Guild Wars 2

It’s this thing that all the Piken pugs were doing last week while SFR beat the krapola out of us.

This week they’re all back on the karma train.
(Sorry MS and JS, but you’re really going to get jumped on this week. – luck of the draw.)

This has to be a wind-up.
But just in case…let me see…

Nope, The OP has been posting for months and knows the game as well as anyone else. It’s just a troll.

Can’t see the point.

I seriously haven’t had the heart to switch on today.

How is the ‘ticking’ being generated?
Is it coming from the speakers? Headphones?
Or is it a mechanical noise from the gpu (or the motherboard) (or the fan) ?

You say there are noises coming from your gpu. What sort of noises? There shouldn’t be any noise from a purely electronic component unless something is mechanically faulty/loose and being moved about by electric or magnetic fields. Or possibly expansion/contraction due to heat.

Don’t laugh – but insects have been known to cause problems of this sort. That’s the origin of ‘bugs’ (apocryphal )

I’ve had this too, since a few days before the last patch..
It’s very intermittent, I’ve only seen it 3-4 times but makes it the game unplayable when it happens.

I find that quitting the game and restarting it clears the problem.

Meh, I’m not keen on playing thief – and it’s seriously hard work to keep it up consistently and accurately without a nasty ‘revealing’ accident.

But – I don’t really think it would be easy to counter when done by someone with skill. You can build up several seconds of stealth before hitting your target, stealth away by any of the other normal means, then go back into your perma-sequence at a safe distance.
If someone does happen to spot the BP, they have little time to AoE that spot before you’ve finished the sequence and you’re off to another. (Only an idiot would spam it in one place). If someone does get lucky and hit the BP, then you just back away using the stealth you already have. You don’t actually sit in the BP so you won’t get hit yourself.

Either way – the fact remains that it’s possible.

Thesilentflute.8761:

There is no such thing as a perma stealth thief anymore that was an exploit in which a thief could use a keep wall to stealth it has since been fixed.

Not so. I’ve got a lvl 80 thief and I’ve just re-traited for perma-stealth.
With a bit of practice it’s perfectly possible to keep up a sequence of Heartseeker leaps through a pistol Black-powder field combo that keep you permanently stealthed.

It takes practice and it’s hard work – but perfectly do-able.

Razer Naga. Movement keys all bound to mouse thumb pad, dodge on middle button.

That leaves my keyboard completely free to rebind skill buttons to the most convenient configuration for my left hand. It also means that my dominant right hand controls all movement for ‘twitch’ reflexes. Apart from spacebar/jump -which for some reason feels better left-handed.

I Have a 3 button foot pad too, for nearest-target run/walk/ and loot/interact.

P.S completely frees the left hand while running so that I can drink my beer.

Makes me laugh this one does.

Time is subjective. Do whatever you enjoy and time will fly by.

Make a job of work out of it and, well, I feel sorry for you is all. What a miserable way to have fun.

It’s always possible to have fun in WvW, one way or another – that’s why I keep playing.

But the point here is that SFR are behaving like the brat kid on the block that plays too rough and eventually nobody wants to play with.
Eventually, they’ll be left to sit in their towers alone because no-one can be bothered. Call it a win if you like.

I guess…

It’s just kinda disappointing. I’ve hear several Piken players say how ‘not fun’ this match is and judging by our numbers, many have gone off to play with the new PvE content instead.

It’s a stark contrast with the match last week with Desolation, where we also got trashed but at least you felt it was a fair win. They fought well and decently.

We’ve woken up this morning to find the entire eb and most of the bls completely blue.
Even to the extent of our keep (and presumably Elona’s) being fully upgraded to T3, complete with waypoint.

There has to be something seriously wrong with somebody so obsessive about a game that they will spend all night stacking the deck like that.

Just saying.

Well, he says ‘obviously’ so it must be true

Probably a couple of newbies who had no idea that jumping will damage a golem. Or even what golems are for.

Rule #1 is buy low, sell high.

I don’t mean that you should speculate (You could, but the TP takes a big cut)
What I mean is when you need to sell something always look for the best price, never just take the offer.
Same when you have to buy. Always make an offer – never pay the asking price. You might have to wait a few days – sometimes you might have to offer again but in the end you’ll win out.
Learn what things are worth. Salvage items are more valuable than you might think. Sell them on TP (high, remember). Never salvage them yourself. Some green/blue items go at a good price on the TP because ppl are trying to get a load of them for the Magic Toilet – take the offer this time – you probably won’t get better.

After a hard session in EB. it takes me ten minutes or so to go carefully though my inventory, selling on the TP then vending the rest.
It’s very rare that an item is completely worthless.

Oh, and rule #2 don’t waste gold on useless stuff that just looks pretty – if it doesn’t help me kill faster, I don’t want it.

PS. You can buy nice WvW gear for Karma from the vendors in the borderland – if you have any interest in WvW don’t blow your Karma for gold.

I seriously thought he was asking about the math. It didn’t occur to me (s)he might not know about the game content.

Of course, you’ll need to grind the gold first. Or buy Gems to convert to gold.
Not my idea of a shortcut.

I found out it’s possible to level really fast in WvW, which made the whole exercise fun instead of a pain.

Let me get this clear. We are discussing how to set up an ‘illegal’ auto-hack? Something that’s specifically forbidden in the ToS?

And we are discussing it in the Anet forum? The one that’s moderated by Anet employees?

TooBz.3065:

If you plan on doing WvW, take whichever class you are going to use there and make it the asura. The smaller size fives you an advantage (not hit boxes or range those are all the same) but visually you are easier to miss.

Not the whole story.

I made a Norn Guardian intending one day maybe to make him a Commander. (Sorry OP. but Guardian is the best for that job!)
I deliberately made him huge – the biggest of the biggest races because I know that makes him easier to spot in a zerg and your friendly squads can target-mark you more easily.

Anyway, what I discovered is – many people take one look and actually run away! That psychological factor built into all animals still works in the virtual world.
My Asura characters otoh seem to get focussed. Everybody hates the little rats.

I feel your pain.
I play mostly WvW (well OK – I only play WvW). In a group setting, the Guardian is superb, I can slice through swathes of enemies wreaking havoc and shrugging off no end of damage.

But 1v1 is a completely different story. I seem to have no way to prevent kiting. I can’t get at anything to hit it, can’t even run away. No amount of tougness and armour is any use when you are hit over and over by a glass cannon you can’t even touch.

Of course, PvE is a different story, stupid AI constructs that stand still while you hit them are no problem. It’s the pesky humans.

Oh – and ‘practice’? How very helpful.

gaspara.4079:

A norn necro with the leopard ult can be a force to be reckoned with as a roamer.

Ah, yes. The best ‘run away fast’ button in the game.

^^Crafting is a HUGE gold sink. Wait till your third or fourth alt when you can easily afford it and are bored senseless with the ‘content’

Sooner or later you’ll want to go for Map Completion (It’s worth a few nice chests)
So you may as well just work through the content.

Guardian is waaaaay tougher than an Ele!

Having said that, it really matters how you spec. If you go glass canon, sure you kill things fast – but they often kill you faster.
If you have a hard time surviving, go for the WvW standard of Power/Vitality/Toughness.

In fact, use some karma to buy a set of PVT armour off the vendors in WvW.

@ PsYcHoSeAn
You should ask what’s the best way to have fun. The gold in this game is only ‘pretend’ money. Gold, Karma, Laurels, Badges of Honor, Ectoplasm are all equally valuable in their own way.

Blobs eat individuals.
Arrow Carts eat blobs.
Golems eat Arrow Carts.

Something has to be top predator.

Why do you think guesting is disabled for WvW?

Yes, I have no idea what the mechanic is but for sure I see shots going home and numbers flying without getting anywhere near the same number of bags.
So I think it’s not every player you tag.

Oh – and people lie about their kills. It’s called boasting.

Since starting a new character, I’ve been saving mine. (Admit I broke and put some into AC range).

It’s pretty daft.

I can’t imagine what the reasoning was.

+10
And not something that looks like it was given to the office junior as a training exercise.
Just for once, put a bit of effort into something for WvW.

CrazyDuck.4610:

Battles with all 3 in SM will just be 100% skill lag, meaning unable to use any skills because I have seen it over and over again. Those big zerg vs zerg battles are not “epic” they are “noob/rookie”. Watch real epic battles with 15-20 taking out 60+ zergs.

That’s unnecessarily negative (and just a tad elitist?)

Battles with large numbers can be fun and GW2 is all about big battles. If you can’t deal with skill-lag, well, L2P?

I find it IS possible to deal with skill lag, not by simply spamming auto but by giving the system time to react and not hitting every button over and over in panic. People exacerbate their own skill lag by filling the buffers with commands.

Ele is a horribly complicated class to play well.

It has some very useful skills but they are scattered throughout a huge array of ‘meh’ skills and you need to constantly swap ‘attunement’ (read weapon) to get at them.
Juggling the many cooldowns by memory, i.e. without being able to see the counter most of the time makes this a nightmare.

Having said that, I do enjoy the mobility and Ele is far more survivable when solo.

This disease has affected gates throughout WvW. There are also strange effects whenever you WP into green keep (the wall explodes!).
Coupled with the fact that walls are now apparently porous to pets and indigenous fauna (and occasionally players). I surmise that a virus has entered the system.

The only sensible course of action is to log off immediately, shut down your computer and hide under the bedclothes.

Ooooooooh…. I am SO tempted!

Eh? Why is this a problem?

You can turn off emotes in chat.

There are already specific limits on siege placement.

Kimbald.2697:

I keybind everything, and yet I still think this is one of the most useless rants I have ever read on these forums…

Get over yourself already.

Put it in the tech forums perhaps, if you really must.

This^^
People have to learn to play the game. That’s all. Nobody’s born knowing how to mouse-turn or rebind their keyboard.

Nah.
An Ele isn’t a good solo. In fact there aren’t any good solo classes apart from thief.
Ele’s Not particularly good at anything else either – skill mechanics are too clumsy, far too many sub-par skills. D/D is survivable in melee (barely) useless at range. Staff is OK’sh (very slow) at range but helpless when closed.
Any sort of Ele is hopelessly vulnerable to CC.

I think Fadeaway got it right.

PUG = Pick up Group.
A group player not selected on any skill criteria. A volunteer.

It doesn’t mean they are unskilled or a non-major-guild-player or a newb or any of those things.
It just means anybody having a bit of fun.

Used as a term of insult by elitist snobs who probably haven’t a clue what they’re doing but like to pretend they’re better than anyone else.

How can it possibly be ‘fixed’?

There’s only so much information you can stuff down a connection There’s a limit to the speed that even the fastest server can process information and players will always demand shorter queues, bigger battles, more skills and faster movement.
At the same time there’s a limit to how much the punters will pay.

It’s all a trade-off and when you hit the buffers you get skill-lag. Personally, I’m amazed it works anywhere near as well as it does.
Good job. well done I say.

As a Piken player, I have to say, playing against Deso has been and is, great fun.

I think both servers have a lot to learn from each other. Our defensive and overall strategy is sadly lacking by comparison but our open field fighting tears deso to pieces when we meet on anywhere near equal terms.

I have more respect for Desolation than any of the servers we’ve met so far in my short career.

Well, it’s always possible to defend a tower. In fact, the walls and doors are nothing more than a delay factor. The only way to actually repulse the attack is to have a sufficient number of defenders already in place.

Most times, (on my server at least) the zerg will take a tower and simply leave. No matter how important the location, they just vanish after the next target. It’s usually not possible to start an upgrade because the tower’s supply will have been depleted in the attack. So the tower just sits there unprotected. If it gets taken – ‘meh no big deal, it was only paper’.
Very often it doesn’t get taken back. It’s not unusual to pass bay a tower and note that there might be one or two people in it, or none and certainly no siege defences erected. The few defenders have nothing but chat to call for help.

If, after some considerable time, no-one has retaken the tower, it might have enough supply to start an upgrade . Suddenly, it becomes magically important, Despite the fact that nobody has shown the slightest interest in taking it for hours, the cry goes up ’they’re attacking our T3 tower!’ and a huge fight starts.

Curiously, the more fiercely the tower is defended, the more determined the attack becomes. And vice-versa. Usually, the tower eventually falls, becomes paper again and everyone pees of to go and fight over a different T3.

A pug is just someone who’s not running with a guild at the moment.
A lot (all?) guild players will join a pug zerg occasionally, it’s relaxing.

A good commander using TS, followed by a collection of random but skilled players can be every bit as effective as an organised guild group. It might look chaotic, with all the unskilled, uplevelled and newb players milling about and getting themselves killed , but often, there is a core of effective mercenaries in there.

Sadly, not always

If I had sixpence for every time I’ve managed to delay or avoid a stomp long enough for it to make a blind bit of difference, I might possibly have sixpence.

I like blobbing, I like blobbing.
I like blobbing and I like to blob.

(Apologies to Monty Python)

If I don’t decline it, it remains in my view (in my face) the whole time taking up screen space.
When I log in – there it is again. It’s a real pain.

Having said that, it finally went away – I guess the guy had queued a dozen or two invites and they finally ran out – or he turned the kitten thing off – whatever.

Johje Holan.4607:

I’ve noticed it too. It’s similar to what happens when I port into our Keep on EB – its like I port into the middle of a wall collapsing. When it first happend, I thought we were under attack.

Don’t know why either happens though.

I’ve noticed that too lately. It’s just a brief flash as though a catapult shot hit the wall. Then it’s over.
I think it happens every time but I haven’t taken any real notice of it.

I suspect it goes along with the door teleport bug we’ve been seeing lately. This one is much more exploitable though and it’s being used on a massive scale.

Don’t knock #1 spam.

It’s usually the only skill working.

Yza.2437:

Warthog.6870:

- Learn to play so you don’t get shouted at by good commanders.
- Learn to ignore bad commanders.

Why would you let someone bully you and shout at you in a video game or even otherwise…?

I’ve asked myself this question many times in my lifetime.
I think some people actually like it.

In fact I suspect most people like it.

As a newcomer to WvW, one bit of advice.
Don’t go wandering off on your own, looking to grab a particular vista or skill point.
Dangers lurk at every turn and your chance of making it alive are slim to negligible.
Stay with your Commander and his zerg. Rofflestomp your way round and grab nearby vistas and SPs during breaks in the action. Most of them are placed where you will probably pass through often. You’ll find the karma and loot are VERY acceptable and you might come to realise it’s actually a good way to level.

The difficult ones are the Skrit and Centaur camps – because you have to fight the NPCs there and there’s not much of PvP interest in the area – you’ll have to go get those on your own – save them to last. And certainly wait until you hold the right colour map for them.

Get yourself a decent gaming mouse and bind a complete set of duplicate movement keys to that (use the numeric keypad binds).

I use my right thumb to control the strafe and forward movement (no back-pedal) – I can roll my thumb over two keys at a time for diagonal movement. I have dodge on the middle mouse-button and also on ‘V’ on the keyboard so I can hit space-V together and jump-roll while moving in any direction.

Edit: No turn-keys – you don’t need them.

@Tom Gore
Having looked at a few video guides on Youtube, I think it’s fair to say keyboard turning is very ‘popular’ in this game.