Guild Wars 2

Oh How I miss YB and Mag, Fight clubs almost every night…… now we have to take a hold a tower if we want some “action”

Agriope.4523:

Coolest thing I’d ever encountered in WvW happened last night. I was solo-taking South camp and the timer was juuuust about up and a small horde from eBay showed up. Instead of mowing me down with auto-attack, they all stood there and one person came out to fight me. When I beat him, they let me run off unaccosted. It was so surreal, I was like “did that really just happen? I wish I’d fraps’d it!”

Thanks, that was amazing, made me truly glad that I just transferred here.

that Might have been [GF] we running around looking for other groups to fight.

Contiguous.1345:

250,000 kills to get a title ‘Ultimate Dominator’.

(Or escort a Dolyak 1,000,000 times – that’s ONE MILLION mind-numbingly slow pack-carriers escorted to get something slightly less hyperbolic.)

Am I missing something? I currently have about 1.2k kills after about 3 months play. I calculate I would need to play about 7,000 months – more than 500 years to get that title.

1.2k kills in 3 months……
I have almost 9k in 4 months

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/necromancer/?5.0|b.1f.h6.8.1f.h19|0.0.0.0.0.0|1f.71i.1f.71i.1f.71i.1f.71i.1f.71i.1f.71i|31m.d15.21m.d1b.31m.d15.21m.d1b.31m.d15.2w.d1b|0.k39.k25.u48c.0|4n.d|3t.4a.4d.4c.0|e

you could try something like this ^^
this is just some quick build I thought of.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/thief/?7.3|a.1g.h1.a.1g.h2|5.1g.h8|1g.7h.1g.7h.1g.7h.1g.7h.1g.7h.1g.7h|2s.d14.2s.d14.3s.d1a.2s.d14.3s.d1a.2s.d14|0.u5ab.0.p3a.f4|39.7|59.5g.5c.5b.5w|e

Just a build I came up with.
Need to try it out some day.

Malediktus.9250:

AOE would be overpowered without such a limit. Its good as it is.

only if you all clump up in the zerg will AOE be overpowered.

Archer.1658:

Strippling.3524:

Just stopping by to say hey Ehmry Bay. Miss fighting you guys/gals, hope your havin a good time in t5. Hopefully will get to see you guys on the battlefield in the future, looking forward to seeing [GF] and [Sekz]… both guilds were very impressive when we fought last!

How are the battles in T5?

t5 is the boringest tier ever. I used to accuse Yaks Bend of just zerging, but it’s quite the opposite, t5 is just zergs all day. I literally saw a 60 man AR zerg in their BL last night, that would run after three people, needless to say it was pathetic. Keep up the fight in t3 Yaks Bend, if you guys had a night crew you would be on the top.

I actually have a screenshot of their whole server on that BL lol

use a sword main hand and dagger offhand.

Ljiona.9142:

Instant deaths aren’t fun. Melees would not exist. Guess what? Small groups would still suck. A large group will still dominate because AOE radius of a small group has no way of killing them.

Actually small groups will see little change because as it is now that 20+ man zerg already hits each one of us while we can only hit a max of 5.

Daemonne.5018:

Nuzt.7894:

RyuDragnier.9476:

So you want to make it so Staff Elementalists (and other AoE abusing builds) can take down entire zergs by themselves and become massively overpowered? Because that’s probably what would happen, causing ANet to pull a massive AoE nerf across the board that would effect PvE as well and make AoE useless. I SAY NAY!

Do you die now if your in an Ele’s AoE ? Don’t stand in the AoE, it really is that simple.

If you refuse to move out of the AoE, you deserve to die.

I agree with the OP. Everyone is so afraid that they will be killed by a small group, your zerg has AoE’s as well, use them, there is no reason zergs should die to a small group ever.

Any zerg will have the capability of a small group and then some. The small group wiping a zerg is a rediculous argument, it just goes to show that even zerglings think they are terrible at the game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSuQ3PIV80E

Small Group defends tower vs Zerg.

bad zerg vs good group

I just see good use of choke points and reflect skills and a mindless zerg trying to just take it over with more bodies.

Daemonne.5018:

How would this affect Dungeons?
Not to mention siege equipment wouldn’t stand a chance against a small group of AOE.

Imagine a Zerg Ball rolling up on you with AOE casters leading the way, demolishing all in its path without needing to get into melee range.

Dungeons will be faster
Siege…. i dont use it so I dont care
Zerg “ball” ….. flank and make them go home

Nuzt.7894:

RyuDragnier.9476:

So you want to make it so Staff Elementalists (and other AoE abusing builds) can take down entire zergs by themselves and become massively overpowered? Because that’s probably what would happen, causing ANet to pull a massive AoE nerf across the board that would effect PvE as well and make AoE useless. I SAY NAY!

Do you die now if your in an Ele’s AoE ? Don’t stand in the AoE, it really is that simple.

If you refuse to move out of the AoE, you deserve to die.

I agree with the OP. Everyone is so afraid that they will be killed by a small group, your zerg has AoE’s as well, use them, there is no reason zergs should die to a small group ever.

Any zerg will have the capability of a small group and then some. The small group wiping a zerg is a rediculous argument, it just goes to show that even zerglings think they are terrible at the game.

+9000

most zerglings are just bad.

I actually want the AOE limit removed.
this will stop the Zerg running in a ball so it wont take much dmg (only 5 will get hit)
it will make the zerg split up and actually have to think of how they are going to position themselves instead of the normal grab kitten zerg ball we see today.

if you complain about all the AOE classes that will be “OP” you forget about retaliation and that person will get hit many times by it so they will also have to play smart.

from around 700 Gold to 7G due to gearing and leveling new alts and getting t6 mats since I dont like RNG

now my WvW income is for food and if I get a exotic I get myself some nice stuff

Dietzen.6127:

Do any of you guys (Brando and Krippler) solo roam for 1v1 fights? And if so, how do you fare? Considering the mad bleed ticks you can dish out.

so far in 1v1, I am able to stand my ground most of the time.
but once more that 2-3 ppl join in most of the time in as good as dead lol

as for the epic bleed ticks that was in a group with might stacking. I normally run around with stacks of corruption giving me a total of 2056 cond dmg = around 145 bleed ticks. with BiP i can reach up to 163 ticks.

krippler.9826:

Of course its viable. You may have some trouble with a few 1v1 scenarios, but if you stick to what you are good at (group fights and defense), you will excel. Use the lopezirl guide to get you started http://lopezirl.com/2012/12/30/a-condition-necromancers-guide-to-world-vs-world/. I urge you to experiment and try to tinker with the build, though.

Btw, last night with full rabid gear, maxed sigil of corruption stacks (which actually isn’t uncommon for me), and BiP might, I was getting 162 bleed ticks.

I was running with my usual group last night and a few times I got 20+ might stacks, I was able to push 190 bleed ticks

just count and extra one one thousand and cnd again, Not too hard.

it would be nice to have that extra range but I wont feel bad if it never happens.

I am at level 6

right now there will be zergs everywhere because people feel like they need max wvw lv ASAP. once that dies down zergs will go back to Pve as they will get bored of Pvd and the ppl left where the ones you fought before.

jkctmc.8754:

You guys havn’t been running with a small crew tonight, and you’ve been sticking with the Zerg.

See a difference in your mass amount of numbers, and the few we have?

sticking with a zerg….. we look for swords and get kills and move on. if there is already a zerg there we let them pvd then we run in and kill stuff.

but let me make this clear WE [GF] DO NOT FOLLOW THE BLUE ICONS.

Bas.7406:

Ezeriel.9574:

good lord… all this time I had no idea I was so worthless in WvW

I apologize to my server, and will never take my necro in there again.

As it was most days the only thing i really felt I did of value was spread conditions to the arrow cart guys hiding out of range on the wall… now that’s over too

No that will still happen as long as your main target isn’t hidden behind the wall. so if you target someone and it hits the arrow cart guy it still works.

I usually apply the condition to a NPC near the arrow cart guy and epidemic the NPC.

because of this nerf I predict many thieves will run builds like this.
Go hard or go home type of build

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/thief/?7.3|8.1g.h2.8.1g.h14|5.1g.h4|1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7|2s.d13.2s.d13.3s.d19.2s.d13.3s.d19.2s.d13|u39b.u23b.0.0.a4|39.1|57.5e.5s.5b.5u|e

“Keep in mind, the choices you make with your World Ability Points are permanent.”

interesting

Nyspar.6103:

Hello

A couple of us thieves challenged Mr Bull Zooker to a duel today. We both won, here’s a video of my fight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Up6aoKLlw

that is just good Thief play which not many thieves are able to pull off.

Wizardauz.3761:

Gab Superstar.4059:

I don’t put much stake in a 4v6 for the same reason I don’t put much stake in 1v1’s. I play with a shortbow even in duels because it’s what fit my role in AD and our 10-15man groups. I have no intention of respeccing or buying new gear simply because they would be stronger when running solo or in small groups. If it so happens that I get wiped by a group who consistently run ~5man groups, props to them for doing a good job, but I personally couldn’t care less.

Granted, ECHO seems to be running a lot more 1v1-oriented builds, and your D/D eles / mesmers / thieves are slightly more suited for the job.

Theres stake in everything imo. Even if of no concern to anyone else, to me its a personal stake against myself.

1v1, 2v2, 3v3, 5v5, 10v10, or XvY (where X < Y ) are all aspects of the game that outcomes can be effected by such small reactions. Whether it be through pacing attacks, properly dodging burst dmg, proper pacing of condition removal or cooldown management. Its all skill based and can all be improved upon.

And for a group 4v6 to come out fairly unscathed fighting through most of that i feel watching it from the other angle, alot can be improved upon. I especially love videos on us from the enemy perspective because you can see the opportunities the enemy has to attack and how one deals with that attack.

As for 1v1s, Fight Clubs, and all that jazz. I really dont understand why people wouldnt want to do that more if your so interested in WvW. When PPT doesn’t give you anything but some pie-chart to brag about that represents how many npcs and doors you’ve killed. Nothing worthy anything in that aspect of the game imo. Not when this games tiers are dominated by night-capping and population differences.

As for what ECHO runs in terms of builds…. Whats a 1v1 build? I have no idea what people talk about when they say this. We all actively discuss and theorycraft our builds and positions on the field. Just because someone doesnt particularly run all the traits that say “give allies etc” doesnt mean he doesnt have a vital role in the group set up.

I guess you we’re refering to more “self-fish builds”. As to compare the Shout Warrior with a bulls rush, bolay, etc etc etc damage warrior. They have different field positions and uses. The bursty warrior excels and keeping the downed underpressure, especially if you get a couple downed grouped up in the same spot, a high dmg hundred blades could be all you need to make sure those 3 people are not coming back into the fight. Which they allows the team to advance and push the line beyond the focus-point, or the “bomb”.

I understand some builds to be more oriented for focus being on allies rather then yourself. But running 10 people that all do that, doesnt necessarily mean thats better then the people who run a mix, and doesnt actually count out the dps warriors from actually bring in “team support” with the dmg he can provide.

Heres a fun fact, we run our thieves (made the switch a week or so ago) in near full Clerics and Boon Duration gear, completely stealth builds. They run shortbow 90% of the time and are responsible for pick up team mates when downed immediately with SR cover.

While we usually run our elementalists with Dagger/Dagger to keep them up in front with the melee to provide constant boon support and refreshment. As well as having (well i do) runes of Altrusim on my armor and Ether Renewal to get the most AoE might/fury to allies, since ER has the fastest cooldown of all the heals.

Combined with my boon duration. Im giving out 10sec of protection… every 10 secs. Combine the D/D ele with a dps warrior, since the warrior has little access to protection and you’ve got yourself a wrecking ball right there.

dont forget the poor little necros

dangerdoom.3862:

Riiiight, your marks will make him run away. Guys noone has a video to show us how to fight those thieves? I’m serious, i can place all my marks down, go deathshroud fear him more, run away with spectral walk but he keeps on jumping me.

my laptop (desktop is not working atm) wont run Fraps and Gw2 without bringing me down to 10 fps. once I get my desktop up and running again ill make a video.

I run a strait up Cond dmg build for PVE and WvW (rabid gear)
Now im not saying I have faced the best thieves in the game but not 1 has taken me down solo.

my advice it to predict his movement and set marks on where you think he would be to keep applying bleeds. he will run away or come back up in downed state. if he has build some disatance but still in my reach I change up to S/D to cripple/weaken and apply 6+ bleed stacks which will just make his/her HP drop in no time. Fear is great especially if you have Terror to dmg the thief for 800-1k dmg

snacks.4852:

Some fun fights vs ECHO in DR BL in the last hour

Awww why no one wait for me to get home to have the fun fights.

My progress on Incinerator:

Legendary Precursor
1 Spark

Gift of Incinerator
Gift of Metal —- DONE

Vial of Liquid Flame
250 Ghost Pepper Ghost Peppers —- DONE
100 Molten Lodestone Molten Lodestones —- DONE
98-100 Destroyer Lodestone Destroyer Lodestones
Gift of Baelfire — DONE

100 Icy Runestone Icy Runestones 100 Gold coin needed

1 Superior Sigil of Fire Superior Sigil of Fire — DONE

1 Gift of Fortune Gift of Fortune
77 Mystic Clover Mystic Clovers —- 81 out of 77

250 Glob of Ectoplasm Globs of Ectoplasm – 52 – 250
1 Gift of Magic Gift of Magic — DONE
1 Gift of Might Gift of Might — DONE

1 Gift of Mastery Gift of Mastery — DONE

Zogyark.4597:

Brando.1374:

Zogyark.4597:

Brando.1374:

Zogyark.4597:

Well kitten, I guess all those times I tried using DS to prevent falling damage and dying were in vain. That’s pretty cool I’ll try it out later.

Its fun because I was able to get an enemy to follow me off a cliff once since he saw I survived lol

haha /dance emote. I tell you though I’ve died while in DS from a jump before, I know I’m not crazy.

are you sure you where still in DS form when you hit the ground?

Yes, there was even a thread in the necro forums about good uses of DS and we discussed how it’s good for taking fall damage but also discussed how it sucked it wouldn’t save your life if the fall was too high, that’s why I said it’s something new, most likely when the % from the soul reaping trait was adjusted.

well so far I have not Died / taken dmg from falling while in DS
when i get home ill look for the tallest cliff and jump off it

Zogyark.4597:

Brando.1374:

Zogyark.4597:

Well kitten, I guess all those times I tried using DS to prevent falling damage and dying were in vain. That’s pretty cool I’ll try it out later.

Its fun because I was able to get an enemy to follow me off a cliff once since he saw I survived lol

haha /dance emote. I tell you though I’ve died while in DS from a jump before, I know I’m not crazy.

are you sure you where still in DS form when you hit the ground?

Zogyark.4597:

Brando.1374:

Zogyark.4597:

Strang.8170:

Zogyark.4597:

I see a lot of misinformed people on this thread. You can’t prevent death with DS, if a fall would originally take all of your HP you will still die if you fall while using DS, the only time DS is used is if the fall won’t originally kill you, therefore it will take away the actual lost HP from DS from the fall.

Your poor necro hasn´t seen muhc playtime has he?
You can most definately fall any height and survive with ds, tested it right now.

Must be a new bug then, did you activate DS after the jump or right before you hit the ground?

its not new and not a bug.
you can activate DS right before you hit the ground.

DS has its own “HP pool” which does not roll over to the necro’s actual hp pool.
if the necro is down to 1k hp and uses DS all the dmg taken until DS hp is gone will have 0 effect on the necro’s HP.

You will die if you activate DS though right after you jump?

nope. I have activated it while on the cliff, in mid fall and a sec before I hit the ground.

Zogyark.4597:

Well kitten, I guess all those times I tried using DS to prevent falling damage and dying were in vain. That’s pretty cool I’ll try it out later.

Its fun because I was able to get an enemy to follow me off a cliff once since he saw I survived lol

Zogyark.4597:

Strang.8170:

Zogyark.4597:

I see a lot of misinformed people on this thread. You can’t prevent death with DS, if a fall would originally take all of your HP you will still die if you fall while using DS, the only time DS is used is if the fall won’t originally kill you, therefore it will take away the actual lost HP from DS from the fall.

Your poor necro hasn´t seen muhc playtime has he?
You can most definately fall any height and survive with ds, tested it right now.

Must be a new bug then, did you activate DS after the jump or right before you hit the ground?

its not new and not a bug.
you can activate DS right before you hit the ground.

DS has its own “HP pool” which does not roll over to the necro’s actual hp pool.
if the necro is down to 1k hp and uses DS all the dmg taken until DS hp is gone will have 0 effect on the necro’s HP.

Forzani.2584:

Gorefiend.9675:

Let me explain the issue I have with BP:

1) You guys have the night time population of a high t4/ low t3 server
2) Your NA population is very similar to Ehmrys (Mid to low t4)

You should be destroying this tier but instead are being destroyed. When you (Borlis) decides to attack, you use the most plain methods possible. Be it either golem rushing or attacking when there is no opponent. You don’t use trick play, coordination of several attacks on different objectives, or even ninja attempts. Just like last reset on Ehmry borderlands, all you did was bounce between the different keeps hoping something would work. I consider that terrible gameplay.

We on Ehmry respect those who are good. Whether it is ADQQSTY who will beat the kitten out of you or Maguuma of old whose coordination of their whole server was downright scary. Borlis Pass just does not have much going for it.

So keep patting yourself on the back for how much you have “accomplished” in a game. Make sure to leave the basement once in a while to tell grandma how much you rock peoples world in GW2. I’m sure she is very impressed how you beat up all the “bads”

You rock cool guy !

Archer.1658:

So much for that walabone guy, I made his record a little less exaggerated 150-10. Please let me know if you’d like your k/d to go down further.

inb4 Mesmer confusion is OP
inb4 Ranger is OP
inb4 Guardian is Op
Inb4 Ele is Op

Yeah all of these professions beat him.

ETA 50 min before I can log in and join in today.

Kalkz.5297:

Faux Sheaux.6179:

Here’s a picture as well for you Kalkz. At least DR put up a fight and didn’t give up by waiting a couple hours for us to go to sleep before trying to take stuff back.

I just noticed this post, tell me which part of these words your brain cant get so i can explain more “your night is my morning, and my morning is your night”, I wake up, rally people, cap everything, why you mad ?, I wish if i can play at your “prime amazing time” so i can wipe your zergs, but sorry i cant stay up to 3 AM my time just to show you how we wipe

Merkenary.9860:

Oozo.7856:

Anxiety.6143:

In the end, well fought. Was a great WvW this week. We [BP] had a lot to show seeing we came up from a lower tier, and I think that we’ve proved our point, will be the same match-up this upcoming week. Should be quite close seeing we’ve learned this and that about the other servers.

I do, however, want to know…
…[Sekz] why? You couldn’t beat us on NSP, to your defense those NSP was only [Sekz] mainly, but still, your ultimate goal is to troll BP? Why the swap? Did you think you would finally get the glory of reining over BP?

My hats off to ECHO of Ebay. Killer group.

Looking forward to next weeks match-up, raise hell, no mercy.

They transfered to Ebay during last week’s matchup not this one. o0

And, I’m pretty sure groups like [Sekz] and [ECHO] don’t give a kitten about who actually wins these matchups since who wins is not based upon who has the better players overall.

Just the better strategy?

Sekz actually plays wvw to my knowledge not sure about echo. If they dont enjoy the WvW meta why would they switch servers. Lower tiers have open field combat if that’s all folks are looking to play.

[ECHO] plays WvW but we serve a different purpose. we kill players not gates.

Spazza.6024:

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/necromancer/?5.0|b.1b.0.8.1b.0|0.0.0.0.0.0|1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719|2w.d18.2w.d12.3w.d18.2w.d12.3w.d18.2w.d12|0.u000.0.0.0|2w.d|0.0.0.0.0|e

from that website with best gear possible. 1904 condition damage with Consumables. Then add another +250 from stacks and 875 from might. Gives you a max of 3029

I need to start doing fractals for the ascended stuff lol

Wizardauz.3761:

itohead.2749:

When ever I read people’s posts saying, “Now enjoy the pain we have brought by taking your BL, muwahahah” or “Get ready tonight, because we have your map!” It’s all voiced in my head like people in the old Speed Racer cartoon. or reminds me of Yu Gi Oh. lol. “Now I am going to explain my elaborate plan to you so you will know how to counter it!” “Now I will play my special card!” lol. So silly.

Had fun this morning in BP’s bl skirmishing a group of 4 bp dudes between greenvale and victors, I was the bomb engi with the norn warrior. You guys put up a good fight!

I couldn’t resist…

Bahaha OMG My co workers are looking at me like im crazy because this made me laugh.

Like radsaq said I have around 2000-2100 with full rabid gear items/accessories (rare backback though) around 144 bleed ticks

with 25 stacks of might it can go up to 2875

1800+ toughness and 20k hp

Archer.1658:

I’m back! Now with even more dddddraaaaamaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Yay !!!!!!!!!!

Aeros.2046:

has Ebay given up? Its 6 PM on the East Coast, and this is what is going on atm.

Congtatz???

Auk Fears Fox.4958:

I could go for some fight club. Those are always fun.

I want to test out my Necro in fight club, to bad i get home late today

Nemesis.8593:

Philfy.8925:

Can this be achieved with gear available in the trading post?

I think you PMed me and i already answered you. In any case, i have yet to see an armor set with precision, toughness, condition damage on the trading post. I have also spend some time on guild wars 2 DB/wiki with no success. There is a 1% chance that i simply missed it, but i don’t think so.

The earnings, necklace, rings and weapons can be found on the trading post, but the armor set not so much.

Khilbron’s armor is Condition, Precision, Toughness and can be bought on the TP for anywhere from 5g-15g a piece

any heavy CC build gets to me.

Use Disabling shot to pull that 1 mob to you then auto attack away when its not close to another enemy

Boreal.9826:

I swear [GH]/[GF]/([ECHO]?) are like 80% thieves. At least that’s how it appears to me when I’m solo roaming around (I know, I know, thief=roamer). That’s cool, as they do have some of the more skilled thief players I’ve seen. Makes for some fun fights, except when I have to face 2 or 3 of you at once. Ouch… that’s when this ranger snow leopards and runs!

BTW, we need a fight club. It will give me a reason to log back into WvW this week.

Say what you will about him, Archer’s trolling is breathing some life into this dull thread! I think he’s been taking lessons from Bunzy.

[GF] and [ECHO] have about 4 Thieves total. with no more than 20 members

[GH] is a much larger guild