Guild Wars 2

This thread needs a lot more steamy ERP.

katniss.6735:

Maguuma zerg unveiled

Well kitten, i’d murder that child out of pure fear.

God help all of the non-mes/heavy classes, HERE ANET HAS WROUGHT UPON THOU THE END OF TIMES.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Shall we give Kits to all other professions so they can properly utilize Rune of the Engineer?

BUURRRRNNN

rjnemer.7816:

bobomb.5209:

well i cant go into specifics, but the current meta is conditions and stun, both with the recently buffed healing signet(yes its fairly good now :P) so just mess with the mace and swords with healing signet. Add a hammer or bow in there somewhere.

LOL, i had to log in just so i could save the OP from this terrible player.

OP, if you are looking for the meta it is axe/mace with gs swap. You also need a warhorn for running trash mobs and a longbow for stacking might. Run full berserker’s gear with scholar runes (or ruby orbs if you cant afford the runes.)

He asks for a tanky/stun/dmg build that is usable in wvw and you link a zerker damage PVE build, while insulting someone who gave an adequate answer.

Stop being a kittenhead and learn to read

LightningBlaze.4913:

Israel.7056:

LightningBlaze.4913:

I agree it came out in a rude way. I should have worded it differently but the 1v1 encounters did take place. It was a lot of fun. Good mesmer players are still a pain in the neck to defeat as an ele. I liked how their leader warrior uses his gs skills to gain range for his rifle weapon skills. I’m normally the one that kite warriors but this time I was the one being kited lol. Overall, we enjoyed our duels and the misunderstanding was clarified.

Well good I’m glad to hear it.

Why would you be glad, you were not involved :P.

If you would like more 1v1’s members of ONI would oblige you as well, though we are ERP’ers, and will engage in steamy role play with you at our discretion.

Agreed, cool boss, cool concept, waaaay too easy.

Qaelyn.7612:

Taku.6352:

Don’t walk into the spore mines… They show a clear AoE marker around them and pop few seconds later.

And if there weren’t 70,000 other things going on, I might be able to avoid them.

Add those to the AOE poison, huge quantities of nasty mobs spawning all around…

It’s a bit much for an area you are supposed to just be traveling through.

I wen’t through the area just fine, they really aren’t hidden.

Super Wilson.7408:

I realize this post is a little late… but I did not get time to post it last week durring JQ’s match up with #magswag.

I did not get a lot of time to play WvW this last week VS. Maguma. But the times that I did get in, when I wasn’t sitting in Queue, I ran into a few of Maguma’s roamers and they seemed to enjoy dueling at the windmill. So I hit record whenever they wanted a duel. One duel I did not record was vs. a mesmer that made me look like I had never played the game before. Sorry I didn’t get the footage.. but you know who you are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kasw3yAlgeQ

That guard ate every single cc, it gives me a sad.

Kiff.8157:

Pinko.2076:

Retsuko.2035:

ParaldaWind.4523:

Sunt.6835:

Pinko.2076:

Mag does care about PPT – until it’s time for gold league qualifiers

we’ll be here with yall ~every season~

Maybe u should move to SoR. They claim they dont play for PPT neither but they at least can put numbers in open field fight.

Because “putting numbers” is fun. If Mag wanted, we could assemble quite possibly the scariest megablob of guild groups you’ve ever seen… it’s just boring.

Excuses….
Megablob vs Megablob (or zerg vs zerg) are usually the most epic fights.

A meta decided by the profession with the best 1 spam and dodgerolling aka guardians with staff.

Sizes where you can use utilities are my pref.

Spam 1? I have all my 10 skills used depends on the situation, commander’s position, even dodge have to dodge wisely. You don’t understand why are we doing this. It’s okay, You train yourself to be a hero-like player but some of us love to play as a team and community and that’s why we’re in T1 again. This game is not about you or the solo player. We paid for the game, we have the right to choose what mode to play and it is not in your concern that whether we spam 1 or not.

I’m sensing…..Asian? maybe South American, Pacific Islander?

Gilgamesh.7364:

MokoToko.6890:

tango.8962:

I love the stigma against tanky players. WvW is about a team and our meta is made around AOE’s. Yes you get hit for 300 and laugh, but im hitting 5 people for 300 every second for 6 seconds. that’s 9k damage in 6 seconds.

Also stop disapproving T1 builds when you are tied with sos in last place.

tango.8962:

Yes you get hit for 300 and laugh, but im hitting 5 people for 300 every second for 6 seconds. that’s 9k damage in 6 seconds.

tango.8962:

im hitting 5 people for 300 every second for 6 seconds. that’s 9k damage in 6 seconds.

tango.8962:

9k damage in 6 seconds.

Why aren’t more people laughing at this gem?

Now imagine that x15 in a battle where its 60vs60. The importance of surviving in large scale battles comes 2nd to none.

The quality of your trolling has given me a chub, how are you going to take responsibility for that?

Jaxs.5830:

Entioch.6594:

AoN is an excellent group of players, when we used to scrimmage them when they were on FA the fights ended up being 50/50 between the both of us. ONI however did not use any “required” or “optimized” builds.

I think your statement is miss-leading.

ONI was never 50/50 in 5v5 play against AoN. Maybe in 2v2 we were 50/50, but not 5v5. No disrespect meant, ONI were great opponents, but we were optimized for group play while ONI was more a bunch of great solo’ers teaming up.

AoN does not have required builds and our optimizations rarely have anything to do with OP meta because our builds are based on group synergy more than individual effectiveness. As far as I know in group play we have not used any of what is being discussed in this thread, nor have we ever ran a hammer train, no warbanner spam, no stacking bunker groups, no perplexity, never stacked classes, etc. I wouldn’t say AoN is even optimized for an even fight, we are built around the idea of hitting larger forces and there are better ways to optimize if 8v8 was the norm.

I agree my comment was misleading, you were hardly setup specifically for small group combat, more for fighting larger engagements at the time, that said it was far more organized than anything we were doing. Which was the point I tried and failed to make.

on the50/50 stuff, this was some months ago, and there were different results, for example we did some strange 7v7 where ONI won 3/4 , and in some 5v5’s AoN won like 5 or 6 out of 8. What I mean to say is that considering all the fights we had it evened out to 50/50, which Convenant agreed with.

I agree that AoN currently doesn’t use cheese either, nor did I mention that, I simply said there was more rigidity in your setup when we fought some months back. For example, your guardians being heal spec (as per Convenant and Colonial when they tried to recruit me which i regrettably had to decline, as I was currently leading ONI.)

Also, your mesmers being glamour mesmers and the thieves being shortbow for the constant blast finishers. I remember this because Convenant told me that was your setup for zerg smashing a while back.

Israel.7056:

Entioch.6594:

#Rationalizingcheeseftw

Phantasm and condi mesmer are good in 1v1’s, in any other situation I’d rather have an excellent shatter mesmer.

AoN is an excellent group of players, when we used to scrimmage them when they were on FA the fights ended up being 50/50 between the both of us. ONI however did not use any “required” or “optimized” builds.

For you to use “optimization” to justify cheese for yourself or others is just strange to me. If it’s fun for you, do it and who gives a kitten what people think, but don’t try to justify it with a weak argument like that and expect us to gobble it up.

#Kyra4lyfe

How is my argument weak?

“Cheese” is an arbitrary title that players give to things in the game that they think are too strong or unfair. But the game doesn’t know “cheese” or “exploits” it knows winners and losers.

I play the game on the game’s terms. I try to find the simplest, most efficient way to win. If I lose I try to figure out why I lost and fix it. Is that not sound game theory?

What reason is there to play suboptimal builds?

If the desired end of a competitive gamer is victory then is victory not the ultimate good and loss the ultimate bad?

I feel that I have justified my position. I feel that it is a rational, consistent position. But I cannot force anyone to accept the same premises that I have.

That depends on the definition, most roamers aren’t seeking a victory, they are seeking a good fight, one they are not likely going to have running a “cheese” spec. The motivation for Maguuma ending up in gold league was, afterall, for a good fight instead of victory, which is directly antithetical to your philosophy.

The agreed upon (by most) definition of a cheesy build is one that performs very effectively while requiring minimal mechanical skill. This doesn’t suggest that shatter or other builds aren’t as effective, just that a “cheese” build is easier to play. Considering the developers emphasis on risk vs reward in their balancing theory cheese builds are clearly unintended.

Most roamer’s and small group individuals that I know don’t run cheese builds in which they know they can win a fight, it derives from their experience any excitement and personal pride they might have gotten from fighting a skilled opponent.

With that said, I don’t know you and have no right to judge you, you owe no one an explanation; it’s best to accept that most will be abrasive towards your play style and find comfort in your victories 1v1.

Israel.7056:

Boonprot.6274:

Switching to the newest FotM isn’t something to be proud of. Just shows that you have little creativity.

Plus, it’s far more impressive for someone to kill people as a non-FotM build than it is with an FotM build. Also shows that the person is actually good at their class.

My goal isn’t to be the most creative player I can be, it’s to be the most effective player I can be. Sometimes creative new builds outperform old builds and in that case they quickly become the meta. Sometimes people try new things and it underperforms and doesn’t make it into the meta at that time. If I discover a new build that I believe will outperform my old build I switch immediately. If a new build underperforms my old build it gets dropped.

My goal isn’t to impress my opponent but to beat them. I don’t care if they think I’m good or bad or anywhere in between that’s not my problem and it’s not something I can control.

I make a serious effort to never complain about enemy builds, tactics whatever. If someone beats me with something I just try to find a way to beat them. If I can’t figure it out that’s my failing not theirs.

#Rationalizingcheeseftw

Phantasm and condi mesmer are good in 1v1’s, in any other situation I’d rather have an excellent shatter mesmer.

AoN is an excellent group of players, when we used to scrimmage them when they were on FA the fights ended up being 50/50 between the both of us. ONI however did not use any “required” or “optimized” builds.

For you to use “optimization” to justify cheese for yourself or others is just strange to me. If it’s fun for you, do it and who gives a kitten what people think, but don’t try to justify it with a weak argument like that and expect us to gobble it up.

#Kyra4lyfe

kerona.3465:

can we talk about riot, TYYYyyy

they chased me from minotaurs to sw tower to middle of buttlust where my friends were waiting last night hammer stunning the whole way
why??

img: the path i walk/stumbled along

<3 mah RIOT boys

Tarsius.3170:

I’ll repaste the post I made in the December Patch thread, because the SNR is quite high in there atm:
If this change has been indeed been on the table, I find it a little odd that Vigorous Precision which is the cornerstone of so many guardian builds hasn’t had a direct mention in the guardian patch notes – as I think changes to it will absolutely require a lot of careful consideration.

The question is, what change to this would be acceptable as a guardian. When most professions complain about a Guardian’s access to Vigor, they’ve been stuck in an endless fight with a bunker or have been slowly whittled to death by a Healway. ( conveniently ignoring how little damage is being dealt in those kinds of battles )

On the other hand, a DPS guardian really relies on Vigor to survive more than the first few seconds of a fight against high CC or burst classes.

If you have 10-12k of HP and low toughness, if you can’t evade the skullcrack, shatter or heartseeker you are dead ( in one or two shots in most cases ). If you can’t dodge through a necro mark you are dead a few seconds later because we can’t remove conditions reliably at that end of the tree

A lot of builds are forced to either run duel energy runes or push 5 points into honor ( or both ).

If Anet are dead-set on pushing vigor traits into adept traits, then what are our options? 10 points investment in Virtues? ( since a lot of guards DPS or otherwise will throw 5 points in there anyway ): that severely limits the support guardians options in an important tree.

If you push it further into Honor to keep the Selfless Daring synergy you end up crippling many damage builds, and limiting shout or symbol effectiveness.

Short of making it a class mechanic ( Virtue of Alacrity? Passive vigor/active swiftness ), I’m at a loss to come up with something that wouldn’t screw over a significant number of builds ( replace Valor 15? ). Perhaps the goal is to just prevent 100% vigor uptime, which I can agree on – it which case you could make Honor 5 give you a flat Endurance regeneration boost ( +50%? )

I really hope we can just keep it as it.

My thoughts pretty much, if they were to move it they would reduce the potential number of builds which is opposite their goals. I can understand where permanent vigor for 5 points is an issue, but I also think it would harm build diversity to nerf it too significantly.

Tyler Chapman.1832:

Treborlavok.3504:

just like the guardians 5 trait for vigor on crit… its ok for them to have a 10 second single condition cure at adept…?

The Guardian and Mesmer vigor traits are something that were on the table and will be on the table for change in the future. We don’t like those traits being that easily accessible. While they haven’t yet been changed as long as our thoughts don’t change internally they are part of the vigor rework we want to do.

D’aaaaaaaw, well nothings concrete, since in ANETian “On the table” means “who the kitten knows”. Also, the trait could probably use being moved to another tree / being further along the Honor line, thoughts?

Joe.4178:

Yam.2891:

wish there were more shatter mesmers around

Yeah me too, currently I’ve only seen nothing but phantasm *mesmers & condi mesmers. *Still no shatter mesmers yet in wvw for me.

Well to be fair, phantasm and condi mesmers are much easier to play, which attracts bad/mediocre players. Shatter actually has risk vs reward to it.

iAmTheDuke.6201:

Never seen so much perplexity in my time in this game.
Roaming is near pointless.

Ask a CC warrior to duel you without Healing signet, you might as well be asking them to eat their firstborn.

Amins.3710:

Zeal:

5pt – Symbolic X: Create a symbol of Wrath when your Health Drops below 25%. Symbols apply Vulnerability to foes.

15pt – Selfish Preservation: Dodging removes Immobilization and Cripple
fan of this one, would be a great trait, but probably needs an ICD with guardian perma vigor?
25pt – Sybolic Power: Increases damage (10%) of symbols and applies Terror (2 stack per pulse)
you mean torment, right? They would never do that though, since it doesn’t apply to the guardian “thematically” in Anet’s opinion.
Adept:
Spiritual Unity: Spirit Weapons heal allies (Base 25 + .2 coefficient / 150 radius).

Master:
Zealous Blade: Attacks with your Greatsword AND Sword deal an extra 5% and heal you and your allies.

Spiritual Mastery: Spirit Weapons are not Destroyed and Recharge 20% Faster.

Grandmaster:

Wrathful Spirits: Increases spirit weapon damage by 50% and Bleed Targets (1 stack)
Same issue with the torment, bleeds probably dont match Anet’s thematic view of guardian, we’d be more likely to get a new condition.

Radiance:

Adept:
Shimmering Defense: At 25% health you explode in a Nova Blast (150dmg), pushing foes back and burning them for 7 seconds.
A big fan of this, actually.

Inner Fire: When you are set on fire, you gain Fury (8s) and haste for 4 seconds (30s cooldown).

Master:
Powerful Blades: Zealot’s Defense pierces and can be used while moving.
It could be argued that ZD should be like that without traiting, since its a skill that doesn’t hit as hard as the autos, and rarely hits targets if they aren’t setup with hard cc in advance. But with Anet being Anet, this is probably the best we could hope to get

Perfect Inscriptions: All Signet passive effects are increased. Signets heal (32per/s + .02 coefficient)
In line with Anet’s other coefficient balancing this would most likely be set at .01

Valor:

Master:
Glacial Heart: Critical Hits w/ Hammer AND Mace have a 100% chace to chill target for 5s. Effect Can occur once every 24s.
One can dream
Focused Mind: Meditations grant you and your allies Fury (4s) and Swiftness (5s).
They are much to scared of giving us mobility, though I agree since meditation builds are already slow.

Honor:

Grandmaster:
Battle Presence: Nearby Allies gain all Virtues Passive effects.

Virtues:

Adept:
Unscathed Contender: You Deal 20% more damage while under the effect of Aegis. Aegis you apply, applies protection for 2s after it is removed.

just my two cents.

theCOREYCOLAK.5698:

skcamow.3527:

Why is that? As you are the creator of one of the first stun-focused builds (Stunway) I would be interested in hearing you expound on this.

If assumptions are right, and they trade the stun for daze duration, the lockdown capabilities drastically change. Although their skills are on a longer shutdown, they’re still able to move, dodge, etc etc. As opposed to being forced to sit through the relentless attacks.

Not just that, I feel as if Arenanet’s really focusing in on a “dueling” identity in terms of building the mesmer skillcase, through buffed mantras, phantasms etc. Now I wouldn’t have this problem if this were GW1, but it’s not. Team play starts to lack and the viability and massive input that mesmers bring to “group play” and “zerg play” are only really utility.

I don’t know what I was really expecting, but I really felt like a shatter buff would’ve been nice, or mantra viability if they’re expecting us to go down that track. But I mean, mantras in its current state, no matter how much you think are “viable”, really aren’t in group play. The meta, in it’s current state, is rather disappointing. We have this massive focus on “bunker” and “survivability” which is fine, but the fact that you can build tanky, while outputting out enough DoTS to kill everything and anything is just imba. Yeah you can build just to fit in with this meta, but lets be honest here, that’s stale and boring. With these changes, yes mesmers are able to survive the meta more, but to a cost of DPS and having to really build into those areas. It kinda really pigeon holes you.

I’d like to also see an addition to the stun trait, something that increases the cooldown after interrupting an ability, because 3 seconds is just… lame.

So yeah, that’s why I’m kinda disappointed with the to-be changes.

This whole game is being pushed more and more in a disgusting, boring, tank condi meta. Not just mesmer sadly

hobbes.6178:

I just poured a bowl of cereal and found out afterwards I have no milk. Anyone have any suggestions for an alternative?

Orange juice, make it happen.

a t s e.9614:

Yea that build is a joke againsts players with half a brain . They will kite you around with Mace , wait till you swap to GS and stomp you . I still use it sometimes because my pvp toon is an invisible asura . There’s no specific animation on skullcrack with asurans .

kitten this, a million times kitten this. Though I main guard, so if I get caught in anything but a pure damage build by the skull crack kitten its a 90 minute duel until I eventually kitten up.

Cygnus.6903:

I use it because as a warrior you don’t have the EZmode spamming abilities that most other classes have. Mesmers let clones fight for them, necro’s have AoE and minions, eles have insane PBAoE, engineers have AoE, rangers have pets and spirits, guardians have spirit weapons. Thieves have stealth. Fact of the matter is every class can do significant damage or is able to survive through simple mechanics without having to invest a great deal of attention in it.

In short, as a warrior you have to have more skill IMO, just for concentrating on doing damage and proper positioning. The fact that my heal doesn’t require even more attention makes the warrior a smoother class to play, for me. This was a lot harder before HS got buffed. I’m Just an average player off course.

Much lol’s were had, before the buff to healing signet warrior had artificial difficulty, if you hadn’t killed someone in a brief period of time, you were dead. Mechanically warrior is actually a pretty simple class. Your comment on warrior skill being important was absolutely true before the buffs, now, I can make a huge number of mistakes, and miss a huge number of dodges, yet still win a fight. With that said, warrior was prohibitively difficult before the buffs. Personally I think moving UF up the tree a bit, maybe to master or grandmaster, and lowering the healing signet a smidge but raising its healing with healing power is the way to go. I wouldn’t want to see HS lowered anywhere past 360.

I run a 0/5/30/30/5 hybrid stat build for wvw, it still brings good team support and can win a hand full of 1vx scenario’s, what it wont do is beat a condi mesmer, a mace/shield – greatsword warrior, or a well played condi engi, for those you would need a high damage output build.

Snafu.7412:

Mance.5640:

Hello Saucians and Magswaggers. (Video to follow)

[SG] would like to thank everyone for the fights this week. We stopped srsbzness after Monday, and did a running of the bulls Tues, and Weds a thief night. Our most fun fights were vs PYRO, whom I think we play next week? PYRO feel free to holler at us Mondays if we can we will come on the map and conduct a violent bag exchange @@

Here is a member video from CJ.

SG/Emp vs AGG/EP 1:00-5:00
SG vs Ark 4:57
SG/Emp vs SoS/Mag 3way zergfest N camp
SG vs INC 14:30
SG vs AGG 15:42
SG vs AGG 17:10

http://youtu.be/cljNKr5uTOk

Any Magswags have a video from Monday of SG vs Pyro by the Vurm, I would like to see @@

[SG] recognizes that JQ has a ton more wvw players than SoS and Mag. We would like to salute those wvw players on SoS and Mag that came out to fight on the battlefield and on the forums despite this fact.

/Salute

[SG]

I died a little on the inside from all the clicking.

Hey now, they didn’t click their auto-attack, or their dodges, (which is unbelievably a thing) give credit where credit is due.

dreztina.4820:

I always lose interest in playing a few days into the match after it becomes clear there’s no one worth roaming around to find. I know it’s better overall to be in gold league, but I do miss EB.

Anyone on JQ who does run around solo is a tanky condi mesmer with perplexity, or a condi engi with perplexity, its a perplexapalooza.

Honorable Mentions:
~Condition damage perplexity staff ele, yup.
~Perplexity headshot thieves
~The perplexity GUARDIAN without wards, kudos to you sir.
~The nine necro signet of spite special forces squad waiting to condi bomb me from out of sight at virtually any time during any fight.
~Mace/shield – Greatsword warriors, also known by their Indian name: Kites for Seven Seconds, because Skull Crack.

I love you, JQ, you are an enigma of a server, an example of what permanent exposure to tier 1 can do to someones mindset as a pvp’er

Embrace the Cheese, the cheese is love, the cheese is life.

WildMonkey.6927:

amiable.4823:

WildMonkey.6927:

But really tho, finally I get to see the maguuma forum dwellers that i’ve heard sooo much about haha. Honestly I thought I’d get a challenge here..but nope it’s just a bunch of pride of being amazing “PvFers”, like that’s…something to brag about? lolz, hilarious.

O yea and 4 replies by Maguuma for my ONE simple comment, that’s amazing. LMFAO Honestly i think BG has the worst trolls stiill cuz theyre not just a bunch of crybabies and man, they are in blatant denial of everything they do and say JQ does it instead lol (because you know, JQ totally can do a 2v1 last week on the other servers AT THE SAME TIME as when all SoR and BG did was either 1. camp our spawn, or 2. camp bloodlust nodes 24/7). Oh and the claims of HzH hacking LOL because we can do that while an Arenanet employee was in our very zerg + TS oftentimes

There are several varieties of decaffeinated soda that are just as flavorful as the original. You should look into this.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fEkWH8DB7b0&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DfEkWH8DB yawn well… that was easy. Not to mention ur post was all kinds of corny lol. NEXT!!!

You give me such a chubby.

#NeverChange

Writetyper.1985:

Gorefiend.9675:

Really? Perplexity, p/d, thieves guild thief in a 1v1? Could you possibly have any less faith in your own skill?

I swear, maguuma is the worst server to solo roam against. Barely anybody is willing to fight on their own merit and most of the ones that do hide behind perplexity.

kitten , I lost a duel? Better blame it on Perplexity! Not me at all!

Perplexity isn’t that great. The only build I’d argue it’s OP on is Engineer as they don’t actually sacrifice anything out of their regular build to get the huge confusion damage. If it’s a warrior or thief running Perplexity – guess what, they have to use kittenty condition weapons or kittenty physical weapons with their interrupts as opposed to good old pistol/shield for perplex procs – meaning outside of the perplex procs, they’re barely doing any damage. I’ve won several duels against players using perplex thieves (S/P AND p/d variants) who I know are very talented (If you’re reading this, you know who you are) using some simple kittening steps – cool down for a moment, stop spamming skills so that all he has to do for a perplex proc is interrupt at any time, clear your condis, and kill the guy relying on a single gimmick. It’s quite simple.

I would say it can be “better than intended” on a condi mesmer as well, but tanky condi mesmer is a pretty easy-cheese spec regardless, perplexity or not, so it doesn’t really matter.

grave of hearts.7830:

Good fights on SoS garrison too,still trying to unclogg my inventory.
Too bad TC for some reason avoid the place i am parked.
Mags are still roaming and roaming and roaming and roaming……….onwards…..

One of the most difficult parts of roaming as a guard 1vX is like the others said, lack of soft cc or swiftness up-time, most classes can simply disengage and come back with more health if its multiple opponents, IMO anyway.

No, after the PoV “fix” you get nothing.

:(

katniss.6735:

It all started when our antagonizing protagonist, Justdonny, woke up in a haunted thicket. It was the sixth time it had happened. Feeling abundantly puzzled, Justdonny poked a dangerous oil-soaked rag, thinking it would make him feel better (but as usual, it did not). Like a drunken sailor at happy hour, he realized that his beloved blue armor was missing! Immediately he called his favorite friend, pet bear. Justdonny had known pet bear for (plus or minus) 2,000 years, the majority of which were enchanting ones. pet bear was unique. He was outgoing though sometimes a little… oafish. Justdonny called him anyway, for the situation was urgent.

pet bear peeked up to a very sad Justdonny. pet bear calmly assured him that most spotted SoS player turn red before fleeing, yet the Tarnished Coast hissing sloths usually exotically sigh after engaging. He had no idea what that meant; he was only concerned with distracting Justdonny. Why was pet bear trying to distract Justdonny? Because he had snuck out from Justdonny’s with the blue armor only three days prior. It was a saucy little blue armor… how could he resist?

Good old-fashioned stream of consciousness.

Pinko.2076:

Entioch.6594:

Player Character.9467:

:O What happened to GF? I ran into a GF thief and he didn’t cheese build. Seriously, I got blinded maybe twice total and no perplexity either.

Underneath the phantasm mesmers and plex engi’s theres actually a very good core of players in GF.

Phantasm mesmer is weird name after the changes. The only distinction anymore is that they cast phantasms, which all mesmers do.

The health signet used to be the defining thing, but that thing isn’t worth the slot after the nerf to it/buff to base HP.

I consider a phantasm mesmer one that maintains phantasms, instead of shattering them, as a shatter mesmer would, though I give phanty mesmers more credit then condi mesmers these days.

If you referencing how virtually no one plays shatter builds anymore, I know, but i still find anything that isn’t shatter cheesy, that’s IMO of course.

Though i still find shatter mesmer’s here and there, much respect for that.

Player Character.9467:

:O What happened to GF? I ran into a GF thief and he didn’t cheese build. Seriously, I got blinded maybe twice total and no perplexity either.

Underneath the phantasm mesmers and plex engi’s theres actually a very good core of players in GF.

ghtchill.7613:

Jereme.1840:

Archtos.8523:

Ahem.

Maguuma doesn’t play for PPT we don’t care about the score board we have some of the best guilds and roamers in all of NA and you guys are all a bunch of mindless zergers anyway you hide behind arrow carts and stuff and that’s stupid we don’t do that ever we fight with honor we got that #magswag you think your big but we don’t care we’ll kick kitten in gold you guys are just a bunch of bandwagon servers enjoy getting your fairweathers and stupid unskilled players who don’t care about anything but karma nerds lol gg ded game anet you may be tough but you ain’t got magswag bro you don’t even play the game so qq and go back to devon carver and maybe he’ll nerf other guilds btw we’re recruiting oceanic players if you want to come maguuma is really good we got a strong na but we need more oceanic ocverage cuzt his game is just about who has bigger numbers lol except when we win of ocurse that’s straight p stkill bro you don’t even know but yeah anyway enjoy your pvdoor were just in it for the fight ands the gvg well take on anyone in ag vg 1v1 us bro send me a message on the forum unless we ruin someones game mode lol can you believe that that was so lmae but yeah uh no PPT is dumb #420 ppt karma train zushin biggest zerg eh yeah just keep throwing people at the problem lol thanks for the badges yaks bend you guys got such tiny wieners you don’t even take a fight when you got bigger numbers you already be running from us bro gg not even mad haha magswag baby magswag gonna rip it up in boring gold league kittenty servers on here we gonna clean hours probably gonna stop wvw cuz itsll be so boring yknow what I mean?

If you have any questions or complaints please direct them to oldsmeller, Lord Reagent of the Maguuman Kingdom

QQ, Go take a nap Hyear!

Oh my, that post made my eyes hurt. Not only one wall of text but not even a period…yikes.

On another note…is this a good time to bring back our long missed celebrity commanders?

he’s compressing all of the crap that’s going to be said this week so it’s out of everyone’s system.

etrigan.4213:

Congrats Mag. Gold should be fun for a bit for you guys.

We’ve had “gold” league for months, I’m “ok” with a break from the blobs/skill lag to be honest.

We’ll miss fighting JQ/SoR/BG and their squishy blobs. We’ll miss TC most of all of course.

Can’t say we’ll miss SoS or MAG…nothing about those matchups were very noteworthy for us. Nothing against either server, just not on our radar.

FA has arrived at hivemind status.

Avenge.1478:

Oh man, can’t wait for mag to experience an SOR/JQ/Mag matchup. This giddy schoolgirl attitude will die down about an hour into reset.

Someone doesn’t know maguuma,

Zephyrus.9680:

IronZ.7185:

Chris.3290:

Mags is looking good now because of their EU. However FA will dominate PPT in NA and they will tick over 600 overnight.

It’s over for any on SBI who still have hopes of Silver.

let me laugh at this, FA is nothing for Mag…

6 am EST. This is Maguuma in tryhard mode son!

SoR aka badge factory is smart to be scared

When Mag gives real kittens about PPT they get kitten done. “weak oceanic timezone” my kitten.

sirsquishy.8531:

Me Games Ma.8426:

they did this to prevent ppl from stacking speed with running through the line multiple times

Not a good enough reason, you can stack swiftness from a guards Symbol of Swiftness.

we should be able to with the curtain as well.

you cannot stack either.

DrWhom.3105:

nytehex.3267:

sorry, but I choose winning.

This sentiment is why Mag ending up top of silver would be a total disaster. Getting smashed in Gold for seven weeks is a small price to pay for avoiding an infestation of win-obsessed transfers looking for an easy ride.

If you care about winning please just go bandwagon a T1 like everyone else and leave Maguuma alone.

we should all get some money together to help him and anyone he brought with him transfer off.

Npac.3476:

Just wanted to say good GVG to Ark and DDLG.

Ark, next time you’re “gvging”, (excuse me, spending 15 minutes to set up an aoe fest) try to stomp the downed staters…we helped ya out there couple times.

To the [DR] guild that ran to “stop” the evil imposters, the video of the 7 of us (and two AoN guys I think) absolutely rolling you like Alabama Football is coming soon.

lol the clicking reference in your tag is to the guild legendary rage(a guild that splintered off swag), where ukune (the engi) and stunningstyles (the guardian) mostly roam now :P dont let me stop you though, this stuff is comical.

The winning server will cite a natural superiority in both tactics and player skill, and the losing server will suggest that they A.) weren’t trying at all or that B.) some other factor(s) outside of tactics and player skill determined the outcome.

irrespective of those things being true or false, every server regardless of it’s playerbase will always pragmatically flip flop between either the winners or losers argument. We’d like to think that the reasons for our victory deserve merit, instead of chance and circumstance, alternatively we get comfort convincing ourselves that our loss was not inferiority, but inevitability.

I guess what I’m saying, is yer all garbage, get on my level.

Chaba.5410:

May I remind you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D8H1WM70XA

Couple things:

1.) They’ve got ya there [bags] :P
2.) PTV guardian
3.) Stomping after a duel is widely considered fairly meh, of course if this wasn’t a duel so much as you guys just letting it be an even fight then that doesn’t matter, nor in that case does the difference in bloodlust stacks matter.

meh wasn’t the original word, but this forums censorship is mind kittening blowing at what an enormous pile of steaming horse kitten it is.

Chaba.5410:

Andy.9137:

I wish my friends and I had more time to roam, fa isn’t that terrible.

Holy Pickle, that’s just DDLG’s PvF for you with little to show in-game.

balderdash, I can confirm that both me and Pickle are garbage.

~Aynkou

Legion.1569:

So all trash talk aside, my take on these 2 servers

Magumma: To be honest mag has some good blobbing guilds, had some good gvg’s and fights with VR and Ark (before they got interrupted) They also have some decent roamers in Aon even though you guys tend to run in groups far larger then a typical roaming group ( apart from Aon all the mag roaming guilds are terrible, just look at swag lolololol)

FA: Has by far the worst player skill per player of any server ive faced (and i think ive faced everyone but T1 at this point.) Just awful on every level, from large group to small man to solo. I dont think FA is tanking this matchup i just think there so terribad that when they cant zerg down another group 3 to 1 they just get crushed

Just my thoughts on the matchup

aww, and after i had such good duels with your bag guildies

up for a duel any time ^^

Legion.1569:

All week ive been wanting anet to nerf perplexity runes, but tonight i ran into about 15 different perplexity rune thieves from both servers, that literally only served the purpose of turning into free loot bags for me, so if perplexity makes terrible players run terrible builds im all for them.

Shoutout in particular to the 4 FA pistol whip thieves that got spawn camped by 2 people lololololol

To be fair, most plexity running kids i find are terrible, the kids from bags are the only fun fights i’ve had this week from SBI

Safari.3021:

In game Polls:

Barmen.

You talk to a barman in a tavern, they chat yto you, ask you questions, you give your responses.

Anet get their poll.
Player recieves tankard of ale for their time.

Encourage participation by making “visit tavern for a drink” a daily achievement when a poll is needed

this is amazing, it actually enhances immersion, instead of breaking it.

Andrew Clear.1750:

Kiro.3164:

deathTouch.9706:

I’d like to kindly remind all T1 players to please keep their trash kittening within the confines of their own threads. Thank you.

Wasnt talking trash. I complement a commander, get asked how TB is doing … then told Im trash talking.

Welcome to the Mag PvF. But, it’s ok, cause they can talk the talk, but they sure aren’t walking the walk.

actually, most of the kitten he got was from SBI.

Radioactive.1248:

Kiro.3164:

Radioactive.1248:

Poor TB, they left to Dragonwagon and then the wheels of the wagon came tumbling off, just as SBI became Stormhaven’s Rest of Madness with the many transfers. When you guys went to Blackgate though I was pretty sure Blackgate lost one of it’s biggest SEA guilds to JQ which may be indicative of bad things to come for them as well. Good luck on BG, I’m sure they can entice (pay) more people to join their queue fests.

On a related note. We had a really fun time playing the 30 or so full on minion masters in Maguuma Borderlands last night that were camping SBI spawn. It’s a hilarious strategy and I applaud the efforts.

Cant wait for SBI to hit gold even more now.

Yes, I can’t wait to see you talk kitten about how you are beating us in PPT. I don’t care if we lose to Blackgate by 300k points, I’ll be out there to fight every night regardless of the score. I hope that you don’t forget where you came from and don’t develop the Tier 1 ego that comes from coverage and PPT.

But whatever, if that’s what makes you guys happy you were good members of the SBI community while you were here, so whatever makes you happy makes me happy. Even if its PPT hugging.

Being passive aggressive is going to ruin the haughty morale superiority you guys are trying so hard to project.