Guild Wars 2

Olba.5376:

Honestly, the style of writing there is atrocious. Are you sure the writer isn’t like… DID or something?

Also, as was pointed out, gray-on-white isn’t the most appealing of colour choices. Neither is full italics.

As for the actual suggestions:

1. I don’t like the idea with the Healing Signet, simply because while the healing might remain the same, having it tick so rarely makes trash. If you want to make it tick less often, make it something like 3s.
2. Having Healing Surge result in taking additional damage makes no sense. That goes against the whole point of it being a healing skill in the first place.
3. I don’t like the idea with Mending because it would result in having 2 out of 3 healing skills be over-time heals.

I appreciate teh feedback. Getting the correct format is a lot tougher then I anticipated. The gray on black is too faint. White on black hurts the eyes and that white block quote with black or gray text is too jarring.

I have had to learn how to edit CSS in order to fine tune it.

DanielGames.5198:

Bas.7406:

honovi.7893:

It hurts to read.

Could you explain a little more clearly?

Light grey text on a white background strains my eyes. If the background stayed dark like the rest of the website then it would have been fine. Dark backgrounds and light text is pleasing to my eyes

Ah, now that makes sense. We are still working on the formatting for it. We felt the dark background and gray text made it to difficult to read. We changed it to the black on white to make it easier. We are trying to create a more parchment background. I am unsure as to why the text keeps coming out as grey we have tried to make it black.

honovi.7893:

It hurts to read.

Could you explain a little more clearly?

great idea – soac was going to do something like this for WvWvW but we found it to be an exhausting amount of work, and we couldn’t keep up with it.

Rednik.3809:

I don’t like HS change, because HS is excellent WvW spike heal. And i don’t like idea to heal in middle of massive AoE spike and fall dead instantly just because someone want to make it better for sPvP.

That’s a great counter point. I will make sure to bring it up to The Mad Tinkerer. Once we have finished with the sections, I will see if we can get him to do a point/counterpoint to the suggestions. I think it would be a fascinating column.

((The Mad Tinkerer will be a weekly column that is posted every Tuesday. We feel it is a unique take on the world of Theory-crafting in Tyria. Our goal is to have fun while looking at ways to build and create new builds, talents, traits, and trees. We hope that you enjoy this and learn what you can))

http://sittingonacouch.com/mad-tinkerer-tinkering-warrior/

This month the Mad Tinkerer is working on ways to improve the Warrior so he isn’t nerfed into the ground. This week was healing, next week will be weapons, and finally traits and abilities.

There are two answers to your question.

1). We moved to a new audio only subscription if it’s in itunes or podcast settings. If you are referring to youtube then you are fine.

2). The players can host them when they have the time I just ask that they be consistent. Most players are fine with doing it weekly. I think the major issues come when real life and or people criticize someone unfairly. Then the hosts get burdened or when audio issues happen and they don’t know how to fix it and I am not there to assist.

In this case, the hosts were prepped ready and set to go when one of them came down with a cold and the other got called into work.

FOr those wondering where Mesmerized was this week. Real life put up a reflect and took out our hosts. They will be back next week.

Sepreh.5924:

Bas.7406:

11/10/13 – This week Bhawb and Tenderly go over the couple of developer posts having to do with the Necromancer profession. We talk about their ideas for traits and Death magic. We also finish up talking about Soul Reaping, leaving the Blood Magic trait discussion for next week, to give it the full time it deserves!

http://sittingonacouch.com/guild-wars-2-necromancer-podcast-corpse-episode-35/

Tonight’s walk home from work just got 10x better!

Thanks for putting the work into these every week guys

Hopefully your walk isn’t going to be long. I screwed up the audio flip and so it’s shorter than the actual podcast. I will have it fixed within 3 hours.

11/10/13 – This week Bhawb and Tenderly go over the couple of developer posts having to do with the Necromancer profession. We talk about their ideas for traits and Death magic. We also finish up talking about Soul Reaping, leaving the Blood Magic trait discussion for next week, to give it the full time it deserves!

http://sittingonacouch.com/guild-wars-2-necromancer-podcast-corpse-episode-35/

The Show is back with episode 6: http://sittingonacouch.com/guild-wars-2-thief-podcast-revealed-episode-6-out-stealth/

Please let us know what you think!

Imagi.4561:

No offense, but the content of the thread is a bit of a letdown compared to the implication in the title. You might want to say “Revealed Podcast” instead of just “Revealed.”

Haha, fine I will make a change to the title. I forgot Revealed was an ability on the thief. It’s a good thing I am not hosting the show

JonPeters.5630:

Scarran.9845:

JonPeters.5630:

“Could you not combine Protection of the Horde with Flesh Of The Master?” -Scarran

We could but I think that would be a wildly OP Master trait…

Currently what is the difference in me spending 20 points in Death Magic and taking Flesh of the Master? Am I not receiving the same benefits? As I get Protection of the Horde as the minor trait at 15 points and I get Flesh of the Master 20 point major.

The difference would be that we would be adding a new 15 point minor as well that you would be getting for free that would have similar power to these. If we took any two major traits that had synergy and merged them they would be overpowered. No difference here.

I think it would be amazing if Jon came on But of Corpse :P

The show ran into connection issues. We apologize for this, and appreciate those who showed up. We will keep you updated and see you either next week or do the show later

Show is going live tonight, don’t miss out!

Lux and Jakare are ready to go this Sunday @ 4pm PDT. Don’t miss out on your chance to troll them on chat or ask questions about the state of the thief.

OIIIIIO.7825:

Sweet Bas.7406! I am quite happy to hear you have started this back up! I have been missing hearing the other perspectives and views on the thief. Best of luck on the new run!

We need to get you on as a guest sometime :P. Always good to hear from a WvWvW thief! I may come back to playing GW2 WvWvW again. My internet connection looks to have stabilized.

Dee Jay.2460:

Oh, and here I was hoping we might see revealed returned to 4 seconds in sPvP.

haha, No, but we would appreciate any questions or comments that you might have once the show returns live.

Chaos Archangel.5071:

Hey guys, I found out after the show that I had the mic a lil too close to my mouth x_x Effin’ turtle beaches, my bad.

It is easily fixed mate – two fingers away. I am totally pumped about the show. We need to fix the visual, but other than that you did great.

Revealed, your Thief Focused Podcast, is coming back this Sunday and will be hosted by Lux Fortuna and Jakare. Revealed will be live every Sunday at 4:00PM PST/GMT-8 on the soacgaming twitch channel.

11/10/13 VOD : In this introductory thief podcast Bhawb introduced the two new hosts who will be covering the Revealed Podcast. It covered a bit of background history for the two hosts: Lux and Jakare and their differing pvp and wvw backgrounds and play-styles. The podcast also covered discussion on some of the huge changes hitting thief in the December patch and the current state of thief in the meta in all aspects of the game. The discussion concluded with talk about the evolution of the thief class since beta and what we hope to see the thief become in an ideal future.

http://sittingonacouch.com/guild-wars-2-thief-podcast-revealed-episode-6-out-stealth/

Revealed Live:
http://www.twitch.tv/soacgaming

Revealed Past Episodes
http://sittingonacouch.com/podcast/guildwars2/thief-gw2/

If you have any comments or questions please let me know. Please post any questions you might have for the first show!

11/3/13 In Part 2 of Trait Discussions, Bhawb and Tenderly talk about traits. They go over the feedback collected in a thread Bhawb started on the Necromancer forums, and add their own input and opinions on the traits and the game. There was so much feedback, that we could only get through half of the discussion, which will be finished next week. This part one includes general trait discussion, the trait trees in general, the Spite tree, and also what we’d love to see done with on-death traits.

You can catch the discussion at https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Discussion-about-our-Traits if you want to add in your input, and we will finish the discussion next week!

http://sittingonacouch.com/guild-wars-2-necromancer-podcast-corpse-ep-34-traits-discussion-pt-2/

Yes the show is back on itumes though in a new spot. You can find it through the link on the website

Mesmerized, your Mesmer Focused Podcast, hosted by ChaosArchangel and Shanaeri is live bi-weekly on Sundays at 3:00PM PST/GMT-8 on the soacgaming twitch channel.

VOD : 11/17/13 – In this week’s mesmerizing Mesmer Podcast, Pyroathiest, Shanae, and Chaos archangel dive into the Dec 10th proposed changes. They talk about the amazing Nightmare within storyline, and cover some fun builds. They talk about the awesome fun and what may be the greatest kill in Guild Wars 2 today that is killing Traehearne!

http://sittingonacouch.com/guild-wars-2-mesmer-podcast-mesmerized-episode-12/
Mesmerized Live:

http://www.twitch.tv/soacgaming

Mesmerized Past Episode

http://sittingonacouch.com/podcast/guildwars2/mesmer-gw2/

If you have any comments or questions please let me know.

10/18/2013 – In this weeks episode Bhawb and Tenderly cover the VVV Tournament, and the builds that they brought in. They covered Power Necro’s viability, and why condition damage is still strong. The guys cover why axe/focus is still not very strong. They dive into details as to what to look for when building your Necromancer.

http://sittingonacouch.com/guild-wars-2-podcast-corpse-ep-32-tpvp-building/

10/18/2013 – In this weeks episode Bhawb and Tenderly meet up with Rennoko and talk conditions. They go over chill and weakness, and how they are readily available to Necromancers, and also often overlooked, how immobilize is becoming a new terror in PvP and WvW. They also talk about some balance issues and design choices with conditions, and how they might be fixed or could have been implemented differently.

http://sittingonacouch.com/guild-wars-2-podcast-corpse-ep-31-conditions-conditions-conditions/

Sorry for the delay!

Here is the VoD: http://sittingonacouch.com/guild-wars-2-podcast-corpse-episode-30/

bah Just heard there were audio issues> I will pull the audio only and see if I can normalize it

Episode 15 is now up and rolling;http://sittingonacouch.com/podcast/guildwars2/engineer-gw2/

10/08/13 – Hello, and welcome to another incredible episode of Enginious, your engineer-focused podcast! Today, our hosts Dceased and Asteria Rose have an awesome discussion with our guest, Scala, about the new updates and what they’ll bring, and the many WvW and PvE tactics engineers can use to clear the competition! Trust us! We are Engineers!

http://sittingonacouch.com/guild-wars-2-engineer-podcast-engenious-episode-14/

10/01/13 – Hello, and welcome to another interesting episode of Enginious, your engineer themed podcast! This week, Dceased is out sick, but the show must go on with our guest, Whiskey! We have a long discussion on turrets and their counter productivity, and how elixirs are best for support. The state of WvW is among our discussion, as well as the many antics of our guest’s adventures!

http://sittingonacouch.com/guild-wars-2-engineer-podcast-engenious-episode-13/

09/28/13 In episode 29, Bhawb and Tenderly sit down with PVE Necromancer Guru Nay of the Ether, and discuss leveling. They tell stories of their own leveling experiences, cover the fastest ways to level, and drop a few leveling tips for those new to the necromancer. They also talk about the newest patch and where they feel the Necromancer is headed.

http://sittingonacouch.com/guild-wars-2-podcast-corpse-episode-29/

September 8, 2013 – In this episode of But of Corpse, Bhawb and Tenderly sit down with Pax Necro Representative Zombify from Sync. From the curious state of tournament pvp to the recent nerf to other classes, the guys cover the ins and outs of high level tournament play.

http://sittingonacouch.com/podcast/guildwars2/necromancer-gw2/

Engenious is a Guild Wars 2 podcast focusing on the Engineer Profession and is hosted by Asteria Rose and Dceased. The show goes live every Tuesday at 8pm PDT on http://www.twitch.tv/soacgaming

10/15/13 – Hello, and welcome to a spooky episode of Engenious, your engineer themed podcast! In Today’s 2 part episode, Dceased and Asteria run through the Mad King’s Labyrinth and through Lion’s Arch, showing off the brand new festivities and- finally- the avatars of both players! We discuss the future (and past) of the event, and about the new character- Prince Thorn! Be sure to like us on Facebook and check us out on our website, and most of all, trust us; we are engineers!

http://sittingonacouch.com/podcast/guildwars2/engineer-gw2/

Engenious Live

Tuesday at 8pm PDT on http://www.twitch.tv/soacgaming

Previous Episodes

http://sittingonacouch.com/podcast/guildwars2/engineer-gw2/

If you have any questions or comments please let us know.

Haha, sensotix, welcome to the world of putting on videos :P. Good Morning everyone! Leave the poor kid alone. he is trying to do something helpful for the community.

Haha Reminder the show has moved to Sundays at Noon PDT!

After a lengthy delay, Arrow to the knee is back and rolling. Arrow to the Knee can be caught live on twitch.tv/soacgaming every Thursday at 2pm PDT.

VOD: September 5th 2013, Arrow to the Knee comes roaring back with this Guild Wars 2 Podcast. Chopps joins the SOAC team and brings Battosai and Druzlla to talk about where the Rangers are, and what really needs to be done to keep the game alive for all Ranger Players!

Catch ya next week!

http://sittingonacouch.com/guild-wars-2-ranger-podcast-arrow-knee-episode-10/

Arrow To The Knee Live:

http://www.twitch.tv/soacgaming

Arrow To The Knee Audio Only:

http://sittingonacouch.com/podcast/guildwars2/ranger-gw2/

If you have any comments, questions, concerns, or missed a show please let us know. We are looking for a great new background image for the show if you have any drawings you would like us to use please email them to podcast@sittingonacouch.com.

Hmmm, pfft No one plays on a couch!! Who would ever think of naming a show after a couch?

It might be easier to remember as OAC.

I found this picture somewhere it might be the perfect logo for your show.

Arganthium.5638:

Fuzion.7613:

You guys kittened up the pax tourny, That is all.

How did they do that?

Krayiss.4926:

Why cant anet make A pvp jumping puzzle map that maybe the Pve’ers will enjoy as well. Just add a pve achievement for making it to the top.

They have one it’s called Skyhammer

@Chap – It was too long for me to read. You know me :P. I like to keep moving and grooving, but I am glad that you typed this up. Many players don’t understand how much you care about Guild Wars 2 pvp, and not just because it’s where you make your money.

A little story, when I was at a specific event not named Pax. I got the opportunity to sit down and talk with Sharp and Allie – (Allie watches Sharp when he talks to me like a hawk :P). I spent 3 hours in one day while watching Starcraft II learning about both GW2 and Starcraft from Sharp. He explained his vision for GW2 and the level of skill he wants for the game.

I will say that coming away from that time I was impressed with his explanation of what they were going for and towards. As well as how he saw certain things. I still want him to appear on our Profession podcasts if allie will ever let him :P.

Having said all that, there are several things that Chap mentioned during our meeting that I have yet to see.

1). AoE is overboard with no penalty. Everyone agrees, that there should be a drawback for spamming AOE abilities, there is no reason we should have 5 classes, and each class be able to spam damage and debuffing abilities that hit all 5 of the enemy for the same damage to each. It leads to a ridiculous visual and easy mode.

2). Both Builds and Play should matter. This hasn’t happened as you can play an entire pvp game without ever dodging and it’s just fine.

3). The major changes should be tested ahead of time (this one wasn’t agreed by Chap), but I really think it’s essential for the major patches to be tested on a pts in order for players to find the bugs that the devs and community managers can’t find.

For me as long as the AOE is easily spammed without any negative drawback. It’s too much. Currently the only professions that have a negative for any strong positive is the Ranger and Warrior. The Mesmer can’t break into the cycle because there is too much condition aoe and it’s too easily ran.

I enjoyed GW2 and feel it has great potential, but the sad state, Chap is that the only skill involved is should i activate this aoe now or later. No skill shots, no way to counter stealth outside of spamming aoe and getting lucky, no negative to just spamming aoe conditions, and AoE doing as much if not more damage than a single target ability leads to a very low skill game.

Dear Spirit Rangers,

We understand how you feel. There is a support club for the rest of us already.

Signed
Minion Mancers, Spirit Weapon Guardians, Turret Engineers, and Conjured Weapon Elementalists.

August 29, 2013, In this week’s Necromancer Guild Wars 2 Podcast, Bhawb and Tenderly take a look at the upcoming Pax tournament, and take the time to talk to Flow, one of our favorite EU Necromancers. They get to talk about wvwvw with one of the nicest players in the game. They then answered a lot of questions. Sit back and enjoy!

http://sittingonacouch.com/guild-wars-2-necromancer-podcast-corpse-episode-27/

Hello, and welcome to another exciting episode of Engenious! This week, we have a more generalized discussion about dungeons and what the game could do to improve, and we have a new host guesting- Dceased! Our guest this week is Fleeting Flash, an excellent dungeon runner on Sanctum of Rall! We discuss legendaries and weapon types, as well as the latest news from Arenanet! Be sure to like us on facebook and check out the SOACgaming youtube channel, and as always, trust us; we are engineers!

http://sittingonacouch.com/guild-wars-2-engineer-podcast-engenious-episode-11/

chopps needs to clear out his private messages again :P. I miss playing my ranger more often. You should definitely get a video of this build in action soon.

Dynamically spoken is a PVE focused podcasted hosted by the Guild Mag team and aired live every Friday @ 5pm PDT on twitch.tv/soacgaming.

VoD: August 16th 2013, This week we take a look at the Queen’s Jubilee and Speech patches, looking at what’s happened and what could be about to happen.

http://sittingonacouch.com/guild-wars-2-pve-podcast-dynamically-spoken-episode-23/

I will try to keep you guys updated as to the latest discussions, and you can join them live and cover the many aspects of the Living Story, dungeons, and Open world content.

August 15, 2013 – In this week’s exciting Necromancer Podcast, Tenderly and Bhawb meet up with the one and only Loyo from Guild Kai or as many of us know him kidtofu! It is exciting to hear more about the Necromancer and WvWvW.
You can follow kidtofu @T_Loyotaemi
Twitch Channel is http://www.twitch.tv/kidtofu -\

http://sittingonacouch.com/guild-wars-2-necromancer-podcast-corpse-episode-26/

August 16, 2013 – Hello, and welcome to another amazing episode of Engenious, your engineer focused podcast! This week, we sit down and get to business (okay, a few detours along the way!) with Fisthammer about PvE and sPvP, and the brand new update, the Queen’s Gauntlet! With some interesting discussions about spicing up your builds and how to progress in game, Fisthammer gave us a unique perspective on how to get through a typical day in Tyria! M

Fisthammer’s builds:

Hybrid SD/Grenades: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcEQJAqelIqiYX3y3F17IyoHkWnNhiKkffewWtFEC-jwCBYLChEEAEIIUBgJPFRjtIMZ1ODiVZDT5iIq2uDwImRrWEAzEA-e

Rabid Grenades: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcEQJAqelIqiYX3y3F1LJyoCdGIFAGfJqQ+95BblWQIA-jgyAYNhQaBIVBgAhkDLiGbtrIasaGMVKqOeIyeksKFQCzBA-e

http://sittingonacouch.com/guild-wars-2-engineer-podcast-engenious-episode-10/

Big Tower.5423:

I think auesis will be a better option than randomfightfan. even if both is good

Auesis has moved onto the Engineer, and RFF has been incredibly busy recently.

Revealed is planning on returnign soon, but we need a new Thief PVE co-host. I am sorry for the delay in getting the show going, but we kept hoping things would work out with Jumper and a few players we were talking too. We have moved forward as Jumper wants to focus on his pvp more and so we are replacing both hosts and should be back up and running at the end of the month.

If you are interested and have good experience as a thief in PVE please contact me here or email gaming@sittingonacouch.com

August 8th, 2013 – In this week’s deadly necromancer podcast, Tenderly and Bhawb get the opportunity to see the return of everyone’s favorite dungeon running support necromancer Del Onasi. We look forward to seeing some of the exciting and amazing new changes brought to pve.

Del Onasi’s Youtube: (Will add Link once I get it :P)

http://sittingonacouch.com/guild-wars-2-necromancer-podcast-corpse-episode-25/

Zindrix.1750:

Is this a joke thread? Ranger is a “top tier” dungeon profession? ROFL. This has to be sarcasm right?

I think it depends on your version of tier. If you are just calling for super speed runs than it’s always guardian/warrior/mesmer and then everyone else.

However in terms of ability to clear all dungeons and provide either high damage or high group support the Ranger is top tier.