Guild Wars 2

Thank you! So much more immersive than reading a few pages.

More of this!

I love achievements like this. Thank you for including them in the game!

They are optional for the meta, so I don’t even comprehend the argument against them. If you don’t like them, don’t do them.

BladeNinja.4671:

Ebay does it again!

I see me!

The new world bosses are staggered so they don’t overlap, and take time to complete. Let’s go with 20 minutes total for either event, on average. Assuming you logged in at the single most inconvenient time (one minute after one of the bosses depopped), you would then have to wait 39 minutes for the next spawn for one of the two new bosses.

I’m sorry you find that to be too long to experience any of the content. Perhaps instead of playing a genre that revolves around social interaction and a living world, you should stick to the single-player variety so you can make the most out of your 38 minutes of game time.

I can understand the hate on Skyhammer and knockbacks. I think the map would potentially be fine with perimeter ledges blocked off, but currently I can see why people see it as a mini-game inside a mini-game rather than a competitive arena.

But I don’t get the hate on Spirit Watch. All of the maps try to incorporate something besides straight capture-point gameplay, and this map has arguably the most meaningful. Not necessarily because of impact, where the Lord and temple buffs would probably take the cake.. but rather it’s consistency/persistence. Isn’t that (the lack of diverse gameplay types) the #1 problem with sPvP at the moment?

From what I gather the main gripe is with movement skills and the orb, but I don’t understand why this is a problem. Was Warsong Gulch not worth playing because of Travel form? Was rocket-jumping at the clutchest possible time in UT2K4 not some of the most exciting moments? Why exactly are these movements skills a bad thing here? I don’t get it. I’d personally love a pure CTF map, but seeing as this is as close as we have so far it’s one of my favorites. Why is it being discouraged?

Lys.8621:

@Celeras

With gear mixed Rabid/Berserker you can get 2600 armour and 1100 condition damage, plus 50% crit chance and 40% crit dmg.

Quoting myself from the starting post.

This means that if you don’t run away and you don’t attack me I can easy kill you. Really you don’t think so?
Or you are a bunker full healing warrior or maybe meditation guard. But I’m sure also in this case, with some more time, I could be able to finish them classes spec aswell, and they won’t be able to kill me anyway. Anyway bunker spec are hard to kill for many other spec too.

And plus, generally, you won’t find any bunker playing wvw roaming, since they aren’t meant to kill but to survive.

Can you read? Who said anything about bunkers?

Celeras.4980:

The entirety of their pressure comes from their blocks, and exploding their clones. And they’re the slowest class in the game.

So again, what exactly is there to kill you if you don’t kill yourself? Staff auto-attacks? You want to say they gave up torch for a weak-shooting duelist too like that makes a difference? You sound like a zergling dying to confusion/retaliation and complaining that it’s OP.

You can take any class, only use defensive abilities (ie: no movement to abuse their horrible slowness), and run from a PU Mesmer indefinitely. They will not be able to kill you, because they don’t put out enough pressure without clones dying/confusion/torment blocks.

That’s an open challenge, btw.

The entirety of their pressure comes from their blocks, and exploding their clones. And they’re the slowest class in the game.

So again, what exactly is there to kill you if you don’t kill yourself? Staff auto-attacks? You want to say they gave up torch for a weak-shooting duelist too like that makes a difference? You sound like a zergling dying to confusion/retaliation and complaining that it’s OP.

I find PU Mesmers difficult to kill, and impossible to die to.

I don’t know what you’re doing wrong, but seriously… stop attacking and they can’t put out any pressure. It’s a lame build.

Bwahah. This is your ‘vengeance’? A potential non-season victory when everybody is winding down from sweeping you when it mattered? And you wonder why you get dumpstered when something is actually on the line… this kind of ridiculous chest thumping.

Funny though, since I thought last week was supposed to be ‘vengeance’ for your last place finish in the first week of the season. I guess that only pans out for you when nobody cares.

tiramisu.8706:

Celeras.4980:

Evilzara.6378:

grasshopper.8539:

Buffy.9246:

We didn’t lose our #1 commander. Kalkz rarely commanded for us. He just protected keeps.

That’s the best kind of commander. Where is all your commanders that do this now?
I really feel sorry for BP. I don’t under stand why you all through him under the buss after he carried your server for so long. And I know he did because I fought him every morning for 13 weeks. He earned my respect and I would be proud to fight by his side!

/bow

We didn’t throw him under the bus. We didn’t even do anything to him. He just commanded whenever he felt like it, and he left because he wants to gain an even bigger ego on SBI.

We all know you never liked Kalkz, Evilzara. That’s probably why you told Sekz where his zergs were when they were on NSP. Not that you didn’t do that with your OWN zergs as a recruitment tactic.. but yeah. I’m sure you had a good reason for not liking him anyway, right?

I’m glad you showed up to this thread. It reminds us all why we enjoy putting BP in the dumpster so much.

Celeras, after we left Ehmry Bay, we shared our videos with any server that asked to see. Otherwise, that one snippet from the video would have been nice to spark a little drama. Unfortunately, if you actually look at the video, it has us talking about dumpstering Kalkz while in EBG, then it has Zara asking us to hunt down a commander in another BL who wasn’t helping the situation (probably an Os golem rush). In which we lied and said we were in BP BL and LA BL.

There are a lot of vids with Zara in our conversation. With the promise of giving us open field fights, we’d leave the BL, usually to retire to sleep. We never actually got fed a zerg with their hands cuffed behind their backs. She would gather anyone she could summon, and use cheesy tactics to try and get us. Other times we would purposely lie to her and say we went to sleep while hiding offline just to get a good gank.

Most of this happened while in NSP since by 12pm EST it was a dead server that had no presence to defend anything. So once we left a BL, stuff would fall. It’s old news.

It was nice to see you posting on the forums, but once I saw you try and start kitten by bringing up old news, I just didn’t bother to post or read any of your post. But since you decided to bring it up again, I thought I’d clarify things so you can move your drama down another road with more creativity.

Side note: Claude, we had fun fights at NW Hills till the BP pugs bailed on me. Then you all jumped me hard, haha.

We were never fed a handcuffed zerg? You know we were, I know we were. And I have my own videos, you know. Would you like to see? Including ones with you talking on mumble after we xferred to Ehmry. You know, when Zara was mad and you went on a little rant “that we can destroy her with her entire server if we told them what we knew”.

Deny it, I’d love to post it. Nobody calls me a liar.

I have nothing against you guys. In fact, I’d loved my time with ya’ll and wish you didn’t xfer so much so I could have stayed with you. I had no intention of causing drama for you, and had no idea you actually transferred to BP until recently. However, if Zara wants to drop in on EVERY THREAD that mentions Ebay and run her mouth… I’m going to run mine. And I know a lot. Try me.

Evilzara.6378:

grasshopper.8539:

Buffy.9246:

We didn’t lose our #1 commander. Kalkz rarely commanded for us. He just protected keeps.

That’s the best kind of commander. Where is all your commanders that do this now?
I really feel sorry for BP. I don’t under stand why you all through him under the buss after he carried your server for so long. And I know he did because I fought him every morning for 13 weeks. He earned my respect and I would be proud to fight by his side!

/bow

We didn’t throw him under the bus. We didn’t even do anything to him. He just commanded whenever he felt like it, and he left because he wants to gain an even bigger ego on SBI.

We all know you never liked Kalkz, Evilzara. That’s probably why you told Sekz where his zergs were when they were on NSP. Not that you didn’t do that with your OWN zergs as a recruitment tactic.. but yeah. I’m sure you had a good reason for not liking him anyway, right?

I’m glad you showed up to this thread. It reminds us all why we enjoy putting BP in the dumpster so much.

Man this is going to be a great week. There’s nothing quite like putting BP in the dumpster where they belong. Whether it’s their blowhard commanders running their mouths, or their horribad zergs stumbling around for PvDoor trying to avoid all enemies. Just tremendous satisfaction. I wonder if that’s what their commanders are going for while they’re yapping away?

Good fights at Bay, Yaks! Wish we had the coverage to challenge you more overall, but the mono y mono showdowns are always solid when we run into eachother.

twentytwo.3029:

Is there a reason Evilzara is such a tremendous kitten in threads that vaguely mention EB?

Other than the obvious trolling? She tries to dish it out but she sure as hell can’t take it lol. I posted a few times in their matchup thread pointing out the fact that she used to intentionally feed her zergs to [Sekz] as a bribe when she was trying to get them to transfer (when they were on NSP before Ebay), she got all of them deleted lickity split.

I can understand why, considering they actually ended up transferring there recently… which is ridiculously pathetic in its own right.

When the ascended items gain their new Agony Resistance slot (giving them two slots and not changing the original one, right?), what is going to happen to the +stat/agony infusions currently slotted in the first slot? What if you put WvW infusions in there?

Not quite as adamant of a denial attempt as I was looking for. Anyone else want to chime in before the youtubes w/ VOIP start dropping? It will make the reveal all the sweeter.

But an exotic weapon being better than a rare is O.K.?

This argument is asinine. A.net’s only mistake was not having Ascended in at launch. I for one am grateful that they recognized the need for it, as exotics are stupid-easy to get. Something more was needed and ascended was it.

It’s only a treadmill if they keep adding tiers afterwards, which they never will. They’re filling a gap, rightfully so.

My favorite “personal” moment below

When does this happen? I missed it.

Thanks! Just to add: I got a blue key from the twisted in the first wave… so you can still use the dungeon to farm all the keys even if you arent up for the daily.

Before I run allll the way back up. The first time I did it I got to pick from one of the 3 fragments. Is that one-time? A daily?

This is pretty stupid and will serve no purpose other than waiting out a queue. If thats your intention then great. But putting PvE bosses in WvW does not appeal to the majority of players who actively play, and no PPT makes it pointless.. so you wouldn’t want your WvW’ers to be interested in it anyway. I’m sure PvE’ers will enjoy the mechanics of the fights(once or twice), to which you give them… WXP.

It’s completely counter-intuitive.

JonPeters.5630:

Overall I think this a good small step for a profession that has a lot of roles it can fill fairly uniquely. I think this might give us 3 strong mesmer build archetypes.

1) Shatter
2) Phantasm
3) Mantra

This has got to be a joke. Mantra as a build archetype? How do you figure. Best case scenario with these changes = people use Mantra of Recovery to remove conditions. This makes it a build?

There is NOTHING about Mantras that equates to it being a build archetype. You can throw support at me all you want, just no. A pathetic heal for 5 targets, minor AoE buffs/condi removal that other classes give 100x better, and no damage.

I see nothing changing with Mantras. Recovery may make its way into some builds as a supplement, but that’s it. The rest will continue to see EXTREMELY limited/situational use, if you’re lucky.

So I’m right that it didn’t always do this then? Glad im not going crazy! Hope its a bug they can fix.

Maybe I’ve just been playing alts for too long, but blink has been screwing with me lately.

Character facing north, camera spinned looking south. Blink south, camera does an instant 180 and now my camera is facing north. Aka the opposite direction. Aka where I just ported away from. Instead of the direction I was looking when I ported.

It stinks. I don’t recall it functioning this way before. Just me?

MOBA gameplay would be amazing. You already dabbled with it in numerous mini-games. Obviously the progression aspect would be different (unlock your chosen skills or w/e) or non-existent, but the core idea would be phenomenal. If you think about it, it’s essentially the “2 lords” idea with a few pre-requisites. And maybe a Guild Wars twist or two

That’s the kind of thing we need.

Did they fix the issue where you couldnt have Phantasmal Fury + Retaliation at the same time? They never used to stack.

It works fine. You’re probably putting it on C/D from another sigil and don’t realize it.

I just hope Josh remembers that for every vocal whiner, there’s somebody like me who doesn’t post very often because they’re having a blast playing the content.

I love everything about SAB 2.0. Rock on.

Here to give my props for this, you blew our minds! Don’t forget to talk to Moto after you do “it all”! Extra flavor

Vince Ste Marie.2081:

Hey Celeras.

Can you check the progress of your Academic achievement and tell me what it says?

Sorry I was in there trying to get through it again (almost there!)

It says 1/3. Attached SS

[edit] Just did Zone 3, same thing happened except I got both Academic AND another tier of Baby’s Second Adventure.

I finally complete zone 2, on normal. Died a bunch, lots of continue coins. Feels good man.

Achievement: Baby’s Second Adventure. Tier 2/33. I got the Infantile achievement at the very end, none along the way (because it wasn’t infantile).

I’ll get it done again, but man oh man did that suck. I’m sure there are people struggling far worse than I who would ragequit over something like that. Please look into it!

Two necros beat one necro. Whats your point?

Weird bug. When NPC models are culled due to my character model settings, their nameplates show up. However when I run in range and their model loads.. then their name disappears per my settings.

I would like their names to be invisible all the time like they were pre-patch, per my settings.

I was planning on a build revolving around Elixir Infused Bombs. Is this viable?

Automated response is literally the only thing keeping this meta from being completely dominated by conditions. Leave it alone.

You’re only one-shot if you blatantly screw up. So yes, it’s meant to be a challenge. Get good.

This arena content has some of the best fights added to the game since launch. I really hope Arena Net doesn’t listen to the mouthbreathing terribads who think it is “too hard/punishing”. This is the kind of content the game needs, keep it up!

Overreaction both ways. When everyone said Mesmers were OP, they weren’t. Now everyone says they’re garbage, and they aren’t.

This isn’t the game doing this; it’s the players. Cool your jets.

The two most popular posts on the first page of this forum section are:

-a thread complaining about the condition-dominated meta,
-and a thread complaining about an ability that gives condition immunity.

I would ignore this section too..

Wait a second.. you mean to tell me there are computers out there crappy enough that they lag from legendaries? And people try to play an MMO on them?

Lol!

You’re mistaken. If you were in first you would have gotten 175. Someone beat you and left the game.

There’s a difference between a gear treadmill, and not being able to get the best gear within 30 seconds of hitting 80. GW2 launched with the latter, and I’m glad A.net realized it wasn’t going to cut it.

Ascended is what exotic SHOULD have been at launch; an easily accessible and mildly time gated set, but something that isn’t just handed out. Cosmetics are still supreme, as they should be.

Great decision on their part to recognize the problem so early after launch, and I’m excited for the rollout to continue to all slots.

I for some reason thought it was April 30th to June 1st, but its actually April 1st to June 30th!

Woot I qualify, send my wave STAT

Archaon.6245:

Try to bring a necro with fear @ cannon to fear down everyone to death…esports yay

If only stun breaks worked on fear Oh wait, they do.

I love this map and I think it is really fun.

They up’d the rewards for winners, so at least they recognize this is a problem.

Rufy.6093:

I play a mesmer and I say good. They are op, and stop crying like they ain’t. I fought 1 with my ranger and 2 others were there. Guess who won? I stayed on the mesmer the entire time and she didn’t go below 50% hp while she just ran around as I bashed her and I died faster. She got the others as well. 3 vs 1? Even if I did suck this makes no sense? So all 3 of us just sucked and that is why we lost? Yet they seemed fine against other classes…

Three of you couldn’t get the squishiest class in the game below 50% health?

Yes, all 3 of you sucked something fierce.

There is nothing wrong with this idea in principle, in fact its probably a good thing. However in the scope of the current GW2 achievements, it is irrevocably broken. I’ll keep this short.

Dailies currently represent 40% of the available achievement points possible on an account, and every day that value increases. While 5 points per day may seem insignificant, realize this: 5 points is the same amount awarded for crafting a legendary weapon, for buying a full set of cultural armor for 100g, or for killing 500,000 dolyaks in WvW.

None of that mattered previously, achievement points were a meaningless number. Once you start rewarding that meaningless number.. now the imbalances matter.

+1

New dungeon is amazing, thanks A.net!

You know as well as we do that you left the dungeon, either by DC or by crash, then re-entered. Which starts your timer over the counter, but not for the achievement (and rightfully so). It’s not even possible to do the fight in the time your quoting due to the predetermined length of the cannon phases.

Figures. Best dungeon released since launch and scrubs are asking for it to be nerfed on account of them being terrible.

Don’t even think about touching this dungeon, A.Net. In fact, build on it to bring us more challenging content in the future!