Guild Wars 2

I emote dead solo roamers all the time, especially ones that have full stacks that I get rid of. Because it tends to annoy people for whatever reason, when it really shouldn’t.

There are tools within the game for those that are sensitive to videogame emotes after getting killed. If you have the time to take screenshots, upload them and post on these forums (to what serves no purpose), you may as well take the time to turn emotes off.

That goes to say that I dont disrespect solo roamers at all. It’s something I personally enjoy. I get ganked, emote’d, get nasty party invites alot roaming as a glass elementalist. Just grow some thick skin instead of question an opponent’s worth with a petty screenshot of /sit spam.

My advice to Solo roamers though, if you can get in, head to the EB JP and roam/pick fights there, it’s picked up more activity as of late. No large zergs to deal with, no inflated players with stacks, no NPCs to interfere, no walls to hide behind and lots of achievement hunters to kill.

Lots of fun all day against Ark all over SBI BL and again in the GvG!

I was the staff ele. Got a taste of my own medicine when I got mega S/D bursted in one of the rounds lol :C.

Furiousbeard.7602:

Andy.9137:

Ryan.8367:

Andy.9137:

if anyone wants to organise some 2v2s, let me know.

Who’s your 2nd, Retaliation?

SOMETHING SOMETHING OP ENGINEER.

edit: actually it’s my beard!

I don’t know if I would go as far as saying I’m “your” beard, but I’ll take it as a compliment.

Maybe he’s talking about your old nemesis, WHITEBEARD? :O

Ryan.8367:

etrigan.4213:

Jyeoi.6027:

Where are the old school mag with whom I fought against… Shadow Moon [SM] for instance???

All the ones I see here are new mag wannabes.

Whatever…lol @ [SM], is if they were ever a factor.

The real question for MAG is where Bunzy went lol.

He went to practice being a good d/d elementalist. He’s still practicing.

Bunzy is my hero.

Brutus.5732:

DB and FA should arrange a formal 2v1.

Bruuuutuussss.

We miss you homie.

IBountyHunterI.4601:

Did anyone else on DB BL just mass crash or was it just all of TG?

6 or so RET crashed out of DBBL around the time when we were in at Garri

Though we were tied up with IRON when it happened. So maybe it was at a different fight.
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Good fights so far. The amount of metaphorical hilarity on TS when our commander named “Zoel Train” pushes us into Choo is too amusing. “Derail their stack”, “Hit their rear carriage”

Ensign.2189:

Dirame.8521:

So if they removed the stat buffs and kept the capture points so that they still allowed you to capture 3 of them to get points per kill, would that be alright for all you guys who have problems with it?

I think the 3 points per kill introduces some really toxic incentives into the game. For example, if you are outmanned on a map, it no longer makes sense to have a skeleton crew there to cause some havoc and force the enemy to keep their team there – because getting killed while trying for objectives now feeds the enemy team points. A 5 man havoc squad getting caught and wiped at a tower might feed the enemy team as many points as you would have gotten stealing the tower in the first place.

The points on stomp punish risky play hard; they act as a strong incentive to not try when you are outmanned and any aggressive play has a good chance of you getting caught and killed. Tactical wiping is now extremely punishing, and engaging a bigger army than the one you have is sabotaging your team.

Basically, if you don’t own bloodlust, you should really be playing super passively – and that is not at all healthy for the game.

I think the points on stomp are a much bigger deal than the stats – and the stats are pretty comically stupid.

Quoting this well thought out post.

Put it simply for a possible suggestion, getting stomped with an Outmanned buff should not award bloodlust points to the team that stomped you.

Yo.

Fighting Tee Cee and Dee Bee in the ruins of power is more fun than GTAV :O

Just set perimiters to not extend past the south supply camp, where community pvp events happen.

If the Siegerazer buff, keep buffs can have set perimiters, I cant see why the bloodlust cant have such perimiters either.

I dont believe crafting Ascended backpieces are time gated. It’s just an expensive mystic forge recipie.

Just just make the gift of battle an alternative component or something

Vash.9183:

Haven’t been here for this match-up, but wanted to say… FA. Did you get lost when WvW reset was decided? Lol. Odd to see your name in the match-up, but I bet there’s great fights during NA. Wish I could be on!

Ya, we’re cool like that. Getting lost between fighting as low as tier 4-5 servers, to ending up on Tier 1. >:[

Been a shaky start with all the skill lag and the deliberacy of PPT-driven behaviour, but there are still some great fights along the way, with the weekend activity easing up abit.

Evalana.5480:

Blob. Is such an unattractive word. Can we stop doing it, so that people stop saying that word??? Say it out loud. ‘BLOB’ so gross… stahhp!

Moist blobs.

It’s like my nightmare has come true.

While it’s not as strong as it used to be due to nerfs on traits and cantrips, It’s still very much viable and enjoyable to use. The biggest difference between now and then though is that most enemy players know how the cantrip ele works and operates, as well as the nerfed mobility that they now have.

I think you’d find most D/D specs have branched into different trait combinations and specced themselves to output alot of crit damage and precision. I personally use 0/10/10/20/30 with stone splinters atm.

Thing annoys me most about Eles: I struggle transitioning to other classes that dont have the same mobility, cleansing and respnsiveness of certain skills.

Other than that, Evasive Arcana spoils you and messes up legitimate dodging/endurance management.

And how I cant break away from the 0/0/0/20/20 skeleton build

If you’re in staff, you can cast ground AoE behind you and use the about face to do some nifty things.

If D/D, Earthquake > Magnetic Grasp > RTL > updraft > Burning speed.

I havent even mentioned the disengagement potential of Fiery GS.

Or how an Ele can Juke well underwater and has access to stealth.

Niim.9260:

Alilinke.7690:

Why would you hold a GvG on the third servers borderlands? :S

So that neither side needs to run all that far to get there/back. Not sure why that needed explaining.

The biggest problem about what occurred yesterday was that they started a GvG at a time when the FA force on the map were just done cleaning up Hills>Briar run and had the south camp left to cap.
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I, myself hate duel gankers more than anything and understand that GvGs take some time/management to organize. Everybody was just at the wrong place at the wrong time and unwanted PvP from different parties happened in a PvP zone. Anyway, hope you guys managed to finish your GvG. For future scenarios, let us know beforehand, many of us will be happy to spectate and convince the force on the map to leave you be.

This scenario sounds awfully familiar.

I’ve seen [OG], [PIMP] and [SWAG] tags already.

I will be disappointed if I dont see: [DAWG], [DOPE], [CRAY], [YOLO], [HAM], [CRNK], [DIME] and [CRIB] by the end of this week

Zephyrus.9680:

Played 1 hour. Already seen roamers from FA to match the best from a whole week of DB.

Glad you’re having fun fighting our roamers.

And to you mag roamers I ran into in EBBL, it’s refreshing to see roamers mix it up and run into high glass; I almost forgot how a Full glass with 25 stacks hurt. Had enough of the months of TC roamers stacked with mostly bunker builds.

Oh and since we’re likely to be ticking highest PPT and not finishing 1st in a matchup in months, FAs fairweathers will be coming out to play; should be some easy pickings for you if you find yourself bored of trying to take back your stuff :P.

Hadan.2841:

I just want to see the so called best guild in game in sekz, BP has told me gluck because no1 can stop them. We will be the judge for tht

Im guessing [DPS] will chase [Sekz] around.

It seems too legit.

Let the matchup begin!

Edit: Uhh—Wrong thread :/

fishball.7204:

Basedgod.7328:

Crosses fingers that SoS’ Oceanics are mostly Queenslanders and from NSW, and will take a night off WvW on Wednesday, and then hope FAs oceanics are from other states.

Wait… there’s other states in Australia apart from Vic/NSW and QLD??? :P

And what do you mean Oceanic includes NZ? What’s NZ?

/hides

There is a Tasmanian in AVTR.

He is a male Guardian with blonde hair.

We wont mind if you kill him for us >:[.

Blackgate.

Would love to have some friendly encounters with the BT guys and Im confident Malose would not let the guild hit FABL :P. And to learn what they have to offer. Learnt alot during that one matchup in T2 with TC and BG months ago.

With Blackgate, I’d like Dragonbrand to join us in the matchup.

Crosses fingers that SoS’ Oceanics are mostly Queenslanders and from NSW, and will take a night off WvW on Wednesday, and then hope FAs oceanics are from other states.

Nasdy.4927:

Just wanted to make a shout out to AVTR on FA borderlands. You defended bay well. Also noticed that the small ops groups from both FA and TC are all so tanky! Had some very good long fights that really tests your skills. One wrong push on a skill button, and you know you’re dead!

Seems like SoS still has an incredible oceanic coverage during weekdays. We’re at 340ppt just now!

TY for the props. Though I wasnt on much during SoS’ big push.

If you see a Female D/D Elementalist from AVTR constantly zerg diving and taking on impossible odds, that’s me xD.

It’s understandable if the group is doing something specific (like uneven odds skirmishing) and you’re an uplevelled level 8 with no helmet, gloves or shoulder armor slots on. No commander wants a rally bot that enemies can easily rally off after the first point of contact when players go downed.

But even then, when a commander has certain demands, they should ask for a comp or armor check and not just tell someone that’s a pug/militia to stop following them; that’s just a sign of a bad commander that doesnt see the importance of other roles. Good commanders that do have certain composition reqs will at least get them involved in other ways, by doing something else productive and fun to suit their build/class/role.

Elementalists in WvW

Siege offense: Open siege damage at 1200 range, Packs wall CC and water fields and heals on rams. Scepter has an ability to hit siege through walls. Fiery GS trick. Has excellent condition removal against siege and high protection uptime if traited for it.

Siege defense: Swirl Wars 2. Excellent drop down trait that allows for drop stacking and spamming CC. Frost bow 4 WTFBBQs Siege. Can PBAOE through doors. Can use Stability and invulnerability for repairs in hot zones. Can safely Zerg dive and mist/vapor form through door portals.

Scouting: Top notch mobility on land. Great condition removal against immobilize. Has access to invulnerabiliy, blink and stability for escapes. Eles even have the capability to stealth in water and has a “Shadowstep” with lightning 3.

Havoc squads: D/D eles are great in small fights, most eles pack natural group utility. PBAOE works great for capping camps. Provides moderate burst combos. Bunker eles have great survivability and mobility in one; which is great for contesting camps. Access to Immobilize, Blowout, Knockdown, cripple and chills in a weapon set for chasedowns. Downed state can only be countered with a well timed immobilize and staggered stomp. Has access to most stomp combos: Block, stability, blind, invul and blink stomps.

Large open field skirmishing: Packs the fire and water fields. Packs the only lightning field in the game for kiting groups. Has access to a few blast finishers, one being a dodge in earth when traited. Deals with conditions and CCs well with cantrips and certain water traits. Has excellent AoE CC skills. Has a downed state that can move you to a safe zone. High protection uptime when traited. Natural mobility that will never allow them to become stragglers. Most AoE skills are single hits that arent susceptible to proccing large amounts of Retalliation damage against Retal stacking groups.

Closed Skirmishes: Similar to the above and Siege defense. Has the mobility, Stability and invulnerability to get to a position (eg. high groud/up walls). Has line/passing skills that procs burning/cripple. Has AoE Blowout for enemy displacemnt.

Random Funnies: Eles can heal themselves using the Signet passive when there is skill lag. I’ve given a Dolyak 1m+ of swiftness with a blasted lightning field. With the dropdown trait, I can RTL from the SMC ramparts down to the outer wall (I actually landed on a Kaineng stack on the outer wall once, proccing the stun field on the stack huehuehue). Insert ele vid of knocking 5+ players off the cliff on Hills or Cragtop/dawns using tornado/updraft.

Peetee.9406:

Want to know what dominates eles?

Skill lag, inability to switch attunements = worthless ele

Eles can just use the heal signet.

And then they’re probably the only ones making use of their 6th heal slot when there is a skill lockout. :P

Sunspots.9861:

Seeeeeeee… Kaineng is fine.

Not really.

You guys just took Hills and Bay on KNBL.

And you just took the Bay on FABL from Kaineng.

Hoyo! I’m that Elementalist that Stability+RTL into your rear that was running with AVTR.

Sincere apologies to that Kain group with Golems that went to try take hills on TCBL. We just saw Golems walking alongside the cliff up to hills; Kylia started recording and we tagged the golems to see what would happen. Ended up forcing the Golems try to flee by jumping off the cliff. LOL.

Quenta.2978:

I completed the matchup video for this week already.

It’s not like any of the other match up videos. So you will want to watch it. Something for every server.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PhJAQgBiO0

Just came here to quote this masterpiece.

haha. I almost fell off my chair at the Anet part. XD

Equinox.4195:

Seriously, Kaineng? TC had SM 90% capped. It was 2800 supplies, aka max upgrades, and you had to ruin that flip. You would have benefitted from that as well, you know. Taking a wooden Stonemist is A LOT easier than taking a fully upgraded Stonemist, and it rewards the same PPT. I really have to facepalm at that. Ridiculous.

So you expect a side to just let you cap when they are also inside? That’s silly. When it comes down to it: nobody really cares about the PPT when they see players to kill and a circle to cap.

KN probably joined in the fray because they saw an opportunity for a good fight to be had. Killing players is fun. The entire objective, siege, defense, PPT mechanic in WvW is merely bait and context for players to fight other players.
Dont blame them for trying to have fun in by joining in a wildly contested objective. Myself and other Fort Aspenwoodians had an awesome time defending SMC; everyone—TC or Kain should have such equal opportunities as well—that is, what a 1v1v1 scenario is for.

The funny part? Kaineng were the ones that managed to successfully take SMC.
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That said. Alot of good fights in EB the other day. I think we overstretched KNs corner of EB a little too much and didnt really take good care of upgrading our towers so that our strong Oceanic can apply pressure to a BL early. Oh well. Lessons learned I guess.. Such is the curse of holding SMC, though. Man is it such a manpower sink that Kaineng can only seem to maintain. >_>

Arkanfel.8403:

IRSyKo.5843:

FA isn’t really getting transfers Arkanfel

Either you’re getting transfers, or guilds that never used to WvW are starting to do so regularly. I have seen far too many new faces in the last few weeks to believe that FA is not growing its WvW presence.

No real transfers. Activity from alot of our PvX guilds have increased abit thanks to the progression patch. If you’re seeing some strong guild groups roaming about, that’s because some of our main WvW focused guilds have had restructures to existing members of FAs WvW community to establish new guilds: You’ll be seeing ACE and VK; both guilds—for the most part—comprise of players that were well entrenched in our servers WvW community

Had a pretty awesome time in WvW today. I was everywhere, found something fun to do. .

Was with the my guild VK in EB, helped out PRO trying to take Bay in FABL with TCs strong numbers/defense they had turtling in there. Winged it with AVTR—hopping from TCBL and KNBL with some awesome fights to be had at points and on the open field (@TC: I was that annoying Ele in that AVTR + Friends group that tried to take vale, while you started streaming in for a good 15 mins. PS: watch your confusion stacks :P).

This tier remains awesome, and I am sure Kain can potentially bounce back. Despite our lead and TCs reeling close, we at FA are certainly not ignoring Kaineng; or counting them out.

I still think that the server with the lowest rating in the bracket should have the Red side of EB with the strong overlook keep.

It is funny though when there is a colour change after being one colour for so long. Just today, while we on FA (Red) were hitting Hills on TCBL (Now Green), I saw a Kaineng try to run into the door portal to a keep that was not theirs, I assume that the particular individual thought they were still in green. Hilarious.

Just a guess:

They wont reveal the exact player limits because I actually believe the limits fluctuate. Since the BLs seem to be tied to a shared server cluster with other servers; hence why you’ll see yourself or a friend in a contact list or guild roster appearing on a server that is not their/your own.

It’s not down to their survivability that gets the Mesmer downed state its praises.

It’s the the potent offensive capabilities of the mesmer downed state that gives it such reputation.

Had alot of fun on our guilds’ first reset night.

Our garrison was quieter compared to most reset nights. But there was alot of action to be had on the open field agaist the large numbers TC managed to put out on our borderland.

Gawd, I need more practice with the Ele staff though >_>.

Simple skeleton build to work from:

Just carry a focus and pick up Wardens focus.

Done.

I’d agree that taking confusion damage on attunement swapping or “On dodge” traits is silly.

But i’d only be OK with a WvW confusion nerf to keep it in line with the sPvP confusion damage -if- they hard cap crit damage to what it is on sPvP as well.

Yes; Underwater I only stay in Water and Air huehuehue!

Had alot of fun on EB on reset. Lots of good fights, tough challenges and loot bags.

Big ups to RISE and company once again who had alot of presence in EB. The fights you brought certainly set EB ablaze.

Are you a Guardian that accidentally hit “Save yourselves” after a fear bomb?

KrazyFlyinChicken.5936:

Ethics.4519:

KrazyFlyinChicken.5936:

GFs to SoS and Kain.

Amazing week. Good luck SoS. You’ll do well in Tier 3.

TC welcome back to tier 2.
And our rematch.

I suspect this tier should be pretty evenly matched. Here’s to a good few weeks of solid WvW.

PS. Put up another yak parade

Thank you, appreciate the blessings. I wish I could spectate tier 2 – KN/FA/TC. That’s going to be one heck of a match.

PSS Put up a quaggan parade. Nobody would dare kill a non-risen quaggan.

No one is allowed to lead RET without a quaggan backpack

You’re the easiest commander to stick tight to/identify due to your quaggan backpack.

KrazyFlyinChicken.5936:

The Great Grub War was caught on film and posted here for your viewing pleasure.
(Fast forward to ~10 mins for actual fighting). Never has a grub been so hotly contested

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_584i_tT89w

Hey guys, watch this video. Then mute the audio.

Then play this song in the background iinstead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxoUmh2FCX4

The results are amazing.

Nice fight at the Overgrowth Grub Kaineng :P

I love it so much that I bought the Air Elemental minipet.

Were you using Ether Renewal?

I wouldnt mind if existing gear skins were available for WvW players. It’s pretty kitten trying to find a group for those Arah leggings I want for one of my characters without the “Zerker only + experience”, even though a fully exotic geared player can easily get through the content.

So Badges for Dungeon armor would be nice. And please give those PvEers a means to get the invader gear without grinding badges in return. I hear the medium WvW set looks pretty nifty.

Having guested to other low pop servers and saw what their PvE communities were like (Im on FA).

I doubt they’ll merge servers simply for the WvW community in the said server not being all that strong.

It was kind of the job of the tier/glicko system to match communities to rightful opponents. I bet such system would do wonders if WvW a 1v1 encounter, it’s just that it’s hard to completely match 3 ‘equal’ WvW communities together.