Guild Wars 2

Gilburt.9146:

WvW has some of my least favorite daily achievements in all of GW2. Most dailies you can get pretty reliably in a short amount of time, while a couple of the WvW dailies can literally take hours to get (if you can get them at all). Having both World Ranker and WvW Keep Capture as dailies simultaneously is so frustrating.

WvW Dailies that annoy me and why:
Daily WvW Veteran Creature Slayer – This one isn’t the worst, but it’s frustrating when you just want to get it over with and have to end up afking 10 minutes so a PvE mob can spawn. Why is this a part of WvW?
Daily WvW Keep Capturer – Often impossible to get because every keep in the game ends up getting T3 upgrades, making them impossible to flip for large portions of the day. Why is something so inconsistent a daily achievement? I’ve spent hours trying to get this daily before to no avail. You often have to significantly outnumber your opponents to capture a keep which just isn’t always possible. Also, why doesn’t SMC count towards this daily? WHY?
Daily World Ranker – You have to get 5k – 10k WXP which, depending on your match-up and time of day can take anywhere from up to 2 hours. Most dailies in the game take 1 – 15 minutes to get, so why does this one take such an unbearable amount of time much longer? I often find myself having to quit playing WvW just before ranking up to make Daily World Ranker easier the next day…

How to fix these dailies:
Veteran Creature Slayer – Just remove this one.
Keep Capturer – Remove this one unless keeps are made easier to flip in the future. At least make SMC count towards this daily…
Daily World Ranker – Reduce this one to 2500 WXP so players can get it guaranteed in a reasonable amount of time (even during times of low activity).

Seriously?

Veteran can be done on multiple maps and at multiple locations.
Keep capture is an option – if your server can’t do it (for any reason) ignore it and do the other choice.
World ranker – use a boost, flip camps, flip NPC’s, and flip centaur or skritt.

I was actually expecting ruin/monument to be your tough nut to crack due to roamers hunting those locations when that daily is up. Honestly surprised because two of your three are chump change easy and you can ignore the keep. This stuff isn’t meant to be a walk in the park. You are, after all, playing in a war zone…

jamesdolla.3954:

No blood lust

Super hard to get around

No one goes to them but ppters

The server that has the red BL is put at a disadvantage

every keep can be glitched into

Do us all a favor and get rid of them. thx

Players say Devs, we want new maps
And Devs granted new map
Players say Devs, maps are too big, small populated servers can’t cover/manage
And Devs removed new map
Players say, Devs, we made a mistake, we want the map back
And devs took a poll and added map back

See any pattern here at all OP?

I don’t understand why people are getting their panties all tied up in knots about the change. Personally if I was a dev in charge of this fix I’d remove the use all tonics from the game. Outside Gin and Tonic that is…

Game is designed around animations and dodging. Factoring in Tonics means my animation department has more work to do now every time I add something new to the game. Or we have bugs because we do or do not do proper quality assurance or regression testing (manual or automated). No dig towards the developers when crafty people find something that works then others replicate and abuse in other formats of play.

If you care about the WvW format of play then this shouldn’t bother you. If you are into playing dress up or character change then sure, get upset. But that is what PvE is for as long as you don’t abuse game or bug mechanics to get past content…

EremiteAngel.9765:

I’ve fought 3 different druids since patch on my dragonhunter and the results were 1 win and 2 losses for me.

Win some, lose some. That is how it should be. I’m sure there are days when you are on top.

1 vs 1 fights still extremely tough against them, on my DH at least. Not enough on demand gap-closer and interrupts to break their healing.

I do pretty well fighting Druids when I’m on my DH. Maybe it helps playing both. You have some pretty good options to close the gaps than pre-hot.

I’m interested to know the opinions of daredevils and chronos though who generally have easier access to interrupts like steal/headshot and shatter/mantra on what their experiences are like now vs a druid.

I honestly wouldn’t worry about what other classes can or cannot do vs. Druids. Even before the last so-called balance patch (lets just call it nerf Druid patch, ok) the main takeaway when fighting Druids is know their animations and when to interrupt. Pets do not get a free pass and ignore like you did pre-hot. I’ve fought a few solid DH’s and they are always in my face and knowing when to time their interrupts.

I mean seriously when I’m done I feel they are in my personal space. It is that bad. Few occasions zerg warfare is going on yet this particular DH always seeks me out whereas everyone else and their mother, brother, and kissing cousin leave me alone. This guy singles me out and the fight is on.

Patch is done but a lot of the yelling for Druid adjustments came from people not knowing how to play the game or fight classes. Sort of like me struggling when I fight a Chrono/Mesmer. I don’t blame them rather my lack of skill, staying on the right target, or sheer ignorance. Yet I don’t go to their forums asking for class change(s). Just my opinion. In other words, some people are just better.

Incapacitation is a good sigil, I’ve used it on my Druid (Zerk) and also Guardian. I was actually expecting it to be nerfed a while back.

OP – Solid build (not that I’m an expert, but it looks solid ). Good video, fun. Tasteful music.

Obtena.7952:

Crapgame.6519:

BlaqueFyre.5678:

You mean brings it inline….

Inline with what?

With the idea that stats matter … oh pardon me, a correction is in order .. that stats matter for ALL aspects of a characters abilities, not just damage.

Nice idea, so is Utopia. Until classes have specific roles and responsibilities that separate them this isn’t possible. Too much class convergence or similar abilities. Or at least in my opinion.

I still believe this is a issue of design whereas the game was launched without any form class trinity or specific roles. Healer, Tank, Support. And now we are paying the price.

Fluffball.8307:

I have defender runes from back when they were heads above everything else. There are lots of other good options now with the ones you listed, but take a look a defender runes.

They just went way up in worth, in my opinion with the nerfs to CA recharge and HP.

They are good. I used them a lot on my Guardian.

Razor.9872:

If there was a HP/Power/Precision set (or maybe even HP/Power/Ferocity), that would be ideal.

Knowing my luck, something like that will be introduced only after I respec all my gear to Magi.

I don’t raid, but I’m trying to decide similar. Magi or Minstrels. I need to swap from Celestial Ascended. I really don’t want to make two sets (lazy and farming nevermore )

Minstrel in WvW is a bit OP (solo/scout)

Durability are strong. Beyond that has others said build matters.

Sigils / Food to tune.

Ericio.3124:

I noticed most druids run a mix of soldiers/berserker for roaming but I was wondering if a healing/power build would also be viable?

Format of play?

WvW I have two builds. One with Cele armor and Heal/Power accessories but post patch that may change to Minstrel’s.

Second build I have is Cele armor with Power based accessories. That is still very viable post patch. Built for speed whereas above is for comfort.

AnariiUK.7409:

Interestingly, that means ranger is actually the highest DPS in the game against small targets.

Bad time to be an Asura

Edit: Ingame comment

Now….how did the other classes fair post patch

Eleazar.9478:

Durzlla.6295:

Also I think you mistook my sarcastic comment in my last post as being serious given your post directed towards it xD

Sorry broski, just tired of seeing all these QQers whining about a good healthy thing,

I mean they gave us a deeps boost which maul is pretty freakin useful now, and unblockable pet attack!!!!!
Freaking finally we have something to counter all the blocking builds as rangers only have a decent burst, after we burst we drop off completely for deeps.
So all these blocks and damage negation (plus everyone and there moms heavy classes are running cav trinks and high toughness builds. really really hurts us alot and now after 4 freaking years he have a decent answer to that!!

Well all the bandwagoners will either reroll or decide they’re a team player or just a bad MF ranger now

If that really is your answer then why have armor, food, runes, sigils, or anything else that alters stats or even a stat choice? Just WvW or sPvP with town cloths on and be done with it. Just put the redeemer in the middle of the map or somewhere else conspicuous and let us play one large FPS game.

Because someone doesn’t agree with you doesn’t mean they are QQ. Just means they disagree. Just how I see it. Like I said, no skin off my back but I have other builds.

It depends on your play style really. I personally solo roam and scout in WvW so this is a bit of a bug a boo to me. I’m sure I’ll adapt but it doesn’t mean I have to be happy about it. I think it was a knee jerk reaction rather than looking at what HoT did to the game alone with Runes and Sigils (not to mention food).

So what if I run a bunker / sustain build. I chose to do so just like those who choose to not use food buffs or learn to understand dodge or animations. Skilled players never had a issue. Bad or casual players do. Again, not a build or class issue because regardless of the class I’m playing the casual or average player is still present.

You can’t adjust (nerf) classes to fix mediocrity!

BlaqueFyre.5678:

You mean brings it inline….

Inline with what?

How about we let the class with heavy armor handle the healing and we’ll stick with range. I mean shouldn’t that be our specialty? Let the Guardian support and heal.

If this is an issue whereas we want every class to be able to do the same thing, forget it. Won’t work and others are already blurring the lines and doing sustain better or offering buffs, etc. I mean most of us probably have 100’s if not 1,000’s of tombs. Not like we can’t insta-level every class by now already not even counting in boosters.

Hmm…time to re-evaluate sigil/runes for WvW that synergize with SB.

Levetty.1279:

Durzlla.6295:

Levetty.1279:

Durzlla.6295:

A lot of people asked for a support ranger that utilizes a staff, it was actually one of THE most asked for things on the forums, and then it happened, so try again.

Things that happened in your head didn’t actually happen in real life, you know that right?

Just because you’re ignorant doesn’t mean you’re right buddy.

You honestly want us to believe that people asked for a healer to be added to this game when no mode needed or was designed for one till they needed wow kids to buy their expansion? That Rangers wanted a spec designed entirely for a new mode that they didn’t even know existed? You expects us to believe that Rangers were clamoring for a single target ranged weapon when they already had two? That the only use for this weapon is one very good movement skill and its ability to generate a resource? That all our new skills have a gimmick that turn them all into aoe heals when entering a mode that is already 5 aoe heals? That the only reason anybody picks the spec is for a damage buff trait that was slapped on when they realized that nobody was going to take their healing spec anyway because other classes still did it better? That the new mechanics neither replaces nor interacts with the pet and looks like it was just slapped on because they couldn’t think of anything else to add?

Are you going to pretend there wasn’t a massive backlash when druid was revealed? That they didn’t send Gaile to try and clam us down, which is Anets standard ‘oh kitten the communities kittened send the one they like to talk to them’ response? That the reveal went down so badly that they had to promise to finally fix shouts so that Rangers had something new to use?

Go troll another board.

I apologize. And this wasn’t even to me. Here I was thinking this is going to be bad, but by the time I got to the end I was saying to self, hmm…you know what, this is pretty spot on.

If you don’t mind, let me remind everyone how dire it was to support your comment. Druids got one “open” beta. Just one, and it was the last before failure to launch.

I think pre-food/buffs I was 1100 healing with Celestial armor. I’m almost at the break even point. If I want back to normal I have to go Magi or Minstrel. Magi I lost toughness (I am usually solo roaming/scouting) or tough out HoT for Minstrels.

If I understood what you said OP…

Fluffball.8307:

I’m going to try SB + S/T or Staff in a condi slanted cele build probably this weekend. The SB changes look usable. Will have to play with the traits quite a bit.

I used to run that in sPvP. Also with my trapper roaming build pre HoT. Not sure I’d go back but do post about it. I’m wondering if it is viable. Not trap runes, but just the general play. I just can’t see using that bow due to the failed range.

Who uses SB though? In a game full of crazy town stuff range is still king.

I’ve not had time to test yet but I ran a heavy D/NM/BM celestial heal build so I’m sure I’m impacted a fair bit based on what I’m reading. If it turns out it doesn’t fit my play style I’ll just go back to Zerg GS/LB.

I half expected seeds to be nerfed…

Just means for WvW I may go from Celestial to Magi’s or Minstrel. People will still lose and be salty…

May not last long though, betting we see a hot fix by days end.

Sad part is, bad players who still struggle vs. Ranger/Druid will continue to post and ask for nerfs.

Balance by increasing cool downs and/or adding subtracting numbers. Fun.

Oh Dear…

Ranger
After a period of observation, the balance team will be changing the druid specialization’s nature somewhat. In this iteration, we’ll now be making healing types more healing-power based. We’ve reduced base values of many healing abilities while substantially increasing the overall healing-power contribution. This patch will also upgrade the ranger’s short-bow weapon—a change we’ve been looking forward to doing for a long time.

“We Heal As One!”: The recharge time of this ability has been increased from 20 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP only.

Lunar Impact: This ability’s tool tip has been updated to display its blast finisher effect.
“Search and Rescue!”: Fixed a bug that prevented the ability’s voiceover from playing.

“Strength of the Pack!”: The recharge time of this ability has been increased from 60 seconds to 75 seconds. The voiceover will now play when the ability completes instead of midcast.

Maul: The recharge time of this ability has been reduced from 6 seconds to 4 seconds. Damage has been increased by about 10%.

Sun Spirit: Fixed a bug that caused rangers to lose access to their Solar Flare skill in certain situations.

Quick Shot: Rangers will now gain swiftness regardless of whether they’ve hit their target. The recharge time of this skill has been reduced to 8 seconds.

Crippling Shot: In addition to its existing functionality, this skill will now immobilize your foe for 1.5 seconds if you are behind them.

Crossfire: This ability will now bleed foes for 1.5 seconds when they’re struck from the front.

Poison Volley: This skill’s cooldown has been reduced to 8 seconds. Its poison effect will last 2 seconds longer when this skill is applied from behind your target.

Call of the Wild: This ability now also causes a ranger’s pet to become unblockable for the next 4 seconds.

Hunter’s Call: This skill’s cooldown has been reduced to 20 seconds.

Ancestral Grace: The recharge time of this ability has been increased from 15 seconds to 18 seconds. Its base healing power per level has been reduced by 10%.

Vine Surge: The velocity of the vines has been increased by 50%.

Celestial Avatar: The recharge time of this ability has been increased from 10 seconds to 15 seconds in PvP and WvW.

Cosmic Ray: The base healing power for this ability has been reduced by 50%. Healing-power contribution has been increased by 52%.

Seed of Life: The base healing power for this ability has been reduced by 20%. Healing-power contribution has been increased by 33%.

Lunar Impact: The base healing power for this ability has been reduced by 34%. Healing-power contribution has been increased by 63%.

Rejuvenating Tides: The base healing power for this ability has been reduced by 20%. Healing-power contribution has been increased by 43%.

Lick Wounds: Fixed a bug that caused your pet to briefly blink away from you if it was attacking an enemy before you activated this skill.

OGDeadHead.8326:

We’ll see in a couple of hours I guess.

Are the changes expected to be released today?

^^ Well said Mr. Pin. ^^

Justine.6351:

I used to think it was player skill being the problem but I fought one this weekend where there was no doubt he was full celestial and knew how to abuse celestial avatar. It was like fighting a bunker scrapper before they got nerfed. The bs needs to die or something cause it’s moronic.

Maybe. I come across some good players and they keep pressure while knowing when to interrupt. Ironically enough I was a sole Druid in a mixed pug group camping a Keep exit last week. Mostly out numbered fighting pugs I’m sure but do you think any of those players set a target on me? No, not a one. Do you think there was any focused fire? Nope. Again, none. I was able to stealth people, heal them, CC, you name it, basically run amuck keeping people alive. Finally a DH came along and got in my face. Pressure, took me out of the fight while we danced. I finally got some help, very close to death, and the fight resumed with us pushing them back. Next go around back comes the DH. Every time thereafter it was always the DH who had half a brain to engage, stay on top of me, CC, push, pressure. No one else…

That is a player issue. Not me camping staff, CA, or any other mechanic. Just plain old ignorance. No more than what a Warrior can do with their sustain and people not smart enough to counter.

Coming strictly WvW point of view one of the major complaints about Druids is that we are too tanky or have too much sustain. Running such a build with celestial armor and healing/toughness/power accessories along nature magic and beastmastery I’ve been called all sorts of names by various opponents. Name calling, salt packets, or just down right people being upset and mean that either they couldn’t catch me or I outlasted them and took them down. In turn they head to the forums and make posts in general, WvW, and Ranger sub forums asking for nerfs.

The question I always ask is this. Is this a Class issue or a player one?

To me it is a player problem because most competent players know how to lock us down. Albeit hard, soft CC or timing. Furthermore, this is not unique to a Druid because I see several players who can play just about any class well and it not be their main. Meaning they are just better.

I’ll also say it is a design issue by adding PvE content and a supporting stat with Healing. Yes, it has always been in there pre HoT but look at the Elementalist vs. Guardian and all the associated nerfs / adjustments to the two of them.

We have similarities between classes and now we see the issues here in GW2. No different than other MMO’s when class abilities or “roles” are no longer unique. You want healing, Druid or Guardian. You want a tank, Warrior or Rev. You want DPS, then call a thief, ele. You want conditions, then you bring your necro. You get the idea.

Bigpapasmurf.5623:

Sooooo…..am I the only one that noticed that ANet is making the druid more of a healer class…and in turn making the druid a part of the holy trinity, something they said they wouldn’t do?

Yup. And no gear progression beyond exotics. Got it

Can I just address the Elephant in the room? Arena Net, fix the pets.

Anymore nerfs to the Ranger / Druid without is just further gimping the class.

cptn skyz.8706:

Anyone got a link to said forum post ? post

Summary:
“One of the most notable changes being made is to the healing values of the Druid as a primary healer. Base values for the Celestial Avatar heals will be reduced, while the healing power contribution will be enhanced significantly. The reasoning for these changes is that while we are excited about the Druid being an incredibly strong healer, we would also like to see that role as one of many choices in your attribute build.”

Link:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Balance-Changes-Upcoming

OGDeadHead.8326:

As for the healing, it all depends on how much healing power you will need to have compared to today, to actually heal for the same amount.

True. Will be interesting to see.

WvW – I personally run power/healing/toughness because I’m usually solo. I prefer survivability and surprise so have about 1100 – 1200 healing with celestial base armor stats. Works for me. Toughness pushes 3200. I enjoy it but get called a lot of names in game but to each their own.

Maybe Minstrel’s will be viable now…

And in case anyone isn’t aware of what was posted, here is the Druid bit:

“One of the most notable changes being made is to the healing values of the Druid as a primary healer. Base values for the Celestial Avatar heals will be reduced, while the healing power contribution will be enhanced significantly. The reasoning for these changes is that while we are excited about the Druid being an incredibly strong healer, we would also like to see that role as one of many choices in your attribute build.”

More changes due to PvE & PvP (including WvW). Druid is in a good state, my opinion, with a lot of build options. This is going to have an impact across the board with it leaning more towards Raids than PvP. WvW, well, probably be more felt by the HAVOC / solo roaming types than zergs. Boons will address the zergs.

Personally I was expecting, and waiting for this. Sort of give me a good reason to take another break and watch from the sidelines. See where it ends up. While not unique to GW2 they are still struggling with balance between formants can afraid to make some difficult decisions.

Dedicated Druids will adapt. Others already on the fence, myself, will use it to take a break. Others will kick and scream and fall somewhere in the middle.

Edit: Also wanted to note about the devs warning that this will impact gear. Now I could be wrong but wasn’t the original intent or selling point of GW2 not to have a gear progression grind? Yet enter ascended (that was a bloodbath) and then later agony, and later raid content. Two of the three formats will be impacted if that is your thing. sPvP gets a pass due to no gear constraints.

Tragic Positive.9356:

Durzlla.6295:

Omg… there really is an ICD… why? Why is there an ICD on this skill? The whole thing that would make it good is no ICD…

Because if there wasn’t we’d actually have a nice thing. And that goes against the rules.

Oh, we get nice things. Plenty of times. However, as you know when we get nice things other people start to cry foul and come together to have them taken away. In most cases less than 24 hours have receiving them!!!!!

But you are right…we can not have nice things. And when you run a built you find fun out in public people will party up and say mean and nasty things. So I guess not only can we not have nice things we can’t play the way we want or have fun

MaLeVoLenT.8129:

Are some examples. They are Communities with their own governments and leaderships. * They have admins and moderators and community leaders. They also plot against each other* because each community is a direct competitor in this system. They interchange guilds and players at an alarming rate simply because they all trying to fill their respective coverage gap they think they have.

Snip***

This is not Eve nor will ever be and any form of government or leaders would pale in comparison. Having said that there are some things which you note are true although on a smaller scale. People to pay to have people transfer if they fit their play style and good.

But again this is only compounding the issue. There can only be one number one, and the rest fall below. It cascades like they say…kitten rolls downhill. Just do the math, ok. Same servers or pairing are up top, same are on the bottom. Bottom servers work their way up until they hit the wall clock or population wall then stay until they fall back down. Add A.Net adjust the scores is just a Band-Aid.

Until something major happens the community will continue to see the lower populated server players leave. Just how many that are I don’t know but at this stage anyone leaving does have an impact.

Jayne.9251:

Crapgame.6519:

Is this game called Server Wars or Guild Wars 2?

Just wondering because, well, I get server linking and WvW (world = server somewhat I guess even though we are merging some). But all of this fuss, wasted energy, manual adjustments to scores, just to try and shuffle a server around.

Remove the server already and focus on Guilds and Alliances. What the people are actually a part of. You won’t be able to fix the population and especially once you opened the doors to transfers. Now add merging of servers, well, it is a train wreck and almost dead format. Personally I’d just remove it and focus my R & D dollar on a larger map and client technology to support Guilds and Alliances.

Id like to know the actual percent of people in organized guilds in wvw. I’d peg it about 35%. It could be less.

Why focus on the minority?

Actually, very good point and I agree. Look at the whole obsidian sanctum mess, right?

I guess the point I was trying to make is that we need to remove the server which removes the population imbalance and wall clock issues. This isn’t unique to GW2, we saw similar issues back in the DaOC days. WoW got around it be not implementing this format of play and used the confined spaces/maps of BG’s and gates/limits of wintergrasp.

Allowing larger maps, more players, client/server technology, player portals focusing on stats, guilds, and alliances you remove the server name from the equation. People working together, or part of a guild, team, or alliance, and effort matter and visible by all.

Leaving match-ups for a month on end when they are lopsided isn’t helping any. and no matter how you carve or slice it, the issue will still be present. Some grouping of servers will raise to the top, the cream, and some grouping of servers will sink to the bottom. It doesn’t mean they are not good players, or the cream, but rather victims of a bad design or series of events (transfer or clock).

Is this game called Server Wars or Guild Wars 2?

Just wondering because, well, I get server linking and WvW (world = server somewhat I guess even though we are merging some). But all of this fuss, wasted energy, manual adjustments to scores, just to try and shuffle a server around.

Remove the server already and focus on Guilds and Alliances. What the people are actually a part of. You won’t be able to fix the population and especially once you opened the doors to transfers. Now add merging of servers, well, it is a train wreck and almost dead format. Personally I’d just remove it and focus my R & D dollar on a larger map and client technology to support Guilds and Alliances.

Maybe you should change your shoes to something more comfortable to run in?

Seriously, why is this post even here.

They have a place to designed to do this, Obsidian Sanctum. Remember all of the G vs. G drama a while back and the changes to OS to make them happy? Well, this is the place they should “officially” doing this for various reasons.

On the other hand there are known places people hang out for fight club stuff. You, your group, squad, or team, have a choice to allow it to happy – drive by and ignore. Or, you can engage and attempt to kill them and ruin their fun.

Duelers as you put it do not ruin much of anything other than taking up a potential slot for non-WvW play which could cause a queue…

Jana.6831:

Jim Hunter.6821:

They already needlessly nerfed the runes once without fixing the problem. What they need to do is add direct damage to needle trap and possibly to trip wire so that the thief is revealed when using them.

No, they simply need to remove the rune as there’s no reason to destroy thief because of a stupid rune.

So did you have the same feelings when Rangers used them?

They are already horribly nerfed since HOT came out and used in sPvP. What more do you honestly want? Oh yeah, throw them out. Personally, I agree with you since they are more or less neutered. However, once class found a use for them and of course the lag in the game isn’t helping any.

Fix lag, then see if you want them thrown out.

EoTM and boosts sort of ruined any form of rank meaning.

Investment of time and boosts. Nothing else.

MidoriMarch.8067:

Druids are OP in wvw.

Feels like watching ele back in 2012~2013 but with more mobility , healing , kiting

Why is this class can stealth ,

heal more than support ele does ,

superior kiting range from 1200~1500 ,

hits hard even with stacked toughness and vitality ,

they are extremely hard to kill and hard to ignore/run from

Seriously some of class like druids , condi mesmers , condi trap thief makes wvw extremely boring and unhealthy to play

You should uninstall. Druids are probably one of the easier classes to kill.

CC / interrupt is your friend.

People love to complain, it is natural. That doesn’t mean that there are not any glaring issues that the players are all facing with regards to WvW. It is a stale format with 4 years of the same old thing. Nothing new let alone exciting with more and more issues facing the few remaining dedicated players. Wait, let me redact my bias and/or opinion regarding “few remaining”. I don’t know how many are playing still vs just transferring so that was wrong of me.

I play on Ebay since open beta’s and not moving. I’ll say that what was once a thriving server has shed players over the years for many reasons all servers share. Drama, egos, breaks, real life, transfer, you name it. Not unique. But I will say it hit the server hard and hasn’t seem to recover. Again, not unique. Someone has to be the highest populated, and someone has to be the least. In the middle is the wall most servers continue to hit. Can’t move up because when they do they get the crap beat out of them. They fall down, beat those servers up while climbing the ladder only to be bumped up back to where they get beat back down. It is that preverbal wall that is population + wall clock that you just can’t beat no matter how skilled your players are or effort. Just can’t beat it.

So now factor in there is no game with similar format of play out or in Beta you are sort of suck with a tough decision. Stay and fight it out or leave. That is about it and the cards we are all dealt. There is a game coming who set the standard of this format and one for which they also tried to copy. However, it is at least a year out if not more. It too may have similar issues although one thing is for sure it won’t have PvE attached so at least there is one less thing to balance, right?

Grass isn’t always greener. In games or on servers. The glaring issue I like to point out, again, personal opinion, is that WvW has been neglected and not had any real development effort or money thrown its way since launch. You need both to make this work.

It isn’t going to be fixed by a poll.

Also to re-emphasize what Eggyokeo said about immob/stun breakers or CC in general. lightening reflex is pretty important. I use it on my DPS moving build and it really comes in handy. Handy unless you panic and just mash it without understanding your comfort level of course

In the WvW space Druids are pretty solid. Borderland maps are a romper room of a playground with lots of areas to engage/disengage in the Ruin area. High and lows with quick escape routes when necessary. I would highly encourage you to learn them if you don’t already. A lot of the frustration from other players below or average come from not knowing how to handle our class.

A good player will and lock you down tighter than a natts kitten and make short work of you. The flip side is a group of ten ignorant players will chase you up and down the map sending whispers of love and hate while you pick the right place to engage and knock them one by one to their death feeling like the best Druid in the world…

Peace.

From one of my other posts just a minute ago, here is what I use when dancing around the back line. If you are good at staying back with situational awareness (avoiding pesky thief) you can try this. I have pretty good success with it. Staff could work instead of GS if you want to generate AF.

Somewhat berserker
Troll Unguent
Lighting reflexes
Glyph of equality
Quicken Zypher
Strength of the pack

Wilderness Survival: 2, 3, 2
Marksmen: 3, 3, 3
Druid 1, 3, 3

Celestial armor, durability runes, berserker accessories. GS/LB berserker sigils of your choice.

Two I run:

Somewhat berserker
Troll Unguent
Lighting reflexes
Glyph of equality
Quicken Zypher
Strength of the pack

Wilderness Survival: 2, 3, 2
Marksmen: 3, 3, 3
Druid 1, 3, 3

Celestial armor, durability runes, berserker accessories. GS/LB berserker sigils of your choice.

Safety Net / Duo:
We heal has one
Glyph of Empower
Glyph of equality
Protect me
Strength of the pack

Nature magic: 2, 1, 1
Beast mastery: 3, 1, 2
Druid: 1, 1, 2

Celestial armor, durability runes, accessories toughness/healing (including weapons).
Staff/LB – yields 3200 armor and 1100 healing more with food.

Pets in all cases are bristleback and smokescale.

As you can see I use one set of ascended armor then use weapons/accessories to tune the build for what I’m doing. In either case they work for me. Berserker or power I play to stay at range and assist. Will also use to solo camps, dailies, scout, most about the BL maps faster. My safety build is more for my personal comfort when I know most fights will be out numbered or with a small group. Camp staff, build up AF, heal and swap to LB when I need to finish off someone quickly via assist.

QQing.3089:

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

Guess we have to do the work for him

Lol – this made me giggle a little bit