Guild Wars 2

Lol what would be the point? Its just clone spam. A boring clone spam at that. I’d prefer an elite that does more than what I can do in 2 seconds by dodging.

Wait, so instead of doing what many wanted – locking server transfers to higher tiers because everyone will bandwagon before the league start – they are offering free transfers?

Anet keep trolling us.

Piken Square EU will be hit with a sledgehammer, WvW is shock full due to everyone and their grandma wanting to join it as a top tier server (3 hour queue to EB, yay), yet most of the time its only a “medium” pop server. Well hopefully it goes to high fast :/

Well at least its going to be slightly more exciting for Piken than last week. Already had fun against SPRT, engaged a lone Theif east of Bay some 4 times until he finally got downed instead of running away to reset. Dont start with basilisk against a slippery staff Mesmer ^^

Mathias.9657:

It’s not appropriate to have such a deep voice when the game allows me to make a really cute norn, seriously it just don’t fit. I could understand if I made one with the scarred face and made her ugly.

Which would imply that Ivanova in Babylon 5 was ugly as kitten?

The difficulty isnt too high, its the scaling that is non-existent. Its impossible to kill Tequatl with anything less than 100 peeps. A “large” 50 man guild? Forget about it, its not enough. So its not even a “raid” for guilds anymore. Pretty much the only way it happen is when 3-4 guilds band together and kill him (ie pretty much like Balthazar).

Maybe that’s how Anet intended it? I would love to hear their own opinion on event scaling. If Tequila is even supposed to scale.

yes considering it probably take as much time to go 0-200 as it does going from 295-300, I dont see how you can be 300 so soon… unless of course you just plowed $10,000 into gems.

Nike.2631:

Actually I find a lot of armor distorted on Norn females – any sort of skirt or item that rides on the hips just explodes when worn by Norn females

Not quite sure what you mean. As a light armor Mesmer I always wear a skirt and I never seen how they “explode” on a Norn. Sure its bulky, but that’s all light skirts no matter what race you are (even that single light pant piece is bulky). Oh what I wouldnt give for medium pants.

Below is my PvP set, with skirt and knee high “armor”. I avoid the shoulderguards though, haha.

Meglobob.8620:

Well they were bound to make a daily for them…

Started doing it yesterday but after standing in 2 circles, was bored to tears, could not be bothered with the other 3…

I stopped chasing achievement points ages ago so I will NEVER BOTHER completing this utterly useless daily task. I will however have a quiet chuckle to myself every now and again thinking about all the ‘mindless drone’ achievement chaser players wasting there life doing this…lol

That’s what you say today but you know you’ll be there tomorrow, standing on the same boring, boring circle.

Sometimes when I get bored I link Bifrost, OMG the loot drop!

Anyway, people that say “oh yeah exotics drop all the time for me!” probably mean once or maybe twice a week. That is “all the time” in the GW2 loot system.

There is absolutely no balance issues with giving Mesmer a 25% run signet. And yes traveler is abolutely worth it. The set itself give decent general boosts, nothing dedicated.

What, you expected another answer? Enjoy the next patch, nerf nerf nerf fix* nerf nerf!

*fix may or may not be broken

Sidenote to the above: 4? How did you get that number? Mesmer and Guardian dont have it, Engineer is borderline (so easy perma-swiftness). Necro, Ele, Thief and Ranger has +25% signet, Warrior has +25% trait with melee weapon.

Agreed, it should match all the other WvW achievement.

It should be 20 WvW ranks daily.

“OMG zerg on north bay, door at 80%!”
“What? There’s no one here.”
“Yes there is, look at the swords!”
“There are no swords -.-”
“Come on people, we need to defend bay, they are on lord.”
“But we are assaulting bay from the south :/”

I’m sure it’ll work fine…

Just make it sound like Quip.

I would highly recommend getting 20 points in the precision tree and go dodge shatter when you level. Phantasms… Well that’s going to suck without gear. Of course you can still use them kittenter fodder – just let them pop at least one attack then shatter and start building illusions again. If they survive, sure let them live. But dont make a build on it yet. For skills you can use iDefender to get an extra phantasm – if quite awesome. I recomment blink/defender/some condition removal.

PS: Wait why did the forum not censor the first shatter but only the second shatter? Somehow I find it amusing that Anet forums censor their own game mechanic…

PS2: Oh wait now I get it. kittenter. Well played Anet, you kittens.

Great, Anet trolling light users once again.

A flimsy skirt? Seriously… Again?

Just pants or GTFO. Not going to bother with these even if they gave them for free.

Piken (rank 3) and SFR (rank 1) meet Vabbi (rank 27, last).

Piken vs Abaddon vs Gunnar -> Piken vs Baruch Bay vs Gunnar (with 100K points removed from Piken, putting us in second place).

Anet, y u no like Piken?

Someone need to rename the topic.

We’re facing Baruch Bay now.

And Piken is 2nd place with like 100K less points than yesterday.

… wait, wtf just happened?

Its IGN… Complete bias and a random collection of games that they consider “good”.

For example, how can Half-Life 2 be top of the list? There where plenty of games afterwards that improved on what HL2 brought (ie physics). Why isnt BC2/BF3 on the list for example? They complete rewrote the book on physics destruction in modern multiplayer games. How can Homeworld 2 count as a “modern” game, yet BF3 apparently isnt modern. HW2 didnt even do anything that Homeworld and Cataclysm didnt – many still consider the first two the better games.

Rypo Falem.8913:

The reason we know that they are aware of the bug is because they said that they are tracking it on the first page in this very thread.

25 days and 10 or so patches ago. Yeah… Dont hold your breath. My advice: Buy traveler rune and enjoy it. Chances are far higher that you’ll make another 40 gold before the speed runes are fixed.

They remind of the boxes in Star Trek Online.

They’re just that fun.

Someone should send a million wigs to Anet HQ. Just dump at the entrance and yell “Come get your loot!”.

I thought this was how WvW was now? Sure its not generally lengthy sieges, but its sieges nonetheless. Getting into T3 hills/garrison/bay can be rather long affair of skirmishing and draining supply, not to mention SM.

Without Anet manipulation people naturally gravitate to the strongest servers in order to win.

They need to start encouraging people to spread out over the tiers without taking population into account because PvE population is completely irrelevant. You can always guest. For example it should be free to move to mid-low tier silver for gold leaguers, regardless of populations.

Parktou.4263:

So let me get this straight…an Anet employee was playing the game and decided to be a troll, so naturally everyone’s response to this is that it’s a great tradgedy, and many people have apparently uninstalled the game because of this one employee’s trollish behavior? I can’t even begin to express to you people how sad it makes me that your all so petty, pathetic, and weak that you would react this way. Being kind to each other is one thing, but there comes a time when you gotta rub some dirt in it and stop being a….well, kitten.

A year ago, people would probably have reacted with amusement and laughter at the idea that Anet even play the game (considering GMs are nowhere to be seen).

Today, many people are dissapointed, annoyed and sad over the neglected state of WvW and basic functionality thats never been fixed. So when something like this happen… The floodgates open and people vent their frustrations. Alot of frustrations.

So… Are we ever going to get a private Commander tickbox? No? Guess Anet is too busy trolling GvG matches instead of doing that.

^^ see how easy that was?

More knockbacks. Oh yeah! ^^

No seriously, they really should have more knockbacks. Mobs literally allow players to stack next to them for an extended period. There is no “Oh kitten, I’m loosing HP at 5% a second?!” thought in them. For a player that mean knock foes back or dodge, but no the mob just stand there like a fool.

Some bosses like Alpha is even designed entirerly around people stacking on top of him – his attacks only hit ranged characters.

Rainshine.5493:

However, the female norn PC does NOT live in that middle ground. She lives in the try-hard alpha-male wannabe land.

Which is exactly what I’m saying. There are only Alpha-males in the Norn community, the rest are kittens. What do you raise your child to be? An Alpha-male or a kitten?

Lets me guess, 5 random bunkers where unable to kill a bunker Engineer?

It must feel good for the Engineer to singlehandedly win the game for his team because the other team was kittened.

Does anyone know the early history of the Norn? You seem to assume that the Norn has been created out of thin air as they are now. Where men are equal to women just because of Norn and everything is just in a perfect happy balance, the ideal equal society and men and women do whatever they feel like.

It wouldnt be that far fetched to imagine them at an earlier stage, more tribal with more dominant males. Remember the Svanir? Maybe the earlier Norn where like them, completely supressing their women. Thus the women where forced to become “men”, which is later reflected in the current state of Norn society and the way women behave and act. Its not hard to think of a Norn mother telling her daughter to stand tall, speak in a deep respectful voice and never back down from a fight when challenged.

But hey there are lots of ways to look at it. Another idea is the animal forms and the way animals behave (since they play a major part of Norn society). Does a girl owl act girlish? Haha, no. As humans, we are saying that the “Norn women act like men!” when in fact, they act like animals. A Norn woman isnt acting manly, she’s just not acting girlish.

Or maybe its just a physiological reason for a deeper voice. They are quite a bit bigger than your average human.

Soyboy.3548:

Dawdler.8521:

Soyboy.3548:

Mantras can be charged in combat in stealth, with stability, with distortion, when the focus is off you, or after stunning someone. There are traits that let you get a kitten nice heal off too when you charge one.

This is true, but then you’re using your skills to avoid a flaw in the mantra design – not to gain an edge in combat.

Personally, I rather focus on the actual combat and defeating my opponent than finding a way to safely channel the mantra.

Don’t use a mantra then. I find it worthwhile for the 2.5k heal, toughness, and the utility after. I also find leaving stealth early usually a bad idea due to the revealed thing.

The build in the OP use neither restorative or protected mantras, leaving you with only the utility and an kitten of channeling.

I dont mind a few mantras. I’ve used builds with the resto healing and pain mantra just to be a healing bot. Its quite fun and only require a single trait to work (10 vs 8 second cooldown on the heal is not really an issue and pointless for the pain cooldown, the toughness is negligable due to not channeling that much). The problem for me is full mantra builds where you have to spend 6 seconds channeling every 10 seconds. Aint got enough stealth to cover that. So easy to make mistakes in the heat of battle. Go ahead and try it, then tell me you didnt left a single unchanneled mantra at any time .

Soyboy.3548:

Mantras can be charged in combat in stealth, with stability, with distortion, when the focus is off you, or after stunning someone. There are traits that let you get a kitten nice heal off too when you charge one.

This is true, but then you’re using your skills to avoid a flaw in the mantra design – not to gain an edge in combat.

Personally, I rather focus on the actual combat and defeating my opponent than finding a way to safely channel the mantra.

Well its a berserker build with the two mantra traits. Yes you got a ton of damage, but you’ll spend so much time channeling you’re gonna croak. It get very boring, very fast.

For me the issue has always been human error. You forget to channel that one mantra you need at the moment and then you’re standing there with your pants down.

Its not horrible.

That’s always something.

Arah armor? Arah is also so easy to do anyway.

Rainshine.5493:

It’s that the delivery is super strident and overly jocular/swaggering.

Haha, but that’s what I love about the female Norn voice. It matches the animations perfectly, which is basicly being as buff as possible. Just look at that staff pose compared to humans.

The Norn female has full control of the staff and look like she could knock you down by just inhaling extra hard.

The Human female hugs the staff like she’s about to poledance around it.

The Mulan comparison is pretty much on the spot, because to me that’s exactly how the Norn community is. The females are truly trying to match the males in… err… buffness.
You can also compare with characters in certain Futurama episodes… Death by snu-snu!

BobJoeXXI.2493:

xephire.8324:

Oh,and the Dev’s account name is Astrea.1794.You can check the you tube video for the account name at around 22 minutes where the uploader moved his cursor over the dev’s character.

He takes his WvW seriously.

But that post has no Anet logo…

Not sure if we’ll ever get a official response on this from Anet, but at least we should give them the benefit of doubt. It could be a tester/GM/whatever.

The trick is called CC and melee. Even melee Mesmers (ie sword) are hard countered by in-your-face dps, especially when lacking the staff as secondary. Most rely on combat space and dodges to survive so you need to take that factor way.

Probably the worst thing you can is to try and win a max range duel with a good Mesmer. Only another Mesmer can do that, lol. If you keep chasing a Mesmer but sort of stay between ranged and melee because you cant catch them, you’re probably gonna loose the fight as well.

You stop when you cant afford it anymore, lol?

A guildie is well over 200% MF now. At that level, its pretty much the salvage of a full 250 ecto stack to get 1% extra MF.

Yes, that’s about 100 gold to gain 1% of MF (although you get some of it back on dusts).

Well played Anet. Well played.

I know that, but it would still be fun :p

You dont really need more Mesmers than that, no… But you must admit, it would pure awesome to watch a 20 Mesmer vs 20 Guardian fight. I am actually very curious who would win, assuming equal skill. Sure the Guardians got heavy melee, condition removal, healing and CC potential, but on the other hand Mesmers could just blink away and lay down some iBerserker smackdown without even turning around. Perma stealth fields, complete buff and ranged combat denial, not to mention timewarps everywhere. Lets not even begin to discuss clone generation and cripples/voulnerabilities…

How about we just call it “The Deathfields of Killing and Mayhem”?

It doesnt need to be account bound. If you have commander currently, give the option to pay 5 gold (for example) to the Commander guy in WvW and you get back the book which you then can move to another character via the bank.

Simple, without any sort of additional changes (refunding multiple commanders, etc). But again, never going to happen. Commander functionality is clearly not priority for Anet.

But the lag is a gameplay feature. Every time skills start blinking and the game slows to a crawl you know exactly what to do.

Brace yourselves, the zerg is coming

So does players.

I call this… the “Bane look”.

Of course there should be a level cap increase.

On mobs.

In a new zone.

Fighting level 90 mobs and 95 veterans? Hell yeah!

Of course it depends on the entire guild composition. All classes have a place in combat (yes, even urk Rangers blargh and Thieves) To take an extreme example, what would you rather have:

20 Guardians

or

19 Guardians and 1 Mesmer with timewarp, feedback bubble and null field/blinding glamour etc.

I think the answer is fairly obvious which group has the biggest combat potential. Sure that extra guardian could have held a healing book or something to balance overall health, but that timewarp could mean you get to stomp 5 people faster than they could heal – ie you already won the fight. The point isnt that you can replace the Mesmer with any class – of course you can – its that these skills are desirable. A group need to be flexible.

Bah!

Sometimes I wonder if Elona purposely try to confuse their opponents with erratic behaviour. Piken was defending cragtop/dawns/whateveritscalled on Elona border against a force 3x in size and held at the breached sidewall (well Elona did get through to the ramp but was pushed out again). After that it was just a standoff. If all those Elona had pushed through the opening in one fell swoop we would have been crushed like bugs. But no. It was like someone was just tossing random lootbags through the opening. Dont go through, everybody stack behind the wall and send in the scouts! What they died? Send in some more! Wait, fall back, we only outnumber them two to one now! Build an arrowcart!!! Oh nobody got supply? Its not building itself people. Eeep, Piken rushing out of the door, quick scatter, scatter!!!

Sigh… Sorry, just feeling mean because I then crashed in garrison during the epic battle

A big blob of text, oh the irony…

The AoE limitation wont change, period. Not going to happen, ever.

The only reasonable way to go about “solving” this without making a new game is the Commander system. Its needs a revamp and actual functions. Why? Because right now the players themselves are applying blob rule mentality with it. Not Anet. Its taboo to bring 2 Commanders to a border, let alone 3 or 4. Despite this players always yell here “ooh its Anets fault, they have to stop the blobbing!” and then they probably go to a border and yell “all stack on commander, wtf you over there tag off we already have a pug raid!”.

Whether Anet know this is another matter…

Account bound so you dont have any choice?

I’d pick sylvari for the option to make a phantasm lookalike.

Since the Mesmer isnt viable in tPvP to begin with, it feels a little pointless to try to argue it…

But personally, I find the dedicated GS/staff build the most fun. Easy trait focus (GS trait, staff trait, then whatever). I use it with direct damage on a knights/valkyrie mix. Its high pace burst action aimed at keeping constant pressure. People that anticipate a condition build go down in seconds, lol.

I have tried just about every combo there is and like above, I dont think condition is viable for Mesmer. In the time a condi Mesmer has done their lets-stack-15-confusion-stacks-OMG-combo on the enemy (they cleansed it a second after), a direct damage build would have taken half their life and had them on the run. I also find it far, far more effective in terms of actual team support. If two players are engaged in a duel you will literally swoop in and knock the enemy out of his socks. Condition builds never pack that kind of pressure, at least on a Mesmer since its all RNG.

To sum up – its fun. What, you expected another answer? If we wanted to win we’d all play Guardians.