Guild Wars 2

Hello hello, I’ll be joining [CM] Critical Mass streaming Raids and GvG’s in the coming weeks starting tonight at 9pm est. I’ve insisted on including coms so that anyone interested can get an understanding for GvG’s and learn. I encourage anyone come watch, this is a new guild and my team will be learning along with everyone else.
#bergfairyfighting

Twitch link
http://www.twitch.tv/betterhappy

Youtube link (my TE and Agg videos)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY3r7dg2PZsylxT5csnHkpg

Tweeeeeet Twet (Live Stream notifications smack talk, all the good stuff)
https://twitter.com/itsBetterHappy

Cheers mate

factor.8264:

hey,
how’s Agg going??? (i think Agg was nice guild)

Not too sure to be honest after I left, believe they’re moving to AA. But yeah, there some really cool people in Agg and it was a very competitive guild which I liked.

Atherakhia.4086:

Did you guys ever find a role for Rangers to fill?

The most important thing for any player in a GvG is to not die. (Does not mean play scared)

Rangers have very little utility in that area so despite being able to spit out big numbers, in reality they’d just be run over by melee or 1shot by pick.

HOPE tried engi’s every now and again in the melee but outside of that I’d place them with rangers. If they’re not playing a build that lets them stick in melee then outside they’re a free lunch. But more importantly, if you put in an engi what do you lose? A pick/caster/melee? Any time a class is used is should be to execute some objective, i.e. if there is a need for a roll, find the best way to execute that roll. Outside of that comp is meaninless.

Mesmers are great, I play one, lots of fun/damage/mobility/utility/etc. There’s a number of times while in [Agg] where I just stay alive and pull someone out of the fight because my team is winning. For instance, “lian teach me be like water” (inside joke) is a video where I spend 50% of the time evading, then turn on kills when I know they will die. But in [TE] the team play/objective was much different so I wasn’t put in that position often.

When any guild puts together a WvW comp, the comp needs to fulfill a role as a whole. Take [Agg] for instance since they’re very well known. It wasn’t some magical comp number they found but how they played with their comp. Fairly high risk with limited sustain, they played heavy casters and if at any point you were not moving against them life sucked. Caster bomb=Good melee push(due to CC or low from bomb)=Low targets for pick to finish, in a very general way that’s how it played out.

Heyhey, a friend was looking for GvG video’s to show to around and I recall ANET asking for WvW videos, so I thought I’d go ahead and make these all public now for what it’s worth. To anyone interested, namely the next generation of GvG’ers; there’s a lot of good things to take from these n also some video’s are just for fun.

Youtube Channel link
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY3r7dg2PZsylxT5csnHkpg/videos

Also… since some of the video’s have some “playful” soundbites here is my little psa.
THAT kitten IS JUST JOKES, DON’T COME RUN ME DOWN AT THE STORE, I KNOW YOU FOOLS ARE :p

Anyways enjoy. I’ll make an effort to check back and answer any questions if there are any.
Cheers

Hve you ever tried Spvp, it’s a joke and they are not completely different. This game is based off of a gem store to make money because of a lack of subscription fee. The games are very similar for a number of reasons. You completely miss read the post and this game will die along with you in it I guess if you enjoy it so much.

The truth is that this game tries to produce crap for people to buy to make up for sub fee’s, that’s not an argument it’s a truth, get over it.

What they should do is take some of the effort put into shinny content and try to make the game good. The hype for GW2 eports was such a joke after the game was released and now a year later they’re doing major spvp patches and stuff? Get out of here that’s a joke

Both of you are so wrong it’s sad but keep eating up all of what Anet is “doing” for you. If this is the kind of post that I’ll see in reply I’m not going to waste my time replying to you all with a meaningful answer.

There are threads and threads of bugs that continue to go unanswered. In fact Anet breaks more things then they patch most of the time and we have to go through another 3 mico patches on patch day to fix those…

I’m going to take the Anet way out, I’ll get to it later.

Game is great and workign as intended as always!!!

Can you all please just chill out with the gem store and make the game great? If you make the game good enough people will want to buy items from the gem store to make the characters they love to play look cool. Another thing LoL did btw…

I’m going to hold my breath on this Feature patch, and I sincerely hope this isn’t the last decent patch in a year. This big patch doesn’t mean you all get to take a break for a couple of months. This is your chance to save the game honestly, even if you don’t patch something weekly, if it’s just bug fixes and letting us know the direction of the game then do it. Don’t just idle, games die in idle and i actually like the combat of GW2 and would like to enjoy it more.

(first wall of text was t00 str0nk, 5000 max can’t stop me now)

Hello to hopefully a dev, not a QA tester but someone who can actually fix things. Cause as far as I’m concerned I’m not even sure Anet uses QA, cause there is a ridiculously high lack of quality well after a year into the game. If you can see where this is going I’m pretty miffed at the current state of the game and all this hype over the Feature Patch…

This patch includes most of the stuff that should have come ages ago. Anet is notorious to play things off as working as intended, it’s like the Dota2 developers came over n started making GW2 or something. If you can’t be bothered to fix simple tooltips, why should I bother loggin on? The simplest of issues have plagued GW since release, and sure a lot of them have been fixed and some cool content has come out, but the Anet solution to keeping the game alive is put more crap in the gem store. And for the players not keen enough to realize it, the living story is in large part a way for Anet to release more items in the gem store that coincide with it, in case you all missed did notice. Sure the content lines up with the story line of Tyria but I’d enjoy the game a lot more if you all would stop pushing crap from the gem store and work on a game worth playing.

Lets take League of Legends for example. This game has a much larger community than GW2 and there are some simple reasons as to why: free to play, simple, and constant updates. Now I’ll admit the only reason I purchased GW2 was because there wasn’t a subscription fee, I’d go back to console if I wanted that. And hey another thing GW2 did pretty well, the combat is pretty good and simple, there isn’t a hud taking up half my screen of icons to skills I don’t use. Constant updates, yeah that doesn’t mean the gem store… I played LoL in beta, it was so bad back then it wasn’t even funny. It looked bad and the combat was so unbalanced it wasn’t even funny. But it’s now the single largest game in the world. Wonder why. Because they made the GAME worth playing, not the F’in skins worth buying. If you dress up a kitten with gem store items it’s just a shinny kitten . You all should really do yourselves a favor and not kitten the bed after this Feature Patch, please.

I really like most of GW to be honest. I like that you can style your character with stuff from the gem store, I really like the combat (for the most part), and I’ve meet a lot of people that make the game worth playing with. But some major changes need to occur or this game will keep dying. Like Spvp, it’s a joke more than half of my S(Y)olo que games are 4v5’s which happen to not be in my favor, and hardly anyone wants to bother playing it cause the balance team doesn’t have a F’in clue half the time. Do we need to talk about how many teams not players TEAMS spvp lost during the Dhumfire patch? And again sure things are getting better but it’s well over a year into the game, Anet… get your act together. I’m not sure what you all are doing, drawing in coloring books maybe, but I have a hard time believing it’s working on the game. If you don’t make the Spvp worth playing you wont have a player base. If you don’t have a player base then you have no teams to compete. If there is no competition your games dies, no sponsors, no live streams, nothing, people more on to something worth playing. #doyouevenesportsAnet . And also, why isn’t there a 2v2/3v3 Arena? Is it because we want it and you all only want to produce things we don’t need? Cause it’s not to focus on perfecting conquest. Like I said you actually have to get community involvement and constantly update the game for that to happen. When LoL started really growing it had weekly patches, and they would record a patch video to show players where the game should be heading. What does Anet do? More gem store crap and Dhumfire. There was so much hype for GW2 pvp when it came out there were pvp players trying to pick up the game from multiple genres, but instead of making an effort to hold on to all these players giving GW2 a chance you just acted like the game was great and working as intended.

So now the game is filled with what’s left after a year of we plan to get around to it fixes and overall a lack of progress from the GW2 Dev team. Sure you can make cool stuff, I love a lot of the gem store items, everyone loves to look like a bad kitten . But all that stuff stops being cool for me when the game isn’t worth playing. The what’s left of spvp quite frankly is people who dodge que, and the what’s left of that want to play decap endi, or pet farm builds like spirit ranger and minion mancer necro.

Same bug, please fix it’s driving me nuts

Wanze.8410:

I disagree to give every ascended weapon or armor a stat choice while out of combat right from the start.

I wouldnt mind however, if you could “infuse” your armor/weapon with another ascended inscription/insignia to make that stat available.

Yes, I don’t think so either, like I said there needs to be some middle ground. I have no clue how that would happen recipe/mystic forge/something new… but yeah just a next level, something that does require a bit of effort to get to but never the less some way of reaching stat selectable without grinding out a cosmetic item.

Maybe going off your idea you could produce a stat selectable insignia? Hell if you could craft it just as they are now, the two pieces of the weapon, insignia, and vision crystal, that’d be amazing. But maybe you’d have to make some next level vision crystal that combines multiple vision crystals to make. Which would be hell to grind out but I’m already at I think 7 ascended weapons… I could see that being a worthwhile goal to get all those crystals and the super insignia to craft with the weapon pieces.

Waldir.2571:

This will never happen because Legendary armor (when it comes out) will possess this feature.

Dude… that’s the point. Something as important as stat selection on gear should not be kept only to legendaries. My argument is that this is an amazing feature of the game and at this point it cost around the same to craft a legendary as it does to craft a whole set of ascended so why should legendaries, a purely cosmetic aspect of the game have one of the most amazing usability features.

rozcinana.7249:

I like the change they made to legendaries. I think it’s great that we can change their stats. They take a lot of effort and gold to craft so it makes sense. It’s actually giving me an urge to craft another legendary.

See…that’s wrong. You should be crafting a legendary not because of the stat select, but because of the animations and so on… This is exactly what I’m referring to. Why should you be crafting a cosmetic item for any other reason than you want the shinny? Example, Fractal back piece. I myself am one of the many people who threw away 250 ectos on the nice shinny effect, I don’t regret it in the slightest, I love it. But again I spent my ectos on something purely for the cosmetic part because I wanted it. And while it’s a great new feature, legendaries should not be the only means of stat selectable weapons/(armor?) in the game. It’s that simple.

Brent.4560:

Keep in mind you have the ability to choose what stats you’re grinding for on that ascended gear. It sucks but you have the choice. The legendaries only had one set to choose from before the update came out. Didn’t stop me from making one but I wish I had the option like ascended.

Legendary, couple thousand gold, transmutation stones trading gold to gems like 10-20 gold. Wat? I don’t see at all how your comparison has anything to do with this, sure the originals only came in solider stats but I don’t know a single person that had a legendary that didn’t transmute it to the stats they wanted. And considering how much gold it took to make a legendary you really thing a few more for a stone isn’t worth it?

Look…

As long as the recipe is kept within reason there is nothing that should keep this form happening. It’s not like you don’t have to work hard for either legendaries or ascended weapons and armor. Both are end game level and both require a huge investment to make. So why can’t they both be stat selectable? And the answer can not be because they’re a legendary because if so then they should have the feature removed, as great as it is. Because it’s been said over and over that while legendaries are great to look at they are in the game because shinny. They are a cosmetic part of the game, not an end game feature. There are plenty of other looks out there and great weapons that aren’t legendaries and it’s absurd to say you have to look like “X” have “X” weapons and "X"armor to be able to change gear stats.

Don’t get me wrong I think it’s a great idea they came out with but I just don’t think they should make it only available to a cosmetic item.

Perhaps a recipe could create some bonding thing of whatever that combines ascended weapons and lets you stat select between whatever one you’ve created. Similar to the new AR system that each time you’d need the bonding stuff and the items you’re bonding. Maybe it’d be 2 weapons and 2 different bond parts and you throw it in the forge or something. It might be hell to keep up with all that separate code, i’m not sure but they need something like it.

There needs to be some middle ground between the usability of the stat select and end game weapon/armor stats. As I see it now you have end game weapons, and end game weapons/shinny/stat select. Legendaries should stick to being what they are and we should have some way of making ascended items stat selectable.

As a suggestion, I think we should be able to craft stat select-able ascended weapons and armor. As we all know legendaries were given stat selectable status with the ascended weapon patch. I think it was a great feature but correct me if I’m wrong even devs have said that legendaries in the game for aesthetic purposes. And that there is plenty of other cool n interesting looks outside of legendaries. Well this being said with the ascended armor patch and much speculation later people have began to talk about the prospect of legendary armor and a back piece. I think they’ll be pretty awesome if they do come out but just the thought gave me an idea. We should have the ability to upgrade crafted ascended items to some stat select tier. My reasoning being that as nice as legendaries look not everyone wants to get them for looks, and furthermore I know of a huge number of players that have started to grind out for legendaries ONLY because of the stat select portion. While it’s a great feature it should not be kept only to legendaries. Legendaries should always remain at the top tier of the game but with the weapon patch a new gap was formed and I think a recipe needs to be there to fill it’s place. There are the pure stats(damage/defense) of ascended items and the stats(damage/defense)/looks/select of legendaries. I think the void should be filled with a mid tier of stat select-able ascended items. Maybe something like the legendary recipe but an ascended item of that type would be the precursor or maybe something not so extreme in cost, but you get the point. With the cost of ascended items being so great I don’t think something like this should be out of the question for something like this to be introduced and quite frankly I think we deserve it for getting our crafts to their max level, I don’t think it’s right for a visual item to have one of the greatest usability features in the game. It’s an aesthetic item! Thoughts people? If you agree please pass this around

Talked to a dev in game personally, apparently it’s a bug, not intended, and that a fix is being worked on. I’m not sure how a new bug like this can be introduced but if they’re working to fix it I can get over it.

Hopefully this will be cleared up quickly…

Seriously, I’ve never actually been mad about a patch until now. This is seriously kittening stupid. I can get over you all not fixing things after weeks and weeks of “working as intended” but this is kittening stupid.

Until this patch I have been able to use multiple skills on the same key by using the shift key. For instance my Blink and Illusionary Wave were both on a mouse button but the blink was shift + mouse button. But now for absolutely zero reason at all, when I come out of blink I use Iwave and this is the same for a number of skills I use.

Simply put, what the kitten is wrong with you people at Anet, seriously. I normally do not get angry or post on forums cursing as much as possible but this is it. I’m going to quit this game most likely if this isn’t fixed or some reason isn’t specified as to why it should remain this way that makes any sense. It’s absurd. There are so many coding problems in this game, and instead of fixing some of this crap, you all break a function of the game that was working perfectly fine!! What is wrong with you all! Correct me if I’m wrong but making more problems for your user base is normally not a great way to encourage people to play

For the argument that you don’t know how you can level to 80 and then want another race, it’s simple. Believe it or not a large number of players care absolutely zero about pve, aside from gear. Myself and a large number of players that I know personally enjoy WvW but dispise PvE because we find it dull boring and a lot of other things… I for one have played mapping games in the past and aside from high level fractals with a good enough group to do it the reward vs time for PvE is a joke. But without derailing, my point is that many of the characters we play in WvW, that are really for WvW only, are crafted to 80 and geared with ascended trinkets as soon as possible from currency from other characters. It’s very easy to enjoy learning a new class and thinking you’ve picked the right race and everything, but the simple truth is that after you log in excess of 500 hours on what was a new toon at the time, many of us wish we had rolled differently. Some times it’s because the animations, some times it’s just because you want to make it look good. But regardless it is very easy for people to level to 80 and decide later what would be the finishing touches for your new class. Because I don’t play this game to level, I play for PvP and to be quite honest the balance of sPvP is even more hideous than WvW that until I find 4 other players since sPvP is a team mode, and yolo que is a joke. But until then I enjoy wvw, and leveling puts me to sleep. And myself and most of the wvw players I know are not playing on characters crafted to 80 and geared from the currency they got on those original characters that just sit in idle now. And it’s not like we picked a random race for the new toon. Sometimes it’s just, “X looks good in this, I’ll play X”, craft it to 80 gear it and a little down the line you go, kitten , I wish I had X instead.

Honestly, if you could actually scrab the gear from one toon to another and transfer all those miserable trinkets for the most likely 3+ sets of gear you most likely have… Then yeah, I’d just craft to 80 all day and consider the gold and mats a kick in the head to say you should have picked better last time. But because of how long gearing multiple sets takes, it’s just not worth making another toon to the majority of players in my position, and I think it’d be really nice if they just take my money and let me have animations I want

Please take our money and let us please race change. Myself and a number of people I’ve asked about it as well would love to be able to get exactly what they want with their characters. Many of us gear our characters with the best that can be found and once everything is said and done feel like the wish they had rolled X, instead.

I know a great deal of people like I said who would love this…

And as far as how it would effect the toon. I’d suggest simply having any cultural gear say bound to another race, similar to soul bound items. And personal story can just be reset.

Obs cup size is 34NornHand for all who were curious

I suck at editing…but it’s in 1080p

Clips of me roaming check it out if like

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/wave – from 459 Italia

Formally know as Le Lew, Commander on HoD and GoM. Heya mate, and thanks for the nod

Hey guys, great news! Server Police Xx – one of the leaders of ZL has agreed to have a friendly 1v1 with me at the next fight club on Thursday 8est! For those of you that don’t know me, I’m Le Lew, previously a leader of ZL. It’s gonna be a lot of fun I wanna see as many people as possible from ZL and the rest of GoM out there to support him, he’ll need it, haha. See you all then

edit: Btw, if I lose I have also agreed to pay for the next round of golem rushes
edit: OK Server I got the screen shot. Lucky it was still in chat log. Also I’m pretty sure everyone knows I was a leader of ZL, that was a knee slapper. You got me *haha. I’m sure this will be a lot of fun