Guild Wars 2

ty and goodnight

JahRo.6432:

Banzie.5248:

I’ve had a few HoD whisper and PM me on the forums. Whispers I’m sorry I ignored you while leveling up my necro. Need dat kitten for Guild WvW ASAP. PMs I cant reply to due to punishment :*( However I’ll give a general reply here.

NSP and IoJ were about where you all are on the weekends with CD. Wait until the weekdays where you cant field kitten all during SEA slot. Kome and TOFU will take full advantage and Ktrain all the things. Also Coverage wise with guilds growing this week by snapping up fairweathers, I’d say IoJ wins coverage overall. HOWEVER, The fights in all timezones would be simply amazing I’m sure. Well worth a close week on top of amazing fights.

Now shoo out of our match up thread. I’d like to talk to servers I like please.

Thats ironic, seeing how 90% of your posts are talking smack about HoD. Its alright though. It’s heart-warming to know that we left Fappy and his minions with such a good impression.

everyone loves hod.. everyone loves hod because everyone loves hod.. nothing wrong with hod I mean everyone loves hod really. seriously hod is pretty great so everyone loves them. loves hod. hod is probably the best server we’ve fought, so we love them. such skill, we love them. tbh i think everyone loves hod..

bokkieskitten.8023:

Darek.1836:

Wait someone says IoJ actually roams and small mans now? Holy kitten I think I might play this week afterall.

Heh. Yes. There is some.

Hello, nice to meet you, We are the Honeybuns. The Mister and I are a necro roaming duo. Our guild BUNS is only six people and occasionally we all go out and roam as a team.

If only mrs moobs were still around we could’ve had a get together..

Alkaholic.3875:

Tongku.5326:

Hi

I have been playing a guard since early release, so have the opportunity to do everything in this game as a guard, experiment with lots of different builds for lots of different focusses ranging from a very small roaming WvW team to full large scale group support and likewise in PvE from full DPS to support.

Honestly the best small group set-up you can have currently in this game is a hybrid build. For a 5 man hammer is a horrible weapon, go GS for better dmg, a little extra mobility and an extra group cleanse via lightfield + whirl combo. For large scale and surprisingly melee stacks on dungeon bosses, hammers are good.

Your build lacks boon uptime and provides zero group support. For small teams you should ditch AH as you have, however, you need boon uptime and you need to provide better heals and shielding and stability via virtues to your group mates, also, the 30 pointer in guard virtues is the only group stunbreaker with stability and shielding in the game. This is critical. Run reduced shout CD and Renewed focus. Between “Stand Your Ground” , “Hold The Line” and the added boons and stability and stun breaker from virtues you have a virtually spammable set-up that will take care of your entire group. Also, unlike meditations, your virtues can be activated even when all your skills are disabled when being stunned etc. This again is huge.

get your DPS via gear variations not traits. leave your traits on actual group support and means for your group to get away from things and move fast. You can actually get half decent DPS by going with celestial jewelry, zerk armor, and whatever weapons. I tend to go with main weapon DPS and second weapon support utility with eitehr cleric or bunker stats.

When running a 10-15 man, I would recommend having 2 mesmers, 1 fully offensive shatter and 1 hybrid with focus on glamour. 2 thieves for spiking and offense, rest pretty standard fare, warriors, guards, necros.

One other thing, mobility is king. Period. Small team needs to be extremely mobile and quick. To that account, any slow members should be running Traveller’s or Runes of Speed. Not only do they give you 25% passive movement but also free up a utility slot and/or trait slots from those people that have used traits / utilities for movement. This is especially true for mesmers, guards, necros (if they dont use spectral walk and arent traited for boon uptime), etc. The only class that never needs those for mobility is warrior. Everyone else does at least with some builds. I also recommend having at least 1 engi, the nuking kind that puts out a crap load of dmg., avoid rangers.

For large group, simply switch your armor to PTV or Clerics or mix with melandru runes, switch your GS for Hammer, keep a staff handy and you’re set. Don’t use meditations, they are good exclusively for 1 v 1 provide very little group support due to the CDs when compared with your other tools, and don’t waste your slots for DPS support, your team mates even in small teams do that much much better at far lower costs to their traitlines, CDs and in general effort.

Please post the build you’re describing. I’m new to guard and would LOVE to run something like what you’re describing.

0 0 10 30 30
probly can figure it out from there

Wait someone says IoJ actually roams and small mans now? Holy kitten I think I might play this week afterall.

jinx.8169:

Darek.1836:

Odies.8017:

Great GvG [Yarr] you rocked us and now it’s back to the books for us. We lost all rounds.

GG Yarr put em in their place!

Hey, I didn’t know cheerleader was a pick-able profession in GW2!

Im friends with a lot of the Yarr guys and we (SS) and them are pretty much equally skilled, so I enjoy when my buddies kick another guilds kitten (badly!). Especially when the guild in mention runs hammer trains and lacks skill individually...

Don’t relate me to Yarr though, I’m far more of a kitten than they ever will be!

Odies.8017:

Great GvG [Yarr] you rocked us and now it’s back to the books for us. We lost all rounds.

GG Yarr put em in their place!

LF 3v3 gvgs !

don’t you know we’re the new dolyak runners.. Im getting 25s per symbol running dolys! My new favorite past time.

lol at the clueless people in this thread that don’t even roam so they automatically assume condis suck (after all they dont work in da zurgs!!!!1). OP is right almost 100%. Condis put out more pressure than anything in this game (besides 100% zerker thief/warrior [BARELY]) , have tons of HP and defenses (engis/necros/apothecary warrs), and are relatively easy to play. Seriously if you don’t understand that condis are king in small man right now I will find out someone regardless of your server that will obliterate any non-condi build you play.

JahRo.6432:

VLK’s new pastime. Whoever this was, mad props for being a good sport!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7pGGbB1kZ0

kittening lol

speaking of which we need to play a round of moobsball this week

Rexis.9375:

[Dx] is always looking for 15v15 GvGs for Asian/Oceanic time zone.
If anyone interested, please let us know!

lol what can I love more than 10 bunker hammer warriors and 5 bunker healing guardians

Plains of Ashes.5941:

I guess ANET figured that giving fergs more HoD during the season wasnt enough. you ferglings kitten -off Devon or something? <looks at Moobs>

he’s just mad because I havent given him cookies like I did for habib…

Wait what the kitten? I thought leagues were over? Why the kitten do I have to deal with HoD AGAIN? Oh my kittening god, I thought I was going to be able to play for kittening once after two weeks of kittening massive pains in the kitten . This is kittening ridiculous. Why the kitten are we dealing with HoD? Why the kitten aren’t they in another league? Are there even leagues anymore? kittening god kittenmit.. See you next friday.

JahRo.6432:

For old time’s sake FC…. ;_; (I miss dese days)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS6NBjrsOTg

also I still hate lukian
but still hilarious cause I remember every reference

NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE

does the word deserve now mean “have the most coverage”

jinx.8169:

BuDs, if you are going to gank in the sanctum at least be good.

hey man we can’t all be pro

Kaineng for rising to the top and falling to the bottom all in the same year!

Simplicity.7208:

The closest victory so far goes to Darkhaven in the North American bronze league, for snatching the week two victory from Ferguson’s Crossing by a mere 2,156 points.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/world-vs-world-midseasonreport/

going to mention that this matchup was insanely fun and I came 2 hours late to a party that friday night because I had to be there until the end

Easterbunny.6170:

jinx.8169:

Some of you from GoM should come on HoD for a week. Not only will we teach you how to WvW, we’ll teach you how to troll properly on the forums.

MU Teaching others how to WvW:

Step 1 get 50 people
Step 2: Follow the tag
Step 3: aoe around the same place.

OK your done, you just learned how to WvW.

ty god of wvw forever grateful i am to u

Righteous.4307:

QuickLime.7253:

Righteous.4307:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

Odies.8017:

styx.7294:

Righteous.4307:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

Righteous.4307:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

Jereme.1840:

Look the infamous HoD zerg.. err wait that’s GoM…

<3 the emotes too, the best part was when they all ported and went back to Bay, we clearly outnumbered them.

You’re looking at pretty much the entirety of GoM’s WvW population compacted onto one map, and yet you STILL don’t have the outmanned buff.

Consider the following…
If you gather your servers entire WvW population into a single force, you may want to do something more useful than flip control points that do not directly earn points for the server and are capped as quickly with 1 person as they are with 5000 people.

Thanks for the tip. Here’s one for you: If you don’t hike up your skirt and bend yourself over a table to avoid a higher league, you might actually fight servers with large enough populations to give you fun and challenging matchups instead of going up against servers who keep themselves entertained by zerging empty bloodlust points and portal-bombing dolyaks.

Already discussed….

apapercut.4312:

I want to address the comments that HoD doesn’t belong in bronze.

The first point I want to make is that the very concept of “belonging” to a league is artificial. ANet divided the servers up into arbitrary groups of 6/9/9 based on rank. Somebody is going to be number one in each league but who that is doesn’t mean anything since if they had done 12/12, 9/9/6, 9/6/9, or 6/6/6/6 then things would be radically different.

The second point I want to make is that the bottom silver server is Northern Silver Peaks. The last time HoD faced NSP was in week 31 and HoD was roflstomped. In fact, for the most part every bronze server that went up against NSP has been roflstomped for some time. If HoD had somehow snuck past NSP into silver then the same complaints about a server not “belonging” in bronze would still be made, they would just be aimed at NSP.

My third point is that the during league week 5, Sorrows Furnace lost to HoD by only 50k points. If HoD doesn’t belong in bronze then neither does SF because we’re pretty closely matched. (In league week 6 SF got crushed by over 140k but that’s not representative of the strength of the two servers because SF decided to take it easy that week).

Finally, in non-league weeks 35 through 41 HoD was ranked 18 and that was after slowly clawing its way up from rank 21. In the week immediately prior to the season HoD went up in rank to 17. Given the way Glicko ranking works it’s unlikely HoD could have done anything to jump higher than that.

I know WvW has serious population and coverage imbalances. Outside of this league stuff every server that isn’t Blackgate or Vizunah experiences it. There’s nothing anybody can do about that. All you can do is have good fights and keep improving yourself, your guild, and your server.

Here’s a big “/salute” to every FC and GoM that comes out and does their best in this tough fight. I’ll see you on the field.

And in what way does anything you’ve said have anything whatsoever to do with the point that it is foolish to have 30ish people capping a single ruin?

No, you should just stop to think about your question and learn why it’s bad on your own.

This makes no sense what so ever?

Spelled out for you…

Grouping up and helping your servermates finish up their WvW achievements during a blowout matchup isn’t foolish. It’s a common courtesy. A good majority of that blob in the photo are not experienced WvW players and it’s very difficult for them to hit the goals on their own while the Silver League Dodgers are stampeding around every map.

People cant stand on a cap point w/o you holding their hand?

Here. [MU]
Our PvE player’s are not stupid.

I didn’t call them or you stupid. I like GoM. I really enjoy playing against GoM esp when we were against SF together. We took to calling you our Gommie Bears. I was just surprised to see 50 of you capping a single ruin. The logic escapes me… but hey… its your fight against FC for 4th. Not mine. Good luck.

then you realize hod does this all the time except gom only does it with 30, and hod does it with a queued zerg of 70

hey taco are you doing any streams

Crunk n monkey.3749:

I’m only gonna put my thoughts on the perma-stealth thief build on here once and never again.

They nerfed the perma-stealth assassin in GW1 because people in PvP complained about it. If they haven’t already, they will nerf it again in GW2 due to people in PvP/WvW complaining about it.

its been nerfed enough that its pretty balanced right now

Plains of Ashes.5941:

Darek.1836:

this applies to most of us on fc you dont even understand
seriously its like half the time we try to take a camp a massive dinosaur henge zerg comes out of nowhere

Thats because HoD lies in wait for those ferglings!

Heres a video of the last time Moobs went to dane for that last bit of supplies to finish his SM wall ram.

that happened abot 5 minutes ago
did u predict the future

Righteous.4307:

Crunk n monkey.3749:

Darek.1836:

Crunk n monkey.3749:

With a 20 point tick, i decided to take back some camps in our Bl, until i met a 20 man HoD zerg at Vale. Like a rabbit who comes across a pack of ravenous wolves, I swear I heard them yell out “Quick! Kill It!!!” As I looked behind me and saw their bright red eyes and foam coming out of their mouths…

you gotta wonder how many of the kills hod gets comes from something like this..
probably 99%

I thought maybe their vision was based on movement. If I stood still, they wouldn’t see me.

http://media.giphy.com/media/BDMRY0MBjGIxi/giphy.gif

this applies to most of us on fc you dont even understand
seriously its like half the time we try to take a camp a massive dinosaur henge zerg comes out of nowhere

Crunk n monkey.3749:

With a 20 point tick, i decided to take back some camps in our Bl, until i met a 20 man HoD zerg at Vale. Like a rabbit who comes across a pack of ravenous wolves, I swear I heard them yell out “Quick! Kill It!!!” As I looked behind me and saw their bright red eyes and foam coming out of their mouths…

you gotta wonder how many of the kills hod gets comes from something like this..
probably 99%

FIGHT CLUB ANNOUNCED EARLY DUE TO AMAZING COLOSSEUM
FIGHT ME BRA
OBSIDIAN SANCTUM

FC will bounce back once we recover from trying to beat DH with 150% effort for the last day or so.. probably wont bounce back enough but it’ll be close

I couldn’t help but laugh at the OS guy saying they run 25-35 or whatever.. Anyway, OS runs more like 45-60 if anyone cares.

As if people will stand in a circle in a game like this

cymerdown.4103:

Keep in mind, the fix to PoV returns Guardian to how it was as of the June 25th patch. As in, Necro Summer. And we were still perfectly viable (necessary, even) then. Right now, condis are getting shut down pretty hard by condi immune stun Warriors, so it’s not even really a big deal.

No we weren’t, stop deluding yourself. PoV bug was the only thing keeping up afloat and I told that to the devs as much as I kittening could trying to delay this inevitable change. but unfortunately the devs would rather say “sorry our tooltips are more important than balance” It really kitten es me off how out of touch these developers are.

miriforst.1290:

I’m curious, why should an engineer not have any right to comment on the meta? Is it the bombs?

because you will win 110% of the time against any guardian regardless of build regardless of skill level because conditions are extremely OP against guardians atm. you can say they “counter” guardians, but what the kitten? every condi engi build should not kittening counter every kittening guardian build. that’s horse kitten.

ANet logic:
“Oh conditions are overpowered right now.. I know, nerf the only good team condi clear (PoV) and then buff a mantra that no one will ever run anyway! kittening genius.”

TakeCare.3182:

It was a pretty epic day in the land of [OHai]. We had a lot of awesome fights with people from both DH and FC. You guys really brought it tonight. This matchup is a nice change of pace from the previous one.

Three manning SM was quite fun as well. ^.^

Good luck everyone. Again, thanks for the great fights today.

and rhulian told me we probably cant 2 man SM!! pffftt… if ohai can do it Im sure we can..

Junkpile.7439:

What kind of warrior take that much damage? He probably don’t even have minimum 3k armor.

he said high skilled. typically high skilled = more damage, more options, and less toughness.

goodbye shouts hello meditations.

Peters really needs to get in touch with the current meta, unless they are going to SERIOUSLY nerf condi applications

FC IS NOT TIER 8 EDITION!!!

What y not said too!

ATTENTION! Major announcement!

Fergusons Crossing will be leaving Tier 8; that is, they will be ranked 21st or higher, for the first time in almost a year! In fact, the last time we were above tier 8 would be the Oct 6-13th week, where we got pummeled by Darkhaven (ironic how we may beat them this week!). Also, this will be the 2nd time we’ve EVER been above tier 8 since the week log matches started.
So much thanks to everyone I’ve played with (all 5000 of you). Congratz FC!

only NSP can successfully blob

Harbinger.8637:

Match up started fun, but now it’s meh. Roaming as Guard is no fun…

Oh well back to my hole in the wall aka The Mist.

my guard is 20x better but roaming on warrs is 20x more fun. (I can run away!)

narsil you talk too much
most mesmer builds are cheese 1v1’s if you didn’t know

wow XOXO is not 80% Mesmer 20% thief? madness!

on another NSP note, I don’t want to sound like a kitten, but does Os think they’re good when they run 40-50 man semi coordinated blobs fighting 30 man pug groups? I mean ateast they don’t laugh but its like watching PAXA kill 1 person then claim glory

dank.3680:

Glaeser.8015:

AKLbow.2463:

Can we just make a public service announcement letting everyone know that the windmill is a perma-1v1 zone?

The windmill is for GvG bro.

You mean BvB..

with the amount of mesmers XOXO runs it sure does seem like a 5v5 is a blobvblob

This suggestion is for pvp, not Pve. Slows are almost useless in Pve but are amazing in pvp (yet we have access to very limited immobilizes only).

I recently thought of what I thought would be a good trait to add to Guardians. It’s simple as the title says, when you blind a foe, you also chill them for a short duration (1-2 seconds). This seems to make a lot of sense when you look at skills that apply blind:
1. Flashing Blade: would be similar to savage leap on warrior, makes sense that when you close the gap you actually slow someone down for at least a second or two so you can actually gain something from the gap closure. I’ve previously posted about how flashing blade is typically useless in chasing because someone with swiftness or even no swiftness can still leave your sword range instantly.
2. Leap of Faith: similar to the above, though there’s less of a problem with this skill than flashing blade.
3. Ray of Judgment: similar to blade trail on warrior, it’s one of our very limited ranged skills besides scepter and makes sense to do something besides blind and condi cleanse. How many times have you used this skill while chasing just for a little damage? Wouldn’t it be a game changer if you could slow someone down for just a second with this?
4. Traited Virtue of Justice: Instant cast chill would be amazing. Can combo a leap of faith or flashing blade with this for double the chill duration!

I’ve always thought this would be sooo beneficial to guardians without really buffing them that greatly. It probably would fit in the best to the Radiance tree, since that usually has blind related traits.

kittening numbers man
Ive seen 50+ man zergs before but when you run into like 3 or 4 different 20-40 man zergs in one map then go to another map and see a 60-80man zerg what the kitten is going on

Roe.3679:

I hope you have a dev or 2 on whichever server is ranked 12th in NA.

or 24th

qualm you know DR has the largest proportion of thieves compared to.. every server at any time Ive ever played against in the past 13 months..