I really dont want to transfer but I just want to be able to find action even if I log in at 10AM cause I have the day off. Or maybe I cant sleep and log in at 3AM and want to do some WvW. If I cant log in and get into some action then its just not fun. Or when we get camped by 3 guild groups until everyone on our server rage logs. Thats even less fun.
And why the heck should 10-12 people be a stronger group than 40? In which universe would this be balanced?
why should 40 unskilled mouth breathers beat 10-12 skilled people? Have been in plenty of fights where our small 12-15 man group has won against twice as many enemies. 3:1 we can hold our own pretty well but eventually they wipe us. We only end up losing because for every 1 we kill 2 more join the fight and eventually we just cant keep up.
Faster siege and increase sup carrying capacity should get a special attention from ANet.
Also how about reduced supply requirements. When you dont own anything on the map its really hard to get enough supply to make siege to take stuff. Then once you do you cant even add defenses because of the lack of supply.
if you constantly have Outnumbered then it sounds like the server you’re playing against is exactly the one you want to be on. they have a lot of people on at exactly the times of day you’re on.
yea but on the flip side what fun is it always being up by 150-200k points? By Wednesday you are so far ahead no one on the other sides even bother coming anymore. Then you just run around with no one to fight.
they need to remove the cap on AoEs. We constantly have the Outnumbered debuff so the only way for 5 people to kill 50 is if Meteor Shower can hit unlimited targets.
but it is fairly skill-less and should therefore hit for less damage.
placing Static fields at the right places and at the right time to split up an enemy force
having to predict movement so you can land Earth 2
having to predict enemy movement so you can land Staff 5
having to predict enemy movement so you can land Water 2
the fact that you are 100% useless roaming because no one is going to stand still.
AoE is far from skill-less. If you place your circle in the wrong spot you hit no one. Also it doesnt even work at all solo.
Seems like everyone has left my server over the last few weeks. Not even a single commander online right now on any maps. Are there any NA servers that usually have commanders on regardless of what time it is? Really dont like going into WvW on my days off and getting steamrolled by 40 man zergs and constantly having Outnumbered buff. If we do manage to finally take some stuff its immediately gone if we have to leave to go help out on a different map. When we do manage to get a large group together that isnt filled with uplevels we just end up facing 3 guild groups at once. Its just not fun. What are the more WvW oriented servers since it also seems I picked a PvE server?
Invest in a Journeyman Salvage kit and salvage all Greens and Blues…sell all material and Golds in Lion Trading Company…I make 10-20 gold a week doing that…
a week? Been doing the new LA events since all our commanders were in there. When I sold all my salvage stuff last night before logging I made 19g since the event went live on Tuesday. So basically you made as much in 1 week that I made in 2 days doing LA events.
just switched to full zerker trinkets. Gonna see how that goes before going full zerker. Still at 16k health which seems like a decent amount. I run with 30 in Water so thats a pretty good chunk of Health right there. Also run with 3 cantrips. If Im still comfortable will switch over to Zerker armor 1 piece at a time.
Also Thieves hurt my full PvT Guardian with soldier runes so Im pretty sure theres no possible way to get around them.
the best way to improve ground targeting is let us turn off other’s spell effects. Im really getting sick of losing my mouse cursor because theres 70 people on screen fighting at once and I cant figure out where to drop my AoEs.
When my Ele first got to 80 I wanted to play it safe as it was my first ranged class so I went with PVT gear. Once I learned how to position myself I started taking less damage and in fights where we lose I was usually one of the few people left alive and was able to escape. I only run with large groups and sometimes even in open field fights I found myself left alone to free cast. Is it time to make the switch to Berserker Gear for more damage?
I am worried about the lack of HP though. I ran the numbers over at The Mists with a full set of Zerker gear and trinkets and compared to my character now. I will lose around 6k health. There have been a few tower defense fights where I have escaped with less than that which obviously would mean I would have died. But I feel like my damage is lacking and if I cant DPS then Im a pretty worthless Ele. When we our outnumbered all day long 3:1 in Eternal Battlegrounds I have to be able to kill before we get over run.
How squishy would I be with full Zerker? How good will my damage be? Will I giggle when I drop Meteor Shower + Tornado on up levels?
The Outnumbered “Buff”, and I use the term buff loosely here, just seems like a troll joke.
It says:
The enemies greatly outnumber your forces, be careful out there!
+20% Magic find
+33% Experience
+10% World Experience
Take no Armor damage on death
Now someone try and explain this one to me. You only get drops and exp if you kill people and take stuff. If you are outnumbered what good is a buff towards stuff you wont get because you just dont have enough players to actually do anything that would reward you with exp and drops. Wouldnt it make more sense to grant a severely outnumbered side something like the Tenacity buff from WoW?
Im pretty sure having more damage output and less damage taken would help you a lot more than some MF and EXP.
OK I guess there is only one way to actually test this. Making a new character and as soon as I clear the opening story only doing WvW from level 2 until I hit 80. Will buy nothing except kits for salvaging. Will only use gear and items from bags and bags from taking stuff.
So I really rally hate PvE in this game. I can do champ trains for maybe 30 mins before I want to off myself. So can you actually make gold doing only WvW? I just spent about 75 gold, which was all I had, on gearing out my new Ele (runes are so kitten expensive ). Im sitting on like 5 silver now. Normally I will run with some karma trains and take stuff but even when I open like 20 embroidered bags I make hardly anything.
When I want to make future characters will I be able to gear them out once I hit 80 if I only like doing WvW? Also if not why? I dont see how people should be punished because they only like doing WvW. I mean the people who only like doing PvE and don’t like PvP dont have any problems earning gold. Also because I find leveling so boring I need gold to tradeskill power level any new alts I might want. Is the tradeoff for doing what I love being broke forever?
Guardian paper HP is a bit misleading. Im only around 18.5K HP and 3200 Armor in PVT gear and Cleric Trinkets but Im usually the last man standing in a zerg fight. Staff 4 + Stability + AH + lots of friendlies = near death to full health.
if Guardians are so bad off why do I always see pretty much the same number of guardians compared to Warriors? Maybe even more Guardians. Also every class forum is the same way “QQ our class sucks A-net ignores us” So if every class sucks isnt that balance?
So I finally made an Ele and so far its really fun. Feels a little weak while leveling but every class did other than Warrior/Guardian who flat out cant be killed in PvE. I went into some WvW as a lowbie just to get a feel for the class. I know I dont have the gear or traits to do anything but I just wanted to practice going through the attunements and learning when to use what. I watched some streams and videos of large scale battles and they attunement dance like crazy. It seems like as soon as something comes off cooldown they switch over to to it and I cant figure out why. I assume that all comes with lots and lots of experience?
Also Im kinda scared to be a caster when Im used to pushing through the other raid as a Guardian or Warrior. Is it pretty hard to stay alive if you aren’t in the main group and hanging around at the back? Seems like you are an easy target standing there alone and helpless without the HP and Armor of a Warrior or Guardian. Or will the other zerg mostly be focused on taking the heavies down and you go mostly unnoticed?
One great thing about this game is there are other time zones playing. If I cant sleep at night its nice to be able to log in for an hour at like 3-4am and still find some action. If I dont have work its nice to be able to log in at like 9am and still find people running around. In other games if you dont play at prime time either EST for east coast servers or PST for west coast then the game can really suck because there arent very many others on. I work in a hospital and sometimes work from 9pm-12noon the next day or from 9am-midnight. Its nice being able to still find some people when I log on. I remember hating SW:ToR because they refuse to cluster the servers for PvP and queue times were in the hours during the times I could be on.
Also isnt the same thing happening on every server including your own? If every server has different timezones playing then its called balance.
Unfortunately, you can’t turn off spell effects. I often wish I could as well, just so I can better see boss tells, etc.
what do you mean? I have 14 year old MMOs installed where they can be turned off. How am I supposed to WvW if theres clutter everywhere making it hard to target people. Hell half the time I end up losing my mouse pointer somewhere on screen because of all the spell effects. Is there anyway to at least turn them down? I find it really hard to believe someone would make a game and then forbid you from turning down/off spell effects.
Doing WvW sometimes I get to the point where I cant figure out whats going on. Its not really a lag issue but more of a “Holy crap theres too much stuff flying around” issue. How can I just turn the spell effects off so I can enjoy WvW without pink domes everywhere? I have tried messing with the settings but if I turn stuff down the game just looks like crap. I want to keep textures and stuff like that maxed out becuase they dont hinder me. I just want all spell effects gone. Im a Warrior I dont need to see pretty lights everywhere.
Hate Ele. Too much work for me and seems more like a job than playing a game. I usually get stuck playing in Fire the whole time or Water if doing WvW. Then Im basically not playing half the class. Im not a MMO n00b by any means but just too much work having to stance dance and use twice the stuff every other class uses only to be less effective.
Thanks for the replies. I have been trying to see what Mesmers were doing in zergs when on other classes but things usually get pretty hectic. Also in videos its kinda hard to see whats going on sometimes as well. Good advice on taking out people trying to retreat from the main group who are probably trying to heal up or wait for cooldowns to be up to rush back in. When I die in a zerg its usually because I got too far from the group or was running back and 90% of the time it has been a Mesmer who killed me.
This is the best you can do to collect loot bags. But if you really want loot bags, you should play a different class. On my Ele I get way more loot bags for way less effort.
yea I tried Ele but didnt really like it. Lot of times I found myself stuck in the same attunement instead of switching around like Im supposed to do. When ever I watch videos of people who play the class well it seems like they are hardly in the same attunement for longer than a few spell casts. They just go through them all and keep everything on cooldown. I dont want a super lazy class but thats just too much work.
Been wanting to try out a Mesmer for a long time now but dont really know what their role is in large zerg type battles. Other classes seem to have a pretty clearcut role when it comes to large battles but I cant seem to figure out what a Mesmer is supposed to do. Veil and Mass invis are nice and Null Field as well for utility but since I dont really know much about the class thats all I can figure out they are good for.
According to the tooltip Feedback only works on projectiles and when 90% of everyone is a Guardian or Warrior I dont see how much use that would be. I also cant seem to find any nice AoE abilities other than Shatter which requires clones to use. Since AoE is going to be all over the place will clones even live long enough for me to Shatter them?
I know the class is great in small groups or even soloing but what do I bring to the table in a large fight? What do I do to collect lots of bags?
My target next and also target nearest enemy keys are broken. Every single time I try and tab through a large group of people its always nothing but Guardians and Warriors. Even when I stay dead and theres like 40 of them at the Keep Lord I still only get Guardians and Warriors when I try and tab through them all. Anyone else having this same problem and how do you fix it?
went with Necro and up to lvl 12. Staff and Marks are fun in Zergs. Numbers everywhere. I gave Ele a shot and tried some hotjoin PvP so I could see how it was with traits and all abilities and it wasnt very fun. Too much going on with all the stance dancing.
Really been enjoying the last week after coming back to the game. At first I just made a Ranger to mess around with but started doing a lot of WvW running around in a zerg and it was a ton of fun. I read that Rangers were pretty good in open world fights away from the zerg but horrible in large scale battles. I hate small scale or 1v1 fights so who does well in a zerg vs zerg situation? I would prefer to stay ranged and care more about dealing damage than utility.
Sbi is currently T3 which is more active then a lot of servers. It may be your time zone however that’s inactive within SBI? May I ask what times you generally play?
usually on at random times throughout the day because of work its very random. I can be on prime time EST like 7-10 or late night like 2-4am, or mid day noon-4. Just depends. Always see videos of massive fights and Im just not running into any of those.
I finally got back into the game after not playing at all this year. My server is SBI and it seems very dead compared to how it was at launch and through last December. Seems like theres only one zerg for all 3 sides. Either our side has one and we just run over everyone else. Or one of the other sides have it and they run over us. I havent seen a large zerg vs zerg battle since coming back. Fights are usually us running around, see 4-5 people, they run, we take stuff, get bored and leave. Or Im running around, see a huge zerg, get steamrolled, leave cause we dont have hardly anyone to stand up to them. I dont mind zerging as long as there are other zergs to fight and the fights are often and last a while with people constantly running back and rejoining the fight.
Are there any servers that have pretty constant action even in offpeak hours? Im not really into small man. I hated it in DAoC. I prefer the epic, yolo fights where its either kill them all or die horribly.
Just take it upon yourself and go and watch a walkthrough video >.>
this actually isnt that great. WoW aside since addons play the game for you I have hardcore raided in Everquest as well as Rift. I could go into a totally new encounter I had never seen before and after 1 attempt I know it like I have done it 100 times. If I watch a video guide I never learn anything and half the time its narrated by some guy who has no clue whats going on. Or the raid/group comp is different. Or the phases of each fight are different. Nothing can prepare you for an encounter better than actually doing the encounter.
Yea Im probably going for Guardian right now. But I was just shocked to see so much QQ even from classes that were doing great when I quit. I mean Necro/Enginner QQ was pretty much the norm but Guardians? Whats next Mesmer QQ?
). Im sitting on like 5 silver now. Normally I will run with some karma trains and take stuff but even when I open like 20 embroidered bags I make hardly anything.