Guild Wars 2

Wow, thanks OP. Now ele’s are being compared unfairly to thiefs.

This sure won’t draw irrational conclusions about this being a viable build. /rollseyes

This build requires the following:

- Full Glass Cannon = sneeze in this ele’s direction and watch him eat dirt.
- Blow ALL Utility Skills = Utility skills are our MAIN source of escape! That leaves us with one option = Ride the Lightning. And RTL is EASY to counter! Immbolize Ele = RTL is useless.
- Opponent has to be an idiot by not using any stun breakers, cc, or dodging of his own.

Elementalist’s power shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same vacinity as Thief’s power.

CarelessKrow.8032:

For that number of players I just jump in head first to dagger storm, then let whoever’s behind me clean up and res my body if I don’t make it out.

You guys haven’t seen some T1 fights yet.

This! Lol, if you’re a d/d, s/d ele, or a thief and you don’t jump in the center of these zergs. You’re hurting your team and missing out on a lot of bags and fun!

I will admit that I transferred from BG to TC along with a few guildies.

BG, being in tier 1, and TC tier 3 though.

We didn’t transfer because TC is dominating and we wanted a free ride.

We just wanted a community who took WvW as seriously as we do. And when I say seriously, I really mean people who are dedicated. We also wanted a respectful and loyal community that doesn’t just give up.

BG is a great server don’t get me wrong. They are holding their own in tier 2 with no problems. But what killed BG for us was when they were in tier 2, MULTIPLE of BG’s biggest WvW guilds quit playing mid-week due to the whole hacking accusations. This caused BG to go from winning to losing by the end of the week. They continued not to play the following week so BG was riding with outmanned buff 100% of the time.

I understand why they did it, BG won = we are hackers, BG lost = we suck. So in a lot of peoples eyes it was a lose-lose situation.

Sorry, but I want a community that doesn’t just give up or transfer off the server when whiners come storming the forums.

We started researching server communities and how much they participate in WvW. TC was our solution.

So, no we didn’t transfer to a “winning server for a free ride”. We transferred in seek of a server with similar values as us. TC is my home now and I don’t plan on going anywhere.

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Scyndek.5273:

This is wonderful! Lets give the devs plenty of reasons to nerf ele’s because of hypothetical builds that have no practical use anywhere other than killing training dummies.

Thats really all this video is saying to me, good job on creating it I guess but the only real place this could be used is in the mists against training dummies.

This.

This will be used on rubbish players and they will moan on the forums and we will get nerfed even more.

I agree too. This won’t be used for anything good except for thiefs to state “ele’s can burst the same as us!” When in reality this build is not viable at all.

Is there a Precision, Vitality, and Toughness version?

Joey.3928:

DivineBeing.2086:

A better question, do you think the current way WvWvW works is broken?Should it really be FA vs TC vs YB or SoS vs SBI vs JQ? What if a server is primarily focused on dungeons and PvE content? Should the players in that server suffer since the server would be considered “full” still.

Server may be full, but full of what? Botters? Dungeon runners? Non-wvw folks?

That is interesting indeed. So more like a classic server selection where you pick a PvE server or WvW server. I guess with these free transfers if people think their server is dead in the sense of WvW they can move off, but then you have that whole issue of your guild losing all upgrades.

EXACTLY! Lol, I was really worried after I posted this that people wouldn’t understand what I was saying but you got the point exactly.

If you ever see a Sylvari male d/d elementalist that likes to jump in the middle of groups that would be me.

Tera GX.8149:

I must remind that “nightcapping” does not equal “Oceanic” players. There’s plenty of US players in our main forces during the night.

That’s true, but I know guildies who stay awake for a full +24 hours just for WvW. Where a oceanic player could easily take his spot since it’ll be…what 4:00PM there?

I understand you could work 2nd shift, or have no job or school to worry about, and that’s completely cool but I can’t say that’s common.

I am not saying we are doing bad overnight. Just stating how we can improve. Recruit some more euro or oceanic guilds = we are golden 24/7. Our NA prime time is great already.

A better question, do you think the current way WvWvW works is broken?Should it really be FA vs TC vs YB or SoS vs SBI vs JQ? What if a server is primarily focused on dungeons and PvE content? Should the players in that server suffer since the server would be considered “full” still.

Server may be full, but full of what? Botters? Dungeon runners? Non-wvw folks?

We finally got our SMC back.

Time to take over FA BL! Err…..look at the dancing monkey….

Man, we (TC) need to get more Oceanic coverage it seems.

I logged off last night, we owned all of TC BL. The garrison, bay, aand AH, along with Green Lake in FA BL.

Log on this morning to check how it is doing before work, FA now owns all FA BL. Ouch.

Koakuma.7253:

I see your point, but I also don’t see your point at all.

WvW is a game designed around massive coordination, and dedication to various duties by ALL parties involved. SOMETIMES, yes, this means sitting in a tower and defending it. Maybe it means walking back and forth between camps escorting yaks. It MIGHT even mean that you need to defend camps for an hour or so. If you find yourself on Sentry Duty, as we refer to it, you can always ask to switch off with somebody after a while if you find yourself bored. Generally speaking, somebody will do so.

Defense is as important to the game as offense is, and claiming defending has no value because of lack of points only shows that you have no real understanding of the potential points system, and the big picture as a whole.

This.

There are those on the server who really enjoy defending the castle. Seriously. Maybe a person doesn’t feel very useful in attacking other players but still wants to contribute to WvW community and still feel a sense of acceptance, so he goes an defends a keep and states periodic reports.

I LOVE pvping. And does it really sound like fun to go on yak duty? Not really. But I have done it for an hour straight before. Was I clinching my teeth the entire time? Not at all. I knew I was contributing A LOT to my server still so I didn’t mind it at all. After a while I did switch out with someone. Most of the time, a random person will walk by notice you doing it, and begins to help you. By that time, you can just walk away.

It’s funny FA is complaining about 2v1 in their borderlands.

TC Borderlands yesterday anyone? I was there from 12 to 2AM. It went from ALL blue to ALL green by the time I got off at 2AM. We have HEAVY pressure from both YB and FA.

We still overcame.

To be honest though, I don’t think TC is ready for tier 2 though. No doubt, we are pretty strong but our strategy and overall organization could be better. I was previously on BG in it’s prime so I got to see team work from another server.

45 Seconds isn’t that long to be honest. As an elementalist that’s how long all of my utility skills CD are which I need at least one of those up when fighting in a zerg vs zerg fight (people tend to target ele’s which is understandable since I like getting in the middle of the combat and doing aoes than escaping).

What I purpose is a CD between the skills themselves. The thief shouldn’t have been able to face roll on the keyboard and dish out 16k+ damage in less than a second. I think it should be how an elemenatlist is with attunement swaps. He can’t swap attunements for a second or two after he just swapped. So add a 1 second or .5 second delay between those skills.

I could careless about the damage itself. It’s the fact it was dealt in less than a second giving no time to react. Full health to empty health in a blink of an eye is ridiculous.

I have killed plenty of thiefs but definitely watch out for them more than any other class.

Also, why do you think people complain about thiefs so much? I hear it a lot in map chat and guild chat. I never hear, “man that warrior was OP” or “oh great that stupid warrior again”. It’s always “theres that thief again!” You can’t just keep using the excuse “well they are noobs and don’t know how to counter thiefs.” If a huge majority of the people are complaining than there is obviously a problem.

I wish people said elementalist were OP. But as it stands, we have to cycle through 16+ key strokes to deal the damage that thief did to me in less than a second. But that’s what makes elementalist fun and a challenge.

I don’t mind the damage thiefs can output but the amount of damage in such a short amount of time.

Read my thread for proof as to why a character should not die in less than a second:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/FlameShieldOn-16k-Damage-in-1-Sec-OP

Solution? Simply put a CD in between the skills themselves kind of like you do for elementalist on attunement swap. Make it like 1 second or .5 seconds. That way the thief can’t just face roll on their keyboard and deal 16k+ (I heard up to 20k!) in less than a second. Couple that less than a second burst + culling issues = nightmare in WvW.

Evilek.5690:

To DivineBeing.2086

Full glass cannon thief 2199 P 14,6kHP

Backstab DMG =(weapon damage 981)power 2199(skill coe. 2,405 on back attack)/enemy armor=518811,695/enemy armor

Bunker Elementalist has 2755 armor and 16k HP

Enemy armor 1500=3458,74 DMG
Enemy armor 2000=2594,05 DMG
Enemy armor 2200=2358,05 DMG
Enemy armor 2500=2075,22 DMG
Enemy armor 2755=1883,22 DMG !!!! with crit=150% normal damage + critikal rating - 70%=220%——>18883.22 DMG*2,2=4142DMG 15% signet of assassin 20% <50%eagle runes +5%=4142*1,4=5198 DMG !!

ON your screen 7752 DMG back stab=2960 non crit—>+- 1900 armor.
Heh man YOU ARE GLASS CANNON AND UGLY LIAR !!!!!

Time to debunk some of these theories of me lying about my gear. So here is a nice video of my gear along with my awesome health pool.

Obviously, my build is NOT a glass cannon and there are no lies to be told here. It is a bunker build hence all my gear specing towards toughness, vitality, and healing. Also, take a close look at my utility skills. Cleansing Fire, Mist Form, and Lightning Flash. All three are stun breaks/condition removals/escapes. Bunker built.

Yes, I could put 30 points into Earth for +30 extra toughness along with changing my sockets into more vitality and toughness which is REQUIRED to counter this thief? Think before you speak. That shouldn’t be the case. An elementalist shouldn’t have to roll a SINGLE spec in order to kill one class. That is the definition of unbalanced.

And again, for this whole “you should react when you see you take damage or about it”. Culling issues = thief wasn’t even VISIBLE at the time! AND I didn’t even get the chance to react when your health goes from full to empty in less than a second! “You deserve to die if you stuck around.” READ THE POST! I was running around an enemy zerg to get to my zerg. I even RTL’d along with perma swiftness to run faster. There was no “sticking around”.

So this whole “should have obviously dodged”. Dodge what? Dodge randomly where nobody enemies are around? Who does that?

Also, my computer specs for those who think I am lying about that too /rollseyes.

Plaxy.4617:

Those numbers suggest either one you have crap armor meaning not right equipment maybe traited but not correct Items through out, or those are pre patch numbers.

You’re killing me man. That screen shot was taken a little bit ago in WvW. I just got off and posted on the forums, literally.

My equipment, I already listed.

All Exotics:

Precious, Vitality, and Toughness Gear ALL around, yes this includes accessories.

The build I am using:
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQBYAg84ETYRU4hyjZyxGA

But yes, I am running around with 16k health roughly.

Screenshot speaks for itself.

I, a bunker built elementalist (pure Precision, Vitality, Toughness build) wearing all exotic gears along with guild backpack, etc, was in WvW and dropped by a thief in one second.

Saw a group of enemies, but needed to get to the zerg that was protecting our trebs from the enemy, so proceeded to try to out run them.

It obviously didn’t end that well. In literally ONE SECOND, not even joking. I didn’t even see my health go down! I was dead.

That should NOT be possible.

Elementalist = are known in ALL games to deal damage or be support. An elementalist on GW2 can go pure glass cannon and not put out that amount of damage, especially not in that short of time either.

You couple that damage + perma stealth in wvw due to culling = ridiculous.

And no, I should not have to run in a group in order to not die. I have no problems taking on 1v1, 1v2, 1v3, and even 1v4 at times. But yet this thief comes along and pretty much 1 shots me? I say one shot because 4 shots don’t even matter since it was less than a second which means I have NO time to respond.

“You wear light armor of course you are going to die”. So an elementalist can never defeat a thief? “No, they can. You just have to L2P and dodge.” Yes. Let me dodge a move that I had no time to react to because I couldn’t even see it coming. Great advice. Tell me how to L2P better with that one.

“Your computer must suck”. Computer Specs: i7 3930k (six core processor) OC’d to 4.6ghz. Geforce 680 GTX. 32GB of RAM. Game is running on an SSD SATA III. I also have the 2nd fastest internet in my state!

“That thief was obviously using a glass cannon build and would die if he was attacked.” True, but read my post above. My class which is suppose to be known for DPS and bursty, if it goes glass cannon it will NEVER achieve this amount of damage, especially not in less than a second. And regardless if he was glass cannon spec’d, he should not be able to completely obliterate an enemy in less than a second. If the class is intended to do so, than everyone should just roll a thief and go glass cannon. That way it will be purely about numbers instead of skill. 2 thiefs vs 4 thiefs = 4 thiefs win since they just cancel each other out by 1 shotting each other. Get the point?

Go ahead and flame away. I have read plenty of threads on here to know how incredibly defensive some of you can be. And your only arguments is already addressed above. But feel free to try to say how elementalist < thief is the way it was intended. And post comments ignoring the fact that this thief came out of nowhere, and did over 16k damage in less than 1 second (no exaggerating here either!). I won’t be responding. This is merely for Anet to take to their meetings and discuss this “balance” issue.

INB4 L2P, L2Dodge, Elementalist < thief, you obviously suck, you should be able to tell the future, and whatever ridiculous comments.

Oconell.8673:

Samaul.6073:

7. Get a can of compressed air, open up your case and carefully blow all of the dust out of your system.

Wrong. Don’t do this or you may very well damage your components. The correct way to do that is to get an air compressor and compress it yourself. But that’s neither cheap or efficient.
Cans of compressed air contain fluid that can damage your components. Also you can damage your fans by spinning them too fast when using a can of compressed air, and presumably even the components they are wired to.

Edit: In my opinion the best way is the old way, use a tiny brush or a vacuum not close to the components.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Do NOT listen to this advice at all!

A regular vacuum should not be anywhere near a computer! A regular vacuum can cause a build up of static electricity which will fry your computer.

Compressed air does have fluid in it. I believe its nitrate, not sure though. But with proper technique it is NOT a problem and is recommended by computer technicians.

1. Do not tilt or hold the can upside down or it will spray out fluid.
2. Short bursts are your friend.
3. Do not get too close to the actual component itself.
4. If spraying near or toward a fan, stick something solid(like your finger) in between the fans fins. If you don’t than you risk breaking the fan itself.

Now, there are special anti-static vacuums that you can use. These aren’t a gimmick or a scam. I personally use one myself. If you want to know the brand name than just ask. I amtyping this at work so I can’t just go check lol.

Oconell.8673:

Samaul.6073:

7. Get a can of compressed air, open up your case and carefully blow all of the dust out of your system.

Wrong. Don’t do this or you may very well damage your components. The correct way to do that is to get an air compressor and compress it yourself. But that’s neither cheap or efficient.
Cans of compressed air contain fluid that can damage your components. Also you can damage your fans by spinning them too fast when using a can of compressed air, and presumably even the components they are wired to.

Edit: In my opinion the best way is the old way, use a tiny brush or a vacuum not close to the components.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Do NOT listen to this advice at all!

A regular vacuum should not be anywhere near a computer! A regular vacuum can cause a build up of static electricity which will fry your computer.

Compressed air does have fluid in it. I believe its nitrate, not sure though. But with proper technique it is NOT a problem and is recommended by computer technicians.

1. Do not tilt or hold the can upside down or it will spray out fluid.
2. Short bursts are your friend.
3. Do not get too close to the actual component itself.
4. If spraying near or toward a fan, stick something solid(like your finger) in between the fans fins. If you don’t than you risk breaking the fan itself.

Now, there are special anti-static vacuums that you can use. These aren’t a gimmick or a scam. I personally use one myself. If you want to know the brand name than just ask. I amtyping this at work so I can’t just go check lol.

Oconell.8673:

Samaul.6073:

7. Get a can of compressed air, open up your case and carefully blow all of the dust out of your system.

Wrong. Don’t do this or you may very well damage your components. The correct way to do that is to get an air compressor and compress it yourself. But that’s neither cheap or efficient.
Cans of compressed air contain fluid that can damage your components. Also you can damage your fans by spinning them too fast when using a can of compressed air, and presumably even the components they are wired to.

Edit: In my opinion the best way is the old way, use a tiny brush or a vacuum not close to the components.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Do NOT listen to this advice at all!

A regular vacuum should not be anywhere near a computer! A regular vacuum can cause a build up of static electricity which will fry your computer.

Compressed air does have fluid in it. I believe its nitrate, not sure though. But with proper technique it is NOT a problem and is recommended by computer technicians.

1. Do not tilt or hold the can upside down or it will spray out fluid.
2. Short bursts are your friend.
3. Do not get too close to the actual component itself.
4. If spraying near or toward a fan, stick something solid(like your finger) in between the fans fins. If you don’t than you risk breaking the fan itself.

Now, there are special anti-static vacuums that you can use. These aren’t a gimmick or a scam. I personally use one myself. If you want to know the brand name than just ask. I amtyping this at work so I can’t just go check lol.

gimmethegepgun.1284:

DivineBeing.2086:

wombat.6123:

The FA recruitment thread just confirmed OBEY moved to FA. It also stated they are primarily a PvE guild, and from the numbers I’m hearing very few of them do WvW.

If you’re a primarily PvE guild than why even bother forcing 700+ members to switch servers? Seems pretty pointless.

Oh well though, it only hurts FA if that is true. More pver’s = less potential wvwers.

Your math is wonky.
Even if most of the incoming players are pve, more players still means more players will be doing wvw.

My math is fine. I bolded potential because that is exactly what it is.

If you have X guild who’s primary focus is PvE that just transferred 700 (arbitrary number, I get it) member to your server. That’s 700 LESS hardcore dedicated WvW players that you can have in your server. So if another hardcore wvw guild wanted to join they now have 700 fewer slots to play with.

Will some of those pve players play in WvW? Yes. But not as hardcore or dedicated as a primary focus WvW guild would be.

Either way, I am not attacking you, just merely pointing out the fact.

wombat.6123:

The FA recruitment thread just confirmed OBEY moved to FA. It also stated they are primarily a PvE guild, and from the numbers I’m hearing very few of them do WvW.

If you’re a primarily PvE guild than why even bother forcing 700+ members to switch servers? Seems pretty pointless.

Oh well though, it only hurts FA if that is true. More pver’s = less potential wvwers.

glock.2089:

DivineBeing.2086:

glock.2089:

DivineBeing.2086:

You are in the same boat as BG was.

BG won = we are hackers.
BG lost = we suck.

JQ and SBI are filled with excuses. Welcome to Tier 1.

only problem with this analogy is BG won nothing, legends in their own minds only.

If you even read the forums during BG’s first week, then you would see why many of BG’s wvw guilds transferred off, leaving what, that’s right, a ghost town of a server. And if the guilds didn’t transfer off, they merely stopped playing to drop to tier 2 (hence why they’re holding their ground there) because of all the whine.

Sorry but majority of players like to pride in their server. If your server was being accused of hacking and everyone would just dismiss the win based on that, than what’s the point of trying?

P.S. All servers had their hackers.

So yes, this analogy does in fact work since BG would have won.

The spoiled brat defense: blame everyone except yourself for your server’s inability to win in T1. Mommy Mommmy bad men accused our server of cheating which caused people to leave which caused us to lose…coulda shoulda woulda… its always the same with you guys.

What an incredible disservice this attitude has done to BG’s reputation…in the end its still self inflicted wounds and no one is buying it.

I shouldn’t have such expectations for a response from someone like you lol.

Typical, you can’t see the facts. BG = dominating T2. BG = had a higher point lead than what SoS has right now, MID WEEK. Than all of a sudden BG dropped off the face of the Earth running out manned buff and no commanders online remainder of the week? Sorry, it isn’t hard to destroy an empty server.

BG dominating in T2? They can’t be with the numbers BG had in T1, not even possible.

Fact is, BG got killed by SBI and JQ’s exploit whining. BG’s main wvw guilds stop playing or transfer off, SBI demolish BG in a sheer numbers game at that point.

Proof? Look at the whining towards SoS.SoS is doing great! They are going to win so seriously suck it up and realize you aren’t the bes and learn from this.

I have honestly never done an emote when I killed someone.

I kill them, and immediately start looking for my next target, a way to escape, or any tower that needs attention.

If I do go down, most of the time I will be with a few guildies who wouldn’t even give the enemy a chance to do an emote lol.

And if I go down 1vX than I just mmediately open up map to click my respawn waypoint even before I see their finishing move.

I just don’t even bother nor care to do emotes….it’s not worth my time. I am here to help TC stay on top. Not to show how badly I killed or got killed by an enemy through an emote. Lol!

Mobott.5908:

Okay, thank you guys for all the advice. I’ve been crafting my armor with Tailor, I didn’t know that the best way to get gear was off of TP. I’ve been trying to go with daphoenix’s D/D build and that’s why I put my first 10 trait points into Air. I thought I had an active enough defense, I guess not though. What is a good general skill rotation to use while fighting?

Also, I’ll try out that LH build when I manage to get to lvl 40.

Well, D/D is kind of different than S/D or 2h Staff. There isn’t a “killer combo” since there are hardly any blast finishers with D/D (especially daphoenix’s build).

It’s all situational.

I highly suggest watching all of daphoenix’s videos. That is how I made the switch from S/D to D/D. I learned how he used his skills and in what situation. This was a good foundation to build from.

Also, gear wise, stick with toughness/vitality/precious gear. Since you most likely don’t have 3-stat gear, go with toughness/vitality, if just 1-stat gear than go with toughness.

Sebyos.4089:

I’d rather fight a Warrior that I can see and react to than a Thief really. Bull charge or Bolas Fenzy 100b combos are weak and easy to counter just like Killshot builds, but defending against good thieves who spend 90% of a fight stealthed or noob mesmers who simply pump illusions over and over again just to Mind Wrack you repeatadely really sucks.

But hey you can’t hope for balance in this game I haven’t seen balance in 5 months.

This.

As a player who only plays a D/D elementalist (2h staff against walls), I would rather take on ANY class (and can!) than a thief. Can I kill a thief? Yes, but it’s almost as comparable as fighting 3 warriors.

D/D doesn’t have a whole lot of AOE. Does it have some aoe? Yes, the cone of affect can still land pretty well, but it’s hard to land a hit when you’re just spinning in air firing at nothing the entire time while the thief is perma stealthed and healing.

glock.2089:

DivineBeing.2086:

You are in the same boat as BG was.

BG won = we are hackers.
BG lost = we suck.

JQ and SBI are filled with excuses. Welcome to Tier 1.

only problem with this analogy is BG won nothing, legends in their own minds only.

If you even read the forums during BG’s first week, then you would see why many of BG’s wvw guilds transferred off, leaving what, that’s right, a ghost town of a server. And if the guilds didn’t transfer off, they merely stopped playing to drop to tier 2 (hence why they’re holding their ground there) because of all the whine.

Sorry but majority of players like to pride in their server. If your server was being accused of hacking and everyone would just dismiss the win based on that, than what’s the point of trying?

P.S. All servers had their hackers.

So yes, this analogy does in fact work since BG would have won.

HabibLoew.2590:

I would also like to add a personal observation: I understand that the current state of culling is frustrating. It frustrates us too and we’re working hard to fix it. Often in these threads people propose a variety of options for addressing the issue along with the suggestion that their proposed changes are simple. This is a tempting line of thought but in my experience very little of what goes on in game development is actually simple. In particular, the changes required to deal with culling involve fundamental changes to core systems. Both the changes and the systems involved are complex, which is why it’s taking us so long to implement them. As I hope I’ve made clear in my posts fixing the culling issues is a major focus of the WvW team right now and I firmly believe that we will be able to achieve significant improvements when our current development efforts are complete.

HabibLoew,
Could you explain if it would be difficult to increase the amount of data seen on the screen? What I mean is, obviously the Anet team is looking out for the little guy (min spec users) so the amount of data being sent to the client is very, very minimum. Could you explain if it would actually be “technically” hard to increase that amount of data to say 400kb/s? Or even do a speed test on our system to optimize the amount of data that can be consistently sent across the line? Or are you dealing with the problem of a bunch of micro-packets being sent to the client rather than bigger size packets? If that isn’t the problem, is it a legality issue regarding this min spec user thing? Image of the company on the min spec user?

I can see how any one of the above problems could cause the problems. Increase the packet size = people with slower connections or LIMITED connections will be ticked and put at a disadvantage, etc etc.

Sorry, just curious.

Wow, this match can almost be considered a blow out.

35k+ Point lead? Wow. Very impressive SoS!

You are in the same boat as BG was.

BG won = we are hackers.
BG lost = we suck.

JQ and SBI are filled with excuses. Welcome to Tier 1.

Tarnished Coast is friendly organized community that is currently in tier 3. Do some research on us and I am sure you will be impressed.

Computers Specifications:
- i7 3930k OC’d to 4.6ghz
- Corsair Dominator 32GB of RAM
- Creative Titanium EditionSound Card with Sennheisers PC350 Headset
- EVGA Geforce 680 GTX
- Monitor is only 22" at 1080p
- Intel SATA III 240GB SSD (Game runs on this one)
- WD Black 1T

Game runs at max settings with VSync enabled so FPS is capped at 60 FPS. I do NOT get 60 FPS always either. I dip into the 20s at times.

Sorry, but there is something wrong with GW2 considering I can run Crysis, BF3, and SC2 with no dips at all.
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Can we get a score update please? And a screenshot of alll three borderlands?

Thanks.

Whos crying? Lol, the only crying I see is getting your feelings hurt.

Just relax, as someone else stated I wasn’t insulting your server. Plus I haven’t even got to play in WvW for this new match up yet lol.

TC do not be discouraged. Remember what our server is known for, RP! This means we have a lot of WvWer’s occupied with the Lost Shores event right now. Not to mention this weekend and next weekend = Thanksgiving.

We will do better after the Lost Shores event is over.

Keep your heads up guys, I promise. We will improve and put up a bigger fight. If we don’t win, than so what. We are merely T3, FA is a bandwagon server as someone else has mentioned, so they may the next BG (shooting up to T1). We will get there soon.

Slow and steady wins the race. I was on BG when it was shot up, BG was not ready. We don’t want that to happen to TC Be proud we have this many players playing in WvW this weekend with so much going on.

Anybody wanna help?

Does anyone have any information about how to get/make the ascended items?

I saw the post on gw2db but I can’t find the scroll in order to make the insignias to discover the items.

Also, I heard something about dungeon tokens?

I have to fully agree with everything stated in this thread.

A small group of close friends and me transferred from Blackgate to TC. The first night out, we had a 6 man group just harassing an enemy tower for fun (20 man enemy zerg protecting too lol!). While we were doing this, a another small group of players from TC strolled up to us, stopped, and said hey, whats up?

I almost fell out of my chair!! I had NEVER had anyone say Hi to me in general chat. So casual, so friendly. It was very refreshing lol.

But yes, we have awesome coverage all around except during Oceanic hours. Please only join if you plan on making this a permanent home though.

Disagree with you completely.

The only reason I log in right now is to do WvW. If I wasn’t rebuilding my character than I wouldn’t be running AC 3x times a day either.

WvW is a blast if you have friends. I can see it being boring if you’re just mindlessly following a zerg around and chasing commander tags.

To each his own I guess.

From my experience, I find d/d (dagger/dagger) to be the most enjoyable and fastest paced gameplay. Although, I do keep a 2h staff with me at all times to switch to in order to better damage to against keeps, towers, and siege weapons.

The rest of the time? D/D baby!

Yes, elementalist can be REALLY good at pvp. It just requires A LOT more effort than any other class. In the long run though, elementalist is where it’s at.

Are you on the Yak Bend or Crystal Desert server? Just curious.

Personally, as an elementalist, the only class I struggle with in WvW is burst built Thief. Permanent stealth while instantly hitting you for over 10k health is ridiculous. I will be looking forward to that nerf. Let’s not make this thread about that though.

Other than that, all classes are pretty much fair game.

There is definitely no 2vs1 against CD going on here.

Just last night a group of like 6 (including me) friends on TC were harrassing Briar for like at least an hour straight on the CD BL. That keep is owned by YB and is FULLY upgraded with siege. We harrassed the huge zerg that kept coming out only to get destroyed to run back into their keep to get on their siege weapons. We only got wiped once.

Eventually we decided to take out some of their siege and left to help protect Garison by taking our 6 man group and destroying the trebs at Woodhaven, all four of them (yes, that was us).

All that siege and players we killed along the way = YB

There is no 2v1. So please stop with that excuse.I can accept if you’re outmanned, as it seemed to be the case since the only huge zerg I saw from CD was at Garrison.

Yea, I fully agree the infractions on this forum are absolutely ridiculous.

I have only received infractions for two reasons: my tone, and posts not contributing.

There was only one post that received an infraction for “my tone”. And I agree with that one, no problems there.

Now, the whole “posts not contributing” is complete bull. One post was the meaning of contributing. The OP was asking why he got charged twice when he clicked the same button twice in the TP. I told him why and explained how a game server worked. Legitimate post, but was infracted for “not contributing”. Sent an email to have that infraction lifted but no response, SURPRISE!

Second time was recently when all I posted was +1 <insert user name here>. I can see why they would think that doesn’t contribute, but here is my justification. If someone clearly stated the problem PERFECTLY than why should I have to reiterate what that person just said and run the risk of stating it wrong. So you just don’t post saying that you agree with that guy? Ok. How does that look then? Others who don’t agree with the post (or even developers if it’s a game issue) will see ONLY ONE post regarding that issue. What would any person think then? It’s a one off issue, or it’s not really a big issue since nobody else agrees with that poster. Sorry but +1 a poster contributes to the thread. It’s a visual acknowledgment that says, “hey, I completely agree with everything you just stated and I want others to see that too”.

I seriously get the feeling that if a moderator doesn’t like your post or disagrees with you, he will begin searching through his arbitrary list of rules that exists but players can’t see them or know about them, and picks one. Hmmmmmmm, does that post qualify as “verbal abuse”, maybe “harrassment”, nah I will go with the generic “post doesn’t contribute” since that takes a judgement call (guess who makes that judgement call).

The best thing you can do to help ensure you don’t receive an infraction is by putting the following words in every post:

“I love moderators, they are always right and never wrong. Anet is the best.”

That should pretty much make the post safe.

Alright, I understand the reasoning behind the DR limit. And I understand how it works and all.

Here is my complaint about it though.

It hurts casual players. Period.

I can’t play this game everyday, 12+ hours a day, like majority of the players can. I can barely play this game every other day for even an hour! BUT! There are times where I get an entire day or weekend to myself.

Well, if I am trying to build a set from say the AC dungeon than I can only do 3 runs per day. If I do any more than 3 runs that day, BAM DR limit 60 tokens —> 20 tokens per run! That’s pretty harsh :/.

Again, I understand why the DR limit is there. I am not asking to remove it. I am asking to lighten it up. 20 tokens for a 2nd run of the same path? Are you serious? In theory, I would have to run that same path 3 times to get the same amount of tokens as 1 run before the DR limit! That is ridiculous!

Can we lighten that DR to 45 tokens on the 2nd run instead? That way it is at least worth it as a casual player like myself to run the same path twice in one day to help compensate for the lack of playtime.

Hmm, not sure what you mean Cover Girl lol. So tell me if what I am saying is what you were saying xD.

I think what the OP is saying is he would like an elite NPC to aid in the fights between servers. You would somehow “recruit it” (build it or some kind of achievement or maybe a replacement for the outmanned buff?). You could only have one of him and he would have a TON of health while put out a TON of damage, or perhaps different variations of such an epic NPC that could give amazing boons to teammates? He would still be killable of course, but nowhere near as easy as to kill one of the NPC’s at at the keep or campsites.

I agree.

I really think they should remove jumping puzzles altogether from WvW since it doesn’t seem to fit in the grand scheme of a WAR lol.

Letifer, I don’t think Kuroin is fully grasping what we’re saying.

When I stated I could kill any class, that is essentially what I mean. It’s balanced. Does that mean I utterly destroy all classes hands down? No. Yes, I stated I could kill them with no problem and that’s the truth. Can they kill me with no problems at times? Yes. Why? Because my class is pretty balanced too.

Are all classes perfectly balanced? Not saying that at all. Thief just happens to be way out of balance due to this perma stealth ability while still having the skills (actual skill not player skill) to wipe an opponents health of 18-20k within a matter of seconds on a defensively built class.

And before you state, “ kitten Well that person was built glass cannon”. Once again! Build a glass cannon elementalist or any class for that matter, and see how well that turns out for you. No where near the damage and survivability.

Roll any other class and spec glass cannon than feel the difference.

To make it even more prominenet, roll an elementalist and go full glass cannon!

You will see why thief’s should have some sort of nerf coming.

Honestly, I wouldn’t mind the damage you put out if it wasn’t for the fact that you are perma-stealthed while attacking me. I shouldn’t have to build my character to specifically kill on class. All other classes, I can kill with no problem. Run into a thief? You better hope that thief is terrible because even a decent thief can stomp any player with no problem. And there lies the problem.

As an elementalist, you should really stay away from burst gear honestly. That was the route I first took too but eventually switched to being tanky and have not looked back.

Dungeons are pretty much my main source of income right now. I run AC dungeon than WvW. If I get low on money? Do a couple AC dungeon runs.

Just today alone I gained 4 gold from it. That’s 3 runs worth too.

I can’t say I only do dungeon runs for the money though. I am also doing them to rebuild my character. So it’s a win-win.