Guild Wars 2

You are kitten because you are stuck in traffic and will miss the flip.

It is unfortunate but brutally obvious that Arena Net has all but abandoned T8 or they would’ve fixed things months ago.

If you are a guild that wants a shot at real hardcore WvW on a server with a strong commander community try Blackgate.

Don’t believe the poo you hear about T1 servers using hacks because its not true. We are just very competitive and when exploits are caught the person is working alone.

Contact me about moving your guild to T1 for a server wideWvW community with frequent communication between guilds and commanders.

We can also see about minimizing cost.

If having server pride makes me a forum warrior then I am the Battle Hag Queen of forums.

Blackgate FTW

We need more EU and Oceanic guilds and players on Blackgate.

Contact Bedstain.6735 and we can discuss cost.

If cannot reach in game, send message here and I’ll give you my email.

We are a hardcore WvW guild on Blackgate looking for new characters at all levels for WvW. We have training and a fun community.

Whisper or send a letter to Bedstain.6735

If your guild is curious about T1, contact Me and we can talk about getting your guild onto Blackgate.

We are willing to work with EU/ Oceanic guilds for transfer

Ahmrill.7512:

WvW is disappointing because…

- We “STILL” have to manually type and invite every single person to a WvW group. How about having the same “right-click” options as we do in PvE areas to “invite” with that thing called a mouse?

- No grouping support for custom sized squads. It’s either 5-man it or run with a zerg. If we actually had the tools to coordinate multiple groups together with control over the numbers.. perhaps we wouldn’t have so many zergs running around.

Why are you complaining? It obviously works for JQ

I keep FAILING at swirls. Reasons have included:

Dead
Gathering
Accidental DE of focus
Focus is in the bank
Fighting wolves
Following the wrong commander
AFK
Still in combat
Late to combat

All I know is having the treb taken out by a cow because I missed a swirl was embarrassing.

shout out to commanders ..good work

Malevolent Omen
Kratos
Illusion
Deuce
Kurthos
Abermathy

I’ll add more as I remember

No hard feelings since SoR FINALLY made it into 2nd place but, seriously guys is ninja your only tactic?

And Choo remains a thorn in our side.

Catisa.6507:

yeah so lets stack so many people onto one server that no one can do anything because the server keeps crashing … thats what happens without population caps. Sorry OP but your idea is bad, very bad.

In T1 we frequently wreck eachother with numbers and exploiting culling.its annoying, frustrating and ridiculous but let’s look at the alternative:

My alliance is comprised of hundreds of players. We all roll at the same time for flip. Now as it stands maybe 4 or 5 get left out and have to que. annoying yes, but what if it was capped, and only half of us get in? And half of the next guild and the next. We would to start to group up like pugs with no real grouping strategy.

Look, noting is more irritating than having JQ show up everywhere with 30 people, and having 25 to 30 SoR right behind them preying on their flips like vultures, however I go through this with my entire team together.

This would bother me to not be able to get in because my server is capped with PvErs who want map completion.

WvW as a criteria for map completion is garbage and the people who wasted life doing it should get a special legendary trinket for their efforts and the criteria dropped.

It would suck so bad to not be able to get in but a bunch of level1 pugs are there? No ma’am Pam.

I ONLY play this game to WvW. I would much rather have a level minimum than a sever cap.

Lifewaster.5912:

This should happen regardless if ppl touch or refresh them. They should simply vanish 20 minutes after being placed.

There is no need for rams to remain long after gates are down, and there is far less need for multiple troll rams built by saboteurs sitting inside friendly keeps for hours preventing actual defensive siege being placed , since they siege cap the local area.

Even better: they can be detonated like a bomb.

All I ask is that the wall slaves build faster.

If they make it so they kick out people to balance sides, I’d leave the game. I would resent me as a person who WvW, is geared straight WvW for a level 1 upleveled.

I say get rid of up leveling and have WvW start at like 70 if you want to shrink server pop.

It’s ALL about full soldiers/full dolyak for me. It’s expensive but worth it. I do however use luck on my staff and all magic find gems and food.

I’m all about survival and melee support.

I steal banners from warriors all the time.

Anything put on the field is free game.

My advice

1. make a necro
2. spec fully into minions
3. get a commander icon and lead a group in either SoR or JQ, T1 WvW.

My left hand had carpel tunnel so I got a naga razor. Because of this I’ve come up with a strange playstyle which is a mixture of clicking and key binds on my right Hand.

The problem now is my keyboard. My left hand is starting to get stiff too and the excessive clicking is starting to strain my right hand.

Anyone have any advice about gaming keyboards? I am willing to spend up to 150 for a new one.

What’s out there?

Gorni.1764:

1. take all skills from conjures
2. create a single new 2h weapon with those skills
3. replace conjures with useful utilities
4. ?
5. profit

This

No one can tell you about ele’s and what works. You have to play and die till you find what works.

Your play style determines your weapon and how you dance though attunements. Also, the situation determines what weapons are best for your play style.

The only now you get good is with practice.

Ele’s are just complex. I personally bounce between traits and styles all the time. I always run 30 into water no matter what. Everything else depends on my mood.

I have a few different exotic armor sets for pve and wvw. For me. I personally haven’t found one spec that is both useful in pve and wvw. To me it’s Ike playing two different characters.

The class is wonderful but there is powerful build snd its 30 water, 20 to 30 arcane and the last ten or so points are up to you.

Other builds are viable but they are very much skill dependent. It is not hard, just takes a bit of practice.

Eliteseraph.4970:

Asura here. All my toons are. Mainly because asura are freakin hilarious in almost every aspect, from their dialogue to their animations. The emotes are especially funny.
It really helps keep me from getting too serious about the game, and focused on having fun instead.

But also because sometimes ikittenerg it can be much harder for an enemy to click a smaller target if they can’t tab to me. It’s a tiny advantage that probably only works against bads, but there it is.

They look grotesque and I find them disgusting to look at when they don’t have the helm on.

Nothing is more beautiful than a Norn female. She is tall, strong, healthy with an adult face. I’d much rather have a more muscular athletic build than the obese one though.

HawkWasAngel.2571:

My ele is my main, and she’s a norn.
In term of armors I prefer humans.. but only one face is nice (short hair) and we always see this one.. But norn are a lot more mature and beautiful, and I love the background of the Norns (Ice, snow, mountains, …).

Mine is the tallest norn female you can get. I use t2 cultural with a staff and she looks like a snow goddess.

Polaritie.4851:

Am I the only one annoyed with the long kitten animation for this? It takes forever to go off, you can’t do anything else during it, and only after all that does it go on cooldown.

It doesn’t have a cast time, so shouldn’t it be faster to go off? (Or be given an actual cast time/bar, or something)

It just feels strange like this.

Frankly, I think it should just not have a long animation – go off near instantly, still take a while to burst.

It’s complete garbage. I do not use water on my scepter. I have learned to play without the attunment. It is much more reliable to use cantrip e for healing IMO.

red.2387:

The real reason that, in the end, no matter what they do to traits, all elementalist builds will trend towards bunker builds is because we’re the only class in the game to have the worst armor AND the worst base hitpoint totals.

You can’t do anything if you’re dead.

For me its cool because I like support and godlike survivability but it sucks when it is the ONLY thing we can do well.

Sigh.

Ele’s already have a bunch of weapons. Why not just fix the ones we have?

Staff: 1 in all 4 attunements seem to be there to just fill a slot.

Water: 2 is completely stupid. Yes vulnerability is nice but a heal would be better. At least make it a blast finisher?

Air: only air 3,4, and 5 are useful, and the cd is too long. Gust is poo because and half the time it doesn’t work right.

Focus: take the one useful, air 4 off this and put in on the useless staff air 2 where it belongs. Then scrap the rest of the skills and start over. Focus is awful.

Scepter all and all, I’d like to see the condition damaged buffed. Make fire 1 more useful but buffing it.

That is all I can think of right now.

Mushrooms.6158:

New weapons for my ele could be cool – we certainly could use more build diversity.

Personally I dream of a shortbow ele.

No no no no

jkctmc.8754:

There is no way in hell any less than level 80 could kill any of my level 80s. It just isn’t possible. I don’t thing two upleveled toons could kill any of my level 80s. Glass Canons will hit uplevels for average 9k or higher hits.

You’re either exaggerating, or you’re fighting undergeared level 80s, and thinking they’re fully geared.

Very true. Up leveled characters are like paper ad most up leveled lowbies can’t out dps a guardian in yellows. Also, if you aren’t at least halfway geared you ain’t surviving enough to make a difference.

Golums are powerful yes but they take such a tremendous amount of resource, planning and protection they are rare and a non issue IMO. If a team is able to get the resource to build a bunch of golems enemies are pretty much SOL anyways.

No way. Thieves are supposed to be cheap and sneaky. That us why they are called THIEVES. They are cheap, sneaky, and powerful. Everything they do is to get an advantage and disappear. It’s just the way it is.

Honestly this should not be a new concept to any MMO player. thieves are pvp classes period and if that concept annoys you I think that maybe pvp isn’t for you.

My server is pretty harsh on bad commanders.

Nemui.6753:

SchuMidas.4782:

is that the living story patch at the end of march ?
thats 3 more weeks

oh wow, that’s annoying.

That is pretty harsh.

Habib Loew.6239:

There was a bug with the outmanned buff which caused it to be stripped from players on death. That bug should be fixed in the March update.

Some other things to fix:

-Make bags go on auto loot
-Chest for capping towers that contain costume brawl jars, karma vials and money.
- Norn players to scale with the size of Norn keep lords
-Boulders and snowballs that spawn because they are fun
-a /***bag command

Yes. SoR does need to fill in that slot to make T1 competitive at all times, although SoR is really holding their own now.

Jeknar.6184:

Churchill.8714:

People join your server and you trash talk them?

Yes, Blackgate is already enough of a bandwagon… Now we get a lot more of bandwagoners from the biggest of the old Bandwagons, ruining even more the old blackgate… I miss the days when we had no big guilds and the community was all around medium-small sized guilds helping each other.

So, no, i’m not welcoming the SoS players…

That is ridiculous considering that all the guilds that transferred are the same ones that brought SoS to tier 1. Don’t welcome us, but don’t brag when Blackgate hits t1 and an even match up with JQ begins

I want to pick up my engineer again. I was thinking of a condition dual pistol engineer but I don’t know if I should stack vitality or toughness.

Welcome to the world of MMOs where explorables were meant for challenge. I personally never ran with any lowbies because its faster.

SmokeyNYY.7841:

A-net already decided not to reset the servers so its all good

But there seem to be endless post about it… I made one about liking it

I don’t want out tier to change. I like battling JQ an SoR. All three of our servers have good commanders and tactics and its always fun.

Lets keep the resets away from T1.

Kreen.3925:

Pixelninja.6971:

Score-update: So much for JQs around the clock coverage.

JQ folks never said we had round the clock coverage. I think you will find that opinion came from the whiners on the other servers. JQ has coverage gaps just like every other server. Congratulations on your ppt total.

I don’t get why people are so bugged by JQ being big. It’s all about the battles. The war goes on an on. To me, the score is but a number. It’s the quality of each individual battle that counts.

Since tiers seem to be locked it has forced the smaller servers to come up with new tactics.

Also, just because a server is big, doesn’t mean all its people are uber skilled. If you look at it from a battle perspective, victory is won not just by numbers.

I dunno, life isn’t fair. Sometimes there are big guys and small guys. People need to stop focusing so hard on the score and focus more on the individual battles. I think that is why t1 is so awesome because I think us members have that battle by battle mentality.

I like how the forums are simple, organized and you can watch youtube vids without having to go into a different tab on the iPad. Anyone else think so?

Daecollo.9578:

Bedstain.6735:

xCrusadentx.2784:

I vote against this. This is very OP; having more traits in place of stats can greatly increase effectiveness; too much in fact. Everyone should be equal at 70 trait points.

Yes. I would retrait 0/0/30/30/20, go for traits and stack Rock Solid runes that grant stability when attuning to earth, then keep 1,10, and 11 up as traits.

That means that every time I attune to earth, I would give my allies 10 seconds of stability. So what I’d do is get into the middle of a Zerg, attune to earth giving 5 people 10 seconds of stability then cast tornado, that gives me even more stability while launching whats left of enemies out of my way.

Listen to my question very very carefully.
Give me a Build:

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc
Then when you link the build, add another 10 points and explain what else you would take.

Just throwing 30/30/20 on anything does not explain to me what you had before, I can’t say anything to that, that doesn’t explain what you had and added.

((Thats because, I know for a fact you can get +200 stat points, which is balanced to the other runes, but depending on what builds can get what, you cant determine how OP or UP something is unless you start with a 70 Point build, then add 10 points to that and explain what you did.))

Oh I see what you’re saying my bad.

xCrusadentx.2784:

I vote against this. This is very OP; having more traits in place of stats can greatly increase effectiveness; too much in fact. Everyone should be equal at 70 trait points.

Yes. I would retrait 0/0/30/30/20, go for traits and stack Rock Solid runes that grant stability when attuning to earth, then keep 1,10, and 11 up as traits.

That means that every time I attune to earth, I would give my allies 10 seconds of stability. So what I’d do is get into the middle of a Zerg, attune to earth giving 5 people 10 seconds of stability then cast tornado, that gives me even more stability while launching whats left of enemies out of my way.

Who better to create a plethora of new and exciting skins than the gamers who play? The ideas on the forum for skins are amazing. Why not have concept art competitions and patch those unique and often amazing skins in game in the gem store?

Honestly most weapons are downright hideous.

That is the problem. Why does a FANTASY game have to reflect our race centered skin color “we are from x environment so we are all x skin tone?” What about RPers that want to play a game culture that is different but also a reflection of them? Fantasy is about creating new worlds to escape from our own. So why are we confined to the racial skin tone/ facial characteristics if our world?

I like WvW. The game is young so it can only get better.

What is the point of having the ability to create a character of any complexion but the game itself has all Caucasians in the humanoid cities? There are no people that look of Asian or african or any olive complexion decent? Really?

Hoebrak is Nordic. I understand the concept behind the race, but you mean to tell me that all humans must be Caucasian? Really?

Is ridiculous and shameful. It’s not just gw2 that does it but since the Devs want suggestions, how about adding a little diversity in your cities.

My ele is a beast in wvw survivability. I can stand in the middle or ridiculous damage to revive. It takes about two to 5 players to kill me if when I have my CDs. However I work hard to improve myself in my class.

Enocka.7421:

No doubt seeing as your A pve,r your request will be granted removing sieges from jp was a big mistake they have taken away a part of my world so lets petition anet to take something away from dungeons just to accomodate us wvw players typical whining pve,r get all the best drops earn all the gold and still as in every other mmo you demand more

Yes. They should take out the jp and replace it with something less loathsome.