Guild Wars 2

Gamadorn.2659:

I mean you understand the design of the borderlands maps right? They are INTENDED to be 2v1 against the HOME bl…

Eternal is the only map intended to be a 3 way fight.

It’s not about the 2 weaker servers ganging up on the stronger server. It’s simply the logistics of the BL’s except Eternal.

Again, no one is talking about design or unintentional double-teaming. I have ZERO problem with that. We are talking about INTENDED coordination in RL between Commanders. Nuff said.

Wow. I really hope you’re not the spokesperson for IOJ, Kinky, because you’re really making the server look bad. If I was in IOJ I would get in on this conversation quick to salvage whatever remains of your dignity.

“Prismatic Understanding: This trait now pulses once every second while stealthed.”

What does “pulse” mean in this context? A new boon is given every second?

I have no problem with a natural, unintended targeting of a larger server by the other two servers or a spur of the moment “Look they are attacking SM, let’s attack the other side and try to weaken it’s defenses… etc.” What I have a problem with is commanders from two different servers having communication and agreeing ahead of time through email to work together to destroy another server. Yes, that is a form of cheating and it gets really ugly. I recall this happening awhile back and looking out into a super army sea of two mixed servers all standing next to each other not attacking, camping our spawn.

And I hate to break it to you, but MOST of the double teaming I’ve seen is NOT between two weaker servers who are like, “Let’s get the big guy!” Most of them are a team up of the 1st and 2nd place server to get the weakest server. This scenario is what actually precipitated my posting here.

The dynamic goes something like this: The 2nd server panics because the 3rd server is gaining ground, threatening to over take them. The 2nd server makes a deal with the devil (the 1st server) in order to team up against the weaker, upstart server (3rd) in order to wipe them from the map and preserve their second place slot.

No one can convince me that Anet intended commanders sending emails to eachother to gang up on the weakest server. That’s total bunk. Say what you will, but ethically I think double-teaming is wrong. The best WvW set up is a good 3-way fight to the death!

KinkyGiraffe.4123:

Entropy.4732:

Very well put. I love how we, NSP, are getting attacked because we want to PLAY THE GAME AS INTENDED. It’s hilarious to read posts from IOJ that are like, “We didn’t want to double team DH, we just wanted to agree not to attack each other and to focus the attacks on DH!” What on earth do you think double-teaming is???? Regardless, if you look at the match as a whole, NSP basically focused on defending our borders. I worked constantly to just HOLD our blue side in EB. IOJ bragging about scavenging and targeting NSP is simply pathetic.

The moment I lost all respect for IOJ happened late last night. DH was attacking our keep HARD for hours. Felt like 100+. NSP had about 14 players. We dug in and somehow managed to hold off the DH wave even though our keep was bring constantly trebbed and filled with holes. Commander Sydewind led the attack and we drove DH back! Huzzah! We had about 15 minutes to cap a camp and get some supply to fix the walls before the next wave. Umber was off limits, so we ran to Dane. IOJ was just SITTING in Dane, about 10. Not doing anything. Lang was empty, but they weren’t attacking it. They were just GUARDING the supply camp like a junk yard dog because they knew we would need the supply to beat DH. They killed us. We tried again, again they killed us. Each time they retreated into Dane, NOT attacking Lang. Just sitting there. Starving us of supply so DH could take the keep. Which of course they did. At that point I realized the true nature of IOJ. You guys better hope we’re not matched up again because I’m gonna make sure every time I’m in WvW to target your server hard. NSP 4 life!!!

Naw diddums

I remember when Ebay, SBI or DH would attack our keep in EB and we’d have DR spawn camping us, we’ve all ran the hard yards, dont act like youre more special than the rest of us!

“we want to PLAY THE GAME AS INTENDED”

“Starving us of supply so DH could take the keep”

Those guys sitting in dane, were PLAYING THE GAME AS INTENDED they helped the stronger server at the time flip your keep so they could then come flip it later as they had less numbers. Now if we did that against DH, the week would have turned out a lot better. But no you NSP guys want to “play the game as intended”! Go go gadget NSP!

Its not like the the game was intended so that the 2 weaker servers would gang up on the stronger one

But no more truces with NSP like youve stated! I hope we get put against you lot again sometime soon

“It’s hilarious to read posts from IOJ that are like, “We didn’t want to double team DH, we just wanted to agree not to attack each other and to focus the attacks on DH!”

Youre missing the point, an alliance is not attacking each other, we didnt want that.
We just wanted to be on the same level as NSP and have DH as the common enemy! You guys may have been doing that, but not to our expectations and its snow balled from there!

Your desperation to justify a cowardly tactic is hilarious, Kinky. Oh and thank you for confirming all my suspicions about IOJ’s dishonorable strategies. Let’s face it, NSP was close to over taking IOJ, so IOJ panicked and resorted to some pretty sketchy moves in order to regain a lead over NSP. Now you want to paint it as some justified targeting because of us snubbing your “Alliance” (cough, double-team, cough). It’s all bunk. And as far as I’m concerned, you guys are not even worth the continuation of this argument.

Spets the MilkBandit.9031:

GavinGoodrich.1382:

If you wanna rebuild, you gotta rebuild smart. Doing things that have consequences that hurt your server’s population is dumb and you should feel dumb.

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You had 3 options.

1) fight NSP+IOJ VS DH (NSP did not want to officially double team but were focus DH anyway)
2) fight NSP vs IOJ vs DH (this option was clearly too difficult)
3) throw a nerd ragefit and fight NSP vs IOJ + DH (since you know, NSP is such a big threat)

Say what you want about “consequences” but after all this is a game, and NSP players know who they are, and now everyone knows who you are … lol

Very well put. I love how we, NSP, are getting attacked because we want to PLAY THE GAME AS INTENDED. It’s hilarious to read posts from IOJ that are like, “We didn’t want to double team DH, we just wanted to agree not to attack each other and to focus the attacks on DH!” What on earth do you think double-teaming is???? Regardless, if you look at the match as a whole, NSP basically focused on defending our borders. I worked constantly to just HOLD our blue side in EB. IOJ bragging about scavenging and targeting NSP is simply pathetic.

The moment I lost all respect for IOJ happened late last night. DH was attacking our keep HARD for hours. Felt like 100+. NSP had about 14 players. We dug in and somehow managed to hold off the DH wave even though our keep was bring constantly trebbed and filled with holes. Commander Sydewind led the attack and we drove DH back! Huzzah! We had about 15 minutes to cap a camp and get some supply to fix the walls before the next wave. Umber was off limits, so we ran to Dane. IOJ was just SITTING in Dane, about 10. Not doing anything. Lang was empty, but they weren’t attacking it. They were just GUARDING the supply camp like a junk yard dog because they knew we would need the supply to beat DH. They killed us. We tried again, again they killed us. Each time they retreated into Dane, NOT attacking Lang. Just sitting there. Starving us of supply so DH could take the keep. Which of course they did. At that point I realized the true nature of IOJ. You guys better hope we’re not matched up again because I’m gonna make sure every time I’m in WvW to target your server hard. NSP 4 life!!!

tym.3791:

Entropy.4732:

Nice double-teaming tonight! DH and iOJ held each other’s hands as they squeezed the life blood out of our keep tonight. Every time we ran to get Dane back, iOj was turtling the camp, waiting to stop us. Back at the keep, DH was assaulting the opposing side. Pretty suspicious stuff if you ask me. NSP is chronically Outmanned as it is. Do you guys REALLY need to team up to beat us?

Being from DH, and playing lots of WvW, We are NOT teaming with ioj. IMHO, IOJ, waits for us to hit something, and then takes advantage the best they can of the situation. If they know we are hitting your keep, they simply go take something while most of you are busy with us.

As far as NSP being outmaned, I can tell you, you guys have handed us our behinds in battles lots of times. Even came close to taking our entire DH Border Lands. There have been many nights we have had to Run to this side of the map to fight of IOJ, then run back and fight NSP on the other side of the map.

IMHO, Some of your problems fall on your commanders. If they see us and IOJ fighting over a keep, they should be hitting us or IOJ. You had ONE massive zerg taking our BL one night. You guys could of EASY flew over to EB and taken us or IOJ keep.

With all due respect, NSP is to predictable. You have way to many defending a tower. If most of you are defending, well, we have you in the same spot to wipe you out. Few with arrow carts can be more dangerous problem. Cause while we are fighting with the few, your masses are taking something else.

You guys have given DH some epic battles, have taken us out more than once.

All I know is IOj is bragging left and right that they are teamed up with DH and did so in order to “teach NSP a lesson” because our commanders refused to team up against you, DH. Maybe those IOJ posters are just trolls, and it certainly is relieving to hear you say that there is no formal alliance.

Tukmolytes.3467:

Entropy.4732:

KinkyGiraffe.4123:

Entropy.4732:

KinkyGiraffe.4123:

Entropy.4732:

Nice double-teaming tonight! DH and iOJ held each other’s hands as they squeezed the life blood out of our keep tonight. Every time we ran to get Dane back, iOj was turtling the camp, waiting to stop us. Back at the keep, DH was assaulting the opposing side. Pretty suspicious stuff if you ask me. NSP is chronically Outmanned as it is. Do you guys REALLY need to team up to beat us?

If you read the previous posts, IoJ wanted to double team DH to make this matchup even…but NSP wanted to have ‘fun’ and play WvW like it ‘should’ be played, this is what they wanted, this is what they get

Oh I get it, so iOJ wanted to cheat, NSP (who has a noble commitment to never double teaming) didn’t want to cheat, so we deserve to be targeted? Makes sense. Wait… No it doesn’t. Double teaming is cheating. Plain and simple. I lost all respect for IOJ tonight.

Yes, choosing to attack the strongest server who has a clear lead in points instead of attacking the server in 2nd/3rd all the time is cheating, you do not understand WvW. As many people have stated WvW is designed this way on purpose, the 2 weaker servers are meant to attack the strongest server. NSP kept attacking us when we’d focus DH, so we thought we might focus you for the rest of the week, deal with it bub

No, you’re dead wrong. That is NOT how WvW is designed. And targeting us is truly pathetic. We have a POLICY in NSP. A code of ETHICS. Since launch we NEVER double team. It’s considered a very shameful practice in NSP. You were asking us to break our ethical code. And now you take offense? Absurd. Cheat if you must, but don’t justify your cheating with self-righteousness.

Is whining a form of cheating too?

All I want is a fair fight. NSP accepts our constant outmanned buff gracefully. We accept whatever is thrown at us. IOJ has some good players, but what we won’t accept is an unfair fight. I am also very suspicious about the timing of all this. IOJ decides to team up with DH at the exact moment that NSP starts to catch up in points? Hmmmmm…. Pretty obvious.

KinkyGiraffe.4123:

Entropy.4732:

KinkyGiraffe.4123:

Entropy.4732:

Nice double-teaming tonight! DH and iOJ held each other’s hands as they squeezed the life blood out of our keep tonight. Every time we ran to get Dane back, iOj was turtling the camp, waiting to stop us. Back at the keep, DH was assaulting the opposing side. Pretty suspicious stuff if you ask me. NSP is chronically Outmanned as it is. Do you guys REALLY need to team up to beat us?

If you read the previous posts, IoJ wanted to double team DH to make this matchup even…but NSP wanted to have ‘fun’ and play WvW like it ‘should’ be played, this is what they wanted, this is what they get

Oh I get it, so iOJ wanted to cheat, NSP (who has a noble commitment to never double teaming) didn’t want to cheat, so we deserve to be targeted? Makes sense. Wait… No it doesn’t. Double teaming is cheating. Plain and simple. I lost all respect for IOJ tonight.

Yes, choosing to attack the strongest server who has a clear lead in points instead of attacking the server in 2nd/3rd all the time is cheating, you do not understand WvW. As many people have stated WvW is designed this way on purpose, the 2 weaker servers are meant to attack the strongest server. NSP kept attacking us when we’d focus DH, so we thought we might focus you for the rest of the week, deal with it bub

No, you’re dead wrong. That is NOT how WvW is designed. And targeting us is truly pathetic. We have a POLICY in NSP. A code of ETHICS. Since launch we NEVER double team. It’s considered a very shameful practice in NSP. You were asking us to break our ethical code. And now you take offense? Absurd. Cheat if you must, but don’t justify your cheating with self-righteousness.

I think it’s time we had a discussion about this shameful practice. I’ve been playing WvW since launch and have witnessed multiple incidents of intentional double-teaming. Sometimes servers unintentionally hit the same target, but I’m talking about commanders from two servers colluding to gang up on the third server. I’ve never done it and I think it should be considered dishonorable and tantamount to cheating. The whole point of WvW is that it’s a 3 way match up. It’s gotten to the point where I think Anet should implement some changes to help discourage this kind of knavery. This recent match up (I won’t mention servers) I was shocked because one server approached us to team up against the third server. Our noble commanders declined. Then the server that approached us teamed up with the other server to “get us back” for not teaming up with them. As if we were offending them by NOT wanting to cheat. It’s gone too far.

I’m curious to hear your thoughts on what can be done to prevent or discourage teaming up. Can it be fixed? Should it be fixed? Is it cheating? Discuss…

KinkyGiraffe.4123:

NSP you guys are coppin love from all angles!

DARK ISLE OF JANTHAVEN ANYONE?

Pathetic. This double teaming ruins WvW and frankly, double teaming against an already Outmanned server who is behind in points is nothing to be proud of.

KinkyGiraffe.4123:

Entropy.4732:

Nice double-teaming tonight! DH and iOJ held each other’s hands as they squeezed the life blood out of our keep tonight. Every time we ran to get Dane back, iOj was turtling the camp, waiting to stop us. Back at the keep, DH was assaulting the opposing side. Pretty suspicious stuff if you ask me. NSP is chronically Outmanned as it is. Do you guys REALLY need to team up to beat us?

If you read the previous posts, IoJ wanted to double team DH to make this matchup even…but NSP wanted to have ‘fun’ and play WvW like it ‘should’ be played, this is what they wanted, this is what they get

Oh I get it, so iOJ wanted to cheat, NSP (who has a noble commitment to never double teaming) didn’t want to cheat, so we deserve to be targeted? Makes sense. Wait… No it doesn’t. Double teaming is cheating. Plain and simple. I lost all respect for IOJ tonight.

Nice double-teaming tonight! DH and iOJ held each other’s hands as they squeezed the life blood out of our keep tonight. Every time we ran to get Dane back, iOj was turtling the camp, waiting to stop us. Back at the keep, DH was assaulting the opposing side. Pretty suspicious stuff if you ask me. NSP is chronically Outmanned as it is. Do you guys REALLY need to team up to beat us?

Really skeptical about these leaked patch notes. Where did they come from? Seems unfounded. And if it’s true it means that the only inclusion of Torment is on scepter 2?

Finally! Some love for mesmer! Thank Grenth! I’m really hoping this goes into scepter / torch skills.

Also, learn the lingo. There are a bunch of abbreviations folks use to save time. And Here are a few:
INC=incoming enemy forces
ZERG=large group of players
SUPPS=Supply
CAP=Capturing
TAG=Commander Blue Icon

Also learn the names of the control points. Instead of folks saying “Big group of enemy DarkHaven forces marching into Pangloss Mine” they’ll just type “inc pang DH Zerg”

In terms of leveling up, you want to be there when points are captured. Get in that colored circle!! That will net you a ton of XP. And kill players. Kill em dead. And save your badges and Karma for level 80 armor.

Lastly, as to your question about travel. You are gonna be running a lot. This is where speed buffs really help. But you don’t always have to get back to where you were. If you are killed, and WP at spawn, see what can be done around where you are.

5) Siege weapons: Siege are war machines that can be built in order to attack /defend points. They are powerful and extremely useful. Well placed siege can win a battle. When someone throws something and you see a wooden scaffold, run over and hit “F”. You will then start to build that siege with the supply you gathered. There are rams (for knocking down doors), Arrow carts, canons, balistas, catapults, trebs, golems, and mortars. Anyone can use siege by getting close to it. The first moment of real fun I had was getting on a canon and wasting a whole Zerg. Try it, but stay away from golems and trebs till you know what you’re doing. You can buy siege from siege merchants.

Welcome to WvW! The best part of GW2!! Don’t be embarrassed about having questions. It’s a complicated game that takes months to learn the ins and outs of but it’s extremely fun and rewarding. Neeho has a lot of good points. Here’s my 2 cents:

1) Objectives: The goal of WvW is to conquer control points on the map and hold them for as long as posable. The longer you hold them, the more points you can gain. That’s the + number on your screen. That + number shows how much points you stand to earn for your total score. Total score is everything. There are 5 types of control points. Sentries, camps, towers, keeps, and castles. Sentries are the little flags and they are basically just a dude standing there. These are the easiest to capture. As a new player, you can always attack and cap these for XP and to help your team. As you gain in rank you will be able to solo these guys. No idea what to do? Kill sentries or yaks! If you are getting attacked, run to a friendly sentry to get back up. Camps are next and they are extremely important because they generate the currency of WvW: Supply. Supply is EVERYTHING. It allows you to build siege, to repair walls / doors, to set traps, and holding camps allows yaks to deliver supply to your towers for upgrades. Camps always need to be captured and defended. If you are sick if following a commander, party up with a few other players and go capture / defend camps. Even if you can’t hold an enemy camp, by flipping it you will disrupt their supply flow. When attacking a tower, always capture the nearest camp before so your Zerg can load up on supply while also starving the tower. Try to always take your personal supply from camps, NOT keeps or towers. The supply in keeps and towers must be saved for upgrading or emergencies. Towers are larger objectives that require larger groups to take. They are important because they are worth a good deal of points and also because Trebs can be built on them to attack other towers at range. Keeps are your home base. The keep MUST NOT FALL! If it does your team will be in shambles and deeply humiliated. Capturing an enemy keep us the ultimate victory because they are often extremely well defended. WP’s will disappear and have to be rebuilt if keeps are lost. Castles, like SM, are the ultimate capture point of value but often very hard to hold onto without the numbers. The main thing to remember is that you are a small piece in a big picture, but everything you do can help the big picture. Following a commander is great, but there are always things to do on a smaller scale. Take back your camps and sentries. Defend your land.

2) Maps. Keep an eye on your score. ALL the maps in WvW matter. There are 4 maps. 3 borderlands and 1 mutual battleground (EB). If you are doing well in EB but lose your BL, your score will really drop. This may require you to switch maps depending on what needs the most help. A good defense is the best offense.

3) Be a good scout. Intel is everything. If you see something going down, call it out! Write in both /map and /team. Make sure to enable /team chat in your chat window. That’s the red one. The crossed swords over objectives will inform you as to what is being attacked.

4) Use the NPC races. The grey crossed weapons will indicated a neutral race like the hylek, dredge, or ogres. Do a solid for them like eliminating a foe and they will join you and defend a camp while attacking an enemy position. If they are a color it means a team owns them. You’ll need to flip them then to make them neutral. It’s important to cap them ASAP when the grey weapons are up. Sometimes you can solo a camp if you run with the monsters as they attack after they are capped.

THE Dentist.5960:

I think we broke IoJ’s morale just a little bit….

Wonder who’s up next?

We break morale with a 50 ton hammer! NSP 4 ever!!!

I would love to hear an explanation about the reasoning behind this 100,000 pricing. It seems utterly impossible to achieve through grinding. Was that Anet’s intention? If so, why? Did they want us to grind for some of it, then buy the rest off the TP? Did they make a mistake and then are too proud to admit it? It just makes zero sense to me.

The real problem is Anet just gets their numbers wrong consistently. They really need a new math department.

Drop rate for tickets needs to go up 15%.
Zhataffy cost of wings should be 10,000. Not 100,000.
Confusion nerf should have been 30%, not 50%.
Effigy burning should be 20, not 50.
It’s all just a little off.

I just want those freaking wings. I’d pound my characters’s head against a wall 1000 times if Anet had an achievement for it.

Just drop it already. It’s a perfectly balanced skill. Leave it alone.

Are they including WvW in PVE?

Dulfy is a human? I thought he was a god!

I thought the dragon lighting ceremony was cool. That was more involved. It had a plot, a mystery. I agree that the press F thing is a tad annoying, but I started to like it after awhile. Fulfills an OCD side of me.

Is it up? Where are these dang effigies?

blutstein.2468:

its a wonderful build, i’m loving it.

Did a few adjustments:

- weaponsets: S/T & Sc/P
- since clonegeneration is really high with deceptive evasion and the scepter i prefer shattering or Dom V Crippling over illusion dmg (daze shatter comes in handy due the minor trait ‘dazzling’.
I also like the block on Sc, it hits like a truck and adds a bunch of vulnerability on top of the dmg.

my armor is zerker with 6x Air, my trinkets are cavaliers with rubys, so everything is very p/pre/crit/tough. my only cd comes from signet of domination, a master tuning crystal and food, but adds up to 600 CD without any effort in gear.

i think about switching one or two zerker pieces to rampagers, but i’m very pleased with the results.

its by far the most entertaining build on my mesmer.

here my adjusted build

Huzzah! Super glad you’re enjoying the build! I really like your adjustments and am gonna try it out today. It’s very similar to what I’ve been running as well. I HAVE been thinking about upping my zerker stats a bit too. Gonna play with that as well.

SirV.7245:

dunnberry.2964:

Fan I gotta disagree, for the pass is pretty catchy

I like BP but NSP has skiller players just no numbers and for WvW… sadly number/coverage is what wins.

and BTW your posting makes me LOL on AR.

You shoulda seen us tonight! We had the numbers AND the skill! Held QL with an outmanned buff against wave and wave of DH and ioj. Killed hundreds of players with our well placed siege and held, even though the trebbing from SM never stopped. Then the numbers started flooding in. Not sure if some new guilds joined, but we had a queue for hours in EB on a Monday night. We took ogres and seiged up like crazy. Held Ogrewatch and pang for a long, long time. Then took SM in an epic 3 way battle in the lords room. We’re predicted to jump 2 ranks this week. NSP is like a tiger on steroids and jet fuel these days. Perfect spot if any guilds are looking for a place to transfer. We bring the pain and then take the pain out for ice cream!

I sure hope so. That grub is a terrible house guest.

Dragon helms cause instant, immediate hair loss. It’s all that radioactive jade.

If Anet ends dragon bash with a massive dragon killing every NPC in LA I’ll forgive them for nerfing confusion.

In the name of Grenth, noooooooooooooooo! A thousand times, no!!!! I’m sure you are well intentioned but leave my beloved blurred frenzy alone!! It’s a staple of my build. Plus, it requires no adjustment whatsoever. The fact that it roots you is enough of a restriction.

A thousand times, no! Where I come from, Unique is good! Being unique makes us unpredictable in WvW. With the right build, other players have no idea what you are up to. Mesmer is the best class I’ve ever played in an MMO ever, even with that recent unmentionable nerf to confusion (shudder). Mesmers are the freaky class, the odd balls, the weirdos. And we like it that way. Plus, it’s actually not hard at all to make Mesmer work. You want uniqueness that leads to lack of functionality? Try engineer. That class is a royal mess. This is not to say there aren’t things to fix with Mesmer. They gotta give clones off hand weapons, buff confusion damage by 15% and replace some of the useless traits, but it’s still in pretty good shape as a class.

I do think the above poster has a point though. The problem with Dragon Bash is that there’s too much “gambling” involved in this event. The Moa race gold sink gambling and this whole purchasable RNG box thing. You may say, “Who cares? Just don’t gamble! Don’t take part!” The big problem with gambling (as many gambling addicts know) is that the lure / trap of gambling can be very destructive and addictive. It is almost impossible for some people to resist and if sanctioned and encouraged by Anet it can result in some really upset, financially wounded customers.

If you have an object for sale, the consumer will gauge the price, weigh the time/effort/financal expense in accruing the item, then make a choice to get it or not. if they do spend the money they feel satisfied because they got what they paid for, and there are usually no surprises. With gambling it’s completely different.

The gambling cycle goes something like this. The consumer believes they have a chance of “winning”, that is spending a little and getting a lot. In reality the odds are stacked against them, but the BELIEF that you could win big (or get the weapon skin in an RNG box) is tantalizing. So you invest, and start buying boxes or betting on moas. At a certain point, if the consumer starts to lose, they become obsessed with the idea that only a few more bets will make it all worth it. They hate the idea of all the previous lost bets or boxes purchased being a waste of money, so they actually wind up spending MORE money. This is where it starts to really get out of control. The more you lose the more you bet. If you win, you keep betting, high on winning. If you lose, you keep betting. It’s a psychological trap. And it’s very, very dangerous. I know families in RL that were torn apart by gambling. One parent got hooked on gambling and secretly spent all their money, always thinking he could win it all back and make it worth it.

In terms of GW2, you can clearly see this psychological trap in play (albeit on a smaller scale). The posters on this thread got stuck in it. I saw someone on the forums openned thousends of boxes and spent almost $100 in a day. 0 tickets. Another lost 45g on Moa racing. That’s the gambling cycle demon in action. And I think Anet should be very careful about releasing that demon on their players.

Sure, you can argue (as casinos do) that the responsibility rests with the client, not the house. But the house is responsible for setting up the trap. And Anet should really reconsider this method for future events.

REALLY hope a dragon crashes the party.

I totally agree that the drop chance for these tickets is WAY too low. I’ve opened thousands of coffers. Nadda. No wings, no tickets. Maybe there should be some way that your chances increase based on how many you’ve opened. I’ve only seen 1 person on my server with a jade weapon skin. Seen a bunch with the halo wings. So clearly the wing drop is higher than the weapons.

This is what I’m hoping happens: If the mysterious rock formation turns out to be a massive, furious dragon who crashes lion’s arch and kills every living thing there, I’ll forgive Anet for nerfing confusion AND love this game even more than I already do.

It makes sense. I mean if I was a dragon the whole festival would be deeply offensive and worth crashing.

The little flying dragons are awesome. Agreed.

bravoart.5308:

Running 215% MF, averaging about one set of wings per day before DR makes me log off in disgust. Coffer and wing drop rate is nice up until then though.

Avoid the Holos, they’ll just make your dr hit faster and are a waste of time.

What the HELL. Are you serious? That’s awesome. How did you get your MF up that high? I have yet to see a single ticket or wings and I’ve openned thousends of boxes. I guess MF does count toward DR in this case.

Just do /sit. It works fine.

It’s still a great trait.

Does that mean we HAVE to do the Moa race achievment? Oh dear god…

They shouda gone with 10,000. That would been plenty. 100,000? That’s just sadistic.

SO underwelming. After waiting for an hour there was a palpable excitment in the air. We were gazing up at the stars, a huge crowd had formed. And then…… wha? It was over in a second and the big feature was the dragon disappearing? Am I missing something? They really had the chance to craft a beautiful series of spectacular images, colors, pizzaz, epic scenarios, a narrative, lights, camera, action!!! Instead it was like someone let the air out of a balloon and passed out in the corner of a supermarket. Anet really needs to hire some designers who can give the people what they want.

Complementary Skritt foot massages.

In all seriousness, it affords you the chance for glory, honor, and respect. The good commanders I’ve run with can turn the tide of a game. It’s like being a general. I have great respect for the good commanders. They are known across the server. But with great power (and a blue square) comes great responsibility. The bad commanders I’ve followed still linger in my memory. I recall one fool who led us into a death trap attack on SM, wasted a ton of golems, then fled while the rest of us were trapped in a bad spot, then hurled insults at us. A good commander listens, teaches, communicates on map/team/and voice chat simultaniously. A good commander is in touch with the other commanders on every map and knows when to attack and when to defend. I personally am a grunt and prefer following orders, but if you have the stuff of a good leader, try it out. Godspeed.

Totally agree. Those Moa’s have destroyed lives. PLEASE let us non-gamblers skip that achievement.

Chaos Archangel.5071:

This build looks pretty awesome, I’m not usually a fan of the Greatsword(and maayyy swap to staff or Scepter/Pistol) but I’ma definitely try and give this a whirl in sPvP tonight. I’ve been meaning to get around to looking for a build that mixes both direct and condition damage.

Edit: Do you mind if I exhibit it in the Mesmer guide I’m workin on?

Thanks Chaos! I love your “Chaos Maestro” build too, as you know. Sure! Feel free to exhibit “Hidden Fire” in your guide.