Guild Wars 2

What rifle abilities would they have?
I would love to see Thieves use Rifles (and Torch) but they would need to be
unique skills not duplicated by other professions.

I would suggest something like:

• Slot 1: Standard three step combo, 1200 range light dmg>medium dmg>heavy dmg. No conditions, No debuffs. Combo Finisher: Projectile 20%. Fast attack
  speed for shot one and two, delay prior to third heavy shot.
• Slot 2: Knee-Cap: 1200 range Cripple, no other effect. Init: 4
• Slot 3: Sniper Shot: 1200 range, 2 second cast, Heavy damage, Thief immobilized while sniping. Combo Finisher: Projectile 20%. Init: 6
• Slot 4: Take cover: Shoot from cover, Gain protection. Init: 5
• Slot 5: Hide and Seek: Gain stealth and swiftness.

• Stealth Attack: Confusing Barrage. Fires a rapid barrage of shot from hiding. 5xDmg+confusion.

I agree this needs to be account bound. I would like to play other professions in WvW and lead with them and I cannot expect my guild mates to donate any more than they already have.

Try grouping with other guardians and coordinating shield abilities in voip so you can get a rotation going. Organisation wins everytime.

Maniacle.7028:

SF: 183,080
DH: 176,911
SoR: 168,322

Can’t really post the winner yet…….

I want to thank SF and DH for a great week. We have tried pretty hard but still can’t field enough to compete with your off-peak crew just yet. I’m looking forward to the next time we’re matched up.

I challenge you to a duel with wet newspapers!

Kryptorchid.7620:

OP, I agree with your ideas and concerns, but I do disagree with “no point to WvW.” Am I the only person who doesn’t give a kitten about getting exotics and just likes fighting other players?

You’re not the only one. I’m quite happy playing on an ever-changing battlefield fighting players, defending and conquering objectives. I think there could be some improvements to WvW in general but stat/percentile progression and uber gear are not an issue, they will only compound problems.

The only reason these threads are getting locked is because you kittens keep starting new threads spamming the issue. You’ve made your point, move on, stop flogging the dead horse. If the threads are locked it means they have heard you and are probably discussing it internally at their daily meetings.

As much as I would love more character progression, I don’t think damage, speed or defense increases are the answer. There already is a fairly large gap between a level 80 in exotics and a level 80 in masterwork gear, not to mention the gap between leveling players in mismatched gear. Adding RR ability or percentile increases will increase the
gap so far that entry level 80s and leveling players will be obselete/useless.

I’m definitely in favor of cosmetic and title benefits, or an additional utility or trait line that boosts WvW orientated ability, but power increases are a big no no from me.

I think a three and a half day cycle so the rest time varies.
For example, first match starts at midday on a Friday afternoon and finishes at midnight on the following Monday. New matchup starts a few minutes after midnight and finishes at midday Friday. Or Alternatvely you could have it start Midnight Friday finishing Midday Tuesday or 6pm Friday finishing 6am Monday.

Three and a half days per match means:

• Two matches per week
• Two different start times a week
• One match covering the weekend
• One match covering the week days

Note
Start times are only for example.

I think it’s a great idea just as long as you can’t merc to one of the servers that your home server is matched against. If your server is winning or has a queue, being able to help out a lower pop losing server would be better than not being able to WvW at all.

My advice would be to stick with the warrior, try to stay by your hubby’s side at all times. If he is in melee a lot, target him and press control & T to place a bug target over his head so you know where he is.

If you find the ranged weapons bland, I highly suggest taking note of the descriptions or tooltips that display “combo” effects. You can see these by hovering your cursor over the weapon skills, they will be labelled combo finisher or combo field followed by what type of effect it will have. For example a combo field: fire will enable a combo finisher: blast to grant might to surrounding friends. The great thing about the warrior is they can place combo fields (longbow F1 places a fire field), gain projectile bonuses or blast effects when used in conjunction with combo fields. These effects give more flavor to the standard attacks, they give you something else to be aware of and take advantage of and can greatly improve the outcome in battle.

Hint: My favorite combo is to use a blast finisher or projectile finisher on a water field (seen visually as a bubbling fountain or a blue tree). The blast finisher will do
a burst of healing to everyone in its area of effect, while the projectile finisher has a chance to grant regeneration to nearby friends.

I disagree with others that say you should avoid WvW if you are a beginner, this is up to each and every individual. Some people pick things up quicker than others especially when learning from scratch. The other positive is that you get to play with your hubby.

what is the latency difference for a US player on an EU server or vice-versa?
I know I cant play with EU latency from Australia, the difference is about 300ms (250-350ms on US compared to 500-600ms on EU).

I think it would be ideal if EU and US servers were combined and located in the one location so there would be no gaps in WvW activity, but it doesn’t affect me so much as I’m used to playing with high latency. I dont enjoy it as much as I would with 50ms but it’s doable.

willwill.9318:

Simple question…

Yes

Rpg players have been slowly conditioned over time to expect monetary and item rewards for the majority of their adventurea. This isn’t just MMOs, if you go all the way back to tabletop RPGs, PC games like Bards Tale, Ultima, AD&D gold box, Final Fantasy, these games started over 30 years ago, progressed into games like Baldurs Gate, Diablo, Neverwinter and MUDs to make the and EQs and UOs and all the other MMOs we see today.

As far as I’m concerned, it was the introduction of token currency to buy loot that killed MMO dungeons for me. I’ve been conditioned over 30 years of RpGs to be excited about downing a boss and taking his loot, not saving up foodstamps to buy gear.

Guardian with healing breeze, Mace & Focus and staff provides a good healing support role.
Elementalist with water attunement (various weapons) provides another alternative with good healing ability.

F1 – Pick pocket: basic steal
F2 – Mug: steal and deal damage
F3 – Smash and Grab: steal and knockback
F4 – Hit and Run: Steal and leap back with swiftness (for ranged wanting to get out of melee)

GroundZero.8037:

@ Matt Witter
Why does your Wiki say people will be able to make a party with up to 30 people in it? thats the only reason why I paid 100 gold for the commander upgrade.

I tought it would be cool to make a party / alliance with 30 of your guild members, so you can make a large group and have fun all togather.

Basicly I just threw away 100 gold and all the admins would say if I would make a ticket is “bad luck, cant help you”.

The guy or woman who posted that information on the wiki was clearly not knowing the facts straight, and the user has to pay for it (me in this case) cause they pay the crazy amount of 100 gold for something (in my eyes) which is totally not needed since 90% of the people I know (my guild for example) uses TeamSpeak or what ever communication device to talk and coordinate people.

So please remove that false information from your wiki and I hope you guys will get your stuff straighten out cause this is no fun at all. I could have gotten a load of crafts to 400 with that 100 gold which I (my personal opinion) just threw out of the window.

You can create a party/squad with upto 30 people in it.

• Create squad in the party menu
• Players then join your squad by right clicking your name and selecting “join squad”
• You can now place markers on the map by holding “ALT” and left clicking the map to bring up the menu of symbols
• Type /squadinfo to get a list of members in your squad, showing who has supply and who doesn’t in addition to showing number of personnel in your squad and total supply available
• Type /squad to speak to your squad

So far that is all I have been able to work out (There needs to be a command list on the wiki or in the help menu for this ImO)

I’m really hoping that more functionality is added to the squad commander in the future updates. It seems very bare bones at the moment. Useful but could definitely use improvements. what would i like to see added?

• minimalist party ui that covers 30 squaddies
• squaddies showing on my map just like party members do, I want to know where my scouts are and where my supply runners are (and where my AWOL members are)
• more clickables and less chat commands. There should be a squadinfo button or keybind so I can get info on the move.
• the ability to remove squad members
• the ability to invite people to my squad

i just dont understand why they dont have a random drop in addition to the tokens.
GW2 is all about no grind, yet the token system IS all about grind. Bring back random chance for one of the set pieces to drop IMO. I miss the rush of having that lucky hat drop, grinding tokens removes the rush.

I think it’s fine the way it is. 100g may seem a little steep, but that just means that guilds must seriously consider who they give it to. If it were just another personal progression that everyone ended up with, it would lose all sense of meaning. It honestly doesn’t have that much effect unless you are a natural leader to begin with. Nobody outside my guild listened to me until I won them a few victories. I wouldn’t expect them to.

Yo don’t have to do tasks. I leveled to 80 and only completed Queensdale, Kessex hills and Gendarren, After those zones I levelled purely through exploration and grinding for crafting materials. I just prefer grinding/gathering over quests.

Sounds like catapult to me. You will probably see more of this as people are wealthier and more people can afford them

monmon.7081:

I doubt its GSCH, theyre too family friendly for that type exploit.
If however you with to pursue it go make a thread on their forums. im sure they will handle it swiftfully. They do have a rep to maintain.

Please do, this will be investigated and dealt with internally. We don’t exploit or use third party programs as a rule. We take such things very seriously and we hold Arenanet in very high regard so we would never intentionally do anything to tarnish our relationship with them (They did name our server after one of our members who passed away last year after all)

I think the Lords and their personal guard should be on par with a dungeon boss from PvE if not stronger, not only in health pool, they need far better scripting unique to thier lord. For example, a tower champion should have a full range of utility skills and an elite that works in cohesion with his personal bodyguard. I want to see champions scale to the amount of attackers & defenders, if there are more attackers than defenders the champions and bodyguard get a “last stand” buff. The NPCs guarding the wall should remain the same though.

PvP=Player vs Puzzle

Did you guys email those screenshots ANet or did you just report ingame?

Email: exploits@arena.net if you haven’t done so.

If someone was cheating on our server it would be my responsibility to report them or get them to stop. I don’t want a win via cheating.
Your whole server would be getting the benefit from those who have cheated to gain any advantage, so it is not enough to say you can’t blame the server. Have you tried to stop it?

• How can we stop what we didn’t even know was happening? Think about what your saying before you say it.

• How do we know the people using the mesmer portal even knew they were exploiting? I don’t agree with it, since I know it is questionable, but the people doing so might not have a clue unless someone points it out to them or ANet make it a rule in which case they can block it.

• Trebbing from Citadel to Dawn’s Eyre from the cliff is not an exploit, it can be counter sieged. If Arena.Net doesn’t want it to happen they can easily block placing siege there. I tried placing siege on a cliff inside Ascension bay today but it was blocked so it’s definitely possible for ANet to stop it.

• Noclip and Flying players should be permabanned, if I see them they will be reported.

• Our server is Sanctum of Rall not Grall.

I think we can rationally discuss this without the Hackusations and demands for punishment. Zero transfers on and off? Removed from WvW rankings? give me a break, we’re 17th in rankings.. who cares. I just want a good fight each week where we’re evenly matched, I couldn’t give a hoot about rankings.

Fair enough. I’ll keep my mouth shut and let ANet take care of it.
Which server are you lot from? DH or SF?

Edit: Aside from this tarnishing an otherwise good matchup, thanks for the good battles. There’s been some good ones.

Wait, let me get this straight, you are accusing our server of “hacking” because a mesmer used a portal to get his team inside the tower? this is a legitimate tactic. Learn to clean house when you cap next time.

Why accuse/punish the whole server for the actions of one or two players? It is more likely that someone has had their account hacked and this is a new way for said botter/hacker to powerlevel.

Stop acting like a child and blaming the whole server. I was under the impression that we were all having akittengood battle these last few days. I was even considering creating a thread to thank Sorrows Furnace and Darkhaven for putting up such an awesome fight. Nobody likes hackers man, not even the servers that own thekittenkittens.

The Commander book isn’t just for WvW for starters, it can be used everywhere in GW2 (Except maybe sPvP). I use it for Meta Events in PvE as well as coordinating guild members for resource gathering runs. I personally only use my commander book in WvW once a week for a community event, then maybe on the odd occasion when we need to focus on one particular area. I don’t see my commander book as a leader of the server, I see it as a zerg magnet to be used as required. There is a problem with community on some servers for letting the above actions happen. Trolls will be trolls regardless of who you are, having a blue icon over your head just makes you a bigger target. If you have trolls on your server giving commanders a hard time, turn on the troll as a community, when several thousand people refuse to group with them, I doubt they will continue. Some of the trolls are jealous, others just enjoy causing chaos for the sake of chaos but the best way to deal with a troll is ignore him on a global scale. They will eventually make a name for themselves and people will be able to identify them for the trolls that they are.

I would run more dungeons if there was an RNG chance that one of the costume pieces would drop in a chest or from the final boss. I really don’t enjoy saving up tokens though. I used to enjoy dungeons in WoW and Rift as well up until they introduced the Tokens. Some people enjoy saving up tokens because they can calculate exactly how many runs they need to do and how many they have left, but I really really miss the rush or the hope that something cool might drop. With the hope gone, the apathy has set in and I just don’t enjoy doing the dungeon more than once on each mode. Having an option for a lucky costume drop in addition to tokens would be ideal IMO, catering to both playstyles.

Arius.7031:

Dark Haven – 30k
Sanctum of Rall – 29k
Sorrow’s Furance – 28k

Sorrow’s Furnace is catching up at this moment though. It’s really, really competitive and it is a blast! So good news for these servers at least.

This match is going great, constant battle for control and even our offpeak population is currently matched well. It will be interesting once the weekend is over though, things might change drastically once everyone starts going back to work. I hope it continues on its current path though.

I really like going up against Sorrows Furnace. Two weeks in a row against you guys and I’m really enjoying the battles we have.

We are definitely filled to capacity for the US time zones, we just need to fill out a little from GMT to +12 GMT.

Stormcycle.4208:

Overseas players… YOU are the key to our success!!

It’s not so much about winning but more about having a few more players during our time zones so we can get some WvW action happening without being slaughtered.

Moving to one of the unofficial Oceanic servers doesn’t solve the problem, it only amplifies it. It’s great having others to fight but it’s better if we stand half a chance.
I don’t want to single out just Australians either, I’ve played online games with people from other countries which is why I am part of a multinational guild, I enjoy the company of other cultures just as much as my own. I’ve followed leaders from Singapore, fought side-by-side with an Iranian woman (even though it was illegal for her to play) and still do play with people from Germany and the UK. The more the merrier I say, we all have one thing in common, WvW lets get amongst it.

There is a community site in the works I believe at Sanctumofrall.com I don’t know who is running it though. Hopefully it will be up and running soon.

Slamz.5376:

Why my contributions should count for more than someone from Australia:

Because when I play, each team has a full zone with a queue. When the guy from Australia plays, in many cases it’s his “unofficial Oceanic” server with 40+ people facing two other servers with about 10 people each.

I fight full 3-way battles against maximum opposition to claw my way through the map and hang on to what we capture. He rolls over the map with very little competition. That’s why his accomplishments should count for less.

And yes, we have seen this roughly every other matchup. Big 3-way battles which taper off around 3am and then around 4-5am, POW, Oceanic players are getting off of work and logging in, but mostly all on the same server, and that server sweeps the entire map in all 4 zones in less than 1 hour. Like clockwork. The hard fought points of the day are swamped by the “no competition” points of the Oceanic time frame.

So what happens when I (an australian on a non-unofficial oceanic server) capture a tower, keep or supply camp when the odds are heavily stacked against me? Considering I would be working harder to take said objective against a far superior force, do I get less points for my teams effort because its somehow my fault I didnt stack myself with the other “nightcappers”?

Again, stop whinging. My offpeak team works a heck of a lot harder to take our objectives than your daywalker crew does. While you field a full team with Queues, we have to scramble whatever mercenary force we can and fight against a full night time crew.

Be proactive
Recruit more
Organise yourselves
& Stop kitten complaining

I’m an Australian player on a US server with a very small Aussie population, my server is at least 200k points behind the leader. Please stop the constant whining and try to proactively recruit to your server to fill in your so-called off peak. If you don’t want to be proactive about it, then you only have yourself to blame. Stop expecting things to be handed to you on a silver platter, if you want something, go and get it.

This endless tirade of complaints is exhausting. How do you think I feel fighting against these servers with sometimes as little as six people? At least you can ride on the coat-tails of a zerg when you’re online. I have to fight vastly superior numbers for anything I take “off peak”

Is WoW releasing another expansion already?
Can’t say that interests me enough to pull me away from Torchlight2 and Guild Wars 2.
I wonder how ridiculous that game is now.

I have put more hours into this game in the first month than any other game I’ve played. This is hands down the best RPG ever made and I hope everything continues that way into the future. Well done and Thank you very much.

Sanctum of Rall, better known for being named after fellow gamer Roger “OldRoar” Rall, is looking for active off-peak WvW guilds. Sanctum of Rall is an active community driven server with a strong US WvW presence with numerous WvW orientated guilds.

We have a small Off-Peak presence that is looking for more Guilds to join our force in order to take and hold assets during the off-peak US times. We are currently battling it out in the middle range bracket against Fort Aspenwood and Sorrows Furnace and we are aiming to push into the top 10 US servers over the coming months. This is currently unachievable without additional support.

So if you are looking for a challenge and hail from the Oceanic, Asian, Middle-East, Russian, African or European part of the world look no further… WE WANT YOU to be a part of our community.

I love the use if the word kitten to replace profanity
i kitten love that kitten

lol he said pandered to. Panda. Wow. gget it?

I honestly don’t think the points make too much of a difference. What I am reading the most in map chat is that when one server owns everything because of superior numbers, the few Mercs (guildless/small guilds) feel that all is lost and apathy sets in. The scoreboard widening the gap exacerbates the apathy but I dont think it is the primary cause. Having no chance to combat superior numbers is IMO the main cause, this is amplified by the winning servers camping the spawn points and setting up siege.
Again, I dont feel the apathy that many others get when this happens. I stick around for a few good fights, then go afk in Lions Arch for dinner, come back and farm Orichalcum in PvE and go to bed.

One solution I would love to see is Siege cannons/mortars set up at our spawn exits so we can clear the zergs that try to camp the spawn. If a server tries to treb into the
spawn, then the NPC spawns an Artillery Barrage on the offending treb.

Another solution could be to have undefended towers scale their NpC defence to the
size of the attackers zerg in a similar fashion to DEs. This would give the larger offpeak server more challenge rather than having a tower basically open its doors to them.
In this case, I saw an interesting suggestion from someone a few days ago that suggested that guards fall back to their remaining towers when the mal becomes totally dominated, If a server owns all but one keep on the map, that keep would have say 50% of the total map NPCs holding out in the final keep to muster a last stand situation. Making the final keep take more challenging to the attackers and take some of the Apathy away from the defenders that are being crushed.

There are many counters to Pistol Whip but I’m not going share them because I like killing people with it. The best way to learn how to counter a Thief is to play one in sPvP. They aren’t as easy against skilled PvPers.

Knote.2904:

Well unfortunately for rangers, they have to bend over and take it.

Ranger’s have 0 reliable measures to remove immobilize in a pinch or even displace themselves.

Do you have a stun? A Daze? a Knockback, evade?
Point blank shot? Knockback
Concussion Shot? Daze (Stun from behind)
Counter Attack? Block & Knockback
Hilt Bash? Daze (stun from behind)
Hornet Sting? Evade
Stalker’s Strike? Evade

You maybe immobilized but you are far from helpless.
Learn to think maybe?

I wont run dungeons because I refuse to show support for token systems. I despise them and want boss chests to have a chance to drop a costume item in there. I enjoy doing dungeons when there is RNG boss drops. I don’t enjoy Dungeons when there are token systems involved and I don’t really enjoy doing Dungeons without a reward that at least covers the potential repair bills they can entail with a pick up group.

Same on my realm. I’ve bug reported in-game.
One of the escort events leading up to the temple has stalled on my server. The NPC and his party are still alive but they just stand outside the camp attacking mobs and don’t move onward after they clear.

@Rika
I am interested in your defensive build can you post a rough idea of what skills, weapons, traits and gear? I enjoy my S/P & P/P dmg build but I’m always on the lookout to try new concepts just to keep myself interested.

alfista.6094:

Real players just don’t like to get involved in arguments that aren’t going anywhere.

The real players are probably enjoying the game blissfully unawares of the forum.
I’m only posting here from work because I have little else going on.

P/P is a good ranged slot when paired with S/P. Both are based around crit and crit dmg. I use P/P and S/P with a mix of Beserker and Valkyrie gear, 25/30/0/0/15.

I keep a shortbow handy for keep defense in WvW

Edit:
@Edgewright
I believe I am similar to you in that I dislike poisons and other Assassin type abilities. I try to keep my Thief as traditional as possible to the AD&D 2e Thief by using blinding powder, caltrops, roll for initiative. I also use signets a lot but I avoid poison, stealth and magical skills as they don’t fit my theme.

Shomaruki.7395:

Usually you just press 1 or 2 all game and that’s pretty much thief in a nutshell.

That’s one extra button than I used on my Elementalist