Guild Wars 2

This was the 4th match in the last hour where the entire team ragequit after one player didn’t join the match. Something SEVERE needs to be done about players leaving matches. I lose a ton of rating because you were to childish to stay and play the game? Great.

My suggestion: Remove dailies from tournaments (too many awful players are just joining to farm for titles + daily), add a MASSIVE hit to rating for leaving a match, and a 2+ hour lockout for ragequitting.

Flash.6912:

does Anet has any plans for the upcoming E3 on June 11-13? Maybe announcing GW2 expansion? we all hope

Arenanet does not usually attend E3. Gamescon and PAX + PAX East are the big convetions they usually attend (occasionally a few other like ComicCon as well).

Jeremiah Lee.2764:

Is this still happening? Is this issue seen on all Karka Shells? What other items are affected by this text bug?

Prototype Fractal Capacitors were showing up with no text when you pinged them into chat (but didn’t have any Korean text on them). Other than that the I haven’t seen any other items with text bugs.

darkace.8925:

Forgive my ignorance, but what’s an AMA?

Ask Me Anything thread on reddit

I don’t honestly remember these ever being semi-regular. Izzy did 2-3 way back at the beginning of the game but they definitely weren’t regular. The PvP team still does their State of the Game every month which is like a video AMA if that’s what you mean.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

The latest case of “farming nerfs” was actually a bug fix. I’m aware of this because I was asked to help identify the issue. The area in question contained a spawn that was defined to have more creatures than spots for those creatures to spawn. So for example, 25 skelks spawning on 10 points. This is not intended. Not only does it just look absurd, it’s also leads to some extremely bizarre play conditions. This is one of those bugs that’s so buggy, the fact that our toolset even allowed this to happen is a bug. Another bug caused this bug. Bugception.

If we didn’t want players to be able to farm, we wouldn’t have put in the huge (and free) magic and gold find buffs for Southsun Cove. We wouldn’t drop loot from the giant mobs of creatures that appear in upscaled events. We certainly wouldn’t have put in chests that appear after events which cycle every 8 to 10 minutes. How quickly all of that content goes completely forgotten in the angered responses to a simple change to an area that was clearly bugged. :/

On farming in general, there’s a sweet spot that combines good loot with fun, engaging content. I think Southsun had that going for it, especially before certain aspects of the content were isolated as optimal. As someone who’s actively working on upcoming Living World releases, I’m aiming to find that sweet spot and hit it in a big way.

Thank you for the information, but why wasn’t this in the patch notes? If the notes had read:

""World: Southsun – Reduced density of reef skelk around Pearl Islet. Due to a bug 25 skelk were spawning in area only intended to spawn 10 skelk. This bug has been fixed"

Instead of:

“World: Southsun – Reduced density of reef skelk around Pearl Islet”

There would have been a MUCH smaller negative reaction. I know patch notes are written on the fly but if they can include a REASONING for the change in addition to a terse note on the exact nature of the change, it would cause a lot less confusion and anger in the community.

Brilliant post OP, thanks for breaking things down in a common sense manner.

D/P or S/P with shortbow in offhand.

Base build should be 25/30/0/0/0 (fill in the remaining 15 points in the last two trees depending on whether you want more evades or more initiative).

Gear should be all zerker weapons + jewelry. Depending on whether or not you want some more vitality or toughness you can swap in a few (3-5) pieces of knights or valkyrie armor (remaining pieces should be zerker). Start with all ruby orbs in armor, you can specialize to something else later if you like. Sup Sigil of Fire or Force + Bloodlust on melee set. Sigil of endurance on sbow.

Your main role will be single target DPS with either sword or dagger. Sword DPS is a combo of Pistol Whip (sword 3) spam and auto attacking with base attack. Dagger DPS is achieved by backstab spam (heartseeker used in pistol 5 field or any other shadow field to get stealth) and heartseeker spam (when target is under 50%). Default chain can do decent dps when out of initiative. Pistol 4 (daze + interrupt) and pistol 5 (pulsing blind field) should be used appropriately for trash clearing and boss rupting. You’ll use a wide variety of utilities (pretty much everything besides traps and a few venoms) depending on situation.

Edit: Here is an intothemists build to give you an idea. A lot of stuff can be changed around to fit your specific needs (I.E. change the sigil of fire to a sigil of undead slaying for arah, use specific potions for dredge + svanir fractals, etc.). Specific traits can be swapped for specific needs and you can go 15 into Trickery instead of Acrobatics if you feel like you have enough dodge.

Tolmos.8395:

Guild Wars Con!

ArenaCon!

GWCon!

…

None of them have a nice ring to it. Maybe they are struggling to find a good name, first. =D Quick: someone think of a good name!

I think he’s referring to the summer cons that Arenanet usually attends (Gamescon + PAX + a few others)

Hopefully this means we’ll be seeing some Cantha content!

JUN YANG.4328:

my place its 04/06 already lol….STILL NO NEWS ABOUT……

Info is usually not released until ~15:00 GMT-5. Check back then.

Legion Of Doom [LOD] is now openly recruiting on Sanctum of Rall. We currently have approximately 35 active members and have ALL guild missions unlocked.
We are looking for players who have an interest in learning to play at a high skill level or are already at a high skill level. There currently is no requirement for specific character classes, max level characters, etc. Once we get to the size that we want, our recruiting requirements will change.

We are a 7 year old community that played Guild Wars 1 together and has stayed together into Guild Wars 2. About 2 years ago in Guild Wars we were known as Club of a Thousand Pandas [LOD?]. We were proud to be a DOASC guild and hold several records in Guild Wars 1 not only for DOA but most elite areas as both Legion of Doom and Club of A Thousand Pandas.

PvE:
We are a high-end “speed clear” guild looking to re-establish ourselves as the elite players of GW2. On top of that, though, we’re a teaching guild. Being the best-of-the-best is a passion for us, but we’re looking to fill out to our size from GW1 and are interested in taking newer players and teaching them how to be the very best.
While we’re a small guild, we’re some of the best players in GW2. All guild missions have been unlocked despite our small size. This makes us the smallest guild worldwide to have unlocked every Guild Mission and we’re among the first 10 guilds overall to do so. We do daily FOTM 20, 30, and 40 runs and there are usually dungeon groups being formed for popular runs like CoE and Arah. We always have people that are looking for faster and more efficient ways to do Dungeons.

WvW:
We have a small presence in WvW which is slowly growing. Those in the guild who WvW would love to see additional LOD members to WvW with.
If you are interested in joining LOD, please fill out the application on our forums () so we can send you an invite.

We utilize Teamspeak so please download if you apply.

Ways to contact us:
forums.lodgw.com

Whisper one of the following in game:

Leadership:
Guild Leader: Naughtie Kittie
Officers:
Bright
Dezerved
Errant Venture
Li Devi
Lyla Frostheart
Xentera

Legion Of Doom [LOD] is now openly recruiting on Sanctum of Rall. We currently have approximately 35 active members and have ALL guild missions unlocked.
We are looking for players who have an interest in learning to play at a high skill level or are already at a high skill level. There currently is no requirement for specific character classes, max level characters, etc. Once we get to the size that we want, our recruiting requirements will change.

We are a 7 year old community that played Guild Wars 1 together and has stayed together into Guild Wars 2. About 2 years ago in Guild Wars we were known as Club of a Thousand Pandas [LOD?]. We were proud to be a DOASC guild and hold several records in Guild Wars 1 not only for DOA but most elite areas as both Legion of Doom and Club of A Thousand Pandas.

PvE:
We are a high-end “speed clear” guild looking to re-establish ourselves as the elite players of GW2. On top of that, though, we’re a teaching guild. Being the best-of-the-best is a passion for us, but we’re looking to fill out to our size from GW1 and are interested in taking newer players and teaching them how to be the very best.
While we’re a small guild, we’re some of the best players in GW2. All guild missions have been unlocked despite our small size. This makes us the smallest guild worldwide to have unlocked every Guild Mission and we’re among the first 10 guilds overall to do so. We do daily FOTM 20, 30, and 40 runs and there are usually dungeon groups being formed for popular runs like CoE and Arah. We always have people that are looking for faster and more efficient ways to do Dungeons.

WvW:
We have a small presence in WvW which is slowly growing. Those in the guild who WvW would love to see additional LOD members to WvW with.
If you are interested in joining LOD, please fill out the application on our forums () so we can send you an invite.

We utilize Teamspeak so please download if you apply.

Ways to contact us:
forums.lodgw.com

Whisper one of the following in game:

Leadership:
Guild Leader: Naughtie Kittie
Officers:
Bright
Dezerved
Errant Venture
Li Devi
Lyla Frostheart
Xentera

….
Take a look at the buy orders. No one is actually buying those axes because there is NO demand for white level 80 weapons. When something worthless is listed at a low volume with an exorbitant price you can bet that there is no actual market and that there is no movement of those items.
Use your brain mate.

Legion Of Doom [LOD] is now openly recruiting on Sanctum of Rall. We currently have approximately 35 active members and have ALL guild missions unlocked.
We are looking for players who have an interest in learning to play at a high skill level or are already at a high skill level. There currently is no requirement for specific character classes, max level characters, etc. Once we get to the size that we want, our recruiting requirements will change.

We are a 7 year old community that played Guild Wars 1 together and has stayed together into Guild Wars 2. About 2 years ago in Guild Wars we were known as Club of a Thousand Pandas [LOD?]. We were proud to be a DOASC guild and hold several records in Guild Wars 1 not only for DOA but most elite areas as both Legion of Doom and Club of A Thousand Pandas.

PvE:
We are a high-end “speed clear” guild looking to re-establish ourselves as the elite players of GW2. On top of that, though, we’re a teaching guild. Being the best-of-the-best is a passion for us, but we’re looking to fill out to our size from GW1 and are interested in taking newer players and teaching them how to be the very best.
While we’re a small guild, we’re some of the best players in GW2. All guild missions have been unlocked despite our small size. This makes us the smallest guild worldwide to have unlocked every Guild Mission and we’re among the first 10 guilds overall to do so. We do daily FOTM 20, 30, and 40 runs and there are usually dungeon groups being formed for popular runs like CoE and Arah. We always have people that are looking for faster and more efficient ways to do Dungeons.

WvW:
We have a small presence in WvW which is slowly growing. Those in the guild who WvW would love to see additional LOD members to WvW with.
If you are interested in joining LOD, please fill out the application on our forums () so we can send you an invite.

We utilize Teamspeak so please download if you apply.

Ways to contact us:
forums.lodgw.com

Whisper one of the following in game:

Leadership:
Guild Leader: Naughtie Kittie
Officers:
Bright
Dezerved
Errant Venture
Li Devi
Lyla Frostheart
Xentera

BUMP!!!!!
/15char

Depotboy.6204:

I just got this one a few minutes ago. Is it legit? Usually phishing attempts go straight to my spam filter but seeing as this one got through to my inbox it got me concerned.

Yep, got this one today through (went through my spam filters as well). Hovering over the links will show that they’re a redirect and obviously a phishing scam. It’s a pretty clever one though, as the grammar is decent and the writing style + phrasing is similar to real support messages

Traps and P/P are both incredibly weak. Trying to put them together is a recipe for disaster.

Void.4239:

TheLaughingMan.7951:

Just one more dodge

This build is loads of fun, but completely different than other play styles. Next video will be it vs. more zerg action, less 1v1.

yeah another stealthless friend
gratz for having the balls to try it out

here’s a link to the build , with 4 vids , and everything explained.

atm i’m still running the build i posted , i just use Signet of agility instead of Signet of shadow ,
Makes it possible to keep up an endless dodge rotation .

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/PVP-bunker-dodger-build-New-Vids-Part3/first

Hope it helps you perfect your build.

now evry1,
Make those kittenes pay for complaining about stealth, whauhhuahuahua

As before, a build that boils down to doing nothing besides spamming DB + caltrops will get beat by any competent player. Switch to range + kite + dodge/blind/block/knockback/condition remove on a DB and the build is garbage. The only way you win is if the opponent stands in your face without moving or dodging.

SquirtleMilk.5463:

I love your build!!! This is a truly amazing build! I love the idea that a thief can fight without stealth! Oh my gosh this is good! Could you share the build? Thx

What? Were we watching the same video? I saw a fairly low-damage condi build used against a series of VERY incompetent players. I don’t think I saw ANY dodge rolls, blinds, or condition pulls used by the opponents he faced.

Against any opponent who knows how to dodge a death blossom or move out of a caltrops this build just falls apart. Because that’s what this build does: it ONLY uses death blossom and caltrops.

BUMP
We’re fairly casual about tPvP, we have ~5-8 members who like to queue together in the evenings a few nights a week.

BUMP!!!!!
/15char

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Errant Venture.9371:

I’ve been screenshotting people who’re knowingly abusing this bug. Hopefully exploiters will be punished accordingly.

How do you know who is knowingly exploiting it?

I PM the people with the commander tags up in the arena. If they refuse to remove the tag or do not respond to three PMs I assume they are knowingly exploiting the bug and screenshot (with chat log) to report.

Was there a change that caused dungeons to lock out on all servers simultaneously? Was trying to run CoE with the guild this afternoon and e tried guesting to 10 different servers (the max possible for the party) and EVERY server was in the same stage of lockout (first event escort). Was there a change to prevent people from using guesting to enter locked out dungeons or is this a bug or just a bad coincidence?

colesy.8490:

If I transmute the flower gear with the stats of my exo backpiece, do I lose the infusion slot?

Yes you do =(

I’ve been screenshotting people who’re knowingly abusing this bug. Hopefully exploiters will be punished accordingly.

It’s not in game yet. The event will progress once a week for the next month.

If your commander tag is activated while in Crab Toss, you do not display the indicator for the crab when holding the crab. Please disable commander tags while in the arena.

Seems super buggy then. Have had two matches now where i was holding crab at the end of the game and i didn’t get the achievment

Yep same…on a high end machine and get LOADS of skill lag. Far more than I’ve ever experienced in game. Really disappointing.

PLEASE give us Cantha!

Up to the top
/15char

Up to the top
/15char

Up to the top
/15char

Up to the top
/15char

Up to the top
/15char

Up to the top
/15char

Up to the top
/15char

Legion Of Doom [LOD] is an active, high-end PVE guild recruiting on Sanctum of Rall. We are a 7 year old community that played Guild Wars 1 together and has stayed together into Guild Wars 2. About 2 years ago in Guild Wars we were known as Club of a Thousand Pandas [LOD?]. We were proud to be a DOASC guild and hold several records in Guild Wars 1 not only for DOA but most elite areas as both Legion of Doom and Club of A Thousand Pandas.

We are a high-end “speed clear” guild looking to re-establish ourselves as the elite players of GW2. On top of that, though, we’re a teaching guild. Being the best-of-the-best is a passion for us, but we’re looking to fill out to our size from GW1 and are interested in taking newer players and teaching them how to be the very best. So if you’re a fresh player or a seasoned vet and you’re interested in joining, come to our forums and fill out an app. After a trial run we’ll extend a 30-day probationary membership, after which you’ll become a full member.

While we’re a small guild, we’re some of the best players in GW2. This week (6 May 2013) we unlocked Guild Puzzles despite having about 40 active members. This makes us the smallest guild worldwide to have unlocked every Guild Mission and we’re among the first 10 guilds overall to do so. We do daily FOTM 20, 30, and 40 runs and there are usually dungeon groups being formed for popular runs like CoE and Arah. We always have people that are looking for faster and more efficient ways to do Dungeons. Currently we run Guild Bounties, Rushes, Challenges, and Puzzles at least twice a week (Saturdays + Sundays) with additional runs as necessary throughout the week.

What we require is that you have an interest in learning to play at a high level and that you work towards building high-end characters (we’re happy to explain our builds, gearing, and techniques on our forums). We expect members to represent LOD and to participate in Guild activites. We have a 100-slot Teamspeak server that we expect all members to use for guild runs.

If you are interested in joining LOD please PM an Officer and fill out the application on our forums (http://lodgw.com/). After reviewing your application our officers will bring you on a trial dungeon run before extending a probationary invite. Hope to see you ingame!

Leadership:
Naughtie Kittie
Dezerved
Li Devi
Errant Venture
Lyla Frostheart
Bright
Xentera

Another thread complaining about hotjoin. Here’s a hint: stop playing hotjoin. It’s where bad players congregate to play horrible uncoordinate zergfests.

ba-donka-bump
/15char

Legion Of Doom [LOD] is an active, high-end PVE guild recruiting on Sanctum of Rall. We are a 7 year old community that played Guild Wars 1 together and has stayed together into Guild Wars 2. About 2 years ago in Guild Wars we were known as Club of a Thousand Pandas [LOD?]. We were proud to be a DOASC guild and hold several records in Guild Wars 1 not only for DOA but most elite areas as both Legion of Doom and Club of A Thousand Pandas.

We are a high-end “speed clear” guild looking to re-establish ourselves as the elite players of GW2. On top of that, though, we’re a teaching guild. Being the best-of-the-best is a passion for us, but we’re looking to fill out to our size from GW1 and are interested in taking newer players and teaching them how to be the very best. So if you’re a fresh player or a seasoned vet and you’re interested in joining, come to our forums and fill out an app. After a trial run we’ll extend a 30-day probationary membership, after which you’ll become a full member.

While we’re a small guild, we’re some of the best players in GW2. This week (6 May 2013) we unlocked Guild Puzzles despite having about 40 active members. This makes us the smallest guild worldwide to have unlocked every Guild Mission and we’re among the first 10 guilds overall to do so. We do daily FOTM 20, 30, and 40 runs and there are usually dungeon groups being formed for popular runs like CoE and Arah. We always have people that are looking for faster and more efficient ways to do Dungeons. Currently we run Guild Bounties, Rushes, Challenges, and Puzzles at least twice a week (Saturdays + Sundays) with additional runs as necessary throughout the week.

What we require is that you have an interest in learning to play at a high level and that you work towards building high-end characters (we’re happy to explain our builds, gearing, and techniques on our forums). We expect members to represent LOD and to participate in Guild activites. We have a 100-slot Teamspeak server that we expect all members to use for guild runs.

If you are interested in joining LOD please PM an Officer and fill out the application on our forums (http://lodgw.com/). After reviewing your application our officers will bring you on a trial dungeon run before extending a probationary invite. Hope to see you ingame!

Leadership:
Naughtie Kittie
Dezerved
Li Devi
Errant Venture
Lyla Frostheart
Bright
Xentera

Brinson.7289:

Amaterasu,
Old thief shortbow attacks would travel in a straight line and then completely hook at a very stupid angle not possible in any universe and hit its target….AND THEN hit two other people. The change to remove that was warranted.
Currently the projectile is too slow. They will increase it like they have for every other weapon. Chillax a little.
More whining in this one post [about one weapon] than I’ve seen in the entire engi forums since beta :-P

Unfortunately we’ve learned from our friends the Rangers that unless we DO make a big stink in threads like this, we WON’T get that projectile speed fix Trick Shot desperately needs.

Yeah in tPvP Trick Shot is unusable, if your target is moving the attack doesn’t hit, simple as that. You’re stuck with just clusterbomb

jcbroe.4329:

You CAN blame the devs though.

I think that’s the whole point of this thread

Pope.1469:

Amaterasu.6280:

You’re kidding me right?

Even at 1200r, a ranger’s SB autoattack is impossible to straft dodge…I have to actually hit dodge to dodge them…

The new thief SB autoattack, you can straft dodge at even roughly 400r.

While I feel your pain, thief shortbow projectiles are now the same as other classes’ arrows, albeit slower. I always felt it was unfair that only the thief got a homing bow weapon.

Ranger shortbow is now harder to dodge because they specifically buffed ranger arrow speed by 30% a while back. This is how rangers used to be:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poltQGmLu5M

Perhaps you’ll now learn to appreciate how polished the thief class actually is compared to other classes.

So…..you’re response is basically, “lol thieves are now broken in the same way rangers used to be before they got fixed”

How very useful and constructive.

Yeah i don’t understand this nerf either, but trick shot is completely non-viable right now. It misses ANY target that’s moving.

As it is now the removal of the heat seeking property from trickshot makes the skill useless since it CANNOT hit a moving target unless the target is moving in a straight line directly away from you. EVERY other projectile auto attack in game is either heat seeking or slow moving.

Either revert the change or increase projectile speed to match ranger short/longbow. As it is Trick Shot is completely useless.

Trick shot change kills the skill. If the target is moving AT ALL the attack doesn’t hit. Skill is useless in pvp now. Either put the heat-seaking back on or making the projectile speed ame as ranger projectile speed.

DiogoSilva.7089:

Errant Venture.9371:

Steal didn’t need a heal and it definitely didn’t need its damage cut in half.

Except that Mug is overpowered at its current state.

Except that it’s not considering that it’s on a 45s rehcarge and can be blocked (noticed the aegis + invuln spam that’s on EVERY bunker in the meta right now?)

Volrath.1473:

Mug dealing dmg? = Fine no prob.
Mug dealing dmg + self healing? = Bad.

Seriously?!

All the damage on Mug comes from crits and traiting + gear to get the crit multiplier up ~110%

Without crits Mug will never do more than ~2.5k of damage and a 2k heal every 45s. On a skill that is often used as a gap closer + opener the heal is effectively useless. Steal didn’t need a heal and it definitely didn’t need its damage cut in half.