Guild Wars 2

Hi Kracin. I’m a level 29 guardian atm, so all I can do is theorycraft and ask questions. Right now, I was considering the AH build or a balanced 0/15/10/15 build. How is this build better than those, and 1: Can it be used/modified to have Hammer and Mace/Shield? 2: Dose it provided enough DPS to actually take down enemies, as hitting like a wet noodle is not something I’d like to trade in for more survivability.

Vena.8436:

Eclipses.7152:

1. Commander is an absolute mess
2. The roles/rewards/recognition of Guilds in a game called ‘Guild Wars’ is lacking
3. WvW has devolved into ZvZ (ZergvZerg)
4. The lack of Rewards/Progression/Depth/Consequence
5. The devs, their implementation of and lack of commitment to Wvw

Some of this I agree with, some of it not so much.

Things I agree with and things that I don’t think need any elaboration upon: #1, #4, #5. I lied a bit and will say that I hope the new hires will come out of the woodwork and post on these forums. I would love to hear from them, see what they are working on, and engage in a conversation similar to what the Jons are doing for sPvP. That’s how you fix something that’s broken, not by remaining a deaf mute. (Also #4 is on the way to getting fixed, and I really like the sound of WvW-only skills to make it such that we don’t need 30 mesmers, or 30 eles, by placing key utility skills in the skill bracket.)

But I really don’t agree with #2 and #3 in full, at least.

#2:
For us, on Blackgate, guilds are recognized as are the commanders who don’t even need tags to lead: Smokee, Riven, Graphicardo, Sladie, etc. Greatly in fact. That banner in the sky? Is it KnT? Is it HB? Is it Urge? Is it Thai? Is it ICoa? Is it LotD? Is it GoF? Is it RK? Is it my tiny guild that no one knows about and I won’t tell anyone anything about? (At this point, even other servers know HB’s tag and run away from them.) (I hope I didn’t forget anyone… please don’t kill me!) I understand the view of the point that the game does not reward guilds with “things” for doing “guild things” and I do agree that it can be certainly worked on, but to say that Guilds don’t get recognized is a bit odd (especially since all of us at BG know your guild, RG). The game doesn’t need to tell me XYZ took PQR, I know and everyone on the map knows who took what by paying attention in TS, in map chat, and just by recognizing the tags running around. Even a ninja take is celebrated and recognized. I don’t see why my screen needs to be cluttered with announcements for something I’m already well aware of…

Do these guilds deserve a greater reward? I think so, yes. And I hope that (given the upcoming developments of guilds in general in the Feb patch, and the progression system in the March patch) they will get their just deserts. That said I don’t think that guild’s or their good commanders (and in this way I’m partially disagreeing with #1 as well) go unrecognized in the least.

#3:
Zergs are a big part of WvW, they are a big part of any large scale conflict, but I wouldn’t say or agree that the game has degenerated into just that. I don’t consider the 20 something people of HB that I usually run with a zerg, yet they will readily run into and fight said much larger zergs and shatter them. When big guilds fight big guilds, I don’t see this as ZvZ, I see this as coordinated teams vs. one another. There are videos of guilds and teams holding off stupidly uneven numbers with proper and coordinated team play, using choke points, using flanks. This is not zerg combat, this is tactical combat.

I can’t really say more than that and nothing will ever really change that people like numbers, and they feel safe in numbers even if its an uncoordinated mess. This is human nature: the more people around you, the less likely you are of getting hurt or killed. Uncapping AoE isn’t going to help this, its just going to make AoE spam all the more dominant (you can’t even get near a door during a siege before the fifty billion fireballs, swirls, and doom booms, turn you into pudding in three seconds flat) and I don’t see why 5 people should win against 30 if all they do is AoE spam just because AoE has no upper cap (can you imagine how stupid this would be with current gen thieves? They just stealth into a group and AoE daggerstorm everyone to death because they can). 5 people winning against 30 with good play (which people accomplish, though perhaps the disparity is not quite as large as 6:1) is what I want to see.

Wee, that was long.

There are many things that need fixing, addressing, and doing, but I don’t think WvW is as broken as you make it out to be (I stand by my regular statement that I make on our BG forums that the core of WvW is good, it just needs loving and the onus of this is on the devs… also I greatly agree with other who say that we need to organize a SotG or AMA at the very least, light a fire under their kitten so to speak) nor is it unsavable. Your image of what it might need to be may not be the reality of what we achieve but that is usually par for the course; we all have grand ideas that we think are what serve everyone best but we oft skirt the issue that opinions vary and our own are not the only ones.

Wow, that’s a great post. Pretty much everything I wanted to say.

I agree with all this, but feel bad for the people that are still having culling problems.

What’s the price Shanks?

Do you think this would could be modified to use hammer?

1. Dwarf – because I love Dwarves. I made a short stocky Norn for this reason.

2. Tengu – because of all the established lore, and because Anet has already said they had been in the makings.

3. Dolyak – why not.

I agree with killcannon. WP is suggesting more interaction with NPCs, not exclamation point quests. You wouldn’t even know which NPCs have something to tell you. It just adds a little more personality and feeling to areas without hearts/dynamic events/etc.

Saying WP doesn’t “get” GW2 on a basic level is like saying Socrates didn’t “get” philosophy, or Walter Payton didn’t “get” how to play running-back. And no, he wasn’t posting to the forums to “drum up views”. It was one of his fans. He’s got almost 1,000 GW videos starting since the release of the first GW, and after a week or so each of his videos consistently gets upwards of 15,000 – 50,000 views. If anyone who isn’t an actual GW dev “gets” GW, it’s WP.

Not exactly slam poetry, but I couldn’t resist.

wtf is a nord? I just picked norn because i wanted to look viking. And I don’t like Thackeray.

whoopi goldberg

But are you worthy of the Top Guild Leader Grand Prize?
That is the question.

Instead of dancing I just type /cheer. looks pretty kitten.

Got my build from ^^Defektive’s website.
http://forums.coalitiongaming.org/gw/defektives-build-thread/

looks so cool, I wish I was playing

Any word on when makeovers will be released on the BLTC? I remember it worked for some people a while ago, for a short time.

I’ve started to notice that in the forums, vertical letters appear green to me. letters like l,i,k,t,f basically anything with vertical parts to it.

Any thoughts, Devs?

After the big update, I tried to log on and at the character select screen I got an all black screen with just the bottom icons present. Exited and tried again, got the full char select, but when I press play my character just stands there with half of his body not there, and nothing moving and I can’t select anything. There are sounds and music. Have been trying for over and hour with varying degrees of failure. This happening to anyone else? I’d hate to have redownload the whole game and miss The Lost Shores (terrible download speed)…

That immersion!

Sounds great! I would have thought you to go into Deadly Arts instead of Critical Strikes. I know it is for the initiative regain, but do you think it is better to have more overall power or to get those extra initiative?(I’m just starting a thief)