use them to your advantage and learn to counter them too.

Puz.8529:

I’ve done the same as you the past week. Level up my lowbie engineer in wvw. It is probably the best class to do this with. Due to grenades that can cause nasty damage + conditions and do so from max range!

Great, another instant downed when he throw his nades into a blob with Retal on…engi isn’t a good class to level up in wvw, as most of your choices are aoe and when you hit a decent group of enemies you die fast and act as rally bait.

Best place to level is in EoTM where you can run around following the comm with all the other upscaleds, and where not only is the loot better but the levelling is way faster too.

There really is no good reason (especially with the NPE ruining your traits) that you should be in main wvw unless you dislike your server and/or are a masochist.

Wonder how much supplies the pve event losers will have to use to repair the gates to prevent the stronger side from waltzing in to their structures? And presumably as the stronger team won, the weaker team would have been short on supplies anyway?

Not seeing how adding a PVE mechanic that strongly favours the stronger side is really helping in any way other than to further unbalance unbalanced match ups. Maybe it will play out differently when it’s released, we’ll have to wait and see.

Deli.1302:

I saw Marmatt online last week and pm’d him to ask him what gives. It wasn’t him but his brother playing on his account. He told me Marmatt was ill and not around at the moment. That might explain the absence.

That should be enough to have him removed as wvw forum specialist and have someone else appointed.

Having someone who shares an account as a forum specialist sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Wish him well from us (if he is indeed ill).

Arantheal.7396:

Fact 1:
shrine bonuses only do apply to defenders (attackers only can deactivate these bonuses, but will still receive the temporary stat-boosts from claiming a shrine) in the close vicinity or inside the respective keep. fall-dmg immunity does not work in/around the earth keep. there is no sandstorm around the fire-keep, a.s.o.

Fact 2:
all shrines are placed outside the keeps vicinity, allowing for equal fights on and around these shrines. Even if your burn-heavy condi-build (or dmg-proc) is useless around the fire-keep to a specific moment, you always have the option to deactivate/ fight for a shrine on equal footing with everyone else.

Fact 3:
The point of shrines is to give keep-defenders a imbalanced advantage over attackers as long as they hold these shrines. Attackers therefore must spend time and effort to take out these shrines first, or deal with environments that heavily favor the defenders.
Stillness and tranquility are similar mechanics, already present in the silent storm map, which is still perceived as one of the best-balanced maps for PvP.

Fact 4:
this thread is stupid. Why? Because we are no wizzards and havn’t played it yet.

My personal opinion:
I don’t mind the addition of shrines or the oasis event, since I’ve not played it myself so far and need to see which situations I’ll actually end in on this new map. So far it looks exiting, even tho I’m a bit worried about the oasis event dealing too much dmg to gates. On the other hand we will get t3-gates for towers on this map, defending dollies will be easier, and the one in the latest stream was actually running quite fast (which indicates new upgrades for camps as well), so I’ll sit back and wait for HoT to be released and come back with an educated opinion about these new mechanics and how they interact with my preferences.

fact 5:

You can’t defend the shrines unless you have superior numbers, in which case you won’t be defending, you’ll be attacking to repel the attackers, with the bonuses on.

fact 6:

there is no such thing as an even fight in wvw, adding in environmental bonuses just makes it even easier for the more numbers server to win.

The only thing the same between GW1 and GW2 is that they share ‘Guild Wars’ in the name.

Sorel.4870:

Solori.6025:

Ithilwen.1529:

Stealth has already been overnerfed and passed out like candy to too many classes. If ANET wanted to destroy what makes thieves special, they chose an excellent path.

I mean look what they did to ranger’s
They gave them stealth on top of the OP pets that follow the real mesmer.
And they gave them OP LB that literally destroys any chance mesmers get

/s

I’m new at mesmer, and when I play shatter, I get rekt by power rangers if they are not totally stupid and if don’t kill them with my opening burst. The reflexion on distortion trait helps a lot though.

But really, the pet following the real mesmer is a good thing. They are already terrible as it is, so let them have at least that.

Luckily for those playing mesmer, most of the power rangers are totally stupid and kill themselves to multiple stacks of confusion and reflection whilst not running any condi cleanse:-)

I’m glad the OP died to a mesmer- it might even have been me that killed him, as I seem to be meeting a lot of terrible rangers recently whilst playing mesmer.

Ranger: pew pew! pew pew! Oh look a shiny bubble and purple thingie on me, RAPID FIRE!!! $^$^*(% the ^&^(&&(^ why am i dead? Mesmers are OP, nerf them!

If I see ranger in the daily class I jump on either mes or necro.. although is there anything quite as fun as a scepter 2 on that thief?

I read the OP’s comments as ‘I want to be as greedy as possible and not be punished for getting it wrong’.

There’s a reason there are buy orders- so you can sell the item at a price that has zero risk. If you want to get more, then you have to take the risk that you get your price wrong, and pay the penalty.

System is working exactly as intended- if you hadn’t tried being greedy by just undercutting the last seller (yet now trying to claim the moral high ground here) in the hopes of screwing the last extra gold from a buyer, you wouldn’t be posting on here for a change to a system that is working exactly as intended.

Let’s hope a lesson has been learnt.

No, you’re wrong, it’s a new feature!

Who’s the caps spammer in the screenie, block him already!

OP’s suggestion makes defending too easy- just have all your forces stand on one point, whilst the attackers have to split to cap. then if they all come for you, send a recap team to take one of the other spots.

Would making capping as the smaller force even harder than it is now.

In theory the OP’s suggestion sounds great, but in practical terms it becomes bad very quickly.

I think some people are deliberately ignoring the question, which is why are condi builds are much less effective against solid objects than zerk builds.

If you’re talking about realism, then smashing your sword against a solid brick wall would break the sword, beating it on a door would have little effect other than to blunt the sword, etc, so why do power builds do any damage against them either?

It’s an issue that needs addressing, but I highly doubt it’s high up on Anet’s lists of ‘bugs or balances’ that need to be dealt with.

Well the wvw forum specialist has gone AWOL, haven’t checked up on the others.

Next suggestion from the OP will be to remove all build choice like in spvp, remove ascended and legendary items and we can all play cele engi and sit on cap points…

Oh, but I usually don’t turn off my invis there because I know about 10 words of ES, 20 FR, and maybe 4 DE.
No Habla en Francais or… uhh.. German. Or uhh.. yeah. Le Pomme est Rouge.

So I assume someone else translates all the chat for you on those servers or are there any GM’s that speak the language who are active in dealing with cheaters, hackers, etc across all those servers?

The really OCD part is the fact that you have 5,000 hours on that character and 10,000 overall, meaning you started that character after exactly 5,000 hours of the last one.

Grats on killing so much spare time.

Tiffany.8576:

Baldrick.8967:

Who cares? If Anet cared, they would just disable loot drops from players in OS (which would probably kill off what’s left of the gvg scene).

What? You think people GvG for loot? lol…

To answer some questions though, the events usually don’t last long, about 30-60min cause we hit Diminishing Returns and leachers multiply. We usually get 2-3k+ kills in that amount of time and there are about 4 events a day, so no, it’s not happening 24/7 in OS. We read the TOS a few times, this doesn’t seems to be any kind of exploit, an organised raid if anything.

Did I say it was gvgs doing it? This isn’t gvgs, this is loot and kill faming- but killing off all loot in OS would be the fastest fix to the problem which would also make what’s left of the gvg scene even smaller.

It’s a shame that Anet never developed what would have been the best pvp in the game, which would have been proper gvg maps between 10, 15, or 20 man teams with ladders, etc. GvG in gw1 was awesome for the first few years and yet gw2 totally failed to take that on board.

I love playing against thiefs, but I’ve also learned to play as one, and there are very few that I have come across that have been great at their class.

Shadow refuge thrown down when you panic or take piles of damage without thinking of positioning will get you killed or knocked out of it really fast by any half decent player, who will have held back either an aoe or a knockback for when you hit the panic button.

Pretty sure you can’t cap while in stealth, so you popping SR is basically handing me the point.

Thief is easymode against low level zerk built pve’rs but against decent players it’s a real challenge, plus if you’re quite good at thief against a decent team they will focus you down real fast after the first pass.

Personal favourite is playing mes against a thief:-)

I think the funniest time I was accused of hacking was when on my ranger (not a LB in sight on him!), when I invisi stomped someone. Clue: there’s a trait that makes you stealthed if you are hit with certain things as long as you don’t move, and stomping doesn’t count as moving.

There are a lot of people who are now playing pvp because of the dailies who are mainly pve’rs and have no clue about a lot of class mechanics and are very quick to throw the ‘your hacking’ ball. I get it around once a week against low level opposition in random when playing ranger as they don’t come across many rangers playing my strange build.

There are hackers out there, but spotting them is generally a lot harder than it seems- and even in wvw, they will only ban people if a GM comes ingame and sees them use it, so removing hackers is a long slow process.

Who cares? If Anet cared, they would just disable loot drops from players in OS (which would probably kill off what’s left of the gvg scene).

At least they are doing something to earn the loot, which is a kitten sight more than most chest runners and afk’rs in SW do to earn theirs…