Guild Wars 2

My most fun moment yesterday was jumping down as a underleveled mesmer with a guardian and thief on a group of about 15 DR (like 4-5 of them were in GOLD) fighting some number of fergs right above godslore. Threw a lot of them right into the down state, some died, my guardian and theif were downed and killed, and the ferg force mopped up. Then i came back and ressed my allies so they could get their loot bags.

Its easy to sell on the market. Right click item, click sell on market, click the options (dont sell now) click match lowest bidder. Sell.

Done.

The real currency in video games is time. Everything else is a reflection on that. Time is worth X gold.

If you think of it that way, you realize the value of gold is based on the amount of time it takes to attain gold, and items are worth a set amount of playing time. If anet nerfs gold income, over time the market will correct and prices will drop. But considering that prices are not dropping, thats not what anet did.

They actually increased the amount of GPH you get, except people are simply not leveraging the drops they get for their gold value, instead they are hoarding and banking the crafting and ectos they get instead of selling them, complaining that they are getting less money than before (they arnt).

You dont have to play the market, just participate in it by selling, and that is really really easy to do. I picked up about 100 ecto in a weeks time. If i sold it all that would be 39ish gold at current prices. Considering how little time i play it comes out to about 4-5 gold an hour.

Hrm.

Darxio.5672:

You can return to KBL fearless leader, but I’m not.

I refuse to put in the time like I did last week ever again. KBL needs 24 hour baby-sitting and I’m not going to do 12-16 hours of it a day.

Do not babysit our BL for 12-16 hours a day.

People tend to step up more readily when there is a need, if you are filling that need, people wont step up, which leads to burnout and forum implosion.

And yes KBL needs 24 hour babysitting if we want to keep it. Which is unfortuneate. I would rather lose keeps than people to stress though. We can always take keeps back.

Yep its 4-8 weeks before its shipped usually.

You did a chargeback on week 3? Der.

The margins on flipping make flipping very hard and very risky to do. I rarely see people flip goods.

No matter what Anet really does, the value per hour wont change. If drop rates get nerfed, mat prices go up, selling the mats ends up netting you the same money.

Just look at the price of ecto… Most of you are probably holding your mats because you want a new item from the MF that requires them.

but how would you force the zergs to split. All multiple objectives will do is force servers to cap 4 areas one at a time.

The NPCs only really stall enemies on points, the battle is won when the enemy players are defeated so the points can be captured.

Making more ‘points’ doesnt fix the issue at all.

ktith.6197:

The amount of prints you get from the JP is hardly enough to lead a revolution in WvW. It’s far easier to kill a few players for the 6s for one print…imagine the silver and badges for ganking a zerg or killing a zerg at a huge defensive location where they all go in one big egg basket.

Being whacked in the JP is the same idea of burning the ant with the magnifying glass….it’s being done because “they can”. A vicious cycle (circle) of what was done to them and now will be passed on to you which you’ll pass on to someone else possibly (50/50). Is it wrong….not really in a pvp situation. Is it cool…only if you’re a child like mind that liked “boom headshot”.

I’m actually suprised servers arent leveraging the jumping puzzle to there advantage..
Is 320 blueprints attained in less than 2 minutes a worthwhile use of time? Think about it.

If someone is naked its really really really tempting to kill them for the easy kill and loot.

It like takes less than 5 seconds to down you when you are naked.

Kaineng never approved of the boasting. The video was over the top.

Just a particular person who tranferred to a server a week or so before…

Plus there is nothing wrong with declaring a win when you never won before, and that win was against ferg as the primary adversary not DR. The only reason DR is the primary target is because you guys have more population, and better coverage right now overall, if we want first place we need to target you, just like DR needs to target us. Fergie gets to play kingmaker in this situation by what they decide or do not decide to do.

KuraKaze.2314:

Valorwing.2865:

I will just leave these right here…

Now that was a blast, Kain i hope you guys enjoyed my little assault of gundams >:D!!!! Also to Ai’s commander. We should one on one sometime. I was calling you out in that large battle we were having, But i guess you didn’t read me xD!

I cant read enemy teams chat. or local you know :P

<- account name is here though

My build isnt built for 1 on 1’s, like at all. Its focused on chasing and running two things that arent great in a fight to the death.

Maybe your post about solo players should focus on actually helping solo players instead of suggesting that they should stop being solo players. Otherwise not a bad overview

This is silly.

Siege on top of depot’s is intended. If you want your answer look at inner bay keep. They give you a ramp to the top of the depot.

A ramp.

Also I place a lot of my trebs on the ground floor when they can reach their targets from there, and no, you cant AE them with player abilities, is that supposed to be forbidden? This topic is just silly.

JarekCyphus.7068:

Draygo.9473:

What anet did to the dye drop rate is set it back, after they accidentally increased it. They arent looking to steal all your monies.

I STRONGLY disagree. Abyss could be bought around 5-6 gold in September. Now it fluctuates between 14-16 gold. That’s overkill. So what if the dyes are needed to create the Bifrost? Did we really need to make that grind ever more of a treadmill? Dyes are otherwise COSMETIC items. They don’t need such a low drop rate.

I have three various low level toons I’m currently grinding, and I’m hardly seeing this “better rate” people speak of anywhere. It’s very inconsistent; for the past two weeks it’s been that I’ll have one day out of the week where I’ll have four abrupt drops in an hour or two, and then never see another dye for the rest of the week.

It needs to be fixed. There’s NO WAY it’s working as intended.

The price of 15-16 g now has nothing to do with why it was 5-6 gold in september.

It was 5-6 gold in sept, because in september people had less money. Plus demand for it was lower, as people tend to go after vanity things after they complete stat related thigns

For the most part it is faster to complete hearts and level generally if you follow someone around.

Generally I do grouping via ad-hoc you are doing the same thing i’m doing, but no I wont join your party or ask you to join mine.

Some examples: Generally mobs die faster when 2 people attack them
Generally you can clear mobs away from a skill point faster with 2 people
For hearts that require you to pull a monster out of the ground, let the other person pull, damage his pull, after it dies, pull it yourself. You can finish these hearts almost twice as fast.

I dont tend to wait for people, when i’m done, I’m done, and I’m off to the next area, but if someone is in the area with me doing the same thing i’m doing, ill be attacking his targets because its just much faster that way.

Make sure your gear is approprate.

For example, if your a level 40 with level 30 blue gear downleveled to level 10, it would be equivilant to being a level 10 running around with level 7ish blue gear.

If you are running around with level 20 gear as level 40, downleveling will put you at level 5 gear in a level 10 spot.

Equiping higher rareity gear will help with this quite a bit.

They arnt forcing you to buy from the store…

1) Buying from the store does not give you unid dyes for crafting
2) There are other ways to obtain dye, for example cooking.

What anet did to the dye drop rate is set it back, after they accidentally increased it. They arent looking to steal all your monies.

There still are areas in the game that have really good dye chances, for example escorting an npc and his cocooned friend DE has you under attack by lots of small, easily killed spiders. Good chance of a dye drop before the end of that DE.

If you end up glitching somewhere you know you shouldnt be, you should not take advantage of it and continue to attack.

1 on 1 right now, ferg would probably lose. It would be a very even match by what I see ferg feilding but with SoS in play I think we would get too many points outside of US prime while being competative in US prime against ferg.

But its entirely irrelevent. The server that takes second place is the server that Devona’s decides should take second place.

The benifit of Ferg attacking DR is to keep DR in this tier. If they attacked kaineng, DR would be way ahead in point value and would be in more danger of actually slipping up a tier. (we want you to stay, BFF).

Also Chris, it goes both ways. Ferg constantly attacks us while we have SM instead of DR. Its fine. Its open war. most of the guilds dont go after you guys specifically.

Devonas, impressive show of organization portaling 60+ people at once into dane.

Too bad it was only against 6 defenders.

I sorta feel honored you have to portal that many people in to get past our camp.

I was kinda depressed last night as DR had the pop to push kaineng and ferg off EB, at the same time :/

We would kill 60 of them and 60 more would run back to fill the holes, not even giving us enough time to push out and take a supply camp. All the while I was noticing ferg was losing stuff slowly just as we were.

We didnt have the numbers at all. Had outmanned the entire time i was out in EB last night. And DR was using those numbers properly, never commiting the entire force to a push or attack. So when we forced a wipe we couldnt rally and retake an objective to relieve the pressure on our keep.

At least I got to teach a few people how to setup a proper meatgrinder and we got to feast on your corpses at a tower.

Jonny.9370:

Wasn’t the ability to play with friends, regardless of what server you were on, through the “visiting” feature(don’t remember what it was called) a selling point for GW2? Whats the point of that now since I can actually freely transfer to a friends server instead of simply visiting?

This whole thing seems to only apply to WvW and, imo, if someone wants to hop from server to server because it the flavor of the month, let them pay out the puppies for it..

.. I hate cats.

Yes.

But you see guesting isnt enabled right now because it isnt ready.

Free transfers end when guesting is working the way anet wants it to.

I really dont mind if the enemy knows the timer, because they dont know when or if ill reset it. Sure it gives them a ‘little’ more information, but the amount of info it gives me is far more worthwhile.

Also a way to despawn your own placed siege would be nice.

Protip incoming:
Warriors can clear the chandlier room while crippled and in combat, and have the resiliance to tank a bunch of the AC damage.

Step1: Equip sword (not greatsword)
Step2: use Sword#2 to jump over the chandliers, in combat, and while crippled

This ends this protip.

I just want some sort of visible timer or indicator when a siege weapon will despawn.

Maybe devs can leverage the necro second health bar code for this purpose, and put a grey bar on all unused siege that slowly ticks down. Another way is to apply an ‘unused’ buff to siege with a visible timer on the buff.

Consistancy and ability to know when things are despawning will help.

As far as i’m aware AC’s dont have a 5 target restriction. I’m sure when i fire an arrow cart into a cluster i got a whitewash of damage numbers. I’m sure ballista also hits more than 5 targets.

You can get the time investment per person down to around a minute pretty easily.

I hope people dont realize that and continue to consider the JP’s a waste of time.

Last thing we need is an extra 320 siege BP’s obtained in less than a minute

Please wait till the balance dust settles before transferring back into our tier. Go to the ‘worst’ server in our tier.

There are soo many factors here.

The main reason physical damage is better is that it has synergy to both crit chance and critical damage. But it is also mitigated by toughness

Conditional damage has its uses, conditions do more than just damage over time, in posions case it reduces healing. Also conditional damage ignores toughness and armor.

Better than a few years

Its pretty easy to see if the puzzle is camped. Enter the water near the room with the releaseable monsters before you even go into the puzzle. go underwater then surface. press ctrl and look around, enemies names will show up. If camped. dont attempt.

It takes about 5 minutes to do the JP in EB

for 2 siege BP’s and enough badges for another BP, its worth that time.

If its camped, dont do it. Or do it with a bunch of people that know how to break the camp quickly.

The price of ecto is tied to multiple factors.

The main influence right now is an extreme increase in demand, so price is going way up until that demand meets the supply.

Supply is gained through salvaging rares but the rares come from two main sources:
Drops
Crafting

The demand for crafted rares is inflating the price of crafting materials, mainly the trophy part (as price tends to shift to the rarer item of the set, where the price of mithril will remain relatively flat).

No its not killing the game, or even close to it. Markets always reflect what people are willing to pay for a particular item. If you arnt willing to pay 26s for an ecto, then you are going to try to get it through other means, which in this case will increase the supply.

Not too long ago ecto bottomed out at 7s and change. Imagine if you bought a stockpile at that moment.

As far as I can tell I havent experienced any change in drop rate and salvage rate for ectos.

Protip:
Sell everything you get.

If you want to break it down, only salvage items that give you valuable mats, otherwise vendor them. Check rares on the TP before vendoring or salvaging.

Honestly anet should make it possible for people to walk back up that hill.

As far as I see it, attacking just outside their spawn is still attacking their spawn. You have no reason to be up there, camp is down below. Anet should add a ramp such that retreating players can return to the invunerable area, problem solved.

We have run that particular defense on kaineng over a month ago.

Turtle the lord room mmmm bags drop like candy.

2 ways to break:
Constantly run the gap and get SOME damage on the internal siege, eventually killing it after giveing up lots of deaths
or
Have a mesmer blink → Portal just beyond the choke and get enough people into the lord floor area to kill the siege. This rarely works with pugzergs as most pugs ignore portal entries.

alternatively if you catch the defenders napping you can fastbuild a ballista and #2 a defending ballista.

As a non pvp player you can wait till guesting is enabled. Switch to a ‘red’ server, and guest back to your original server to pve for a week, then switch back when the week is up.

Its tied to your server rank in the bracket

Green is always the highest rated server in your bracket and red the lowest.

I cant believe DR let us take all their keeps in Fergie BL with 7 people.

Der. We left bay keep as a present for fergie because meanie ol DR was pickin on um something fierce. And because you guys helped us out in our BL. Much <3

But really 7 people?

Willowisp.6490:

Tonight: Despite the incursion by Kaineng (using golems mind you) into our Borderland coinciding with a massive Devona’s push. Myself and a small team of ENVY ventured into Kaineng, after our homeland had been secured, to help thwart the Devona’s menace from further destroying Kaineng morale (but mostly just to kill DR). It seemed as though our small team of 5 was was actually defending Kain’s keeps more than Kain itself was, in both effort and numbers. Seems you guys are having a massive fair-weather player exodus, and for that I am sorry to see = /.

Having just undergone surgery I’ve been playing with only my pointer finger on my left hand for the past week and will be taking a month off for travel now. May both Kaineng and Ferguson’s crossing have the best luck in weathering the Green storm without me for a while. Give’m hell and don’t give up!

—Ferguson’s Crossing—-
The Spirit of Life – ENVY / Moon – 80 Asuran Guardian
Wispy Woods – ENVY / Moon – 80 Sylvari Mesmer

What are you talking about?

I havent seen many fair weather players. Are you talking about our 2am-3am population which we never had to begin with?

We locked down our BL today, camped DR into their spawn until about 1am eastern. Then a huge flood of DR hit our map and gave us all the outmanned buff. by 1:30 we were outnumbered at least 2:1 and we fought over every objective the best we could. But by the end of the night the zerg won. When you have numbers advantage like that between 1-3am there is about nothing you can do about it.

I thought we did a steller job, considering DR hit our BL with an organized force at reset, even building an omega siege golem. We lost hills to that off the bat but we managed to jam them at garrison with a meatgrinder at the door, wiping their force and golem. We patched the gates and tried to resecure the supply camps and DR came right back. We tried to defend the second push but we were down to 2 ballista.

Then we traded Bay keep for garrison. Then went on the offensive against bay first, then attacked hills while a squad of us hit bay again. then we redoubled and hit bay with that squad battering the door, and took bay. We put up 2 golems one omega from Boshy who solo built it, and a regular that was built by [Ai] and [NUKE] and hit Hills hard. Everyone tried real hard to break the gate down, our omega eventually ranged the gate down and we were at the precipice of wiping multiple times at that outer gate. DR had put up a lot of arrow carts. But because they spent all their supply on defending outer inner was much easier to breech. I sacced my regular golem on the gate and it was downed with 20% remaining on the gate, the omega finished it off. PRO had setup a couple of ballista on the bridge, we wrecked that pretty quickly and took the lord.

THen we took bluelake by sieging it with tons of catapults and a treb from hills.

After that we locked down our BL for 3 hours, against constant pushing from DR. We never let DR have champions or bluewater the entire time. And then the huge nightcapping DR zerg showed up.

Pro’s transfer didnt screw the balance up. I actually recommended PRO go to DR because they were in last place.

It was the bunch of guilds that transfered after pro into DR instead of taking the balance of the servers into consideration. If those servers split between kaineng, ferg, and devona instead of all flooding devona we would still have an evenish matchup.

Dont forget you get a tourny ticket daily now by finishing the daily pvp quest. So that probably explains why they lessened the reward to that end.

Jaaded.1870:

I know two groups of us were up around astralhome in Ferg early last night and some great fights against a ton of Ferg finally at one point. Took a while for that camp to be flipped back but was a lot of fun.

We went to kain for a little bit as well before heading to EB to play in one of your towers but unfortunately some of the pugs didnt get the memo that we wanted to play and so it was short lived.

You just came in at the wrong point :P Our golems were walking clockwise around the map and hit your tower just after you flipped it. Just bad timing.

Chris.4527:

Kain gets the random invasions from us on 2 reasons Chaster – KAIN/War/ISpy has been hitting us relentlessly the last few days. As I stated many, many, many times that our intentions are to not hit Kain at all, but it is brung on by yourselves. I try and focus on the huge Devona zerg over everything, anyways. Devona it seems can invade 3 out of the 4 maps very easily at the same time, for which they’ve been showing.

You guys hit us very hard I believe it was Wednesday, wiping everything but Garrison and we held you guys off there. So we did the same yesterday, our guild/server rolled over to Kain with golems and wiped all 3 keeps.

But as I stated, I don’t want to fight Kain. But I can’t sit there and tell my guild, and our server to bend over and take it when 50+ SoS are invading us and hitting 2 keeps at the exact same time with golems. But overall, if you’re complaining about people doing camps and so on, that is out of our hands.

Devona is the massive problem here, with their tons of skill/organization they’re flooding through every map with. Not each other.

problem is by wednesday Devona’s so far ahead in points that attacking them is pointless if we want second.

We have to attack you. I hope you don’t take that personally.

Sumwun.3846:

Draygo.9473:

You are a little off.

Devona isnt putting any effort in attacking your BL either, thus you could upgrade it to maximum.

I am inclined to disagree here. Being from DR, I can attest to the fact that Ferg has done an incredible job defending their borderlands from invaders. DR has attacked and Ferg responded multiple times. Granted, I feel like the general feeling on DR is to beat K into dust now. That bout of bad blood in this thread has settled in and many members of DR have taken the gloves off.

Fergs in-house communication must be amazing. AMAZING! and I don’t mean the kind of amazing that consists of A-team thinking they are the stars of the show and require their fannies to be polished. They respond pretty fast and with good numbers. The defense of Ferg is something that should be remembered. Look at their southern keeps and the Eyes crawling around the southern edge of the map. They came into this week with what appears to be a server wide plan, and stuck to it. Their efforts and team work are to be applauded and more importantly: Learned from.

They deserve some recognition.

I want to invade Ferg because I think that’s where you are going to get the best fights atm. Now I wonder how long it will be before K shows it’s true colors and attempts to invade Ferg at the same time as DR to weasel out of dead last.

You posted to disagree, yet you agreed.

Kain has no real choice but to attack ferg at this point to attempt to get second, which is mostly entirely upgraded thanks to almost a week of being ignored (except for yesterday as you guys decided to rip one of the keeps from ferg). So we probably wont try, and instead do what we do best is make a meatgrinder out of something, and cheer in victory at the hundreds of lootbags dropping at my feet.

Stop stealing my mining node!

OMG he tagged my boss and stole my loot!

Stupid noob why did you roll greed on something you dont need!

You are a little off.

Devona isnt putting any effort in attacking your BL either, thus you could upgrade it to maximum.

One thing i’m wondering is why fergies BL is mostly untouched this week.

:?

Also, ninjaing your keeps with suprise golem squads. Mmmm

If I were you I would stay at Fergie.

What does leaving accomplish anyway, going to any of the mid teir servers your going to have weeks where you get completely dominated anyway. High tier has queuing. Bottom teir is where its at, and until last week matchup was rather good. Devona’s Rest wont be with us for that much longer at the current rate and we will take the worst of the next teirs servers as our green team and the matchup will even out again.

Stay where you are, you will regret the move in the long term.

I got involved in a brutal fight at arahs in fergies BL earlier today.

DR had capped it and Fergie was trying to take it back, they had about 10 people

my group had 4. The lord was about to go down and we were on cliff above it. I said screw it go. We all jumped down, which reduced us all to halfish health and downed the first guy we made contact with, hopefully to get the enemy group to start to panic. We ended up fighting the remaining 9ish for about 3 minutes. We finally route them and start capping the camp when… [RED] shows up. I signal a wave because I didnt want to fight them at that moment (and I like RED, awesome guys), but they didnt take the signal, they downed our guardian who we ressed so we backed up a bit. Just then a 12 man fergie group rolls right into them and they start fighting and we ended up pulling out to the jumping puzzle area.

We push north and clear godsword so we finally get our suppy and put a ram down at longview and ninja the tower. Setup 3 arrow carts behind the door and waited at the tower. killed a dolyak as it passed by but it was rather uneventful. Then as we sit in the keep a fergie force shows up and stares at us across the way. They get down and start ranging the door. They begin a ballista but it doesnt get finished, some of them run off, so we ran out to kill the construction site and fight a few fergies when..

a DR force of about 15ish rushes in, we back into the tower and DR cleans the small group of fergie in front and starts shooting my flame rams I kept dropping on top of the tower wall. They put down a flame ram on a wall and build it :V Then fergie comes back and starts sieging the front, unaware the DR zerg is at the side wall of longview. So I put down another flame ram BP up at the corner between the two forces, and sure enough they see each other and have a field fight right infront of longview. Fergie took the edge and drove DR off.

Then fergie put down a serious attack on our tower. They built a ballista, and built a ram. Our arrow carts chewed their ram operator down really quickly, and killed the ram shortly after, and fergie just ranged the door at that point. At this point I would estimate the fergie force to be about 20-25, defenders 4. Door breaks we block the door and end up downing about 10 of them and killing 4 in the door way before we get overrun and lose 3, 1 escapes.

Funtimes.

If your playing for score you should gang up on the middle server actually :P.

Devonas has a significant coverage and pop advantage right now so we dont really have a realistic chance at first place. So were better off attempting to secure second place which means kain beating on ferg and ferg beating on kain and devona’s rest playing kingmaker.

For example yesterday Devonas seemed pretty bent on kicking kain’s kitten before fergs. Even so much as to attack a kain force attacking a ferg keep instead of hitting an undefended fort and kicking us off of EB first. (not complaining, good strategy is good strategy, if kain is your biggest threat focusing them is smart).

So if kain makes a pact with ferg to only attack devona, devona will primarily focus on kain, letting ferg take advantage.