GvG, stand in front of enemy veil, run at enemy, drop bomb, get downed banner rez repeat over and over again? This type of GvG is kittened and I loved GvG in GW1. I don’t think the majority would be interested in this till Arenanet actually provides real GvG. The only reason I’d something something like this is to test theories .
What do you mean by real GvG? Surely you don’t mean 20v70
Glass thief against glass warrior is pretty hit and miss. If you don’t dodge his cnd / shield block his backstab, you’re in for a world of hurt. At the same time, if you don’t dodge the warriors bullrush/shield stunsmash you’re pretty screwed. Also I find that whirlwind GS can melt a pure glass thief from 100% HP to 0%. It’s pretty funny when I see warriors do that. Glass cannon thief is such a bad build xD
How do you die like that? My guardian melts practically every class in a 1v1 besides mesmers through retal. Do you use a focus offhand? Always use a focus offhand
There is a 100% condition duration cap. The max you can get with vital shot and sneak attack is 8s(it may say higher on the toolbar if you have >100% duration, but the max is 8 seconds). With that in mind, I would recommend you using.
0/0/30/20/20
Giver’s pistol
Giver’s dagger
Superior sigil of agony
Sigil of corruption
Rare Veggie
Master Tuning
That will result in 7s bleeds as it rounds up from 6.5+(1s less than the max) but at the same time provides an entire rune set at your disposal which can do much more damage than that extra 1s tick.
I hope it’s just as good as Wintersday and Mad King. Those were the best GW2 days of my ~1500 hours dedicated to this game. I would gladly pay 50$ just for an expansion pack much like Wintersday/Mad King.
Personal Wishlist
New Activites
Large amount of decorations in Lions Arch
Recipes
New, temporary currency(like the wool socks)
New skins
WvW Decorations
I especially hope that there is a jumping puzzle. That would complete everything.
Assassin: Extreme mobility, no stealth
Instant – Near instant cast times
Initiative system
Large amount of evasion
Light armor, high HP base
Use any weapon
Basically a thief with no stealth, more evades, more mobility, more versatility
TC and DragonBrand. Wouldn’t even be competitive due to all these SEA/OCEANIC/EURO guilds acquired in order to win T1, but it would give us people to fight. TC NA is top notch imo, and DB’s SEA would be fun for our SEA guys. Does DB have a Euro force to keep IRON entertained? xD
Skills:
Fire – Fire a missile that destroys everything it hits
Strafe – Strafe targetted area. Damage equivalent to a million ballista arrows
Nuclear Bomb (cooldown, 120s) – Win WvW.
Now that I have some more free time on my hands, I may get into farming. ATM I have a guardian and thief, both specced for WvW (PTV & condition). I intend to get MF gear w/ some zerker. So which class would be better for farming? I would assume thief due to DPS & speed, but thief is also squishy at the same time and the last thing I would want is dying when farming. Opinions?
It’s so and so for me. Against a group it’s pretty useful, but in a 1v1 situation it’s very moot. I also do not recommend using it in melee range, especially against glass cannons.
Perhaps give a boon such as vigor to fit in with the evade theme of the thief. This would help P/P quite a bit. Maybe a 50% chance to give vigor for 2s on auto attack, much like dagger mainhand where you get quite a bit of endurance on one of the auto attack rotations.
1 – Shoot your foe. Applies 1 stack of bleed
2- Shoot your foe again with a poisoned bullet. Applies poison for 3s, cripple for 1s(base condition duration)
3- Shoot your foe three times. Applies bleed for each shot that hits
I think the pistol MH should stay a condition weapon, as another core design of thief uses bleeds/cripples/poison. Maybe just keep the auto attack the same and speed it up or add a 30% chance to poison for 5s on each auto attack shot.
It’s all about the speed of attacks you use. Barrage attacks multiple times extremely fast and ends up killing the ranger. I would run a beastmaster build/trap build with melee and kite the guardian while my pet kills him. Works quite well.
Glassy rifle engis/tanky warriors/sword dagger thieves also do very well, however
pistol pistol engis + d/d condition thieves + p/d or p/p thieves melt like butter
1) New maps
2) Reduce skill lag(if possible)
3) Reduction of large zergs (anything about 50 people becomes a spamfest of pressing 1, 30v30 is fun, though)
4) Reintroduction of consumables. No gears, spikefruit, or the such, but planks were harmless outside the jp!
JQ and SoR share the same teamspeak owner & host. If there was maintenance both TS servers would be affected
the only way this would be true is if both servers were running on the same machine… and then a DDOS would knock out both servers. my vote is it is just the influx of people everywhere getting on ts at reset.
The max influx of players happens an hour before reset when Indo gives his speeches/server meetings. It seems odd that the crashes would only happen within a 5 minute window of reset. Then you have to account in that after the TS stayed down for 15 minutes, the amount of players in TS went back to pre-ddos numbers and showed zero signs of lag. This TS server is designed to easily carry 512 players. We were about 112 players short of that and the number has been higher before with zero problems.
Also, JQ and SoR TS may not be hosted on the same server, but it is run by the same guy, perhaps on separate servers. A huge influx of people causing the TS server to crash would also cause JQ’s server to crash if it were hosted on the same server, which probably points to the fact that it isn’t on the same server. When maintenance is done, however, it’s usually done on all servers from what I’ve seen. It would seem odd that SoR’s TS is the only one experiencing “maintenance” at it’s peak every friday and JQ not.
How come every time I read about this Indo speech I picture a dude standing on a palace balcony shouting into a microphone and a massive horde of people below chanting and cheering while waving flags?
Why does BG always try to justify stuff. Just say what we are all saying, it sucks it is happening SoR, none of the legitimate players would want that to happen. It’s probably some kitten. End story.
Why do you always have to justify stuff*. I’m not representative of the BG community as a whole, lol. To the point, the same could be said about the accusers. Has the TS owner even contacted the server host? Is there possibility that there may be a scheduled maintenance?
JQ and SoR share the same teamspeak owner & host. If there was maintenance both TS servers would be affected
You can say its a coincidence ect ect and play stupid, but at the end of the day, everyone here knows someone from one of the three servers…a troll is ddosing our TS. We know it and you know it. You can deny it all you want.
And you can make baseless claims all you want, but without solid evidence that’s all you have: baseless claims. lol
No, you’re right. It’s totally just a coincidence. Go ahead and remain naive.
It isn’t balanced for 1v1s. I don’t think that was apart of their design, TBH. You have classes like thieves, mesmers that, if you look at their profession skills, traits, and weapons, is pretty obvious that they are designed for small scale skirmishes. Then you have eles, guardians who are there to mainly support(minus d/d ele, of course!). Each classes have their different roles. Which is why I can’t stand when a support class is crying about losing to a mesmer in a 1v1.
The timing is just too accurate to have been an overload.
The way JQ and SoR are hitting our structures on JQBL is just too accurate to have been a coincidental 2v1.
2v1s happen, as does DDoS to enemy teamspeak. It’s pretty obvious at this point it’s someone in JQ/BG that is doing, it doesn’t mean it’s the entire server. Everyone has it trolls, but it’s pretty obvious someone is doing it.
What’s the point of the most powerful BS…?
even you can to 20k BS, you won’t be able to take down a Guardian…
I give up trying to be an BS Assassin.
It’s much better to use S/D to stay in a longer battle
Umm….go play a Guardian and see if you get over 20k HP comfortably with other stats.
/lol’d
You really don’t need stats with a guardian. I run full PTV + shout guardian. 25K HP, boons give me damage. Retal is my favorite, however. That just melts them.
I cannot agree with this statement. If he ‘won’, then why does the Thief not have to pay repair costs, walk back from the WP, and where is Ralathar’s loot bag?
Edit: And what’s to stop the Thief from coming back again, and again, and again until he wins?
Edit: Alright, in sPvP, this is a win (sort of). You get to cap the point, and the Thief does not. In WvW, where all the complaints are? How can it be construed as ‘winning’ in any way?
I don’t kill people just to force them to walk and repair bills. I kill people because it’s fun. If he runs away, I don’t get that satisfaction, but I still won
Highlights from the cross server celebration following some GvGs! Had ~100 SoR and ~60 JQ show up. Was fun!
Although I do pity that BG force who decided to try and attack our Bay during the celebration, because that 100 man SoR spectator zerg soon mobilized along with a 60 man JQ zerg. Ouch
I think JQ would be a great place for RE if you managed to get all 350 through. JQ guilds like WARD SF are extremely skilled and know what they are doing.
As far as BG goes, they probably have the highest wvw population, but lack organization. As far as their guilds HB stuck out really well during the T2/early T1 days but have since disbanded. Other than that nothing much sticks out besides the mega blobs of 60-70 people they run
I have to agree with the OP that, while the living story is interesting, and relatively easy to develop and release(as opposed to an expansion), it doesn’t get my attention for more than an hour or two of “that’s neat”. Don’t get me wrong, in no way am I insulting Anet as they release wonderful content, but the Living Story doesn’t provide much to the overall lore, and the dungeon takes less than an hour. After that you could try out crab toss and explore a few new things but it just doesn’t have the wow factor that comes with expansion.
What was really fantastic, though, were the Wintersday and Mad King patches. Those were absolutely glorious and definitely had the “wow, amazing!” factor to it.
It depends on the tier you are in. T1 is bound to get more badges due to the pure size of the zergs. Also don’t focus on one player, focus on attacking everyone at once. Do this through AoEs and stuff. Should be pretty solid at that point. I usually average 15-20 badges per a fight of 40-50+ on each side
Shout guardians are practically immune to conditions and actually thrive on them. Add in retal that will mess you up when you death blossom/sneak attack, then you’re in for a bad time.
Engis have tons of CCs will an insane amount of condition and damage stacking. Not to mention they’re slippery in-fight
But really, shout guardians with soldier runes have too much condition curing. I run one w/ full PTV & soldier runes and condition classes, especially thieves, don’t stand a chance.
Shadow Refuge is a death trap against experienced players. Great for getting away from groups of bad players, horrid when dealing with good players. Either way, it’s not a necessity.
Yep, he’s a thief, how predictable. Nothing to see here folks, just another person with a poor understanding of Mesmer mechanics complaining about them.
Yep, he’s a thief, how predictable. Nothing to see here folks, just another person with a poor understanding of Mesmer mechanics complaining about them.
Yup, they’re devs alright. I see them every now and then in EB. I know a few were on SBI and also remember playing with Jon Peters and 5 other devs in EB. Was pretty cool!
Well BG did come first the two weeks after RISE, WM and MEOW (think they are dead now, haven’t seen them in WvW for a while) transferred.
The reason why SoR climbed to first is the coverage IRON provides, enabling SoR to control the EU timezone in addition to NA (i.e. 2/3 of every day instead of 1/3 like they used to).
WM n MEOW and RISE are all still kicking along on BG, but I dont think people understand that WM are not the 100 man zerg from SBI days, still its a blast having them here on BG and fighting with them instead of against them
and even if you do split the game into 4 timezones NA is 8 hours Oceanic is 5 Sea/Asian is 5 and Euro is 6, still gives SoR a 2/3 coverage advantage
I would say that SoR’s NA prime starts at 4 server time and ends at 10. By that time map hopping usually begins because we don’t have the coverage after 9-10 server time. This is based on what I’ve seen from my own guild and TS. Generally when NA prime comes around the guilds will split into their respective BL channels, while every other timezone guilds would consolidate into one channel and map bounce. But then again I could see how the time zones aren’t what they would seem to be. You’d have to factor the amount of west/east coast guilds, along with guilds that generally are one nationality and play a specific timeslot in the timezone…
JQ may be worth looking into. Their NA hasn’t been too well after RE/EMP left(the other RE). It would be quite a challenge to move a 350 man guild onto a full server, however.
BG: WM, RISE, Meow, MERC, ND, BT
Result: 3rd place
SoR: Iron
Result: 1st place
You can say iron “carries” or whatever, but even when you’ve consumed 6 other guilds you still struggled to place 2nd.
Well BG did come first the two weeks after RISE, WM and MEOW (think they are dead now, haven’t seen them in WvW for a while) transferred.
The reason why SoR climbed to first is the coverage IRON provides, enabling SoR to control the EU timezone in addition to NA (i.e. 2/3 of every day instead of 1/3 like they used to).
I would actually split it into 4 different timezones
Just a heads up I would highly recommend FA, Yak’s Bend, or SoS(push em into T3). All these servers have shown that they have what it takes to build a strong WvW community upon.
