Guild Wars 2

Solstice.1097:

you realize you’ve had a ~60 man karma train in EB for the last 4 hours right? while your guilds hit elsewhere.

the only way we can get a ~60 man karma train is if our guilds start it, leaving BL’s empty.

we aren’t complaining about it we just want you to admit it’s numbers instead of pretending and gloating like its some sort of amazing skills that’s winning for you.

PS you owe KN a round of drinks

Ohhhh, I see what you want. There isn’t a soul alive that plays wvw seriously that doesn’t know that numbers and coverage win the PPT. The part that you have an issue with is that we claim our tactics are winning the league for us when it’s just numbers. Right?

I can assure you that karma farming in EB is one of the things that is not helping you win the league. It doesn’t matter how easy you find the fights there at all. If you aren’t able to defend your own T3 keeps and towers in your own borderland against smaller numbers, I’d say you definitely need to review your definition of “tactics”

Perhaps you should take a break from the game for a while?

Then what, if anything, do you consider “tactics?” You keep mentioning that what we are doing is wrong, yet it seems to be working out okay for us. I yoloed against an fc zerg for about two hours earlier today in your own borderlands and was able to run out of it to survive more times than I can count… does that mean fc sucks? And before you start complaining about your mediocre numbers, trust me, there were a ton of fc at your hills.

That’s because those neverending, easy-wiping #‘s are pugs and fairweathers. I, for one, am actually happy to hear that folks are coming to defend that don’t normally wvw. I would like to see how well we could do in silver if these people stick around

Solstice.1097:

yea HoD numbers dont belong in bronze and their skill doesn’t belong in silver.

enjoy your bronze dolyaks hope it makes up for the next 7 weeks of boring fights you have.

this is sincere and does not mean offense don’t get me wrong. you have plenty of skilled players but your population doesn’t belong in any league. maybe season 2 will even things out.

Something tells me that Solstice was in one of them leet omega golems they had in their hills or bay… and they say Kain’s tactics suck

:) It’s never been a secret that numbers and coverage win wvw… no use QQing about it in every single matchup. When we talk about being spread out and such, that much is true. If you are seeing 50+ zergs, they are 90% fairweathers, I guarantee it. I went to EB last night after finally getting by the queue, and I have never seen so many people. The best part was, our commander ran every single one of them off a cliff to their deaths… now that was glorious.

Yeah, I’ve tried about a thousand different ways to make staff work in wvw and have yet to find anything effective. It’s best to run a different weapon set there

There have been times when we outnumbered our foes, yes. But I can guarantee you that we fought quite a few fights tonight where we were the outnumbered ones.

Draygo.9473:

Ive never gotten 56 kills in 3 seconds before.

But it happened today. Thanks HoD for that at greenlake! No precursor though

Trust me… after what we’ve done to Kaineng today, it’s our pleasure!

So. Much. Loot.

I think it will be extra interesting to see how each server performs given a more leveled matchup as well. HoD came in second place a few times due (in my opinion) to the upper tiered server smashing on third place for easy points. Sometimes, we were that third place getting smashed. I have no doubt that all of the Bronze league servers have what it takes to win. I love our league and am extremely happy to have the servers within it as participants!

I absolutely love the looks of the CoF armor. My Elementalist loves the shoulders and the shoes (he wears the molten gloves from Flame and Frost) and wields a fused staff.

That said, would it be possible to either add an armor line that has frosty effects similar to the fire ones, or at least be able to dye the flames? I would sell my soul for some blue flames for my ele and green or black flames for my necro. Currently, I have to use the temporary hylek dyes to achieve this, and they tint your entire character.

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And what is your point ? You gave pasts match ups..I can do the same thing with GoM : I see your week 31 with ours when we got slightly ahead of KC http://mos.millenium.org/servers/view/43/93
Yet now we are terrible (not skill wise, but number and coverage wise it’s pretty horrible).
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This was in reply to the implication that HoD belongs in Silver League. HoD wouldn’t even have a dog in this fight if it wasn’t for the NSP/Kain tank fiasco. Seems to me, NSP is playing PR damage control now, so hopefully everything settles to where it should be.

I KNEW it! AND, I bet you were the last one killed too! I heard your little guardian croak

Hahahahaha!!! Oh, how I wish I could have heard what was going on…

Yeah, I’d say that the league thing has pretty much tarnished any sort of reputable legitimacy, at least for me. It’s only Monday as well! Wahoooooo!

OMG. That’s it, I’m gettin me a charzooka.

Vivcent.9107:

Brigg.3961:

RazGerb.6173:

Advice.
HoD instead of sending your 30+ VLK full of killshot warriors, try taking back all your keeps instead of just trolling in Eternal, with those numbers you guys could be doing alot more but instead they just run around laughing at our bodies spamming killshot.

^This. I blame Mergh.

Whoa..how is this remotely my fault?

Because everyone knows of your undying affinity for rifle warriors. Do you deny your passion??

RazGerb.6173:

Advice.
HoD instead of sending your 30+ VLK full of killshot warriors, try taking back all your keeps instead of just trolling in Eternal, with those numbers you guys could be doing alot more but instead they just run around laughing at our bodies spamming killshot.

^This. I blame Mergh.

I’d love it if I could get all of my existing lootbags, chests, etc. to spawn with me at the wp when I die. Nothing worse than getting run over by a zerg with a chest next to your corpse and no way of retrieving it

Also, keep in mind that the videos folks put up can showcase some awesome skills and fights… however, you will hardly ever see a montage that includes when they die. Just because you watch a 10 minute video of an ele stomping on a bunch of bad guys, doesn’t mean that he/she wasn’t harmed in the making of said video

Keep in mind that the 15th patch will see some power and heal scaling specifically for this build as well, so it’s getting a decent buff!

I’m happy that you play the way you want to play. Overly enthusiastic, even. Where your elitism starts to shine, however, is when you start talking down to others because they don’t share the same mindset as you. Luckily for me, the LFG tool easily shows the parties I do NOT want (anything that has to do with speed runs or gear checks or any of that horse crap), and I actually have a ton of people I can party with, dungeon with, wvw with, pvp with, etc. I find myself fortunate that I will never have to go through the pains of being in your group, since I can enjoy playing the game exactly how I want to play… stress-free.

I wholeheartedly agree. I am extremely grateful for folks like you, who actually take the time to write guides and crunch numbers. I can tell you, however, that although I enjoy playing as well as I can, I try to find a build that suits my play style as well. In the end, I suppose I’m halfway selfish, and halfway supportish (groupwise). I have yet to find an ele build that will suit both needs to the fullest, nor do I think one is possible. Not with the play style I enjoy.

Ermagerd… elitists versus non-elitists… It’s obvious that you are trying to pigeonhole Kodiak into giving yes/no answers in an effort to steer him towards your already prepared argument of why performance is so utterly important for dungeon runs. Asking questions like, “is it possible to fail X” are pointless. It is possible to fail at beating a quaggan for a skill point. I guarantee that it has nothing to do with gear.

From what I’ve seen, dungeons either go quickly or slowly. The slow ones never have to do with gear, it has to do with experience. This is especially true for PUGs, in which you never know what kind of group composition you can get, unless you specifically ask for “LF1M epxerienced L33T zerker warrior only.”

I personally do not care one way or another if a dungeon takes 5 minutes or 2 hours, as long as it gets done and those running it have learned something, including myself. If your ignore list is full of people that you disapprove of solely based on their dungeon run performances, you may need to rethink how much of your interests you have invested into this game.

I still think they should add a blind component to the fire aura, similar to the mean little embers in the fire elemental fight.

I’ll help out! Toss me an invite!

Will it be like the Bane instance in the Black Citadel? Lots of seats for everyone there

KOK.2650:

bob.8632:

1. As someone who mains a thief: there are no impressive thieves.
2. “The players killed themselves. That is not how this game is meant to be.”

Why the FK not? If some facerolling spammer is willing to spam themselves to death why is that anyones concern…..People have been saying L2P all along and people like you sir just continue to make excuses and cry nerf…The runes werent OP, because they do nothing if you do nothing, if you faceroll your skills cause you wanna run zerker and pwn some nubs, then you will die….To me there is nothing more “meant to be” than that….

So you think the one hitting you with confusion are going to stand there spamming interrupt and nothing else?
Interrupt by itself do dmg. Head Shot for example can crt up to 3k .
The main problem with this rune is it forced people to do nothing.
Get attack to death while not able to do anything is NOT FUN AT ALL.
If it isn’t OP, why should you care if it nerf. Just get other rune and continue.

I been using it on my mesmer, it is OP as hell in 1 vs 1~3 combat.
Sure it is less useful in zerg fight (with clean flying around) , but that doesn’t mean it is OK.

First off, just because you might main a thief doesn’t make Mr. Bandito’s skills less impressive to me. Fail attempt in trying to create that argument.

Second, if things like perplexity are added to the game in order to smush the little “facerolling spammers,” where does the skill lie on your part? Skills that can be easily spammed should not be countered with skills that can be easily spammed. In fact, those are the skills that need to be reconsidered in the first place (I assume you are referring to heartseeker, autoattack, and the like). I can guarantee that when you first started the game, you spammed skills as well. When you moved on to wvw or pvp, you entered a whole new experience. You shouldn’t need perplex runes to defeat new players.

I completely agree with KOK. I love these runes on my mesmer, and will love them even more once they function the way they should really function. The 6-piece should have a CD, and the duration increase needs to work. If you are using perplexity runes simply because of the novelty exploit, and plan on changing them because they won’t allow you to troll around anymore, I’d say the change will be more than worth it.

Finally, this is not a nerf. The runes are bugged, plain and simple. They came out the same time as the torment runes, which were corrected almost immediately to have a CD… even though the 6-piece didn’t drop a ton of torment stacks on your head.

Anyone defending the current state of perplexity runes simply needs to reassess their own playing skills and not the lack of others’.

Car.3805:

Brigg.3961:

I, personally, enjoy having a shot at precursors/exotics/rares in each of the rank chests that my individual characters get. If WXP were account bound, the amount of chests earned would drop dramatically. I think it’s important to know that I’ve only seen those in favor of account wide WXP posting here. Any dissenting opinions are met with what is oftentimes rude down-talk.

When making suggestions in this game, please try to remember that you do not represent all of the players, even if it appears that you have the same views as others. The majority of folks who are fine with the system do not post in the forums at all.

I’m not sure you understand how the rank system works…
After rank 5, all the ranks require the same amount to rank up. That means no matter what rank you start at, it takes the same amount to get to the next chest. In addition, all the rank chests have the same probability of holding those goodies (next to none).

So in terms of reward from the rank chests, there is no difference between piling the ranks on one character or spreading them out between multiple characters.

As far as I can tell, the people who want to keep ranks character bound are those who are mistaken, like you, on how rank works, or who don’t play alts and wish to maintain their advantage over alt players. But don’t worry group #2, I stopped playing playing my alts!

You are 100% correct… I did not know that’s how the rank system worked. Given that new light and the comments made by Mr. Carver, perhaps it would be best to make some (but not all) abilities account bound.

For instance, only the abilities that affect the character’s actual stats (fortitude, etc.) would be made account bound, whereas the siege mastery lines could remain character bound. That would eliminate all of the concerns of having an alt behind the power curve of your mains, yet still be able to maintain the character uniqueness that the devs and the other side of the argument would like to see.

Not at all sure how points would be implemented into this, perhaps two separate leveling paths based off of WXP. You could have a character progression the same as it is now, but then also have those points accumulate into an account wide leveling path as well.

scootshoot.6583:

bob.8632:

Just another proof positive, that if you whine enough ANET will nerf it.
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Youtube videos never help in this matter… Like that dumb player sharing a link of him fighting with fireworks in his hand thinking it’s funny,…. enjoy your future nerf pal.

Uhh… he made that video to showcase how crazy perplex runes currently are. The dumb player fighting with fireworks happens to be one of the most impressive thieves in this game. If you knew how a thief worked, you would be impressed. All he used was scorpion wire and basilisk venom for interrupts. The players killed themselves. That is not how this game is meant to be.

I’m happy for the change. I believe it was a simple oversight initially and am happy to see it being looked at!

I, personally, enjoy having a shot at precursors/exotics/rares in each of the rank chests that my individual characters get. If WXP were account bound, the amount of chests earned would drop dramatically. I think it’s important to know that I’ve only seen those in favor of account wide WXP posting here. Any dissenting opinions are met with what is oftentimes rude down-talk.

When making suggestions in this game, please try to remember that you do not represent all of the players, even if it appears that you have the same views as others. The majority of folks who are fine with the system do not post in the forums at all.

The 15th patch will see a bunch of improvements to necro heals, as they will be scaling somewhat with healing stats. I’m not saying they will be game changing or not, but it’s gotta be better than what we have now. Can’t wait to see what else is coming!

I just want to be able to use all my new back skins for each kit… The TA one for my elixir gun, yellow SAB for my tool kit, and the green SAB for my bomb kit. Who know what other awesome skins will be available in the future!

How about if it was added specifically to the focus ability rather than fire auras obtained via leaping? It could then be shared, but still be specific to the ele using it.

The little flame things in the revamped fire elemental world event apply blindness as well as burning. What would you think about adding blindness to the burning effect on our fire aura? My thoughts are that it would make it MUCH more viable.

sorrychief.2563:

Chaosky.5276:

make conjures engi kits plz kthx

pls anet how much of our monies do you want?

I want this sooooo bad. I don’t think it would take the uniqueness away from either engi or ele if this were to be implemented. I also think that ele pets should persist (with nerfed hp) similar to necro pets as well, and I wouldn’t think that would bother the uniqueness of necros either.

DEFIANT.9813:

Brigg you seem offended hope it gets better not sure what I did to you….. Im posting on WvW match ups about the match ups… You are posting a reply to every post I make…. Whats this about a shrine about me? Why are you offended again? DO NOT reply just ask yourself those questions and try to give yourself an answer cause NO ONE CARES.. I wont even bother to look at this again since 2marrow (not sure how old you are but now a days ppl understand how 2 read in many unique creative ways…. That you might not understand and thats just sooo limited……) is reset night. But ask yourself those questions hopefully you can give yourself an honest answer and it gets better GG Gl LATE. Hopefully you can understand that.

What you’ve done to me?? Are you kidding? Let’s count the ways…

1. Not gonna get by on it apparently, so I’ll just say it with a hanging head… you are correct, I’ve not gotten 20 levels from you. It was my fault for not recognizing the great depths at which you grasp this game. I apologize. Some may think it was sarcasm, but I don’t know what that word really means.
2. I’ve learned that rangers can beat a warrior under water.
3. You’ve shown me that I can actually defeat other players in WvW when I thought it was just an expansion for farming more crafting materials. Oh, and some fun jumping puzzles as well.
4. I’ve learned that you did some stuff in PvP at some point… got a title or something truly befitting your stature, I believe.
5. I’ve learned that you are the greatest player in the game and that you feel the need to come onto the forums to pat yourself on the back since apparently none of your server mates appreciate the hard work and awesome skills you clearly possess.

Number 5 is what I understood as your need for the shrine. I’m just sad that I am not on your server, or else I would, like, SO build you one.

Alas, 2marrow (tomorrow?) is reset night, as you so diligently pointed out. I am not offended in the slightest. I think you misunderstand me. Another thing about nobody caring about you… just know that I care about you, Defiant, and that’s all that matters. This is why I respond to your posts.

Again, it’s refreshing to actually meet someone as good at this game as I want to be. And don’t tell me that you won’t be reading this forum again. You and me, kid… we got a special connection going on here. I know for a fact that you’ll read this. If you ever get the chance to guest to HoD sometime, stop by LA. Find the latrine that the NPC’s talk about near the crafting stations. Go into the third stall on the right and take the toilet paper off the roll. Look really close at the vacant spot and you will see where I carved in the following inscription (I know it’s not a shrine, but nobody will believe me how awesome you are… they just throw tomatoes at me):

DEFIANT.9813:

But if your asking me if I ranked myself up as a roaming warrior then YES

You are now one of my favorite people to read about on the forums. Albeit, I do have to put on my special helmet to kind of be able to understand what you’re getting across, but I enjoy reading how you like to boast about the simple things that the thousands of other WvWers have yet to experience.

Killing people? From an opposite server even? Amazing.
Getting bags of… loot was it? Simply outstanding.
I have heard tell that rangers in the water can be tricky for some folks, but they’re simply mouth breathers, amirite?

You should post some videos of your epicness, so that we can begin to build the shrine that you are so desperately pining towards. I have needed a new hero ever since Peewee Herman was arrested. I am positive that you will fit the bill nicely.

Keep on fighting the good fight man! Hopefully one day, everyone else will get to experience the thrill of killing people in WvW as well.

lawls.

DEFIANT.9813:

Great fights HoD zerg you where to kind to come drop off sooooooo much loot/karma/gold/exp/daily aps after all those replies to my posts just wondering what you will say next… I say GG $.$ :P o.0 0.o (“)(^.^)(”)

And thank YOU, Defiant, for all the hundreds of bags you’ve given me! I have gained, like, 20 levels (at least) just off you alone! Seriously, you have got to be one of the worst warriors I have ever seen. You should probably give the game back to whomever you bought your account from. Clearly, you cannot PvP at all.

On a more serious note, I truly hope you keep giving me bags. I’ve got a good feeling about you, in that I hear an ascended calling my name. Maybe one of these many times, you’ll actually deliver something more than just air

Oh… what was it? That’s right… uhh, GG or something childish like that.

How long have you been playing this game, Defiant?

I’d love to be able to make tuning crystals out of the dust, just like any other dusts.

K U T M.4539:

Does every engi on AR and HoD run perplexity?

That’s coming from BS? I have yet to meet an engi from your guild that doesn’t lol

I LOVE rocket boots!

I like the idea of different color tags available. Then you could color coordinate multiple commanders on a map. For example, Blue = defending, Red = offensive, Green = X, etc. The commanders could collaborate on what colors mean what for the duration of their maneuver. Green could mean a pug zerg for all I care. I think that yellow tags should be available for guild commanders also.

Wait…. camping you at your spawn in OUR borderlands? You guys kept coming at us… we just wanted to leave and go elsewhere XD.

flow.6043:

Nice video, as always.

Brigg.3961:

Awesome video. I’ve been running the same thing, although I am having issues using epidemic on my intended target. Any tips? I am a victim of autotargetting, I’m sure, but when I use epidemic, and the target switches mid cast, does it still go off on the original target? It seems as though it does nothing at all when that happens.

It goes off on the original target if switched mid cast.
Do you have the “promote skill target” option enabled?

I do now… thanks!!

Awesome video. I’ve been running the same thing, although I am having issues using epidemic on my intended target. Any tips? I am a victim of autotargetting, I’m sure, but when I use epidemic, and the target switches mid cast, does it still go off on the original target? It seems as though it does nothing at all when that happens.

Eli.6795:

Had tons of fun playing in HoD borderland, the battle for the tower by SF spawn was awesome, until you guys pulled off because yaks was attacking your garrison. It was pretty funny running into you guys again inside your garrison, I tried to get my people to hide but you sniffed us out like WXP bloodhounds. :P

And I appreciate the salutes at the southern camp your guildies gave me after running me over. Seriously, it’s been a bit difficult lately to find honorable players in this game. StaR has my respect!

Poof. How this got buried without discussion is something I will not understand,

Ostra.3927:

Nanyetah Elohi.4852:

Q: how come I can upgrade an EB tower to t3 with full supply and hold it against two tier 1 servers for 12 straight daylight hours almost completely by myself? How much coverage does anybody really need?

because you are at a keep that is so far behind their lines that only small groups are going for it ala ninja style?

Or your lying.

Pretty sure I know which I’d choose…

I don’t see how anything affects WvW matches more than population and coverage. When I heard how the league things were gonna be split up, I almost choked on my beer. There should be more divisions created, solely based on population. The last four weeks of WvW for my server has seen us and another unfortunate server matched up with servers ranked anywhere between 6-8 ranks higher than either of us. They win due to coverage and sheer numbers, not strategy or skill (I give props to some guilds, however). The power creeps and ascended weapons and all that other stuff don’t affect a server’s WvW morale near as much as being thwomped by a server that’s literally three to four times larger. It’s no fun for anyone involved.