Guild Wars 2

It looks like Piken have almost completely abandoned WvW in favour of playing in the Bazaar.

It happened to me today. I did a TP leap and shot through the gate at Wildcreek.

Managed to kill one guy standing absent-without-leave inside the gate, before I was hacked to bits and fed to the pigs. Great fun!

Please don’t fix it Anet.

What a load of kitten!

Soulbound armour and weapons that are no use to my character, various boosters ditto.
and a 10-slot bag.

WXP? Who cares?

Lol! Just kill the poor sap!

The only danger is a Mesmer with FGS breaking into an undefended tower, and that would be an exploit.

I’ve got no complaints.
I started levelling my Guardian at lvl 7 and never had a moment where I thought I wasn’t reasonably competitive.
I can get right in the front line and stamp faces, no problem. Plus, it doesn’t cost much to repair anyway!

Just keep your gear up-to-level.

Dawdler.8521:

I often jump off walls to the inside of a keep, only to end up outside when landing.

9 times out of 10 you’ve jumped down over the portal. Really kittens me off when I do that.

I’m currently levelling a Guardian in WvW using Hammer/Staff.

At 54 now, I can wade into the thick of any fight and smash faces in a way that my 80 ele and 80 thief could only dream of.

It’s a blast! (pun intended)

When I play my Ele, I ALWAYS try to drag a fight into water if I can, whatever class I’m facing.

If the guy has any sense at all, he avoids it. You do NOT want to fight an Ele underwater.

Agreed. Ranks mean nothing – but they should.

In fact, it would make more sense if only your own team could see your rank, maybe set to show an account rank AND character rank in some way.

But please not more green/red text spam. Just put it on the portrait.

Probably a guild party waiting for members to get through the queue.

They’re not afk – just waiting to start. So messing with the timer won’t help.

Heck – we double-teamed the Germans in ’45. In fact we mega-teamed ’em.

All’s fair in love and war.

If you look at the map, it’s one battleground.

It’s only split into sections to spread the load over servers.

Whenever I get killed, I find the map is locked to maximum (closeup) zoom.
This makes it very clumsy and quite difficult to find a waypoint because you have to drag the map several times.

No way I would ever waste my mist form just to stomp some guy.
A complete waste.

I probably stomp a half-dozen ppl in the average GvG, more in a GvBlob fight. If I think I might need to waste a utility on a stomp, I just move on to the next poor sucker.

My guardian is currently level 30 and feels a lot more comfortable in WvW than my 80 ele.

Not having so many kitten buttons to press is wonderfully relaxing.

Gold? Exotics? Legendaries? Titles?
Real WvW players don’t concern themselves with such things.

Anet realise this and so they don’t insult us by offering beads and mirrors. ;P

One thing this game teaches you, it’s how to replace a motherboard, PSU and graphics card
Don’t waste your time flogging a dead horse (and it IS dead by the way) upgrade your PC.
Ebay will be your friend here. It’s amazing how cheap people will sell slightly old PC components.

I bought :-

ADMI AMD Bulldozer FX-8150 8 Core 3.60GHz – Asus M5A78L-M USB3 HDMI Motherboard – Patriot 8GB 1600MHz Dual Channel DDR3 VIPER 3 BLACK MAMBA RAM Memory Bundle
£245.

OCZ 850W ZX Series PSU 80+
£116

60GB Chronos
£60

XFX ATI Radeon HD 6870 HD-687A-ZHFC Graphics Card 1 GB PCI-e GDDR5 Memory DVI HDMI 1 GPU
£100

Installed these in an existing case with a HD already running Win 7.

I got reasonable results even with Eyefinity using triple monitors (3 of Acer G246HLBBID 24 inch Widescreen LED Monitor £100 each)

I later upgraded to a XFX Radeon HD 7950 Graphics Card 3GB £250 – the improvement was not a lot – only slightly better resolution on the 3 monitor setup but the card runs a lot cooler and quieter.

The game pushes PCs to the limit, which is as it should be.

Even with the best setup money can buy, you will run into low frame rate in the most intensive areas (say a big zerg-fight in WvW)

It forced me to learn how to replace a motherboard, install a PSU and graphics card myself. Otherwise I probably would have spent about £3k on my current setup.

Seriously, the published minimum PC requirements are what you need to merely stand in LA and admire the scenery.

[sarcasm]Ah, but it’s getting a boost in the new release. All our problems will be solved.[/sarcasm]

Kiting is what Eles do.
Never stand still and let things hit you. And try dagger/dagger.

974 hours in 4 months and my wife thinks I have a problem.

I’ll have to show her some of these other posts.

@OP – my deepest condolences. I’ve done exactly that.
Not with a legendary (don’t own one – never will) but certainly with an exotic.

Legendaries should have no vendor value – exotics too. No-one would vendor such an item except by accident or out of ignorance.

You bought a lottery ticket and didn’t win.

What did you learn from this experience?

Why do you assume that the servers are cheap? What is ‘cheap’ anyway?

Sure, they could buy more, expensive servers – but it’s ultimately the customers who pay for them. You want some new servers, say twice as expensive? You want to pay for them?

WXP titles are the most disappointing aspect of everything in GuildWars2. With the possible exception of the ‘Ultimate’ WvW titles.

A serious lack of any real thought or effort.

^^this.

I carry a Sceptre for this and only this purpose. I’ve used it maybe twice in the last month.
It’s highly situational and a complete pain to use.

Dunno why anyone would get worked up about it.

On the Internet no-one can hear you scream.

The server is a computer like any other. It’s connected to the internet by wires.
The computer and wires can handle a certain amount of traffic.
Even the best computers and the best connections have a traffic limit. (bandwidth)

When the number of bits of information being sent and received hits the traffic limit something has to give. That’s when you get skill-lag. Data is sent and/or processed more slowly than is needed by the users.

More people in the system means more load. Queues reduce the load by limiting the number of people.

Nothing anyone can do about it. It’s a fact of life.

But since each server gets an even chance of colour and a random selection of hard or soft opponents each time, it makes no difference in the long run.

I don’t see how you can talk about a ‘build’ at lvl 20.
You don’t have enough trait or skill points to make anything worthwhile.
And at that level you need to change gear every day.

At lvl 80, yes, Daphoenix’s guide above is definitive – but the changes for June 25th are going to be significant.

It depends what you want out of the game.
When you get to lvl 80 and a set of exotics, that’s pretty much it as far as gear goes.
After that it’s just fancy graphics for you to show off to friends.

A bit pointless if you ask me.

Dawdler.8521:

Yes, well sometimes you just have to zerg. There’s no way around it.

Here, have a video of a Piken zerg a couple of hours ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p84GLEsanL4&feature=youtu.be
Just too bad the zerg lost half its people in the initial assault

I just had to bump it.

OK, so I watched the video and looked at the math.

I’ll just say this. The guy in the video explains the peripheral vision argument by waving his arms around and saying ‘it looks kinda weird if you don’t (set it up at an angle)‘. He knows nothing about it except what he’s been led to believe..

The math – which might be impressive to the average Joe is just a bit of basic high-school trig. It’s actually based around a ‘desired viewing angle’ which isn’t specified.

I don’t want this to come across the wrong way (but I know it will anyway, it always does.)I really do know what I’m talking about. I have a Master’s degree in Physics with more than 20 years programming experience and I’ve designed computer programs to work in just this field. In fact, I designed a program which is in use commercially in Electron Microscopy to calculate and identify electron diffraction patterns from crystals. That’s the reason I don’t have to work anymore and can spend my time playing computer games

I can see that what we have here is a short-cut piece of programming designed to save processing overhead. You’ll see the same thing from multiple games because many of them use the same graphics engine and if they don’t, they use similar projection algorithms.
They are just simply not designed to handle wide field of view. The only easy way to fix the distortion would be to zoom out further – but Anet can’t do that without running into problems related to WvW issues.

I hate to think what this is going to mean. If we try to chase a necro, thief or mesmer we die? If we try to run away we die?
Another reason to sit on an AC all day somewhere safe.

I suspect the real reason for it is to reduce server/bandwidth load. Anything that slows down movement makes it easier to avoid lag problems.

Shifty.3412:

Then why would they be roaming if they’re using a group support build? Please engage brain before posting, thanks.

Because people sometimes need to cross the field to join their group? Don’t be so full of yourself.

Sacrai.6280:

What I don’t understand is, you are gearing yourself like a tank, and asking not to be one. What would be the purpose of having high armor and not being focused?

I can answer that one – because the concept of tank is not supposed to exist in this game. Toughness is just a survivability trait, not a dedicated bunker stat.

I agree with the general feeling on this one. Toughness shouldn’t attract aggro. Especially since there seems to be no way to dump it. Once focussed, it seems nothing will shake them off.
Every time I run past guards in WvW, even when I’m in a group and dodging furiously, I’m first choice for the bolas immobility. I’m only an Ele, yet Guardians and Warriors seem to stroll past untouched.

Please, it’s driving me batty. Get rid of the wolves or at least change the WAV file.

They are just SO unrealistic – all I can hear is this bunch of seriously bad animal impersonators yodelling from the wings.
It’s about the level of the average school play and it goes on endlessly in WvW whether there are wolves around or not.

Maybe we could have the Ogres breaking wind instead?

At level 16 (or even 60) you have almost no chance to survive against another player.
That means you have almost no chance to cross even a small part of the field alive.

But don’t despair.

What you need to do is find a nearby tower or castle and grab yourself one of the siege weapons. An arrowcart, canon or mortar. The sit and take pot-shots at anything you see.

If you are lucky, a ‘zerg’ will attack your tower and you’ll be able to mow them down in droves, piling up loot bags and XP to your heart’s content.

The you’ll die.
Just make sure you pick up the bags before that happens

Do you want to be in a guild where the commander expects you to sit in a tower all night in case a rabbit wanders past?

Sorry, I don’t call that ‘half-way decent’, I call it kitten stupid. If the number of the server means that much to you, you have a serious problem.

You may as well go out and get a second job – at least you get paid for it.

Stomping…

Is is fair?

I don’t accept the ‘peripheral vision’ argument. The real world doesn’t change shape when I’m not looking directly at it.

It looks to me like the graphics engine uses a simple radial projection, where the view in a sphere around the camera is projected straight out onto a flat surface.

This works OK if the screen is small and the circle large so there isn’t a lot of difference. But with a large screen, unless you sit in the right spot at the centre (which is VERY close to the screen) objects art the edge are distorted.

I guess Anet are using a third-party Graphics Engine like Havok and probably have no control over the projection.
If so, it’s bad news for Eyefinity users. It’s never going to look right.

IMO. a nerf ought to be inevitable. (Probably just when I finally get the 115 points needed.)
It’s outrageously OP. Especially when you compare it with the general uselessness of all the other offerings (AC buffs excepted)

OTOH – it never ceases to amaze. Despite the OP nature of ACs, Anet are sticking to those changes like glue. Apparently, that’s how they see the game being played. Maybe that includes not being able to kill anyone whose been playing longer than you.

Wolfaen.9461:

If you don’t mind me asking, how do you gear yourself for GvG as D/D? Do you run full PVT?

Basically, I went for as much toughness, vitality and healing power as I could get without completely destroying my ability to hit anything.
It’s really a cheap variant of
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Guide-Mastering-the-D-D-ele-5-12-12/first

Daggers: Cleric with Bloodlust (swap to intelligence on full stacks) and Hydromancer.
Armour: Knight’s with 3 Water 3 Balthazar.
Trinkets – started out with Shaman and a mix of Emerald, Sapphire and Beryl. Gradually replacing with lower HP higher Power ascended versions as I get better at staying alive.

I find Healing Power combined with Signet of Restoration a very effective way to survive melee fights.

The PvE mobs in WvW are just ‘natural hazards’. No more inconvenient or dangerous than the various cliffs and crevasses.

I don’t pay them no mind except when some kitten on my own side decides to aggro one for no reason. (Especially the kittening tree with it’s AoE root)

I’d suggest megga-buffing them and making them attack only the person who aggro’d them. I’d love to see the idiot torn apart ;D

Griefing is doing something to annoy and inconvenience people. Often your own side.
It’s not something we see a lot of in this game fortunately.

The fireworks throw up so much visual noise it becomes difficult to see anything else and people were using them to essentially blind everyone. That’s why they were removed.

Thank you Anet. That was very sensible.

P.S. Since particle effects are client based, you could make the firework visible only on the client that sets it off – problem solved!

The fact that the system recognises attunement swap as the same as weapon swap means that a LOT of things will proc. when you change attunement, not just Sigils.

A very useful fact and worth thinking about

If you’re going into WvW, you need to be a LOT tougher. and a good dose of Healing power doesn’t go amiss. People wearing Berserker gear melt like snowflakes.

I started out with knight’s armour and water runes, Cleric’s weaponry with Bloodlust and Battle sigils.
I’ve modified that since as I got more confident, swapping out some of the HP for more pure P. Similarly, I used Shaman (exotic) trinkets at first but replaced them with Valk. ascended versions.
The Cavalier spineguard is easily obtainable and is a good starting option (I’m still using it)

Your choice of skills, particularly healing and your chosen food are also important (even critical) factors. I use Signet of Restoration in passive mode because I have enough healing that I NEVER have to actually proc it, (One less button to press)

Oh, by the way
This guide is probably the definitive text – slightly old now but still good

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Guide-Mastering-the-D-D-ele-5-12-12/page/15