Guild Wars 2

Hey guys! Just wanted to point out my connection to your server has been crappy the past few nights. This only affects WvW and everything else works perfectly fine. Sometimes it even depends on the borderland I am on. Right now I’m on Eternal Battlegrounds (I’m on Crystal Desert) and I’m getting big packet loss. I have Comcast internet (25MB down) and reside in South Florida.

I tested what I think is the IP to the server and got the following results:

Dahkeus.8243:

While you’re working on that long term goal, those top players will be smashing face in WvW.

Nope.

If you cannot beat an opponent in a duel while he’s in exotics and you’re in rares for example, you will not beat him if you upgraded to exotics. It’s not a big difference. There’s too many factors in a duel between players (skill, builds, all the conditions, buffs, runes, sigils, certain class advantages, foods, maintenance oils, etc.) and a few more percent in damage will not win you a fight against an equally skilled opponent.

An opponent in WvW running sigil of the night (if it happens to be night time) would do more damage than someone in full ascended if they don’t run that sigil for whatever reason.

If I upgraded TWO of my exotic weapons to ascended, I would get the following as an upgrade:

8 power
.3% crit chance
0% crit damage.

In the end, only bad players will blame a loss on an opponent having ascended gear.

Nikkinella.8254:

If you think it’s bad, you’re using it wrong. Can’t tell you how many times it’s helped me secure a kill on someone who otherwise would have gotten away.

It’s not about using it wrong. A target can be running away from you on perfectly flat ground with no obstructions and your character will pass through the target or not reach it at all. Sometimes, the target is still knocked down but he’s actually not even near you which lets him just stand up ruining your combo.

I’m pretty sure that latency is the main reason that bullscharge fails so hard in WvW.

I don’t understand why this is getting nerfed for DPS builds. It would barely do damage anyways and most of the time the target is smart enough to not stand in your AOE (which is even more difficult to pull off now that the AOE is smaller at lower adrenaline levels).

Looks like LB is being pushed more and more towards condition builds.

Honestly, just rename the game “Condition Wars 2”

A while ago you guys fixed offhand sword’s Reposte so that it would block all ranged attacks even if you did not have the reflect projectiles trait selected which was a great change.

Can you please make it so that mace’s counterblow also does the same? Right now it will only block one ranged attack and that sucks. Mace is getting a nice needed nerf next patch but it would be great if this issue was fixed.

Thanks!

Zanryu.3417:

Burning Arrows:
Still doesn’t increase bow damage when combined with stronger bowstrings, please just merge these traits into one and add a new one, perhaps even move this to the precision line where it belongs.
.

Yes please. I honestly wish they merged these two into one and moved it to precision line. The longbow has been hit with a few nerfs and it would be great if I could grab the shorter cooldown without going into the horrible vitality line.

Only 8 seconds? ROFL

Still the most OP runes in the game. After traits and foods the duration on confusion is just absurd.

Worst player award goes to “[DAETH]The Spaniard” and “[WFD]A friend” who got wrecked in a 1v2 and joined my party to vent their anger.

Let’s just say I had to block them because of how angry they were. It’s just a game guys. Don’t take it that seriously.

Also, L2P.

So many bags on BP BL from [BS].

:)

mini.6018:

If you wanted a condi warrior for fun you would have done it 10 to 6 months ago.You just don’t make a condi build for fun anymore .You make it for BOORING.S/s Bow is the most booring thing ever and no skill build ever.

Yeah man! Instead, you gotta use the most skillful builds a warrior can make. These take A LOT OF SKILL and are not boring at all. They involve super precise and fun attacks that take huge amounts of skill:

-Sword/warhorn + Hammer (Just spam hammer and use sword for escapes. Super tanky due to unsuspecting foe being so good)

-Mace/Shield + GS (Spam Mace F1 then Hundred blades all day, again unsuspecting foe)

True SKILL!

TooBz.3065:

EvilSardine.9635:

Why are people still crying about this? Only the horrendous players who think that a tiny bit more damage will let them win a fight are the ones who can’t sleep because of ascended gear.

In WvW for instance, if you can’t beat an equally skilled player while you’re wearing all rares or even masterwork, you won’t be able to beat them with ascended gear. It doesn’t make a big difference at all. Builds, foods, and player skill make a much bigger difference.

Here’s an example. If I craft TWO ascended weapons for my warrior. I will gain the following over exotic:

8 power
.3% crit chance
0% crit damage

If you think that’ll make a difference in anything then you’re silly. People are also silly for spending hundreds of gold on making ascended weapons but that’s just my opinion.

And 5% more base damage. You may have a point, but being selective about your statistics undermines it.

Like I said, if you can’t beat an opponent in WvW while you’re wearing slightly worse gear then you won’t beat them otherwise. 5% more base damage won’t win you any fights and if both opponents came down to 100hp then most likely they will both go down. Now it’s up to whoever has the best down state that determines who wins.

There’s too many factors in this game to have to worry about 5% more damage. People shouldn’t lose sleep over ascended gear.

Why are people still crying about this? Only the horrendous players who think that a tiny bit more damage will let them win a fight are the ones who can’t sleep because of ascended gear.

In WvW for instance, if you can’t beat an equally skilled player while you’re wearing all rares or even masterwork, you won’t be able to beat them with ascended gear. It doesn’t make a big difference at all. Builds, foods, and player skill make a much bigger difference.

Here’s an example. If I craft TWO ascended weapons for my warrior. I will gain the following over exotic:

8 power
.3% crit chance
0% crit damage

If you think that’ll make a difference in anything then you’re silly. People are also silly for spending hundreds of gold on making ascended weapons but that’s just my opinion.

Hands down the most boring match up in a long time. No roamers, duelers, or any good small fights. Apparently the only “roamers” are 15 person EB/FA groups of horrendous keyboard turning players.

Props to the Rage thief and his buddy, though. Good duels!

ROFL. That’s one horrible player. Keyboard turning and skill clicking. No wonder he needs a bunker build and zerging to play the game.

These “bunker healers” are comical when you run into them in a small fight. You just completely ignore them in the fight and kill all their friends and just save them for last. Such easy kills. Nothing funnier than staying behind the keyboard turners as they try their hardest to slowly turn around to face you.

I have no issues fighting hammer warriors with my engi and I have dueled many. The KEY is to keep them poisoned and avoid their condition removal hammer stun. If you dodge this every time or blind it, they will not be able to clear their conditions unless they have other utilities. My poison grenade stacks over a minute of poison on them. If they have melandru and all the foods it’s still a really long poison. This destroys their regen.

It’s an easy fight in a 1v1. In a group, just ignore the warrior and kill all his buddies and save him for last while dodging all his obvious hits. If it’s a group of hammer warriors then just run because you won’t win that.

My tactic is to dump everything you can on them from the get go then CC them with supply drop, shield stun and knock back along with a tool kit magnet pull. What that does is gives to conditions time to eat away at the necro. If you’re really good, you can time these interrupts whenever you see the necro raise his hand signaling that he’s going to pop his heal which cures all conditions.

If you make sure he’s blinded with grenade, static shot, or the bomb blind, his transfer conditions (plague signet if you spot him with it) should miss you.

If that fails. I gotta run like crazy because my only form of condition removal is from heal turret. Luckily most necros are slow and with my rocket boots chills, cripples, and swiftness I can kite until my CC is back.

style.6173:

@OP: Disagree. WvW is about fighting people from other servers. Dueling people from your own server has no place in this game mode.

You do know that they added this whole new area to the EB jumping puzzle (separate from WvW servers) so that guilds can GvG right? OP is asking for the ability to duel friends on the same server in an area which doesn’t affect WvW.

Dueling is something that should have been added from the beginning. It’s a good way to test out WvW builds against each other. Boring amulet PvP duels are not the answer.

They can just implement it similar to joining a party or being in a costume brawl and making it so the players that initiate it can only hurt each other. For those bad players who are afraid of dueling, all they need to do is add in an option in your settings to ignore duel requests.

Black Teagan.9215:

Juba.8406:

Warrs got the worst hands down agreed.

rangers got the best

Thieves have a much worse downstate than warriors.

Is this a joke? Have you ever tried stomping a thief in a 5v5 small man fight in WvW? The fact that he can evade a stomp TWICE leaves the rest of his team with a lot of time to revive and attack those trying to finish him. You can stability/mistform/elixer S/invis stomp any class in the game except a thief and mesmer (but mesmer’s downstate isn’t as good).

I think it’s funny when people say that a stun/hammer warrior is easy to use. My engineer completely WRECKS these tanky stun healing signet warriors. People just need to learn to play against them. Keep them poisoned and AVOID THEIR OBVIOUS big telegraphed hits and they are dead.

Also, this thief hit my 1900 toughness warrior with two hits and killed me instantly. I had full health, was just standing out by a keep and had no conditions or anything on me. I was standing there and was hit by something invisible that instantly killed me.

P.S. I dislike using hammer and was using it in the screenshot below because I was experimenting with builds. My normal build doesn’t use a hammer or GS.

AttackAttack.8917:

- Since you have at least 15 into Discipline and have ‘Fast Hands’ I highly recommend an ‘On Swap’ sigil for one of your weapons.

Almost all of these sigils have a 9 second internal cool down. So it makes no difference if you have fast hands.

To the [RISE]female norn warrior and two thieves that just tried ganking my buddy and I at the NW camp…..How’d you like that spanking in that 3v2?

I love separating the blobbers from their zerg. Easy fights!

Yours truly,

-FKVA Engi and warrior

Avigrus.2871:

Haven’t read much of this, but I’ve had people in downed state that you cannot damage or use F to finish them. 2 or 3 people that I’ve come across – one guy in particular that we faced multiple times one night – the same thing kept happening – he would go into downed state and we could not damage or use F key – eventually he died, but this kept happening over and over again.

This is not a cheat. It just means their connection is terrible and they died a few feet away from where you see them. You try stomping but it just misses. The only way to deal with it is to walk around a bit and the stomp will work. If that fails, just use a ranged attack because it will seek towards where he really is (leaps, etc. also work as they will show you where the person really is)

There is also no “speed” cheat that lets you use skills super fast. This usually occurs when there’s been a huge fight on the map for a while and there’s massive skill lag. After the fight is over everyone on the map seems to receive a “frenzy” and can use skills really fast. It’s happened a few times to me and it was indeed funny seeing my thief machine gun his shortbow or my guardian use his staff number 1 super fast.

The only cheats the exist that I know of in this game involve the ones that trick the server about your position. These are the “teleport” cheaters that you see. If in trouble you’ll spot them teleport 10 feet away from you at a time really fast.

There are obvious cheaters and more subtle ones. The subtle cheaters I’ve been seeing recently are the ones that teleport back to home base when they’ve been downed. You don’t get credit for the kill or any loot bag. The reason why I know they’ve teleported back to main is because I’ve downed these people and as I’m leaping towards them with my sword while they are in the downed position all of a sudden they vanish and my character in mid air turns towards their main base as if to track to their new position.

I’m 99.9% sure that they are no cheats that let you deal extra damage since that’s something handled server side.

My buddy dropped greatswords into the forge and got Dusk. He was excited and told me about it. Then he said might as well drop these last few in that I got. He then got Dawn with those last few. He then got a precursor from the Karka queen event as well.

I was a little lucky as well. I tried dumping greatswords into the forge for the first time and on my 3rd combine I got Dusk.

Gamadorn.2659:

P.S. Also sounds like they were running group synergy builds not roaming builds. But still…I will make fun of them once I found out who it is lol

I’m honestly curiously, though. What’s the point of “group synergy” builds if 7 of them can’t kill 2 people? Would they be able to kill a larger group of my guildies then? That wouldn’t make sense.

This isn’t even us 2 versus 7 people slowly trickling in. This is 2 of us walking up to 7 people from the get go and straight up demolishing them and it happened twice.

Only people I remember from the group was a norn male thief in all black who I think liked to spam death blossom, norn female mesmer, male guardian running hammer and staff. The first two I remember because they were large and the male guardian because he was tanky and we just saved him for last.

CnaeusDane.2938:

Laughing at the GOTL Guild from Dragon Brand. They’ll only fight if they out number you and then laugh on you. Gotta love those 5 v 1’s – they show a lot of skill.

Gonna go ahead and say this GOTL guild is a PvE guild. My buddies and I (3 of us) have fought 8 of them at the same time and have beaten them on various occasions.

Same thing goes for the NITE guild. We 2v7 TWICE in the ruins and we win both times. I’ll go ahead and say they were PvE players because there’s no way in hell we would be able to take on those numbers otherwise.

I forget which one of the above guilds has a tanky hammer warrior commander who basically hops around the fight as if he’s taunting you, only to die right after all his guildies die. Weird.

Either way….fun fights.

What’s with the NITE asura guardian that when in trouble starts teleporting away with speed cheat-like movements?

Not sure if this has been reported before but it’s an extremely annoying bug.

If I enter the water as an engineer while in my grenade kit, my supply drop is used automatically as soon as I enter any body of water. It’s extremely annoying. For some reason when I switch to granades, I notice that there’s a little lock icon on my elite but it’s not there when I’m in the other kits.

Anyone else have this happening to them?

/EDIT I just swapped my underwater elite to Elixer X and it uses it as soon as I jump in water while in grenade kit….

I was just underwater fighting someone and after I killed them I swapped to grenades and sure enough my elite was used automatically. What on earth…

Renny.6571:

What if I told you anet doesn’t decide what they change about their game based on the number of pages a thread has. http://whinybaby.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/mind-blown.jpg

You missed his point.

Not many people are going to watch a video where all you do is F1 and number 2…..

Boring and cheesey build.

I’d hate to see what OP would say if he played WvW where you’d have to worry about an invisible attack from a thief dealing 8K+ in damage every few seconds.

Silly PVErs….

Come on, CORE. Camp hugging and you still lose to 5 people when there were like 10 of you plus guards, ballistas, and ACs?

http://i.imgur.com/8JzeIwn.jpg

Good fight, though!

So, you [BV] guys emote laugh at 4 of us while 12 of you sit outside our base….

Then you get wrecked in a 4v6 after some of your buddies leave. That was a fun fight!

koopatroopa.5360:

I just discovered this build and tried it out. I have a few questions.

How do you deal with mass conditions like necros and other engineers? You claim it can beat every class and build yet these 2 builds just destroy me.

Also, how do handle the constant stunning/knockbacks that’s currently popular with no stability and 1 stun breaker?

Do you have any videos of your playstyle? I’m fairly new to bombs and have ran HGH for the longest time and I thought I’d try something different. I enjoy this build but I seem to have better luck with my previous one so I’m wondering if I’m doing something wrong. Majority of my 1vX fights consist of getting stunned/feared/knockbacked to oblivion.

Thanks.

OP is exaggerating. Probably fighting underleveled or extremely bad players. There’s no way he would survive against 2 or more skilled players.

Loco.2830:

its at least 10 enemies, we guess they are all 80 and know what they are doing(more or less) i mean the game has been out for a while now.

Thief is heartseeking non stop. Mesmer does slow keyboard turns and backtracks and the same thing goes for the necros. All the rangers didn’t know what they were doing it seemed. Obviously they are PVErs playing WvW for the achievements. There’s no way 4 players would survive completely outnumbered against skilled players. It wouldn’t happen.

This is the usual hammer build and he’s durable because of the regen and protection from the guardian.

Fun video, though! Always nice demolishing a larger group even if they are just PVErs.

unknownchaos.1425:

We save the face/sit , siege spam for when its appropriate. I personally take little to no self satisfaction to kill one single person. Unless ofcourse they are a db. Then all bets are off.

A thief from XOXO spammed emotes on my dead body when him and like 5 of his buddies killed my lone lvl 24 engineer. I thought I’d show him a lesson so I signed onto my warrior, immediately found him outside my spawn and destroyed him. Laughed at him obviously. He came back and my buddy and I killed him again when he tried to be brave and engaged both of us. He joins our party and was FURIOUS. I haven’t seen someone that angry in a while. We actually had to block him because the PMs wouldn’t stop. It’s just a game, no need to take it that seriously. :\

Roll a warrior and use the rifle and tell me what you think then. It’s hands down the worst weapon in the game for the warrior.

It’s comedy when you separate these bad glassy rifle warriors from a zerg and fight them in a 1v1. They can’t do a single thing and just get demolished.

To the awful [PvP] guild members:

If I’m dueling one of your guys , don’t jump in right before he goes down then spam laugh when I have to run away from 6 of you. It makes your “PvP” oriented guild look really terrible.

ThiBash.5634:

There are sPvP solo arenas.

PvP is just a dumbed down version of builds so that’s not a good solution.

Dueling needs to be added. They can just add an option to ignore dueling requests for those who are afraid of dueling. It’s that simple.

Wow, I miss BP and IOJ already. We have a LAME matchup this week…..FA and Mag. Ugh.

Loken.9724:

To the FKVA people, I have no idea what gvg you are talking about, but as the leader of SIC, I fail to see how its possible we did 1 considering I was not online lol. I would assume you encountered my night crew? They are usually running builds/classes I refuse to let them run during prime time.

It was a few random 4v4s.

We don’t take the game as seriously as you do, though. We run whatever builds we want and have fun. We actually don’t like to do organized group fights because it’s all about using the “meta” team makeup where everyone MUST run a certain build (like you mentioned). So, we roam around with our little custom builds and take part in whatever random duels and fights we get.

Hope to see BP and IOJ soon.

kokiman.2364:

Myzaky.4962:

Rifle is a dead weapon, simply don’t use it.

Why would you even say that?

Because it’s honestly a terrible weapon used by terrible warriors. Whenever we see a warrior in a group fight using one we just target him immediately because we know he’s an easy kill and glassy.

In a 1v1 it’s a joke. It’s one of the easiest fights I’ll have.

Chaba.5410:

EvilSardine.9635:

We fought outside your keep and when everyone died and there was a char left he tried running back in but we locked him down. We then waited outside for another fight but you guys came out with like 8-9 people. We tried fighting again when it was more even near SMC but an enemy necro and his buddies walked into the fight and we retreated since we were way outnumbered. That’s when we were hopping away down the alley and we had the fair fight.

Either way good fight. Lots of hammer stuns but we’re good at avoiding them. We just saved the hammer warriors for last.

Yea, those sound like the fights earlier in the night when we had poor class comp and no damage. Our usual caster players were practicing their hammer stuns. Good practice for them, but you made them get on their mains afterwards. Were you not around when we ran into you again later in the night?

It was late so most of us stopped playing (was almost 3am where I am).

Our group isn’t a “mini zerg” type of group setup/builds to be honest. We’re all set up for 1v1 duels. We have no guardian or necro and we’re not bunker/condition/perplexity like what small man teams are running. We just like to use builds that win duels and if we happen to come across a group fight we do what we can.

If you guys ever wanna do a little fight club just PM me! We’re usually on between 8pm-2am EST.

I hope we get the same matchup tonight!

Chaba.5410:

EvilSardine.9635:

Props go out to the [SIC] group we beat in those 4v4s. Those were fun mini GvG sessions.

-[FKVA]

Yea thanks, we started to seek you out, but tbh us night skirmishers gotta stop experimenting sometimes. (And iirc we did beat you too.)

Hey! Yeah good fights.

And no you didnt’! :p We fought outside your keep and when everyone died and there was a char left he tried running back in but we locked him down. We then waited outside for another fight but you guys came out with like 8-9 people. We tried fighting again when it was more even near SMC but an enemy necro and his buddies walked into the fight and we retreated since we were way outnumbered. That’s when we were hopping away down the alley and we had the fair fight.

Either way good fight. Lots of hammer stuns but we’re good at avoiding them. We just saved the hammer warriors for last.

Props go out to the [SIC] group we beat in those 4v4s. Those were fun mini GvG sessions.

-[FKVA]

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Basically this meant that warriors ended up with the highest base health, the highest base armor, the highest mobolity, and due to balance issues the highest base damage of any class. This is seen as “acceptable” to Anet because they have limited utility I guess.

Yep but keep in mind that warriors don’t get constant blinds, evades, protection, aegis, teleports, phantasms that deal massive damage, stealth, poison, etc. etc.

Other classes can outplay warriors like nothing.

bokkieskitten.8023:

That would be Bostie and Emi.
There is only about six of us.
Starlight and I run [BUNS], we are the couple necro team most see roaming about.
The famous Honeybuns!

Ah, yes. It was Bostie. He was a zerker guardian. We had some fun last night.

If you necros ever wanna have any duels let me know! We’ll do it right outside BP’s SMC and apparently anger their commander like we did last night.

bokkieskitten.8023:

You are that one.

Hah, hey man what’s up! You’re the guardian/ele that we teamed up with and dueled together right? (or am I mistaken when another BUNS guy)

That was fun. Then the BP zerglings kept trying to chase us around. A whole zerg trying to catch single players was funny.

Either way, had fun with the BUNS guy when we invited him to the party and we started teaming up against BP.

SiLENT.2346:

I think it’s about time we get some Fight Clubs going because apparently CD nor BP has any one that can/wants to solo roam. Too busy hiding behind their Veterans and Ballistas every time we ran across them or couldn’t honor the rules of engagement for a 1v1(if 2 people are fighting, don’t jump in just to get xp). I was roaming with urbanevil earlier and never found a good 2v2. Just the unlucky 2v2 that turned into 2v ~8

http://i.imgur.com/rlHiaS0.png
http://i.imgur.com/SsKAPo1.png
http://i.imgur.com/gbYvNMd.png
http://i.imgur.com/9p0Urc3.png

Also for luls, I believe this is BPs Seigerazor that is an IOJ spy that teleport hacked his way inside our tower(we capped it after he had started afaik, so i think it bugged) and filled it from ~20 to 100 supply.
http://imgur.com/Ki1zHs1

Oh hush. You [HARD] guys do the same. I’m roaming around by myself bowing at people and doing duels but you guys love jumping in. In this shot your group chased me from south of SMC all the way north and finally got me. That’s only half the group that chased me.

http://i.imgur.com/fLxcRrZ.jpg

Even after all that, we see a [HARD] ranger fighting someone on EB last night and my crew just sits and watches every time. Never interrupted because that’s how it should be.

If you ever want a 1v1 just PM me or if you see me bow and we shall fight. I too am looking for some nice fights! I’m the female norn [FKVA] warrior.

On another note. Who is this warrior in the screenshot below that has spam laughed in the past when he zergs people? Then refuses to fight unless he has his zerg?

http://i.imgur.com/vkIk2Y0.jpg

It’s just a game, warrior. If you die in it you don’t die in real life. Stop tower hugging with your buddies. You’ve lost a few fights against me before but don’t let that stop you. It’ll make you a better player if you atleast try.

Also, I’d like to say something to the cry baby Monkey-something guy from BP who kept calling out the fight club locations on EB…..Don’t feel bad because you’ve lost so many duels! It’s all in good fun.

Nikkinella.8254:

I just use my warrior to fight other warriors. That’s the best solution. A well played warrior simply can’t be beaten by any other class if the other person is at the same skill level. Warrior is godmode now.

LOL WUT

There’s plenty of class builds that demolish warriors.

Mesmers (condition, hyrid, and DPS) all have an easy time fighting warriors. Thieves using sword/dagger laugh at warriors especially if they use doom sigils on their weapons and use other poisons. I’ve seen those thieves beat warriors by ONLY using sword 3 and dodge rolls. Even condition engineers running perplexity runes (WvW) are better than warriors. That silly regen ranger condition build using poisons is easy mode against warriors. A necro walking into a fight where a warrior blew a condition removal will condi bomb a warrior to hell. A zerker guardian can kick it’s kitten as well because it’s got stability, aegis, blinds, focus shield, and can out damage healing signet. A good elementalist build can burst down a warrior and has great survival because of the quick heals.

The warrior’s moves are all completely OBVIOUS. They all have super telegraphed animations and are super easy to dodge, blind, block, reflect. Hammer warriors are a joke because of how obvious the animations are. They don’t land a single hit on me when they swap to hammer.

In comparison, a necro waves his hands in the air magically with the same animation and you can’t dodge any of it. Marks are placed at your feet and are triggered immediately. It’s very easy to see what a warrior is doing compared to other classes.

Devanuze.8734:

ty for those who fought in this unofficial dueling stuff, good fights

Nice. I’m the [FKVA] female Norn warrior that was there. Good fights!

Neat how everyone just got together and started that fightclub out of nowhere.

That hot key switching builds thing should stay in PvE only if they were to ever include it.

No way in hell that has any place in WvW/PvP. Imagine a thief attacking you. He finds out he can’t kill you with his build, he stealths, breaks combat, switches builds instantly and comes back with the perfect counter to your build.

Sounds lame.