Guild Wars 2

For the record, Im not talking about 1v1’ing thieves. I’m talking about 5-10 of them and you have to get away fast.

Ilesyt.7084:

I’d like to see them try.

Signed, DD Ele.

RTL (when it works), fire #3, lightning flash, and mist form will only get you so far when he’s got a mess of cripples and immobilizes.

So highest burst, highest mobility, and most effective single target cripples. Awesome.

Seriously, is there a single class that can run from a thief? So long as one doesnt get the jump on me I can 1v1 many thieves, but when they’re in a group you stumble across, they can close an inmmeasurable amount of distance in a heartbeat making you nothing but food for their group. Kind of bullkitten, especially when you dont know you’re next to a group because of the rendering issues. Christ.

Mighteous.9281:

Here’s a story for you.

So there I was in all my glory, playing in Eternal BG. Where the big boys play. I was playing my engineer toon. Green owned the caslte, and I just wasn’t satisfied with the way things were going. So I lay a trebuchet and start shooting at SM. I lay it in a spot that I had never seen a trebuchet before, because I wanted to see if it worked.

I end up recruiting through the chat for a spotter. A level 21 guy named Malice Rider volunteers, and come to find out, I couldn’t hit the wall! Meanwhile, a kid named Dougieh sees me, and gets an idea in HIS head! I leave, without blogging my intentions to the zone, and go to buy ANOTHER trebuchet. When I come back, ol Dougieh is there with a trebuchet of his own set up just a little further from where I had mine.

I lay a golem in the keep, go to get something to eat, and when I come back. Our army had broken through the wall and was fighting on the inside. Devona’s Rest, in the first move in their entire history that made me proud, immediately jumped on it and busted through the other gate. Meanwhile, we’re sitting there fighting off Fergs!

Well now, being the greatest army in the game, Kaineng kept on pushing. Thanks to the distraction by Devona’s we pushed in deeper, until it was a 3 army, lagging zergfest in the Castle Lord’s room. This was the greatest fight I’ve participated in to date. The only downfall was that pressing your buttons required a 2 second wait for any action to take place. The boss respawned around 5 times along with NPC’s. It was chaos! It was what I imagine the developers intended.

Through one whiner incessantly crying about the lag, we managed not only to eliminate both red AND green, but we captured the castle. Our dead didn’t lay there waiting for rezes. We ran back. Over, and over, and over again. We busted down the wall, over and over and over again.

It had to have been the greatest day in WvW history. Didn’t take any guild. Didn’t take any commander, though one happened to show up near the end. Just a collaborative effort on the part of a bunch of strangers on the internet. At one point I was half a millisecond from dying, and a guy with the name “Allelulia” in his name (can’t remember the first half) saved me! What a name! Here are some pictures:

After we had driven out our enemies, a group of us went north to attack Devona’s keep. This made them angry, and they came back with 3x the numbers while the other half of us held off Fergs from the west side. We held the castle for about 30-45 minutes against green and red, until finally red (Devona’s) took it from us. There wasn’t even a queue to get in.

Nothing is wrong with your game at all, ArenaNet. You guys did a great job. Note the lack of an orb bonus on any picture. In my opinion, the orb bonus is a great idea. Winners deserve to profit. Dougieh and Malice Rider were the heroes of the day. Dougie sat on that trebuchet for over an hour making a hole in the wall for our army to get in. Malice Rider was the original spotter, suffering attacks just to see if we were hitting the wall.

Rather than listen to the endless whines and cries from Obama’s constituency, ask Dougieh & Malice Rider what they want to see. I doubt either of em are swimming in tokens for what they did yesterday. But you don’t see a forum post crying about it, do you? ,They probably never even look at the forums. I wonder if they even know what they did. Probably just a couple guys having fun. Pay attention to those guys.

Signed,

Mighteous, The Greatest Player In The Game

Sometimes you annoy me..but I like you. And I agree with you, I wish I was there for that.

Yeah I’m sure pro has a astrong presence out there already, I just didnt see them much in EB last night. Shaping up to be a fun fight so far!

Lol, I’m loving the comments xD
“I’m starting to feel like they don’t want us here”
“I bet they cant push us back much farther”

I, for one hope we stay in the same bracket for as long as each of us keeps our unique spirit.

Also, lets hear some bloody stories fellas! I know we about wet ourselves when we got the message:

“Ferg at stonemist!”
“How many?”
“A kittenload”
“THEY HAVE 5 GOLEMS”

Our gates were melted, we all retreated into the inner sanctum and manned siege and waited for them to blitz in. Somehow, their golems fell one after another to our ballistae and their men fell to our arrow carts.

Still a very good show ferg, many props.

Don’t be misled, while I did notice some [Pro] out here on the battlefield, it was a lot of [Dark] [GASM] and [RED] flipping Kains points in the EB into the wee morning.

However, [PRO] we want to coordinate with you!

So the assault on Kaineng’s EB keep started out as a few guys kittening around with 5 ballistas at a supply camp. xD

If anything in this post catches your eye, give me a shout. Level 80 Ele here too

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/guilds/guilds/Dark-A-WvW-and-Dungeon-focused-guild-on-Devona-s-Rest/first#post485782

The Midnight Syndicate [Dark]
Devona’s Rest

Upon accepting Guild Master position and seeing Kaineng’s surge of activity in WvW, I’ve dedicated myself to recruitment and welcoming of new members. Our active members are very cool, laid back people. Devona’s Rest is a great server with lots of potential to thrive and flourish, and our guild is no exception to that.

A little history:
We’ve been active since the game came out. At first it was just a small group of people but we hit a stroke of luck and recruited a few members who were instrumental in getting our guild organized, taking it from a level of mere colleagues and gamers to a tight-knit family. We want people who can join that family and bring their own flavor to the guild.

Our Goals:
To expand our influence, leadership, and experience in PvE, sPvP, and especially WvW.
To swell our ranks with members we get to know personally, and to develop relationship as friends, brothers, and sisters.
To coordinate with other WvW guilds and commanders on our server.
To execute small, strike team-based operations in WvW to devastating effect.

We are not stingy, we love to help out those more inexperienced than ourselves, and to take advice from those more experienced. We believe that communication and coordination is the key to success in any endeavor. A strong identity is great for our guild, an overbearing ego is not.

We hope that you will give our family a try and perhaps find a home for yourself here on Devona’s Rest.

Sirenic.4275:

Our server which will go unannounced…

Sirenic.4275:

…GoM is just a PvE/sPvP server.

Am I missing something?

Christ that’s a lotta people. Seems everyone but Devonas Rest has been getting big transfers, so we certainly welcome you. You may find it difficult to coordinate with the other commanders though, group think is still rampant here.

However I should mention that even without the big transfers and publicity that Kaineng has generated for themselves, we’re still holding our own on a daily basis.

Nope, still kittened up

NealCaffrey.6450:

lol Ender I hope one of us got it on video, but not sure. We had 3 superior ballistas setup and a couple arrow carts that held that hallway to lord’s room in EH like a boss. After Devona’s wiped trying to get to the lord’s room, Ferguson’s broke through the SOUTH gate of EH and we did the same exact thing to them 10 minutes later. It’s amazing what well placed siege in a lord’s room and narrow choke point can do to 30+ people. I think I only saw 6 people make it to the stairs before they died within seconds that whole night in EH.

Yeah we saw fergs coming in and we were on TS talking like, “They don’t know what they’re getting into” and “I almost feel bad for them.”

How on earth dd we take that back from you guys?

Any Kains got a video of you guys massacring us with siege at the inner sanctum of Etheron Hills? Great play btw.

^ This is why I still love you guys, this is why I support your well deserved win, this is why Kain is a great server and a great competitor. Good show, Girly Man.

You’re oblivious aren’t you? You’ve been rebuked by many on your own server because you act as though you speak for them. You insult others and display an incredible lack of sportsmanship, you act as though it was your transfer that got your server the win, and you attack and devalue Fubuki’s massive contributions to the Kaineng WvW scene.

You talk about what makes one server more attractive than another? Take a look around, it’s been Fubuki’s spirit and PR, not your arrogance. Kaineng was never advertised to win, it was advertised to be a fighter. I’m not even on Kain and I’m insulted that you have mislead the message of what this victory actually means.

Has certainly been fun thus far, though I find myself asking at times, “Why is Kaineng doing that?”

The 10+ seige at the astralholme supply camp made little sense to me. But its been a ton of fun, I can only hope for such an evenly matched game this week.

Any plans on getting this unbugged in the near future?

Why exactly aren’t you attacking Kain’s BL in full force right now, instead you’re derping around in DRB sneak attacking Godsword like its gonna give you points. The more you take from blue, the bigger your lead gets.

Well, win or lose Fubuki. YOU and your efforts and those you recognize as being part of the solution, you guys are winners in my book.

Well…I WAS cheering for Kaineng.

Dear FC, I would be tickled to death if you guys hit them with a lightning fast, sieged out, map-capping party of death today, the way their night squad did to us (DR) in our borderlands last night after working so hard to take everything and upgrade it.

nysta.6713:

i always say if you’re going to be beaten by the wooden spoon team, you really have to have some good excuses. way to go, sniffy. you got the holy grail of excuses;
a: we got nightcapped and so we lost.
b: they engaged in smacktalk and we were demoralised.
c: they weren’t skilled. they just have more players on.

awesome set of excuses there. i mean, really. you’re nightcapped, smacktalked, and outNUMBERED by kaineng? KAINENG?

you’ve been out somethinged, alright.

outplayed.

as for kaineng: doesn’t take much to see you guys have put a lot of effort into this. i really hope you do win. also, if you find sniffy up there on the map tonight – spike him a few times for me

With respect to all of Kaineng, I am obligated, simply by this post to point out a few things about this round of WvW that you are either intentionally ignoring, or don’t realize.

1) Kains wvw pop has absolutely surged. You asked for transfers, you got your lions share of both non affiliated and dedicated WvW guilds. Don’t come on to the forums and downplay the very REAL fact that Kaineng does simply outnumber DR right now. We haven’t had the marketing or good fortune to get almost any transfers and since the loss of PTX I think we’re still running in the red.

2) With the taste of victory surging on your lips, I am hard pressed to find the humble, likeable, fun, Im-cheering-for-that-MFer-even-though-he’s-my-enemy, Kaineng. What happened? Maybe you can answer Fubuki, has the gracious fighting spirit from the elite guerrilla underdog given way to just more of the same kitteny trashtalk that you see from EVERYONE else?

Point being, you got what you wanted, but for how long and at what cost?

Yeah Kota, that was rough. All was quiet for around 2 hours. Finally got a WP up in our garrisson and then what…things just start turning blue, not just in one place, everywhere at once. It was a matter of no less that 15 minutes from when we lost blue lake to when we lost garrison, and we mustered EVERYONE at garrison, central chamber was FILLED to the brim with siege: 4-5 ballista, 6 arrow carts, catas, when they broke through its as if nothing even touched them.

Oh and forget the line on seige emplacements around the outer wall that conveniently despawed so we were incapable of defending anything on the outside.

What irks me most, is that we spent over 10 hours battling Kains in our BL. It was back and forth, sometimes FC wouls enter the fray, Garrison and Bay were attacked numerous time, and held numerous times. Yet we lose it all to one massive influx of people, one zerg that walked through our siege like it was nothing.

I’m starting to just now realize what other servers mean when they say that WvW is kittened.

It was fun holding off dreaming bay against 3 waves of Kains and 2 Golems. xD

Kardiamond.6952:

SBI at least have player and have a good ranking. Some lower tier server doesn’t even have enought player to take tower during peak time. They never won a match ether.

I think it’s even harder to keep the fighting spirit when you are in the bottom tier, and you keep fighting up without enought people to make a group.

Each night, I join a borderland with around 4-5 ally, and we fight all night vs 20-50 players. But we aren’t in the worse spot.

I’d say Devona’s Rest have a good spirit. They have it bad. They keep fighting each week, and they keep losing each week. They doesn’t have the underdog aura like Kaineng that attract wvw guild.

My vote goes to them, don’t give up Devona’s Rest!

Thanks bud! My guild is about to enter the arena. We will see that same spirit that Kaineng has no matter what. Keep an eye on us.

As a Devonas Rest local, and after seeing this weeks matchup. This award goes uncontested to Kaineng.

Or just stack the boss, wait ~1 second and dodge roll THROUGH him. Easy. You’ll dodge all the AoE and if anyone goes down, everyone is right there to res them up. If someone gets crystaled, the AoE hitting the boss will drop it in half a second.

Imma start an “I <3 Alpha, but Hate Pugs” fanclub, who’s in?

Its disheartening for people to think we can’t make a stand because “We dont have enough people” or “We need a commander online”. Makes my wanna donkey punch everyone on the server.

Kevin.2176:

Ender.3508:

Kevin.2176:

Ender.3508:

rickets.1386:

Sojou.2067:

People sitting for 20 minutes in CoE path 1 waiting for all the trash to despawn.

Do/did people really do this?! Seriously P1 takes like 15 to 20 minutes tops for my group to finish and we kill everything.

I’d REALLY like to see this. 3 minutes on each alpha fight, perfect laser run, all 5 security locks at the same time, and Bjarl the Rampager never having Scales of Jormag, ever.

No really…I want a video…I’ll wait.

I’ll fraps our next run, it certainly wasn’t significantly longer than 20.

Whoo! If you pull this off, I’ll be in awe. Best of luck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH-UnpB91uc

~16 minutes total. We did pretty poorly on laser and Jormag charged the NPC once or twice, it was our first attempt at a pseudo-speed run tho, hopefully next time will be much better.

Absolutely astonishing. I noticed you left out the trash at the start but that couldn’t have taken more than a couple minutes. A flawless run could be even quicker. I am seriously in awe, good show mate. Hope DR didn’t hit you too hard.

Thus far, DR has fallen hard to the Oceanic guild SoS. Unfortunately people are uncoordinated and run headlong into the massive guild presence.

Oh my. Mad props to Kaineng holding 2 orbs and over half the map. Maybe DR should start a recruitment campaign xD. Seriously, you guys are all heart, but you have the brains to back it up. I’d really like to see you take this matchup.

Ender, Devona’s Rest Invader.

Haha, yeah for some reason Kaineng and us went at each other. We wiped kainengs group, and then FC came in en masse to clean us up. Super fun fight.

The fight at stonemist has been a fun one as well. DR finally secured our 1/3rd of the map this afternoon and we’ve been trebbing the outer walls relentlessly, but any attempt to breach the inner walls has been met with fierce resistance by both FC and Kain. Good show to all guys.

Kevin.2176:

Ender.3508:

rickets.1386:

Sojou.2067:

People sitting for 20 minutes in CoE path 1 waiting for all the trash to despawn.

Do/did people really do this?! Seriously P1 takes like 15 to 20 minutes tops for my group to finish and we kill everything.

I’d REALLY like to see this. 3 minutes on each alpha fight, perfect laser run, all 5 security locks at the same time, and Bjarl the Rampager never having Scales of Jormag, ever.

No really…I want a video…I’ll wait.

I’ll fraps our next run, it certainly wasn’t significantly longer than 20.

Whoo! If you pull this off, I’ll be in awe. Best of luck.

rickets.1386:

Sojou.2067:

People sitting for 20 minutes in CoE path 1 waiting for all the trash to despawn.

Do/did people really do this?! Seriously P1 takes like 15 to 20 minutes tops for my group to finish and we kill everything.

I’d REALLY like to see this. 3 minutes on each alpha fight, perfect laser run, all 5 security locks at the same time, and Bjarl the Rampager never having Scales of Jormag, ever.

No really…I want a video…I’ll wait.

“If the answer is, “No, there are small things that I would like changed,” then state them. Help the developers make Guild Wars 2 a game you can play for years to come.”

With pleasure:
1) The tip of the loot bell curve should be greens with no MF%. Whites would essentially be a critical failure and exotics a critical success, maybe only make exotics drop in the final chest.
2) Trash needs, on avg, a 20% decrease in HP. Some places it’s fine, bomb golems in CoE, some places its broken, defend event in CoF.
3) A select few bosses need either: buffing, nerfing, bux fixes, or additional mechanics.
4) Better NPC AI…I swear to god if Hodgins dies in the fire trap or pulls one more graveling pack…also that CoE agent NPC at the beginning. Who decided it’d be a great idea to have to race her to pull the mobs?
5) Champions and bosses dropping silver! implement this universally, not just AC. Yes, I’ll gladly take 5 more silver from a mob that 1 shots you and has a metric kittenton of health.
6)Karma! It makes no sense to have a glorified event chain that doesn’t reward it.

“No Ele or Necro will come close, and if they do, they die with 1 or 2 hits cause their skill set is meant for ranged combat or summoning minions etc.”

Staff ele vs melee:
Chill, Cripple, Immobilize, Teleport, Static Field, Windborne Speed, Mist Form
vs ranged:
Chill, Magnetic Reflection (solo and group), Mist Form
vs CC:
Armor of Earth, Attunement Stability, Mist Form

D/D ele vs melee:
Chill, Teleport, 2 interrupts, Shock Aura, Frost Aura………

Need I go on?

No, ele’s cant take damage as well as most classes, but we don’t have to. Why do you think the ‘bunker ele’ is considered so OP in PvP? Fact is, if an ele gets aggro, he has no choice but to “tank”, a good ele will rise to the challenge, and a bad one is graveling food.

Definitely the player not the class. As an ele I bring tons of utility to the table:
AoE nukes, slows, stuns, cripples, immobilize, blinds
Auras that stun chill and reflect projectiles as well as protection when apply them.
Group interupts.
A blink-like ability.
FROST BOW, christ people dont understand how useful this thing is. #2 5stacks of vulnerability, 10 if through a lightning field, #3 is chill, #4 is a sky to ground AoE which causes tons of confusion and murders structures. Oh an #5 is like an 8 second stun the traps enemies in ice blocks and did I mention you get 2 of them. Oh and we can go invulnerable while channeling anything like a button press or switch.

Basically, I either pity you, laugh at you, or resent you. Haven’t decided which.

Dude’s an idiot, we had someone on a CoE run (a kittening guildie, no less) who, when I asked him to get in vent his response was, “It’s a dungeon, you kill the things with red names. How hard can it be.” Then during the second Alpha fight we noticed him doing nothing but kiting around naked with a staff (he was a guardian) autoattacking, doing next to 0 damage (we knew this because he couldn’t solo a single bomb golem before it exploded). And to top it all off when I was “What the kitten are you doing, repair your kitten armor.” he had the gall to give me a “Why, there’s no strategy, its nothing but graveyard zerging anyway.”

No vent.
No armor.
No performance.
No excuses.

I’m still considering kicking this guy from the whole guild.

DR here. Thanks! I’ve definitely noticed a difference between ourselves and in Kaineng this week, though we still have a long way to go as far as leadership is concerned.

Weird…submarine is arguably the easiest. Why pick front door for farming?

3 manned it the other day. He’ll aggro engie turrets which gives you time to chase him back down. Other than that get a good feel for how long he’ll stay in combat before TP’ing and keep one person on the waypoint, one on the far platform, and one roaming.

I D/D on my ele quite a bit through CoE, but I swap it up for some fights. I havent seen a serious issue, but then again I have a lot of stuns, auras, heals, and interrupts to use when things get rough.

Its a team effort man. As an ele I always go scepter dagger (for Phoenix which grants vigor upon returning). Dont dodge dragons tooth, need to res 2 on 1 if someone gets downed and use lightning flash to get out of the crystals. My guild did it with 2 pick-ups last night and I was only downed once in the final fight.

Get to the point where you and your group can survive and waypoint distance isnt an issue. Usually when I take randoms, myself and a guildie will go dance with Alpha for a while on the first fight, while they stand at the door and watch. The more people that are up, the more likely it is youll get rezed, so its important that everyone knows the figh well enough to survive a while.

Other than that, stay in his face with your group and dodge through him, so that everyone is still nearby if someone gets downed.

Shocking Aura, 4 second stun when you try to CnD. GG

Being from DR, what is the guild in question so that I know who to be wary of. I’m still of the Non Aggression Pact mentality with Kaineng, in fact after seeing the score this morning I can to congratulate you.

Ensign.2189:

I’m surprised people find path 2 to be the hardest. My regular group finds it to be the fastest and most profitable path in AC, just put on your man pants and mow everything down in ~20 minutes.

AC is one of the easiest dungeons in the game. Citadel path 1 and HotW path 1 are the only ones that are consistently faster and easier (I guess Citadel 2 is easy too, but we avoid it because having to stop while Magg’s AI bugs out is infuriating).

Not hardest, just longest for us. We sprint through all the graveling events without wipes in the other paths, but defending the cannons has a static time completion even if you do it perfectly.