Guild Wars 2

A tournament would be great! Ideally, it would be great to have it as a death match though, so you don’t have to try to make your build fit into bunker/roamer roles., but even with conquest it could work.

I’m thinking a 2v2 or 3v3 death match tourney with these rules would be awesome. I would endorse it!

Hey guys, yesterday WoodenPotatoes and I (on my WorldofEnders channel) came up with and tested out a fun format/mini-game for PvP. We call it: Draft-Building!

WoodenPotatoes’ perspective: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfvWwIfB6nU
My perspective: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXcbHpnCZ7U

THE RULES:
-Two traits are randomly chosen for you each by rolling a d6 for the line, then a d12 for the trait.
-One non-weapon skill is chosen by your opponent that you MUST use.
-One non-weapon skill is chosen by your opponent that you CANNOT use.
-You have 3 minutes to think up and put together a build using these conditions.
-FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

Just wanted to share it with everyone because I actually think it’s a really fun thing to do! Try it out, and have fun!

Yeah, it’s any skill with a cast time. If you try to queue anything that’s not insta-cast, it doesn’t interrupt the skill per-se, because shatterstone will still go through it’s FULL 1 second cast, but the shatterstone will never actually show up… Bad.

Redscope.6215:

So basically what you guys are doing is simple current mechanic analysis, applying it to a presumed new mechanic, and slowly figuring out that it’s not going to be all that useful or impressive in most situations.

If these patch notes are right….everyone seems to be okay just believing some picture of text in pastebin.

Yes.

Also, Weakness would likely still affect your burst attack.

Edit: And so would Confusion. And Chill.

In other words, it would never be able to remove Blind.

Another question is: Would it be able to remove blind?

Did anyone see what may or may not be added to this trait? It sounds AMAZING!

I’m thinking they’re going to replace “Reviver’s Might” with it.

Way to go Daecollo and the rest of you guys (AND ESPECIALLY ARENANET), we did it!

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/upcoming-skill-and-trait-changes/

Edit: Mission Accomplished sign hanging behind my head

You did it, Daecollo.9578, YOU DID IT!
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/upcoming-skill-and-trait-changes/

Well… dangit.

Ashley Segovia.8276:

Hey guys – We’ve made some adjustments on our end last night. Hopefully this will resolve the issues for you all. If anyone is still experiencing any kind of lag or disconnects, please submit a technical support ticket.

Wooo! I hope it worked! When I get home, I’m gonna crank back up my graphics and see if it helped.

Man, if this finally solved everything from way back since the beta, I’ll be a happy camper!

Shadowskill.9852:

KnattyDreads.1856:

To the [Pro] thief I spent lunchtime dueling with today in Ebay BL. Thank you for the challenge.

Thanks, You 2. Had alot of fun. Definitely need to duel some more before server change.

Oh yeah, you were dang good. One of the few people that when I run away to heal up, I don’t even think about turning around and coming back to fight again :P

Edit: even though I did… a few times… and then switched characters and tried again…

The better thieves these days seem to be more stealthy and less bursty, though.

I’ve had this problem on and off since the beta.
It was really bad at launch (and in the 3 day head start), where I couldn’t get past the Asura starting area because every time I tried to fight the boss, it would lag out and dc with error 7, and I’d have to restart.
After doing some testing on my own and sharing the knowledge with the support team early on, I discovered that graphics settings greatly affect the occurrence of this bug. Even though my computer is pretty dang good, I have to put my graphics settings manually below the “recommended” auto-setting. I set the frame-rate limiter to 30, turn off reflections, native sampling, and medium everything else. This is pretty much what the support team told me to do, as well (which kinda stinks – given no real explanation to why it was happening).
Since then, it’s been pretty good. I’ve only dced to that bug once in a blue moon, or if both me and my roommate are running vent or skype and the game at the same time. UNTIL RECENTLY. I don’t know if it’s one of the latest patches or what, but I’ve been dcing way more often to this error recently. My laptop seems immune to the problem, because it has a terrible integrated intel graphics card and I have to set the game to lowest settings. But I want to play on my desktop on nicer settings, obviously
Anyways, I’ll keep lowering my settings and making sure my roommates don’t use the same programs at the same time as me…

I’ll also try to edit this with the networkdiag.log when I get home. I’m really looking forward to this getting solved.

I’m a solo roaming WARRIOR!

… don’t laugh.

Yeah, I definitely feel bad for you guys on SBI. Even though you guys are profiting rank-wise because of this, you’re definitely not profiting experience-wise. Then again, we’re not profiting rank OR experience-wise.

But I mean, look at this.

Exactly, Goldiy

Tanking is very possible considering how many people won’t be showing up because of it being the same match-up with different colours.

On the bright side, I just saw the new Consortium Sickle animation and I’m totally going to go buy it now!

So, after winning 12 weeks in a row, Ehmry Bay FINALLY was able to push their way out of t5 (where we were fighting Anvil Rock and Borlis Pass for 11 weeks straight) by edging out Stormbluff Isle by 8 points just this week. Everyone involved was very happy.

Unfortunately with the new system in place, we were randomly matched up with.. you guessed it: Anvil Rock and Borlis Pass in t5! Even though that’s disheartening enough to make many of our avid WvWers stop caring, it’s not the worst part…

The worst part is involves a potential problem I had seen and posted on Reddit about on the new randomization system. While we are paired up back in t5, with two teams at approx. 200 rank points lower than us, while winning, we are losing over 40 rank points. Meanwhile Stormbluff Isle, the server we just unseated for t4, was paired up in t3 somehow with two teams 300-400 points higher than them. They’re losing by quite a bit in that matchup, but are gaining over 60 rank points… So even though we technically should have pulled ahead of them and into t4, the randomization just opened up a 100 point gap from t4 all over again!

So I know that given enough time (another 12 weeks?) the new system should begin to stabilize servers into where they’re really supposed to be point-wise. But really I’m just worried that similar runs of really bad luck could have Ehmry Bay continually fighting servers so far lower-ranked than us, again and again, until no matter how many times we win, we just keep losing points until we’re in t8.

Because that’s actually possible.

Actually not whenever, just sometimes.

Not sure if someone said this already, but whenever I use Ride the Lightning, my Fervid Censer backpiece disappears. It reappears if I uncheck/recheck the show backpiece box, afterwards.

Yup, definitely “fear me”. She could have been using the whirlwind attack at the same time to evade your attacks (fear me is an insta-cast shout).

As for the speed, Warriors have easy access to swiftness and the whirlwind, rush, are great. She could also have been using Bull’s Charge which looks a bit like rush. If she had a sword in her other weapon set, she might have been using Savage Leap as well (but you probably would have noticed that).

Runes of Speed though… I’ve always heard that the 5% bonus doesn’t stack with swiftness. If it does…. I’M GETTING THEM!!!

[WoE]. Which consists of my little Asura warrior running around, but MAN do I imagine that I’m making a huge impact.

testpig.5018:

EB 160,663 +50
BP 158,985 +350
AR 130,135 +280

testpig!!!! * fist shake *

also * fist bump *

Edit: Rescinding * fist bump * due to forum spying :P

Heh, I run a roaming warrior, who isn’t supposed to duel – and that was proven when I faced peter.9024. My Ele on the other hand can beat most if not all classes pretty easily (or stalemate against a bunker ele) UNTIL I dueled peter.9024 with it. Honestly, Zelulose.8695, I think he CAN beat your bm ranger.

oZii.2864:

Kardiamond.6952:

If you take forum as a valid sample,

Killed the post right there stopped reading at that point.

Lets see Kalkz is on BP and talks alot on the forums, don’t know Kalkz I just know what the character looks like and when its dead I am suppose to put a “Ram on it” uh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Peter aka Skullclamp is on BP. Peter is my homey

Richard Z Rhal and Necrethius (*SP) both on BP that I have met during this matchup both really cool people. Forum not valid sample

I like Skullclamp. If every BP was like him and as good as him, we’d lose to you guys for sure and be happy doing it!

bradderzh.2378:

http://mos.millenium.org/matchups#NA

Losing 12 points. Ouch! Troll harder. Doesn’t look like you guys are going anywhere

Yeah, it’s true. I’ve figured that out a while ago, and it has nothing to do with the 2v1. Honestly, the team-up just makes the week more interesting – it has no real effect on whether or now we’re going to get to t4.

Take a look at the rankings. There was no way we were getting up to t4, even when we were winning each week 240k-whatever; we’d only go up 4 points at a time. Meanwhile in the tier above us, SBI and CD are losing handily and GAINING points.

The truth is clear: Until Anet changes the ranking system, we’re stuck in t5 and nothing EB, BP, or AR do will make a difference. Might as well make the fights good while we’re all here – which is what’s going on right now!

But… But does that mean I won’t be able to team up with either AR or BP to take out the other server, by communicating through friendly-looking jumping, anymore?

Anxiety.6143:

Reading all this bullkitten about “I’m better than you, I 4v1’d this, I wiped this, you suck that, we own you” all this shenanigans…

…and I’m over here “Hey, I like pancakes.”

Pancakes? You’re talking to me about PANCAKES?!

I bet you run a 0/10/0/30/30 pancake eating build, lols. I could eat pancakes 5v1 while doing pirouettes around your pancake-facerolling butt. Pics of you and pancakes, or it didn’t happen!

Thanks for the schoolin’ last night, Skullclamp! It was fun!

gregmak.2159:

Thanks Boot, loved the video but I’m more interested in a tankish build, so I don’t instantly die in a zerg fight. I think I’m gonna go with a hammer build, and use a longbow for tagging.

I totally get it! I try to avoid zergs with that build, basically :P

garethh.3518:

Annoyingly, even the guy two posts above me…. is doing it wrong.
A 10% dmg bump from spirits, makes your attack do 10% more dmg…
A 10% more crit dmg bump on a spec with 100% crit chance IS NOT A 10% DMG BUMP.
Crits do a base of 50% bonus dmg so doing 10% more crit dmg makes you do 60% bonus dmg on crit, which is actually just a 6.6% dmg bump.

At near any crit chance and dmg, the banner ends up giving roughly 9-11% more dmg.

For anyone interested, you have to calculate the total before dmg (crit chance*crit dmg + noncrit chance) then divide the total after buff (new crit chance*crit dmg + noncrit chance) by it to get the real % dmg buff.

Let’s just go ahead using your simple formula with the easiest one. No crit chance, no crit damage.

Spirit: (0 + 1.07) / (0 + 1) = 1.07 = 7%
Banner: (0.08*1.65 + 0.92*1)/(0 + 1) = 1.052 = 5.2%

So, spirits do win out sometimes – It’s not 9-11% better all the time

EDIT: But you’re right, I was doing it a bit wrong. Looks like the spirit is only better if you have around 15% or less crit chance base.

Sebrent.3625:

+8% crit chance with +15% crit damage.

Crit damage is 150% + crit damage stat.

.08 * (1.5+0.15) = 0.132 = 13.2%

The math has now been done for you. Continue to discuss. I still agree that spirits are lackluster compared to banners.

Incorrect math. I responded with more incorrect math.

Boottspurr.9184:

What I like to do in WvW:

Step 1: Run around until I find a roaming 5-10 man AR or BP group.
Step 2: Get their attention by dashing in and hitting a few of them until one is downed, or I’m in trouble.
Step 3: Run away from them. But stay just close enough so they keep following you.
Step 4: Run until you find another group of the opposing AR/BP server.
Step 5: Run STRAIGHT THROUGH that group.

It makes me feel like I actually contribute as a solo roamer.

Oh I forgot Step 6: help out the losing side to even things out throughout the fight so that it’s down to 1 guy at the end. Who I either kill… Or run away from :P

What I like to do in WvW:

Step 1: Run around until I find a roaming 5-10 man AR or BP group.
Step 2: Get their attention by dashing in and hitting a few of them until one is downed, or I’m in trouble.
Step 3: Run away from them. But stay just close enough so they keep following you.
Step 4: Run until you find another group of the opposing AR/BP server.
Step 5: Run STRAIGHT THROUGH that group.

It makes me feel like I actually contribute as a solo roamer.

I made a video for my WvW roaming build. I think I posted it here somewhere before, though. I just don’t know if anyone saw it.

KnattyDreads.1856:

Evilzara.6378:

I hate the Bruins.. I HATE THEM I HATE THEM I HATE THEM!! :’(

Haters gonna hate.
I suppose it could be worse, you could be a Montreal fan.

… Ahem.

Tetra Bug.7134:

Evilzara.6378:

I hate the Bruins.. I HATE THEM I HATE THEM I HATE THEM!! :’(

HAHA YOU MAD?

Great game though. Leafs played hard man could have gone either way. B’s stole that one man even as a Bruins fan have to say it.

Krejci tho

Ahh, both your teams are bums. I currently hate the Senators, however… And the refs/league they paid off.

Jinks.2057:

Who are these HoH guys?

Kudos for running 5, but having such rager for a solo thief….not so mucho

Maybe you’ll get me……maybe

ps. Your warrior is soft….really soft

Yeah, that hooded Mesmer they have though… He’s pretty good. I had some interesting fights with him a few days ago on my warrior. Had to run away a lot :P

I run S/D with 0/10/0/30/30, but rather than be bunker I go healing hybrid with 1/2 Clerics 1/2 Berserk/Valk and Scholar runes. All Water line traits are offensive rather than defensive (20% more dmg in water, 10% over 90% hp again, apply vuln with arcane). And I use Arcane Power to reserve my crits for my highest damage spells and swap into water while they’re casting (dragon’s tooth + phoenix + fire grab, or churning earth) for the extra 20% when I want to burst people down.

It’s super effective.

Teamkiller.4315:

Also warriors have no business converting conditions to boons.

What do you mean? Warriors already have a trait that let’s them do that; “Quick Breathing” converts 1 condition to a boon whenever you use a Warhorn skill. Why not another in a different line, with a different mechanic?

I like the idea!

Is the argument that the fight club is perverting the intention on WvW and you were upset that they killed you for interrupting?

Well first, fight club has people from different servers fighting each other; That is basically what WvW is, but i guess they’re not at an objective… However, does that mean any roamers shouldn’t be killing players when they’re walking around between objectives?

Also, they don’t finish their targets. That sounds like they’re just nice players who don’t want people to have to pay repair costs. I love it when I’m downed and an opponent spares me!

As to being upset they killed you. My question is: Who killed you? It couldn’t have been your own server mates… It must have been someone from an opposing server. Sounds a lot like what should be happening in WvW to me! No distortion of the rules there.

EDIT: I don’t condone anyone chewing you out about it though.

JonPeters.5630:

As far as we know something did go wrong. We can’t reliably get it to display all of he damage floaters, but we have tried to test if the damage is lower or it just doesn’t hit and we have never seen that error I our debug setup which shows attack areas. I may try and make a bad pic tomorrow to show what I mean.

Oh, could you also look into Warrior’s sword burst “Flurry” along those lines as well? It never shows all the damage floaters and I’m not sure if it ever does full damage…

PaLeRiDeR.5908:

peter.9024:

Luzano.6983:

Boottspurr.9184:

Hey guys, I just put up a build video for my warrior in WvW, and besides the commentary it’s basically just a bunch of fights with BP and AR while I was roaming.

I thought you guys might enjoy it:
http://youtu.be/fh2SMUPRrbo

That Warrior build is so hard to catch :| and people complain about Ele RTL lol.

Great commentary esp for people that are new. Solid video overall too.

Ps. I spy Skullclamp (BP warr with legendary GS)

Ohhh, that’s how i look like from the other side

Ya, thats what it looks like from that side…..hats off to you man, every time I fought you I’ve lost unless I had a hand. Best warrior ive seen on another server fo sho.

Oh yeah, you were definitely good! You also surprised me with that eviscerate while I was obliviously focusing that guy :P

peter.9024:

It’s really glassy! Also, if you’re going for might runes, it could be worth getting 2 water, 2 monk instead of two of those to also boost your fury swiftness etc, without the need of warhorn.

If I finally farm AC for the badges and get the PvE version of monk runes, I will most likely take out the Strength and Rage runes, yes. Right now, this current setup keeps me at 100% fury uptime, which I like.

The other option is just to eat that food that gives 20% boon duration and replace the Strength and Rage runes with something else altogether – maybe Ogre?

Glassy, yes! Easy to kill? No!

Hey guys, I just put up a build video for my warrior in WvW, and besides the commentary it’s basically just a bunch of fights with BP and AR while I was roaming.

I thought you guys might enjoy it:
http://youtu.be/fh2SMUPRrbo

Hey guys,

I’ve been having lots of fun in WvW with my Warrior, so I thought I’d post the warrior build I’ve been playing lately. I keep on reading posts about how a warrior’s main problem is people kiting them, and at least with this build, I don’t really agree. I made a video of me using it, with some commentary! I hope you enjoy it. I

http://youtu.be/fh2SMUPRrbo

So it’s a S/Wh GS build that has permanent swifness, fury, and 5xmight. It utilizes mobility, immobilizes and immobilize breakers to keep the enemy at whatever range you want them to be at for any given time.

Also, the build: http://bit.ly/105NgFv

Perfect for killing Dolyaks, people, and staying ahead of zergs.

Skamlic.8041:

Why would we want to punish someone for using boons (Are we talinking about ele &gua bunker builds)?

Yep. I mean, it’s not abnormal really. Necromancers already have boon hate (converting them into conditions). Now, massive boon users will have one or two more professions they may need to look out for.