Guild Wars 2

Uhm…if you see a dead person who isn’t releasing, in light armor…instead of running around looking for the thief, why not stand on top of the corpse, swinging a weapon. I’ve done that for ten minutes before.

Inverted.7439:

So, after taking a few camps this morning I went to solo north camp. There i ran into a persistant power necro who crit like a truck, me being on my thief I ran around a bit into the open for better fighting terrain and after downing in my shadow refuge and reviving myself before the necro saw me, I drained all his life force and me being at 25% HP and the necro being at about the same I panicked and hit my #2 on my keyboard 3 times and it ended with the necro dieing. I’d just like to apologize to whoever this was and I do actually feel bad about it.

I was fighting a thief with my warrior and a guildie on their thief. That thief was spamming 2 so much that I was able to evade two Heartseekers with one dodge roll. He still downed me but I downed him with leet rock tossing and my guildie spiked him. Was a fun fight, surprised he didn’t turn and book when my friend unstealthed.

They aren’t comparable. Bomb = visible, don’t stand near it. Trap…what the heck just hit me?

Alright, I’m going to say it.

GvG, get out of my WvW.

I don’t want to see a bunch of people /bowing and /saluting each other in a big blob south of middle supply. Anytime I do see it I want to run in there and disrupt it, but I don’t because I’m not a griefer. You guys enjoy it. I can’t understand where the joy in fighting on ‘even’ terms is, the whole point of WvW is you can roll over singles, or you can get rolled over, and you don’t know when it’s going to happen. That’s the excitement, that’s the joy. Tearing down the mighty walls of a keep, and consuming the pitiful fools clinging to their arrow carts. Or having it done to you, wondering where your allies are as you try to hold that tower against immosible odds for one…more…tick. Perhaps I am just the target audience for the WvW design, but I know I am not the only person who feels this way.

GvG is fun for those who like it, I do not doubt that. I wish there was a place for you all to fight that didn’t interfere with WvW.

I bet this has something to do with the ‘old ones aren’t tradable, new ones are’ thing. Zodiac swords from before this update aren’t tradable, only new ones are. Now you feel my pain with my Fused Dagger Skin sitting uselessly in my bank.

Hope if and when the fix comes it is retroactive to all the orphaned weapon skins.

I was mostly joking, guys.

But still, it doesn’t make much sense to make a one-time purchasable item into a tradable item, but only for people who were prescient enough to keep the tickets.

I played Guild Wars from beta 3 to around the time the Molten Alliance was perking up. At the time, you could buy Black Lion Keys and open chests to get a chance at a Fused Weapon Ticket to claim a Fused Weapon from a special, limited-time vendor. Being that our guild colors were black and red and I was leveling a thief, I jumped on the chance to spend about 30$ on getting a burning Dagger for my new thief.

“This is gonna look really awesome with the black and red armor…”

But, real life started interfering with play time, and I sadly stepped away from the game until about three weeks ago. The guild had decided to switch to a black and green color scheme, and I found I hated played a thief. So, that Fused Dagger Skin was still sitting in my bank, now mocking me for spending money on it. It doesn’t go with black and green.

Then Anet in their infinite wisdom decided, “Hey, let’s make all those old weapons tradable!” Boom! I could finally sell that dagger to someone who was going for a fiery look! But wait! My Fused Dagger Skin wasn’t tradable? Off to the forums!

Josh Davis.6015:

Only newly obtained skins in select sets are tradable. In the past, we intended those skins to be account-bound and not tradable. After the change, these skins will remain account-bound and not tradable. We will continue to monitor the value of those skins, but at this time, there is no plan to make tradability retroactive.

NOOOOOOOOO!

But, there is a way around this! If you have two weapon skins, placing them in a stack, then splitting them, makes them BOTH tradable! Yes…but I only have one. How much are they going for anyway….250 gold. And I have….25 gold. Okay.

Come on Anet. Do the right thing here, let me make someone happy with a shiny fiery dagger, and make myself happy with a bunch of ill-gotten gold that I can frivolously waste on dyes and such.

I imagine they will make the weapon skins bought previously tradeable exactly one day after I use my saved Fused Dagger Skin on some random dagger for my new Necromancer in frustration.

Medeyn.8562:

A few tips to the lovely people of ATM and followers of almighty Waha – Don’t get so kitteny cause of the amazing fat train you have, next time maybe think before you charge, you wont become bags to just two AC’s

maybe try some portal bombs? Or perhaps splitting into two 30 man groups? Also – How many numbers do you lose when you wipe? cause you came with so many, then less than an hour later it was so small? less than 50?

“To unfailingly attack, attack where there is no defense. To unfailingly defend, defend where there is no attack.” —probably a bad paraphrase of Sun Tzu I’m quoting from memory.

munkiman.3068:

Nah, it was a new form of trolling. There was a group of 10 pulling aggro to the NPC’s then getting “bomb’d” causing them all to die and insta fail.

Even when we did manage to pass it at best it was 20 chests in about 25 minutes. Never saw 30, even in a 3 zerk staff guardian and one mesmer.

But…I thought you couldn’t be blamed for failing events that were too hard! I thought that what people were saying before…

You know, on Jade Quarry, everyone was sitting doing the ember farm. I was trying to open Temple of Grenth, but I couldn’t pry a person away from Meddler’s Waypoint with anything. Then a group of trolls showed up and finished the event and bam, Temple of Grenth open. Temple of Melandru open. Temple of Dwanya open. People starting roaming the zones for once…that was the way it was intended.

It doesn’t need fixing.

You just aren’t going to be able to succeed.

Not everyone needs to be able to succeed at everything.

Not everything needs to be fair and balanced.

If you aren’t doing a guild color scheme…for a Necromancer I’d go with ‘rotting’ colors. Tarnish and Patina are both browns with a neat effect that they blend to a sickly green on edges. This effect doesn’t appear with every piece of armor but it’s worth checking out. Heirloom does the same thing but blends from a deep red to a brown. Evening Grass is a nice dark green. I’d go with a combination of those colors.

The solution is simple and I’m 100% certain it is what Anet will go with assuming it’s feasible with their systems.

Champions who spawn as parts of waves of enemies will no longer drop boxes. Only the ‘boss’ Champions of events and open-world Champions will drop boxes. This will tone down the farming and promote completion of events without taking away too much from farmers who will simply have to run around some more.

These guys are great to run with. Free bump from a rando in Plague.

I rarely die to backstab thieves. Of course, I don’t kill them either, because they always break away once they see they won’t one-shot me. Pistol/dagger thieves are more annoying because they are more confident, sometimes I can actually down them before they get me, sometimes not. I’ve never found thieves to be any more dangerous than any other class, just sneakier.

Put them against the French. The French know how to deal with German hordes…oh…oh wait. Never mind, EU is done. :O

So, every time your character dies, you delete them and reroll? Because you aren’t dead when you get dropped. You just respawn. Queen Jennah isn’t confused, she knows you can take a six-story fall.

I briefly played a game called Shadowbane. In that game, you were mostly useless unless you were at max level, so I found a guild who were happy to take me on and get me ‘powerleveled,’ which meant exploiting high level mobs into a choke point where they couldn’t attack me though but I could attack them. I was younger then and thought this was part of the game, being that it was more of a PvP game anyway. But, another guild saw us doing it and had us all banned. Lesson learned, now I don’t look for shortcuts.

Where do you get the idea you can’t ask if something is an exploit? File a support ticket.

I made this suggestion before in a response to a question about minions. Necromancers really need a way to help their minions out. But this can be fleshed out into a more general enhancement of the class.

Give Necros a F2 ability based on the type of ability in their first utility slot. This is kind of like Engineer’s Toolkit skills, but designed to help the style of Necromancer play that skill represents. I’m drawing my ideas from old Necromancer abilities here.

Minion Skill – Blood of the Master. Heal all minions controlled by the Necromancer for some amount, and have the Necromancer lose some life for each minion healed (similar to the old GW1 system). That way you can keep your minion army, but only for a while against any heavy damage.

Corruption Skill – Necrosis. Deal direct damage to target based on the number of conditions they have (0 if they have none). Would give condition builds some spike potential.

Well Skill – I’m not sure. Wells have a lot of tactical use. Maybe an updated Well of Weariness. Pulses cause Weakness to foes and Vigor on allies. Would be useful in boss fights.

Spectral skill – Spectral skills are about surviving. Again, I’m not sure.

Signet skill – Not sure here either.

Throw out some ideas, people.

Sounds like your graphics card is overheating, possibly.

They aren’t 100% drops. Just a run of bad luck.

Also, I wasn’t appearing this way to other people, and other people didn’t appear this way on my screen either.

I was running around Queensdale on my new Thief when I ran up the side of a hill and got very nauseous…I finally figured out why I was getting motion sickness, my character was treating down as a vector through her shoes rather than an absolute down vector through the game world floor.

Shameful tactics.

Don’t worry, they will be applied the other way if necessary.

They are expensive because they don’t exist anymore. They only dropped for a brief period during the Halloween event. People are stupid and pay a lot for rare things. Taht is why they are expensive.

fivekiller.1432:

Has TW even ever done a GvG? Maybe you guys could fight some folks that aren’t EMP and see how you do against the people EMP are fighting if EMP doesn’t wish to fight you guys.

They have to battle to the top for the Dream Fight…

It’s going to be a real shame when culling gets fixed. People won’t look around and think they are wiping 40 with 20 anymore.

SoR is competitive during NA primetime. That’s the best you will get from me.

JQ is water.

The moment you turn your back…the moment you say, “We have this map, let’s hit them somewhere else…”

One camp will flip. Then another. Then a tower. Then your keeps will be trebucheted from both sides, and you will return to find nothing. You will hastily retake your keeps, and search for the offenders…but you will only see groups of four and five, who you will roll over with your zerg, screaming “we are winning! WE ARE WINNING!”

But you lose.

We are water.

Well, if it were a Blackgate or Sanctum of Rall player doing that to my fellow Jade Quarry teammates, I’d kill them. But since it’s a JQ player doing it….hmm. You are using an in-game method. I’ll just have to use an in-game method (Report/Harrassment).

Is that was the Krytan set looks like on a Charr? If so, it’s in the BLTC, it costs gems.

It’s obviously Maguuma’s lag hax.

(I think I’m kidding.)

It’s been bad these last two weeks. I think they are doing some infrastructure work behind the scenes to prepare for the removal of culling.

Please report all exploiters you see, whether they are on your server or not. And stop whining about it on the forums. Plenty of flying people from all servers. Best thing is to get them banned, not tar their server. We remember Hackgate and how that played out, tarring a whole server for the actions of a small guild of griefers who have long since departed.

There are level 80 ones that drop from Fractals, they get put on the AH quite often (They are just named “Rabid Axe” or “Rabid Staff”). But also check exotics, some of the named ones have the Rabid-style stats and they usually are cheaper than their otherwise statted counterparts. You might find a good deal.

Again, and I posted this in the other thread but let me be more general. There are 24 NA servers, and 27 EU servers. They sold 3 million boxes. That’s a lot of accounts per server, way more than any zone could hold. Why are you certain it’s guests?

Amun Ra.6435:

Conner.4702:

Let’s make this clear. It is NOT your spot. You don’t have spot nor does anyone else for that matter. It is first come first serve. You want a piece of the action than do the time and wait in line.

Yes it is indeed my spot, who else would have my spot if not for guesting?

The thousands of other players on your server….

Necromancers need their diseases back.

Virulent Disease – puts ten stacks of Virulent Disease on a target. Each second, it removes a stack, gives the target 1 second of Weakness and Posion, and gives everyone around the target the current number of stacks of Virulent Disease.

AlietteFaye.7316:

Is that the tactic to the fight? Bring a specific class so that you can succeed in time?

Yes.

Yes, all the names are taken. All 797125955808376000000000000 of them (that’s just names without spaces, and the precision of my spreadsheet gave out).

There are no tanks in this game, stop taking axes to the face and lern2move.

Magnetron.5823:

Ty for all the tips! ow wait nbody even gave one..

PS: Homing missle = Clone

Here’s a tip: Cleaning Formula 409. Elixer Gun, stand in Super Elixer field. Healing Turret, use it’s overcharge to remove your conditions. You have options.

Remove the conditions.

Shiren.9532:

It’s also possible no-one triggered a mission and he is just found in the world regardless of whether one is active, but I suspect that’s not the case.

No, from what the dev’s have been saying, that’s exactly the case. The NPCs are out there, but they don’t become attackable until a guild starts a mission that chooses them. When they die, they respawn somewhere else in the world, for another guild to trigger.

idorian.2859:

i have one! stealth nerf on elementalist, like decreased boon durations from shocking aura and frost aura, and decreased duration for boons coming from cantrips with soothing disruption.

That’s in the patch notes…

niwaar.5631:

Honestly, I just do not understand you not understanding. I also do not understand how you can be making 1k+ influence per day with a small 3 member guild.

The trick is WvW. I’m in a 15 person guild, we make more than 1K per day. Even more if we pop the +influence from group events upgrade. Of course, we spend a lot of influence already on WvW upgrades….

I imagine we’ll do this for a week or so more, then post our official retirement message, just as BG storms into T1 to fight us, so we’ll be able to taint their victory like HoD tainted ours. :O

Gonna paraphrase some Jade Quarry map chat:

“Oh crap, it’s Choo.”
“We’re gonna lose the keep, Choo’s hitting it.”
“Wait, wait, Choo’s not that good.”
“Whoa, we wiped them!”
“Where’s Choo at?”
“They’ve been derailed.”

insanemaniac.2456:

how is this any different

instead of 300k-200k-200k you end with scores like 50-30-30

the winning server still has a ~50% lead no matter how you slice the time

But it wouldn’t. Let’s create a hypothetical example.

Server A is mega-stacked during SEA, moderately stacked in EU and NA, and weak in OCN. Server B is outstanding in NA, competitive with A in EU. and weak in OCN and SEA. Server C is the king of OCN, but weak in the other three since a lot of it’s guilds moved to Blackgate…dangit, this is supposed to be hypothetical. (The numbers below certainly are.) :O

There are 24 point ticks per 6 hour block, not counting all the yakslapping points.

Server A averages +500 in SEA (yikes), +300 in EU, +200 in NA, +150 in OCN.
Server B averages +135 in SEA, +300 in EU, +300 in NA, and +185 in OCN.
Server C averages +100 in SEA, +35 in EU. +135 in NA, and +300 in OCN.

SEA zone: A wins, B in second, C third.
EU zone: A and B trade wins, C always third.
NA zone: B wins, A in second, C third.
OCN zone: C wins, B in second, A third.

Raw points: Server A: 27,600 points per day, 193,200 for the week.
Server B: 22,080 points per day, 154,560 for the week.
Server C: 13,680 points per day, 95,760 for the week.

Using the medal system (5-3-1)
Server A: 9 per day average, if that traded win is four of the seven days, 83.
Server B: 11 per day average, if that traded win is three of the seven days, 92.
Server C: 56 points.

Under this system, even though server A has a massively stacked SEA team, it can’t pull victory because it’s not showing the consistency over the whole day that Server B is. With a little more effort in that EU timeslot, though, Server A could pull a victory.