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You're done Obal

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That builds has 20k health and terrible boon duration.
What a fail for a Guardian.
I am sad for the people who think this is good.
Reroll.

Re-roll if you think boon duration is needed for anything PvE.

It’s not very meta for WvW, either, if that’s what he’s talking about.

Supreme Commander Boonprot, Lord Regent of the Portals
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[Ark] Maguuma

Dec 20th - FA/TC/MAG

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ur acute-y. ehehehuheuheuhdsuheush

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Tyrion – Best commander on NA servers. Hands down.

disclaimer: person that recorded is a clicker….

Oh my god I don’t even.

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Boonprot 80 G
[Ark] Maguuma

You're done Obal

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So 0/5/30/30/5 with celestial gear. People have been doing this for awhile now.

Not the good players. Cele mixed in with other stuff in WvW, yes, but not full cele by any means. It’s garbage.

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Boonprot 80 G
[Ark] Maguuma

WvW matchup forum being wiped

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How about just introducing stricter posting requirements, character caps no quoting etc

If you saw what most of the infractions were really about, you wouldn’t have this attitude. People are infracted for, sometimes, very benign statements. Mag has a collection of infractions ~11 pages deep on our server forums as proof of it.

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[Ark] Maguuma

12/13 SBI/Mag/YB Round 3

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A WP in an enemy EBG keep is Mag’s way of saying dear god get us out of this matchup we’ll even play PPT to do it.

Yes pls I can’t handle it any more. Season 1 we were getting 2-3 GvG offers per week. Here there’s all of 2 guilds on all of YB and SBI who have nutted up and challenged us. How on earth are people expecting to improve (ourselves included) if they don’t even try? There’s worst things than losing a GvG.

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Boonprot 80 G
[Ark] Maguuma

WvW matchup forum being wiped

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Mods here are far too heavy-handed as is; I feel like I’m playing a game made for 12 y/o’s half the time. This issue is getting blown out of proportion (the abuse etc. comments).

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[Ark] Maguuma

12/13/13 SBI/Mag/YB

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I hope other servers don’t see asking for a GvG as a measuring contest. GvG’s are a lot of fun, and I know that any of the Mag guilds would respect someone coming out even if they went down 0-7.

Scores often times aren’t even posted in this forum.

This, a million times this.

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Boonprot 80 G
[Ark] Maguuma

WvW matchup forum being wiped

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0 reason to come to the Official Forums now, gg.

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[Ark] Maguuma

12/13/13 SBI/Mag/YB

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In reality most points are scored when we are sleeping and at work/school/etc, so I would guess it doesn’t matter either way.

True, it doesn’t matter. I was just pointing out that it’s odd to hold “not caring about points” as a badge of honor. But then, I find a lot of things odd.

Sorry to interrupt the regular flow of the matchup thread. I have a hard time understanding the formal exchange of petty insults, so sometimes when I try to jump in I end up touching a nerve.

Yes. PvDoor is most certainly more skillful than fighting players and GW2’s matchup outcomes have nothing to do with coverage. Hope that Season 1 reward was worth it.

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Servers suffering due to WvW performance

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Why should a server be handicapped just because they have more wvw focused players?

Why should a server be rewarded for doing nothing more than smashing their faces against a gate?

That’s the reality of GW2 WvW. Also why I’m glad the Season 1 rewards were complete and utter garbage. Matchup outcome is 100% determined by coverage. If you can’t put up similar coverage to the opposing servers, you’re fighting a losing battle. With all of the awful siege in this game, it also means that your ability to re-capture is already severely handicapped. WvW is supposed to be strategic, and yet throwing bodies at doors during off-hours and in unmanned borderlands is rewarded above all else.

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What Ascended armor stats for guard?

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If you want to play it as a berserker you can obtain a very high damage, but if you want a very high damage you can play a warrior and deal the double of damage.
If you want a bunker class that resist and deal damage, play a warrior whit banners and axe+shield. Or a engi, or a necro.

The perfect guardian is a bunker whit mace+focus/shield and staff, that heal itself whit simbols, virtues, regen, ally buffs and rune that give condi remove on shouts or regen.

No and no. What is wrong with people. Even in WvW, where you would arguably want to tank up the most, mace/shield + staff is utterly useless on more than one guardian in a 20-man raid. Full cleric’s is also garbage, as is full soldier’s. Stop, please.

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Let's tweak Retaliation mechanics! (?)

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God no, don’t ever do that. This entire thread is a bad idea.

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[Ark] Maguuma

12/13/13 SBI/Mag/YB

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Well you knew this would end up on the forum when you did it.

tsk tsk

I get why they’re doing it, killing our siege, but my question is this…Why are you not killing them?

They can’t attack you, you can just run up there and stand in the middle and unload on them.

It’s easier to whinge on the forums than do something.

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Boonprot 80 G
[Ark] Maguuma

12/13/13 SBI/Mag/YB

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SBI and YB are the TC and JQ of tier 3

Which server does Mag share a comparison with?

Honestly I liked BG’s roamers, the only issues are that they don’t roam in packs smaller than 3-5 and they’re 80% thieves.

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Edge of the Mists Testing Update (Updated 12/5)

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Why can’t we have a public beta (optional) of this for the vacation? Instead of being without a season and without new competitive content.

I mean giant pillars labelled “Do not touch” left there for a month aren’t my idea of new competitive content for the holliday…

Bless, you think Seasons were competitive. Kinda loses its glamour when you realize that the winner was determined by whoever got bandwagoned hardest.

More on-topic, there’s always the possibility for open betas later on.

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Boonprot 80 G
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How can I show casuals the importance of TS?

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I’ve never heard commanders call for banner rotations, chill rotations, etc, on TS. If your guild does, more power to you. Until it becomes commonplace on TS however, I still see no reason to log on to it (not to mention I play Mesmer in WvW, which means I don’t do any of those things).

Sounds like a terrible server to be in. Mesmers have rotations for veil, timewarp, and null field.

Tell that to the parrot. I use all of Veil, Time Warp, Null Field, Portal and Feedback without having to be told to.

Not going to argue any more, but I would encourage you to get some WvW experience outside queue blob karma trains.

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How can I show casuals the importance of TS?

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I find it funny that you comment on things you clearly don’t know much about.

People should be required to put their servers in their forum sig so everyone knows if their WvW advice/experience is realistic.

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[Ark] Maguuma

12/13/13 SBI/Mag/YB

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Gold league with blobs 24/7? Sounds legit.

There was always someone willing to fight and only Blackgate had tower heroes.

Awwww. It’s funny that you chase down staff eles and cry when they hide in towers. I wonder why they don’t come out to your packs of 5?

Haven’t seen a mag roamer yet that has heard of a fair fight so don’t cry about outnumbered people using siege to even things up.

Be honest now. Was your first instinct upon entering that tower to hop on siege? If so, I applaud you, Carverite.

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[Ark] Maguuma

12/13/13 SBI/Mag/YB

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Wonder who wee’d in Angela’s cornflakes.

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[Ark] Maguuma

How can I show casuals the importance of TS?

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Here’s a question for you BoonProt. When I played GW1’s PvP seriously I could see a big and immediate difference between having TS and not. There is no substitute; everyone has to be on TS. In fact not only do people have to be on TS, they need to have microphones and be willing to use their voices. In WvW however I’ve both played with TS and played without it. I can see almost no difference. I still do the things I do and I could’ve done it just as well without TS (in zergs, anyway). Why?

Read a post I made later.

Probably because you actually aren’t as aware about what’s happening as you think you are? Either that or most of your experience is from within queue-sized blobs or Tier 4 and lower. Heck, even T3 has some truly awful pub trains and guild raids on their servers. T1 pubs are probably the most organized and disciplined, but you’re more likely to run into 3-4 guilds smooshed into a voltron blob than a true pub train. Anyways, that’s getting a bit off topic so I digress.

My guild runs with 15-25 players a night, mostly in the 15-20 players range. We typically have no issues wiping zergs double our size unless it’s a few select guilds. Even then, we can typically mow through quite a few of them before we get overrun. I promise you that we couldn’t accomplish this without VOIP. Why? You miss every single bit of micro that the driver/rest of the zerg is trying to coordinate. Book rotations, banner rotations, water/chill/regroup rotations. Line placement, static placement, hammer stuns, immob bombs, etc. It’s impossible for all of this information to be relayed via chat in a timely enough manner so it can be taken advantage of. This is why VOIP is so important.

Don’t confuse tottering around in a T8 queue blob with actual, coordinated, competitive WvW content. They’re not the same in the slightest.

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Boonprot 80 G
[Ark] Maguuma

How can I show casuals the importance of TS?

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This.
I think a lot of the trepidation most non-voicecomms users is that they imagine it will be like this

but most of the time it’s chill & fun, just the commanders/scouts talking, plus some cool music.

It’s funny that you linked an RG video. Agree or disagree with Sacrx’s methods, but while RG was active it was the top WvW guild in the entire game. Even after its collapse, RG’s members went on to be part of the current top WvW guilds in the game: VotF, VII, Scnd, and several others. They were effective, extremely organized, and it shows.

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Boonprot 80 G
[Ark] Maguuma

How can I show casuals the importance of TS?

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Agreed with everything but this paragraph. Ranged tend to die easier in a push, especially if your front line fails to keep the enemy back. As a staff ele, I can live for quite a while, but after a while of fighting, cooldowns will catch up with you and you will die. There’s also certain people (thieves and mesmers mainly) from the enemy server that will target the backline and burst them down

Of course, I sometimes also sacrifice myself to throw a final waterfield on the commander.

I’m not saying that this pertains specifically to you, but something important to keep in mind is that the safest place isn’t always behind the frontline. Playing backline requires you to read the flow of the battle for both positioning and skill placement. Also, if there are people focusing the backline, your first instinct should be to drag them through your frontline and get them killed. That said, this requires that your commander knows to constantly put himself in the position where you CAN drag snipers through the frontline, which isn’t always the case. Even so, getting into a quick frontline regroup is usually enough to dissuade any thief, mesmer, or ele from chasing you too hard.

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Boonprot 80 G
[Ark] Maguuma

Ascended armor for an average player

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I’d say go zerker, work best for PvE and if you want to hop in WvW, use knight/soldier trinket with different trait. Even in WvW having a couple zerker gear is very nice, and with the trinket/trait, you can still get 3k armor and 18k health.

If i may, Is there a significant difference between full zerker armor with knight/soldier trinkets vs knight/soldier armor and zerker trinkets?

i have been a pvt/AH guard for about 5 months while learning the class and learning all the dungeons on him, and taking him into fractals, and i am contemplating some of the other builds i’ve seen now that i feel i am ready. I haven’t picked up either of the ascended recipes for the armor, but i am not sure which to commit to. I saw how the jump to zerker gear improved my warrior, and i’m not questioning that, but in my eyes, the guard is a different class and should be approached differently because of this.

To answer that question you need to first understand stat budgets. Each rarity of each piece of gear has a different stat budget. For instance, your chestpiece has more stat points allotted to it than your helm or legs. You can determine the stat budget by adding all of the stats on a piece of armor together. In the case of a chestpiece, the number of stat points is equal to 101+72+72 = 245. However, in the case of berserker gear, you don’t gain 72% crit damage, do you? You gain only 5%. This means that, for each point of crit damage gained, you use up 14.4 stat points. Turns out that this ratio differs from piece-to-piece. What this means is that, if you’re thinking of using a mix involving berserker’s gear, you choose the cheapest pieces first.

Here’s an incomplete list of crit damage values per piece. It’s missing ascended armor and rune values, but it’s still valid. Note that (A) means ascended, while its absence means the piece is exotic.

Jewel – 5.00
Back (A) – 7.00
Ring (A) – 8.50
Earring (A) – 8.57
Amulet (A) – 9.44
Boots/Gloves/Shoulder – 12.00
Amulet – 12.80
1h – 12.80
Earrings – 13.33
1h (A) – 13.40
2h (A) – 13.40
2h – 14.22
Chest – 14.40
Helm/Pants/Ring/Back – 16.00

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How can I show casuals the importance of TS?

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I would even say it’s crucial at the higher level of play.

I don’t know of a single serious, high-end WvW guild who doesn’t use some form of VOIP. Nothing can match the communication speed of voice chat.

I’m going to address the comments that are along the lines of “I don’t die, and it’s because I don’t stick on the commander tag.” Here are several reasons why this is an extremely flawed mode of thinking:

  • Heals. A zerg’s primary source of healing comes from blasts into water fields. No, not guardian dodge heals, personal heals, regen ticks, etc. Those are all (very powerful) tools to keep the zerg sustained. However, they cannot match the power or importance of blasting in water fields. Since most of your blasts will be derived from frontliners, it’s extremely important for the frontline to be as tight as possible.
  • AoE Cap. The AoE cap is 5 damage packets/AoE. The more people you have concentrated in one spot, the more the AoEs are distributed. No, this doesn’t mean stand in AoE. It does mean that the effects of incidental AoEs are mitigated, improving the zerg’s sustain. Once again, the tighter your frontline stacks, the more spread out the AoE damage will be.
  • Boons. Both warriors and guardians pump out many important boons throughout the course of an engagement. If you want good boon uptime, you need to condense your frontline as much as possible. Simple.
  • Condi cleanse. PoV, Purging Flames, Runes of the Soldier, traited warhorn, rolling water fields, etc. . All are most effective when your frontline is moving together. Am I starting to sound like a broken record yet?
  • Damage. Your bombs should be killing at least 3-4 people every time. The only way to accomplish this is by heavily coordinating damage, otherwise players are more likely to pop a stunbreak and flit away. You have typically 1-2s to convert alive people to downed, otherwise your bomb is nullified. So, for the 5th time, if you stick on your commander, you vastly improve your zerg’s damage.

My point through all of this is the following. While you, as an individual, may not cause your zerg to die, the effects of several people with a similar attitude most certainly will. If your excuse is that the commander always positions like crap and you would’ve died by sticking with him, then good. Keep sticking with him and keep dying. How else is a new commander meant to learn positioning if not by getting punished for poor positioning?

Now, if you’re ranged, it’s a bit of a different story. Ranged players shouldn’t ever be dying, no excuses. If they do, it’s due to poor positioning and poor skill usage, period. That said, the key as a ranged player is knowing what your skills do and how best they support your frontline, because that’s your job. The frontline is constantly playing interference to allow the backliners to free-cast. However, the frontline cannot play interference without intelligent backliners. As a backliner, you’re both support and the main tool to apply pressure.

Discipline in a pub train is incredibly important, because you need to play well enough to make up for all those who may not necessarily know what they’re doing. Coordinating in TS is an important part of this. I also think that, if you’re not willing to coordinate via VOIP with the rest of your server, you should concentrate on flipping camps, contesting fortifications, running supply, etc. Being in a zerg and not coordinating through VOIP is only hurting your server.

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Boonprot 80 G
[Ark] Maguuma

12/13/13 SBI/Mag/YB

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Thanks YB perplex engy that party invited. You gave me last bit of material to finish another nerd picture!

http://i.imgur.com/G7ll9mv.jpg

gg wads dead gkick inc

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Boonprot 80 G
[Ark] Maguuma

Edge of the Mists Testing Update (Updated 12/5)

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Our guild decided to not bother with the testing after we saw the spreadsheet. Giving account names of people is all that should matter, why do we need to provide email addresses when an email address is linked to each account?

Many of us use game specific email addresses for login that we do not use for any other purpose and sharing that with guildies is an un-necessary security risk.

Do what a lot of people did, create a separate acct just for EotM testing.

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[Ark] Maguuma

Ascended armor for an average player

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Don’t go full knight’s. Mix and match soldier’s and berserker’s gear to get far better stats.

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Boonprot 80 G
[Ark] Maguuma

12/13/13 SBI/Mag/YB

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It’s fine, we face stuff like this often (I don’t think i managed to get all of the dudes in the horizon of the picture and in camp)

http://i.imgur.com/g3Wdd8d.jpg

I guess we’re just tired of everyone running from us at the end of last week, maybe goading you guys into fights won’t work

You take a picture of Ark being outnumbered that late at night to try and use it against someone. Every time I see you or Kyra post a picture of Ark being outnumbered its really late at night after most of the guild has logged off.

If you don’t want to fight outnumbered or you don’t like that a guild has more than you at a certain time of the night then don’t play at that time of the night or stop complaining about it.

All you do is come to forums and whine about numbers over and over. If I click your name and see your previous posts its just complaint after complaint. It a shame that ArK is being lead by such a bad leader/driver when there is so much room for potential.

Not everyone is going to play the game the way you want to play when you want them to play it so get over it, put the tissues away and stop acting like a spoiled little rich kid.

Just picture what someone like Rekka, Jericho or even Razi could do with a group of players as good as Ark has and then look at how far away you are from that picture.. Think its time you get off the forums and get to work because right now its just a kittening waste of talent.

ok

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12/13/13 SBI/Mag/YB

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Maguuma in a nutshell: ‘Y U NO FITE?’ – outnumbers you 3 to 1

Except, the majority of times, Mag guilds won’t interfere with each other’s fights so long as it looks relatively even or the Mag guild is handling being outnumbered well enough. If you get omni-blobbed by 2+ Mag guilds coordinating separately, I promise it’s because they were just run over by the SBI or YB queue and are out for your blood. Neither of you seem to roll with anything less, and it can make things annoying when the only Mag guild that can pull over 30 people is PYRO, and rarely at that.

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12/13/13 SBI/Mag/YB

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Can we not. SBI stop crossing lanes on YB BL.

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12/06/13 - MAG/YB/SBI

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So if YB’s rank becomes higher than Mag’s, how hard will YB tank in preparation for Season 2 to remain in Silver League and win a non-existent reward?

I mean, it was pretty hilarious when you tanked to get into old Silver League before the shuffle, and then frantically tried to re-gain your rank in the space of a week to get bandwagoned.

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12/06/13 - MAG/YB/SBI

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No spirit broken on SBI.

The same people who’ve been predicting our demise for many months are still wrong.

Don’t worry, every bandwagon has eventually collapsed.

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TC would destroy everyone because they’re T1.5 in terms of coverage. gg?

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12/06/13 - MAG/YB/SBI

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lol thats not true at all i think i can speak for all of mag when i say ill respect any group who comes down from their sieged keep walls to fight without a massive blob

Preach.

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12/06/13 - MAG/YB/SBI

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I never mentioned any 2v1 in my previous post nor was I talking about mag.

Fair enough, you’re correct

But even “blaming yaks” for “putting [sbi] in 3rd” is wrong, you guys are still doing it to yourselves

Don’t mind this guy, he’s just demonstrating why SBI doesn’t/shouldn’t/won’t respect [Ark].

P.S. – Loved the PM’s from your guild over the weekend, real classy.

You should know by now hiding behind towers and commander tags won’t earn you respect from ANY mag guild

We’re not looking for respect

Also, as a roaming guild, it’s sometimes necessary for us to hide. Our measly force of 8-10 is no match for your Abys-like blob.

Except, in the history of the guild, we’ve never had more than 25 people online for a raid. Typically we run 15-20. Last night was an anomaly in that we had 25 people for an hour or two. Also no tag so no pub tail.

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12/06/13 - MAG/YB/SBI

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Reasons why SBI is in third:

  • YB waypointed garri and WK in SBI BL
  • Entire YB BL waypointed by YB
  • 40-man SBI blob on EBG failing at flipping Mag towers instead of taking back their BL ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
  • SBI continually preferring to backdoor bandit Mag guild groups whilst Mag is engaged with YB voltron blob, rather than flipping their entire undefended lane

I mean, I don’t think it’s that much of a mystery as to why SBI is in third?

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Conditions in WvW are OP and out of control

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Condi application out-paces any condi removal in the game in small-scale. It’s not even funny how far application out-paces removal.

Fighting power builds is different than condi builds. Power builds have several skills that, if dodged, you neutralize the entire burst. Skilled players will make it extremely hard for you to dodge that burst, but it can still be avoided. Contrast that to condi builds where all someone has to do is auto-attack with the occasional utility use to kill the enemy. This is why the skill cap on condi builds is so mind-blowingly low.

If you have a problem with cond, then spec to remove and learn to evade and CC. Stability then CC/dps/blind repeat until they are dead.

Of course, I’m not kittened. However, doesn’t change the fact that condi application far and away overpowers condi removal in small-scale.

I disagree. I constantly switch to and from power because of this. There are a lot of targets that regardless with how much cond I stack on them it doesn’t stick and they still have high DPS. It is completely target dependent. If you were to nerf cond or increase cond removal then you would in turn nerf builds that still have trouble vs several other classes due to their op mechanics. I’m not saying by any means that cond are weak, but just like power builds they have counters and have their somewhat balanced functions. I do think that some classes need to be redesigned and perplex runes might be a poor addition to the game.

I threw together a quick spreadsheet in excel outlining guardian condi removal and some typical builds you’ll find, and then I fiddled with things quickly to see how high you can get. Using Necro auto attack as an example, they can load on 2 condis/second, not including any attack aftercast. Note that this is a very conservative estimate.

A few assumptions I made:

  • All skills are used immediately on cooldown (in reality, not the case at all)
  • Contemplation of Purity is assumed to remove 12 conditions on use (in reality far less would be removed)
  • Didn’t include the contributions of GS3/5 or Mace 3 in a light field
  • Ignored the effects of torch offhand, because it’s not self-removing
  • Ignored the effects of focus offhand
  • Did not include the effect of PF’s passive, nor Runes of Melandru, nor Lemongrass Poultry
  • Ignored dodges/blind/etc. because it’s difficult to quantify their contribution

So, how do these assumptions affect my approximation?

  • Realistically, condi removal would be more-or-less similar to what it currently is, unless you really go deep into condi-hate (i.e. Melandru + Lemongrass + PF abuse + combo field use + etc.). However, that means you’re pulling out all the stops to counter a single build type, which I think is extremely unrealistic.

Personally, very rarely do I have issues with condi builds. I’ve found that, unless whomever you’re fighting really knows their class, you can just play really aggressive and overwhelm people with ease. That said, I do believe that condi application speed needs to be looked at.

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Condi application out-paces any condi removal in the game in small-scale. It’s not even funny how far application out-paces removal.

Fighting power builds is different than condi builds. Power builds have several skills that, if dodged, you neutralize the entire burst. Skilled players will make it extremely hard for you to dodge that burst, but it can still be avoided. Contrast that to condi builds where all someone has to do is auto-attack with the occasional utility use to kill the enemy. This is why the skill cap on condi builds is so mind-blowingly low.

If you have a problem with cond, then spec to remove and learn to evade and CC. Stability then CC/dps/blind repeat until they are dead.

Of course, I’m not kittened. However, doesn’t change the fact that condi application far and away overpowers condi removal in small-scale.

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REMOVE Immobilize STACKS from WvW please.

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Your frontline should be composed of PoV + Soldier’s rune guardians and shout warriors. One blast of a warhorn/shout pop from a guardian and boom, AoE immob removal. Really not a complicated concept.

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Condi application out-paces any condi removal in the game in small-scale. It’s not even funny how far application out-paces removal.

Fighting power builds is different than condi builds. Power builds have several skills that, if dodged, you neutralize the entire burst. Skilled players will make it extremely hard for you to dodge that burst, but it can still be avoided. Contrast that to condi builds where all someone has to do is auto-attack with the occasional utility use to kill the enemy. This is why the skill cap on condi builds is so mind-blowingly low.

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Another useless Write up on day 4 for Terravos.4059:

A. You don’t know how to use a forum. I understand Literacy and skills are harder to pick up when you don’t apply yourself. Take a page outta mag’s book when the going gets tough.

B. Did you really just come in and say we have more coverage then Mag, really? Do you know how the Ranking system in this game works…Cause obviously you don’t… Otherwise you’d know that they are higher Rank then us.…

Mag’s NA is better. I said you, SBI, have more overnight then them.

Do you know why I know Mag’s night coverage? Because they got them from us, and guess what 90% are just NA folks who like to play later.

And the ranking system, yes I do know exactly how it works. Do you know anything about your servers history, because both me and Mags can tell you exactly where your server was before you even started playing on it.

C. You’re talking to the unofficial RP server, jack. Get a book and learn about your enemy before you go aimlessly running into a mine field.

D. Hibbity hoo blah, hibbity hey …

A. I’m sorry, replying to separate posts is not knowing how to use the Forum? Glad you could explain that…rofl.

B. We don’t have more overnight Coverage then them, You’ll see that tonight when they own everything on the map. We do alright during the weekends sure, But Come Week days they’re going to rip us a new one, esp tonight. You also can’t tell me squat about my Server history because i’ve been playing on it for a very long time cupcake. You also don’t know squat about how the ranking system work it seems. Maybe you should spend less time worrying about “posts” on the forum and how they work and more time figuring out how the PPT system works with the Ranking system in this game.

C. You’re talking to the unofficial PVE server jack, learn about a server before you come in and spread stupid around the thread.

OMG I’ve been missing out on comedy gold. Maguuma with overpowering overnight coverage! I can’t wait for SoS to get our hands on these guys.
It’s a shame SBI missed out on Gold League. This guy would have soiled himself at the site of JQ’s “Waha O’Clock”

While Magnuma’s Night Coverage isn’t as impressive as a lot of T1 servers, It is more then a lot of T2 servers.

I can hear Maguuma simultaneously laughing and cringing at this even from over here.

I’m aware to another T1 server, that might seem silly, but there is a reason Magnuma’s a T1 server, and not T2.

Oh I get it, you mean T1 = gold league and T2 = silver league?

OK that does make a lot more sense. Thanks. Most people still take kitten mean the top 3 servers though, so it gets confusing.

Except that’s how tiers work. T1 = JQ SoR BG, T2 = TC SoS Mag (possibly FA now? idk), T3 = SBI+YB+miscellaneous, etc…

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So either our population dropped from fairweather’s doing PVE, Or you had a bunch of fairweather’s log into the game.

Maguuma doesn’t have fairweathers. The people who log in on Friday are the same people who log in on Tuesday.

If you had any fairweathers, after 7 weeks in Tier 1 leagues, they probably all gave up. Ouch. But those of you that remain, must be some pretty tough cookies.

Funnily enough, Mag has had more-or-less the same WvW core for almost a year now, just with a couple mergers here and there. We actually gained a few guilds during our stay in gold league, rather than lost several.

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Ascended armor prefix

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Why is full celestial bad and why wouldn’t anyone go full Knights?

You can get SO MUCH MORE out of your gear than what full celestial provides. Use it on accessories or select armor pieces as a base, that makes sense. Use it on everything and you have low power, low precision, mediocre armor, mediocre vitality, and halfway decent heal power. Only saving grace is the sky-high crit damage, which you can’t even properly utilize.

Edit: the same goes for full cleric’s and knight’s. Really unoptimized gear.

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D/P Basilisk/Backstab/22222 is the most popular. Seen them in pretty much every server. It works so I don’t see what the problem is. And of course -thieves- will bail if it doesn’t work. Dying and losing stacks is just dumb, lol.

Using Haste is questionable though…

Except who runs haste and 2-spams after a single backstab. Also inc D/P nerf cannot wait to see the garbage thieves all disappear. Maybe seeing a thief might finally mean you’re about to fight someone decent?

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Stop stacking servers

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Transferring in itself is fine, it’s the NA obsession with over-populating T1 that’s the issue. T1 servers currently out-coverage everyone else by a large margin, so you see a significant discrepancy between T2 and T1. BG is a perfect example of this because of the sheer number of guilds they bought in preparation for Season 1. All for a mini dolyak, 100 Dragonite, 500 luck, an exotic, and a bunch of other garbage.

Winning matchups in GW2 means literally nothing. You get no reward, no prestige. Best to choose a server whose community you really enjoy and focus on having fun.

Hey Boon, if you dont mind could you list any of the number of guilds BG bought in for seasons or are you just sharing the SoR cool-aid

Literally every single WvW guild on Maguuma was approached by both BG and JQ with offers to pay our transfer fees. It happened, accept it. No one cares, it’s done, whatever. Glad some other guilds took your offers and you got your free exotic ? ? idk ? ?

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Thanks to the WvW team.

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I like this straw man argument that someone twisted “Rewards, which were virtually identical across all servers, should’ve been better” to “We can’t reward winning servers with awesome stuff because everyone will transfer there.”

ANet defenders at their best.

Eh, it’s a borderline straw man argument. There is a very real danger of only compounding the server-stacking issues by offering better rewards. That said, the rewards were 100% garbage in a game mode where the bar is already set so low. Difficult situation.

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Anyone else from Mag missing gold already? I feel like I’ve been seal clubbing every night this week.

Of course it would feel that way after you came in 3rd place for the last 6 weeks.

http://mos.millenium.org/servers/history/38

Bless. You missed the point by a mile.

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Let’s just pause and analyze the comment that “Season 1 was a success,” shall we? First of all, there were no upsets, no surprise contenders for first place. It was obvious who was going to win their bracket from the start. Why? Coverage. Coverage defines success in GW2 because of largely broken mechanics rewarding players for nothing more than auto-attacking gates during their opponent’s off-hours. Note that I’m not complaining; I’ve been playing WvW for far too long to really care one way or another. As to your comment about server queues, only T1 servers had such extreme issues with queues. Why is this, you ask? BG and JQ both spent weeks paying guilds to transfer to their respective server, although BG was far more successful at it than JQ. They actively over-stacked their WvW population to ensure no coverage gaps and near-100% uptime on queues. Funnily enough, this exact same attitude had been going on for many, many months beforehand.

Season 1 highlighted all of the major issues that have been present in WvW since the get-go. Little to no rewards for players who exclusively WvW, coverage being the sole metric used to determine the outcome of a matchup, and the misguided drive to continually stack guilds on to T1 servers. It wasn’t a success, but it was a valuable lesson to those in the community who don’t primarily play WvW. Hopefully something productive that DOESN’T involve Seasons comes out of it. We shall see.

Anyways, since we’re saying thanks to the WvW team, here’s my contribution. Thank-you for the Obsidian Sanctum arena. Thank-you for finally merging WvW ranks into an account-wide rank. Thank-you for finally introducing a new WvW map. All of these things should have happened many months ago, but instead we got masteries. Better late than never, though, I suppose.

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Transferring in itself is fine, it’s the NA obsession with over-populating T1 that’s the issue. T1 servers currently out-coverage everyone else by a large margin, so you see a significant discrepancy between T2 and T1. BG is a perfect example of this because of the sheer number of guilds they bought in preparation for Season 1. All for a mini dolyak, 100 Dragonite, 500 luck, an exotic, and a bunch of other garbage.

Winning matchups in GW2 means literally nothing. You get no reward, no prestige. Best to choose a server whose community you really enjoy and focus on having fun.

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