Guild Wars 2

displayname.8315:

Can they at least make it so your server is not Red Team twice in a row? That is some punishment.

Desert BL for your server 10 weeks in a row incoming

Or, yknow, you could defend it. With well placed siege, it takes half the bodies that alpine requires to defend.[/quote]

This is just wrong…… The East keep in DBL is easier to defend, however the garrison and west keep are much much worse to defend then their alpine counterparts. Even without all the possible exploit into all 3 keeps, inner garrison can be trebbed from NN, west keep inner has the uncounterable cataspot that everyone uses……. No-one can use siege to actually defend in garri/ west keep, therefore the only way to break a siege is to suicide rush their siege with decent numbers/ kill the enemy so if you’re outmanned, WK and garrison are essentially undefendable.

Hey, it might make druids meta! Lick wounds underwater druid meta, the true meta build counter.

I like this suggestion, although I was thinking about more mobility options for the defenders only- Currently the defending side has a massive disadavantage on Desert BL due to the time it takes to get to an objective to defend + All the exploits and uncounterable siege

Go into World vs world, some ghost thief has exploited himself into garrison, spend 15 mins chasing him out….. 5 mins later hes respawned and back in our garrision while west keep is dealing with 20 people and their uncounterable cataspot ( the one that the cata shoots through but you can’t hit it back with anything from your side….. Yeah this map sucks.

At least in NA T1, Epidemic is currently being used pretty extensively in both roaming groups and large groups, I feel a lot of that is due to how spammable epidemic is, I’m perfectly fine with epidemic having a large reward for landing it, but its probally too spammable for how strong it can be at a 15 second cooldown.

Regardless of how strong the build actually is…… it’s pretty clear that this build shouldn’t exist in the game, make thief traps do a tiny bit of direct damage like all DH traps, problem solved forever.

There are some issues I have with the Desert BL I would like to see addressed as it makes defending it very difficult, for one the cata spot in WK that is unhittable by defending siege, people using leaps to get past the walls/doors into garrision to ninja solo the lord ( I see this almost daily in my current matchup and its a real pain having trapper thieves do this) and trebs from NN shouldn’t be able to hit inner garrison as well.

Rip PPK focused gameplay and roaming, time to sit on an AC for the rest of my wvw days and embrace the PPT life!

Since every build has favourable and unfavourable match-ups, to me “best” 1 vs 1 class is the one with the least amount of unfavourable match-ups, so I would put as my top 4
1. Condi mesmer ( can lose to mender scrapper/ mender druid/ symbol DH, favourable against most other builds)
2. Menders druid ( at the least should stalemate against most current builds in a pure 1 vs 1, struggles under high power based pressure)
3. Power rev ( heavily unfavourable against condi mesmer, but has a more then decent chance to beat every power based build)
4. Symbol DH ( loses to mender druid, paladin scrapper, decent chance vs power rev, can beat all mesmer builds and everything else however)

Another matchup thread……. also all this " this server sucks because we won 1 fight", I beat up 6 FA in a 1 vs 6 and won a 1 vs 5 against a yaks bend guild group, I guess that makes both those servers complete trash? There are good players on each server and bad players, get over yourselves already.

On mag, there is no 2 vs 1,against YB In fact in that screen shot, theres orange swords on SMC that shows we were literally fighting FA over it….. In fact with all the YB and FA backcapping while we fight, we could argue its 2 vs 1 against Mag!

To be fair FA/Yaks aren’t a really good measure of our population, particularly as both of them don’t have full turnout during this week (pretty sure they both could field a lot more then what they’re doing atm), it would have been better to see how Mag does against TC/JQ but I heavily doubt we’d do as well against both of them just because of our zero SEA or early NA population (which even FA and Yaks have more during that timezone.)

Spawn camping yaks bend is oddly therapeutic, you should all try it sometime!

Solid gameplay Chrissy, come back to mag soon!

We should organize some fight clubs <3

Fun fights again today- thanks cutiepies

Some good fights atm, thanks for the fun RET
Except fighting a glass ele and glass thief and having my keyboard die that wasn’t fun

Some nice fights today, thanks cuties <3

Kronyx.2570:

This thread has more NNK QQ than all the last 4 weeeks of YB/DB/SoS. Yaks have pretty much accepted the daily night cap, and we prepare for an awesome last stand with NNK/TFV in our towers/keeps.

Also, Maguuma’s roaming groups are compromised of 100% mesmers, thieves, or D/D eles. Very efficient at running away.

I’m the lone roaming engi out there- I am the 1% :O

Perfecthair.4190:

What do you guys think about engineers for a roaming class in wvw?

As a roaming engi player,y ou can build an engi to win 1 vs 1 or carry small scale fights… but you have no mobility, you have to know what you can engage and what you can’t beforehand, it takes experience and practice to know that (and if you get caught out, you die).
A thief or ele on the other hand is much more forgiving for a roamer- high mobility gives them the ability to escape when fights are going badly, you can afford to make mistakes as them and still do pretty well vs making a mistake on an engi (you will die)
Hope that helps a little

fight club yaks bl, come play! DB and us mags are already here ;3

I am not one of them, but some people really love cosmetics- having ugly backpacks that ruin your look and not being able to show off a cool weapon is a legitimate concern, remember it’s a huge amount of time and effort to get a legendary, you should be able to show it off a little when you get it
Maybe some cool plasma grenades, super flamethrower, extra flashy bombs when you have a legendary would be nice.

As someone who is on the maguuman night crew- getting dropped down to 25 ppt and dealing with a force that is literally 10 times your size (actually probaly higher)is not really fun…. I love playing during the day and commanding and finding good fights with YB and DB, but once NNK wakes up it’s impossible to hold anything or take anything
Maybe I am a fairweather player, but I refuse to play during those hours, it just isn’t fun :C

You do know that engis have been consistently nerfed? Yes HGH condis is strong (in the current meta) but it keeps bunkers in check- imagine trying to kill an ele or guardy if it gets nerfed.

I think the downed state should scale off your current stats- I find it funny how a glass cannon thief is as tanky as me in the downed state, he should have less HP and toughness then me~

To the mags that held west keep in Yaks BL for a good half hour more than we should have- you guys were awesome, all 7 of you did extremely well and it was a pleasure commanding you guys <3

You need a large zerg and the buff for 3m+ to make it worth it…. otherwise you get the supervisor down to half before the buff runs out, and you save 1 second at maximum.

I’m having so much fun with this matchup Learning how to be a commander and having some really awesome fights- thank you DB and YB for the fun.

Aeonblade.8709:

Guardians don’t really hit hard, and the higher level you get the more you will realize this. Engies are just in a bad place in every aspect at the moment. If you want to just decimate things even at high level play a warrior or elementalist, Guardian is great if you are shooting for survivability however.

High level? Are you talking about PVE? for PVE Warriors are top tier….. in all other cases they are horrible- while a good condi engi is considered one of the strongest classes in spvp at the moment, is decent in world vs world, I would say the only weakness of an engi is PVE atm.

PVP is competitive, competitive games bring out the worst in people~

But there are 3 exits….

My 2nd time commanding today, I have a lot of room for improvement T_T

Completely disagree with kills giving points- I feel like world vs world should be about taking objectives, not an arena death match, also have you considered how easy it would be to abuse?

Engi patch notes in a nutshell- 100nades build deleted from game, condi burst build is still awesome,turrets and gadgets are still terrible.
In short, nothing really happened apart from 100nades getting deleted from the game.

I look forward to hopefully a more even t3- with the t2 level servers (FA,TC) now in t2. I will however say that fighting DB without an oceanic crew is going to be quite challenging.

I think a few people should remember that every winning server is called the zerg server- when SBI was winning their tier, they were called a zerg server, when CD was winning, they were called a zerg server, now that we’re winning, we are called the zerg server.

To be fair, it’s the only reason you’d pick a warrior over any other class~

Isaac.6041:

Stop complaining and learn to kill the trash mobs yourself.

There are many times I want to kill my own NPC guards….. also, while I’m killing the mobs I am 1. Not hitting the enemy (enemy gets in free dps on me) 2. I lose my own chance of rallying while giving the enemy free dps on me= I will probally lose the fight.
It makes fighting more than 1 person almost impossible (the only way to win a 1 vs more people fight is to defeat people very fast, them rallying off PVE mobs doesn’t help that- after all, they don’t need to worry about me rallying, eventually they win the fight, only I need to worry about the mobs health on top of my own.)

I find it incredibly frustrating when someone I have downed kills a trash mob and rallies off it- it just creates gameplay where i don’t want to fight people around PVE mobs or my own guards because it becomes impossible to kill any of them with the constant rallying( especially if you are fighting a larger force.)
What are your thoughts about this?

For PVE, a zerker build with nades and a rifle is my standard- offering vuln stacks and decent damage.
For PVP, I will always use a pistol shield (bombkit build) or dual pistols (nades)- the ability to get tankier with a pistol build and having access to multiple conditions and working so well with might stacking really makes it more suited to my playstyle.

I feel like the only one on our BL- feels like a ghost town at this hour

Engis now get one free kit for a weaponswap, power scaling on the rifle and all kits increased, extra stack of bleed on pistol 1, gadgets now have passive effects and have their CD reduced, elixir X and mortar changed, add in better traits for turrets and fix AI.
I feel this is a reasonable list.

I had the idea that they should just replace the darn thing- we already have a turret elite (supply crate), I was thinking along the lines of replacing the mortar with a jetpack or something.

Honestly- FC and ET just need more players, there needs to be incentive to transfer to them.
Also if you want to look at an even worse matchup- look at T9 EU :P

Honestly I don’t see the problem- people with low vitality but high toughness fall to condition damage and people with high vitality but low toughness fall to crits (Unless you’re a d/d ele, in which case you don’t die ever)

And how is getting killed by conditions worse than just being killed by crits?

The only thing that irks me (apart from people rallying off trash mobs in WVW) is that downed abilities from the Mesmer,Thief and Elementalist are stronger than the other professions due to their number 2 ability being able to avoid all stomps- the other classes can be stomped with stability/stealth/invul stomped, while a Mesmer,Thief and Ele can stall out for at least 1 extra stomp- those extra seconds are crucial in fights and also allows you to put yourself out of harms way/next to an ally to be revived…. oh and the Eles downed state also allows him to pass through gates.
In short, Teleportation/Movement abilities as a #2 downed skill are far stronger than the others.

I heard the points change depending on where the yak is on it’s route- I have no idea if that is correct though.

From what I gathered- he is saying that if you have 6 engineer runes on your normal gear, then 6 on your pvp gear- he is apparently getting the stats for both of them in his normal gear- if this is true, it would give a pretty significant stat boost.