Guild Wars 2

And the server overall. Part of the reason some of us choose to play for BG instead of another T1 competitor is because we assume people are better sports/more civil here. As soon as that aspect is shattered, it instantly weakens our image as a server.

I’d like to apologize on BG’s behalf for certain members of GoF* wrecking the parade. I didn’t think we had anyone tasteless enough to do that on our server until now.

I expected more.

As much as I’d like to see the Mursaat return, I agree with Konig. If they came back now it’d be shallow and overall disappointing. Maybe even super temporary. If they’re going to bring them back, they need to be a major plot device, preferably as a serious threat both in the lore and in-game. They weren’t exactly the easiest thing to deal with in GW1, and I would hope they’d be just as brutal in GW2.

We need them back, but not in the state they’d give them to us right now.

I roam in a Knight’s/Cleric’s mix with GS and Sword/Focus with Eagle runes. The only boon dura I get is from the Virtues tree, which means no permanent Swiftness. I get around the map by hard swapping Staff and GS for leaps and intermittent Swiftness. I engage with S/F and GS. My only “combat mobility” tools are a leap, a teleport, and 13s of Swiftness every 48s. All I do is solo roam and run havoc groups of 10-15 on guild nights. I’ve never felt that I was particularly “slow.” If a player is having problems with mobility, they’re either running Meditations (which you shouldn’t expect great mobility from anyway — it’s a far better style in sPvP than in WvW; why are you running medis in WvW anyway?) or they’re giving themselves their problems by running anything except at least one of GS, Sword, or Staff. And that’s fine, but even Hammer and Scepter at least have immobs and CC on them to help. Shouts get swiftness, Medis get teleports, Scepter, and Torch (generally).

25% movement speed won’t save you from chilled, immob, or cripple, and you give up too much potential damage or sustain from other, more practical runes. You think you’re helping yourself by giving up Soldier runes or Eagle runes (or double boon duration sets, even) for 25% movement speed and 15% boon duration? We shouldn’t have to get our mobility from runes, and it isn’t even that bad in combat to begin with. Is it moving around the map that annoys people?

There are better ways.

People put themselves into their mobility ruts by refusing to compromise on any part of their build to add some to it, and then they complain that every build doesn’t have perma Swiftness or something similar.. The Six forbid someone might need to run Staff on a shout build. As far as medis go, it’s always been my opinion that you should expect poor mobility when you try to play a build that relies on teleports for mobility and its ranged options to keep damage on targets in an arena as large as WvW. Medis are practically meant for s/tPvP, where the arenas are much smaller.

As a profession, our mobility is sub par, especially compared to many others. It could be worse though. We could be Necros. And we have a ridiculous amount of defensive capability (even on glassier builds) to make up for it. Trade-offs.

TL;DR, the only place a Guardian should be having mobility issues is in combat, since we have a lot of options for moving across maps OOC. If you’re having enough trouble with certain builds and professions killing you “because of your run speed” that you need to consider running these runes instead of more practical sets that offer more to your overall build, then that +25% base speed isn’t going to be enough to stop you from continuing to be killed by those builds and professions.

Just my opinion, though.

My face hurts when I see people actually having so much trouble with mobility that they have to run Retreat [e] or Traveler runes.

Ah, GW1. Good times.

Like CR said, bunker. If you can squeeze some healing in there to aid your front line, do so. Also, what guild on BG?

I don’t feel obligated to agree with/sympathize with/respect/agree with in any way MERC’s decision to move to JQ. Any other server (minus SoR) would have been fine. Considering the transfers that have been pouring into the tier though (and the transfers off that BG has been having), it’s little more than a reach for the easy way through leagues. It’s bandwagoning plain and simple. It’s betrayal.

As much as I used to respect Tarkus and the rest, and appreciate the work they did for us, this pretty much nullifies it all. You should have moved to T2 like RISE if you wanted a “challenge.” A few more moves like this off of BG/SoR and/or to JQ and it becomes HoD v3.0, the old JQ being v2.0. So I hope the boredom is worth the money.

Kudos to those who stayed.

They likely moved to the center of the world to form a new civilization. By dinosaurs, for dinosaurs.

You are with RHS and… switch the food to the Power/Precision one. Still 55% crit. I guess you only give up 30 Power by using the T5 stones too.

RA only grants 3% with this build. The new Focused Mind will be completely awesome (depending on how much Fury it gives). Yes, it will be worth it.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQRAsf7dlUgiDnGyNEfIFRuArHA8g+DXw1DKCxGC-j0CB4LDimgAisI0UBApPFRjtwpIas6FY6TLqW7CwaGwbgRrWIgRjBA-w

Also, I don’t actually care about the name of your Engi build. Was just being cheeky.

Not even Kindled Zeal would be able to make me run more than a single spirit weapon on any bar. And even then, I’m only getting a single command out of it.

Anyway, I like Zealot’s Speed. That would actually give me a reason to put 5 points into Zeal instead of…anywhere else.

You also forgot bringing Power of the Virtuous up to +2% damage per boon to be in line with Elementalists’ mirror trait.

I like your signature.

What’s PvE? Can I eat it?

“Zerging” is fun when it’s with an organized group and you’re in TS and can chat. And when the competing zergs are also organized.

That said, I obviously prefer small-medium group roaming.

I’ve been under the impression that it’s all post-Zhaitan. Lost Shores was, as far as we know, post-Zhaitan. F&F was after Lost Shores. Therefore…

The way I understood the mail mentioning the “current invasion” was that, despite Zhaitan being defeated, there were still hordes of Risen roaming about. The invasion couldn’t just end right after Zhaitan and be called a success. As far as we know it’s still on-going for the sake of thoroughness.

But again, that’s just how I’ve been understanding it.

If I had 3-5k extra base health, I’d be unstoppable.

Been busy, sorry. Lots of roaming going on lately, but all group stuff. Sort of over solo play.

Hi guys, I’m posting in the match thread for the thrill of it.

How goes it?

Believegate 2013 \o/

If it’s not blindly zergable then it’s too hard.

Zero.5034:

I have to admit I’m disappointed in you BG. You used TS to coordinate the teq fight. All the other servers are pugging it like how it was ment to be played. BG may have been the first to beat him, but having the coordination over TS is an unfair advantage over other servers who can’t get so many people in a voice chat. Beat the event with pugs like how all the other servers are playing it and how it was designed to be played and then I’d consider it the actual world first.

Can’t tell if serious.

Use the turretttttsssss!

What’s a Necro doing in the Guardian forums?

Full Cleric’s is fine, but you’ll of course be giving up nearly 1.4k health and some Power on an already low-health, relatively low-Power build. Your overall sustain will go up a little, but multi-player spikes and burst professions may be more trouble.

It’s no secret that shield skills could at least use slightly shorter base recharges.

Whoops, fixed. Thanks for pointing that out.

I actually used scepter before I decided I liked Sword. It works great. I just enjoy the teleport/blind and ZD.

Words cannot describe.

You can achieve around 1,000 with Cleric’s trinkets and weapons and 20-30 points in Honor. That leaves 40-50 points to trait into a higher damage build (AH or MF) and room to run Knight’s or similar main-set with DPS-based runes such as Scholar or Eagle. This also ignores sigils, oils/stones and food. That said, you can get your HP pretty high without your damage being “ignorable.” People just get too used to spamming red splashes when that’s the first way they ever built their character. They feel “weaker.”

@OP: Either way, if you’re focused on PvE you probably won’t need Healing Power anyway (unless that’s just how you want to play). Building a character for WvW is a different thing entirely, and sPvP is chalk-full of cookie cutter builds to play with anyway.

Without reading past the first paragraph of the OP (past which Konig mentions the Mursaat), my mind shot to the Mursaat and Seers upon viewing the screenshots, particularly the third one. I’m not sure why, but that’s where it went.

+1

I’ve been discussing this with my guild a little bit recently. I was a huge fan of the story of GW1 from start to finish. The complete lack of any particularly dark story elements (or at least the implementation of them) in this game is really upsetting to me. Tyria is a wreck and it’s beset on all sides by war and disaster, and yet it feels like I’m playing in a child’s pop-up book. SAB is fun, but it pretty much personifies this complaint.

Scarlet gives me a little hope, despite how little information we’ve been given on her so far. She clearly has no problem with out-right slaughtering civilians and getting away with it though, and that’s a good start. I hope she’ll be around long enough to do something that really matters and will negatively impact the world of Tyria (not the story or the game itself, but Tyria). Like, I don’t know, succeed in totaling one of the major cities? Maybe she murders Rox. Maybe she murders Countess Anise. I’d rather see her do something truly shocking though, like nuke Ebonhawke.

She claims to have seen/understand the meaning of life, the universe. Maybe she retrieves the Anti-Life Equation and places the world of Tyria under her control. /cough

All I know is that this game needs real conflict/tragedy/disaster that can’t be fixed with a resurrection spell (I’m aware that resurrection isn’t possible anymore as far as we know) or by spamming #2. It needs to be cold and it needs to have a lasting effect.

Hurt us, ANet. We’re ready. :l

The following fact cannot be un-learned.

All of us. Abandoned. She’s not real. She can’t be here!

Yeah, I wasn’t sure if he did or not. I just know that some people miss it sometimes. Retal hurts when it’s tacked onto Champions and Legenadries.

Like JC said, anything over 1,000 should be considered high.

At least a couple of servers are managing the escort per day (usually with organized guilds driving the group), but the event is still a little difficult. If anything should be changed, it’s the wells. Either reduce their duration significantly or reduce their damage significantly. That should make the event reasonably easier for some groups of players.

He might have had Retaliation.

Watch for him to lift his hammer up to his side. That is the wind up for either the whirling attack or his teleport. Either way, dodge backward as soon as you see it. You’ll be fine. If you can’t dodge, you should still have time to turn slightly and strafe away. As a last resort, you can pop a block or invulnerability to avoid the brunt of the damage.

Worst case scenario, just use ranged for the fight. Melee takes more practice and… well, skill to accomplish in some fights without dying.

I don’t have anything to say about Vahid because I’ve never bothered with P4.

:l

I think you guys are missing the point here. I know getting artists on this and then implementing it takes time, but it seems like there’s been plenty. Saaadnessss.

I agree with a lot of the points he made about the condition meta, but most of it seemed like common knowledge. I think adding the tag “best” will deter a lot of players from watching/caring about these interviews though; regardless of how much s/tPvP we do or how skilled or unskilled we consider ourselves compared to someone who happens to be on a team with 4 other solid players, some of us are going to feel depreciated by terms like that. Not to say he isn’t good, just that being the “best” is a group effort. It’s hard to say another Guardian of similar skill couldn’t fill his spot just as well.

Respect to the player for being highly ranked, less respect to the interviewer for slapping a subjective term onto the interview and putting it in our faces like we’re all lesser players. My point is that people probably aren’t upset about him being really good. They’re upset about a third party making the rest of us “worse” players when ranks are based on team effort/coordination and not on single player skill.

I hope that the interviewer will consider this when posting future videos. It will save him some bad press/dislikes/possible YouTube troll comments.

Can’t exactly put an empirical value on “enough” damage for a single build in WvW because of how many possible variations there are of any conceivable situation — number of allies, number of opponents, your team builds, their team builds, player skill, are any of them up-leveled?, how much practice you’ve had with the build, etc.

That said, the point is support and group sustain when playing with others anyway. If it were meant to be a DPS/front-lining build it would matter more whether it “did enough.”

Well then.

<3

They’re not taking your objectives if they’re running.

As you probably already know if you’re an avid invasion farmer, the Faun’s Waypoint Aetherblade spawn is bugged. A lot of people assume it just doesn’t exist, but in reality the marker is simply displaced. The Aetherblades’ (functional) spawn can be found to the northeast of the map marker. In the attached screenshot, the red dot and arrow on the mini-map represent where the broken marker is. The blue dot and arrow show where the actual spawn is. The spawn works just fine and is capable of producing champions.

Cheers.

Max movement speed is capped at normal speed +33% either way.

Anything with Staff and GS. Maybe trait for Permeating Wrath. And bring Stability, because those pirates love to spam stuns.

People don’t rely enough on their weapons for mobility. Too much worrying about perma-swiftness and whatnot. I’m pretty sure that I won’t be able to find a use for these new runes. They’ll mostly be for people that can’t get used to taking advantage of leaps/teleports/weapon swapping to staff for their mobility.

As far as mid-combat goes, sPvP arenas are small and your ability to chase shouldn’t need more than mobile weapons to supplement it. Triple or double med is pretty popular there anyway, which often entails at least JI being on the bar. WvW-wise, SY and/or JI in conjunction with any combination of staff, GS, or sword should be sufficient.

The cost is just too high (in my opinion) to settle for such random stat distribution. The only thing these runes are good for are for running away or moving a little faster when you don’t want to run staff for getting around the map. There are better ways to get around being kited. Different weapon choices for one, or subbing in either SY or JI or something (I’ve never run Retreat on my bar for a fight and I still have superb combat mobility).

Random stats + 25% movement isn’t a fix, it’s a crutch. One that you give up either a lot of sustain or a lot of damage potential for. That said, I’m sure there are people who are willing to give up as much as they will for that crutch. Our mobility shouldn’t have to come from runes though. It should come from either traits, utilities, or weapon skills.

Plus, 25% movement speed isn’t going to save you from cripple, chill, or immobilize.

Glad you’re enjoying it. I don’t see why the new Traveler runes wouldn’t be a feasible replacement for Runes of the Monk if you really don’t want to grind AC for them. You only give up about 55 Healing Power for it and gain 20 extra Power, Vitality, and Toughness. Minimal, but useful.