Guild Wars 2

And what’s that supposed to help? All it would do is cause empty areas. 50 people on a borderland? Lol. That’s a 30 man guild, 10+ people being AFK and a couple of roamers. It’d be boring as hell and one big karma train, cause no one will bother to small scale. So you’re going to send WvW queues skyrocketing to 5+ hours for what exactly? You’re going to feel so much better by forcing people to pay those $25??? GG indeed.

Any “fix” that reduce functions of the game is a bad fix. Its a complicated issue that cannot be “solved” by such simplistic ideas.

If a thousand people kill a world boss, its something like 800 blues, 150 greens, 49 rares and 1 exotic.

Maybe if you said 10,000,000 I would believe a precursor could drop.

Ascended is 20 laurels plus 250 badges I believe, but its still only trinkets. Unless you want to attack your enemy with an ear ring, its not going to work.

kursk.4890:

I win, the title is “the blob”, soon in all cinemas !!!!

http://es-es.twitch.tv/chemsorly/b/429985864 2:30 h of full time piken blob, but golden moment in 32:05, They are nominated for an Oscar.

where I collect my prize? nobody can better this!!! (on all bl’s equal).

Yes, that’s called attacking the most fortified position in the game, ie hills. Its more of a shock that you have no defenders – I’ve seen more enemies inside a tiny little keep.

Dadnir.5038:

BTW, I wonder if PS tactic this week is “Seize the south” on BB borderland cause your kitten annoying! Didn’t you saw that we got the outmanned buff from 16h00 to 20h30? And despite this we manage to keep Bay against the two of you.

I seem to recall being on BB this evening and we only held our side of the map with most commanders (3 of them at one time I believe) working the center and north. If you think that was “sieze the south” with random small man teams that barely saw any action (I was rather bored)… Its been nothing compared to the massive battles we usually to have covering the entire island, lol.

Well… What do you expect to happen? Should Dragonbrand just say “oh hey we are owning these guys, that’s so bad! Lets all roll over and die instead”.

The only way a server is going to improve its game is by fighting through adversity. Yes, that means fighting against 600+ ticks. Cant do it? Well then you’re going to keep seeing 600+ ticks, obviously. Its unfair, its bad matchmaking but its not going to change.

Hell why is it even bad? Looking at Yaks Bend history, most weeks has ended with fairly close scores! Looks like its about time to give them a challenge. Magumma has a little more varied score history, but the times they faced Yaks Bend they have owned them hard. Dragonbrand may be a notch above the two, but that’s why there is a 3 way conflict.

Look at the bright side, at least you’re not fighting a tier 1 server. Or two.

There is no outmanned buff anymore.

Its called outnumbered now. July 9th patch.

Patch RNG. Got to love it. Next up daily achievements will be renamed daily accomplishments and fortune scraps will be renamed to scraps of fortune.

Clockradio.3257:

Real guilds only use commander tags when they want pugs… Running tagless and with everyone in a party solves all the problems in this thread…

That may be true, but have you ever run in a 30+ man guilds vs just as many enemies? Just try to follow the commander in combat. It aint easy. Not impossible sure, but its so easy to loose him even when marked as a target because the red circle sort of drowns in the sea of red tags. The commander tag helps ALOT in this situation… Unfortunetly the average PUG does not as the enemy res on that level 20 berserker ranger that thought he was all cool trying to run with the big boys. I’m not really for guilds “hiding” themselves, but I do see a need for it.

So to recap the menu, rather than just having a “Create Squad” button, should have:
- A text box where you can type in a short description (maybe 20 letter)
- “Public” tickbox (default ticked), where public shows to all on the server and unchecked it shows only to the current group the Commander is in and Guild
- Dropdown menu with primary/secondary colors (red, yellow, blue, green, orange, violet)
- (OPTIONAL EXTRAVAGANCA) Dropdown menu with a choice of shapes (dorito, upside down dorito, whatever, maybe 5 of them)

And that would suddenly make those 100g alot more worth it for everyone.

Why should Anet do that? You’re supposed to farm quartz nodes and buy stuff on the gemstore now, not play escort dollys.

Clones are shatter fodder. They have neither damage or hitpoints. The bleeds they are apply are only usefull at 80 with condition gear, when levelling your condition damage blows.

My phantasms on the other can often solo mobs at 80. When running around Cursed Shore I usually pop one on mob #1, another on mob #2 and attack mob #3 cause they are dreadfully boring to meet and barely take any HP from me anyway unless its like 10 of them.

The little time I spent on Piken border yesterday… Just ugh. So laggy it was unplayable most of the time. We attacked a camp with 3 guys (no enemies other than regular guards) and had 5+ seconds skill delay, damage numbers that wouldnt show up and warping/animation lag all over the place. Hell it was less laggy when 50 people smacked into each other!

I seem to recall long ago that after repeated zero-notice patches (especially when Fractals was introduced), ANET said they would do better and did increase the time when inside an instance.

But I may remember wrong. Either way, 3 minutes warning in the open world is just as much kitten . At least up that to 30 mins or something. The “there will be a new build out within a couple of hours” warning is just hilarious, since it often says there is a new build out just after and give you a couple of minutes to restart.

On Piken the other day there was multiple guilds gathered to open Balthazar and where on the home stretch. Going up the hill, what happens? Why patch in 3 mins of course! Thanks for the slap in the community face ANET. There’s barely enough people to open CoF kitten and then when the community gathers for Balthazar you cut off their legs. Thanks.

lujate.5432:

I was not trying an exploit. The super and I were going toe-to-toe and both doing/receiving damage.

Maybe he just got bored with you?

Legend cost 600g+

Crafting the Legend cost anywhere from 1g to infinite due to RNG.

Hey if you want to gamble, go ahead. Just dont believe its necessarily going to be cheaper. I can assure you that if you put 600g worth of items in the forge and dont get anything of worth… You’re going to be slightly disappointed.

naphack.9346:

the fattest norn possible is male tho.

As long as it got boobs, I’m not picky.

naphack.9346:

Just make the biggest, fattest norn possible and fill people’s screen with hulkingly big boobs.

Fixed it for you.

Anyway, if I had a choice to remake my Norn Mesmer… Hm… I wouldnt make an Asura, that’s for sure. Yes maybe a slight size edge in combat and animations are good, but the weapons are always so tiny. I definetly wouldnt pick a bloody plant and not those boring humans. Charr maybe – I really like their staff animations. And dont forget – Charrs in pink robes with butterflies all over is the manliest thing ever. But granted, their outfits are a little meh.

I’d probably pick a Norn again.

WBL.6715:

When I got 200 badges from chest, I thought that was a ton of badges. Too much in my opinion. That’s almost half of what you need for the Gift of Battle. I think that takes away from the experience of making the legendary.

So what, 600 gold for a precursor and another 1000 gold for ingredients is the easy part?

Seriously, gift of battle is a tiny little part of the legendary that you dont even have to work for.

I have never seen the super disengage when facetanking him, but of course it can happen when trying to kite him. Combat range from a camp is sometimes really random. Guards has a tendancy to behave the same way.

Guilds are ancient history, now its all about fast paced solo PvE farming with new stuff to farm for every 2 weeks.

Geiir.7603:

Seriously, just learn the Thief and how stealth works and you’ll be laughing each time a thief stealths

Blinding powder, 2, 2, 2, blinding powder, 2, 2, 2, blinding powder, 2, 2, 2, blinding powder, 2, 2, 2. Alternativly when in a larger pack its blinding powder, sb 2, sb 2, blinding powder, sb 2, sb 2, blinding powder, sb 2, sb 2.

My God you are right! I never realized until now but I do laugh everytime my thief perma-stealths!!!

What, seriously? Months for 500 badges? You get like 100 badges in an evening if you run with a decent size zerg/guild group and can easily score maybe 20-40 if you run with a couple of guys.

Renxian.6982:

It takes more than some PVT gear to make a char a bunker. There is a reason that guardians and Ele’s make amazing bunkers and thieves may as well not show up if they are bunker.

Hm. I have to remember to say that to a rather well respected nearly unkillable thief commander that’s on my server.

Either way its pointless to argue with thieves. Their arguments are too transparent.

Kitten Sapiens? Look we’re talking about Humans here, not Charr.

Personally I think it depends on the quantities that the market will provide. Many people barely know how to make superior, lol. And skillpoints will also run dry fast if everyone pump out superiors. Sure its easy to come buy, but it still take time.

I prefered having simple lists with texts and progress bars.

The new interface is shiny and cluttered.

So I guess it just confirm what most of us suspect – Your average person share more similarities with the Skritt than they think and ANET knows what to give them.

Pixelninja.6971:

Guardian Staff 1.

This.

And on the plus side, you’re actually usefull to the group compared to a crazy Engineer running around yelling “FIRE HAHA FIRE HAHAHAHA FIRE FIRE HAHAHA!!!” all the time.

I want my buff to say “Outnorned”.

If they can use blast finishers in smoke fields, they arent running solo you know.

Valior.4712:

Actually I want norn model with big/beer belly, for the ultimate moot-goer and beer enthusiatic rp character

Really? I always imagined your average Norn would still be built like an elite boxer even if he drinks 20 mugs of ale every night.

But maybe that’s just dreaming about how I wish to be

Also, giant boobs you can put ale mugs on.

Rufy.6093:

I play a mesmer and I say good. They are op, and stop crying like they ain’t. I fought 1 with my ranger and 2 others were there. Guess who won? I stayed on the mesmer the entire time and she didn’t go below 50% hp while she just ran around as I bashed her and I died faster. She got the others as well. 3 vs 1? Even if I did suck this makes no sense? So all 3 of us just sucked and that is why we lost? Yet they seemed fine against other classes…

And this weekend I and a guildmate met a Ranger that we could not kill.

Seriously, it was a Mesmer and a Thief (!) and the both of us could not kill a single ranger. We met him several times. I dont know wtkittend of God build he used but the regeneration and evasion was insane – and the two of us could pound a nearby Necro in seconds because he had the audacity to interfere in our fight. I have never seen anything like it and I doubt I will be seeing it anytime soon again.

Does that mean the Mesmer and Theif suck while the Ranger is hideously OP? Clearly, going by your logic. It cant possibly mean that was a good player on an awesome build with a class he knew to perfection.

Regarding the nerf, the staff is still useless for direct damage mitigation now. If the cooldown was reduced to say 14s or so (untraited) then maybe its acceptable. As it is now… No I dont think its an acceptable change.

But I doubt ANET is going to bother even reading our concerns. They only backtrack on Thief nerfs.

Aberrant.6749:

Every single class can stealth.

I have honestly never seen say a Warrior or Guardian user their stealth skills.

But I guess you proved me wrong, every class can stealth.

Jasta.6290:

Rich.1528:

You were extrimely more than 10, but it’s only word’s – your and mine and i will post here a video of this battle soon

GH+INC play with 70 if they group up !

Don´t call Elona or SFR is blobbing – Piken is the biggest Blobserver – 2 big guildgroups must group up to destroy pugzerg from elona – GG

Unfortunetly sometimes you have to form a massive blob in order to reach half the size of that pug zerg.

Even Piken gives in to dark desires to overwhelm the enemy

With 2100 toughness I did live by getting hit. I run a bunker staff/sword/focus build and always run into melee with the guild as one of the hardest characters to knock down. I sacrifice quite a bit for that but this nerf is basicly like Anet saying “Hey you’re not supposed to play bunker Mesmers! Stop it!”.

The only positive thing with this is that now maybe The Legend will drop in price.

Ryuujin.8236:

It’s not a patch if they don’t do anything about warrior and destroy staff mesmers. /rolleyes

Fixed.

What. The. kitten!?

This is probably one of the biggest nerf I have seen to the Mesmer. Its a massive nerf to the staff and once again a nerf that hit traited abilities.

Fantastic when even patches suffer bad RNG.

Aberrant.6749:

It depends. Unless you’re talking about low skill levels… a zerk mesmer will wreck a zerk thief.

Thief pop stealth to backstab, Mesmer pop stealth to evade, thief reappear, Mesmer spike thief from stealth.

Great to compare with the Mesmer, the only other class with stealth lol. Which was the entire point with the post you quoted. So no, it really doesnt depend.

Ignoring a stealth built Mesmer, only bunker builds have any chance of surviving roaming built theives, because no other class comes even close to them in that area. And the success of bunker builds often depend on the mistakes of the thief rather than their own abilities.

100g is nothing for a pro gamer?

I heard a rumour thakittens using polygons to show stuff.

Really dont think you’re going to squeeze details out of Anet on the engine. If you want to optimize the speed of the game its a simple 3 step process:

1) Get an SSD.
2) Get a faster GPU.
3) Get a faster CPU.

I mean sure you can lower the graphics settings ingame but that’s the cowards way out.

They could surprise us and add the precursor scavenger hunt that we’ve been promised for almost a year now.

Haha no just kidding, I want a new type of chest loot with 0.00000001% chance to get an anniversery armour ticket.

Personally I have stopped hunting Orr mobs for loot – you get better loot from random world events and their mobs in the other low level zones. 40 mins like the example above you can get 5-10 yellows depending on luck. But of course that is with its own limitations.

What sucks the most is also as shown – 50% of the mobs give nothing. Why?! Not even a porus bone?! A moldy finger?!

ANET should give us a Hardcore Cursed Shore zone which scale up all regular mobs to veterans with guaranteed loot and all veterans to champions. It’d be hard as kitten but at least it would give cursed shore some meaning.

wolfie.7296:

Dawdler.8521:

If my Norn female had been a heavy armour user, I’d have bought it as soon as it came out.

you may not have read my post but female norn’s in heavy look fat. so you aren’t missing out. a skinny norn female might work if you chose it. not really sure tho

The preview on heavy look absolutely fantastic on my Norn female. But as I said, still the wrong armour type. And light look like something you’d find at Oktoberfest. Granted, I already carry Ambrosia and barely have any clothes on, but that’s beside the point. Its still bad.

I wish we had an elite that puts down a line similar to curtain/veil which clone any enemy character going through and make it attack the character that it came from (it wouldnt be a normal clone, more like a time limited phantasm copy of the player).

Zerg chaos!

Quam.7218:

Dawdler.8521:

First give each player in the group a number, 1 to 5. Then do the following extremely complicated algorithm to calculate boss aggro:

Aggro = Random(5).

That is it.

Tell that to Lupicus focusing one preson so hard until it dies.

That’s whats called lucky RNG.

I think.

If my Norn female had been a heavy armour user, I’d have bought it as soon as it came out.

But she’s not, she wears light. And unfortunetly, ANET failed so unbelievably kitten the light aetherblade armour. Its just ugly. And its another kitten skirt. Dont anyone at ANET wear pants?!?!

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

fuzzypanda.9365:

Why shouldn’t we fight back?

bring in more people to beat them down.

what is stopping you?

Indeed. Why arent people treating the JP like a WvW zone, when it is in fact a WvW zone? A 30 man guild will go through it in like 15 minutes and thrash just about every enemy they meet not to mention get lots of siege for their commander. If you send a couple of thieves/mesmers in advance you shorten the time to like 2 minutes (1 minute to clear the enemy griefers at spawn and another minute to get the chest).

CoF hasnt been “played” on any server for a long time (ie requesting groups in LA, gathering outside the entrance, etc). GW2LFG took care of that, servers became irrelevant to dungeon grouping. On my server the event fails about as often as the Karka island because there’s only so many mobs a single character can keep at bay from two different positions.

SkyShroud.2865:

Dawdler.8521:

SkyShroud.2865:

i always wonder why wvw rank does not work like spvp rank system….

if is about title, u can get “ascendant” or “dungeon master” using one character and still wear it across all characters and claim im elite

all titles or achievements are account bound and all spvp benefits are account bound as well thus i continue to see no reason for wvw not being account bound

Its not the same type of titel. Dungeon master or whatever is optional and extra fluff that mean exactly nothing. WvW titel is always visible and is an indicator of how long an enemy has played that particular character in WvW.

True it doesnt match the account bound pvp rank… but I would argue that is wrong instead.

my wvw rank 0 can beat a rank 80+, does that make my rank 0 elite and that rank 80 as noob? rank doesnt really reflect much

Except of course exactly what I said – how long the enemy has played that character in WvW.

If he’s still a chump that’s his fault and completely irrelevant to the titel.

Hm… Healing for 4000+ HP AoE in cleric gear every 5 second while having constant AoE regeneration around every phantasm and an additional 4000+ AoE healing/AoE regeneration every 10 second as well (and more but lets keep 2 skills for other uses).

But since there are no healers, please people – dont tell Mesmers they can do this. Grenth become so easy with a heal- errrr I mean non-heal-capabable-Mesmer-just-adding-pathetic-support.

SkyShroud.2865:

i always wonder why wvw rank does not work like spvp rank system….

if is about title, u can get “ascendant” or “dungeon master” using one character and still wear it across all characters and claim im elite

all titles or achievements are account bound and all spvp benefits are account bound as well thus i continue to see no reason for wvw not being account bound

Its not the same type of titel. Dungeon master or whatever is optional and extra fluff that mean exactly nothing. WvW titel is always visible and is an indicator of how long an enemy has played that particular character in WvW.

True it doesnt match the account bound pvp rank… but I would argue that is wrong instead.

With it account bound you would obviously specialize since getting all skills on all your characters (lets say 6+) would take like 3000 ranks. So I fail to see the point of the argument above.

That said, it should still be character bound since its all about the titel. Wee I am a general on my 80 ascended engineer, now I am going to play my level 2 thief and oh look, I am still an awesome general! No. The ranks would be watered down to nothing.

rivx.3267:

awhile back I was pulled straight up into the air and out over the wall from inside the courtyard not even on the wall though I think it was siegerazer that did it. havn’t seen anything that crazy for awhile though.

No thats called lag lol. No skill can lift you. I often jump off walls to the inside of a keep, only to end up outside when landing. Quite hilarious.

Mesmer pulls are powerfull, but if you cant handle going outside the keep without dying, the keep is already lost. Or you’re a weaksauce zerker, whatever.