Guild Wars 2

Jue.6493:

Flee for your lives!

:D

To be fair I really enjoy the night long epic defenses, last night in particular when just 6-10 of us Deso night-shift puggers fended off hordes of Vizunah; 2 waves of seige attacks then an alpha/omega golem rush and kept it t3 for the morning crews to arrive and fend off viz’s massive attack with two waves of trebs, catas and zergs smashing into Overlook keep.

But yes, it’s horribly imbalanced, barely hanging on to a single t3 tower and keep when the entire rest of the map is green and SFR have vanished is ridiculous, and weeks and weeks of this is getting too much, t1 EU is completely broken.

that’s a hideous idea.

insanemaniac.2456:

disagree.

if you cant get people to listen to you about reserving supplies… well maybe you need to act like a more respectable person. or kitten at them thru multiple chat channels.

1 wxp isnt a large enough incentive to tempt people to mindlessly sabotage their own objectives.

you must be new to the internet

Agree, it only takes one ‘me me me’ type, and there’s plenty of them in WvW, to waste supply on a wall that is gonna die anyway, and this pathetic wxp bonus encourages and rewards such behaviors, whilst people who rep walls because they need to don’t give a kitten about wxp for repping it.

WXP for repping walls/doors needs to be removed.

Indeed, Desolation is a natural choice for NA timezone guilds thinking about the EU.

I think people are still using old tactics and sweetspots, there’s an entire new siege metagame to be played out there and it’s early days.

Zergs hammering mindlessly on doors, or anywhere near doors are gone, trebuchet knife-fights are in and arrow carts are being spammed everywhere.

catapaults can use ballistics and shoot further than their range

As it stands the games GUI is easily one of the ‘least optimal’ I’ve seen in a modern MMO, some simple things to make it better;

1) High visibility mouse cursor – as it is it gets lost between particle effects and screen refresh, a high viz option could help solve this.

2) Re-do the skillbar – make it so it can be completely rearranged and take the hp monitor out of the middle of it. Aka gw:p, I know the resolution of the HP monitor needs to be high, but this can be done using numbers alone and a bar, same for endurance.

3) Allow text in top right to be completely removed/hidden

4) Why ‘F’ for everything!

5) Allow the saving/loading of builds/trait allocs/weapon sets.

GW:P evolved to include most of this but then GW2 has started behind even where GW:P, released 8 years ago, did

Give it to me straight, like a pear cider made from 100% pear

Grats FoW, you’ve finally won T1 EU!

Confirmed also.

’can’t drop bundles whilst in mid air’

I admit it felt like flying. G-G-GODMODE!

was on a single superior (which i placed) AC just. I felt like a kittening god.

I personally run clerics, vitality is rapidly negated but clerics just keeps on giving.

Charmide.4891:

I don’t know how much of an offpeak population advantage VS really has

Vast.

Eclipse.1567:

Unfortunately for you, on AS we are stubborn french guys so if 20 people is not enough, we will come back with 50

Sounds familiar!

Not a chance, sub based games are a tax I can do without.

Besides, how many gems have we bought? I’ve easily bought more than £8.99 worth of gems every month since launch using ingame gold, I guess someone had to buy them to sell, though not sure on how that actually works.

ranger’s pets used to warp through doors all the time, didn’t realise it still happened :/

I’ve never actually heard anyone complain about confusion in map chat! Theives, all the time; 3 hit 21k damage combos, perma stealthing, stealth spamming, etc, but confusion, honestly I can’t recall a single instance.

I don’t even play mesmer, but I feel sorry for them as confusion was readily countered.

I never found confusion much of an issue at all, I have 5+ condition removal skills running, never mind combos, so confusion, or whatever else, stacks never got that high at all on me or people near me.

Wemil.7052:

good job desolation alliance you kicked guilds because they didn’t agree with you? I would never kick a player for that kind of reason:)

what is this?

so basically this

I was one of the people in Veloka, last bastion of freedom. How many golems died, how many trebs and catapaults fell at the hands of 6 or so Deso defenders.

I know we probably seemed like more.

You take timezone blobbing and a green map, we’ll take last stand defenses and a show of pure class.

20+ golems this morning.

yeah.

Sarlack.4096:

I’ll Leave this here, a long skirmish with a Mesmer and a couple of Thieves I had tonight. Grouped with them after and chatted a bit. Decent peeps =)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVfx4U9UBgI

blatant speedhacking you should all be ashamed

Hmm, viz morning zerging again.

70+ players and 9 golems (and a fly hacker) Vs 10-13 people max.

yeah….

Don’t place superior siege, everyone loves using it for the epic WXP and lootbags but placing it gives 0 WXP, let other people do it.

T1 has seen similar pie charts of late, you’re not alone. WvW is a deeply flawed system where neglect and imbalance fester in every tier, where an epic offensive or defensive is equal to a zerg of people hitting a door and lag will bring any 3 way prime time fight to a stammering button mash of skill lags across the entire map.

Anet launched WvWvW with an orb system, which in my opinion shows that, at least then, they didn’t understand the game they had made – week long fights where strong sides get 15% stronger, it was just silly.

They’ve still done nothing that demonstrates competence, but apparently WvW has a new man in charge, which both suggests change might be coming and makes one think they realised the old one was in over their head.

As long as trahearne dies painfully over and over and over and over i’d watch it.

Seriously though the GW2 storyline is an abomination, it makes resident evil 6 look sophisticated.

It’s amazing you actually can buy one at all and anet haven’t put it up as a ‘pick pack’ that costs 500 gems and gives you a small chance of getting one. It offers no ingame advantages so I am basically completely opinionless about its existence, I don’t even mine ore lol.

Anet adding all this crap causes the gem price to spike though, which is gonna hit them hard as people wont be buying other store items/gems via gold.

They need to be careful.

I wanted it really badly, but then found a bunch of legendary precursors including dusk and bought it. Human t3 is really nice. No it shouldn’t be cheaper.

OmniPotentes.4817:

That cool molten effect can be seen from miles away in WvW. Good luck mining….enjoy the effect and the repair costs.

ha, so true

Xispeo.1706:

Cottage Pie.6215:

…You just don’t like the fact I take screenshots do you because you can’t lie your way out of them….

lol, am gonna start to screenshot the zergs from both deso and sfr from time to time, to get you realize you are raving ^^

The golem rushing zergs we bring against 10 of you when you’re [outmanned] for hours? Which has been the theme of all my posts?

You’ve totally, and perhaps intentionally, missed the point. Again. cripes.

Genev.2450:

/cough

You can’t go into WvW when guesting btw.

kitten, I guess that makes a lot of sense actually lol.

Nachtz.4930:

Cottage Pie.6215:

Nachtz.4930:

Angelyne.2936:

I didn’t found anybody to say that VS is boring to play with, when that was SFR who was 1st. I guess it’s might be related to what side is winning.

SFR and Deso are, as well, boring to play because of monozerg steamroll fashion. Very often, when we meet a group a a size similar of our (around 30) they run away. when they stop, you know that their “main bandwagon” is somewhere close.

Don’t forget, we are French cowards, they are war heroes, so what your are saying is wrong. We are always running with 100+ blobs while they are 10 on the map. They have 2 hours queues, but they are always outnumbered. They never run away, but the only thing we see from us is their back. They dislike siege, but set 10 catapults to take a T1.

Don’t mess with their logic, you may hurt them.

Prove this (you can’t as you are both lying), or shut up. Anyone is free to guest on Deso and see the real deal.

I’ll be loading up fraps, and I’ll be back over the next week with a few hard examples, just to counter lying smacktalk posts like yours.

You lie so much because you feel no sense of achievement in your score as it was mostly done against vastly outmanned foes in hellish lagfests. When the numbers are equal (last night):

So you want to prove me your server and SFR never use blobs and never set 10+ cata for 1 point and never run away through FRAPSing your own POV ? How great. Prepare a 3-week-long video then, with different POVs, because you can’t be on all maps at the same time. I never said we are not blobbing nor that we are over-sieging positions. I say you are doing it too, huge difference.

As for posting screenshots, I think there are 2 kinds of players : people who play for fun, and people who do eveything for the atmosphere here to keep being toxic. I belong to the first part. I see a blob from an opponent server ? I won’t take a screenshot and post it here, it’s worthless, anyone does that, this topic would be 1000+ pages for now. The only screenshots I take is to report hackers. You belong the 2nd part. Your only motivation is to keep the atmosphere toxic here.

Oh and don’t be so proud about this screenshot. SFR gave you a free 2nd position this week, and look at the current score. How great…

Yes I’ve posted a few screenies in the forum of attempted tower flipping hackers over the past few weeks but got infracted, sigh. Still, have to raise awareness of these things.

And no, I want you to prove it because you made the claims. That’s how it works.

But oh, you’ve gone all soft and ‘appealing to the masses’ on me now, saying I make the forum toxic, yet it is you who posts; “They have 2 hours queues, but they are always outnumbered. They never run away, but the only thing we see from us is their back. They dislike siege, but set 10 catapults to take a T1.” A complete nonsensical string of lies, deliberate misapprehensions and the very definition of toxic as it spawns posts correcting it (which you then call toxic..lol).

You just don’t like the fact I take screenshots do you because you can’t lie your way out of them. You think I don’t play for fun? Yes I can be abrasive and a bit too intense at times, having to type everything makes it seem so…angry and direct, but why would I be inside WvW if I wasn’t finding somewhere to have fun? I’m the one on the superior Ballista at Speldans, killing groups of viz attackers for an hour+ this morning. I do what I can, I know the points game was lost from the start. If you ever fought outnumbered 5:1 and more you’d understand that seigezerging wooden towers isn’t the only thing in WvW.

I’ve thought from launch all EU servers are actually in NA anyway, many of us did those ping tests and IP checks on all the connections the game was making, because it was curiously laggy, and they all went to somewhere in Texas iirc.

I can imagine confusion 1v1 would be very annoying as it can be stacked rapdily and repeatedly, covered easily, and triggers on basically everything you do. It’s spammed a lot in zergs too but that’s why you’re running with players specced into AOE conditional removals/reversals etc

Nachtz.4930:

Angelyne.2936:

I didn’t found anybody to say that VS is boring to play with, when that was SFR who was 1st. I guess it’s might be related to what side is winning.

SFR and Deso are, as well, boring to play because of monozerg steamroll fashion. Very often, when we meet a group a a size similar of our (around 30) they run away. when they stop, you know that their “main bandwagon” is somewhere close.

Don’t forget, we are French cowards, they are war heroes, so what your are saying is wrong. We are always running with 100+ blobs while they are 10 on the map. They have 2 hours queues, but they are always outnumbered. They never run away, but the only thing we see from us is their back. They dislike siege, but set 10 catapults to take a T1.

Don’t mess with their logic, you may hurt them.

Prove this (you can’t as you are both lying), or shut up. Anyone is free to guest on Deso and see the real deal.

I’ll be loading up fraps, and I’ll be back over the next week with a few hard examples, just to counter lying smacktalk posts like yours.

You lie so much because you feel no sense of achievement in your score as it was mostly done against vastly outmanned foes in hellish lagfests. When the numbers are equal (last night):

Leorcyn.1063:

Cottage Pie.6215:

random banter

When will you understand that we don’t care.
WE.DO.NOT.CARE.

We don’t care what you think of us, we don’t care your server is not at its best, we don’t care you’re not having fun.
And we certainly don’t care what your vision of our game is.

Get over it.
Or change things. But insulting VS on a forum isn’t going to achieve this.

Vizunians have fun, even if they’d like a better opposition.

I’m not insulting Viz, not purposely at least though the truth is certainly not flattering for you, just telling it like it is in response to a post that was a complete lie.

And whether or not you care, and it seems at least you do, alot, really is irrelevant.

Xispeo.1706:

you are afraid of us, you only get out as huge zergs, don’t get usrprised if we play splitted and cap your towers while you try to hide behind each other guys…

Afraid? Ooooh, I see you’re playing forums now, writing things which are completely untrue, yet which people from other servers just won’t realise how untrue they are

It’s viz who have been hiding. Behind each other, their innumerable rank and file, behind the points, their towers when Deso or SFR come knocking in any kind of force, and now you hide your singular ineptitude behind lying forum posts.

You simply have vastly better timezone coverage thanks to a quirk of holidays, opponent servers presently diminished forces and a bizarre call to arms causing your queues to be flooded daily. That is the totality of what you have. It is all you have and have ever had. It is all you can claim to have and not be found false.

Tell me, if you need to lie on the forum, of SFR and Deso fearing (ok the lag you cause is rather scary) and hiding from you, to feel some kind of victory, then clearly you feel no sense of pride in your point advantage, yes? Afterall, How could you

To be a Vizunah: No struggle, no fights [outmanned], no epic battles and defenses and a map chat full of congratulations on a victory wrought from hopeless odds – there have been plenty. Just Player Vs Door, blobbing, spammed crowd control and desperately hoping that was enough before you’re ripped to shreds.

gg.

Vizunah at present are not worth fighting: their players give near to nothing WXP wise, drop weirdly few badges; their blob, replete with supply for massive seige use, will omnizerg everything when you only have 10 players doing anything; and as soon as you have vaguely equal numbers they crack and run. But you can count on it, they’ll be there come morning noon or night.

I kinda feel sorry for their Canadian? EU morning players – they have probably never actually played WvW and just think it’s a game where you kill these 10 enemy dudes with your 80 strong zerg.

Geralt.5816:

While the 2 of you are busy out there ima go ahead and take this.

:D

Jmikeydarby.3105:

Vizunah doing what they do best. Using stupid amounts of siege early in the morning.

god i spam too much :/

I’ve confirmed it that you can actually hit targets you couldn’t, range wise, with the speed upgrade, so I guess it goes both ways.

Perhaps using the trait mechanic for the WXP stuff could solve it.

Camp Speldan Remembered; the heroic Deso players who made a stand against superior numbers and fought off wave after wave of Vizunah bloblings.

people who run supply over nabbing tower/keep supply in dire times, people who run dolyaks, people who scout, are the backbone. They are heros and deserve an inventory full of badge stacks.

Why must the mystic forge process be so ridiculously click happy and time inefficient, unlike normal mass crafting. You need skillpoints to do these so endless spam can’t be the reason, and doing the process 50 times in a row is time not in WvW, time not spent playing and enjoying the game, which is bad design aye?

To be fair that video doesn’t show how OP thiefs (stealth) are at all. The targets are basically very very squishy upleveled characters even my support built warrior could slash through and the surrounding players are absolutely dreadful and barely respond, cripes.

I roll a warrior with 3400+ armour depending on traits, armour set and buffs and often (lots of roaming theives, wonder why) take the brunt of a thief spamming heart seeker for near 6k, getting facestabs for 5k and backstabs over 8k (no stacked vuln here), and when I let off interrupts, conditions and aoe freeze, they stealth, and being a warrior I don’t have any way of actually getting out of a combat area fast, I mean it’s not like I can just vanish into thin air and force target loss, I have to actually use my brains (and cooldowns).

I only have this issue with theives.

Other classes are forced to either back off or eventually kill me if I’m caught in a bad place – but they don’t vanish, over and over and over.

Risk free, pause button PvP.

Grok.6714:

Funny how Deso is suddenly complaining about VS , but they were acting like kings of WvW last week.

You miss a strong SFR now, don’t you?

Your sig states that you are ‘forum warrior academy’, joke or not, your post is clear trollbait, nowhere is or has ‘deso’ (strawmanning an entire server into a singular poster, gb2troll school) posted “acting like kings”. Infact many posts saying how a strong SFR was vital to T1 EU, just read back, some will be from me.

Just debunking your post, nothing personal.

In Eve Online, for example, if you wanted to be stealthy (cloaking) you had to specialise and had very, very strict rules applied, yet even so it was still a very powerful ability, but there was no having cake, then having everyone elses cake, and eating it all. Because stealth/cloaking is an incredibly powerful weapon in itself, it is a metagame.

Guild wars 2 has stealth completely wrong. Infact it’s amazing just how blisteringly wrong Anet have gotten the thief class. Being able to stealth if anyone has you selected is Anets first complete and utter failure to understand the class they’ve made, that it can be done rapidly is their 2nd, giving it to a class with viciously high DPS (highest in game) and an assortment of ridiculously good skills their 3rd, and it shows they simply don’t get it, at all.

Thankfully in WvW thieves can only get so much done, so they don’t completely dominate, outside of roamers.